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    This Will End in Tears: The Miserabilist Guide to Music

    By Adam Brent Houghtaling

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    About this ebook

    This Will End in Tears is the first ever and definitive guide to melancholy music. Author Adam Brent Houghtaling leads music fans across genres, beyond the enclaves of emo and mope-rock, and through time to celebrate the albums and artists that make up the miserabilist landscape. In essence a book about the saddest songs ever sung, This Will End in Tears is an encyclopedic guide to the masters of melancholy—from Robert Johnson to Radiohead, from Edith Piaf to Joy Division, from Patsy Cline to The Cure—an insightful, exceedingly engaging exploration into why sad songs make us so happy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateAug 7, 2012
    ISBN9780062098962
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    This Will End in Tears: The Miserabilist Guide to Music

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      This was an interesting collection of short articles about roughly 80 composers/songwriters/performers whose music can roughly be categorized as "miserablist" as in the sense of "sad" music. They range from the English Renaissance composer of laments John Dowland, to singer songwriters such as Nick Drake & Elliot Smith, to country stars such as Hank Williams & Johnny Cash to present day bands/groups such as Nick Case and the Bad Seeds & Radiohead with some blues & jazz artists and a very few number of classical composers. Most of the performers have a Top Ten list of miserablist works included. Several longer essays focus on individual works such as Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" or Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah". The book concludes with a listing of the 100 Saddest Songs. It did seem several times that the work was not based on first hand knowledge and that some short cuts from Wikipedia or other sources may have been used to fill out the biographies. Errors such as referring to bassist Ashley Hutchings as a "her", or that the Robert Wyatt voiced Wyattron was used on Björk's "Oceania" (it was "Submarine" wasn't it?), or listing Son House's "Death Letter" twice in the list of 100 Saddest Songs (as both #83 & #97) seemed to indicate some sloppiness or lack of familiarity. These were based on artists I knew and therefore noticed, but there are a lot of artists in this book that were completely new to me and this lack of care made me less sure of how much I could trust about the accuracy of the rest. Still there was a lot of new information here and the book was well organized and easy to read and anyone with interest in the subject will likely already have a few favourite artists here and they can judge the book for themselves on that basis. And likely they will find at least several new names that they will be interested in hearing more about.