La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

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Carr, Paul (12 June 2020). "Manic Street Preachers Remaster 'Gold Against the Soul' with Deluxe Edition". PopMatters . Retrieved 3 July 2020. https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/did-van-gogh-cut-off-his-ear-because-his-brother-was-engaged Other sources corroborate this e.g. here (with the letter in French) and here (describing his death).

But even­tu­al­ly, in 1890 van Gogh attempt­ed to take his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, a few miles north of Paris. Short­ly after he con­fessed to his younger broth­er Theo that for him, “la tristesse dur­era tou­jours” (“ the sad­ness will last for­ev­er.”) 2Two days lat­er, he sur­ren­dered to death. Vin­cent had alleged­ly been more sta­ble in Auvers-sur-Oise than he had been in pre­vi­ous years. “‘ I feel absolute­ly calm and in a nor­mal state’. This is what he writes me six weeks before he’s dead. How does a man go from being absolute­ly calm to being sui­ci­dal in six weeks?” pon­ders Irish come­di­an Chris O’Dowd’s char­ac­ter, a post­man, in 2017’s Lov­ing Vin­cent. 12 a b Jovanovic, Rob (2010). A Version of Reason: The Search for Richey Edwards. Hachette UK. ISBN 9781409111290. a b Kane, Peter (August 1993). "Manic Street Preachers: Gold Against the Soul". Q. No.83. p.89. Archived from the original on 11 March 2002 . Retrieved 4 January 2013.Van Gogh’s death remains curi­ous. Con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries twine around it like the diag­noses around Vincent’s heart. It is intu­itive to assume that Vin­cent had shot him­self, a lone­ly end to a lone­ly life, a final, des­per­ate tri­umph over one’s own demons. The self-ful­fill­ing prophe­cy that the arche­type of the artist always seems to car­ry with him. This seems to be the answer he want­ed the world to know, the con­fes­sion he gave to the police, to Gus­tave and to Theo. But peo­ple argue that a num­ber of details of van Gogh’s death do not add up to sui­cide, such as the angle from which he was shot. 12,13

Gold Against the Soul was released on 14 June 1993. It reached number 8 on the UK Albums Chart. The album has since gone Gold (100,000 copies) and spent more than 10 weeks in the Top 75. [14] Gold Against the Soul also charted within the Top 100 in Germany and within the Top 50 in Japan. la tristesse durera..." Manics.nl. 22 September 2007. Archived from the original on 15 April 2009 . Retrieved 7 December 2010. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)" was released as a single on 19 July 1993 by record label Columbia. [9] It reached number 22 in the UK Singles Chart on 31 July. [10] In the US, a promotional version was released as "Scream to a Sigh (La Tristesse Durera)". [11] The song made an appearance in edited form on Forever Delayed (28 October 2002), the Manics' greatest hits album. The remastered album version appeared on the National Treasures – The Complete Singles, compilation.

to Willemien van Gogh, Date: Arles, Sunday, 9 and about Friday, 14 September 1888, 678 (681, W7): To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 and about Friday, 14 September 1888. — Vincent van Gogh Letters

Stuart Bailie, writing for the NME, called the album "confusing" and "too much Slash and not enough burn", but did compliment its musicality, saying "the drums and guitars rumble higher in the mix, and massive, harmonising riffs are everywhere". [18] In his review for Vox, Keith Cameron remarked that the album showed Manic Street Preachers "skating gingerly over that treacherous Difficult Second Album ice". [25] Q 's Peter Kane was more critical, calling the album "superficially competent, of course, but scratch below the surface and you'll find few signs of life, just a vaguely expressed, bemused and bored dissatisfaction". [20] In Spin, Simon Reynolds opined that the band "motor-mouth a fine manifesto, but haven't got a musical bone between them". [26]

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James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers on a year of hospital horror..." Select. Archived from the original on 4 May 2007 . Retrieved 1 October 2012. Scott, Ben P (11 June 2020). "ALBUM REVIEW: Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against The Soul (Deluxe Reissue)". XSNoise . Retrieved 16 June 2020. Murray, Robin; James, Gareth; Diver, Mike (23 August 2013). "7 of the Best: Manic Street Preachers". Clash . Retrieved 3 July 2020.

EDITED BY LARA HELENA. 1Vincent van Gogh. Letter to Theo van Gogh. Written July 1880 in Cuesmes. Translated by Mrs. Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, edited by Robert Harrison, number 133. La Tristesse Durera" (literally "the sadness will go on") is the title of a biography of Vincent van Gogh, although the song is not about him but about a war veteran. [6] Style and influences [ edit ] Simon Price of The Telegraph opined that the lyrics on Gold Against the Soul "switched from the political [of Generation Terrorists] to the personal". [5] The lyrical content is considerably less political than their previous album Generation Terrorists, and the album is more reflective of the despair and melancholy of their later work. [3]Pike, Daniel (2002). "Manic Street Preachers Forever Delayed Review". BBC Music . Retrieved 29 December 2015. He himself wanted to die, when I sat at his bedside and said that we would try to get him better and that we hoped that he would then be spared this kind of despair, he said, “La tristesse durera toujours” [The sadness will last forever]. I understood what he wanted to say with those words. Stokes, Paul (12 May 2011). "Album A&E – Manic Street Preachers, 'Gold Against The Soul' ". NME . Retrieved 31 December 2014.