# The healing power of music

Category: Jam Session

## Post 1 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Saturday, 30-Jul-2005 11:08:40

Do you have a particular band or song that has helped you cope with the worst of times..for me it would have to be Marilyn Manson Coma White from the Mechanical Animals Cd..the song is emotive, powerful, beautiful but also dispassionate and nihilistic .Coma White has helped me several times, and although the lyrics are about suicide and abandonment, it has twice helped me not to take the ultimate step

## Post 2 by season (the invisible soul) on Saturday, 30-Jul-2005 11:47:52

hands from juwel its my first choice. however, i'll listen to gosple music, or stuff by kevin kern when i needs healing.

## Post 3 by tara (the Zone BBS remains forever my home page) on Monday, 01-Aug-2005 19:12:48

Basically anything by Metallica or Deftones or incubus or Silverchair.

## Post 4 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Tuesday, 02-Aug-2005 10:06:53

Silverchair are they still kicking

## Post 5 by louiano (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Saturday, 06-Aug-2005 0:42:42

hmm, from bossanova to brazilian jazz helps me with depresion......

## Post 6 by PorkInCider (Wind assisted.) on Sunday, 07-Aug-2005 17:52:53

Music generally helps me heal. It really depends on the mood, sometimes I want something that can be so offensively loud and in your face like Metallica, and other times I want something more lyrical and story telling, to make me think in a different way, something maybe by springsteen or dylan or bon jovi.

## Post 7 by Raskolnikov (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Monday, 18-Sep-2006 19:44:17

The songs that help me through hard times are those of an Equadorian singer named Julio Jaramillo. In my opinion, his songs capture in a masterful stroke the themes he's singing about. His music was what I grew up with. He's the best!
Everything from dark romance to childlike love, from betrayal to friendship, from melancholy to nostalgia is what he sings about. And the guitar accompanying his voice just penetrates the soul deeper and deeper.

## Post 8 by lights_rage (I just keep on posting!) on Monday, 18-Sep-2006 23:54:57

depends if its depression stuff like shine down and linkin park and stuff help and anger metallica godsmack stuff like that country helps a lot too like i said it depends

## Post 9 by bisco_42 (I can't call it a day til I enter the zone BBS) on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2006 1:18:42

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. One of the most powerful and well-written albums both lyrically and musically that deals with this topic. It's basically a concept album centered around the themes of loss (more specifically death), moving on from said loss and thought that maybe that lost person or thing still exists in a different place or form.

## Post 10 by DancingAfterDark (I just keep on posting!) on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2006 2:21:53

Yay! Someone else who knows of Neutral Milk Hotel! Good stuff.
For me...The Spill Canvas and Breaking Benjamin. I'm sure I could be more specific, but I'm extremely tired.

## Post 11 by bisco_42 (I can't call it a day til I enter the zone BBS) on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2006 15:53:04

You into any of the other elephant 6 bands? Olivia Tremor Control, Apples in Stereo, Circulatory System, Of Montreal, etc.

## Post 12 by DancingAfterDark (I just keep on posting!) on Friday, 29-Sep-2006 0:44:02

I loooooooooove Of Montreal. And Apples in Stereo = decent.

## Post 13 by bisco_42 (I can't call it a day til I enter the zone BBS) on Friday, 29-Sep-2006 1:00:38

Of Montreal are a lot of fun live even though they don't play much older stuff which is kinda disappointing. Caught them last summer. Seeing Apples in Stereo in a couple months; looking forward to it. Check out the circulatory system album... Some very beautiful chill psychedelic rock. And Jeff Mangum from NMH makes a couple appearances on some tracks. Haha sorry to send this thread off topic.

## Post 14 by redgirl34 (Scottish) on Friday, 29-Sep-2006 6:23:35

I listen to Classical music. I find it relaxing.

## Post 15 by Perestroika (Her Swissness) on Sunday, 01-Oct-2006 18:59:48

I find renaissance and baroque music very relaxing and i always listen to it before sleep....my favourite would have to be pachelbels canon.
i love vocal things, there's just something about lots of harmony.

## Post 16 by ~*Dark_Light*~ (I just keep on posting!) on Friday, 09-Nov-2007 10:57:55

o.k. so it's over a year since last this Board was up and running.
Hope no one will be miffed if I respond, except I should like to add to the alreadied ongoing conversation that personally though many Artists/Musically I can appreciate with some alreadied mentioned..
At the present I am personally in tune in thoughts with H.I.M. {metal}
with the latest cd release that I know of being, VENUS DOOM ..deep tones, ..and before I forget Marilyn Manson with HEART SHAPED GLASSES, so many can be the prespective views..
Also THE WATERBOYS
..then too Country,
while not forgetting native American Indian, talk about, "The healing power of music," wow, totally like awesome
~*Thunderous MidNight*~

## Post 17 by Reyami (I've broken five thousand! any more awards going?) on Sunday, 11-Nov-2007 22:48:37

I listen to liquid Mind music. just go to www.chuckwild.com. It's alll synthesizers and keyboards. no singing, just slow music that doesn't really go anywhere, but the chord progressions are interesting. I listen to three CD's I have of this sort of music just before sleep. it helps me drift off faster and stay asleep longer, and eases any tension i may have. it's quite soothing.

## Post 18 by Reyami (I've broken five thousand! any more awards going?) on Sunday, 11-Nov-2007 22:51:08

and since I'm going in to the music therapy field, I'd like to find more, if anyone knows where I can get more stuff like this.

## Post 19 by bisco_42 (I can't call it a day til I enter the zone BBS) on Monday, 12-Nov-2007 8:50:43

Sounds like what you're describing is ambient music.
Check out Brian Eno. Or for something more recent, Stars of the Lid.
Aphex Twin did a little dabbling in ambient as well. The first disc of his Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2 album also sounds like what you may be looking for.

## Post 20 by bisco_42 (I can't call it a day til I enter the zone BBS) on Monday, 12-Nov-2007 8:52:06

Eluvium is another great fairly new ambient musician.

## Post 21 by Reyami (I've broken five thousand! any more awards going?) on Wednesday, 14-Nov-2007 13:13:11

Thank you. I'll keep these ideas in mind.

## Post 22 by Elenhiia (Feather'rr'rr'rr'rr'rr'rr'rr'rr'rr'rr for president!) on Monday, 23-Nov-2009 19:46:12

For rock and metal and things: Shinedown, Breaking Benjamin, Linkin Park, Evanescence, Within Temptation, Nightwish, 10 Years' album Division, 3 Doors Down's self-titled one, Skillet (Comatose and Awake in particular, their older stuff's not so good), Serj Tankian's album (most of it, especially the last track, the chords are haunting and eerie), Dream Theater, Crossfade's 2004 album (for less refined emotions) (newer Crossfade is such shit I have no words with which to express it), Three Days Grace (when I'm pissed)
For lots of other things varied (lol): James Blunt, Amy MacDonald's song Run, lots of Joni Mitchell, Josh Groban, Melissa Etheridge (only some of it, things like Precious Pain and In To The Dark), Nick Drake (he's God, not godlike, but God), this thing Rob gave me called Children of the Sun by Mike and Sally Oldfield (just soooooo gooooood, anyway...), Stephen Cope (very nice piano music, originally for meditation and yoga but it's just lovely all the time in my opinion), the E.T. soundtrack (it's just really nice and there are loads of little kid memories in that music), the Free Willy score (if you've seen the movie you know just how nice the music is), Lord of the Rings (well, some of it), a good bit of the Day After Tomorrow soundtrack (don't ask. lol), Celtic Woman, Clannad (a Celtic band that shifted to a more popular bent, combining traditional and modern music, very good stuff), Loreena McKennitt, Maire Brennan (the female vocalist of Clannad), Enya, Gary Stadler (really nice New Age artist; his vocalist sings a lot about fairies and other worlds), Paul Winter (something ancient my V.I. gave me), an absolutely musically stunning group called Secret Garden, and... I'm done.
For now. muhahahahaha. I shall return.

## Post 23 by GreenTurtle (Music is life. Love. Vitality.) on Monday, 23-Nov-2009 20:34:09

Sefj Tankian's album is epic! It definitely is haunting, but easy to relate to. Really a good direction he took there after leaving System of a Down.
Staind, Linkin park and Cold were the first rock bands I got into, back in a pretty dark stage of my life. That stuff literally saved me on several occasions, especially Staind, I have nothing but respect for them.

## Post 24 by Grace (I've now got the ggold prolific poster award! wahoo! well done to me!) on Wednesday, 25-Nov-2009 2:55:29

All Goodness!!
Has it been that lonesome a long time ago since
last I made post..
over 2 years in a passage of time
I'll make response as it were to GOBLIN
just in the event he happens to read this
while choosing perhaps Not to make a stop-by
{Love you by the way Babes}
Yes, Healing in Music have found
am finding...
Take for example
STILL like Marilyn Manson:Lunchbox
David Bowie and his A*W*E*S*O*M*E
voice, like totally sends a few
shivers up and down by spine.

## Post 25 by redgirl34 (Scottish) on Wednesday, 25-Nov-2009 16:27:52

My favourite artist at the moment is Aled Jones a Welsh Classical singer.

## Post 26 by Grace (I've now got the ggold prolific poster award! wahoo! well done to me!) on Thursday, 26-Nov-2009 15:46:03

Rather like to listen to Eminem {Detroit, hip-hop artist}