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Thread #3408   Message #17107
Posted By: dick greenhaus
04-Dec-97 - 07:16 PM
Thread Name: Why aren't more angry songs sung angrily?
Subject: RE: Why aren't more angry songs sung angrily?
Again, I dunno. Seems to me that Picasso's Guernica was pretty damn angry. Dick Gaughan often projects vast quantities of anger (some unkind soul described it as singing like he was passing a kidney stone). In a more trad vein, Aunt Molly Jackson was preet good at expressing anger.

Trouble is, it's hard to transmit anger by singing angrily--too many listeners just shrink away.