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Since I've made a decision to be happy I no longer listen to sad music. In this sad country song from 2014, a woman has become accustomed to goodbyes.

GT Bertie Kate Bush 2005 The arrival of young Bertie in 1998 is the main reason we had to wait 12 years between Kate Bush albums. It's sad that family cannot overcome some differences to reaffirm their common bond. Thanks for compiling this list. MR Fluorescent Adolescent Arctic Monkeys 2007 This wry treatise on female sexual disappointment, co-written, perhaps significantly, by Alex Turner and his ex-girlfriend Johanna Bennett, could be about a woman who settled down too young at 23 or one who has hit a midlife crisis at 43.

94 Songs About Loneliness and Feelings of Isolation

Popular music may be dominated by songs about love and sex, but there's always been songwriters who are more ambitious in their scope, who find themselves drawn to tackle life's big questions, even if they don't necessarily know the answers. If you've got a big question about why we've missed something off the list, Satta Massagana Abyssinians 1971 Satta Massagana is one of the most covered tunes in the history of reggae and a rare instance of a song that crossed over into church groups rather than the other way round. MR Fluorescent Adolescent Arctic Monkeys 2007 This wry treatise on female sexual disappointment, co-written, perhaps significantly, by Alex Turner and his ex-girlfriend Johanna Bennett, could be about a woman who settled down too young at 23 or one who has hit a midlife crisis at 43. Its greeting-card sentiments would have turned to goo if sung by anyone but genial toughie Armstrong, and even then it tanked at home while hitting the UK top spot. The Beach Boys, unlike almost all their contemporaries, understood that the teenage state of mind involved more than parties and break-ups; it was also about solipsism and solitude. Not the death of the Beatles by a long chalk, but certainly a signpost for future honesties. GM Look Up Chris Bell 1974 The contrast between Chris Bell and Alex Chilton became clearer when the former left Big Star. Chilton continues to perform and record; Bell died in a car crash in 1978. SY Happiness The Blue Nile 1996 They take their time, but they always deliver. Blue-eyed Scottish soul in excelsis. MHa This Is a Low Blur 1994 The final track on Parklife, and for a long time the tear-jerking finale at their gigs. Purportedly influenced by Neil Young, not to mention British vaudeville, Kooks is whimsical yet direct and remains possibly one of the finer gifts a singer could bestow on a newborn child. GT Bertie Kate Bush 2005 The arrival of young Bertie in 1998 is the main reason we had to wait 12 years between Kate Bush albums. Still, it sounds like he was worth it. This stately madrigal of devotion to her son may vault the barrier between heartfelt and mawkish, but only a churl could fail to be touched. It really is perspiration, not inspiration, that counts. Endlessly covered, it was made, bizarrely, into a singalong by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1971. Whether played with the Bad Seeds at full throttle or just with a piano accompaniment, this is an intense and vivid record. It was produced by Lee Perry as was the accompanying album, the masterpiece Heart of the Congos , and his prickly dub effects simulated the motion of the waves, alternately calm and crashing. The Brutal Truth, in which the rakish rumoured father of the girl denies all responsibility. Bruised feelings are unlikely to be helped by the impossibly infectious Latin pop and jawdropping panache with which this 1982 hit was delivered. MR My Favourite Girl King Creosote 2005 Fife folkie Kenny Anderson broods over the sombre realisation that time is of the essence as he falls under the shadow of a looming separation from his young daughter. GT Personal Jesus Depeche Mode 1989 This much-covered Martin Gore classic was a major shock upon its release. Depeche Mode may have spent the 80s getting away from fey synth-pop, but still no one expected thundering stadium drums, rockabilly guitars and a Dave Gahan vocal of such depth and authority. Here he turns his attentions to the fridge, singing as a well-lunched middle-aged gent panting farewell to the last crumbling vestiges of his previously youthful, lady-killing self in the face of overwhelming physical evidence. Her date pulls her clear from the car stalled on the railway track, but she returns for his high school ring. This mawkish tale was banned by the Beeb. Marc Bolan was surely taking notes. No stranger to the world of manual labour, Dorsey maintained his own sideline as a mechanic throughout his brilliant career. Nine months later, he was dead from an overdose of antidepressants. MW Not On Top Herman Düne 2005 Not On Top is less about the reality of middle age than the fear of it. Does death provide a welcome escape from earthly horrors, promising an afterlife of peaceful fulfilment? Or does it usher in another world of eternal pain and suffering? NS Forever Young Bob Dylan 1974 The part where Dylan, now with newborn child, gets back together with the Band briefly to reveal a side of him free of acerbic intent. Fatherhood, they say, can do that to a man. Carroll was a black servant who died after a drunken assault by her boss, William Zantzinger, whose subsequent six-month prison sentence became a scandal, if only in liberal circles he lived a long, affluent life. Slow and painstakingly detailed, the song paints a damning portrait of a still segregated, deeply corrupt south where justice depends on skin colour. NS Lonelier Than This Steve Earle 2000 Earle has written far more songs about the vagaries of the human condition than he ever has about politics, and this utterly convincing hymn to wretched solitude is one of the best. The beacon light from the control tower whipping through the dark skies becomes a haunting image, and you realise that Phil and Don, raised on spooky American music, know a little bit about this death business. JL Regulate Warren G and Nate Dogg 1994 G-funk dealt in pairing x-rated themes with universal tunes, and Regulate is the very embodiment of the Death Row records sound. The pair trade verses on a ditty that finds Warren G being mugged when Nate Dogg turns up and blows the thieves to bits. Nor did the hook, borrowed from Michael McDonald: rarely have so many sung along so absentmindedly to murder. The lyrics are fantastically detailed, and when the ecstatic gospel chorus breaks in, it would take a heart of stone not to feel the rapture. SY Mind Playing Tricks On Me Geto Boys 1991 The sharpest analysis of the psychological effects of a criminal lifestyle, created by an uncompromising Houston rap trio best known for their most high-profile member, Bushwick Bill, being a dwarf and having one eye shot out during a domestic. Helps to have a Memphis backing and a brilliant voice, mind. NS Spirit in the Sky Norman Greenbaum 1969 A three-time UK No 1 for Greenbaum, Doctor and the Medics, and Gareth Gates , this bullet-proof song was written after Greenbaum heard Porter Wagoner singing gospel on TV. Hawkins makes incomprehensible chatterings throughout, which, when set against the discordant keys and dizzying backing vocals, can make even the calmest soul question their sanity. MR Hey Joe The Jimi Hendrix Experience 1966 Tales of vengeful, gun-toting lovers stalk American song, but Hendrix brought an unrepentant swagger to the role and a sonic guitar assault. In old-time ballads such as Little Sadie, the felon is usually brought to justice, but Joe seems destined to slip across the Mexico border and escape the hangman. GT These Important Years Hüsker Dü 1987 Minneapolis power-trio Hüsker Dü were set apart from the hardcore scene that spawned them: rather than spewing anger outwards, they turned their gaze upon their own lives and emotions perhaps making them progenitors of emo. Good Life, which swiftly followed his very similar Big Fun, was hedonism squared, a celebratory house record paying tribute to celebration itself. Even the most cursory inspection of the lyrics reveals The Number of the Beast to be a Hammer Horror storyline set to metal, nothing more. Not scary, just fun. MHa Seasons in the Sun Terry Jacks 1974 Written by Jacques Brel in 1961, and translated by Rod McKuen, this song was picked up by Jacks, Canadian leader of psychedelic band the Poppy Family, and offered to the Beach Boys before being released as a single. The bastardised, mawkish version of Brel became a monster hit, and the four-note guitar opening is an instant warning that it is probably hard to die when all the birds are singing in the sky. One from the heart. MW Gun Shot Anthony Johnson 1982 Jamaica in the early 80s was an economic and political basketcase, but as the music tilted towards the more hedonistic strains of dancehall, some remained committed to cultural lyrics. One such was Anthony Johnson, whose classic Gun Shot was inspired by the police shooting of a Trenchtown man; not by the singular nature of the killing, but because it was an everyday event. The pared-back rhythm and muted horns made room for a pained vocal that owed much to Dennis Brown. GG Someone Great LCD Soundsystem 2007 A deliberately ambiguous song about loss, Someone Great maps the demise of a significant relationship, though it is unclear whether the termination is the result of death or simply an irreparable breakdown in communication. Alone Again Or makes being alone sound like joy itself — a rare moment of lightness on a dark and disturbing album. A triumph of light and shade, it showed there was more to Metallica than sheer speed and served as a blueprint for breakthrough single One four years later. SY Feel It In the Air Tonight Naturally 7 2006 The New York a cappella septet, who use voices to imitate all the instruments, found internet fame after performing this drastic reworking of the Phil Collins hit in front of startled commuters on the Paris Métro. Not one to play when the vicar pops round. On the phone to mentor Puff Daddy, the Notorious BIG suddenly spins off into depression, regretting a life of pretty crime and treating his dear old mum like dirt. In 1991, his successful case against Biz Markie over a sample from this song changed the law and the course of hip-hop. GG Ms Jackson OutKast 2000 Ms Jackson was a song with an inbuilt soap opera. Written by Parton for the film of the same name, the music — a febrile mongrel mix of disco and honky-tonk — conveys the sassy message with humour and gusto. GT Another Brick in the Wall, Part II Pink Floyd 1979 Memory is unreliable, but it suggests this song was inescapable as 1979 turned into 1980. Either way, this was their first, and deserved, No 1. SY Glory Box Portishead 1994 Of all the dinner party soundtracks of the 90s, Glory Box is, possibly, the most improbable. Guitars twang in threatening agreement. This stomping version of his tale, driven by sax and doo-wop backing singers, topped the US charts but Price, after a campaign by the Legion of Decency, had to change the words when performing it on TV so that neither gambling nor killing took place. Recorded shortly before his death, released just afterwards, its rumination on the tides of time made an exquisite, wistful epitaph to a talent that had yet to peak. A chilling work, words and music perfectly in tandem, the end result is truly haunting. He bids farewell to his girl Rosie, his home Corona, Queens and heads off. Gay sex, claimed Truman Capote. SY It Was a Very Good Year Frank Sinatra 1965 Ervin Drake wrote It Was a Very Good Year for the Kingston Trio. But who remembers that version? It took Frank Sinatra recording it for his album September of My Years to make it a standard. This was a perfect match of singer to song: Sinatra shedding the ring-a-ding-ding to embrace gravitas as he looks back at a full life. It still sounds startling now — goodness knows how those hearing it in 1974 reacted. MHa Dress Sexy at My Funeral Smog 2000 For those who have yet to discover him, this poignant warning against sinking into matrimonial tedium is a great introduction to the wonderful and unsettling talent of Maryland misanthropist Bill Callahan. Adopted by John Kerry as his 2004 election anthem, the solo acoustic version featured on Live: 1975-1985 cuts deepest. Its roots are centuries old, but the final version was written by Lloyd Chandler, a Baptist preacher from North Carolina, in 1916. In fact, just listening to it can make you nervous. Which probably makes it even more uneasy... Bittersweet might be a phrase commonly used in pop but rarely has it been so accurately realised by a British artist. RHJ Wish Someone Would Care Irma Thomas 1964 Wish Someone Would Care was the first song this phenomenal New Orleans soul singer ever wrote herself. What might seem like cliche is rendered poignant by the accompanying video, featuring Tupac in a cheesy heaven filled with lookalikes of Miles Davis, Marvin Gaye and Louis Armstrong. It would be the last he made before his death. By this point his life was so steeped in violence that potential enemies were everywhere: there was no way out. Compassion, forgiveness, redemption, the power of platonic love — all are alluded to in that slightly vague way best suited to stadium rock. But this nails adolescence like acne. MHa Rufus Is a Tit Man Loudon Wainwright III 1975 No musical dynasty has bared family squabbles with the candour of the Wainwright-McGarrigles. Later he would write Daughter, Rufus would snipe back with Dinner at Eight, and Martha with Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole. The irony, of course, is that gay icon Rufus turned out not to be a tit man at all. Here, on his debut album, Closing Time, he takes on the role of Tom Frost, weakening just enough to pick up the phone to call an old flame after many years. The music is prime-period Waterboys, all towering sax and searing fiddle, the big music thrillingly shackled to the folk train. A popular blues number, it became a signature tune for Mae West, who showcased it in her play Diamond Lil. Some things never change. Maybe you were the one. Walker would later move into even darker waters — which is saying something. Inevitably, Natt grew up to be an outrageous goth, keen on Marilyn Manson. Through the longest night, robins weep, leaves die and the moon hides. NS My Son Calls Another Man Daddy Hank Williams 1950 This sorrowful wail from an imprisoned parent may have sounded more authentic coming from Lefty Frizzell. Hank mines the depths of despair as only he can. JL Germ Free Adolescents X-Ray Spex 1978 Poly Styrene was a pop star of rare talent and even rarer courage. Mixed-race when it was anything but fashionable, she attacked conformism and consumerism in her songs, of which Germ Free Adolescents was the most successful. Demonstrating her own weary indifference to it all, Poly wore braces on her teeth. But here the message is in the music. In Laurel Canyon they probably thought this was the sound of the pension queue. More surprising, however, is that Keep Me in Your Heart was written when Zevon was dying of cancer. Gone is the vicious humour of the songs that made him famous, replaced by the simplest of longings — to be remembered fondly.

This was a perfect match of singer to del: Sinatra shedding the ring-a-ding-ding to embrace gravitas as he looks back at a full life. MR Hey Joe The Jimi Hendrix Experience 1966 Tales of vengeful, gun-toting lovers stalk American song, but Hendrix brought an unrepentant swagger to the role and a sonic guitar assault. In North Canyon they probably thought this was the sound of the pension queue. Have a wonderful week. I broke away from that several decades ago, and it became more difficult to relate to her. And for adults over the age of 45, it's one in three. Con are many pop, rock, and country about social isolation, loneliness, and being alone. The thought of splitting meals, dessert, or a wine bottle with anyone at all — even your best friend — is enough to make you want to use your fork as a weapon. Piece mines the depths of despair as only he can. SY Happiness The Blue Nile 1996 They take their time, but they always deliver.