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Depeche Mode, Oingo Boingo & Pet Shop Boys Angry: Metallica, AC/DC & Def Leppard, or Chamber Music (Most Notably Thundering Classics) Happy: Anything Lonely: Same as depressed, or love songs that mean something to both eri and I. I am sure there is more, but this is what I can come up with on the top of my head |
i take issue with your "punk" (new wave is more appropriate) section on your mp3 page. that aside... i get really really uncomfortable about this....emotional tooling by media. so....i try and avoid it all together. especially with mainstream songs. i feel like im being poked and prodded by some media dickhead and well, that just bothers the fuck outta me. |
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Ideally: I like to listen to Neko Case or the Stooges when I clean. Jeff Buckley when I drive distances. Amon Tobin or Goldie when I drive in the city at night. The Dirty Three and Rachel's when I write. Bjork's "Homogenic" when I'm going to or from church. Ravel or Tom Waits when I work. (I'm listening to Nick Cave now.) When I read Kate Chopin's "The Awakening," I had one of Moby's songs off of "Animal Rights" on repeat the whole time. (It's a short book, and it's a long song.) I find instrumental Moby to be good background music when reading. The Cure's "Disintegration" when painting. (NOT because of its mood, but because it reminds me of my childhood -- I bought it when I was 10 or 11.) Ella Fitzgerald when cooking. |
Richard Shindell's Courier is good when I want to relax, as is Deb Talan's Something Burning. Cooking--Mingus, Oscar Peterson Driving--Johnny Cash Live at San Quentin. Driving is tricky--what I like to drive to, M often finds too grating. When I'm fresh and rested, I usually compromise. When I'm tired, I don't, and sometimes get snappy. |
When I am really depressed I tend to choose one song and listen to it over and over for hours. "Let Down" by Radiohead is one such song. When I need music to sleep, Barber's adagio, Nick Drake, Morphine. When I cook or clean I listen to music that I can't when I'm working or trying to sleep like Frank Zappa When I worked in an office I listened to a lot of Charles Mingus, Count Basie and Joan Armatrading Ali Farka Toure, the Mermen, the Red Hot Chili Peppers when I miss someone. And in keeping with the transformation that I am making from being a non-crying type to a crying type, I discovered a song by Danu that made me weep like a baby...I was driving and could not, for the life of me, hold back tears. |
A few months ago I went through a phase in which it was all Radiohead all the time. "Bulletproof" and "How to Disappear Completely" are my depression-soundtrack songs of choice. Morphine's "Candy" and a few songs off "The Night" make me cry when I think of them in relation to poor Mark Sandman. I kick myself because I had a chance to see them live at one of their last US performances, and I left the show before they came on stage. Stupid stupid stupid. |
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Gloomy neo-classical is the shit. I heard some Black Heart Procession the other day and fell in love. I've been picking up on Tori Amos and thirsting for more modern piano stuff. Kittie is good for anger. Spit is good, I don't like Oracle as well but it's so much harder and screamy and though it's good in its own right I can't take it. Fernando is good for lethargic gray days, Len and Elwood for sunshine. Hard/Goth rock just makes me want to dance. I can imagine ballets and choreographed roller skate routines to Orgy and Rob Zombie. |
So they are very middle of the road - I like them. |
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