Melancholic Music

Melancholic music hits a specific emotional register. This collection spans 101 songs with complete sensory profiles — so you can find the feeling you want without a sudden sensory ambush.

The calmest melancholic songs (10)

Still Beating
Mac DeMarco
safe
Oh Very Young
Cat Stevens
safe
Entering Heaven Alive
Jack White
safe
Tell Me Why
Neil Young
safe
Thinking About You
Norah Jones
safe
Georgia on My Mind
Willie Nelson
safe
Monday Morning
Fleetwood Mac
safe
Two Fish and an Elephant
Khruangbin
safe
Clair de Lune
Claude Debussy
safe
Serenade for Strings in C Major
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
safe

Moderate intensity (68)

The Ultracheese
Arctic Monkeys
moderate
Show Me the Place
Leonard Cohen
moderate
How I Made My Millions
Radiohead
moderate
Cars Hiss by My Window
The Doors
moderate
Singularity
V
moderate
Soul With Me
Depeche Mode
moderate
Time (The Revelator)
Gillian Welch
moderate
Tour of Duty
Jason Isbell
moderate
A Thousand Kisses Deep
Leonard Cohen
moderate
Radio Cure
Wilco
moderate
Heaven for the Sinner
Bonobo
moderate
Waltz No. 1
Elliott Smith
moderate
Hailie's Song
Eminem
moderate
Shadowboxer
Fiona Apple
moderate
Woman
Harry Styles
moderate
Machinist
Japanese Breakfast
moderate
Pretty Pimpin
Kurt Vile
moderate
Someone Great
LCD Soundsystem
moderate
Swan Song
Lana Del Rey
moderate
Hot & Heavy
Lucy Dacus
moderate
Suedehead
Morrissey
moderate
Round and Round (It Won't Be Long)
Neil Young
moderate
Enola Gay
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
moderate
My Lover's Prayer
Otis Redding
moderate
Cuyahoga
R.E.M.
moderate
Gone Girl
SZA
moderate
Hateful
The Clash
moderate
Chet Boghassa
Tinariwen
moderate
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
U2
moderate
Thank You for Your Love
Antony and the Johnsons
moderate
Afterlife
Arcade Fire
moderate
Star Treatment
Arctic Monkeys
moderate
Body Paint
Arctic Monkeys
moderate
Another Sunny Day
Belle and Sebastian
moderate
Two Hands
Big Thief
moderate
The Worst Guys
Childish Gambino featuring Chance the Rapper
moderate
Syrinx
Claude Debussy
moderate
Angel of Mercy
Dire Straits
moderate
Rescue
Echo and the Bunnymen
moderate
Crocodiles
Echo and the Bunnymen
moderate

Most intense (23)

Machine Gun
Slowdive
intense
Capacity
Big Thief
intense
An Echo, a Stain
Björk
intense
Swim Good
Frank Ocean
intense
It Will Come Back
Hozier
intense
I Would Hurt a Fly
Built to Spill
intense
White Horse
Chris Stapleton
intense
Never Let Me Down Again
Depeche Mode
intense
Oh Well
Fleetwood Mac
intense
Still Life
Iron Maiden
intense
Brave New World
Iron Maiden
intense
Wise One
John Coltrane
intense
Lost in the World
Kanye West
intense
Wherever I May Roam
Metallica
intense
Cactus
Pixies
intense
Adagio for Strings
Samuel Barber
intense
Shanty
Slowdive
intense
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Smashing Pumpkins
intense
Death and the Maiden
Franz Schubert
intense
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor
Johannes Brahms
intense

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