Comments on: The best songs are the sad songs http://blogwaffe.com/2006/08/17/416/ Witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational blog station Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:37:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1-alpha-10188 hourly 1 By: lincoln http://blogwaffe.com/2006/08/17/416/comment-page-1/#comment-3779 lincoln Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:31:51 +0000 http://blogwaffe.com/2006/08/17/416/#comment-3779 I think that the entire "Pet Sounds" album is a great counterexample. Not only are most of the songs undeniably happy and undeniably great, they also represent a labor of love by the primary author, Brian Wilson. On the other hand, I don't know if I would call Brian Wilson an "happy" person; a pysche shattered by a pathological drive for greatness. I'm not sure i'm conviced (and I don't think I want to be), but perhaps the best songs, while not all being sad, all derive from a place of sadness... I think that the entire “Pet Sounds” album is a great counterexample. Not only are most of the songs undeniably happy and undeniably great, they also represent a labor of love by the primary author, Brian Wilson.

On the other hand, I don’t know if I would call Brian Wilson an “happy” person; a pysche shattered by a pathological drive for greatness. I’m not sure i’m conviced (and I don’t think I want to be), but perhaps the best songs, while not all being sad, all derive from a place of sadness…

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