text: Eagles ' `` Hotel California '' , Pink Floyd 's `` Comfortably Numb '' , and Paul Kelly 's `` Peace '' all commonly renowned to be very emotional and melancholic songs , are written in B minor .
simplified: The chord was famously used as the first chord in Pink Floyd 's 1979 hit `` Comfortably Numb '' , commonly renowned to be a very emotional and melancholic song .