I HATE MYSELF AND WANT TO DIE: THE 52 MOST DEPRESSING SONGS YOU'VE EVER HEARD. **

UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price removal from rear cover.Bright,crisp, clean,matt,monochrome artwork by Stacey Earley, illustrated dw/dj,with brown+red lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean with no foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,would appear unread - apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked red fluorescent gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9- 279pp [paginated] includes The Anatomy of Melancholy, 10 sections with various songs,an afterword,The Final Countdown (52-1),acknowledgements and credits,b/w illustrations interspersed throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and a contents list/table.
What is it about depressing songs that make such a lasting impression on people's minds - the lyrical tugging of the heartstrings? The melancholy melody? Or their ability to make you want to gnaw your arm off and beat yourself to death with it?
If you're a true connoisseur,these elements are just the beginning,as Tom Reynolds illustrates brilliantly in 'I Hate Myself and Want to Die'.
Analysing the mysterious allure of 52 songs that have crushed our spirits over the years - from top-10 hits to cultish dirges,creepy drug-ballads to suicidal epics, anthemic tear-jerkers to horrifying attempts at profundity. Breaking up his list into 10 categories of gloom - including Teenage Car Crash anthems,She-Hates-Me-I- Hate-Her ditties,and the ever-daunting Perfect Storms - the author examines the self-loathing heart of 52 unforgivably depressing songs by artists as diverse as Joy Division, Bobby Darin,Counting Crows,Evanescence,Bruce Springsteen and Barry Manilow.Complete with a ranked 'countdown of doom' and wonderfully dreary black and white line drawings throughout,'I Hate Myself and Want to Die' is a must-have compilation of melodic misery.
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