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10 Sad Songs

by Racecar

folk acoustic country americana georgia

10 tracks

47:05

1	Wedding Day	4:41
2	Ballad Of Max Hand	6:11
3	Cancer	4:18
4	Ballad Of The Regretful Sinner	3:16
5	A Place Of My Own	5:09
6	Ballad Of Jim Jones	4:16
7	Wandering Jew	4:01
8	Broken Home Videos	4:49
9	Lent	5:46
10	Ode To Things Now Gone	4:38

Album description

A favorite of paupers, princes, and punks alike. The classic racecar album, ‘10 Sad Songs…’ showcases his unparalleled ability to capture a character at a specific moment in time in verse. From an ex-husband finding old videos after the divorce in “Broken Home Videos” to the lamenting of a women when faced with the inevitable death of her life-long companion in “Cancer.txt“, this is one sad collection of songs. Not recommended for the light hearted.

Un favori des miséreux, des princes et des punks. Album typique de Racecar
, “10 Sad Songs…“ montre son capacité inégalée à capturer en vers un personnage à
un moment précis. De l'ex-mari qui retrouve des vieilles vidéos après le divorce
dans “Broken Home Video“ aux lamentations d'une femme confrontée à la mort inévitable
de son compagnon de toujours dans “Cancer.txt“, voila une collection de tristes chansons.
Âmes sensibles s'abstenir.

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Reviews on 10 Sad Songs

musictomyears

Sad, Somber, Depressing Songs, But This Guy Can Sing, With True, Depth, Emotions, & They Are Very Good Songs.. If You Just Listen & Take On Board, They Are All About Sadness, Depression Etc..

27/09/09

I must admit, the sounds are depressing, and downbeat, to say the least, but if you notice the title of the album it does say,10 sad songs, so they are not going to be jolly, upbeat or happy, are they. And if you give the guy, a chance, he actually can sing, and the tales-stories he tells in his lyrics are quite interesting, and the acoustic guitar, he uses to accompany him,as he sings, is very affective for the type of country, folk,despairing, tracks he sings about. All in all, I think this guys deserve a chance since over 758 have taken the time and trouble to download his album. So that prove a lot of people, like me, enjoyed this somber, depressing album.. Because he could sing, and made decent tracks to enjoy....

miniPhil

Give it a second chance.

13/11/10

Ignore the opening paragraph of Cvert Blue's review. Yes this album is at times sad but this is far from a negative. Good art should do one of two things, either make the listener/viewer think or move them emotionally. Art that makes you happy isn't superior to art that makes you sad. Both are equally impressive and should be lauded for their own reasons

As for the album itself. Its good. Nothing special, but good. The vocals and guitar work well but don't stand above many others. It good enough that you should at least give this album a chance and a listen the whole way through. It's owed that much at least.

Arieldesign

Hi~

11/12/08

that's ok!!!

Cvert Blue

Without a doubt, among the worst ten albums I've heard.

21/02/08

The album title means what it says. This album is not just depressing. It's awfully depressing. The lyrics are, as a general rule, offensive or obnoxious to what I consider basic human sensibilities ("Oh, if only I'd beaten her up instead of shot her; then I wouldn't be in prison"? Seriously? Are you on something? If you're not, you probably should be)

The pseudonym concept the artist describes is amusing, I'll give it that, but the whiny, drawn out scrapy voice is painful and far overdone in this album. The song ideas are depressingly what they are. 9/10 of them are just miserable in both emotion and quality (The ballad of Jim Jones is the only song among these able to pull off any sense of irony or interest, as the subject and his fervent last speech brings a sense of piteous but understanding character analysis to the song. Still, it's not something I'd want to listen to often.) The lyrics are slowly cast but there's still too many of them. And the constant insistence on returning nearly every measure to the same handful of minor chords quickly tires the listener.

All in all, if there was one way to make this album better, I'd say it would be to shorten it - a combination of bad lyrics, an album concept with an instant loss of novelty, and overwrought slow-country drawl make it unrecoverable. This album says ten sad songs and it means it in most senses you can think of. I haven't listened to his album Country Gold. It may be better musically, or more positive (from the song titles it looks like it). But this album was such a disappointment (which was actually quite a feat given the album name), that I'm just not going to risk it.