[distressed_romeo]

What are everyone's favourite songs to listen to when you feel down?
Here are mine (a few anyway)...

Are You Lonely: All About Eve
Now and Then: Blackmore's Night
Who Decides?: Nevermore
Amelia: Joni Mitchell
Road: Nick Drake (actually anything by him)
The whole of the Edward Scissorhands soundtrack
My Immortal: Evanesance (I know they're commercial and un-true, but it's a great song!)

[Ancestor]

Black Sheep of the Family by Rainbow

Evil Woman by ELO

Just Say No to Love by Steele and Iommi

Dig Up Her Bones by The Misfits


There's a ton more.

[Ken]

In the Arms of the Angel - Sarah McLaughlin

[7 Dying Trees]

Katatonia - Discouraged Ones and various other albums. All killer stuff!

My Dying Bride - A few tracks here and there, currently off the dreadfull hours

Anathema - Alternative 4 (track 6 in particular)

Type O Negative - Suspended in Dusk + White Slavery (it reminds me of a miserable period) and a few others.

A few Johnny Cash songs

a bunch more on top of this, but those are the main bands really
. Any case it has to be miserable bleak music, and sometimes what I have isn't bleak enough (break out the "oh you poor poor goth" violins boys!)

[Makelele]

Pain of Salvation - This Heart of Mine & Second Love
Opeth - Isolation Years
Anathema - Don't Look to Far

[bostjan]

Hmm, there are too many to list all. Depends on why I'm sad.

Girl trouble: Since I've Been Lovin' You - Led Zeppelin
Sad but pissed: Lament of a Mortal Soul - Arch Enemy

Awakenings - Symphony X
Shades of Grey - Twist of Fate
or
Tibia - Paul Erlich

[anarchistwar]

intresting thread,

glycerine, Bush
Today, Samshing Pumpkins

[Roland777]

Sad, but pissed? Static-X - Anything but this

Otherwise,

Steve Vai - For the love of God
Jamiroquai - Manifest destiny
Fun Lovin' Criminals - There was a time
Audioslave - Shadow on the sun
Squarepusher - Tundra 4

[Vince]

Originally Posted by distressed_romeo

What are everyone's favourite songs to listen to when you feel down?

Joe Satriani's Flying in a Blue Dream album
Metallica's ...and justice for all album
Type O's October Rust
Paradise Lost's Draconian Times
Savatage's Dead Winter Dead
Eric Johnson (his album with the angel on the cover is great meditation music)
Some of my own music
etc.

Sometimes the best thing to do is pick up the guitar and write something. Creating music from emotional stress can be very cathartic, and usually winds up being the best music.

[Drew]

Originally Posted by Ken Burtch

In the Arms of the Angel - Sarah McLaughlin

That entire album is awesome, and great "feeling down" sort of music.

Originally Posted by desertdweller

Sometimes the best thing to do is pick up the guitar and write something. Creating music from emotional stress can be very cathartic, and usually winds up being the best music.

Amen... There are days where I think my guitar is the only thing that's kept me alive, lol.


A few personal favorites:

"Collapse the Light Into Earth" - Porcupine Tree
"Alien" - Bush
"Engines of Creation" - Joe Satriani (more for the associations, though)
"Cello Song" - Nick Drake
"In My Time of Need," Opeth
"Hurt" - Johnny Cash
"Hold On" - Tom Waits
"Comfortably Numb" - Pink Floyd

I'll think of a few more, but that's a starter... the first two in particular are so sad they almost hurt to listen to when you're feeling good:

"I won't try and change your mind, I won't heal given time, I won't feel better in the cold light of day, but I won't stop you if you wanted to stay..."

"Satallite comes and goes, we give each other all that we know, in silence we still talk, by the light of the stereo wall..."