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Do you have one musical artist who you always listen to when you're sad or feeling troubled - one whose music always speaks to you and seems comforting?

If so, who is it?

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Modest Mouse

I keep hearing about them, lately - I don't think I've ever heard anything by them, at least not while being aware of it. I'll have to look them up.

The best Cds are The moon & antartica & Good news for people who like bad news

Indigo Girls.

They're good music for troubled moods, definitely.

Used to be the Indigo Girls, and still is, to an extent. For the last couple of years though, I've found myself listening to Alex Parks.

Alex Parks... I'll have to look him (her?) up. I don't think I've heard of him before. I like what I've heard of the Indigo Girls, though.

Sarah for me too, or sometimes Loreena McKennit, or the Celtic Harp CD. Feeling sad.....what's up?
Oh, and did you ever finally hear on your grade?

Eh, just wasn't in the greatest mood earlier. I'm better now.

Nope, not yet - I emailed, though, and Professor Shenk said she had some trouble getting the grades in on time, but that they should be up today or tomorrow.

There's a Smashing Pumpkins CD, it's one of the singles, mostly acoustic. You feeling ok?

I'm sure I've heard the Smashing Pumpkins before, but I can never call them to mind when people talk about them. I'll have to fix that, someday.

Yeah, I was just in kind of a blah mood. I'm feeling better now.

I prefer Warren Zevon. Early stuff if I want to be cheered up, His last CD, "The Wind" if I want to stay sad a while.

...if I want to stay sad a while.

I get you on that. Sometimes it's nice to sort of... absorb whatever mood you happen to be in.

Beethoven if I'm in a really black mood. Vivaldi if it's just sad. And Tool's Lateralus album is something I fall back on often, but it's not so much comforting as something to relate to.

All good choices. Tool is definitely something to listen to only if you're in the mood to identify with depressing and morbid stuff.

Music tends to accentuate my moods, so no, I don't have a "depressed" CD. However, if I need to be energized, Bruce Hornsby's "The Way It Is" gets me going every time. Ditto the last movement of Beethoven's 7th symphony.

I think the accentuation is what I'm going for a lot of the time - it's like I have to get fully into the mood before I can start getting out of it.

Feeling down and I wanna stay down?
screamin' jay hawkins
george thoroughgood

Feeling down and I wanna get up?
die toten hosen
lounge lizards

That's a good distinction between the two kinds of "feeling down."

Pink Floyd. Which has always boggled Kari, because Pink Floyd is, on the whole, depressing and morbid. But nothing cheers me up quicker, except maybe Jimmy Buffet. And sometimes, if I want something with more of a beat, I'll stick in Emmy Lou Harris or Richard O'brian.

I have the most fucked up taste in music.

Anyway, I hope you're feeling better. *hugs*

I'm with you in that normally, if I'm in a bad mood, I want to listen to something that has a "bad mood" sort of quality to it. Whatever mood I'm in, I listen to music that matches it, for the most part.

Yeah, feeling better, just kind of stressed about various things.

Funny how that works.

*snugs* I'm on AIM. Oh, and Sibyll doesn't have Gildy friended, so he can't comment on her post. :(

Oh, no! I thought I used the friend-all button for her after the disaster with Alacrity... I'll fix that as soon as Mozilla quits claiming that Greatestjournal doesn't exist.

Gildy's friended, now. Methos is being a bastard about all the stuff I've been putting on him (I think I need to buy some new RAM), but I might try getting on AIM express. Ugh... I have to go looking for applications soon........ eeeeeewwwwwwwww.

And he's pounced. He's always looking for new victims...er, customers. ;)

If he can do anything with her, she'll be thrilled. *Pats her* Poor dear is at least vaguely aware that she doesn't quite look her best.

Now AIM express is being a bitch because of Foxfire's pop-up blocker... blargh. I'll have to figure that out later, I need to get dressed.

He'll do what he can. He plans on going after all the staff, now. A promotional sort of thing.

Gahm stupid AIM express. :/

Sarah McLachlan, specifically "hold on" or "Full of Grace" over and over.

Sarah's my choice a lot of times, too. The song I choose really ends up depending on exactly what the situation is - last night I had to go through three CDs because I'd forgotten where "Mary" was and I felt suddenly like I needed to hear it again.

When feeling down intellectually - Vivaldi, if it's seasonal - Bowie, if emotional - Placebo... Err, are these distinctions making sense?

Yeah, that makes perfect sense. I'd never really thought of being down on an intellectual level, before, but I think I get what you mean, and I agree that Vivaldi would be very good for that.

Guy Clark, duh.

Of course!

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