what songs or albums are you listening to during hard times?
I don't mean 'sad day' type of hard times, I mean 'not sure how I'm going to make it through this' hard times.
What albums got you through another day?
Maybe you had it on a bit of a loop for days and weeks while trying to get through the bad times?
@medeuxsa I agree with this as at least one part ... perhaps the beginning part ... of dealing with hard times through music! Different songs for me, of course, but same process!
@Cranky Old Witch ok here are some releases i'd listen to a lot back in my worst times (still do) and why:
Raw black metal:
Why: This music to me sounds eerie, decrepit/disgusting, evil and sometimes sad - I cope with it by romanticizing with it the terrible headspace I am in.
Industrial Hardcore:
Why: It was loud, it was agressive, it helped drown out my thoughts.
Detroit Techno:
Why: It sounds bittersweet but hopeful. I could feel sad but still look towards the future.
Forgot to mention before as I usually lump it into raw bm but... Dark Ambient:
IN THE SIGN OF SATAN - DEVOID OF LIFE.... FOREVER@ENDLESSVOID there we go! That's some detail! 🥰
"I think it comes down again to the romanticization of my loneliness and isolation."
Damn, though. It's that self-romanticism of trauma that's a real bitch. Like playing martyr, victim, or hero for enduring - situation depending.
@Cranky Old Witch When I am in the deepest pits of my depression it feels a bit nice to act all cool and mysterious about it lol, because it's either that or me doing something far worse and permanent
EDIT: Not to mention releases like Voices of the Dark Call me to Suffer sound so agonizing it's nice knowing someone else feels the same way.
IN THE SIGN OF SATAN - DEVOID OF LIFE.... FOREVERfirst 4 zep, best of doors, all of joy division. Fleetwood.
the smiths : no particular album but all the biggest hits generally. big mouth, take me out, how soon is now, charming man, heaven knows im miserable, few others i cant recall right this second.
Ennio morricones work on the dollars trilogy.
Canon the barbarian/destroyer soundtracks.
basically when feeling down or melancholic, and im just daydreaming through it,
or with the conan and enio stuff,
im trying to actively lift myself from the bottom and find the spirit in myself to persevere even though everything in me is trying to make me give up.
oh, almost forgot, for gaining the ability to drag myself through it, also
rock guitar version of sephiroth's theme Sephiroth is a fake person and that fake person is still my hero lol.
gustav holst - mars
Mussorgsky - night on bald mountain
giuseppe verde - requim 1 dies irae
Dvorak - symphony #9
Carl orff - carmina burrana
The theme from the movie the omen. avi satani.
@⸸⸸⸸𝕶𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖌𝖆𝐳𝖒𝖔𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖓⸸⸸⸸ sounds like you're returning to safety. Nostalgic sounds for comfort while you work through it. Totally get that
I listen to stuff I know I’ll never listen to again. I hate listening to my favorite thing and then associating it with bad things going forward
@xX-Squid-Xx interesting. Understandable!
Depends on the hard times.
Like for mental health problems, probably Motion City Soundtrack's Commit This To Memory, Even If It Kills Me, or I Am the Movie albums.
For feeling trapped in a small town, The Weakerthans' Reconstruction Site or Left and Leaving albums, or anything by Green Day up until American Idiot. The Weakerthans' song Plea from a Cat Named Virtue (and the followup songs) also often snap me out of my depression bc it gets me to think about my own pets depending on me. Be forewarned, the trio of songs about Virtue the cat are actually really sad and more like a cautionary tale of sorts 😳
When I felt like a screw up making bad decisions, the song Thrash Unreal by Against Me! or Amy Winehouse's Frank and Back to Black albums.
Also Lizzo's song Good as Hell really helped me through a period of time where I felt like I had absolutely no one in my life. That song worked a bit differently for me... all the other songs and albums I mentioned helped bc it just made me feel normal to hear other people putting to words what I was already feeling, whereas her song helped bc it was the opposite of what I felt and seemed more like someone giving me advice on how to change things around. Extremely uplifting.
@sueños yes. Exactly.
And its a journey through it sometimes. Starting with songs to match the energy of what you're feeling before moving onto what helps heal you.
Third Eye Blind, Linkin Park, Demon Hunter. I know that really narrows it down :3
When my Grandma died, I listened to It is Well- by Kristen
Another situation I wanted to change, I listened to God, Turn It Around-by Jon
Lately, I've been listening to my playlist on repeat. Here's my playlist: New Songs To Me
I HATE depressing songs actually!! All of my songs are posizive or just slightly sad ones, cause i dont get better listening to them. I usually listen to the songs i always do, I dont have songs for each feeling. Idk, i have mostly punk and rock in my playlist from the 80s to 2000s and my favourite ever band is The Cramps but its obvious xx
@Remuriii Ravekiller whatever music works for you! Of course it doesn't have to be sad songs! 😊
@Raven so inspirational stuff. Also understandable!
@siopao I get that
Fluke's Real Magnificent and Insanely Beautiful seem to both be able to help me pull myself together, usually one of those on a loop. Also shout out to Linkin Park's The Messenger
I rotate between Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Disturbed's version of Sound of Silence, El Rey (a mariachi song), and almost anything by Celia Cruz.
Either Keep on the sunny side by the Carter family, or Love is Everywhere by Pharoah Sanders.
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