I hate myself and want to die : the 52 most depressing songs you've ever heard
by Tom Reynolds
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A caustic and hilarious examination of the songs we all cry along to.Reynolds examines a wide variety of songs that have crushed our spirits over the years, from 1950s teenage-car-crash songs to the ever-popular overwrought-remake-of-an-otherwise-OK-song. With dreary black and white line drawings throughout, I Hate Myself and Want to Die is a must-have compilation of melodic misery. This is a list based book to get people talking because EVERYONE has their favourite depressing song.Artists show more include Bruce Springsteen, Evanescence, Loretta Lynn, The Beatles, Celine Dion, Bobby Darin, Black Sabbath, Frank Sinatra, The Cure, The Doors, and Joy Division. show lessTags
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bluepiano A similar book by the same author and every bit as knowledgeable and as funny as this one.
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A very snarky and funny look at the songs that try so dang hard to be deep and insightful and just don't work. I wish this was packaged with a CD of the songs-instead, I just downloaded songs because I'd never heard alot of them (they're famous enough, I'm just too young to know songs like MacArthur Park are not just silly songs in the Simpsons). The funniest part of the book is his review of Ben Folds Five's "Brick," because he interprets the song incorrectly and comments on it through the chapter.
The 52 most depressing songs the author could find. Each one is critically reviewed (well in some cases attacked would be better). Very much tongue in cheek, as it ploughs through various categories (I mope there for I am, Teenage car crashes) building up to "the perfect storms" of depressing tunes.
Most have charted in the UK or US so you may have heard (of) them. A throw away hour particulary good for those who like to nit-pick their musical choices
Most have charted in the UK or US so you may have heard (of) them. A throw away hour particulary good for those who like to nit-pick their musical choices
I had to Interlibrary Loan this in order to finally cross it off my reading list. Good, entertaining writing about songs you won't look at the same again.
Even though I had a decidedly “meh” reaction to Tom Reynolds’s latest book, Touch Me, I’m Sick, I adore I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You’ve Ever Heard. It is a book I reread often, and it still makes me laugh out loud (or chuckle quietly to myself if I am reading it in public).
To read the rest of my review, go to: http://apparentlynotderanged.blogspot.com/2008/06/book-review-i-hate-myself-and-...
To read the rest of my review, go to: http://apparentlynotderanged.blogspot.com/2008/06/book-review-i-hate-myself-and-...
A book which inspired me to compile all these dreadful songs in an iTunes file.
A most amusing must-have.
A most amusing must-have.
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- Canonical title
- I hate myself and want to die : the 52 most depressing songs you've ever heard
- Original publication date
- 2005
Classifications
- Genres
- Music, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 782.42164 — Arts & recreation Music Vocal Music, Singing Secular forms of vocal music Songs General principles and musical forms Traditions of secular songs {genres} Western popular songs
- LCC
- ML65 .R653 — Music Literature on music Literature on music Aspects of the field of music as a whole
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- Reviews
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- Rating
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- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
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