Posted by TemporarilyBob on October 26, 2012, at 0:42:09
In reply to Re: Best tunes for depression?, posted by gadchik on October 15, 2012, at 16:37:31
Best tunes for depression? Guess that's whether I need a cathartic experience or not.
Intense, immediate catharsis: Bad by U2 (The Unforgettable Fire version), over and over and over.... Favorite lyrics:
well, all of them, but:
"If you should ask then maybe they'd
Tell you what I would say
True colors fly in blue and black
Blue silken sky and burning flag
Colors crash, collide in bloodshot eyes"
(for those of you who don't know me, I was at the WTC when it was attacked ... that event is not at all what the song is about, but perhaps you can see from that what those lyrics mean to me)About two hours of catharsis: Studio version of Quadrophenia by The Who, preferably cranked to 11. Air guitar windmills and smashing of air drum kits optional. Favorite lyrics? Well, it's a bloody double album with an incredible story for liner notes: "Schizophrenic? I'm a bleeding Quadrophenic!"
But picking four (Quad) songs, like the first one with vocals "The Real Me":
"I went back to the doctor to get another shrink
I sit and tell him 'bout my weekends, but he never betrays what he thinks
Can you see the real me, doctor? Doctor?"
What a way to start an album, eh?Or maybe from Drowned:
"Let me flow into the ocean
Let me get back to the sea
Let me be stormy, let me be calm
Let the tide in and set me free"Or maybe for I am One:
"But I'm One, I am One
And I can see that this is me
And I will be, you'll all see
I'm the One"Or better yet, since I'm probably an old man here, something from Punk and the Godfather might be appropriate, particularly from the Godfather:
"I have to be careful not to preach
I can't pretend that I can teach
And yet I've lived your future out
By pounding stages like a clown"Or just the title for "Love Reign O'er Me" ... okay, that was five.
Something to make me happy instead? Rachael's Reel by a "Irish new traditional" (that's how they refer to themselves-- Ceol Nua Dúchasach) band named Kíla. But you have to appreciate modern Irish "folk" music (it's mainstream from what I understand there). Probably the happiest song I've ever heard. If you have iTunes, you can hear a very nice 1min 30sec preview of it ... it's the 8th track on an album iTunes has listed as "Lemonade and Burns" by just Kila (no fancy i). It's really "Lemonade and Buns". "Lemonade and Burns" makes them sound like some sort of Irish Folk Death Metal band advocating setting your flesh on fire and dousing it with an acidic drink ... they really are much more pleasant than that. This song is one of their instrumentals. The iTunes preview captures one of the interesting things about some Irish folk ... of how different members of the band join in at different moments (for this song it's a bit more "formal" than typical) till the Uillean pipe comes in for the main theme and finally one of their whistle players adds in at the "chorus" of the song .... then the preview ends. If you like the preview, you'll love the rest. All the vocals are in Irish, for the songs with vocals. If you like Irish music and/or happy music, Kila is where it is at.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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