When yer depressed, what music cheers you up?

[Taverner]

For me - if its one of those "World's gonna end" depressions, some kind of Ambient Eno is the only music that doesn't seem to be laughing at me.

But if I'm not that bad off - Velvet Underground, even "Squeeze" cheers me up a little

[Bennyboy]

1. LEFTOVER SALMON...

how can that NOT put you in a good mood....

[Taverner]

2. Ya see - I can't listen to happy music when I'm depressed

I feel as if the band is laughing at me

Either that or patronizing me like a bunny rabbit

[mikita]

13. agreed

I turn to Cowboy Junkies and Moody Blues....

[CBGLuthier]

3. Wim Mertens Often a Bird

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBb3Vchh6jU

Or Struggle for Pleasure


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvZQOYzycVA

[Dr Morbius]

4. Ragtime. You can't listen to ragtime music and stay depressed.

It isn't possible.

[grasswire]

40. we must have been separated at birth

...although I also would include hot dance music of the 1920s in the "can't stay depressed" category.

[mix]

5. do you listen to somafm?

they have some good ambient/electronic music channels

a good long adagio usually cheers me up when i'm down

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

6. Jazz or jazz related ...

try Melody Gardot

http://www.melodygardot.com/

Great date music!! Even if you're married, as I am, turn her on!!

[Initech]

7. Ac/Dc's "Back In Black" always does it for me.

[taterguy]

8. Nothing turns a frown upside down like Katrina and the Waves . . .

Or maybe that Nuggets anthology filled with other mindless one-hit wonders

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUmE-tne5U

[mitchum]

27. Another vote for Nuggets (and similar anthologies)

[abq e streeter]

9. Stuff that's not so much happy as defiant, in a positive way...Most anything by The Clash

for starters ( skip Lost in the Supermarket though). Marley's Get Up Stand Up, Tom Petty's Won't Back Down, Springsteen's Badlands or Promised Land. Music that doesn't try to tell you "there, there,everything is wonderful so you should be happy" but more like acknowledging that yeah, sometimes things really suck bad, but you can still "spit in the face of these badlands"... Of course it all depends on your taste in music; obviously I have no idea if you like or can even stand the people I mentioned . Funny stuff too, like Weird Al Yankovic. I'm prone to nasty depressions and I feel for you. And the stuff I've listed really has helped me on more than one occasion. I also find watching good slapstick or just really funny movies helps too. Animal House, the Blues Brothers, any Stooges with Curly...stuff that's silly enough to start laughing in spite of yourself.

[DoBotherMe]

10. Beatles!

And Technicolor Web of Sound http://www.techwebsound.com

Dana ; )

[bigwillq]

11. Fluffy pop or dance

Gaga or Madonna always makes me happy.

[PassingFair]

17. Have you heard LaRoux?

She's my latest music fixation.

Here's the one that's on the radio.
She's like a baby Annie Lennox.
Very 80's style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQdC7h609k8

:hi:

[bigwillq]

19. YES!

I love them.

I love Bulletproof.

:hi:

[hobbit709]

12. Any old blues

[annabanana]

14. Paint it Black

I guess that's why they call it the Blues
Sad Songs

and
dirty old delta blues

[Jack_Dawson]

15. If music cheers you up, you're not truly depressed.

However, Vicodin *can* break through a depression - temporarily.

:beer:

[Sebastian Doyle]

16. Van Fucking Halen

If this don't cheer you up, you're probably dead.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b7mRIdAD48

[mcctatas]

18. depends...

but lately its been The Cramps, especially this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0YTR-JF5zA

[Iggo]

20. None. I use music to validate my mood, not to mitigate it.

When I'm down, I wanna hear down music.

[rurallib]

21. old guy - sixties protest songs

I don't know if they did any good, but it brings back a feeling that we actually can do something and make a difference.

[Swede]

22. Valdy & The Hometown Band - Peter And Lou

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-4EDpNlyoA&playnext_from=TL&videos=ww8Ci09pAu8

Peter and Lou would skate
On winter's frozen lake
Circling around all their friends
Laughing wherever they went.

They're catching the mornin' plane
And sendin' the rest by train,
Hangin' their skates on the wall
Takin' their turn and that's all

With brushes & canvas & macrome handcrafts & Bessie Smith singin' the blues...
A chorus for Peter & Lou.

Now loneliness has a way
Of hangin' around all day
I'm standing alone on the ice
I'm wonderin' if maybe they've been right

So I'll catch the mornin' plane
Send all the rest by train
Leavin' the ice there to thaw
I'm takin' my turn and that's all.

And if I should miss them, I'll go back & listen to Bessie Smith singin' the blues
In a chorus for Peter & Lou

Oh, if I should miss them, I'll go back & listen to Bessie Smith singin' the blues
In a chorus for Peter & Lou

[jotsy]

23. For me, it's a get back up and fight kind of song.

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFwwQ7FY758&feature=PlayList&p=BB0743E5A1CC5149&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=2>

[Lilith Velkor]

24. Suicidal Tendencies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxcJW6bs5os

[carlyhippy]

25. The Beatles or the Beach Boys

C.

[applegrove]

26. I have a "help button" that plays "I will survive".

[csziggy]

39. I like this video version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duOoqDu2H70

[The Magistrate]

28. Why Cheer Up When Properly Depressed, Sir?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvMy1xOh6cw

"Happiness can be cured. Contact me for details."

[Whisp]

29. Drum Trip by Rusted Root, and Marta's Song by Deep Forest - linkies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ohTLCabQiI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvg9MqXmdoA

[Amerigo Vespucci]

30. Something that blows out the aggression, like Lou Reed's "The Blue Mask."

If I'm pissed off, depressed, any of the lesser emotions, the only thing that turns me around musically is the hair of the dog (NO, not Nazareth)...

...Whatever black mood I'm in, I find music that conveys the same mood, only with a greater level of intensity. "Blue Mask" and the medley of "Some Kinda Love / Sister Ray" that Reed did with Robert Quine on the "Live In Italy" CD usually do the trick. Same for "Victim of Changes" by Judas Priest...when Halford lets out that final "VICTIM OF CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANGES" scream, he's yelling for me too.

:toast:

[mitchum]

41. Totally agree with you about "The Blue Mask"

Often Lou's anger seems more to actually be peevishness (nothing wrong with that; it's part of his genius),
but that song is the sound of beautiful rage. It cleans like fire. Transcendent.

The live work with Quine is also pretty damn good.

[Sugarcoated]

31. Middle to late 60's and early 70's AM radio stuff

[AtomicKitten]

32. Earth, Wind, and Fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XOY7lsBVpo

[TheCentepedeShoes]

33. WWII era Big Band

Reminds me that there was a time, not long before I was born, that folks had a lot more on their minds than the petty stuff that gets me down
I'm able to listen to the radio/cd player at work with headphones and playing the 3-cd set I have is like an instant pick me up

[Lindsey]

34. The Beatles - no question. n/t

[tango-tee]

35. ZZ Top.

It's also my "housecleaning music". Crank it up and get going.

[david13]

36. Chiquitita. But it comes too close to making me cry. dc

[kimi]

37. Isidora Bushkovski - belly dancer par excellence

"Habibbi Ya Eini" or "Cane Dance", or "Devdas Suite Pt. 1".

Always gets me moving and shaking and shimmying. You can't be too depressed if you're shimmying.

[S n o w b a l l]

38. Blues

Ironic as that might be.

[Rhiannon12866]

42. Music that you can't hear without smiling...

And that evokes happier times... :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_81l4DXlwM&feature=related

[Ozymanithrax]

43. Kitaro Silk Road

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoURE7kheKg

[old mark]

44. Almost any good blues based music does it, sometimes it takes somethuing a little harder though...

Like this-........Take it, Dee Dee...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1oLQ55IfPA


Ramones Live in London New years Eve, 1977...

You might want to save this one - they were HOT that night!!!


mark

I feel better already.....