Music you listen to when you are nervous...

[SensualCealy]

Just sitting here listening to K.D. Lang, I know, I know, most wont even know who she is, but I needed some slowling down this morning and she does the trick.

Any other ideas?
C

 

[Guest]

Just sitting here listening to K.D. Lang, I know, I know, most wont even know who she is, but I needed some slowling down this morning and she does the trick.

Any other ideas?
C

well, im a bit backwards. when i get excited, i love classical music.
nervous... nothing soothes me more than celtic music. (i play the hammered dulcimer) i really love maggie sansone.

such a personal pref, this.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Just sitting here listening to K.D. Lang, I know, I know, most wont even know who she is, but I needed some slowling down this morning and she does the trick.

Any other ideas?
C

Love k.d.Lang....I go for Seal to relax or the Blues.

 

[curious2c]

Heh...Ozzy Osbourne...Aerosmith...Guns and Roses...hard rock hammers me smooth.

 

[millennium_bard]

The Bellamy Bros. Their upbeat and catchy tunes can usually get my mind off whatever is making me nervous.
Otherwise I'll listen to something like one of my Bob Rivers CDs. Laughter goes a long way towards easing jangled nerves.

 

[scheherazade_79]

Rachmaninov's Vespers - preferably in a dark quiet place with candlelight.

 

[amicus]

Of the most unlikely people to listen to K.D. Lang, I was a dj and played her from time to time...but personally like brazilian jazz guitar to relax to Gilberto, sergio mendes...

amicus...

 

[Bridget69]

Instead of slow, relaxing music I'll usually listen to something more upbeat to help me work off my jitters.

 

[The-oldmans-wife]

David Lanz or David Arkinstone.

 

[Edward Teach]

Skylark - K.D. Lang

K.D. Lang singing Skylark sometimes MAKES me nervous. I guess you call it nervous. Sometimes takes a lot of energy to get rid of the feeling anyway.

The ending shot in Midnight in The Garden of Good and Evil where the camera slowly zooms in on the Bird Girl statue as K.D. sings Skylark gives me chills every time I see it. Powerful.

Stup Dity

 

[shereads]

This will pre-date KD Lang by a couple of centuries, but it's pure honey to the ears and the heart: Phoebe Snow, her first album, self-named, which features the bittersweet and impossibly pretty "Poetry Man."

"You are a genie
and all I ask for is your smile each time I rub a lamp..."



Phoebe sounds like a human tenor saxophone. She gave up touring near the beginning of her career and sold her voice to (choke) commercials, so she could spend more time with her child who has Downs Syndrome. One of the lovelist, smokiest blues voices I know.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...art_li_1/102-0996788-4056120?v=glance&s=music

 

[matriarch]

Just sitting here listening to K.D. Lang, I know, I know, most wont even know who she is, but I needed some slowling down this morning and she does the trick.

Any other ideas?
C

*sigh*.......adore listening to KD...such a glorious voice.

When I'm nervous, probably the slow movement of a violin or cello concerto, or Enya.

 

[matriarch]

Rachmaninov's Vespers - preferably in a dark quiet place with candlelight.

OOooh, definitely. I'll make sure I get in before your visit.

 

[Kassiana]

Music you listen to when you are nervous

To get over my depression over the election results in the U.S., I listened to "The Lighthouse" by Sons of Maxwell, "When You Come Back Down" by Nickel Creek (sadly lost now due to our recent hard drive crash...sigh), and then "History is Made By Stupid People" by Arrogant Worms.

But that's just me. I love funny songs and emotional songs.

 

[Liar]

I like KD, but I wouldn't call her music rellaxing. It is songs that you have to be relaxed to listen to, because they are better if you can actively focus to listen.

I'm not often nervous for anything, but when I have to get rid of the rare stagefright, I put on something really loud and rattling. (is that the right word?)

#L

 

[Xelebes]

Whenever I am nervous or ridden by anxiety, I have to listen to something minimalist whether it be Philip Glass, Morton Feldmann, Eric Satie or the more electronic types of Pheeq, Chris Liebing, Aphex Twin, Akufen and Ladytron.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I rarely get nervous, but in the event that it happens I require high energy music. Not necessarily the insane-o club mixes, but I can pop in a Poe c.d. and rock out to Walk the Walk (or an equivalent) and the rest of the world better start getting nervous. Why? Because by the end of the song, I'm invincible.

~lucky

p.s. Just for the record, the hammered dulcimer really kicks ass when you're looking for serenity or uplifting.

 

[matriarch]

Just for the record, what DOES make you nervous ??

I rarely get nervous, .....................

Oh, I wish.............lucky Lucky.

SC, if you don't mind, I'm going to hijack this thread temporarily, in fact, slur it sideways, and ask as well, just WHAT makes you nervous

Nervousness is, and has been, the bane of my life.....not so bad now, but in past lives, it has reduced me to a physical wreck.........requiring quick access to a bathroom for constant peeing, and/or a bucket to cope with stomach contractions. My first ever job interview at 18 had me retching in the gutter outside the building, as did my first driving test at the age of 20. (sorry for the graphic). My list:

~Interviews

~Meetings with unknown people (on my own) (be warned Perdy and others, when we meet in January.....I'll be excited,but very very nervous, especially after the drive into unknown territory - furtherest north I've been in the UK, I have driven to Manchester, so the distance isn't new, just the area.)

~Driving test

~Social gatherings mostly, where I know I'll say and do lots of stupid things, talk way too much (even more than here)

~Dentist appointments simply terrify me....never sure how I get through those, I pace the floor for hours before an appointment.

~In my adult life, examinations - strange how that came back, they never bothered me at school, but in the 7 years I spent studying for my degree, every end of module/year examination reduced me to a quivering wreck.

~Hospital appointments - I have a very very low physical pain tolerance level (I can't help it people, but I do acknowledge it), and the anticipation of being hurt in any way.......*shudder*

~My first ever aeroplane flight in 1990. I had to be propelled onto the plane by two fellow travellers in my party, before I turned tail and ran. Now I love it, providing its calm and uneventful. I can manage without the turbulence thank you.

And having read that, hell, do I sound pathetic.