This Will End in Tears

by Houghtaling, Adam Brent

• ISBN13: 9780061719677
• ISBN10: 0061719676
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-07
• Publisher: It Books

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

AuthorÆs Note	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Song Essay: ôLush Lifeö	p. 19
David Ackles	p. 20
American Music Club	p. 24
Angels of Light	p. 26
Antony and the Johnsons	p. 28
Arab Strap	p. 29
Samuel Barber	p. 31
Song Essay: ôAdagio for Stringsö	p. 33
William Basinski	p. 36
Andy Bey	p. 37
Are You Ready to be Heartbroken? Heartbeats, Heartbreaks, and Artificial Hearts	p. 39
Black Tape for a Blue Girl	p. 45
The Blue Nile	p. 47
Jacques Brel	p. 49
Bright Eyes	p. 51
James Carr	p. 54
Johnny Cash	p. 55
This Will End in Tears: Teardrops, Sob Songs, and Crying in the Rain	p. 61
Cat Power	p. 68
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	p. 71
Vic Chesnutt	p. 74
Gene Clark	p. 76
Patsy Cline	p. 78
Leon and Cohen	p. 80
Song Essay: ôHallelujahö	p. 83
The Cure	p. 86
Song Essay: ôKilling an Arabö	p. 88
Breaking up, Breaking Down, Cheating, and Divorce	p. 93
Dead Can Dance	p. 105
Depeche Mode	p. 108
John Dowland	p. 110
Nick Drake	p. 112
East River Pipe	p. 115
Echo and the Bunnymen	p. 116
Eels	p. 119
Born to be Blue: The True Color of Misery?	p. 123
Mark Eitzel	p. 128
Marianne Faithfull	p. 130
Felt	p. 134
The Field Mice	p. 136
Galaxie 500	p. 137
Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki	p. 139
Richard Hawley	p. 141
Oh, The Humanity! Disasters and Depressions	p. 145
Song Essay: ôBrother, Can You Spare a Dime?ö	p. 156
Hayden	p. 159
Billie Holiday	p. 160
Song Essay: ôStrange Fruitö	p. 164
Skip James	p. 168
Jandek	p. 169
George Jones	p. 171
Joy Division	p. 174
Song Essay: ôLove Will Tear Us Apartö	p. 176
Lambchop	p. 179
Seasonally Affected: Falling Leaves, Falling Snow, Falling Tears	p. 183
Mark Lanegan	p. 190
Low	p. 192
The Magnetic Fields	p. 193
Morrissey	p. 196
The National	p. 200
Mickey Newbury	p. 201
Nico	p. 204
Decay, Disintegration, Disease	p. 207
Song Essay: ôdlp 1.1ö	p. 217
Stina Nordenstam	p. 220
Will Oldham/Palace/Bonnie ôPrinceö Billy	p. 222
Roy Orbison	p. 223
Pedro the Lion/David Bazan	p. 227
Allan Pettersson	p. 229
Edith Piaf	p. 230
Portishead	p. 234
Radiohead	p. 237
Song Essay: ôHow to Disappear Completelyö	p. 239
Murder Ballads and Death Discs	p. 245
Johnnie Ray	p. 254
Red House Painters/Mark Kozelek	p. 258
Lou Reed	p. 260
Amália Rodrigues	p. 264
Jimmy Scott	p. 265
The Shangri Las	p. 267
Jean Sibelius	p. 270
Nina Simone	p. 273
Suicide, ItÆs a Suicide: Self-Harm and Song	p. 277
Song Essay: ôGloomy Sundayö	p. 286
Frank Sinatra	p. 290
Elliott Smith	p. 293
The Smiths	p. 295
Smog/Bill Callahan	p. 298
The Sound	p. 301
Sparklehorse	p. 303
David Sylvian	p. 305
Keep Me in Your Heart for a While: Laments, Sung Weeping, and Deathbed Songs	p. 309
Song Essay: ôTapsö	p. 320
This Mortal Coil	p. 322
Tindersticks	p. 324
Townes Van Zandt	p. 325
Scott Walker	p. 328
Song Essay: ôThe Electricianö	p. 331
Hank Williams	p. 335
Robert Wyatt	p. 338
DonÆt they Know ItÆs the End of the World? Songs from the Apocalypse	p. 343
The 100 Saddest Songs	p. 357
Acknowledgments	p. 399
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