albums coping with the death of a close person

I couldn't find a thread on this, so sorry if this has been discussed before. There are quite a couple of albums which have been dedicated and/or influenced by the death of friend(s) or relative(s) of the musician which i really love. The ones which come to mind immediately:
- Giant Sand: Chore of Enchantment (my fave gs record, dedicated to the great slide guitarist Rainer Ptacek)
- Lou Reed/John Cale: Songs for Drella (where they make music together for the 1st time after many years to commemorate their artistic father Andy Warhol.
- Lou Reed: Magic and Loss (one of my fave Lou Reed albums, about the deaths of several of his friends from cancer, very touching)
- Nick Cave: Skeleton Tree (his son died during or just before the recording of the album, haven't absorbed this yet, it seems quite hard tö listen to)

I am sure there is more...

Supposedly, Van Dyke Parks's Song Cycle is a real song cycle about Van dealing with the death of his brother.

Neil Young: Tonight's The Night (Danny Whitten & Bruce Berry)

Do dogs count? If so:

Richard Youngs - Sapphie

The Residents, "Snakey Wake" (EP)

The Arcade Fire "Funeral"

The Durutti Column - "Someone Else's Party" (Vini Reilly's mother)

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George Michael's 'Older'.

The new School of Seven Bells is dedicated to Benjamin Curtis, and the overriding sentiment is one of gratitude to him.

Carrie & Lowell

De-Loused in the Comatorium, supposedly

Duke Ellington -- ...And His Mother Called Him Bill, for Billy Strayhorn.

an album i did a while back, "sexy ladies," for everyone's mom.

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell (about the death of his mother, one of my fave albums from last year, not as lush and orchestrated as most of his albums)

Eels - Electro Shock Blues. About suicide of sister and death from cancer of mother.

Funeral really isn't about death, btw. In the Backseat is about Regine's dead grandmother ('Alice died / in the night) but the rest of the deaths occurred after the recordings, and only influenced the name. Really, in connection with the lyrics of the songs, what is being buried is the character's innocence of youth. Etc.

The Ballad of Sally Rose by Emmylou Harris
Black Cadillac by Rosanne Cash

Also, Hospice by the Antlers

Someone Great by LCD. The ordinary almost banal observations are heartbreaking.

Adore - The Smashing Pumpkins (Billy Corgan's mother)
Young Prayer - Panda Bear (Noah Lennox's father)
Margerine Eclipse - Stereolab (Mary Hansen)
Song Cycle - Van Dyke Parks (VDP's brother - this one is way more oblique though)

Hospice by the Antlers

This is sorta up for debate.

Corinne Bailey Rae - The Sea

the new touché amoré is all about this

Lambchop - Mr. M (about Vic Chesnutt)

Laurie Anderson - Heart of a Dog soundtrack (of course animals count)

Karen Mantler - Farewell (another one about a pet - maybe pets should get their own thread)

New Order - Movement (Ian Curtis)
Sun Kil Moon - Benji (most songs are about someone who died, most of them are friends/relatives of Mark Kozelek)

Blackstar

Current 93, Sleep Has His House – written in response to the death of Tibet's father

landfill grungers Feeder's 'Comfort In Sound'

Rufus Wainwright's Songs For Lulu got a bit of a kicking critically, and it isn't one of his best but that's one of these. when he performed it live he did the full album, requesting no applause until at the end when he'd played it through. then he came back on for a big 2nd half set of hits/faves etc. a great idea IMO.

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Dedicated to Pete Namlook, as per the liner notes:

Dear Pete,

It's been a year now since the terrible and unexpected loss of your physical presence. Hardly a single day has passed without thoughts of you. Always took you for granted and the projects we would have in our pensionary days.

All I can say is, how proud I am to have had the opportunity to work with you intensively and to have you as a dear friend. Still wish I would have communicated this better, being a more reliable and present friend to you.

The music here, I was carrying around with me for a while - never quite knew where it came from and why I came up with such a dark and sincere piece. I always wanted to give it to you, but save it for the right moment - never would have thought this would be my requiem for you, until I realised that this is what it really is...

You're sadly missed by so many, but your music will resonate with us, hope you're listening, too - out there somewhere...

Love D
Heidelberg
2013-11-15

Current 93, Sleep Has His House – written in response to the death of Tibet's father

And the Myrninrest album for John Balance's death.

Temple of the Dog

X-Under The Big Black Sun (Mary Cervenka)

The Apartments - No Song, No Spell; No Madrigal (about Peter Milton Walsh's son who died of an auto-immune disorder 16 years before the album saw the light). It was my fave record from last year. Really touching a

string in my body.

A couple more from this year:

Thomas Cohen's Bloom Forever was written in the wake of the death of his wife, Peaches Geldof.
Okkervil River's Away was partially inspired by the death of Will Sheff's grandfather.

Tool's Aenima was dedicated to Bill Hicks. I suppose Radiohead's The Bends dedicated their record to him too, but Tool sampled him and incorporated him into the art. Certainly helped to introduce me to his comedy and philosophy, so I'm forever grateful.