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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy 22:37 - Nov 24 with 26454 viewsqprxtc



There’s a musicologist out there somewhere that will name the chords and reasons why this makes me yearn for a hanky.

Gordon Bennett, emotions are strong in this one.

As they are in this bastard



F uck a duck. Melon Collie. You bastard.
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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 13:35 - Jan 19 with 3472 viewsdanehoop

This one hit me recently. Can't listen without feeling emotional every time. Back story is so sad and gives a glimpse of the man beneath the legend.



Edit. Story here.

https://www.radiox.co.uk/news/
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Never knowingly understood

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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 22:45 - Jan 19 with 3384 viewsHooping_Mad



David Crosby has just passed. RIP

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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 23:31 - Jan 19 with 3352 viewsCateLeBonR

Danehoop's post about Hawaii made me think of the High Llamas, who I used to quite like. At least I used to like the fact they existed. Still do.



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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 08:26 - Jan 20 with 3316 viewslongbottom

Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 01:32 - Jan 5 by Boston



Big up for this. Back of the coach on away trips in the late sixties with Rob Marti, Freddie Mason and big Vic. Great days.
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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 00:37 - Jan 21 with 3275 viewsDannyPaddox

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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 21:47 - Jan 21 with 3181 viewsWesty75

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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 22:12 - Jan 21 with 3172 viewsE17hoop

This:


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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 10:51 - Jan 23 with 3104 viewsTacticalR


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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 11:32 - Jan 23 with 3079 viewsLoftgirl

Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 00:37 - Jan 21 by DannyPaddox



This for me, makes me think of everyone I've ever know and wonder where they all went.
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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 11:37 - Jan 23 with 3076 viewsLoftgirl

Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 23:51 - Nov 24 by NorthLondonR

This will be a tough listen for most (and undoubtedly most will get bored) but I was transfixed by this at the time c.1993 when I first heard it as I was always (and still ) mesmerised by historic and real life recordings and the fact this was a recording of homeless folk around Waterloo station in the early 70s just took me right there... It's a slow burner but it also reminds me of my late grandpa (1912-1994) so just makes me drift to that time.. strangely Mungo Jerry's video for In the Summertime shot at Marble Arch does exactly the same...



But slightly more modern (2005) I was always transfixed by this track inspired by a needless argument and murder:

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Whenever I hear this, I feel really sad for hours. No idea why.
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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 11:40 - Jan 23 with 3070 viewsTheChef

Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 00:37 - Jan 21 by DannyPaddox



Beautiful. Hadn't heard that for ages.

Need to watch the film now.

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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 11:53 - Jan 23 with 3054 viewsdanehoop



Another one of those songs that just stops me, with the spellbinding live vocal. Must be channelling my inner goth.

Never knowingly understood

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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 19:09 - Jan 23 with 3023 viewsLordPork

Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 10:20 - Dec 15 by TheChef

Two pages and no one had yet mentioned this??

The song by itself is melancholy enough, but add in the video... *sobs*

Think Johnny died not long after making the video.



yep, a cracker

apparently his family were unaware of the video until it came out, and when it did, just wow.

what an epitaph for the man and the song, brilliant
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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 13:34 - Jan 27 with 2946 viewsTacticalR

Whether this constitutes melancholy or outright despair I leave as an exercise for the listener:


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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 20:44 - Jan 30 with 2898 viewsTacticalR

Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 01:32 - Jan 5 by Boston



I wondered if the original was from somewhere in Central Europe, but according to Wiki the original was a Russian song from 1925 ("By the long road").

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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 11:59 - Feb 27 with 2753 viewsTacticalR

Lee Mi-rang - As Time Passes


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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 13:20 - Feb 27 with 2714 viewsPinnerPaul

London Calling

Hi Ho Silver Lining
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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 19:10 - Mar 24 with 2637 viewsTacticalR


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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 20:43 - Mar 27 with 2461 viewskomradkirk

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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 08:55 - Mar 28 with 2355 viewsCroydonCaptJack


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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 09:23 - Mar 28 with 2332 viewsE17hoop

Got an earworm of this yesterday and was reminded how he wrote it when he split from his wife:

It's always noisiest at the shallow end
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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 12:14 - Mar 28 with 2273 viewshook_hoops



Even instrumentals can get you.
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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 14:07 - Mar 28 with 2223 viewsR_from_afar



The background to this one, so, the guitarist's drug addiction, is tragic
I have taught myself the main tune on the guitar, the chords are beautiful:

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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 14:26 - Mar 28 with 2214 viewsTacticalR

@E17hoop 'Got an earworm of this yesterday and was reminded how he wrote it when he split from his wife'

Definitely a strong melancholy streak in Gordon Lightfoot:

Affair on 8th Avenue
Early Morning Rain
Rainy Day People
Looking at the Rain
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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Songs that make you all flipping melancholy on 19:06 - Mar 29 with 2144 viewsTacticalR

A Korean classic from the 1970s, covered by Kim Jung-ho in the 1980s (with English subtitles):


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