Recipe for a brooding playlist

In this time of my life, while I've been feeling sorry for myself for not having a special someone, for not having a job, for having a broken bone and not being able to play rugby, I have fueled my mood which at times could only be described as brooding with music. However it is really difficult to wallow in self pity when your music library is full of such a myriad of music genres. I put in the effort picking out something like "Fast Car" and once the song is over I might get lucky with something similar, but more likely I'll get "Cecelia", "She Wolf", or worse "Call Me Maybe". Needless to say, I have to interrupt my brooding to dance for a moment and then change the music.

My efforts to create a playlist which would fuel my brooding for a longer timespan resulted in going through every song in my 6K track iTunes library to pick out the best of brooding, and as I have been listening to it, I've realized two things: 1. Maybe I'm not the only one who has a problem with too many genres in their playlist; and 2. There should be an easier way to make this playlist. 

So this is my recipe (complete with examples) for creating your own brooding playlist, should you have a need to brood and don't have a playlist already.

1. Pick the music that reminds you of your most serious relationships - Calling You by Blue October, By Your Side by Sade
2. Mix in any songs that remind you of unrequited love - Somewhere Out There by Our Lady Peace, Acoustic #3 by Goo Goo Dolls
3. Sprinkle a few songs that you listened to repeatedly after breaking up aforementioned relationships - No Air by Jordin Sparks, Where I Stood by Missy Higgings, And the World Turned by Gabe Dixon Band
4. Toss in a few epic movie soundtrack songs - May it Be by Enya (from LOTR), Safe & Sound by Taylor Swift (from Hunger Games), No Sound but the Wind by Editors (from Twilight)
5. Add a couple songs with heartbreaking lyrics and/or vocals - Laughing With by Regina Spektor, Cosmic Love by Florence + the Machine, In Color by Jamey Johnson
6. Fold in a few songs from Grey's Anatomy (or whatever show you like where only terrible things happen) - You Found Me by The Fray, Show Me What I'm Looking For by Carolina Liar
7. And finally, pepper the soundtrack with some Death Cab for Cutie (I Will Follow You in to the Dark, Your Heart is an Empty Room, Grapevine Fires) and Coldplay (Swallowed in the Sea, Paradise, Clocks)

And when you're finished wallowing switch it back to Call Me Maybe... I haven't heard that song in a whole 5 minutes.