Sentence examples for pessimistic song from inspiring English sources

Gordy eventually conceded, of course, and this gentle, contemplative, often pessimistic song cycle remains not only Gaye's towering achievement but one of the most enduring albums of soul music ever recorded.

As always, Westerberg has a talent for ramshackle bar-band melodies and drolly pessimistic song titles ("Boring Enormous," "Let the Bad Times Roll"); in the end, you could (and maybe should) play this record in the background, where his grainy strained vocals serve as reminders of his earlier greatness.

A duet with Jennifer Hudson, "The Future Ain't What It Used to Be" is a pessimistic song based upon the myth that Pandora closed her jar before allowing "hope" to escape (the song first appeared on the only album performed by female group Pandora's Box).

I'm going to look at a few pessimistic songs and tease out some musical threads.

Conor Oberst half-apologized for the "very pessimistic" and "very sarcastic" songs of his band Desaparecidos when they performed at Webster Hall on Tuesday night.

A lot of your early 1980s songs were politically pessimistic.

The pessimistic lyrics of the work's nine songs are by Bertolt Brecht.

"Havana Affair" segues into "Listen to My Heart," which is the first of many songs in the Ramones repertoire that voice an ironic and pessimistic perspective on a failing or already failed relationship.

Its songs are steely mathematical webs of intersecting guitar lines that enfold pessimistic views of love.

I especially love the song "Philosophy of the World," with its wrought-up, clattering guitars and chugging, cockeyed rhythm and the cheerfully pessimistic lyrics about how people are never happy with what they have.

That looks unduly pessimistic.