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General => The Lounge => Topic started by: Stormhead on June 16, 2010, 11:30:17 AM
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this was a really popular thread on my old forum.
I find music can help lift my mood dramatically when I'm feeling low or clam me down when i'm angry.
what have you been listening to lately? post links so others can listen and maybe find a new band they like!
I've been listening to a lot of Reel Big Fish, who are one of my favorite bands:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mypjPPodAqg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JctNzrNEc08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM29PW3sO9c
Hope the quality's ok, Posting from work so i can't watch them and check.
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Know what you mean stew, my era is the 70's. My problem is I tend to listen to stuff that I know will upset me.
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See, i do the opposite. if i know somethings going to upset me i knock it out of my happy playlist. but i listen to music the way other people smoke cigerettes.."feeling stressed, going for a quick song.." lol
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I used to use music to lift my mood, mainly ub40 but the one that made me smile everytime was mmmbop, But now it makes me think of the things i have lost, the guitar used to help too but i only learnt the slower songs like stand by me and swing low, all to painful to play now.
Junior
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this may be strange but when i get down i listen to rock music like evanesance , the rasmus etc it seems to help me it works for me i find other music distracting and if that fails a movie with a cup of tea always does the trick .
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I am listening to the XX - beautiful music however sometimes its very peaceful and other times it makes me sad. Worth checking them out though! :)
x
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Hey all :D
I have to agree with [[disordered]] -- the XX have done some really beautiful easy listening stuff. I find when I'm in a low mood I always want to listen to music that matches that -- today I've been listening to:
Muse - Exogenesis Symphony Parts 1, 2 & 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZD0yp-E0rw);
Ennio Morricone - The Crisis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvmOm6lJx7w); and
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVeaIHWWck).
Just three (well, five I suppose!) of my favourites. They are classical (slash classical rock opera) pieces so not to everyone's taste, but I find them to be quite therapeutic and healing. Music that is food for the soul. They don't always bring me out of my low mood, but they let me ride it out knowing that someone else understands.
Just food for thought -- I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that composers like Mozart and Beethoven are now known to have had manic depressive personalities, and I think it's true that tortured souls are often the most talented. On the bright side, at least we have something interesting to share in any artistic work that we create.
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At this very moment I am listening to this wonderful piece, Lascia ch'io pianga. I always feel so relaxed when listening to this. it's simply, beautiful....enjoy!
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peJxkzPSQFg[/youtube]
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I find all types of music intriguing when I'm down.
I'll quickly turn off if anything modern comes on the radio but my own preferences range from Abba to The Prodigy!! Lol!
Currently in my cd changer are Paloma Faith, The Prodigy, Queen: Rocks, Billy Joel, ACDC and Neil Diamond.
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Ive seen the prodigy live twice awesome live but you cant hear much when you leave the venue lol
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Stormhead, i love Real Big Fish, and littlest man band. :)
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A favourite at the moment is Noah and Whale: Blue Skies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2kVTkqw6Rc
It's a song about hope with a beautiful melody and great lyrics including:
"Do anything to be happy,
because blue skies are coming
But I know that it's hard"
Somewhat appropriate for this forum!
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When I get peace (rarely) I have the same routine. Flick through my varied range of songs on my ipod, from Robbie, to David Gray, to Ministry of Sound, to guns n roses to rage against the machine, but I always fall back on my chilled ibiza album. Always the first disc. It instantly relaxes me. :-).
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well i try and listen to some CCR and Jackson 5, old stuff but hey still good.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaEEj4J4ydY&feature=mr_meh&list=PL6E684EA476380298&index=37&playnext=0
Woodstock 1969 - Matthews Southern Comfort, stuff like this can go on for ever!!!
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I tend to listen to all sorts of things - When I am feeling low though, I do tend to listen to a lot of Garbage. Shirley Manson is pretty much an idol in my eyes!! Knowing that she has battled depression most of her life and has still achieved the things that she has is very very reassuring at times.
I think one of thier most powerful songs is The Trick Is To Keep Breathing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBz8iXdddqY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBz8iXdddqY) I adore this song - and then I found out that Shirley Manson wrote it after reading a book of the same title, which I subsequently bought and am now partway through!
But there are so many that I listen to the lyrics and really get the feeling that someone else understands (I won't link them all because some of the lyrics could be triggering) . Bleed Like Me (the title pretty much says it all...) Why Do You Love Me?, Silence Is Golden, Only Happy When it Rains, Medication, Drive You Home, Untouchable, I Think I'm Paranoid... the list goes on!
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUU4Brp0nfQ&feature=fvst[/youtube]
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i,m listening to the manic street preachers. the best band in the world !!!!!!!!! ;)
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxRnDOA2YOc&feature=feedrec_grec_index[/youtube]
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Have spent a lot of time playing this today, it helps to keep the depression, and therefore the alcohol intake at bay. Enjoy!!!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WpdSh8VYd4[/youtube]
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I really don't know what to do without my iPods. I find music helps a lot. Not when I'm really down - just down. I like a broad spectrum of music and find different music for different downers, I once went through a 'Death Metal' phase which was great for my anxiety />.
I also find listening to audiobooks on my iPod VERY helpful because it does not require as much concentration as actual 'reading' where I tend to start reading the same line over and over.
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I find music about sadness to be the most uplifting. Elliot Smith & Jon Brion are beautifully poetic. When I'm in a happy mood, one of my nostalgic records os the first Artic Monkeys LP, reminds me of easier times and the life I used to live, was so relatable when it came out.
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Foo Fighters new album 'Wasting Light' - The track "Walk" I can relate to coming out of a depression. Makes me feel happy and sad at the same time.
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one of the symptoms/problems of experiencing depression for me is that things/interests which afre usually my life blood become really difficult.music is one-whilst im not a musician,im not just a passive fan.at various times in my life ive been actively involved with music as a promoter/manager,campaigner,teacher/writer.music really is mostly lifeblood and soundtrack.
it can enhance and contribute to mood change but when im depressed like now it either turns ash grey like dust and any imaginative,creative response i might have is emptied out or i find myself ine th difficult maelstrom of alienation-distress-rage which for me is the key symbol of my depression.
i dont want to feel sorry for myself though.given my professional background and training,when in depression i find my tendency/ability to self observe with a distorted kind of interest,really extremely irritating.so if im stuck with it im determined to make it useful.
that said the effort required,to self observe and engage in any activity that ius usually important for me,is in turn really exhausting.
i dont mean to be perverse,but im just glad that "happiness",whatever that is,is not particularly important to me.being authentic and living a life fully is much more important for me.
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well i,m still listening to the manic street preachers ;)
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I keep posting lately, and really hope it does,t bug anyone. I am new and panicking with my g.ps diagnosis of depression. I am in myself panicking, that I don't want to be here in this situation, but hell ok I am. I would really like to keep chatting here and reply to new members, and to try to get everyone posting with everyday things.
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hi endlos, you keep on posting,and try not to panic too much. theres lots of people to chat with. were all in this together. ;)
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i listen to virtually anything but recently i keep listening to the streets, a grand dont come for free album in order, i like the way that if you listen all the way though its a brilliant story, i some feel like i can relate to it and it relaxes me.
i also spend a lot of time listening to dub step as its random yet repetitive and thats the way i see my life now.
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You lost money down the back of your tv?!
I'm having a bit of a 30 Seconds to Mars day..... partly for the music, partly for Jared leto *&^
The dub step version of Muse - Knights of Cydonia is pretty good!
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not exactly but im always loosing things, they normally turn up in the fridge though haha
i love closer to the edge
just listened to it n love it. i love cragga's mix of mr postman
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjD4eWEUgMM[/youtube]
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found my self listening to ac/dc a lot recently, never really liked rock that much but im now loving classic rock />.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAydxBOApeE
Beautiful.... I could listen to this whole album on repeat for days! :)
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the manics, post cards from a young man
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On my ipod I have a lot of panpipes and nature sounds waterfall, rain forest and also http://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Healing-Waters-Sayama/dp/B0009HLCF6 - so beautiful and really helps me unwind x
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Its funny you say about never really listening to rock before Cornish - I definitely feel my music tastes have changed over the past year....
Really getting into The Doors and the moment - and The Rolling Stones. Also really really want to hear some more Pixies stuff. Have been listening to a lot of Meat Loaf.... but also Seasick Steve and Laura Marling...
I was listening to 'She & Him - Volume 1' in the night.... pretty much all of that album sums up feeling towards one aspect of my life at the moment - and also 'Cats Eyes - You're not my friend' Amazing song.....
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f4FN5duEjs[/youtube]
This song is really uplifting :)
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I find such solace in these songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_NPE8O7oDU - I love the video to this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3smd5Ni3C0g
:) xx
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Ed Sheeran :)
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq8F-PAAARo[/youtube]
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what ever the daughter has on which is Smosh. !"!
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Listening to a mixture of things at the mo.....these songs remind me of a certain special someone who helps me get thru the good days and bad days :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNzCDt2eidg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJVQJ4-n_cA&ob=av2e
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE-dwpWpscU
x
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90 s grunge pearl jam ...soundgarden....Alice in chains....brain getting younger body getting older me thinks.lol
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ichill - float away
its new age music and very relaxing :)
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it's strange how some of our tastes are so ecclectic i love classical moonlight sonata being a favorite the eagles, metalica,jay z,david grey,neil diamond but my favorite at the moment is the foo fighters
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Oh gosh, I'm into everything... for some reason this week I've been listening to bloc party, a couple of remix albums which are very chilling.
Can't handle my heavy metal and drum & bass right now lol
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I'm listening to:
http://www.youtube.com/user/leonalewis?blend=1&ob=4#p/f/16/qSxyffSB7wA
I think it was written for me! :) xx