What music soothes your wounded soul?

[dolo amber]

I'm partial to Afghan Whigs...it's kind of like poking your tongue at a sore tooth...it's a good sort of pain. :D

[HEyHEY]

1. Connie Francis, Gordon Lightfoot, and Dead Kennedys

[dolo amber]

8. Those are some very

HEyHEY choices. :D ;)

[BigMcLargehuge]

15. man, what a bizarre mix

WHEEEEEEEEERRRRE THE BOYS ARRRRRRRRRREEEE... The wreck of the Edmund fitzgerrrallllllllld... Gonna kill kill kill kill kill the poor toni-ei-i-ie-ie- i-igh!!!

[HEyHEY]

19. You want a soul soothing tune? COnie Francis' "Ave Maria" is beautiful

[BigMcLargehuge]

21. Hell, GG Allin could do Ave Maria and it would be soul soothing

that whole song is soul soothing. Connie Francis has a great voice. She's too melancholy for me though.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

58. California Uber Alles is my favorite lullabie

:)

[Fenris]

Neil Young

The loud stuff. I want distortion and feedback so loud i can't remember why I'm crying.

[dolo amber]

16. No, you like Neil Young

because his 'fresh from the microwave' hairstyle makes you laugh. :P

[Taverner]

2. You're gonna hate me for this but

The Beatles, either White Album or Abbey Road. When I get in a bad mood, those two albums just bring me back up.

Otherwise the Meat Puppets do the job :-D

[dolo amber]

3. No bringing back up!!

I should maybe change the subject to "What music does your wounded soul like to wallow in misery in?"

:D

[Taverner]

9. Oh well in that case

Sonic Youth, Meat Puppets, Alice in Chains, Velvet Underground, Carpenters....

[dolo amber]

14. Mmmm yes

"Dirt" is very much a fuck you record...Not sure I'm feelin' ya on the Carpenters...but whatever make ya happy, mon frere...;)

[IrishBloodEngHeart]

4. Stone Roses

lately, I've really been into Interpol

[dolo amber]

6. Oooooh, both excellent choices

Belated welcome to DU. Any Roses fan is cool by me. :D :hi: :toast:

[Taverner]

11. Ahhh Stone Roses

Ian Brown RAWKS!

[sundog]

13. Interpol is amazing

that album just sucks you in a little at a time...

And the Stone Roses... that's one of my all time favorite albums :P

[Archae]

5. Mozart.

Or Beethoven.

[gmoney]

7. Crowded House

Nothing sweeter or more soothing to my spirit... although the new Finn Brothers album "Everyone is Here" is a tremendously beautiful/bittersweet album. (Buy it on Amazon, get to stream it for free a month ahead of release!)

[NJCher]

10. Bach

preferably with harpsicord or French horn, listened to while I plant something.


Cher

[Nicholas_J]

12. Lightfoot is good.

I also like a group called Ensemble Polaris. The Faroes Wind Orchestra is also extremely interesting and soothing.

Leonard Cohen...

Special K sometimes. But I have to be in a mood for a prticular kind of soothing.

[BigMcLargehuge]

17. music for crappy moods

to overload the crappy mood -

The Smiths

To power out of the crappy mood -

Iron Maiden (Especially, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner)

To happy out of the crappy mood -

The Ramones

To horny out of the crappy mood -

The Cardigans

To rage out of the crappy mood -

Ministry or Dead Kennedys

To laugh out of a crappy mood

Dead Milkmen or The Fools

[dolo amber]

18. Oi!!

You forgot TKK in the *horny* division. ;)

Otherwise that's a perfectly cromulent list...:D

[BigMcLargehuge]

20. the international sin set!

yeah, I have a whole playlist of them for when Mrs. McLargehuge is feeling frisky ;)

She turns me on like a tiger baby, hard body, motor city, love life!

[dolo amber]

23. "I like to watch the way you walk

I live to hear the words you talk
I'd love to know the things you do
(When no one's there to spy on you)
I want to crawl inside your head
To kiss your mind and lips of red
I dig the things you do to me
You've lit the fire to set me free
Oh...baby...."



AaaaaaYeaaaaah...*bow-chicka-bow-bow*...;)

[BigMcLargehuge]

24. now you're getting me all randy!!!!

stop it!

Sex..
Sex..
Is perverted and sick..
Sex..
Sex..
Is perverted and sick..

[dolo amber]

27. Bathe me in leather,

Bathe me in leather, drown me in your sex... ;)

Ok, you're gonna have to lock this if this goes much further...:D

[BigMcLargehuge]

29. locked: for internation sin

:spank:

[dolo amber]

31. "Who the HELL do you think your dealing with?

Some old slut on 42nd street? In case you didn't happen notice it, I'm one hell of a gorgeous chick!"

:bounce:

Ok, I'll stop now. :D

[BigMcLargehuge]

32. you better or I can't be held responsible for...

treating my body like an amusement park!

[sundog]

22. Music to soothe terrible days...

Antonio Carlos Jobim "Wave"
Carlos Nakai "Ancestral Voices"
Sarah Brightman "Eden"
David Gray "White Ladder"
Radiohead "Kid A"

[Reciprocity]

25. Hands down Loreena McKennitt.

Her music is so haunting I even listen to her Christmas music all year long. My favorite of hers is The Lady Of Shalott. I have all her albums except the live one.

This is her official web page.
http://www.quinlanroad.com/flash.html

Forgot to add that she has sound files that you can listen to her music.
BTW the song you hear on her opening page is called.....

The Mummers Dance.

Loreena McKennitt
I have just read an account of a mumming troupe which boarded a Polish ship stranded in the harbour in St. John's, Newfoundland, on New Year's Eve, to entertain the sailors. According to James Frazer in his book The Golden Bough, mumming has its roots in the tree-worshipping of the peoples who inhabited great regions of forested Europe now long gone.

Mumming usually involves a group of performers dressed up in masks (sometimes of straw) and clothes bedecked with ribbons or rags, and setting out on a procession to neighbouring homes singing songs and carrying branches of greenery. It's primarily associated with springtime and fertility, and it has a cast of stock characters, like The Fool, which recurs in some form or another from Morris dancing to the shadow puppet plays of Turkey and Greece and even the morality plays of the Middle Ages.

[notadmblnd]

26. anything by Van Morrison

has always made me feel better.

[Reciprocity]

46. INTO THE MYSTIC by Van Morrison

We were born before the wind
Also younger than the sun
Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic
Hark, now hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic

And when that fog horn blows I will be coming home
And when that fog horn blows I want to hear it
I don’t have to fear it
I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
Then magnificently we will float into the mystic
And when that fog horn blows you know I will be coming home
And when thst fog horn whistle blows I got to hear it
I don’t have to fear it
I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
And together we will float into the mystic
Come on girl...

[notadmblnd]

64. Crazy Love

I can hear her heart beat for a thousand miles
And the heavens open every time she smiles
And when I come to her that's where I belong
Yet I'm running to her like a river's song

Chorus:
She give me love, love, love, love, crazy love
She give me love, love, love, love, crazy love

She's got a fine sense of humor when I'm feeling low down
And when I come to her when the sun goes down
Take away my trouble, take away my grief
Take away my heartache, in the night like a thief

Chorus:
Yes I need her in the daytime
Yes I need her in the night
Yes I want to throw my arms around her
Kiss her hug her kiss her hug her tight

And when I'm returning from so far away
She gives me some sweet lovin' brighten up my day
Yes it makes me righteous, yes it makes me feel whole
Yes it makes me mellow down in to my soul

Chorus

[flamingyouth]

28. Byrds, Walkabouts' first album, a bunch of stuff

I also really like the Madman Across the Water album by Elton John - go figure. :eyes: Child of the '70s...

[HEyHEY]

33. "My back pages" is a great byrds tune. (Dylan wrote it of course)

[flamingyouth]

34. Everything by the Byrds is great

But I'm a pre-Gram Parsons gal.

[tigereye]

61. oh the Walkabouts!

that takes me back.

[Kazak]

30. Bacharach or Badalamenti...beat those.

Maybe some Serge.

Or, maybe Stereolab...

Nyah!

[JSJ]

35. the dead's 'workingman's dead' n/t

[RandomKoolzip]

36. Sandy Denny.

Nothing is more soothing than her contralto. In times of great stress, I pull out Fairport Convention's "Unhalfbricking" immediately.

[dolo amber]

37. Wha......?

No "Alien Lanes"??

Dude, even I have to have some "Game of Pricks" when I got the blues... ;)

(Can I just say seeing you around here makes me do this --------> :))

[RandomKoolzip]

39. Nah, "Alien Lanes" is good walking music.

And it immediately puts me in a "fun" mood. But in times of strain, I could never put it on....too distracting. When the edifice is crumbling and your friends turn ugly and there's no womb to crawl back into, THAT's when I go for the Denny.

Hey! The wife's got a temporary night job on a reality show filming here in Chicago (psst: it's so secret she can't even tell ME anything about it.) Work's over and the computer's on.....feels like old times!

[dolo amber]

41. C'mon!

"I never asked for the truth
But you owe that to me..."

Excellent wallowing lyrics if ever there were...

[RandomKoolzip]

43. Hmmmm.

You know, as much as I loooooove Robert Pollard and his wonderful brain, I've never been moved emotionally by his lyrics (except "Your Name is Wild." Maybe.) It's always the melodies that do it for me.

And for wallowing, Joe Jackson's "It's Different for Girls" is nearly unparalleled. (At least for guys it is. For girls, it's differ.....oh, okay.)

[JSJ]

38. hey, i'd go 'with rumour and sigh' by richard thompson, too n/t

[RandomKoolzip]

40. Wow, I was just going to mention "I Want to See the Bright Lights

Tonight" by Richard and Linda Thompson as another candidate for this title. Weird.

Yup, that's another "mommy, save me from the abyss" record.

Other ones I use in times of great streess and depression:

Dinosaur Jr: You're Living all Over Me
American Music Club: Mercury
Squirrel Bait: Skag Heaven
Grateful Dead: American Beauty (specifically "Box of Rain")

[Bridget Burke]

54. Or Richard Thompson's "Shoot out the Lights"

When you're already in the abyss. However, eqipped with witty, bitter lyrics & a loud guitar, the abyss ain't so bad.

[tigereye]

65. that's another good one

if you have to be in the abyss, well, slough, whatever you want to call it.

[Cybergata]

42. The Great Dead is perfect for any mood.

Almost anything Joni Mitchell ever did. Gordon Lightfoot, & Sarah McLachlan...

:hippie:

[RandomKoolzip]

45. The Dead, "Friend of the Devil," from 6/12/76, Boston Music Hall.....

Keith's piano solo made me cry the first time I heard it. This version drips so much beauty and sadness it's almost unbearable.

[Red State Rebel]

44. Nessun Dorma, This Woman's Work

Time to Say Goodbye - Lots of great memories associated with those 3.

[Race4Peace]

47. yea.

http://www.sonichq.org/music/wma/sonic/adventure/theme-tails.asf

[WindRavenX]

48. Bruce Springsteen

"Downbound Train" - when I am sad and depressed about breaking up.
"You're Missing" - same as above
"The Rising" - For remembering everything is not lost
"The Fuse"
"Worlds Apart"
Bruce rawks my world!!

[BBradley]

49. Bright Eyes

[chicagojoe]

50. Anything by Jethro Tull or Phish

I mostly like my music fast and hard, but for a soothing effect, I gotta go with Tull, or maybe some Phish.

[bo44]

51. Saxophone played well in front of funk and r/b and swing rhythm sections

I love me some saxophone blues from Coltrane to Euge Groove

[Magrittes Pipe]

52. Nick Cave -- the "Tender Prey" and "Henry's Dream" albums, particularly.

I counted up my blessings,
And I counted only one:
One tiny, little blessing,
And now that blessing's gone.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

55. I went out walking the other day

The wind hung wet around my neck
My head it rung with screams and groans
From the night I spent amongst her bones
I passed beside the mission house
Where that mad old buzzard, the reverend,
Shrieked and flapped about life after your dead
Well, I thought about my friend, Michel
How they rolled him in linoleum
And shot him in the neck
A bloody halo, like a think-bubble
Circling his head
And I bellowed at the firmament
Looks like the rains are hear to stay
And the rain pissed down upon me
And washed me all away

Fuckin' great record, 'Henry's Dream'

[onebigbadwulf]

53. Soundtrack of Requiem for a Dream

it's so depressing it makes me better.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

56. 'Pocket Calculator' by Kraftwerk

I'm the operator with my pocket calculator
I'm the operator with my pocket calculator
I am adding and subtracting
I'm controlling and composing
I'm the operator with my pocket calculator
I'm the operator with my pocket calculator

I am adding and subtracting
I'm controlling and composing
By pressing down a special key, it plays a little melody
By pressing down a special key, it plays a little melody

I'm the operator with my pocket calculator
I'm the operator with my pocket calculator

-very, very soothing.

[jus_the_facts]

57. Houses of the Holy ~ Zeppelin

:loveya:

[DS1]

59. Nina Hagen

She makes me realize that life could be much, much worse :7

[Beware the Beast Man]

60. Stoner Rock

It's just big, dumb rock-n-roll with no message whatsoever.

[tigereye]

62. Chris Stamey

Company of Light. Perfect for a wistful mood. Or classical. Or Dead Can Dance.

[cmf]

63. Elliot Smith

Perfect for indulging in a melancholy mood.