Thelonious Sphere Monk (Rocky Mount, North Carolina 10th October 1917 - Har… Read Full Bio ↴Thelonious Sphere Monk (Rocky Mount, North Carolina 10th October 1917 - Hartsdale, New York 17th February 1982) was a jazz pianist and composer.
Widely considered as one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only five jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time -- Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy," "'Round Midnight," "Blue Monk," "Straight No Chaser" and "Well, You Needn't."
He could play be-bop but commented that be-bop "sounds like dixieland to me." His compositions and improvisations are full of dissonant harmonies and angular melodic twists, and are impossible to separate from Monk's unorthodox approach to the piano, which combined a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of silences and hesitations; a style nicknamed "Melodious Thunk" by his wife Nellie.
Early life
Monk was born 10th October 1917 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of Thelonious and Barbara Monk, two years after his sister Marian. A brother, Thomas, was born a couple of years later. In 1922, the family moved to 243 West 63rd Street, in Manhattan. Monk started playing the piano at the age of six. Although he had some formal training and eavesdropped on his sister's piano lessons, he was essentially self-taught. Monk attended Stuyvesant High School, but did not graduate. He briefly toured with an evangelist in his teens, playing the church organ, and in his late teens he began to find work playing jazz.
Monk is believed to be the pianist featured on recordings Jerry Newman made around 1941 at Minton's Playhouse, the legendary Manhattan club where Monk was the house pianist. Monk's style at the time was described as "hard-swinging," with the addition of runs in the style of Art Tatum. Monk's stated influences include Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and other early stride pianists. Monk's unique piano style was largely perfected during his stint as the house pianist at Minton's in the early-to-mid 1940s, when he participated in the famous after-hours "cutting competitions" that featured most of the leading jazz soloists of the day. The Minton's scene was crucial in the formulation of the bebop genre and it brought Monk into close contact and collaboration with other leading exponents of bebop, including Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Christian, Kenny Clarke, Charlie Parker and later, Miles Davis.
Early recordings (1944–1954)
In 1944 Monk made his first studio recordings with the Coleman Hawkins Quartet. Hawkins was among the first prominent jazz musicians to promote Monk, and Monk later returned the favor by inviting Hawkins to join him on the 1957 session with John Coltrane. Monk made his first recordings as leader for Blue Note in 1947 (later anthologised on Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1) which showcased his talents as a composer of original melodies for improvisation. Monk married Nellie Smith the same year, and in 1949 the couple had a son, T.S. Monk, who later became a jazz drummer. A daughter, Barbara (affectionately known as Boo-Boo), was born in 1953.
In August 1951, New York City police searched a parked car occupied by Monk and friend Bud Powell. The police found narcotics in the car, presumed to have belonged to Powell. Monk refused to testify against his friend, so the police confiscated his New York City Cabaret Card. Without the all-important cabaret card he was unable to play in any New York venue where liquor was served, and this severely restricted his ability to perform for several crucial years. Monk spent most of the early and mid-1950s composing, recording, and performing at theaters and out-of-town gigs.
After his cycle of intermittent recording sessions for Blue Note during 1947–1952, he was under contract to Prestige Records for the following two years. With Prestige he cut several under-recognized, but highly significant albums, including collaborations with saxophonist Sonny Rollins and drummer Art Blakey. In 1954, Monk participated in the famed Christmas Eve sessions which produced the albums Bags' Groove and Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants by Miles Davis. Davis found Monk's idiosyncratic accompaniment style difficult to improvise over and asked him to lay out (not accompany), which almost brought them to blows. However, in Miles Davis' autobiography Miles, Davis claims that the anger and tension between Monk and himself never took place and that the claims of blows being exchanged were "rumors" and a "misunderstanding."
In 1954, Monk paid his first visit to Europe, performing and recording in Paris. It was here that he first met Baroness Pannonica "Nica" de Koenigswarter, a member of the Rothschild banking family of England and a patroness of several New York City jazz musicians. She would be a close friend for the rest of Monk's life.
Riverside Records (1954–1961)
At the time of his signing to Riverside, Monk was highly regarded by his peers and by some critics, but his records did not sell in significant numbers, and his music was still regarded as too "difficult" for mass-market acceptance. Indeed, with Monk's consent, Riverside had managed to buy out his previous Prestige contract for a mere $108.24. His breakthrough came thanks to a compromise between Monk and the label, which convinced him to record two albums of his interpretations of jazz standards.
His debut for Riverside, which featured bass innovator Oscar Pettiford, was built around Monk's distinctive interpretations of selection of well-known pieces by Duke Ellington, including "Caravan" and "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)". The resulting LP, Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington, was designed to bring Monk to a wider audience, and pave the way for a broader acceptance of his unique style. According to recording producer Orrin Keepnews, Monk appeared unfamiliar with the Ellington tunes and spent a long time reading the sheet music and picking the melodies out on the piano keys. Given Monk's long history of playing, it seems unlikely that he didn't know Ellington's music, and it has been surmised that Monk's seeming ignorance of the material was a manifestation of his typically perverse humor, combined with an unstated reluctance to prove his own musical competency by playing other composers' works (even at this late date, there were still critics who carped that Monk "couldn't play").
Finally, on the 1956 LP Brilliant Corners, Monk was able to record his own music. The complex title track, which featured tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, was so difficult to play that the final version had to be edited together from three separate takes. The album, however, was largely regarded as the first success for Monk; according to Orrin Keepnews, "It was the first that made a real splash."
After having his cabaret card restored, Monk relaunched his New York career with a landmark six-month residency at the Five Spot Cafe in New York beginning in June 1957, leading a quartet that included John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Wilbur Ware on bass, and Shadow Wilson on drums. Unfortunately little of this group's music was documented, apparently because of contractual problems, Coltrane signed to Prestige at the time. One studio session was made by Riverside but only later released on Jazzland; an amateur tape from the Five Spot (not the original residency, it seems, but a later 1958 reunion) was uncovered in the 1990s and issued on Blue Note. On November 29 that year the quartet performed at Carnegie Hall and the concert was recorded in high fidelity by the Voice of America broadcasting service. The long-lost tape of that concert was rediscovered in the collection of the Library of Congress in January 2005. In 1958 Johnny Griffin took Coltrane's place as tenor player in Monk's band.
In 1958, Monk and de Koenigswarter were detained by police in Wilmington, Delaware. When Monk refused to answer the policemen's questions or cooperate with them, they beat him with a blackjack. Though the police were authorized to search the vehicle and found narcotics in suitcases held in the trunk of the Baroness's car, Judge Christie of the Delaware Superior Court ruled that the unlawful detention of the pair, and the beating of Monk, rendered the consent to the search void as given under duress. State v. De Koenigswarter, 177 A.2d 344 (Del. Super. 1962). Monk was represented by Theophilus Nix, the second African-American member of the Delaware Bar Association.
Columbia Records (1962–1970)
In 1962, Monk signed to Columbia Records, one of the big four American record labels of the day along with RCA Victor, Capitol, and Decca. He had not recorded a studio album since 5 By Monk By 5 in June of 1959, a year that had seen the dual innovations of free jazz by Ornette Coleman, and modal jazz by Miles Davis via his landmark LP on Columbia, Kind of Blue, enter the jazz world. Monk jumped ship to Columbia as he ran out his contract to Riverside via a series of live albums, working with producer Teo Macero on his debut for the label.[3] Featuring a stable line-up that had been with him for two years, tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, bassist John Ore, and drummer Frankie Dunlop, sessions in the first week of November yielded the Columbia debut released in 1963, Monk's Dream.
The resources at Columbia allowed Monk to be promoted more widely than earlier in his career. Monk's Dream would remain the best-selling LP of his lifetime, and on February 28, 1964, Monk appeared on the cover of Time magazine, and was featured in the article, "The Loneliest Monk". He continued to record a number of well-reviewed studio albums, particularly the debut, Criss Cross also from 1963, and Underground from 1968. But by the Columbia period his compositional output was much reduced, and only his final Columbia studio record Underground featured a substantial number of new tunes, including his only waltz time piece, "Ugly Beauty."
As had been the case with Riverside, his period with Columbia Records contains many live albums, including Miles and Monk at Newport from 1963, Live at the It Club and Live at the Jazz Workshop, both from 1964 with the latter relased in 1982. After the departure of Ore and Dunlop, the rhythm section of Monk's quartet during the bulk of his Columbia period was rounded out by Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums, both of whom joined in 1964 and would, along with Rouse, be his longest-serving band for over four years.
Later life
Monk had disappeared from the scene by the mid-1970s, and made only a small number of appearances during the final decade of his life. His last studio recordings were completed in November 1971, near the end of a worldwide tour with "The Giants of Jazz", which also included Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Art Blakey, Kai Winding and Al McKibbon.Monk's manner was idiosyncratic. Visually, he was renowned for his distinctively "hip" sartorial style in suits, hats and sunglasses, and he developed an unusual, highly syncopated and percussive manner of playing piano. He was also noted for the fact that at times he would stop playing, stand up from the keyboard and dance while turning in a clockwise fashion, ring-shout style, while the other musicians in the combo played. Bassist Al McKibbon, who had known Monk for over twenty years and played on his final tour in 1971, later said: "On that tour Monk said about two words. I mean literally maybe two words. He didn't say 'Good morning', 'Goodnight', 'What time?' Nothing. Why, I don't know. He sent word back after the tour was over that the reason he couldn't communicate or play was that Art Blakey and I were so ugly." A different side of Monk is revealed in Lewis Porter's biography, John Coltrane: His Life and Music; Coltrane states: "Monk is exactly the opposite of Miles [Davis]: he talks about music all the time, and he wants so much for you to understand that if, by chance, you ask him something, he'll spend hours if necessary to explain it to you."
The documentary film Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988) attributes Monk's quirky behaviour to mental illness. In the film, Monk's son, T.S. Monk, says that his father sometimes did not recognize him, and he reports that Monk was hospitalized on several occasions due to an unspecified mental illness that worsened in the late 1960s. No reports or diagnoses were ever publicized, but Monk would often become excited for two or three days, pace for days after that, after which he would withdraw and stop speaking. Physicians recommended electroconvulsive therapy as a treatment option for Monk's illness, but his family would not allow it; antipsychotics and lithium were prescribed instead.[8][9] Other theories abound: Leslie Gourse, author of the book Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk (1997), reports that at least one of Monk's psychiatrists failed to find evidence of manic depression or schizophrenia. Others blamed Monk's behavior on intentional and inadvertent drug use: Monk was unknowingly administered LSD, and may have taken peyote with Timothy Leary. Another physician maintains that Monk was misdiagnosed and given drugs during his hospital stay that may have caused brain damage.
As his health declined, Monk's last six years were spent as a guest in the New Jersey home of his long-standing patron, Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter, who had also nursed Charlie Parker during his final illness. Monk didn't play the piano during this time, even though one was present in his room, and he spoke to few visitors. Monk died of a stroke on February 17, 1982 and was buried in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Since his death, his music has been rediscovered by a wider audience and he is now counted alongside the likes of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and others as a major figure in the history of jazz. In 1993, he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2006, Monk was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation.
Widely considered as one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only five jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time -- Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy," "'Round Midnight," "Blue Monk," "Straight No Chaser" and "Well, You Needn't."
He could play be-bop but commented that be-bop "sounds like dixieland to me." His compositions and improvisations are full of dissonant harmonies and angular melodic twists, and are impossible to separate from Monk's unorthodox approach to the piano, which combined a highly percussive attack with abrupt, dramatic use of silences and hesitations; a style nicknamed "Melodious Thunk" by his wife Nellie.
Early life
Monk was born 10th October 1917 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of Thelonious and Barbara Monk, two years after his sister Marian. A brother, Thomas, was born a couple of years later. In 1922, the family moved to 243 West 63rd Street, in Manhattan. Monk started playing the piano at the age of six. Although he had some formal training and eavesdropped on his sister's piano lessons, he was essentially self-taught. Monk attended Stuyvesant High School, but did not graduate. He briefly toured with an evangelist in his teens, playing the church organ, and in his late teens he began to find work playing jazz.
Monk is believed to be the pianist featured on recordings Jerry Newman made around 1941 at Minton's Playhouse, the legendary Manhattan club where Monk was the house pianist. Monk's style at the time was described as "hard-swinging," with the addition of runs in the style of Art Tatum. Monk's stated influences include Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and other early stride pianists. Monk's unique piano style was largely perfected during his stint as the house pianist at Minton's in the early-to-mid 1940s, when he participated in the famous after-hours "cutting competitions" that featured most of the leading jazz soloists of the day. The Minton's scene was crucial in the formulation of the bebop genre and it brought Monk into close contact and collaboration with other leading exponents of bebop, including Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Christian, Kenny Clarke, Charlie Parker and later, Miles Davis.
Early recordings (1944–1954)
In 1944 Monk made his first studio recordings with the Coleman Hawkins Quartet. Hawkins was among the first prominent jazz musicians to promote Monk, and Monk later returned the favor by inviting Hawkins to join him on the 1957 session with John Coltrane. Monk made his first recordings as leader for Blue Note in 1947 (later anthologised on Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1) which showcased his talents as a composer of original melodies for improvisation. Monk married Nellie Smith the same year, and in 1949 the couple had a son, T.S. Monk, who later became a jazz drummer. A daughter, Barbara (affectionately known as Boo-Boo), was born in 1953.
In August 1951, New York City police searched a parked car occupied by Monk and friend Bud Powell. The police found narcotics in the car, presumed to have belonged to Powell. Monk refused to testify against his friend, so the police confiscated his New York City Cabaret Card. Without the all-important cabaret card he was unable to play in any New York venue where liquor was served, and this severely restricted his ability to perform for several crucial years. Monk spent most of the early and mid-1950s composing, recording, and performing at theaters and out-of-town gigs.
After his cycle of intermittent recording sessions for Blue Note during 1947–1952, he was under contract to Prestige Records for the following two years. With Prestige he cut several under-recognized, but highly significant albums, including collaborations with saxophonist Sonny Rollins and drummer Art Blakey. In 1954, Monk participated in the famed Christmas Eve sessions which produced the albums Bags' Groove and Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants by Miles Davis. Davis found Monk's idiosyncratic accompaniment style difficult to improvise over and asked him to lay out (not accompany), which almost brought them to blows. However, in Miles Davis' autobiography Miles, Davis claims that the anger and tension between Monk and himself never took place and that the claims of blows being exchanged were "rumors" and a "misunderstanding."
In 1954, Monk paid his first visit to Europe, performing and recording in Paris. It was here that he first met Baroness Pannonica "Nica" de Koenigswarter, a member of the Rothschild banking family of England and a patroness of several New York City jazz musicians. She would be a close friend for the rest of Monk's life.
Riverside Records (1954–1961)
At the time of his signing to Riverside, Monk was highly regarded by his peers and by some critics, but his records did not sell in significant numbers, and his music was still regarded as too "difficult" for mass-market acceptance. Indeed, with Monk's consent, Riverside had managed to buy out his previous Prestige contract for a mere $108.24. His breakthrough came thanks to a compromise between Monk and the label, which convinced him to record two albums of his interpretations of jazz standards.
His debut for Riverside, which featured bass innovator Oscar Pettiford, was built around Monk's distinctive interpretations of selection of well-known pieces by Duke Ellington, including "Caravan" and "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)". The resulting LP, Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington, was designed to bring Monk to a wider audience, and pave the way for a broader acceptance of his unique style. According to recording producer Orrin Keepnews, Monk appeared unfamiliar with the Ellington tunes and spent a long time reading the sheet music and picking the melodies out on the piano keys. Given Monk's long history of playing, it seems unlikely that he didn't know Ellington's music, and it has been surmised that Monk's seeming ignorance of the material was a manifestation of his typically perverse humor, combined with an unstated reluctance to prove his own musical competency by playing other composers' works (even at this late date, there were still critics who carped that Monk "couldn't play").
Finally, on the 1956 LP Brilliant Corners, Monk was able to record his own music. The complex title track, which featured tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, was so difficult to play that the final version had to be edited together from three separate takes. The album, however, was largely regarded as the first success for Monk; according to Orrin Keepnews, "It was the first that made a real splash."
After having his cabaret card restored, Monk relaunched his New York career with a landmark six-month residency at the Five Spot Cafe in New York beginning in June 1957, leading a quartet that included John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Wilbur Ware on bass, and Shadow Wilson on drums. Unfortunately little of this group's music was documented, apparently because of contractual problems, Coltrane signed to Prestige at the time. One studio session was made by Riverside but only later released on Jazzland; an amateur tape from the Five Spot (not the original residency, it seems, but a later 1958 reunion) was uncovered in the 1990s and issued on Blue Note. On November 29 that year the quartet performed at Carnegie Hall and the concert was recorded in high fidelity by the Voice of America broadcasting service. The long-lost tape of that concert was rediscovered in the collection of the Library of Congress in January 2005. In 1958 Johnny Griffin took Coltrane's place as tenor player in Monk's band.
In 1958, Monk and de Koenigswarter were detained by police in Wilmington, Delaware. When Monk refused to answer the policemen's questions or cooperate with them, they beat him with a blackjack. Though the police were authorized to search the vehicle and found narcotics in suitcases held in the trunk of the Baroness's car, Judge Christie of the Delaware Superior Court ruled that the unlawful detention of the pair, and the beating of Monk, rendered the consent to the search void as given under duress. State v. De Koenigswarter, 177 A.2d 344 (Del. Super. 1962). Monk was represented by Theophilus Nix, the second African-American member of the Delaware Bar Association.
Columbia Records (1962–1970)
In 1962, Monk signed to Columbia Records, one of the big four American record labels of the day along with RCA Victor, Capitol, and Decca. He had not recorded a studio album since 5 By Monk By 5 in June of 1959, a year that had seen the dual innovations of free jazz by Ornette Coleman, and modal jazz by Miles Davis via his landmark LP on Columbia, Kind of Blue, enter the jazz world. Monk jumped ship to Columbia as he ran out his contract to Riverside via a series of live albums, working with producer Teo Macero on his debut for the label.[3] Featuring a stable line-up that had been with him for two years, tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, bassist John Ore, and drummer Frankie Dunlop, sessions in the first week of November yielded the Columbia debut released in 1963, Monk's Dream.
The resources at Columbia allowed Monk to be promoted more widely than earlier in his career. Monk's Dream would remain the best-selling LP of his lifetime, and on February 28, 1964, Monk appeared on the cover of Time magazine, and was featured in the article, "The Loneliest Monk". He continued to record a number of well-reviewed studio albums, particularly the debut, Criss Cross also from 1963, and Underground from 1968. But by the Columbia period his compositional output was much reduced, and only his final Columbia studio record Underground featured a substantial number of new tunes, including his only waltz time piece, "Ugly Beauty."
As had been the case with Riverside, his period with Columbia Records contains many live albums, including Miles and Monk at Newport from 1963, Live at the It Club and Live at the Jazz Workshop, both from 1964 with the latter relased in 1982. After the departure of Ore and Dunlop, the rhythm section of Monk's quartet during the bulk of his Columbia period was rounded out by Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums, both of whom joined in 1964 and would, along with Rouse, be his longest-serving band for over four years.
Later life
Monk had disappeared from the scene by the mid-1970s, and made only a small number of appearances during the final decade of his life. His last studio recordings were completed in November 1971, near the end of a worldwide tour with "The Giants of Jazz", which also included Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Art Blakey, Kai Winding and Al McKibbon.Monk's manner was idiosyncratic. Visually, he was renowned for his distinctively "hip" sartorial style in suits, hats and sunglasses, and he developed an unusual, highly syncopated and percussive manner of playing piano. He was also noted for the fact that at times he would stop playing, stand up from the keyboard and dance while turning in a clockwise fashion, ring-shout style, while the other musicians in the combo played. Bassist Al McKibbon, who had known Monk for over twenty years and played on his final tour in 1971, later said: "On that tour Monk said about two words. I mean literally maybe two words. He didn't say 'Good morning', 'Goodnight', 'What time?' Nothing. Why, I don't know. He sent word back after the tour was over that the reason he couldn't communicate or play was that Art Blakey and I were so ugly." A different side of Monk is revealed in Lewis Porter's biography, John Coltrane: His Life and Music; Coltrane states: "Monk is exactly the opposite of Miles [Davis]: he talks about music all the time, and he wants so much for you to understand that if, by chance, you ask him something, he'll spend hours if necessary to explain it to you."
The documentary film Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988) attributes Monk's quirky behaviour to mental illness. In the film, Monk's son, T.S. Monk, says that his father sometimes did not recognize him, and he reports that Monk was hospitalized on several occasions due to an unspecified mental illness that worsened in the late 1960s. No reports or diagnoses were ever publicized, but Monk would often become excited for two or three days, pace for days after that, after which he would withdraw and stop speaking. Physicians recommended electroconvulsive therapy as a treatment option for Monk's illness, but his family would not allow it; antipsychotics and lithium were prescribed instead.[8][9] Other theories abound: Leslie Gourse, author of the book Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk (1997), reports that at least one of Monk's psychiatrists failed to find evidence of manic depression or schizophrenia. Others blamed Monk's behavior on intentional and inadvertent drug use: Monk was unknowingly administered LSD, and may have taken peyote with Timothy Leary. Another physician maintains that Monk was misdiagnosed and given drugs during his hospital stay that may have caused brain damage.
As his health declined, Monk's last six years were spent as a guest in the New Jersey home of his long-standing patron, Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter, who had also nursed Charlie Parker during his final illness. Monk didn't play the piano during this time, even though one was present in his room, and he spoke to few visitors. Monk died of a stroke on February 17, 1982 and was buried in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Since his death, his music has been rediscovered by a wider audience and he is now counted alongside the likes of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and others as a major figure in the history of jazz. In 1993, he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2006, Monk was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation.
All Alone
Thelonious Monk Lyrics
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Che Ecru It back, aye Throw it back, aye Throw it back, aye It back,…
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Coffin Carousel Roses all fall down Pull me under Moon light hits the ground…
Cold as Life Your weekends turn to all week long As you look…
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Geir Rönning Life is passing for too fast The time as we're not…
genisys Look at how you move, shawty what you doing Left me…
goreshit You're not alone I'll wait 'til the end of time Open your…
Gorillaz All alone, all alone All alone, all alone All alone, all alo…
Gorillaz and Danger Mouse [Repeat: x24] All alone Laviti caso Due to run a mile …
Gorillaz (feat. Martina Topley-Bird) Hold me in The air is thin Awake my friend Your life, begins…
Gorillaz (feat. Roots Manuva) All alone, all alone All alone, all alone All alone, all alo…
Gorillaz feat. Roots Manuva & Martina Topley-Bird All Alone... (x16) Leviticus-o... Deuteronomy... Snat…
Gorillaz Feat. Roots Manuva/Gorillaz Feat. Roots Manuva All alone, all alone All alone, all alone All alone, all alo…
Gorillaz ft. Roots Manuva & Martina Topley-Bird All Alone... (x16) Leviticus-o... Deuteronomy... Snat…
Gorillaz ft. Roots Manuva and Martina Topley-Bird All alone, all alone All alone, all alone All alone, all alo…
Gorillaz/Roots Manuva/Roots Manuva All alone, all alone All alone, all alone All alone, all a…
H.O.S.H. seh gah dweh uh suh nal soo nah juh hah…
Happy Campers Two in the morning, a disturbing call From a mother's Trembl…
Haystak Ah ah Come on. You are not the only one Going through…
heavenly angel bees The guts of my room are on the hallway I lay…
Heo Hoy Kyung 아주 가끔 다정했던 날들에 작지만 모진 말로 밀어낸 적 있어요 아주 가끔 불행을…
Heretixx I lose composure whenever I hold ya Everything I say goes…
High And Mighty Color Doushite itsumo hiza kakaete hitori furueteru? Warau koto n…
Hogland I know I can be a little tough sometimes And I…
hold me hostage I am all alone All alone, all alone Oooooh I finally had en…
Hotel Etiquette I can think of a million things I should have…
Humble Braggers When I see you all alone, After all my friends have…
Ilse de Lange I can't give When you give nothing in return I can't live Wh…
Immature This song is dedicated to my mother Who I really loved…
Indigo Blue Lying all alone in our bed With sweet memories in my…
Invent I'll gaze at the stars As my mind wanders off My searching…
Irving Berlin [1st verse:] Just like a melody that lingers on You seem to…
Isobel Campbell Where's the love that's made to fill my heart Where's the…
IVOXYGEN I′m so alone You took it all And I could die You wouldn't…
J-Hype 사랑했던 기억 속에 살아 소중했던 아픔도 기억 속에 남아 쓰러지며 널 붙잡고 소리쳐도 오지…
J-Killa Yeah, I've been vibin' on my own Yeah, I've been vibin'…
J.S.H Should I leave you all alone? Why you on my phone? I…
J.T. Pender 사랑했던 기억 속에 살아 소중했던 아픔도 기억 속에 남아 쓰러지며 널 붙잡고 소리쳐도 오지…
Jackson Analogue Prefer a mirror with the lights out Don't wanna see what…
Jackson Jackson She's waiting on, She's waiting on that storm to come. Into…
Jacob & Phil Fill Intro: That bruise I woke up to, wasn't there from the…
JaeJoong 사랑했던 기억 속에 살아 소중했던 아픔도 기억 속에 남아 쓰러지며 널 붙잡고 소리쳐도 오지…
Jaki Byard Trio [1st verse:] Just like a melody that lingers on You seem t…
Jamie Hewlett All alone, all alone All alone, all alone All alone, all alo…
JDX Don′t talk about it Say nothing 'bout it Hush, it′s the only…
Jeff Bhasker I fell in love with a wind-up souvenir I bought it…
Jess McAvoy I wasn't even twenty when I jumped a white sedan we…
Jesse Powell Sitting here all alone, Just thinkin' bout'cha staring at t…
Jimi Blue I'm all alone, wait by the phone... there's no time…
Joachim Pastor I'm All Alone I'm All Alone I'm All Alone I'm All Alone I'm …
Joey Stylez [Feat. Lancelot Knight] Ya why you so so-so-so-serious? and…
Johnny and the Remains All alone am I ever since your goodbye All alone with…
Junior Cruz And I've been All alone No where to go, oh I've been stuck…
Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground To many of my close friends Only come around when I'm…
Ken Thorne and his Orchestra All alone, I'm so all alone There is no one else…
KID Tye Oh, oh The devil in my ear telling me lies ion'…
Kiha & The Faces 술을 마시거나 산을 오르거나 하늘을 보거나 사람을 보거나 걸어다니거나 울어버리거나 낮잠을 자거나 문자를 하…
KiLLTEQ The music plays all night in Little Italy The lights will…
KiLLTEQ & D.HASH I feel so alone (I feel so alone) I been on…
Kim Jae Joong sarang haetdeon gieog soge sara sojung haetdeon apeumdo gieo…
Kim Jae Joong (김재중) 사랑했던 기억 속에 살아 소중했던 아픔도 기억 속에 남아 쓰러지며 널 붙잡고 소리쳐도 오지…
KITCHEN - fun. I fell in love with a wind-up souvenir I bought it…
KraziNoyze Không ai hiểu cho tao, hay tao không chịu hiểu…
Kristen Hanby Hey lying all the time whilst time just passes by Yeah…
Krokodil When I smile, rest a while Cause you see the man…
KruddTheGuru I feel the best when I'm all alone I gotta do…
krynon Yeah Another day Wasted away I spent it all Thinking of what…
Kutless Icy chills round your heart A heart that's made of stone It…
Kutless * Icy chills round your heart A heart that's made of stone I…
Kxsign Kx you're crazy Baby I'm all alone Why you wanna call my…
L.M.Y.E. Let's go I'm all alone Yeah Yeah I'm all alone Yeah On my sl…
Langva Something tells me we are in decay And it feels that…
Last Train This is the end of everything, A bunch of ashes into…
Leaf Dog You'll be free but me I'm going to be all alone So…
Like Saturn (Ohhh I, Ohhh I, Ohhh I, Ohhh I) (Ohhh I, Ohhh…
Like what I'm all alone Since you've been gone I'm all alone Since you…
Lil B That's why I'm afraid That mankind is not quiet ready To acc…
Lil Snooze I find myself, girl, when I'm all alone I can't stop…
Lil Uzi Vert Yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah) Yeah, yeah, yeah (whoa, huh) Yeah, y…
Loxion Deep Sendiya bizwa mna, egoli mnta ka Baba. Ndisayo bona ubaba n…
Lucy I, I gotta have it I, I gotta have it I know…
Machine Gun Kelly I'm all alone In the unknown So on my own Someone help me…
Mad Season Ahh-ahh Ahh-ahh We're all alone Ahh-ahh Ahh-ahh …
Mad Season / Seattle Symphony Ah ah Ah ah We're all alone Ah ah Ah ah We're all alone…
Marc Bolan All alone I sit at home With my chrome guitar Even Michael…
Marc Bolan & T. Rex Slim lined sheik faced Angel of the night In the graveyard…
Marika Larsson I know I can be a little tough sometimes And I…
MCP It's been countless times that I told myself I didn't…
Melachrino Strings & Orchestra I'm so weary and all alone Feel tired like heavy stone Trave…
Melvin Jackson I may be wrong, I will be right someday I may…
Micky B & Mr. C Tryna fuck on that bitch then forget her I dropped a…
Mojo Watson All alone, All alone is killing me, All alone, All alone in …
mr tout le monde The fear of being all by myself With no one here…
Mr. Airplane Man Tryna fuck on that bitch then forget her I dropped a…
MSP I feel like m loosing myself now What is hapenning to…
N.P.B. I feel bad with my thoughts I think I'll lose my…
Nate Vickers Wasted, I'm drowning in my sin Fading into nothing, defeated…
Nick 13 if the trellas spinnes a record the niddle plays our…
No Hype I stare out at the empty fields A silent place…
O.U.T.I.Z.M. Inc. Let's go I'm all alone Yeah Yeah I'm all alone Yeah On my sl…
Observe & Control Even though, she would want everything Marvellous, all she …
OmenXiii Can you see me running 'round in your mind? Can you…
One Vo1ce chorus: when I'm all alone I'm missin u, thinkin what…
Onewxrd All alone on my own again I been wondering how am…
Oppera laying here tonight wonder how you're sleeping starting to g…
Or Barak Eyes on me, Too much Hennessey Rose PINK She don't like to…
Parable Given breath into the world you came And when you give…
Pegboard Nerds I don't wanna love you when you're stoned I feel like…
Pegboard Nerds Grabbitz I don't want to love you when you're stoned I feel…
Pegboard Nerds Grabbitz I don't wanna love you when you're stoned I feel like…
Plasi All alone, time to realize Cornerstone, there on my side I n…
R.K.B. Studio 13 Dealing with depression, I'm stressed, I been stressing Tryi…
Rass Limit Baby girl, you said you was down to ride Through…
Rey & Kjavik The day we met I caught my eyes on you Dont know…
roger-m Let's go I'm all alone Yeah Yeah I'm all alone Yeah On my sl…
Rosemary Clooney Miss Otis regrets, she's unable to lunch today, madam, Miss…
Russell Alice All alone, traveling, traveling, traveling so far away from …
Ryan Huston Is anybody out there calling askin for me? Is anybody…
Ryan Oakes Tied the knot im learning to cut losses, All the…
Ryan Vosler Sitting here upstairs by myself trying to figure all this…
Ryder I'm a long, long way from home But you know I…
S.B. Arman You make me feel like I'm home, yeah Only good vibes…
S.P.O.C.K We were sent on a mission to infiltrate Omicron III…
SaifLove I said no Why you gotta leave me all alone? I said…
sandler & young I feel like I'm all alone Don't got no one…
Sarah Vaughan I'm all alone, I'm so all alone There is no one…
Saturnus I'm standing here Watching the clouds float by Wondering w…
Saturnus瑥 I'm standing here Watcing the clouds float by Wondering why …
Sean Paul [Intro] Some bwoy dey so live all the warf I think of…
Serene Koong 当世界只剩下我一个人 盼望着一次回应的眼神 没资格追究什么 别留恋难舍 若你快乐我已足够了 当世界只剩下我一个人 盲目…
Shahzoda Akcent, Shahzoda - All Alone Teardrops are all over I wi…
Sina Writer: Irving Berlin All alone, I'm so all…
Sinatra All alone, I'm so all alone, There is no one else…
Sins Of Thy Beloved I look to the sky the sun has faded away the moonlight…
Skim&Tone Yo in a room full of people but honestly I…
SkyDxddy Somebody once tried to tell me Don't depend on anybody Yet I…
Slick Rick As a youth, each Sunday, Dawn went to Church and Paid…
Slushii & sapientdream All alone, all alone Feeling all alone, again All alone, all…
Smokie When evening is drawing nigh And the moon dances in the…
So Far Away I'm here all alone all alone passing to Another…
Solace I'll be all alone when I'll be coming home I'll be…
Soli & Rob Broken glass without a base Fit but still feel out of…
Sonic Journey I'm all alone I wear a thousand scars (I wear a…
Sonya Greta & Nelly Some days I feel just fine Some days I'm not I've tried…
SPAWNBREEZIE Finjo ser invisível Pra não ter que te encarar Afogo na pisc…
Splittr I don't feel like going home without you I don't feel…
Sriv I feel your presence right beside me Ain't no reason to…
Stagger and Fall Start up the engine Let's get out by heading away from…
Superbus J'attends encore le dernier train Dans un irrésistible chagr…
Swelo I'm all alone in my house Ain't nobody to save me Ain't…
Synthapex Thoughts of what i left behind Still haunt me day by…
Sølace I'll be all alone when I'll be coming home I'll be…
T. Rex Cary, on With the things That I'll never know How, did I, en…
T.Rex - Marc Bolan All alone I sit at home With my chrome guitar Even Michael…
Tab Hunter All alone I'm so all alone There is no one but you All…
Tee-N-Tee I feel bad with my thoughts I think I'll lose my…
Terra Lightfoot All alone and this house is not a home Just a…
The Beautified Project Watching the mirror stare at me Watching the future spit on…
The Buddha Pests If you ever taught yourselves lonely Then it is easy to…
The Concept Of AL.P.S. I counted racks all alone I be the king on the…
The Dogma The shadows area taking the streets They're hiding the plac…
The Fashions I'm happy to say that I know that we're Almost on the…
The Flying Burrito Brothers All alone she waits at the window While the sun sets…
The fun I fell in love with a wind-up souvenir I bought it…
The Hippos I'm all alone, but my heart is full I'm a sunken…
The Jackson Analogue Prefer a mirror with the lights out Don't wanna see what…
The Melachrino Strings and Orchestra I'm so weary and all alone Feel tired like heavy stone Trave…
The Offspring Deep inside secrets burning I Should have known all the whil…
The Sins of Thy Beloved I look to the sky the sun has faded away the moonlight…
The Witch Was Right All the signs are white It is happening It is finally happen…
They Might Be Giants Once upon a time they sent a rocket to the…
Tiko All alone, nobody else. All alone, just myself. All alone, y…
Tom Reason Centuries are feeling down, but today i high when you layin…
Tony Lee King You said that you don′t love me no more You've found…
Tony Lewis I met you in the summer The sun was beating down You…
Toro y Moi Wait. She can only be with me. I know...that she's my…
Trae What up Mr dinkie how you feeling my nigga Greetings from…
Tumelo Even though we make love, dance until the morning. Though we…
Underground Hip Hop For Dummies Vol.14 Sitting all alone I break my chains and by the oaks Harlequi…
Various Artists I dont wanna love you when you're stoned I feel like…
Weval All Alone All Alone All Alone All Alone You know you think …
Wisdom I'm full of so many thoughts Poisoned emotions of those …
Wycliffe Gordon And Jay Leonhart [1st verse:] Just like a melody that lingers on You seem to…
X-Band So you're coming all alone And telling True Lies as one Well…
½ÖÍ·Íçͯ(Gorillaz) Chorus Alone...(Alone) (x16) Leviticus-o... Deuteronomy...…
♫ Gorillaz All alone, all alone All alone, all alone All alone, all a…
島みやえい子 これ以上もう なにひとつ 失うもの無いくらいきれいに 思い出はもう ため息をつくたび ひとつひとつ消しましょう この寂…
浜田麻里 悲しみの深さなど 誰にもはかれない この傷は消えないけれど 今 明日に生きよう 幸せの重さなど 誰にもはかれない 人を愛…
김재중 사랑했던 기억 속에 살아 소중했던 아픔도 기억 속에 남아 쓰러지며 널 붙잡고 소리쳐도 오지…
Gorillaz All alone, all alone All alone, all alone All alone, all alo…
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'Round About Midnight It begins to tell 'Round midnight, midnight I do pretty well…
'Round Midnight (take 7) It begins to tell 'round midnight 'Round midnight I do prett…
(I Don't Stand) A Ghost of a Chance (With You) (take 7) I need your love so badly, I love you, oh,…
07. Nice Work If You Can Get It The man who only lives for making money Lives a life…
A Ghost Of A Chance I need your love so badly, I love you, oh,…
Abide With Me Abide with me, fast falls the eventide The darkness deepens,…
April in Paris Coba tanya hatimu sekali lagi Sebelum engkau benar-benar per…
Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea I don't want you, but I'd hate to lose you You've…
Body & Soul My heart is sad and lonely For you I sigh, for…
bye-ya Georgia, Georgia The whole day through Just an old sweet son…
Caravan Night and stars above that shine so bright The myst'ry…
Dinah Carolina Gave me Dinah; I'm the proudest one Beneath the…
Dinah (Take 2) Carolina Gave me Dinah; I'm the proudest one Beneath the Dix…
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Everything Happens To Me Black cats creep across my path Until I'm almost mad I must…
Ghost of a chance I need your love so badly, I love you, oh,…
Humph It begins to tell 'Round midnight, midnight I do pretty we…
I Someday he'll come along The man I love And he'll be big…
I Cover The Waterfront I cover the waterfront, I'm watching the sea,, Will the one …
I Don't Stand A Ghost of a Chance With You I need your love so badly, I love you, oh,…
I got it bad and that ain Though folks with good intentions Tell me to save my tears …
I Got Rhythm I've got the world on a string, sittin' on a…
I Hadn't Anyone Till You I hadn't anyone till you, I was a lonely one 'til…
I Let a Song Go Out of My Head I let a song go out of my heart It was…
I Love You Someday he'll come along The man I love And he'll be big…
I Surrender Pride, sad, splendid liar, Sworn enemy of love Kept my…
I Wan't to Be Happy I'm a very ordinary man Trying to work out life's happy…
I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You Never thought I'd fall, But now I hear love call, I'm gettin…
I've Got The World On A String I've got the world on a string, sittin' on a…
In Walked Bud Dizzie, he was screaming Next to O.P. who was beaming Monk w…
Indiana I have always been a wanderer Over land and sea Yet a…
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing What good is melody, what good is music If it ain't…
Japanese Folk Song Sakura sakura Noyamamo satomo Miwatasu kagiri Kasumika kumok…
Just You Just Me Just you, just me Let's find a cozy spot To cuddle and…
Let's Cool One Revvin' up your engine Listen to her howlin' roar Metal unde…
Lover Man I don't know why but I'm feeling so sad I long…
Monk's Mood (Instumental)…
Mood Indigo You ain't never been blue; no, no, no, You ain't…
More Than You Know Whether you are here or yonder, Whether you are false…
My Melancholy Baby ... Volver a verte la cara ciudad despintada, no tengo opció…
Nice Work The man who only lives for making money Lives a life…
Rhythm-A-Ning What is this? Lotion music I like this lotion music Swag... …
Round About Midnight It begins to tell 'Round midnight, midnight I do pretty well…
Round Midnight 3 It begins to tell 'Round midnight, midnight I do pretty we…
Round' Midnight It begins to tell 'round midnight 'Round midnight I do prett…
Ruby My Dear Shaquille O'Neal F/ Warren G Miscellaneous My Dear Chorus…
Ruby, My Dear Shaquille O'Neal F/ Warren G Miscellaneous My Dear Chorus 4X…
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes They ask me how I knew My true love was true I…
Solitude In my solitude You haunt me With dreadful ease Of days gone …
Sophisticated Lady Sophisticated lady tryin' to change my ways Just because you…
Sweet & Lovely Sweet and lovely sweeter than the roses in May Sweet and…
Sweet Lorraine Everything is set, skies are blue, Can't believe it yet, bu…
The Man I Love Someday he'll come along The man I love And he'll be big…
The Way You Look Tonight Some day, when I'm awfully low, When the world is cold, I…
Thelonious My heart Is sad and lonely For you I sigh…
These Foolish Things Oh! Will you never let me be? Oh! Will you never…
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Bsbs
most beautiful thing i heard in my life, play this at my funeral
Serge Venturini
Une si belle musique et un tempérament si singulier.
deepfried13
Self-isolated due to Coronavirus, this song feels right
Spartacus
Royal Awesomeness ...