This will end in tears
Subtitle: the miserabilist guide to music
By: Adam Brent Houghtaling
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: It Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780061719677
Subjects: Popular music; History and criticism; Sadness in music; Melancholy in music
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Song essay : "Lush life" ; David Ackles ; American Music Club ; Angels of Light ; Antony and the Johnsons ; Arab Strap ; Samuel Barber ; Song essay : "Adagio for strings" ; William Basinski ; Andy Bey; title: Are you ready to be heartbroken? Heartbeats, heartbreaks, and artificial hearts. Black Tape for a Blue Girl ; The Blue Nile ; Jacques Brel ; Bright Eyes ; James Carr ; Johnny Cash; title: This will end in tears : teardrops, sob songs, and crying in the rain. Cat Power ; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ; Vic Chestnutt ; Gene Clark ; Patsy Cline ; Leonard Cohen ; Song essay : "Hallelujah" ; The Cure ; Song essay : "Killing an Arab"; title: Breaking up, breaking down, cheating, and divorce. Dead Can Dance ; Depeche Mode ; John Dowland ; Nick Drake ; East River Pipe ; Echo and the Bunnymen ; Eels; title: Born to be blue : the true color of misery? Mark Eitzel ; Marianne Faithfull ; Felt ; The Field Mice ; Galaxie 500 ; Henryk Mikolaj Górecki ; Richard Hawley; title: Oh, the humanity! Disasters and depressions. Song essay : "Brother, can you spare a dime?" ; Hayden ; Billie Holiday ; Song essay : "Strange fruit" ; Skip James ; Jandek ; George Jones ; Joy Division ; Song essay : "Love will tear us apart" ; Lambchop; title: Seasonally affected : falling leaves, falling snow, falling tears. Mark Lanegan ; Low ; The Magnetic Fields ; Morrissey ; The National ; Mickey Newbury ; Nico; title: Decay, disintegration, disease. Song essay : "dp 1.1" ; Stina Nordenstam ; Will Oldham/Palace/Bonnie "Prince" Billy ; Roy Orbison ; Pedro the Lion/David Bazan ; Allan Pettersson ; Edith Piaf ; Portishead ; Radiohead ; Song essay : "How to disappear completely"; title: Murder ballads and death discs. Johnnie Ray ; Red House Painters/Mark Kozelek ; Lou Reed ; Amália Rodrigues ; Jimmy Scott ; The Shangri-las ; Jean Sibelius ; Nina Simone; title: Suicide, it's a suicide : self-harm and song. Song essay : "Gloomy Sunday" ; Frank Sinatra ; Elliott Smith ; The Smiths ; Smog/Bill Callahan ; The Sound ; Sparklehorse ; David Sylvian; title: Keep me in your heart for a while : laments, sung weeping, and deathbed songs. Song essay : "Taps" ; This Mortal Coil ; Tindersticks ; Townes Van Zandt ; Scott Walker ; Song essay : "The electrician" ; Hank Williams ; Robert Wyatt; title: Don't they know it's the end of the world? Songs from the apocalypse; title: The 100 saddest songs.