I lost all my music files when my 'puter crashed. I have been slowly replacing what I lost. I had a subfolder of “Moody Songs”. I can’t remember all of the songs that were in it. So far, I’ve remembered a few:
Fairytale of New York
Danny Boy
Amazing Grace (bagpipes)
Cold Cold Ground
Loch Lomond
I need suggestions, anyone?
Oooh - I had a ‘Moody Tunes’ tape I mixed a few years back… some of the things on it:
The Road to Hell - Chris Rea
Somewhere Down the Crazy River - Robby Robertson
Private Invstigation - Dire Straits
Funeral For A Friend - Elton John
the Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young
Losing It - Rush
Riders on the Storm - The Doors
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Hypnotized - Fleetwood Mac (REAL early Mac)
Don’t Forget to Dance - the Kinks
Time - The Alan Parsons Project
Oh I have a few to add. I always privately think of them as “rip my heart out” songs. They’re not all sad, but they all have some component that just goes right through me.
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Losing My Religion, REM
You Are the Everything, REM
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, U2 (live version)
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, Paul Simon
Uncle John’s Band, Grateful Dead
Hallelujah, Rufus Wainwright (Shrek soundtrack)
Wild Horses, Rolling Stones
Behind Blue Eyes, The Who
Son Of A Preacherman, Aretha Franklin
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I’m sure there are more, but that’s all I can think of at the moment!
Usually I listen to stuff which I think will shake the mood off, rather than wallow in it. Nevertheless, when I just want to give in to it: John Prine’s entire The Missing Years, or any good rendition of Rimsky-Korsakoff’s Scheherazade. You can totally lose yourself in those violins, especially at the end.
Somehow, when I saw the thread title, the only songs that came to mind were “Tuesday Afternoon” and “Nights in White Satin”.
Wonder why that is?
When I’m feeling moody or blue, cry-in-my-scotch time, I put on a Billie Holiday album or cd. Her later stuff is particularly potent and is sure to trigger a release of waterworks.
Oddly enough, her big hit Strange Fruit is an exception to this rule. It has a very strong theme, but, musically, it’s just not that interesting, so it just doesn’t work for me. One particular favourite moody song of hers is **I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm. **You can just feel the sadness in the words, you can sense the wistfulness, that she really does not have a love to keep her warm. Another notewhile song in this group is Gloomy Sunday.
Some good moody songs I suggest:
At The Crossroads - Mott the Hoople
Waterlow - Mott the Hoople
Anodyne - Uncle Tupelo
Little Hands - Skip Spence
Don’t Change Your Plans - Ben Folds Five
Every River - Kim Richey
Expecting To Fly - Buffalo Springfield
Four Days Gone - Buffalo Springfield
Penny Is Poison - The Verve Pipe
Farther Along - The Byrds
Divrocee’s Waltz - Adrian Legg
Lots and lots of Richard Thompson
The whole Forever Changes album by Love
Bruce Springsteen’s Point Blank?
Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow. A Irish ballad-style song (albeit with some powerful guitar riffs…I love this modern age) about a man who’s murdered and his lover who can’t stop grieving.
I mention this because there’s a dance remix of this on Dance Dance Revolution 5th Mix, a game I’ve been playing it for some time, and every time I play this I absolutely cannot get this song out of my head…something about the melody and/or lyrics just grabs my heart and won’t let go, I guess…and I downloaded this song (the original, not the remix) just because I couldn’t let it go, and I figure that if I’m going to have a sappy ballad bouncing around for the next 12 hours or so, at least someone should benefit from it. 