One I listen to when I need the energy and inspiration to Keep Going, Do The Thing. <iframe width="640" height="390" src="" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Encouraging tunes: Argent - Hold Your Head Up VNV Nation - Illusion David Bowie - Rock and Roll Suicide Susannah McCorkle - The Waters of March Modest Mouse - Dashboard Modest Mouse - Float On The Submarines - 1940 Alabama 3 - Sinking Conjure One - Center of the Sun Brother Ali - Rain Water Brother Ali - Forest Whitiker Feel Good Tunes: John Butler - OCEAN (instrumental) Talking Heads - Nothing But Flowers SKAndalous All Stars - Take the Skinheads Bowling Sky Cries Mary - Moonbathing Pogo - Alice Pogo - Upular Florence + The Machine - Cosmic Love Florence + The Machine - Howl Gorillaz - DARE Calming Stuff: Lifeformed - Swimming While it Rains Populous - Hip Hop Cocotte Airstream - Electra Telepopmusik - Breathe Napple Tale - Dreams in a Pie Animal Crossing Music: Full Day Animal Crossing Music (7 Hours) Animal Crossing: Rainy Day theme (15 minutes, with rain sounds) Minecraft 1.7.2 Soundtrack Ocarina of Time Soundtrack Orchestrated Ocarina of Time Soundtrack Lemon Jelly - Nice Weather for the Ducks Loud, Happy, Knock The Depression Out Of Your Brain With Noise Tunes: Yatta! Ozark Mountain Devils - Chicken Train Nico Nico Douga - Wild Legend of Zelda Mashup Thunder and Monkey Dance the Nutcracker The Count Censored Tainted Donuts Lazy Harp Seal Has No Job SECRET TUNNEEEEEEEL Tackey and Tsubasa - Crazy Rainbow Star Janelle Monae - Tightrope (Feat Big Boi) Many Lemons - Sail On
For anxious days or days I'm too low on spoons to do all the things I want to do: I want to change the world, Instead, I sleep I want to believe in more Than you or me But all that I know is I'm breathing now.
these are the songs i really find help me on bad days: encouraging songs: robyn - get myself together oceanlab - on a good day vnv nation - carry you more upbeat songs: lindsey stirling - roundtable rival needtobreathe - keep your eyes open also seconding (thirding?) 2NE1, they're the best
Spoiler: Lyrics. Important I think we'll live, which is strange enough to think. Everyone was cheering to push us from the brink. We were entertaining. That was never cast in doubt but never mind about that. We were not meant to get out. When you've seen what we've seen, when you've done what we've done, when you've been through what we've been through there is nowhere left to run. Through the eagle's eye they watched us never feeling like the prey. Paying us all their attention. Taking everything away. I am not undamaged. No, that was never an option. Supposedly safe, but I'm lost again. I am not okay, that was always out of the question. But maybe, given time, I'll start to mend. 'Til then, I'm lost again. Like bandits on the run, we sought out anywhere to hide. Everything we've done was done so we could stay alive. They'll never understand the way the world looks from our eyes. How our own survival's just a consolation prize. When you've seen what we've seen, when you've done what we've done, when you've been through what we've been through there is nowhere left to run. Through the eagle's eye they watched us never feeling like the prey. Paying us all their attention. Taking everything away. I am not undamaged. No, that was never an option. Supposedly safe, but I'm lost again. I am not okay, that was always out of the question. But maybe, given time, I'll start to mend. 'Til then, I'm lost again. Sitting here as targets as the waves crash down upon our heads, hurling questions: "How did we manage to defeat our dead? Why aren't we smiling? This is our shining moment after all! Why are we cowering when we should be standing tall?" I am not undamaged. No, that was never an option. Supposedly safe, but I'm lost again. I am not okay, that was always out of the question. But maybe, given time, I'll start to mend. I am not undamaged. No, that was never an option. Supposedly safe, but I'm lost again. I am not okay, that was always out of the question. But maybe, given time, I'll start to mend. 'Til then, I'm lost again.
This one makes me feel soothed when insomnia and badfeels happen. And it's the reason I painted my bedroom blue. If that's the way it is, then that's the way it is...
They Might Be Giants are The Band That Saved Acey's Life TM. This is one of the most genuinely life-affirming songs ever, and unusually for TMBG, there's no sarcasm or irony or twist to it--it's just about recovery. And this one...well, it turns out my interpretation was incorrect but it really did keep 18-year-old!me alive when it came out, so y'know. Shruuuuuug.
I definitely agree with 'This Year.' Also from the Mountain Goats, there's Up The Wolves. "There's gonna come a day when you feel better" and all. and I've found 'All Will Be Well' to be quite good for calming down. ETA: I see someone upthread also recced Up The Wolves! Well there's no harm in repeating. Also, there's 'Love Like You' from Steven Universe, which is unfortunately short but I've found it pretty encouraging.
I think Luka shared this on his tumblr once and it really voiced a lot of my feelings growing up as an anxious/depressed child
Speaking of The Mountain Goats. Spent Gladiator 2 is a good song for the days when the only consolation is that your suffering is finite in time, and even doing the bare minimum to survive feels like a heroic effort. Stay in the game Just try to play through the pain Like a fighter who's been told it's finally time for him to quit, Show up in shining colors and then stand there and get hit ... Stay alive Maybe spit some blood at the camera Just stay alive, Stay forever alive
I can't stop listening to this one. It's so happy, and ,to me, it's about loving your own fuckups and the fuckups of others, as part of what makes them beautiful Hold on, darling This body is yours, this body is yours and mine Hold on, my darling This mess was yours, now your mess is mine Bring me to your house and tell me "Sorry for the mess", Hey, I don't mind You're talking in your sleep, out of time Well you still make sense to me, your mess is mine.
@wixbloom YES. Uneven time signatures are relaxing for me too, for whatever reason, so it's double-awesome. :)
Today on "My Life: the song" Spoiler: Lyrics There's a God-awful shitty feeling of dread in my heart, Yeah, it's got a lot to do with haven't finished what I started; And at any second now I think it all might fall apart, 'Cause there's a God-awful shitty feeling of dread in my heart, yeah. There's a devil in my brain with a pitchfork and a flame, Yeah, he likes to poke around and he likes to tell me things And whenever I begin to feel like I might be deranged I remember there's a little shitty devil in my brain, yeah. Oh, I wonder what it's like to Be the type who doesn't burn, Yeah the kind who fights the good fight Not the kind you find Fisti-fucking-cuffing in the dirt. There's a God-awful shitty feeling of dread in my heart And I can't seem to change my attitude but I can change my shirt, 'Cause you know, I actually at times I can be a good start, But not today, There's still a God-awful shitty feeling of dread in my heart. Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, In my heart, Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, Oh, yeah, Who-who-who-who Oh, no, Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah.
I saw this thread and immediately pulled up my Spotify because I've got a playlist full of these. These are the feel-good motivational songs: One Day Robots Will Cry - Cobra Starship This one is really important to me because it reminds me that I don't have to repeat my parent's dysfunctional relationship patterns, and that even if I screw up in a relationship it doesn't mean I'm horrible or I can't try to fix it. All These Things That I've Done - The Killers Asking for help is okay! Screwing up is okay! Keep on truckin', basically. Inner Ninja - Classified Bouncy and fun. There ain't a thing I've faced that's been too much for me I Wanna Get Better - Bleachers Title is self-explanatory. I like to blast this and scream the lyrics when I'm feeling especially self-destructive, because I do want to get better and sometimes I need the reminder. Splitting this into two posts because I have too many songs.
And here are the angry/sad ones I listen to when I need to be reminded that other people are also screwed up and in dark places. Storm Chaser - Rehab Song talks about drugs, suicide. Rehab's entire Southern Discomfort is good for this 'I am so fucked up' kind of song, but this one is probably the angrier and darkest. 'Rattle My Cage' is a slightly less dark version of this without the content warnings. Hurt - Johnny Cash Nine Inch Nails cover, and pretty slow and sad. Lots of feeling and good to sing along with. I listen to this when I need to wallow in that 'I am horrible' feeling, because then I'm not constantly pushing it down and it becomes a thing I can deal with. Shitlist - L7 My favorite FUCK YOU song. For all the ones /Who fill my head with doubt Heaven Knows - The Pretty Reckless Big man tells you where to go / Tell 'em it's good / Tell 'em okay / Don't do a goddamn thing they say I used lyric videos because it's been long enough that I'm not sure if the real videos need content warnings. I make no guarantees about lyrical accuracy, though. I also have a bunch of soothing and a bunch of uplifting happy dancy songs, but I feel like this is enough for now.
Buy the Stars, Marina & the Diamonds. Dealing with controlling shitheads. Lots of stuff from M&tD actually. Seventeen. Troubled mind. What you waiting for?. Lemon Jelly's Nice weather for ducks. It makes me irrationally happy. That song is a Nice Place. Emilie Autumn's What if. Nice for dealing with people who try to force you into moulds you don't fit into.
Sometimes when you're in the pit of sorrow, you need miserable songs to help you get your crying jags done. It's an inexplicable thing, but somehow it helps when I'm the right kind of numb for it, so here are some of mine: Garbage - Stroke of Luck St. Vincent - These Days Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Follow You Into the Dark Tom Waits - Burma Shave Tom Waits - Reeperbahn Tom Waits - Hell Broke Luce Tom Waits - Time Madeleine Peyroux - Between the Bars Aaaand VNV Nation's Resonance album is pretty good in general for making you bawl your head off. Oof.
i don't even care that it makes me the biggest dudebro to find solace in this song. it's "connected" by hoobastank, from the halo 2 soundtrack. it's the very end of the CD and it's got such a high tempo that it powers me through the end of my workout. it's also got some of the best most positive lyrics. no one else will help us to get through so by ourselves we'll know just what to do [we are connected we'll never be alone we walk together forever down that road] you and i will share all that we know so close your eyes and just let yourself go and if you fall behind and don't know what to do i promise i'll be waiting there for you (for you) follow me into a better day we'll be all right no matter what they say
