I’m listening to Jacques Brel right now. What else y’all got for me? All genres and languages welcome.
Little girl blue, the version of Janis Joplin. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yYHJ_A8qnXw
Right Next To The Right One by Tim Christensen. It’s a nice mellow song
Thanks, I really liked that one. I don’t know why but it kind of gave me Neil Young vibes. Really pretty song.
I don’t , it’ll just make me cry harder and longer and that’s exhausting
My go to when I’m suicidal is the Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails. It’s the perfect album when I need to feel okay with not being okay. Also gives my depression a name and a face that I can insult and yell at when my brain is being mean to me.
I love NIN, I have the album on CD. Pretty Hate Machine is still one of my all-time favorites. Probably a good time to listen to it again.
EDEN - vertigo (album)
I reserve some wordless music for when my sadness gets critical. That way, they always sound bittersweet without me listening them to death.
- Lourié’s 5 Préludes Fragiles. Makes me feel aware of how easy I am to break at the moment, but also how pretty survivalism through fragility can be.
- Ravel’s Pavane for a Dead Princess. It’s not about a dead princess, just one in the past, but it makes me feel like I’m that princess, rich and sad and stepping around in a bright, cream-beige ballroom. Instead of just solely sad.
- Debussy’s Images. II. Hommage à Rameau. A quiet plaintiveness with occasionally rising energy helps me tend closer to neutrality.
- Stanchinsky’s Prelude in the Lydian Mode. As the n-tuplets get desperate, I get desperate to fix everything. But then the curses stop and we return to a pretty but occasionally sickly quiet. The nonsenses are pinpricks in its floral thoughts.
- Glinka/Balakirev’s The Lark. Reminds me that I’m fluttering, not just floundering.
In any order, but I usually start with the Fragile Preludes (especially the middle few of the set). Lyrical songs are usually for higher energy/mood to me
Anything acoustic by Chris Cornell.
I really like Soundgarden. I haven’t listened to his solo material before. It’s probably a good time to start. I remember when he passed, It’s still hard to believe he’s gone.
Shower in the dark day, clean sparks diving down
Cool in the waterways, where the baptized drown…Audioslave is also great, though not acoustic
The National and Bon Iver should be on this list.
Type O Negative, doom and gloom is my cup of tea even when I’m not sad lol.
She’s in love with herself…
She likes the dark…
When I’m feeling what I can only describe as ‘general despair at the state of things’ (weltschmerz?) I have to admit that Babylon Zoo’s Spaceman does a great job in vocalising what I feel.
Oh, the tearjerkers:
Emmylou Harris - Boulder to Birmingham and Red Dirt Girl
Lucinda Williams - Sweet Old World
So good, so sad, so cathartic.
Eyedea especially the song Even shadows have shadows
To tune out and reset my mental and emotional state: Most anything by Paleowolf
To restore hope and interest in seeking good things from life:
- Rainbow Connection by Kermit the Frog
- Glorious Dawn by Melodysheep
- Nightswimming by R.E.M. (This one can be risky though, sometimes it makes me feel even more nostalgia-sad.)
The goofy answer: https://alvinisemo.ytmnd.com/
Smog - The Well
or some Brad Sucks
mt. Marcy
