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Great, Positive, Life-Affirming Mix

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I’ve got a friend who is going through a rough patch with his marriage imploding. We spent last Friday consuming mass quantities of alcohol and listening to music trying to find something to lift his spirits.I know the feeling have gone through major, invasive surgery not too long ago. For me Joey Ramone’s “Don’t Worry About Me” did the trick while I spent 5 days in the hospital (of course, it may have been the morphine drip). The title track cut a little too close to home and “What A Wonderful World” reduced me to a maudlin mess more than once but, all in all, it give me the lift I needed.Here’s the question: what band, cd or cut(s) got you through a rough time. What made a difference for you? Who knows, maybe there is a great, positive, life-affirming mix waiting to be made.
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  1. chucky
    chucky says With just your friend in mind here, Superbitch by Authority Zero comes to mind. Oh! How about I Used to Love Her (But I Had to Kill Her), I prefer Voodo Glow Skulls cover rather than GnR.
    Permalink posted 12/14/2006
  2. blueone51
    blueone51 says Ash, you have no idea how appropriate your suggestions are (in the way back, I dated his wife before he met her).
    Permalink posted 12/14/2006
  3. chucky
    chucky says Haha. Then you guys should definitely be able to commiserate.
    Permalink posted 12/14/2006
  4. kristiana
    kristiana says The Temptations. Um. Skip My Girl, maybe.
    Permalink posted 12/14/2006
  5. blueone51
    blueone51 says As a Southside of Chicago boy, anything Motown is always good. My Girl works for me if not for my buddy.
    Permalink posted 12/14/2006
  6. Iren
    Iren says I may be a broken record when it comes to music that gets me though the down times... but... Hybrid Moments by The Misfits Search and Destroy by Iggy and the Stooges Sonic Reducer by The Deadboys Time Forgot You by Legal Weapon I 94 By Radio Birdman (along with anything off of their 70's records) Final Kick by The Tallboys Ponch and Lefty by WIllie Nelson and Merle Haggard War or Hands of Time by Masters Apprentices Supernaut by Black Sabbath Stick it out by The Groovie Ghoulies each an every song has it's promise that things will get better in someway, or reflecting on where you have been and not to give up...
    Permalink posted 12/14/2006
  7. blueone51
    blueone51 says Iren: Great choices - I haven't listed to Radio Birdman in what seems like a century or two. I've got track them down.
    Permalink posted 12/14/2006
  8. extraordinarypoems
    extraordinarypoems says Jeremy Camp, "Stay" (the whole CD), but particularly "I Still Believe." It helps me to find my faith again, every time. And I'm what I call a recovering Southern Baptist. :>) There have been times when nothing would ease the pain but turning back to the mysteries of existence and trusting in the God of many names to get me through. Scattered words and empty thoughts Seem to pour from my heart I've never felt so torn before Seems i dont know where to start But its now i feel your grace fall like rain From every fingertip washing away my pain I still believe in your faithfulness I still believe in your truth I still believe in your holy word Even when I dont see I still believe Though the questions still fog up my mind With promises i still seem to bear Even when answers slowly unwind It's my heart I see you prepare But its now that I feel your grace fall like rain From every fingertip washing away my pain The only place I can go is into your arms Where I throw to you my feeble prayers in brokeness I can see that this is your will for me Help me to know you are near Scattered words and empty thoughts Seem to pour from my heart I've never felt so torn before Seems i dont know where to start But its now i feel your grace fall like rain From every fingertip washing away my pain I still believe in your faithfulness I still believe in your truth I still believe in your holy word Even when I dont see I still believe Though the questions still fog up my mind With promises i still seem to bear Even when answers slowly unwind It's my heart I see you prepare But its now that I feel your grace fall like rain From every fingertip washing away my pain The only place I can go is into your arms Where I throw to you my feeble prayers in brokeness I can see that this is your will for me Help me to know you are near Scattered words and empty thoughts Seem to pour from my heart I've never felt so torn before Seems i dont know where to start But its now i feel your grace fall like rain From every fingertip washing away my pain I still believe in your faithfulness I still believe in your truth I still believe in your holy word Even when I dont see I still believe Though the questions still fog up my mind With promises i still seem to bear Even when answers slowly unwind It's my heart I see you prepare But its now that I feel your grace fall like rain From every fingertip washing away my pain The only place I can go is into your arms Where I throw to you my feeble prayers in brokeness I can see that this is your will for me Help me to know you are near
    Permalink posted 12/15/2006
  9. extraordinarypoems
    extraordinarypoems says Whoops -- I accidentally posted those lyrics like fourteen times. Sorry.
    Permalink posted 12/15/2006
  10. ivylander
    ivylander says This is a hard one to answer, because you're touching upon the most subjective of topics. When you asked the question, the first answer that came to mind was "Me" by Sandie Shaw. I found it in the bargain racks at the Woolworth's in my little downtown when I was 15, wandering around a few days after my father died (dead parent = week off school). It cost $1.99. I took it home and it was all I played for a week. At the end of that week I filed it away and never played it again. It would still be hard to explain why it was the right music for that moment. It was, in fact, a fairly bad album. Sandie was trying to make the transition from dolly bird to all-around entertainer, and it wasn't working so well. The songs were pallid echoes of different styles (the jazzy uptempo number, the samba number, the classic torch song) and her vocals were...well, if you know what Sandie Shaw sounds like, you can imagine. She's no Celia Cruz. But she did have a certain breathy sensuality that worked for a 15-year--old boy (plus a cover with an oversized shot of her face giving you an unnervingly direct sexual appraisal). And I felt for that week, while the adults all sleepwalked around in their own individual grief fogs, that this music belonged only to me, spoke only to me. I felt connected to another person at a time when every relationship and every certainty I'd ever had was spinning loose. That may be why I never played it again after that week, because the grief was subsiding and I was ready for the world of real human relationship again. So, I guess my takeaway from all this is that you have to discover the music of consolation for yourself. You have to feel it belongs to you. Hope this response doesn't make me a post killer. It's just a personal take.
    Permalink posted 12/15/2006
  11. thill
    thill says Can't Hardly Wait by the Replacements always makes me happy. (I love that side 1 of both the tape and the record of Pleased To Meet Me ends with The Ledge, a song about suicide, and side 2 ends with Can't Hardly Wait, the cheeriest damn Replacements sang ever.) Stevie Wonder: Sir Duke. Talking Heads: Road To Nowhere, Pulled Me Up. Badly Drawn Boy: Silent Sigh. Actually the whole About A Boy soundtrack. Ben Lee: Awake is The New Sleep. Songs off it: Whatever It Is and We're All In This Together. Joe Jackson: You Can't Get What You Want (Until You Know What You Want) And good and rocking bitterness, Joy by Lucinda Williams.
    Permalink posted 12/15/2006
  12. hilarymarsh
    hilarymarsh says I think your friend might need messages that give him strength: "Search for the Hero" by M People is a really healthy, helpful message: search for the hero inside yourself. Etta James's "Pushover" "A Little Respect" by Erasure And when he needs a good cry, there's also an old folky song called "Ain't Life a Brook" that describes how you live on after a relationship. "Not Your Year" by the Weepies
    Permalink posted 12/15/2006
  13. Cody B
    Cody B says Some of the most melancholy moments in my life have been accompanied by Meat Puppets-Up on the Sun..Gets the brain working, diverts, but for me is familiar, ie something to hold onto. It is all about imagination.
    Permalink posted 12/15/2006
  14. Cody B
    Cody B says And after the meat puppets it is all soul all the time Al Green, Marvin Gaye, and thousnds of other great songs And after that is the blues But in the end, whatever your favorite music is, is what you need to get through. It is so hard to connect with something new, at least with me. If I control one thing in my life it is the music, everything else is what's messed up
    Permalink posted 12/15/2006

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