Song Essay: Adagio for Strings
Are You Ready to be Heartbroken? Heartbeats, Heartbreaks, and Artificial Hearts
Black Tape for a Blue Girl
This Will End in Tears: Teardrops, Sob Songs, and Crying in the Rain
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Song Essay: Killing an Arab
Breaking up, Breaking Down, Cheating, and Divorce
Born to be Blue: The True Color of Misery?
Oh, The Humanity! Disasters and Depressions
Song Essay: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Song Essay: Strange Fruit
Song Essay: Love Will Tear Us Apart
Seasonally Affected: Falling Leaves, Falling Snow, Falling Tears
Decay, Disintegration, Disease
Will Oldham/Palace/Bonnie Prince Billy
Pedro the Lion/David Bazan
Song Essay: How to Disappear Completely
Murder Ballads and Death Discs
Red House Painters/Mark Kozelek
Suicide, Its a Suicide: Self-Harm and Song
Song Essay: Gloomy Sunday
Keep Me in Your Heart for a While: Laments, Sung Weeping, and Deathbed Songs
Song Essay: The Electrician
Dont they Know Its the End of the World? Songs from the Apocalypse
