This Will End in Tears电子书

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Author’s Note

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

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

This Will End in Tears: Teardrops, Sob Songs, and Crying in the Rain

Cat Power

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Vic Chesnutt

Gene Clark

Patsy Cline

Leonard Cohen

Song Essay: “Hallelujah”

The Cure

Song Essay: “Killing an Arab”

Breaking Up, Breaking Down, Cheating, and Divorce

Dead Can Dance

Depeche Mode

John Dowland

Nick Drake

East River Pipe

Echo and the Bunnymen

Eels

Born to Be Blue: The True Color of Misery?

Mark Eitzel

Marianne Faithfull

Felt

The Field Mice

Galaxie 500

Henryk Mikolaj Górecki

Richard Hawley

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

Seasonally Affected: Falling Leaves, Falling Snow, Falling Tears

Mark Lanegan

Low

The Magnetic Fields

Morrissey

The National

Mickey Newbury

Nico

Decay, Disintegration, Disease

Song Essay: “d|p 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”

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

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

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

Don’t They Know It’s the End of the World? Songs from the Apocalypse

The 100 Saddest Songs

Acknowledgments

Credits

Copyright

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