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#1
Dec 17, 2007, 12:59 PM
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Ok, so a post in this forum made me curious about something, what do you listen to when in the grips of depression? I'm just curious and I hope it's ok that I posted this here instead of in social chat. I wanted people with depression to respond so this seemed more appropriate.
Cyran0's absolutely depressed songs: - Goodbye Cruel World, Pink Floyd - Mad World, Gary Jules - Paint It Black, The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want, The Rolling Stones - The Point Of No Return, Andrew Lloyd Webber from the Phantom Of The Opera soundtrack. - Good Day, The Dresden Dolls - My Dark Life, Elvis Costello with Brian Eno - Rock And Roll Suicide, David Bowie - On My Own, Alan Boubill and Claude-Michel Schonberg from the Les Miserables soundtrack. - Perfect Day, Lou Reed - Whistle Down The Wind, Tom Waits - Lay Me Low, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Invitation To The Blues, Tom Waits So those are the ones that have been played lately. Of course, the exact tone and temperment of depression changes and so does this list. But this is my totally depressing soundtrack of the moment. Cyran0
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#2
Dec 17, 2007, 01:31 PM
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i listen to james blunt when i'm depressed.....happy......sad.......bored......content....oh well you get the picture....lol
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#3
Dec 17, 2007, 01:32 PM
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cool thread Cyrano!
Lou Reed: Nothin' At All Elton John: Dont Let the Sun go Down on Me Garth Brooks: Wolves? Green Green Grass of Home... various artists... Red River Valley ... artist unknown... Lou Reed: Coney Island Baby... Simon and Garfunkel: Sounds of Silence definately more than those... |
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#4
Dec 17, 2007, 01:46 PM
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Riviera Paradise ( Stevie Ray Vaughn )
There is allways one more time ( BB King ) |
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Dec 17, 2007, 02:19 PM
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I put various songs on repeat and/or have a "Sad" playlist on my media player including:
And So It Goes - Billy Joel Mamy Blue - Paul Mauriat Season of Hollow Soul - K.D. Lang It Just Won't Quit - Meatloaf Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond Everybody Hurts - R.E.M. Bookends Theme - Simon and Garfunkel Deacon Blues - Steely Dan </font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font> Fate must have a reason Why else endure the season Of hollow soul The ground on which we leave on How strangely fuels the season Of hollow soul </div></font></blockquote><font class="post">
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Dec 17, 2007, 04:14 PM
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-Sisters of Mercy-- Leonard Cohen
-These Days-- Nico -To Turn You On-- Roxy Music -Suzanne-- Leonard Cohen -Deacon Blues-- Steely Dan -The Weight-- The Band -It Ain't Me Babe-- Bob Dylan -Visions of Johanna- Bob Dylan -Pictures of You-- The Cure -Plainsong-- The Cure -Literally anything by Nick Drake, particularly off the Pink Moon album -Literally anything by Elliott Smith especially Waltz #2 and Pitseleh -Can't Find My Way Home-- Blind Faith -Simon & Garfunkel-- Bookends Theme -These Arms of Mine-- Otis Redding -Lover You Should Have Come Over-- Jeff Buckley -Last Goodbye-- Jeff Buckley -Porcelian-- Moby -Let Down-- Radiohead -Paranoid Android-- Radiohead Wow this is a great thread. I am going to download some of the songs that you all put that I don't have as of yet. I'm going to need a 2nd ipod soon. PERNA-- I see we have two of the same on our lists. |
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#7
Dec 17, 2007, 04:28 PM
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the entire album "in love and death" by the used
its perfection that way
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#8
Dec 17, 2007, 04:38 PM
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I love Leonard Cohen too, Pink. Forgot about him.
</font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font> And why are you so quiet now standing there in the doorway? You chose your journey long before you came upon this highway. </div></font></blockquote><font class="post">
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#9
Dec 17, 2007, 05:02 PM
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What a great topic! Music is my biggest comfort when I'm feeling bad. And listening to sad songs can help get the tears out when I'm otherwise unable to.
I couldn't begin to list specific songs - there are too many - but here are some albums I've turned to, at one time or another. The Cure - Distintigration The Cure - Faith Cranes - Wings of Joy Bjork - Selmasongs Bjork - Vespertine Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got Sinead O'Connor - Gospel Oak EP Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic Joni Mitchell - Blue Kate Bush - Aerial Nico - Chelsea Girl Just off the top of my head. I'm sure there's more. And of course, many individual songs, the most recent and strangest (for me) is Daniel, by Elton John. |
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#10
Dec 17, 2007, 05:18 PM
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most of the time... I 'listen" to silence...
I don't have a pure pattern... when I'm really sad as in drained... I don't have the energy to care about music. Other than that it can get random ^_^
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#11
Dec 17, 2007, 07:12 PM
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grateful dead-looks like rain---an all time favorite...
blind melon-sleepyhouse three days grace-one x elton john-this train dont stop there anymore simple plan (eek)-untitled (what can i say, everyone has their guilty pleasures...) phish-sample in a jar umphrey's mcgee=bullhead moth-thinking please moe.-new york city blues traveler-the mountains win again and the list goes on lol.... |
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#12
Dec 17, 2007, 07:13 PM
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I listen to the same stuff I do when I'm feeling good because it helps me get out of the funk I'm in. I'm usually angry at myself when I'm depressed so I put on something heavy like maybe some Alice In Chains or Seether.
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Dec 17, 2007, 07:55 PM
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OMG!!! I had totaly forgotten that incredible Leonard Cohen soundtrack to McCabe & Mrs. Mller! I guess because back when I HAD to watch the movie over and over when things went crazy I didn't know it was depression? I drove the entire family nuts replaying that on vhs, and once murdered a vcr because "one of those moods" had hit and it wouldn't play the tape.
Coldplay-Clocks Audioslave-Doesn't remind me of Anything Wallflowers -One Headlight Collective Soul -She Said Candlebox -Far Behind U2 -The entire Joshua Tree album Seven Mary 3- Cumbersome Red Hot Chili Peppers- Stadium Arcadium REM almost anything Alice in Chains " " Nirvana- " " Simon and Garfunkle- the first three albums Animals-House of the Rising Sun The Doors-The End Rolling Stones-Paint it Black Cream-White Room The last time I got so depressd that I turned out the lights and put Paint it 'Black on repeat for 5 hours led to me spending the next 21 months incarcerated. Time I got out all my CD's had been stolen, I decided not to replace that one, should I ever feel an urge to replace it I'll run, not walk, to a therapist, cause I'll know a total meltdown is looming.
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Dec 17, 2007, 09:43 PM
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she's a moving violation,from her konk down to her shoes...now accept your invitation,to the blues...also, eric clapton lonely stranger from unplugged.
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Dec 17, 2007, 09:48 PM
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Yes, the repeat thing generally says a therapist should be in one's future :-)
</font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font> Where am I going? Why do I care? Run where it's foul, Run where it's fair, No matter where I run I meet myself there. </div></font></blockquote><font class="post">
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#16
Dec 18, 2007, 05:56 AM
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</font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font>
Perna said: Yes, the repeat thing generally says a therapist should be in one's future :-) </div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> OK, to make a bad pun (is there any other kind?), that strikes a chord! The need to repeat came along about the time it all semed to tak on a life of it's own. It never occued to me before that I hadn't always done that, but I don't recall it happening prior to the last 10 years.
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Dec 18, 2007, 10:17 AM
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I think our minds are super inventive at finding ways to get our attention so we'll work on our stuff. Like with dreams, they always use indiosyncratic symbols and activities. I don't think everyone would put music on repeat; my husband can't even figure out the words correctly to most songs he likes (Monkees in "Cheer Up Sleepy Bee" for example :-) and he literally was an on-the-air disc jockey in his youth! So how we "relate" to music is very individual.
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#18
Dec 18, 2007, 10:28 AM
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thats really bright Perna! personally i agree and it makes me think about how sometimes, i do let music control my mood, for better and worse...
sad songs always make me sad... JimCroce .. Time in a Bottle... Gordon Lightfoot: Sundown and ..not sure of the title "Wishing Well"? (about the ghost that you cant see...) James Taylor... pick one... Johnny Cash: Sunday Morning Comin' Down (BIG time on this one) : ) |
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#19
Dec 18, 2007, 11:10 AM
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This subject line made me laugh. Sorry.
I don't listen to music when I'm depressed; it opens me up too much and is too painful. I don't want to feel; that's why I'm depressed. |
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#20
Dec 18, 2007, 11:30 AM
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Doors -The End
Cream - World of Pain Johnny Thunders-Sad Vacation |
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#21
Dec 18, 2007, 12:07 PM
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</font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font>
nowheretorun said: sad songs always make me sad... </div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> Is that anything like Sue Thompson's: </font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font> And mama saw the tears and said "what's wrong?" And so to keep from telling her a lie I just said "sa-a-a-d movies make me cry" Oh-oh-oh sa-a-a-d movies always make me cry Oh-oh-oh sa-a-a-d movies always make me cry Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Sa-a-a-d movies make me cry-i-i </div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> .gif)  
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#22
Dec 18, 2007, 12:12 PM
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hehehehehe (((smiles))) to Perna...
it actually happened one time, i was in a place where depression is thick ( a bar) and watching the silent tv... i was thinking about my mom, my life... i was withdrawing from Zoloft... i started to cry, just watery eyes, one or two tears... in the bar... well.... the bartender, an angel i knew as a friend... said, whats' wrong Darrel? .. i didnt answer, and she nodded to the tv and said, oh, the news? i just let it go at that.. we were probably listening to November Rain.. one of her favorites... and no, i wasnt drunk.. it was mid-day.. just having a coffee.. |
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#23
Dec 18, 2007, 12:20 PM
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So, if sad music makes you sad, nowhere, why do you listen to it? Is there something healing in feeling sad, something that "matches" the depression and balances one?
I had (it was on a 33-1/3rd record I owned and the record/song was never recorded on any other "newer" technology) a song that always, always cheered me up. I thought to myself (in the 1970's) that I had it made if my world felt like it was coming to an end, it could always cheer me. If I had to come up with a song that could do the opposite, bring me "down" (sober me? that's not always a bad thing?) I'd have to say, it's Barbra Streisand's "Where am I going?" from Sweet Charity. Here sung (too upbeat) by Shirley Bassey: Where am I going? And what will I find? What's in this grab bag That I calI my mind? What am I doing Alone on the shelf? Ain't it a shame, But no one's to blame but myself. Which way is clear When you've lost your way Year after year? Do I keep falling in love for just the kick of it? Staggering through the thin and thick of it, Hating each old, tired trick of it, Know what I am, I'm good and sick of it! Where am I going? Why do I care? Run where it's foul, Run where it's fair, No matter where I run I meet myself there. Looking inside me, what do I see? Anger and hope and doubt, What am I all about? And where am I going? Tell me why do I care? No matter where I run I meet myself there Looking inside me, what do I see? Anger and hope and doubt What am I alI about? And where am I going? Where am I going?
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#24
Dec 18, 2007, 12:31 PM
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thanks Perna.. thanks for the help... well, i [bold]choose[/bold] to listen to sad music, and in turn, it is my [bold]choice[[/bold] to be sad... and (after a lot of self work) ive been able to develop a personal way of returning from the sadness...
my faith never fails me... (not gonna make this a spiritual thing again, but it works for me) ... why would i choose sadness you might wonder? it is one of the natural feelings available as a human... it is a feeling many share and suffer from... i choose to feel sadness at times i think because it is a connection to reality in a way... along the lines of: "If you're not angry, you're not paying attention" ... : ) |
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#25
Dec 18, 2007, 02:27 PM
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Wow people really responded to this thread. Very cool.
I think it's interesting that there's a wide range to how people react to depression and what we do to cope. Some go with sad songs, some with energetic or happy songs, some look at the stereo and think, "that's just too far away" and listen to nothing. I go with sad songs because I've learned that, for me, connecting with someone else's sorrow makes me feel less alone. It's cathartic (much like coming here and talking to you guys). Whereas happy music just makes me hate whoever is off having that happy life and it does nothing to pull me out of my mood. Oh, and I have to listen to something as music plays a big role in my life. A few I forgot to list: Leonard Cohen - Tacoma Trailer (this is also my favorite song to play on piano when depressed) Elliot Smith - pretty much anything Beck - The entire Sea Change album I'm glad people are enjoying this thread and I'm going to download much of the music listed here (legally, of course). Cyran0
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