La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

Product Information

I def­i­nite­ly want to paint a star­ry sky now. It often seems to me that the night is even more rich­ly coloured than the day, coloured in the most intense vio­lets, blues and greens. 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. Ewing, Tom (26 November 1999). "19. Manic Street Preachers – "Motorcycle Emptiness" ". Freaky Trigger . Retrieved 2 June 2019. For the star­ry sky, I still very much hope to paint it, and per­haps one of these evenings I’ll be in the same ploughed field, if the sky is twin­kling bright­ly.” 9 “The Star­ry Night” (1889) by Vin­cent VanGogh. The sadness will last forever” Theo van Gogh. Letter to Elisabeth van Gogh. Written 5 August 1890 in Paris. Translated and edited by Robert Harrison.

Gold Against the Soul saw the band experiment with styles including funk and grunge. [1] [2] The album's lyrical themes owed little to the political and social commentaries of its predecessor, and instead explored more personal themes of depression, melancholy and nostalgia. [3] Recording [ edit ] It might be conditional. Durera isn't subjunctive (so my theory that it's conditional might be wrong), but maybe (based on the context i.e. the dialog in the story) there's an implied conditional (which, being only implied, might not need to be expressed using a subjunctive) ... i.e. the translation could be, "The sadness would last forever (if his brother healed his gun-shot wound)" https://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/arts/did-van-gogh-cut-off-his-ear-because-his-brother-was-engaged a b c de Sylvia, Dave (20 August 2005). "Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul". Sputnikmusic . Retrieved 27 November 2012.

Grundy, Gareth (December 2004). "They took a trip to the heart of darkness. Not all returned". Q. No.221. Archived from the original on 7 December 2004 . Retrieved 31 December 2014. Murray, Robin; James, Gareth; Diver, Mike (23 August 2013). "7 of the Best: Manic Street Preachers". Clash . Retrieved 3 July 2020.

a b Wilding, Philip (12 December 2017). "The Manic Street Preachers: Their best songs in their own words". Louder . Retrieved 19 August 2021. Toujours is ambiguous in French in that it can mean "forever" or "still": so another translation could be, "(In that case) the sadness will still exist".Patashnik, Ben (25 February 2008). "Discography reassessed: the Manics in perspective". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on 4 February 2013 . Retrieved 10 January 2013. Scott, Ben P (11 June 2020). "ALBUM REVIEW: Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against The Soul (Deluxe Reissue)". XSNoise . Retrieved 16 June 2020. 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

Arundell, Jimi (11 June 2020). "Manic Street Preachers Reissue Gold Against The Soul & Finally Give Their Second Album the Respect It Deserves". FMS . Retrieved 23 August 2020. a b van Gogh, Theodorus. "Letter from Theo van Gogh to Elisabeth van Gogh Paris, 5 August 1890". Webexhibits.org . Retrieved 28 April 2015. he said, "La tristesse durera toujours" [The sadness will last forever] Four singles were released from the album. " From Despair to Where" was the lead single. " La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)" was the second single from the album and it has been described by many as its highlight. The third single, " Roses in the Hospital", peaked at number 15 on the UK Singles Chart, the highest-charting single from the band's first three albums. [14] The fourth and final single, " Life Becoming a Landslide", charted at number 36, which would be the lowest charting single by the band until 2011's " Some Kind of Nothingness". [14] Dimery, Robert (2011). 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die. Octopus Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-8440-3717-9. Oth­er inter­pre­ta­tionsread into Vincent’s Star­ry Nighta sense of rest­less­ness, a very ner­vous and strained state of mind fleshed out by the play of light and dark­ness. In those read­ings, the vil­lage below rep­re­sents the calm he sought, with the house’s lit win­dows rep­re­sent­ing a guid­ing hope towards the future.

Though I am often in the depths of mis­ery, there is still calm­ness, pure har­mo­ny and music inside me. I see paint­ings or draw­ings in the poor­est cot­tages, in the dirt­i­est cor­ners. And my mind is dri­ven towards these things with an irre­sistible momen­tum.” 8

Clarke, Allison (25 April 2016). "Manic Street Preachers: Anything but Everything Must Go". LouderSound . Retrieved 19 May 2020. a b c "Manic Street Preachers". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011 . Retrieved 21 August 2012. la tristesse durera..." Manics.nl. 22 September 2007. Archived from the original on 15 April 2009 . Retrieved 7 December 2010. The fish­er­men know that the sea is dan­ger­ous and the storm ter­ri­ble, but they have nev­er found these dan­gers suf­fi­cient rea­son for remain­ing ashore” 11—The end of van Gogh’s story 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.

a b Jovanovic, Rob (2010). A Version of Reason: The Search for Richey Edwards. Hachette UK. ISBN 9781409111290.