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# Dollopween 13: Thinking Sideways: Gloomy Sunday
- URL: https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/dollopween-13-thinking-sideways-gloomy-sunday/
- Published: 2016-10-13T04:05:52.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-03T15:56:18.000Z
- Author: Carla Pettigrew
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1738597973835, #Import 2025-02-03 15:53

Podcast and Podcasters: We return to Thinking Sideways and Devin, Joe, and Steve: [Episode: Gloomy Sunday](http://thinkingsidewayspodcast.libsyn.com/gloomy-sunday)

<http://traffic.libsyn.com/thinkingsidewayspodcast/165-Gloomy%5FSunday.mp3>

> In 1933, Hungarian pianist Rezső Seress composed a song titled Gloomy Sunday, but is now known as the Hungarian Suicide Song due to the reportedly high number of people who commit suicide while listening to it.

Why I chose it: What a delicious urban legend, and what a delightfully eerie idea. The added frisson of *do you listen to it…?*

Recommended reading: More fun with dangerous media…

- [Ring](http://amzn.to/2dT0NRf) \* Koji Suzuki / [Ringu](http://amzn.to/2e8RAC0) / [The Ring](http://amzn.to/2ddsh0K)
- [Ancient Images](http://amzn.to/2etkIId) \* Ramsey Campbell
- and the movie about [Gloomy Sunday](http://amzn.to/2e2pOrp) and [its soundtrack](http://amzn.to/2eayY5F)

And don’t forget to listen, if you dare…

[Billie Holliday](http://amzn.to/2dlALX0)

[Artie Shaw](http://amzn.to/2dlzUp3) feat. Pauline Byrne

[Mel Torme](http://amzn.to/2etkJfp)

[Lydia Lunch](http://amzn.to/2dKCrK6) (on [Josh’s Blair Witch Mix Tape](http://amzn.to/2dKDlq0))

[What is Dollopween?](http://theremightbecupcakes.com/dollopween-2016-intro/)