Grieving songs

Cathartic

These are songs that I found to be effective at releasing pent-up grief after Jenny's disappearance and death.

• "Little Lamb Dragonfly", Paul McCartney/Wings, Red Rose Speedway
• "All Dead", Queen, News of the World
• "The Cask of Amontillado", Alan Parsons Project, Tales of Mystery and Imagination
• "Mother and Child Reunion", Paul Simon
• "Great Gig in the Sky", Pink Floyd
• "Where's Summer B.?", Ben Folds Five
• "Through the Long Night", Billy Joel, Glass Houses
• "Ode to Billie Joe", Bobbie Gentry
• "Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight", The Beatles, Abbey Road
• "Goodbye to Love", The Carpenters
• "Shangri-La", ELO, New World Record
• "Bluebird Fly Away
• "Now You're Gone", Jeff Lynne, Armchair Theatre
• "Blown Away", Jeff Lynne, Armchair Theatre
• "Alyson", Elvis Costello
• "Harmony", Elton John
• "I'm Sorry", Elton John
• "The Last to Know", Dan Fogelberg, Phoenix
• "Bluebird Is Dead", ELO, On the Third Day
• "One Summer Dream", ELO, Face the Music
• "Bluebird", ELO, Secret Messages
• "Wish You Were Here", Pink Floyd, (eponymous)
• "Prayer for the Dying", Seal
• "While You See a Chance", Steve Winwood, Arc of a Diver
• "Drive", The Cars
• "Turn of the Century", Yes

Too Much

These are songs I couldn't listen to for several years afterwards.

• "She's Leaving Home", The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's
• "Wild World", Cat Stevens
• "Angie", Rolling Stones

Later

These are songs which would probably be on one of the above lists if I had heard them at the time (most of them were released later).

• "The Luckiest", Ben Folds, Rocking the Suburbs
• "Losing True", The Roches, Keep On Doing
• "I Can Tell", Michael Penn, Resigned
• "Heaven Beside You", Alice in Chains
• "Eternal Flame", The Bangles
• "Ghosts", Dan Fogelberg, The Innocent Age
• "You and the Mona Lisa", Shawn Colvin
• "Paris Nocturne", Dan Fogelberg and Tim Weisberg, Twin Sons of Different Mothers
• "Julie Don't Live Here", ELO, Time (CD remaster with extra tracks)
• "Love Doesn't Kill You", Fastball, The Harsh Light of Day
• "Wading in Deeper", Katzenjammer
• "One Headlight", The Wallflowers, Bringing Down the Horse