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Music Reccomendations?

topic posted Fri, March 10, 2006 - 11:02 PM by  Paul
Anyone have any particularly melancholy music they could reccomend?

Some of my personal favorites that would fall under this category: Dead Can Dance (as well as Brendan Perry's solo album "Eye Of The Hunter"), David Sylvian (and his various other projects, minus Japan), The Cure, Elysian Fields, The Tea Party (earlier stuff in particular), etc.

Anyway, discuss.
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  • Seve...
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    Re: Music Reccomendations?

    Thu, May 25, 2006 - 7:43 AM
    for me the ultimate melancholy is an afternoon with the smiths or the cure's Disintegration...

    I really would recommend This Mortal Coil, particularly "Filigree & Shadow" it is simply one of my favorite releases ever... it's like a4AD melding of several bands and artists that is wonderfuly moody and atmosphericially haunting

    You also might enjoy Clan of Xymox - particularly "Medusa" and Portishead's "Dummy"

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    Sun, May 28, 2006 - 10:47 PM

    "I once saw a picture of a lady with a baby
    southern lady, had a very, very special smile
    we are in the middle of a change in destination
    when the train stops, all together we will smile"

    -- Led Zeppelin, "Night Flight"

    Paul,

    I recommend, among the music you mentioned, some upbeat stuff as well ... because happiness and sadness / melancholy and joy are in part defined by the other. Nothing makes the sad songs quite so sad as a happy / hopeful song thrown in the mix, and vice versa.

    Regards,

    John

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    Fri, June 2, 2006 - 7:51 AM
    simply because her voice is so startlingingly pure and emotionally full: bjork. I can't understand a word she says most of the time, and that allows me to inhabit her voice, to crawl up and curl up inside of it and just suspend myself inside of its gorgeous mystery. Her voice is an incredible, ebullient gift - she's like some unearthly alien angel - I feel that such a creature would never judge me for my anomie.

    so ... bjork! that's my recommendation.
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      Fri, June 2, 2006 - 9:15 AM
      I totally agree Laurie Ann. I love the Sugarcubes too though they tend to not drift over the meloncholy side the way Bjork solo does.

      Another blue pick: Bernard Butler solo. Particularly the record "People Move On."
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    Re: Music Reccomendations?

    Mon, June 5, 2006 - 10:12 AM
    Oh, just discovered in my collection (unopened nearly a year after purchase, why is that?) the Elvis Costello CD "North" ... his voice is, for me, the voice of Melancholy anyway, but this entire album is wonderful mood music ... it's a great alternative to the "Great American Songbooks" when I am in the mood for well crafted alternative-to-straight-ahead pop songs with some melody (but not TOO much) that don't jump up and shout SUNSHINE and WIT and OH MY AREN'T WE ALL CLEVER at me (though sometimes I like that too, as evidenced by the number of discs of that type in my collection).

    Check this one out if you've got Napster or Rhapsody or iTunes or some other service.
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    Re: Music Reccomendations?

    Mon, June 5, 2006 - 4:49 PM
    This topic is obviously floating the ol' boat ...

    Til Tuesday's "Coming Up Close" hits the proverbial nail. Song and video (low res but good for early 80's thrills) at:

    youtube.com/watch

    And youtube.com, is it me or is this the new crack?
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    • dena...
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      Re: Music Reccomendations?

      Mon, June 5, 2006 - 5:58 PM
      Believe you me, it is not you. That stuff is dangerously infinite.
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        Re: Music Reccomendations?

        Thu, June 8, 2006 - 5:58 PM
        the smiths, the cure, depeche mode -- anything by any of them!
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        • Re: Music Reccomendations?

          Thu, June 8, 2006 - 10:39 PM
          There is a guitar piece on the soundtrack to The Motorcycle Diaries, written and performed by Gustavo Santoalalla, that just reaches into my soul. It is haunting.

          De Ushuaia a la Quiaca (From Ushuaia to Quiaca).

          www.motorcyclediariesmovie.com/home.html

          You can play the entire soundtrack at this link - click the button to Traveling Music, then choose your internet connection, then click the icon of the record needle next to the name of the first track that will appear playing and it opens the content listing of the entire recording. Magnificent music and a magnificent film.
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          • Fulano
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            Re: Music Reccomendations?

            Thu, June 15, 2006 - 9:31 PM
            These are some great recommendations...

            For something with a bit more drive, yet well within the bounds of this thread, you may want to check out Wolf Parade. I had their Apologies to the Queen Mary in heavy rotation there for a while. Really grows on you, with some of the most interesting lyrics I've heard in a long time.

            --Fulano
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            • Krylon
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              Re: Music Reccomendations?

              Sun, April 29, 2007 - 8:01 AM
              Gary Numan and the tubeway army ..Replicas is the best album by them...
              Devandra Banhart
              Buena Vista Social club
              Dorondo
              Blonde Red Head
              Ditto on the Bjork and Sugar Cubes
              KATE BUSH!!!!
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  • Ryan
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    Re: Music Reccomendations?

    Sun, April 29, 2007 - 9:42 AM
    I'm surprised John Dowland- Lachrimae or Seaven Teares has not been mentioned. Amazing melancholic music by the Elizabethan lutenist whose motto was "semper Dowland, semper dolens" (always Dowland, always mourning).

    Some more modern stuff. Shape of Despair, a funeral doom band, their albums Shades of... and Angels of Distress contain more melancholy atmosphere than any goth band could dream of.

    Ulver- Kveldssanger

    Empyrium- Songs of Moors and Misty Fields.
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  • Chloe
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    Re: Music Reccomendations?

    Thu, June 7, 2007 - 9:37 AM
    I'm a newbie...had to laugh because this tribe is MADE for me!

    Definitely The Smiths...oh god The Smiths...doesn't get more melancholy than Reel Around the Fountain...yeesh

    Cat Power
    Mazzy Star
    Damien Rice
    Elliot Smith
    I second David Sylvian
    Mark Kozelek
    Sarah McLachlan (not all of it, but much of it works)
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  • Ryan
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    Re: Music Reccomendations?

    Fri, June 8, 2007 - 7:27 AM
    Bohren & Der Club of Gore... this slow, loungy jazz band with generally depressing melodies and a really great noirish atmosphere.

    Miles Davis- 'Round Midnight

    Dolorian
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  • Re: Music Reccomendations?

    Fri, June 8, 2007 - 9:15 AM

    "... speak to me now, and the world will crumble
    open a door, and the moon will fall ..."

    -- Opeth, "Death Whispered A Lullaby"

    Some of my favorites, from the progressive-metal wing of the mansion of melancholy music:

    Opeth, esp. "Damnation"
    Fates Warning (almost anything, though their most recent, "FWX", is beautiful)

    Regards,

    John, who wonders, given the width and depth of melancholic experiences (many of which we've all shared i'm sure), why music is one of the few things we discuss ... <sigh>

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