Jamendo : 10 Sad Songs

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

Describe your album

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.

Reviews

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.