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| From | garymaher@juno.com |
| Subject | depression |
| Date | Wed, 22 Oct 2003 21:53:20 -0400 |
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I think depression can enhance one's ability to write intense emotional
songs. Look at Nick Drake, Cobain, Elliott, Doug Hopkins (Gin Blossoms),
for example. These are some of my favorite intense and introspective
songwriters. (Makes me wonder if Mark Kozelek is mentally well.)
Drug abuse / alcoholism are frequently by-products of depression. (They
refer to it as "self-medication".)
The guys mentioned above are obvious examples because of their suicides,
but are there other artists who have owned up to clinical depression
without such drastic consequences?
By the way, when I told my wife how Elliott is reported to have killed
himself, and how it was a strange way to do it, she told me she saw an
episode of Law and Order just last week in which somebody killed someone
else and made it look like a suicidal stab wound to the chest. I wonder
if he saw it. (Or, for the conspiracy theorists, if there is more to
this story than meets the eye . . .)
g
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:00:38 -0400 audities-owner@smoe.org writes:
> Is it just me - or do songwriters who obsess over depression, failure
in life
> or suicide in their songwriting have a better chance of taking their
own life
> than other songwriters who pen upbeat or a variety of songs?
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