The Manics Encyclopaedia: La Tristesse Durera

LA TRISTESSE DURERA

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DISCOGRAPHY: La Tristesse Durera
Gold Against The Soul

LYRICS: Nicky Wire and Richey James

MUSIC: James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore

QUOTES: "We took the title from a book on Van Gogh, although the song's got nothing to do with Van Gogh. It means something like 'the sadness goes on', and it's about the way life doesn't get any better as you get older. It's always a beautiful image every year when the war veterans turn out at the Cenotaph, and everyone pretends to care about them - but then they're shuffled of f again and forgotten. I'm much more sympathetic towards older people than towards my generation - I think they have a lot more dignity, and seem to be able to take care of their problems themselves. People of my generation seems to be so selfish. I'm no exception, because you can't escape from the culture that surrounds you. A phrase like 'Trade Unionism', and the idea of caring about the community you come from, is now seen as laughable - and of course, that's a product of the political culture over the last 15 years."
(Richey James; Melody Maker, 19 June 1993)

VAN GOGH, VINCENT
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90) Dutch postimpressionist painter
His works are perhaps better known generally than those of any other painter. The great majority were produced in 29 months of frenzied activity interspersed with epileptoid seizures and despair that finally ended in suicide. His early work, the Dutch period (1880-85), consists of dark, greenish-brown, heavily painted studies of peasants and miners, e.g., The Potato Eaters (1885; Municipal Mus., Amsterdam). After moving from the Netherlands to Paris, he met Pissarro, who encouraged him to adopt a colorful palette, e.g., Père Tanguy (1887; Niarchos Coll., Paris). His work from his last months at Arles is characterized by the heavy impasto and rhythmic linear style so identified with him; it includes the incomparable series of sunflowers (1888). His last works include the swirling, climactic Starry Night (Mus. Mod. Art, N.Y.C.) and the ominously distressed Wheatfield with Crows (Van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam).

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"La Tristesse Durera" means "the sadness will continue", reportedly Van Gogh's last words. La Tristesse Durera lyrics
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DISCOGRAPHY:	La Tristesse Durera Gold Against The Soul
LYRICS:	Nicky Wire and Richey James
MUSIC:	James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore
QUOTES:	"We took the title from a book on Van Gogh, although the song's got nothing to do with Van Gogh. It means something like 'the sadness goes on', and it's about the way life doesn't get any better as you get older. It's always a beautiful image every year when the war veterans turn out at the Cenotaph, and everyone pretends to care about them - but then they're shuffled of f again and forgotten. I'm much more sympathetic towards older people than towards my generation - I think they have a lot more dignity, and seem to be able to take care of their problems themselves. People of my generation seems to be so selfish. I'm no exception, because you can't escape from the culture that surrounds you. A phrase like 'Trade Unionism', and the idea of caring about the community you come from, is now seen as laughable - and of course, that's a product of the political culture over the last 15 years." (Richey James; Melody Maker, 19 June 1993)