Interactive Pool of Tears: The Crying Game edition

1) Death with dignity. Guitar arpeggio similar to that of Simon & Garfunkel. Tender song rather than sad, in my opinion. Nice

2) I don't know this group, and I don't search the net. Is the voice from an African American? I think so. It is highly expressive, hypersensitive. The mood is mournful, a bluesy, made symphonic by the strings, but it's not really sad, I would say rather melancholy. Still it is a great performance, a conventional melodic song beautiful for melody and singing. Podium candidate

3) Weyes Blood. Melodic, acoustic ballad, with an arrangement between the symphonic and the psychedelic. With a dream singing, it gives me a certain energy and serenity, on a musical level. Pleasant and relaxing.

4) One Last Goodbye. Slow ballad with a melancholy mood, which becomes powerful then in the chorus, although they sing I Still Feel the Pain, if I understand correctly. It's a good song, which I would put between the electric rock ballads of a group that I suppose is hard rock or heavy metal. Maybe he gives me too much energy and power to get on the podium, we'll see.

5) Chris Cornell was a big loss. Superunknown is my favorite hard rock / heavy metal album, and already there he gave his best when he wrote the less heavy ballads, and here he gives his best in a very well sung acoustic melodic ballad. As a mood I feel disappointment mixed with anger. Podium candidate.

6) One and Only. Another group I don't know. I share the youtube commentator: powerful song, with very heavy metal moments. Definitely angry song, but anger is one of the ways to react to sadness, without feeling it. The three basic emotions are: sadness, anger and fear. Then, depending on the classifications, you can reach 7 emotions with disgust, surprise, contempt, joy. All the others are similar to these sects. Moreover, if we consider disgust and contempt as a sub-category of anger, there are 5 left, and surprise as an emotion is less significant than the others, so there are 4 left. Hmmm what am I saying? Nice song, very hard rock, but I doubt it will make it to the podium.

7) Surunuotta. Classical acoustic song, but with a particular mood because it goes beyond sadness, it is a typically oriental contemplative sadness. Simple but very refined. Candidate for the podium.