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* TearJerker: About half their discography is either this or NightmareFuel.
** "Roads". It's probably the violins. Also the band allowed it to be used for a video relating to Sophie Lancaster's death, which doesn't exactly make it seem any more cheerful. (Sophie Lancaster being a girl who was beaten to death for being dressed as a goth.)
** "The Rip".
** "Wandering Star" from ''Dummy'', which features these lyrics, which are immediately relatable to anyone who suffers from UsefulNotes/{{depression}} or other mental health disorders:
---> ''Please could you stay a while to share my grief?'' \\
''It's such a lovely day to have to always feel this way'' \\
''And the time that I will suffer less'' \\
''[[DeathSeeker Is when I never have to wake]]'' \\
'' [[TitleDrop Wandering stars]], [[Literature/EpistleOfJude for whom it is reserved]]'' \\
''[[TheNothingAfterDeath The blackness of darkness forever]].''
*** The second verse isn't much better:
----> ''Those who have seen the needle's eye now tread'' \\
''Like a husk, from which all that was now has fled...''
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* TearJerker: "Roads". It's probably the violins. Also the band allowed it to be used for a video relating to Sophie Lancaster's death, which doesn't exactly make it seem any more cheerful. (Sophie Lancaster being a girl who was beaten to death for being dressed as a goth.)

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* TearJerker: About half their discography is either this or NightmareFuel.
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"Roads". It's probably the violins. Also the band allowed it to be used for a video relating to Sophie Lancaster's death, which doesn't exactly make it seem any more cheerful. (Sophie Lancaster being a girl who was beaten to death for being dressed as a goth.)
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** "Wandering Star" from ''Dummy'', which features these lyrics, which are immediately relatable to anyone who suffers from UsefulNotes/{{depression}} or other mental health disorders:
---> ''Please could you stay a while to share my grief?'' \\
''It's such a lovely day to have to always feel this way'' \\
''And the time that I will suffer less'' \\
''[[DeathSeeker Is when I never have to wake]]'' \\
'' [[TitleDrop Wandering stars]], [[Literature/EpistleOfJude for whom it is reserved]]'' \\
''[[TheNothingAfterDeath The blackness of darkness forever]].''
*** The second verse isn't much better:
----> ''Those who have seen the needle's eye now tread'' \\
''Like a husk, from which all that was now has fled...''
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* TrueArtIsAngsty
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* HoYay: The video for "Glory Box" features double ho yay - men being affectionate to each other - but the men are all women in drag. EVERYONE in the video is in drag.
* SignatureSong: It's either "Glory Box" (the band's big UK hit) or "Sour Times" (the band's big US rock radio hit), both from ''Music/{{Dummy}}''.

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* HoYay: The video for "Glory Box" features double ho yay - -- men being affectionate to each other - -- but the men are all women in drag. EVERYONE in the video is in drag.
* SignatureSong: It's either "Glory Box" (the band's big UK hit) or "Sour Times" (the band's big US rock radio hit), both from ''Music/{{Dummy}}''.



* TheWoobie: Beth Gibbons. Whenever you see her sing her face is CONTORTED with sadness, so much so that she looks like one of those greek tragedy masks. It's hard not to feel sorry for Beth, even if you don't know precisely what the reason for her prolonged pain IS.

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* TheWoobie: Beth Gibbons. Whenever you see her sing sing, her face is CONTORTED with sadness, so much so that she looks like one of those greek Greek tragedy masks. It's hard not to feel sorry for Beth, even if you don't know precisely what the reason for her prolonged pain IS.

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* HoYay: The video for Glory Box features double ho yay - men being affectionate to each other - but the men are all women in drag. EVERYONE in the video is in drag.
* SignatureSong: It's either "Glory Box" (the band's big UK hit) or "Sour Times" (the band's big US rock radio hit).

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* HoYay: The video for Glory Box "Glory Box" features double ho yay - men being affectionate to each other - but the men are all women in drag. EVERYONE in the video is in drag.
* SignatureSong: It's either "Glory Box" (the band's big UK hit) or "Sour Times" (the band's big US rock radio hit).hit), both from ''Music/{{Dummy}}''.



* TheWoobie: Beth Gibbons. Whenever you see her sing her face is CONTORTED with sadness, so much so that she looks like one of those greek tragedy masks. It's hard not to feel sorry for Beth, even if you don't know precisely what the reason for her prolonged pain IS.

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* TheWoobie: Beth Gibbons. Whenever you see her sing her face is CONTORTED with sadness, so much so that she looks like one of those greek tragedy masks. It's hard not to feel sorry for Beth, even if you don't know precisely what the reason for her prolonged pain IS.IS.
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* SignatureSong: It's either "Glory Box" (the band's big UK hit) or "Sour Times" (the band's big US rock radio hit).
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** "The Rip".
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* FaceOfTheBand: Gibbons.
* HoYay: The video for Glory Box features double ho yay - men being affectionate to each other - but the men are all women in drag. EVERYONE in the video is in drag.
* TearJerker: "Roads". It's probably the violins. Also the band allowed it to be used for a video relating to Sophie Lancaster's death, which doesn't exactly make it seem any more cheerful. (Sophie Lancaster being a girl who was beaten to death for being dressed as a goth.)
* TheWoobie: Beth Gibbons. Whenever you see her sing her face is CONTORTED with sadness, so much so that she looks like one of those greek tragedy masks. It's hard not to feel sorry for Beth, even if you don't know precisely what the reason for her prolonged pain IS.

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