Originally posted by rixxe
It's strange that nobody mentioned Portishead.
It's strange that nobody mentioned Portishead.

'It's a Fire' and 'Mysterons' and 'Theme From to Kill a Dead Man', and 'Mourning Air' from the 'Help' compilation.
Also Massive Attack's 'Home of the Whale' from the Massive Attack e.p. and 'Teardrop' from 'Mezzanine'.
I think the Madonna/Massive Attack version of 'I Want You' is also quite melancholy.
Other sad and melancholy refrains:
Roxy Music: 'Strictly Confidential' and '2HB'
Bowie: 'Lady Grinning Soul' and 'Warszawa'
Emmylou Harris/Dolores Keane/Mary Black: 'Grey Funnel Line' from the 'Bringing it Back Home' compilation.
Nico and Eno: 'The End' from 'June 1 1974'.
Caroline Lavelle: 'Moorlough Shore'.
Christopher Hobbs/Gavin Bryars/John Adams: 'Maccrimmon Will Never Return' from 'Ensemble Pieces'.
John Cage/Jan Steele: 'Voices and Instruments' (whole album)
Dinah Washington: 'Blue Gardenia'.
June Tabor: 'Aqaba' and 'Pavane'.
Marianne Faithfull: 'Strange Weather', 'Trouble in Mind', 'El Galivan' and 'As Tears Go By' (both versions).
Mary Coughlan: 'Handbags and Gladrags', 'Magdalene Laundry' and 'Dido's Lament'.
Bessie Smith: 'Empty Bed Blues'.
Nina Simone: 'Suzanne', 'Just Like A Woman' 'Baltimore' and 'My Man's Gone Now'.
This Mortal Coil: 'Tarantula', 'Another Day', 'Song to the Siren' 'My Father'.
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