Songs to listen to when you're down

Speedway

just in that kind of mood, when you're feeling down or sh*tty what songs do you listen to.

some of mine are

Hopeless - Train
Speedway - Counting Crows
Not even the trees - Hootie & the Blowfish
Letting the cables sleep - Bush
One Thing - Finger Eleven
Ran for Miles - Gemma Hayes
E-bow the letter - R.e.m.
How to be dead - Snow Patrol

metrovelvet

I tend to avoid sad song when Im down. They keep me stuck. I stick on music with a lot of strong beats so I can get my lifeforce going.

joeblogg1

Mainly for Country Fans with the Blues !!!!!!

Designated Drinker : Alan Jackson
Good Year for the Roses : Elvis Costello
Friends in Low Places : Garth Brooks
Jim Reeves : Blue Side of Lonesome (I know its a bit old)
Everybody Hurts : REM
Missing You :John Waite
How am I supposed to live without you : Michael Bolton
When Doves Cry : Prince
In the Air Tonight : Phil Collins (Well I Like it !!!)
Stop : Sam Brown
Heres a Quarter Call someone who cares : Travis Tritt
He stopped loving her today : George Jones
Hero : Enrique Iglesias

pbsuxok1znja4r

Well for 'wallowing', lol, there are a few suitable tracks I can think of. Depends on the nature of the mood really though.

Glassjaw - Losten
Alexisonfire - Rough Hands
Radiohead - Street Sprirt (LOL)

Hmm...think of more later

Pet

Exit Music For A Film would be a better Radiohead choice, I'd say.

Dresden Dolls - Me and the Minibar
A Perfect Circle - Orestes
Alanis Morissette - Mary Jane
NIN - Hurt
Placebo - My Sweet Prince/Without You I'm Nothing
Tori Amos - Winter
Tool - Pu****

Creamy Goodness

Karl Hungus - Oh no, not again.

Bodhidharma

Ramble on - Led Zeppelin
Tumbling Dice - The Rolling Stones
Inbetween Days - The Cure
So Long - Willy Mason

They'll get ya feelin better.

Anto McC

Anything by Hank Williams!

Pigman II

Angie - Rolling Stones

oRlyYaRly

The Cillit BANG! remix

BANG! and the hurt is gone.

gustavo

Not Even Jail - Interpol
Bumblebee - JJ72

Ruu_Old

Smashing Pumpkins-Mayonnaise

imeddyhobbs

anything from tom waits,it wont make you happy but it wont make you sad,what a true genius
if you dont like that then try the b52's shining happy people

imeddyhobbs

anything from tom waits,it wont make you happy but it wont make you sad,what a true genius
if you dont like that then try the b52's shining happy people,put it on repeat for total effect

melekalikimaka

ska punk ska punk skapunk, its all you need, suburban legends mainly

Briony Noh

When I'm down I jus' plug in ma guitar and argue with it.

Serpentine

Anything off Alice In Chains Jar Of Flies, also Mad Season's Wake Up always suits my mood when down cos it describes exactly what I'm feeling, sheer brilliance.


"so an infection not a phase..." Layne R.I.P

thebassman

U2's Acrobat

dr.bollocko

New Slang by the Shins.
Bron yr aur Stomp By Led Zeppelin. (Plus about 15 other zeppelin acoustic tracks, mostly taken from BBC sessions.)
Angeles by Elliot smith
A bit of Neil Young for good measure.
Peace Frog by the Doors.
My Hero by Foo Fighters.
Lateralus. All of lateralus.
Comfortably Numb by Scissor Sisters (The original has the effect of making me want to poke my eye out through my asshole.)

Jazzman

Beach Boys - I Get Around! Grrrr!!

The Freeman

comfortably numb-pink floyd
sorrow-pink floyd
anything from leftfields-leftism
since i've been loving you-led zeppelin

bottlerocket

Lost Souls (album) by Doves. Perfection, but you won't wanna self harm or find a bridge. Just beautiful beautiful music.

CountingCrows

Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush - Don't Give Up
Counting Crows - Perfect Blue Buildings
Dashboard Confessional - This Bitter Pill

Peyton Manning

These songs are my speciality...

Jimmy Eat World - 23
Jimmy Eat World - Work
Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me
Placebo - Running Up That Hill
Plus 44 - No It Isn't
Sum 41 - Pieces
Dashboard Confessional - Remember To Breathe
Joseph Arthur - In The Sun
Evanescence - My Immortal
Counting Crows - Round Here
The Fray - How To Save a Life
Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloon
Oasis - Masterplan
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Gary Jules - Mad World
Smashing Pumpkinds - Disarm
Stain'd - Its Been A While
Joshua Radin - Winter
Creed - One Last Breath
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (I also recommend the John Rzezik & Fred Durst version)

cashback

bottlerocket wrote:

Lost Souls (album) by Doves. Perfection, but you won't wanna self harm or find a bridge. Just beautiful beautiful music.

True.

stovelid

I know its over - The Smiths
Everything in it's right place - Radiohead
Half a world away - REM
Bummer in the summer - Love
Handel - Sarabande in DMinor
Denis Brown - What about the half
The other side - David Gary

Sinfonia

Radiohead
Sigur Rós
Chopin
Smiths

Pretty much anything from the above, also:

Zep - Since I've Been Loving You; Tea For One; I'm Gonna Crawl
Steve Vai - Blue Powder; For The Love Of God; Sisters
Interpol - Evil; NYC
Love - Always See Your Face
José González - Crosses
Velvet Underground - Who Loves The Sun
Arcade Fire - Crown of Love
Tool - Schism; Lateralus
LV Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
WA Mozart - Piano Concerto in A Major, K488, Movement II Adagio
S Barber - Adagio for Strings
etc. etc. etc.

SueL

"The Letter" by Kristin Hersh

A truely moving song, a very emotional stream of consciousness in the form of a letter to "Dear so and so".

Backtoblack

U2 - Stuck in a moment you can't get out of.

Backtoblack

SueL wrote:

"The Letter" by Kristin Hersh

A truely moving song, a very emotional stream of consciousness in the form of a letter to "Dear so and so".

(*off topic - I have an album of hers called "Strings" - if you haven't heard it you should check it out. I love "The letter" by KH and also "A Loon"**)

is_that_so

Wake Up Boo - Boo Radleys
Bright Side of Life - Eric Idle(Monty Python)
Harmony in my Head - Buzzcocks
Hit Me with your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury
Lovely Day - Bill Withers
Radio Ga Ga - Queen
Lovers' Concerto - Toys
Hazy Shade of Winter - Simon & Garfunkel

lilmissprincess

To wallow: Alanis Morisettes "Simple Together" OMG the misery.
To try not be sad:I Get Knocked Down (Tubthumping) - Chumbawamba
Shut Up-Simple Plan
Don't worry be happy!

Killaqueen!!!

I listen to a lot of sad songs but if you're down and you want to be happy again just stick on

Wake Me Up Before You Go Go!!!!!!!! Great song - always picks me up when I'm feelin blue! haha...it's also my morning song. It wakes me up before i go (go) to school!

That, and Call Me Al!

Sad Professor

The Cure - Same Deep Water As You
Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely
The Smiths - Asleep
Moby - When It's Cold I'd Like to Die

To put myself in a good mood again I always find Meat Loaf's Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back does the trick. The song is so overblown it's hilarious. It always makes me laugh.

davyjose

Was just about to ask why nobody mentioned the cure - same deep waters as you, closedown, anything off disintegration, but especially Pictures of You.