Melancholy Masterpieces

A new compilation is out in the UK today, and it's a right nightmare. Time To Say Goodbye is looking to cash in on the public's willingness to be manipulated by a particularly well soundtracked montage of Princess Diana/Jade Goody/someone who's been kicked off Britain's Got Talent.
There's a whole two discs of drecky schmaltz that's guaranteed to pull at your gag reflex, if not your heartstrings.
It got me thinking about my favorite Melancholy Masterpieces, and what a compilation done right might look like. This idea just came to me so it might be woefully incomplete...
1. Blur: This Is A Low.
2. Bauhaus: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
3. Primal Scream: Keep Your Dreams
4. Morrissey: Seasick, Yet Still Docked
5. My Bloody Valentine: Sometimes
6. Working For A Nuclear Free City: Pixelated Birds
7. Elbow: Newborn
8. Beck: Lost Cause
9. Bjork: Hyperballad
10. Lou Reed: Perfect Day
11. Sigur Ros: Untitled 4
12. M83: Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun
13. Joy Division: Atmosphere
14. Kate Bush: And Dream Of Sheep
15. Antony And The Johnsons: You Are My Sister
16. Beach House: Gila
17. Belle And Sebastian: Fox In The Snow
18. Swan Lake: All Fires
19. Mercury Rev: Holes
20. Radiohead: Scatterbrain
21. Soulsavers: Revival
22. Spiritualized: Broken Heart
23. The Streets: Dry your Eyes
24. Moose: This River Will Never Run Dry
25. Portishead: The Rip

EDIT: Just thought of this one...
26. Elvis Costello: Shipbuilding
EDIT: And two more...
27. British Sea Power: No Need To Cry
28. Fugazi: I'm So Tired


via Idolator.