Boards of Canada.
For me it’s mostly a lot of 80’s post-punk and synth pop type of music (think Depeche Mode, The Cure, New Order, Bauhaus, etc.) I just associate that music with a time in my life when I was young and carefree. Feels good man.
New Order and Depeche Mode were pivotal in my development
I can’t understand what makes a man hate another man, help me understand! 🎶
The Blow has long been my go-to for this. Really wish they’d get back together and drop another album, but thats alright. What they’ve already made has shaped my life in countless ways as is, and all things, even my most favorite of them, must eventually end.
There’s also Magdalena Bay, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Kate Bush, Hakushi Hasegawa, Open Mike Eagle, and Modest Mouse too, depending on what sort of nourishment I’m needing. Honestly, though? This list could on for a long while. I love music and had to seriously redact a lot as is. Am I kicking myself for not mentioning Heavenly and the Long Blondes? Absolutely! But if I mentioned them, then I’d also have to add Plumtree, because obviously i would, but then where’s the room to fit Louie Zong and Silversun Pickups?
I think I might just need to take a time to have a very neurodivergent session of cataloging all the bands that have changed the way I think on some level. There goes the rest of my night ig
Edit: Joanna Newsom came on in the shuffle and I couldn’t help but remember this thread. Ys is one of the finest albums of its era, by far. And the same for Feist’s Monarch! Im going to listen to my better nature and stfu now lol
…Sorry [Gilly smirk]
The album MCMXC A.D. by Enigma is such a powerful album for me. It pulls me through some of my deepest emotional states and will often set me back on track.
I also regularly enjoy long sessions of Trance. Something about the way the genre is constantly evolving but never trying to surprise you in the traditional sense. It guides you comfortably from one movement to the next.
Stoner rock and doom metal, like Sleep and Electric Wizard. It’s cathartic to me for some reason. Sonic drugs for someone not into actual drugs.
Fantastic stuff, and it’s great sober. But I’m not gonna lie to ya - it’s really great with drugs.
the Mountain Goats and Ben Howard got me through some bad shit a decade ago
right now Sullivan King and Lacuna Coil are prepping me for something scary coming up.
Any of JS Bach’s works for organ. Toccata and Fugue in D minor is the most famous, but I mean the guy wrote like a million of them. Adagio and Fugue in C Major or Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor are a couple more examples that I find particularly nourishing. (I’ve never heard music described as nourishing before, but I like that. It’s a great way of putting it.)
I have BPD and so music can have a profound effect on my mood. I tend to match the mood of the song (the lyrics, tho, unless all instrumental) so anything positive feels good. Unfortunately, my tastes gravitate more toward dark, depressing shit. A lot of Grunge and similar sounding genres. I’ve more recently been only adding things to my big playlist when they are uplifting. The last few on there are songs from K-Pop Demon Hunters… 🫣
What do you think of “warm” stuff?
What do you listen to when youre mad or angry?
NIN, Mudvayne, Chevelle, RATM, Tool… Might get more specific if I am pissed at a specific thing that has a song that fits that I know of. Mad over a breakup? Might put on All-American Rejects. Capitalism? RATM, Muse, and even Arlo Guthrie.
When you’re angry, what general mood of music do you tend to gravitate to?
I feel like angry uptempo stuff is better for when you are not angry enough about shit. I’ve never sought angry stuff out to reinforce anger, like the anger to me has always seemed like a symptom of boundaries not being in place to prevent greater harms or annoyances
Absolutely NOT to discount anything here but thats my experience which has me curious about your position. Im interested in a general music mood theory but its tough stuff, everyone’s different and it seems challenging to universalize anything to any kind of global benefit or at least nominal effect
First instinct is to listen to something equally angry. I also sing along with everything, so it can help get some aggression out.
But if I am trying to calm down, I would throw on some Lo-Fi Girl stuff or the playlist I use for sleep.
Can i break the 4th wall here and ask an example of what makes you so angry? Totally none of my business but do you mind for educational and relational purposes here?
man, I’ve heard a lot of nice things about K-Pop Demon Hunters. but even when the early waves of K-Pop going global (think SNSD era. at least that’s my gateway) I was lukewarm on the genre, let alone the more contemporary ones now.
Metal music is the majority of what I’m listening to most of the time.
Progressive metal is my reset music. Something about a good prog track with crazy technical instrumentality just helps my brain calm down and focus. Between the Buried and Me was the band that got me hooked on prog metal and dirty vocals, and tends to be one of my most listened to artists most of the time.
Power metal is a great genre to work/vibe to. Sabaton was my first venture into the genre, but I’m more into bands like Amaranthe, Powerwolf, and Gloryhammer these days.
Romantic songs (or songs about love in general), whether it be R&B, disco, soul, ballads, salsa, soft rock and others, make me FEEL. I’m a very sensitive and verbal guy! 😁
I feel like so much romantic and popular music is quite borderline or unhealthy.
It’s not all I listen to but I still don’t see why you would say that, lol.
Why do Disney princess tales fuck up people’s marriages in terms of the expectations they set against whatbis actually realistic
There’s a big leap between ‘Disney princess tales’ and “you are the reason for my laughter and my sorrows, blow out the candle I will burn again tomorrow”, “in my life only you make me do for love what I would not do”, “every part of you has the ideal shape, and if you’re next to me it’s a complete coincidence of concave and convex” (literal translation of “O concavo e o convexo” by Roberto Carlos), “you can try to destroy anything you want, she only needs to open the span of her arms to rebuild everything” (“Je l’aime a mourir” by Francis Cabrel)… all of this makes total sense to anyone who has truly loved anyone in earnest, it’s not fantasy but mere lived experience expressed through poetry. Have you, or is this just a big case of scared ignorance/sour grapes? 👀
Steve ‘n’ Seagulls
Those wacky Finnish lads deliver!
Technical death metal. Fleshgod Apocalypse, The Faceless, Necrophagist, Origin, Sceptic Flesh.
Roots reggae. It’s good for the soul.
in rainbows by radiohead is my healing album.
For me, it’s eurobeat. But specifically, eurobeat while I’m driving my car. Ideally, doing something other than rolling down the interstate, merely holding my steering wheel straight for 20 minutes on my way to work.
It’s not exclusively eurobeat, but I use this playlist whenever I find the right road for wringing out my engine a little bit. Or if I realize I’m in a rush and I need to floor it. Sometimes both.
