Reply #5: There's really no one genre of music that fits me when I'm feeling messed up. [View All]

[Forkboy]

Sometimes it's upbeat music that gets me through, other times it's music that's as dark and brooding as my mood. There's actually a sub-genre of Black Metal called "Depressive/Suicidal Black Metal" and, strangely enough, that stuff has given me great comfort at times, as does a lot of depressing music. Maybe it's the whole "misery loves company" dynamic at play, I don't know. But for whatever reason, excessively dark music can often shake me out of a dark mood. I often find serenity in it.

An example of the upbeat stuff...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqgHosrqJ8o

And an example of the not so upbeat stuff...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Mhc4aWfx0

Either way, music has been the only constant in my life. I started buying my own music with my allowance money when I was 6. I'm now 43 and have never stopped getting into it (in fact, I'm more into it than ever). If anything will keep me alive it'll be music. Dark, happy, and everything in between. It's one of the very few things left that truly touches my soul anymore.