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Music for "Tough Times"
When you're feeling lousy, or maybe just had a tough day, what one LP, CD, tape, etc. do you play to make you feel better? In my case it's Cowboy Junkies CD "The Caution Horses". Margo Timmins voice is at once soft and soothing, but also haunting and immediate. This is music that I can get lost in. What music do others use on occasions like this?
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This is one of the many a cool threads on this site with lots of good ideas. Music to make you feel better is about feel for me weather it be instrumental or lyrical. The singer song writers like Joni Mitchell, Dylan, Danny O'Keefe, Tom Waits, early Rod Stewart, Martin Sexton, many others write some songs I can REALLY identify with. Some come acoss with prefectly crafted insightful, poignant lyrics and music that truly take me away. On the classical side Debussey, Mozart, Brahams, Ralph Vaughn Williams,and on and on also send me. Music has rescued me many times from the neatherworld of depression. Cheers |
"hate the boss" lousy Ministry A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste. Nitzer Ebb Lightning Man or Ebb Head Metallica Ride the Lightning NIN Downward Spiral "dropped the winning touchdown" lousy Martin Scorsese/Wim Wenders The Soul of a Man Sntrk New Order Low Life "girl trouble" lousy NIN Pretty Hate Machine Dido (both) Kix Hot Wire Depeche Mode "black celebration" U2 Unforgettable Fire Until the End of the World Soundtrack 9 1/2 Weeks Soundtrack (I've sufferred a staggering variety of girl troubles) "Sick as a Dog" Lousy Amos Lee Dvorak No. 9 "New World" Jim Croce Greatest Hits Soprano's Original Soundtrack, If I'm not sure what Lousiness I'm sufferring from . |
Jarmusch, Scorsese, Wenders, even Tarantino... amazing soundtracks. Not just best of's or "I know that..." I think this is why they make me smile. Jackie Brown is a great example of a soundtrack that when you're in a bad mood, after "Across A Hundred and Tenth Street" followed by Foxy Brown's "Letter to the Firm" not to mention just the ridiculous cover. Or Wender's "Far Away, So Close!" soundtrack. I got stranded in Europe with no money once for about a week, and it was the only thing that got me through. |
Andreas Vollenweider's "Drown in Pale Light" off the "Down to the Moon" album always seems a potent adjunct therapy for that last 2 hours or so when "Am I or am I not?" finally coming out of a 2 day migraine. Most anything by Black Sabbath for a variety of garden variety insults/broken hearts, etc;.....Procol Harum's "Whiter Shade of Pale" and Supertramp's "Take the Long Way Home" are both good for that nagging vague-existential-angst and Zappa's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gasmask" (Weasels Ripped My Flesh) is ideal, inserted unexpectedly into the middle of any "Romantic Interludes" type mix, for clearing the premises of various committment-nagging tragediennes... |
When I'm down I seem to draw comfort from tragic or melancholy music. Some of the music of Beethoven, Brahms, Shostakovich,and Billie Holiday fill the bill then. When I'm already in a great mood, some of the music of Beethoven, Mozart, Saint-Saens, or Ravel can help me celebrate, as can some rock, klezmer, tango, or Latin jazz. Someone mentioned "Melissa" by the Allman Brothers. I like this song but I always become very sad and almost tearful, for a few minutes, whenever I hear it. "I Want You Back" by the Jackson Five has the opposite effect. Whatever mood I am in, hearing this song will make me fell like I've just had a double espresso and a shot of tequila, at least for the few minutes that it's playing. |
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This song is for tough times. Nearly 300,000 views in the week since it came out. Definitely tough times for many climate researchers. |
If I'm upset I'm usually angry. So that equates to things most here would never listen to like Uncrowned "Remember Your Ghost", anything by Dope, Tool, Bullet For My Valentine, and so on and so forth. My music selection ranges from Yanni and Sia all the way to the previously listed so don't you judge me. :-D |
Peter Gabriel's "Wallflower" was a favorite of mine, and helped through many a trial and when I was feeling particularly and acutely blue. It comes from his album Security, a wonderfully strange and sensational album that plums the depths in exploring a number of topics including musical possession ("The Rhythm of the Heat"), the interface of Native American and "White" American cultures ("San Jacinto) and others. "Wallflower" is a song of courage over oppression, dignity over hypocrisy. Try it on for size when your feeling low.... |
Some really interesting suggestions. I have found so much good music by following up threads in the music section. It does interest me, that an in an "interconnected world"", there is so much North American music, I simply have never heard of, I come from the UK. My twopenny, sorry 2 cents worth: Eric Clapton Pilgrim, not a popular album of his but some wonderful, bleak songs on there Richard Strauss "Metamorphosen", I believe, his response, as a German/Austrian, to discovering the truth about the Concentration camps in 1945. A wonderful sad, all string piece of music |
Really bad days, when the boss is a sack of ***, mistreating you, or laid off, or wife is really ragging, someone knifes ur back, etc etc. I have always turned to Metal, ALWAYS. FEROCITY, AGRESSION, ANGER, always sets me in a good mood. After a few hours of Mercyful fate, kreator, Hirax, living death, death, dark Angel, forbidden, Bathory, mayhem, zoetrope, and so on......... i feel great, then hit the LPs’, John Denver, Donovan, Lennon, humble pie, all worries and anxiety, anger is gone. your results may vary. |
