For anyone who listens reverentially in the half-light to Robert
Johnson, Nick Drake, or Morrisey, who wait anxiously for new albums
from The Cure, Leonard Cohen, or The Blue Nile, who buy up catalogs
of Nina Simone, Johnny Cash, or Scott Walker, who search the Web
for rarities by Radiohead, Elliot Smith, and Miles Davis, this is
the book they've been waiting for. "This Will End in Tears" is both
a compendium of the greatest sad songs and artists of the modern
era and a collection of essays that attempts to explain what
exactly draws us to sad music, and how sad music actually makes us
happy. Adam also makes an argument, based partly on the structure
of operating systems and popular sites like Pandora, for the
existence of a miserablist genre, one that's becoming increasingly
more important than traditional genres such as blues, rock,
country, etc., one that's organized around the rather more
amorphous principle of cosmic grief. Specifically, "This Will End
in Tears" will include an A-Z list of entries of the masters of
melancholy (from Samuel Barber to Patsy Cline, George Jone to Joy
Division, Nico to Hank Williams), a top-100 list of the saddest
songs of all time, essays explaining the power of particular songs
and artists, and essays explaining particular types of sad music
and their effects on the listener. There will also be recommended
playlists throughout.
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