Music for Going Down

[lesbiaphrodite]

Got your attention, didn't I? LOL. No, this thread isn't about music to listen to when you're giving head.

What I'd like to know is: What music do you like to listen to when you're heading down the dark corridor, when you're depressed, when you're nose-diving into sadness?

For me, it's:

Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday

and, oh yeah,

Billie Holiday

 

[Guest]

Floyd - "the Wall"

 

[Shakti_Dreamer]

Robert Johnston

 

[TheeGoatPig]

It switches back and forth, but Nothingface seems to come back into the mix a lot when I feel that way. I know most of the words to quite a few of their songs, and I just start screaming along to it while driving down the highway.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Renaissance or Baroque Masses but only through headphones. I need the music inside my head. The soaring glory of the music makes me cry and crying breaks the blues.

 

[Guest]

3 doors down

linkin' park

and for some strange reason Weird Al

 

[oggbashan]

Mozart: Exultate Jubilate to get me out of it.

Schubert: Winterreise Song Cycle to wallow in it.

 

[rengadeirishman]

whistles the wind by flogging molly is my go to song for that. I want it played at my wake.

 

[TE999]

Bob Seger, Dire Straits and The Ramones.

The louder the better.

 

[impressive]

There is no music in that space. There is pure apathy.

 

[Guest]

One of my college roommates always used to listen to Barry Manilow when she felt depressed.

Which, in turn, would depress me.

These days I am immersed in music throughout my days and nights.

Sometimes the silence is preferred when I need to sort things through, both emotionally and mentally.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

Mary J. Blige is another good one for the more melancholy frame of mind.

 

[ImpishSeraph]

TLC's

Red light special

 

[Liar]

There is no music in that space. There is pure apathy.

Indeed. Music is beauty. Even loud, dark and agressive music is, in it's own way, beauty. And I can't appreciate beauty when I'm gloomy.

When I listen to music, I do it to enjoy music.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

I can enjoy music no matter what state of mind I'm in.

Sometimes, from deepest anguish, I find my most creative moments. Artists who sing the blues (like Holiday, Johnston, Vaughn) used their pain to create beauty. That beauty moves me. I cry, feel the pain, work through it, and go on to create something from it.

 

[Liar]

Sometimes, from deepest anguish, I find my most creative moments.

This was the topic of another thread a while ago. On the poetry board, I think. People discussed how they drew inspiration from dark moments, how they wrote as catharsis or tapped directly into angst amnd anger to find energy to write.

I thought they were all nuts. I can't even write a grocery list if I'm on too much of a down note, let alone anything creative.

 

[sethp]

Slayer. sometimes Pantera. nothing is harder, angrier, more hateful or fills you with rage like those two bands.

 

[rengadeirishman]

Mary J. Blige is another good one for the more melancholy frame of mind.

especially her work with Wyclef on 911. love that song.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

especially her work with Wyclef on 911. love that song.

Definitely. Way cool stuff, that.

 

[Nirvanadragones]

I thought they were all nuts. I can't even write a grocery list if I'm on too much of a down note, let alone anything creative.

Slight thread jack . . . sorry. . .

I can't write when I'm happy. I've tried. I just can't. Everything I write sounds cliche'd and soppy. When there's pain, I can do something with it, work with it, make it beautiful.

As far as music goes when I'm down , I usually prefer more specific songs than artists. Like this one. That entire album by David Gray . . . God, if I hear it, I remember a few months in my life when I was at my lowest. I was not functional. Absolute apathy. Empty.

Also, though, music has the ability of affecting my mood profoundly. I can be balanced, and listen to a song that holds specific meaning for me, or a song that reminds me of a particular time in me life, and it takes me back to that moment immediately. So much more painful moments, than happiness.

So for me it's not usually a case of - I'm in a bad space, I listen to music, and it affects me. It's more frequently - I'm balanced, I listen to music, and that takes me to a certain space.

Silence is also very powerful.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

An interesting point, Nirvana. A while back I had a case of the blues that I thought was going to destroy me. I wrote both Lost and Redeemed and Kismet Chap 3 around the edges of that mood. Now, I'm on top of the world, professionally productive and haven't a damned thing to say, literarily. I have to wonder if there's a connection there. If so, writing can go hang!

 

[Nirvanadragones]

An interesting point, Nirvana. A while back I had a case of the blues that I thought was going to destroy me. I wrote both Lost and Redeemed and Kismet Chap 3 around the edges of that mood. Now, I'm on top of the world, professionally productive and haven't a damned thing to say, literarily. I have to wonder if there's a connection there. If so, writing can go hang!

My writings are my scars. The proof that there was once a wound.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

My writings are my scars. The proof that there was once a wound.

Snerk! Given the collection of physical scars I've acquired, I'll happily live without ever writing another line of fiction in my life, it that's what it takes to stay flying and avoid emotional ones. I like flying. Probably a severe character fault on my part, this lack of interest in Romantic melancholy. Oh well . . .

 

[Stegral]

What I'd like to know is: What music do you like to listen to when you're heading down the dark corridor, when you're depressed, when you're nose-diving into sadness?

I guess it depends on if I want to keep going down into that hole or not...

If I do:
Posion - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
G'N'R - Patience
Motley Crew - Without You
Air Supply - All Out Of Love
Alice Cooper - Only Women Bleed
Bryan Adams - Cuts Like A Knife
Cinderella - Don't know What You Got
Journey - Seperate Ways (Worlds Apart)
Loverboy - This Could Be The Night
Madonna - Live To Tell
Nazareth - Love Hurts
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Prince - When Doves Cry
Jane Sibbery - It Can't Rain All The Time


If I don't:
Any Rammstien, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest....
Any Fleetwood Mac
Most of the Sign Album by Ace of Base
most of Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morsette
Def Leppard's Hysteria
Cheap Trick - The Flame
Cinderella - Nobody's Fool
Heart - The Wolf
Journey - Seperate Ways (Worlds Apart)
Nickleback - Figured You Out
Saga - Scratching The Surface
Posion - Look But Can't Touch
Ozzy - No More Tears
Jane Sibbery - It Can't Rain All The Time
*Unknown* - Independance Day ( touched by an angel show)
The Killers - Somebody Told Me

*both lists can change depending on severity...*

 

[carsonshepherd]

Dinosaur Jr. A noise-punk band from the early 90's, when I was immersed in teen angst, and spent practically my whole senior year locked in my room listening to their music. Some songs will still make me choke back sobs, if only in remembrance of my angst years.