Category: Jam Session
Not sure if this was already a topic or what, but what songs do you listen too when you're depressed? For me it's "My Imortal" from Evenescents or "Broken" by Seether and Amy Lee. What's your depressed song?
I have 2 albums I listen to when I am depressed. They are Melissa Etheridges Skin and How To Save A Life Life by The Fray.
The wall by pink floyd. the entire thing. Or, disconnected by fate's warning.
Circle of fear HIM
Snows in Hell Lordi
Rip out the Wings of a Butterfly HIM
Vampire Heart HIM.
Coma White Marilyn Manson.
Dissasociation Marilyn Manson
Missing by Evanescence
Kung wala ka by hale kind of a sad song but... if you went thrue it... well you'll understand. In Tagalog, it means "When your gone"
I listen to anything by Aled Jones, but especially, Count Your Blessings, San Damiano, John Rutter's Gaelic Blessing, You Raise Me Up, Bugaleor Gwenneth Gwyn Etc Etc. Aled's voice just tells me "let it all out Jen, you know you have to or you'll top yourself, what a waste that would be". I put one of Aled's albums on when we came back from visiting my Aunt and new and tiny baby cousin Robbie in hospital. Robbie was on his own in SCBU and my Aunt was all the way up the other end of the corridor on her own in a private side room. We had my photo taken with me holding (or trying to hold) Robbie's teeny tiny hand as he was out for the count in his crib while mum took a photo of me and the baby. I nearly scooped him up and took him back to his mum in her room. After all, he was breathing room air and all he had was an antibiotic drip in his arm, so why the hell was he still in SCBU 36 hours after his birth? I will never understand the way doctors, nurses and consultants think.
Anyway, I just had to think
"Aled's watching over him, he'll be all right" turn round, take hold of mum's arm and dreamwalk towards the security door, leaving Robbie all on his own again in that place while most of the family gathered in Auntie Lou's room down the corridor, gave her the gifts and flowers we'd brought along for both mother and baby, then mum and I went home, after buzzing Gran, Lou, Kezzie and Tegen, Robbie's older sisters in to SCBU. I barely made it home before the tears came. I just shot upstairs and it was straight on with the Aled CD, and magically, I calmed down, I didn't cry. I just switched my laptop on and came on The Zone to tell everyone on the parenting board about our visit and Robbie's second day of life. Actually, any classical music chills me out when I'm as down as you can get, not just Aled Jones.
Jen.
hmm, i don't have a particular song that i listen to when i'm depressed, but music generally calms me and makes me feel better about things. i guess it kind of depends on what kind of depressed. sometimes i listen to depressing music when i'm depressed and i cry and then i'm ok and sometimes i listen to oldies that i like that always makes me in a good mood. classical music does it for me too; or, if i don't have anything to listen to i sing.
yeah, that's like me... when ever I'm mad, I just listen to music
one that I here is blv of broken dreams by Green day
When i'm sad, i listen to those sad break up songs.
i don't have the time to list the huge number of songs i listen to. but they are mostly country and then some other stuff that i can sing out loud and it helps clear my head. when i'm pissed, i tend to lean more towards a few choice rock songs.
anything by a filipino band called "hale" if ur looking for songs to here then you found them when you listen to hale
evanescense tends to be my depressed song album, probably other stuff, but I can't think of it all right now.
my immortal: evenescence
broken: evenescence
welcome to my life: simple plan
perfect: simple plan
and hard core metal if i just want to tune everything out and be sad..
oh yeah,
scars: papa roach
hmm, that's all i can think of for now, but if i think of any more i'll post them...
oh wait, pain: three days grace
and i hate everything about you: three days grace
now that's really all for now
I agree 3 days grace as wel, although, they're more angry than sad
anything that's being played in a minor key, slow, and depressed-sounding
Evinesence album "Wishing you were somehow here again," The Phantom of the Opera, "Sleeps With Butterflies," Tori Amos, when I'm missing my bf, "Slipped Away," Avril Laveign, "Brown Boy," a song written by my bf about his childhood, "Broken," "When September Ends," Green day. I'll add to this when I think of more.
There's this song from lord of the dance, and it's all violins and it's all depressing-like. Oh yeah. "Only an ocean Away," Sarah Brightman, and a song called, "Sedric," from the 4th Harry Potter movie. That song is so damn sad, and so is that scene in the movie. O "Here Without You," 3 doors down, and "Hurt," by Johnny Cash.
I tend to listen to music that is either also sad, or has some meaning concerned with why i'm sad. for example, i'm likely to listen to songs that had meaning in a relationship, if i'm sad about the break up, or missing the person. lol
other than that, just sad story telling songs, stuff like bon jovi, springsteen and the like.
That song from lord of the Dance has a viola in it, but that's beside the point of this board.
I usually listen to Christian music when I get depressed. It reminds me to leave everything to God.
I deliberately do not listen to music when I'm down, because it only makes me feel worse. Music stirs emotions, and so if I'm already sad, some other diversion helps lift that. I used to listen to Ella Fitzgerald's "Like Someone in Love" album, it's beautiful, and soothing.
But Evanescence "Missing" *makes* me depressed, even if I wasn't before hearing it! I like it, but can't hear it too often. Same with Breakdown (the song) by Melissa Etheridge.
I agree that music always helps me feel better when I'm depressed. It's about relating the emotions you have at the time to the situation you're in, and it kind of makes you feel understood. Well, as for actual songs, anything by Staind, Cold, or Natalie Merchant (weird choice I know...Does anybody even remember who she was?) Or sometimes I listen to oldies like the Temptations and that kind of thing because the love songs are really powerful and it always brings a smile to my face because I'm thinking of my boyfriend.
Oh yes, I remember Natalie Merchant, but I never liked her, mainly because I can never understand what she's saying with her lazy singing style. (I'm not saying she is lazy, I just don't know any other way to describe what her voice sounds like, to me. She has interesting lyrics, though.)
I love Natily Merchant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JoeAnne, your right about the viola thing. I was kinda tired when I wrote that. And the song is called, "Lament." I'm happy that I finally know what it's called... Any Eric Whitacre piece can chill me out whenever I'm depressed. Whenever I'm in a weird mood, or I'm really really sad, I'll say, "Ok. I need Whitacre therapy." And I put on the Cloud burst album, and there I go.
FOr me, give me some rock, and that usualy works. It also works if I'm really angry, I'll just put on some demon hunter (one of the few christian heavy metal bands that I really like), or some stained, or evanescence, and especialy if i'm angry, Ill just pace back and forth listening to the music, and gradualy start to sing along with it.