I guess there's a lot more melancholy stuff on it.
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There seems nothing more melancholy than the fate of prodigies.
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Elon Musk finally has his, even if it's more melancholy fable than rah-rah rouser.
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Lloyd Suh's "Mandarin Duck" and France-Luce Benson's "Fall" strike a decidedly more melancholy note.
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While upbeat and bright in the first demonstration, Alexa sounds more melancholy in the second.
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Chromatics's version of "Petals" is a low slower and somewhat more melancholy than Hole's original song.
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Over the course of your three records, your music has become more melancholy and emotionally complex.
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"The more I learned about Joe Gould, the more melancholy, and the uglier, it got," Lepore writes.
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By the 1620s, though, the mature Valentin had taken Caravaggio's chiaroscuro and made it something more melancholy.
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The older one, Kayce (not their real names), was more melancholy and reserved, with gentle, blue eyes.
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The other emojis are a good mix of both celebratory emojis as well as more melancholy ones.
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Find Me, Aciman's new sequel to Call Me By Your Name, is gentler and more melancholy than its predecessor.
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As Mia and Sebastian's romance unfolds in lush etudes and sidelong glances, it gets more melancholy and starts to ache.
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When I think about it that way, this aggressive push to love summer takes on a slightly more melancholy cast.
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The lyrics deviate from the more melancholy music of her past, instead focusing on carefree romance and being a woman in charge.
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I've been a fan of your work for a long time, but what drew me to the band was your more melancholy songs.
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I thought Never Forever was really lovely, more melancholy than the rest of your work—which isn't known for being too jolly itself.
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So yeah, I've certainly made songs I thought were uplifting and other people gravitated to the more melancholy aspects of it, and vice versa.
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" White noted that anyone expecting a mainstream Ben Stiller movie—a "Meet the Parents"—will be surprised: "This will be less antic, more melancholy.
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Sam Cooke set a different tone with 1964's "A Change Is Gonna Come," a track that expressed less anger and more melancholy hopefulness.
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"We haven't had a lot of new drugs, and if we were having this conversation a year ago, I'd be more melancholy," he says.
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While some may carp about La La Land's nonstop crowd-pleasing tone, this bighearted romance is actually much more melancholy than its shimmering surface suggests.
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A lighter, more melancholy touch is probably best, which is why Hans Zimmer is maybe the least-fitting person you could pick for this job.
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A sequel to the film that introduced us all to a somehow even more melancholy cover of "Creep" by Radiohead might be ripe for the writing.
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While other Addams Family members had white circles with black pupils for eyes, Wednesday had small black ovals, which gave the character a more melancholy appearance.
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Taking stock of the paintings in Boston to Brooklyn in the context of Heidkamp's work to date, one can sense an altered tone, more melancholy and subdued.
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That sense of bliss—regardless of whether she's singing with a more melancholy edge, like on "Lonely Lonely," or more freely on "Stellar"—is found throughout Heavn.
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"The American Friend," which was shot by Robby Müller, may rival "Taxi Driver" in its rhapsodic visual panache but, although violent, it is less brutal and more melancholy.
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Brassy Tuca — introduced as "friend, hero, connoisseur of snacks" — reveals a more melancholy, self-doubting side, and there's real nuance to the way Bertie confronts her learned passivity.
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But based on this trailer, the colors in Frozen II are noticeably more muted and autumnal than they were in the 2013 original, suggesting a darker, more melancholy tone.
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The guy gets extra points for singing in Montenegrin, and he earns my respect for pulling this song into eight different directions, each one more melancholy than the last.
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TV: You balance the tone so well in this film in that it's very high energy, and then as you enter the second half, it grows sadder and more melancholy.
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Will win: Piper Might win: Borrowed Time Dark horse: Blind Vaysha Should win: The sad cowboy of Borrowed Time offers a more melancholy direction than this category sometimes goes in.
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Sure, there are plenty of decrepit farmhouses, and some Mississippian mounds, haunting my home turf, but this roofless stronghold with its soaring window frames evoked a more melancholy, old world abandonment.
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And it's about America, Nina explains, particularly "Momentous Space-Up," one of the album's more melancholy, sing-songy tracks, which is based abstractly on observations from the band's experiences touring around the country.
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If anything, it's the kind you put on when you're ready to get deep into your feelings, with her selections invariably skewing towards the down-tempo and more melancholy tracks for her artists of choice.
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But even as they aim for a lighthearted and heartwarming tone, these films have all been tinged with more melancholy than the buoyant rom-coms that made her a box office star in the '90s.
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Yet the story that Coward spins out in his two-act play, "A Song at Twilight," the opening production of the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey's 2016 season, proves to be more melancholy than mirthful.
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But now the landscape itself, and its human agents of change, seem more melancholy than they would have appeared to these first generations of American photographers (excepting, again, the mournful imagery prompted by the Civil War).
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Needless to say, watching an episode so interested in loss, in how change can be necessary but also painful, so soon after Bourdain's death was an even more melancholy experience than it would have been normally.
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Recruited to a clandestine government E.T.-hunting agency, they're a low-rent Scully and Mulder with something to prove, and Robinson and Scott are equally funny in the season's more raucous first half and its more melancholy second.
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A frontier schooner looks to be levitating from its ferris wheel, while the head of King Kong trapped in a lonely cage at the center of some whirling ride is more melancholy than menacing in the low light.
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The manic energy of the original 1996 film has sporadic outbreaks in "T2 Trainspotting," but director Danny Boyle is in a more melancholy mood and the story is freighted with self-referential nostalgia and flashbacks to the early days.
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Supernatural Season 13 opened on a more melancholy note than it has in years, with Sam and Dean grieving the apparent deaths of their mother, Mary; their angelic sidekick, Castiel; and even their frenemy Crowley, all of whom were seemingly lost in the Season 12 finale.
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Production on the score weirdly started around the same time composer Guy Jackson was compiling a folder on his hard drive called "sad, sad situation," inspired by the famous Elton John track, in which he had begun compiling a series of tracks with a more melancholy vibe.
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This is no small feat, as that someone has been queered in almost every conceivable way: in body — with the mastectomy scars and unidentifiable straight-line sex organ, as well as with red hair ("the hair color of the most other," says Chandler); in materials — Chandler turns a painting, art historically the most straight and masculine of mediums, into a work of crochet, which has long been shunned as handicraft and women's work; and even in disposition — how many more melancholy, or at least mysterious, men do we know from art history than happy ones?
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In his Allmusic review, critic Jason Ankeny called the album "more melancholy" than their previous work.
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Audacity is Ugly Duckling's fourth studio album, which was released on January 12, 2009. It has a generally more melancholy feel than their previous, mostly upbeat work.
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A great number of haymaking songs have been recorded in Lithuania. They are also subcategorized into hay mowing and raking songs. Many songs combine both topics. Hay raking songs are more melancholy than the mowing songs, and they often contain imagery about an orphan girl.
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His colour palette became darker and more melancholy. Rocker's relationship to Anarchism was ambiguous. He was deterred by the endless feuds and factionalism within Anarchism and acknowledged that capitalism had raised the standard of living. After Rocker turned 65, he quit illustrating and concentrated on painting instead.
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The outer movements are notably rhythmic, with the intervening adagio movement more melancholy and lyrical in nature. The inspiration for the theme of the third movement draws from Martinů's experience nursing an injured whippoorwill back to health in Cape Cod. The bird's song is recalled in the music.
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11 The eldest son, James, who was a captain in the Royal Fusiliers, was shot down and killed on 21 September 1917, and the deaths made Law even more melancholy and depressed than before.Taylor (2007) p.12 The youngest son, Richard, later served as a Conservative MP and minister.
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Almost Happy was recorded at Real World Studio's, Box, Wiltshire (UK) and published in 2000. Singles were "Almost Happy", "Busy" and "Another Year". The lyrics of this album are more autobiographical than of the previous album (Cocoon Crash). The music is, when compared to earlier work, more melancholy and intimate.
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Schlesinger stated: "The first songs [we] recorded were jangly and simple and straight-ahead. We started gravitating toward the groovier, slightly more melancholy stuff. It works well with Dominique's voice". However, while tracks like "Edge of the Ocean" experimented with new music like trip hop, "Lucy Doesn't Love You" reflected Ivy's previous material.
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"There's both a rockier side and a softer, more melancholy side. Everything is balanced, the first half has more power and the other half is more peaceful with gloomy melodies," explained Marie, the vocalist. In 2014 the band had their first big concert at the Positivus Festival in Latvia. They also performed at Intsikurmu, an Estonian music festival.
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The Adventure of Mr. Philip Collins () is a 1925 German silent comedy film directed by Johannes Guter and starring Georg Alexander, Ossi Oswalda and Elisabeth Pinajeff. It was one of two comedy films with which Guter followed up his more melancholy The Tower of Silence.Kreimeier p. 101–102 The film's art direction was by Rudi Feld.
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When the Communists take over Shanghai in 1948, Li Tong's parents dies in a storm on their way to Taiwan. Li Tong's boy friend Chen Yin (Pu Cunxin), a graduate of Harvard University, finds a job as a lawyer. They celebrate the happy event in the restaurant. After hearing the tragic news, Li Tong becomes more and more melancholy.
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It is the one moment in the songwriters' original score where Lansbury's character "Eglantine" demonstratively sings about her lonely existence. The lyric accomplishes this by Lansbury singing the opposite sentiment. In the lyric she tries to convince herself that she's better off on her own. The melody line is far more melancholy, however, which enhances the irony of the lyric.
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Spring carries a new sound from the previous two Foreman EPs, Fall and Winter, which were more melancholy in nature. "Spring" is rooted in more upbeat, hopeful tones. "March", an upbeat and jumpy song, sets the tone for the rest of the EP, which captures and corresponds with the "rebirth" and "new life" themes that are commonly associated with the season.
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Where Angels Fear to Tread integrated gothic music into its sound, making its compositions sound more melancholy in contrast to the abrasive sound of the band's previous work. The album's music also made extensive use of you use of science fiction and horror film samples. The album was re-released by Metropolis Records on July 18, 1995, without additional content. In 2014, the album was issued as a music download by Alfa Matrix.
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Windsor's final episode on 10 September 2010 did not end with the usual EastEnders theme tune. Instead the occasionally used "Julia's Theme", a piano version of the theme, was reworked specially for the broadcast, and given the name "Peggy's Theme". The theme was created by the original theme tune composer, Simon May, who was reportedly thrilled to write the theme tune for Windsor. He added more piano to the theme and gave it a "more melancholy feel".
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He started a private painting school together with Christian Krohg and Erik Werenskiold. His summers were spent painting in Åsgårdstrand, where he inspired Edvard Munch, who was just beginning his career. In addition to his landscapes, he did scenes from Norwegian history and several portraits of notable people, including Frits Thaulow (1885), Knut Hamsun (1893) and Henrik Ibsen (1894). After 1900, he spent another six years in Paris, where his paintings took on a more melancholy tone.
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When asked about his music being somewhat melancholy and thoughtful, and whether that translates to his personality, Maxim replied that he's a thoughtful person. He is, however, also a joker, and believes most artists to be similar. He feels that the difference between him and most artists is that he needs a lot of time to write a song; sitting alone in a room for hours on end. The longer you think, according to him, the darker and more melancholy things appear.
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However, independent record label Nettwerk offered to fund the album; Ivy signed with both labels and began preparing it for a national release. During recording sessions for the song, Adam Schlesinger and Chase played around with the idea of incorporating new genres into their music; in an interview with Billboard, Ivy stated, "The first songs [we] recorded were jangly and simple and straight-ahead. We started gravitating toward the groovier, slightly more melancholy stuff. It works well with Dominique's voice".
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Finch's more melancholy fare, however, gained her wider acclaim. Her famous poems in this sullen vein include A Nocturnal Reverie and Ardelia to Melancholy, both depicting severe depression. Finch also skillfully employed the Pindaric ode, exploring complex and irregular structures and rhyme schemes. Her most famous example of this technique is in The Spleen (1709), a poetic expression of depression and its effects: This poem was first published anonymously, though it went on to become one of her most renowned pieces.
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Watson's solo contains a reference to the song "A Change in Me", which was written for the stage adaptation of the original Disney film, and its related themes. "Days in the Sun" was also performed as part of a Disney Dream stage production. "Days in the Sun" replaces the musical theatre version's song "Human Again", and various critics noted that the new addition was more melancholy in comparison. Santa Cruz Sentinels Bob Strauss called it "a melancholy remembrance of freer and/or more human past".
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During recording sessions for Long Distance, Schlesinger and Chase played around with the idea of incorporating new genres into their music. In an interview with Billboard, Ivy stated "the first songs [we] recorded were jangly and simple and straight-ahead". They eventually began work on "the groovier, slightly more melancholy stuff" that "works well with Dominique's voice". Ivy agreed that along with the exploration came "more preferable" songs that were "less atmospheric" than those on their previous studio album, Apartment Life (1997), but contained more "infectious melodies".
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Many of the fans that had written to Smash Mouth considered themselves outcasts and identified strongly with the band, and Camp "set out to write an anthem" for them. He also incorporated more melancholy lyrics as well, which contrasted with the upbeat instrumentation. Smash Mouth did not have much time to record the song and brought in Michael Urbano, a session drummer, for recording instead of their regular drummer. According to Valentine, additional drum loops from older songs were used on top of the main drum track.
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According to Pettibone, the writing of "Bad Girl", along with "In This Life", another track on the album, was the evidence that Erotica was taking a more melancholy turn, instead of just being "up-and-happy music". Pettibone went on to say that at that point Madonna's stories were getting a lot more "serious and intense" and she was definitely driving the creative direction of the songs into "deeply personal territory". Bad Girl was released as the third single off of Erotica in February 1993.
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Mancini uses a calliope introduction to suggest the sound of a circus. A cheeky melody is then played over this on a clarinet, and the song concludes with the calliope playing the old four-note phrase known as "Good Evening, Friends". The overall style is as that of boogie-woogie, as Mancini explained: The cheerful tone, like that of Mancini's "The Pink Panther Theme", presents a stark contrast to more melancholy Mancini standards such as "Moon River". Due to its "goofy" sound, it is often used in a humorous context.
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Richard Rodgers Despite the poor reviews of the musical, Rodgers was given credit for an imaginative score. "Sweet Thursday" is a cakewalk, unusual for Rodgers who rarely wrote them. However, Rodgers biographer William Hyland suggests that "Sweet Thursday" was out of character for Traubel's voice. Hyland also speculates that "The Next Time It Happens", a duet for Suzy and Doc as they decide their love will not work, needed to be more melancholy, and Doc's "The Man I Used To Be" more of a lament rather than having a lively melody.
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Romanticist Miguel Barnet, who wrote Everyone Dreamed of Cuba, reflects a more melancholy Cuba.Costa Rica – Journey into the Tropical Garden of Eden, Tobias Hauser. Alejo Carpentier was important in the Magic realism movement. Writers such as Reinaldo Arenas, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and more recently Daína Chaviano, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, Zoé Valdés, Guillermo Rosales and Leonardo Padura have earned international recognition in the post- revolutionary era, though many of these writers have felt compelled to continue their work in exile due to ideological control of media by the Cuban authorities.
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It appears, however, that the Fair Youth's return yielded a happier series of poems, in which Shakespeare describes the return of his muse and speaks of the youth with "a lighter heart, and once more exalts his virtues, truth and constancy" Massey, Gerald. Shakespeare's Sonnets Never Before Interpreted. New York, N.Y.: AMS, 1866 (reprinted 1973) For historians like Massey, the sonnet is mainly an honest expression of happiness and joy at the chance to return to the lofty romance language that defined his more melancholy period. Religious themes are also prevalent in this sonnet.
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Despite the airplay the song received, the band's record label did not promote the album due to the band's lack of TV or promotional appearances; as a result, it only reached No. 85 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album was seen as darker and more melancholy than the band's previous work, having more ballads. It was, by most accounts, a critical and commercial failure, though three tracks from the album - "Summer of Love", "Wig", and "Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland" - have been performed semi-regularly by the band on tour since the 1990s.
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Together with the writer Fredrika Bremer, the Müller household took to attending the lectures presented by Elias Fries, and with the women Daniel Müller now published a volume of poetry, "Fyrväplingen – vers och prosa" ("Four-leaf clover – verse and prose"). A second volume, "Konvaljerna – en sago-krans" ("Lilly of the valley – a fairy ring"), followed. Müller's own contributions focused on just a few themes. They tell of his love for his wife and the vitality of the plant world, along with the more melancholy themes of a lost homeland, death and eternity.
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The secondary characters, Polyphemus and Damon, provide a significant amount of humor without diminishing the pathos of the tragedy of the primary characters, Acis and Galatea. The music of the first act is both elegant and sensual, while the final act takes on a more melancholy and plaintive tone. The opera was significantly influenced by the pastoral operas presented at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane during the early 18th century. Reinhard Keiser and Henry Purcell also served as influences, but overall the conception and execution of the work is wholly individual to Handel.
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Desolation represents a mysterious, delicate woman hiding her face in an attitude of despair and is one of the paradigmatic works of the Catalan Modernist movement. One of the principal points of reference for the Catalan modernist artists was the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The artwork reflects the influence of Rodin's work Danaid but with a more melancholy, chaste approach.MNAC Audio Guide for Desolation by Josep Llimona The similarities between Llimona's Desconsol and Rodin’s Danaid lie primarily in the modeling technique used by the artist, the composition of the figure, and the thoughtful use of light and shadow.
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Pretty Together is the sixth studio album by the Canadian rock group Sloan. While the album still has the 1960s and 1970s influences of Sloan's previous albums, it is more melancholy with fewer of the upbeat songs found on previous albums. "If It Feels Good Do It" and "The Other Man" were the two singles released from the album, with the latter being a melancholy plea by Chris Murphy which marked an outing from the usual upbeat songs Murphy provides the group with. The album entered the Canadian Albums Chart at #12, and both singles received notable radio airplay in Canada.
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Her lyrics range from lighthearted, absurdist vignettes (like "The Orange Who Wished to Be an Apple") to darker and more melancholy meditations on subjects such as death, alienation, and longing. "Daughter" deals with the issues surrounding unwed motherhood. Some other songs feature literary subject matter; "The Fish Who Loved Xiaolong" tells the story of a mermaid who gives up her tail in order that she might be able to leave the sea and marry a human. The group's music is eclectic, and generally unclassifiable by genre, though occasionally somewhat reminiscent of such avant-garde groups as Talking Heads.
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Steve Huey of AllMusic said that the song is "a touch more melancholy than many of the group's best- known rockers" and "one of the band's most fully realized individual moments." James Hunter of Rolling Stone called the song "a Seattle song that in 1999 evokes no grunge nostalgia. It's timeless, one of the most stylish singles of the decade, the work of a band which understands that life gets way out of hand but that first-rate rock recordings can't." The song was named one of the top tracks of the 1990s by Pitchfork Media in 2010.
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The original recorded version of "Hand in Glove" is in the key of G minor. The song begins with an overdub of Marr playing a harmonica over the rest of the music. Simon Goddard wrote that Marr's use of the instrument "purposefully evoked the very same 'blunt vitality of working-class "northernness" that Ian McDonald attributes to The Beatles' parallel 1962 single 'Love Me Do', though infinitely more melancholy." Of the backing music, Goddard wrote, "Marr's redolent minor chord wash weeps with a rain-soaked hopelessness while Rourke contributes one of his most inspired bass patterns".
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It also included the European hit We Are Alive, a remixed version of the Jennifer Brown song Alive. His first mix album The Politics of Dancing (2001) was followed by a world tour and a DVD release Global (2003) and the Mexican film Zurdo, for which van Dyk composed the soundtrack and won a Mexican Oscar for his work. Reflections (2003) derived from van Dyk's trips to India, was a more melancholy affair, and includes the single "Nothing But You", a collaboration with Hemstock & Jennings. It was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Electronic Album.
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The Black Keys recorded the majority of Turn Blue at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California, from July to August 2013, with additional recording taking place at Key Club in Benton Harbor, Michigan, and Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, in early 2014. The sessions coincided with Auerbach's divorce from his wife, which inspired much of the album's lyrics. The resulting material was more melancholy and slower paced than the uptempo, hook-laden songs from El Camino. The album exhibits influences from psychedelic rock and soul, while also including the band's usual blues and garage rock sound.
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Amy Pettifer from The Quietus observed that the chorus could have been sung by any other singer, but Madonna, "despite being a weaker singer, licks it in the emotional truth stakes, particularly on this more melancholy end of the spectrum. Singing with a tremulous tonality, her voice hangs in uncluttered space, the lyrics positioning her as the dark-glowing, guiding light. A brilliant, desperate and rousing anthem." Along with comparing Madonna's vocals in Ghosttown to that of Karen Carpenter, Farber also observed that it was her most "rich sounding" voice since her Evita soundtrack, comparable to "Live to Tell" and also "Crazy for You".
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The studio version of "Hard Times of Old England" is very upbeat, in contrast with the song's lyrics about economic hardship. But the new version is much slower and more melancholy, almost as if it were being sung in a church, with Prior being backed up by Knight playing an organ. Perhaps the biggest change is on "When I Was On Horseback". The original version, off Ten Man Mop, or Mr. Reservoir Butler Rides Again, is a slow, sorrowful funeral tune, but the new version is a mid- tempo rock piece, with a driving violin, a brisk guitar line, and a strong drum beat.
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In 2000, the 30th anniversary release was padded with five additional tracks. One was "Snow", unreleased in 1970 for lack of room on the LP, and four were alternate versions of songs that were on the original album. In 2000, Ben Wener of The Orange County Register wrote that "Newman's sly, dramatically structured impressionistic pop was ideally suited for Nilsson's theatrical tone ... It's not so much that Nilsson's takes are better than Newman's ... just refreshingly different—less wicked and vicious, more melancholy." Artists who have expressed a fondness for the album include Rufus Wainwright, Joanna Newsom, Ron Sexsmith, Jellyfish, Adrian Belew, and Shane Tutmarc.
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It is a happy answer to Carmen's more melancholy hits the year before, "All By Myself" and "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again." It has been hailed as "the best Beach Boys song Brian Wilson never wrote." Back-up vocals for "She Did It" were provided by Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys, whose 1968 hit "Do It Again" is credited by Carmen with being the initial inspiration for the song because of the 'did-its'. "She Did It" also features Burton Cummings, formerly of The Guess Who, and a guitar solo by Andrew Gold ("Lonely Boy"), featuring his distinctive harmonized lead guitar sound, and drumming by Toto's Jeff Porcaro.
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"The Killing of Georgie (Part I and II)" is a song written and recorded by Rod Stewart and released as a track on his 1976 album A Night on the Town. The song tells the story of a gay man who was killed in New York City. A two-part song, Part I was the more popular hit and was blended into the more melancholy and sombre Part II. The song was released as a single in August 1976 and spent ten weeks on the UK Singles Chart, reaching a peak position of . It charted moderately well elsewhere, reaching in the Netherlands, in the US and in Canada.
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For instance, the music of Final Fantasy VIII is dark and gloomy, while the soundtrack to Final Fantasy IX is more carefree and upbeat. His Final Fantasy music has been described as being able to convey the true emotion of a scene; an example is "Aerith's Theme" from Final Fantasy VII. In an interview with the Nichi Bei Times, Uematsu said "I don't really self-consciously compose music for Japan or for the world, but I do think there is something in my more melancholy pieces that has a distinctly Japanese quality." He has been named one of the "Innovators" in Time "Time 100: The Next Wave — Music" feature.
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Kennedy plays the guitar left-handed. GQ magazine described Kennedy as a "singer with a rich, reverbant voice, [with] epically emotive songwriting skills (think Ed Sheeran, but darker, more melancholy)." The New York Times, of his 2018 South by Southwest Festival performance, said he has "a grainy, melancholy voice that can crest with a howling rasp..." He cites Ray LaMontagne, David Gray, Damien Rice and Glen Hansard as inspirations for his folk style. His recent work has included hip-hop influences, reflected notably in his collaborative work with Mike Dean on the EP Mike Dean Presents: Dermot Kennedy, which Kennedy has also described as a "mix tape".
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For their eighth studio album, Turn Blue, the band once again collaborated with Danger Mouse, who co-produced and co-wrote the album. It was recorded primarily at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, California, from July–August 2013, with additional recording at Key Club in Benton Harbor, Michigan, and Nashville's Easy Eye Sound in early 2014. The album was announced in March 2014 via Mike Tyson's Twitter account, with a link to a cryptic teaser video on YouTube featuring a hypnotist, and was released on May 13, 2014. The record exhibits psychedelic rock and soul influences and features a more melancholy tone, largely in part due to Auerbach dealing with the divorce from his wife during the album sessions.
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Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form is the seventh studio album by Crowbar, a New Orleans-based sludge metal band. It was released in 2001. It is the last album to feature guitarist Sammy Duet, and the first and only album to feature bassist Jeff Okoneski and ex-Machine Head drummer Tony Costanza. Sonic Excess in its Purest Form has been considered by most fans and critics to be one of Crowbar's best albums. Robert Davis of Sputnik Music gave the album a 4.5 out of 5 stars, noting "instrumentally the band has never sounded fresher or more alive" and "each and every song on “Sonic excess…” is charged with more melancholy and beautiful solemnity than ever before".
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'Mimi' has been mixed by Calum Malcolm, recording engineer with The Blue Nile, and marks a return to the writing of original material by Louise since her music career began in the soul-influenced band Sunset Gun in the 1980s. Most definitely music for grown ups, 'Mimi' and the tracks that will follow cover subjects ranging from obsession, infidelity, to romantic longing, and trying to survive in an increasingly confused and confusing world. This new music will establish Louise Rutkowski as the voice of choice for those who have room for music in their collection that suit those more melancholy, introspective and reflective moments life brings. A new album Diary of a Lost Girl is scheduled for release on 21 February 2014.
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In the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, he is portrayed by Gene Wilder. While his personality remains generally the same as in the original, he is more melancholy here, and frequently quotes books and poems, including William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ("Is it my soul that calls upon my name?") or John Masefield's "Sea-Fever" ("All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by"), and the famous "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker" from "Reflections on Ice-Breaking" by Ogden Nash, among many others. Toward the end of the film, he tests Charlie's conscience by reprimanding him and pretending to deny him any reward but assumes an almost paternal role when Charlie proves to be honest after all.
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Adele's vocal range spans from F3 to E5 during the song. A slow, plaintive ballad pairing Adele's voice with a looping piano line, "Someone like You" is the lyrical opposite of "Rolling in the Deep" on which the singer narrates coming to terms with the end of the relationship: "Nevermind, I'll find someone like you/I wish nothing but the best for you, too/Don't forget me, I beg/I'll remember you said/Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead." According to Sean Fennessey of The Village Voice, the singer's "nuanced" voice goes up a full octave and "into a near-shrieked whisper" as she sings parts of the chorus. However, she "rebounds and gathers herself", and her voice descends into its fuller and more melancholy state.
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Steve Heisler of The A.V. Club said the episode addressed two of the show's more downbeat stories (Tom's divorce and Andy's failed attempts to woo Ann) but "managed to do so by keeping its plucky, upbeat sense of humor intact". Heisler praised the growth of Tom's character and the fourth floor joke, which he said "started with yet another delicious chapter in behind-the-scenes Pawnee lore". Time magazine television critic James Poniewozik said Ansari did "an excellent job" at showing a new side to Tom, and complimented the staging of the fourth floor sequence. Alan Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger said "Tom's Divorce" was "by design, more melancholy" than previous Parks and Recreation episodes, but served to develop Tom's character and proved Aziz Ansari "could tone it down and play a quieter, sadder Tom for once".
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Despite being a miserable "lovesick ballad", the somber tone of which Chris Knight of the National Post likened to songs from the musical Les Misérables, the ballad is a more upbeat offering than its Broadway counterpart, "If I Can't Love Her", "captur[ing] the elaborate aesthetic of musical theatre". However, the track remains one of the more melancholy inclusions on a soundtrack that consists of largely upbeat songs and musical numbers, contributing a sense of emotional depth to the album. Writing for Elle, Alyssa Bailey dubbed the song a "Broadway version of a breakup ballad", which features the lyrics "I let her steal into my melancholy heart/It's more than I can bear," as "swoon[ed]" by Stevens. Musically, the track bears similarities to songs from Disney's animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), which Menken himself also composed, and it has been compared to the work of musical theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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" In more recent years, AllMusic critic Mark Deming remarked in his review of the album that "no major band had gone so deep into the sound and feeling of classic country (without parody or condescension) as the Byrds did on Sweetheart; at a time when most rock fans viewed country as a musical "L'il Abner" routine, the Byrds dared to declare that C&W; could be hip, cool, and heartfelt." Alexander Lloyd Linhardt, reviewing the album for Pitchfork Media, described it as "a blindingly rusty gait through parched weariness and dusted reverie. It's not the natural sound of Death Valley or Utah, but rather, a false portrait by people who wished it was, which makes it even more melancholy and charismatic." Journalist Matthew Weiner commented in his review for Stylus that "Thirty-five years after it startled Byrds fans everywhere with its Podunk proclivities, Sweetheart remains a particularly fascinating example of two musical ships passing in the night, documenting both Parsons’ transformation into a visionary country-rock auteur and a pop band’s remarkable sense of artistic risk.
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