Idk why lol, sad music ironically makes me feel better. It’s kinda like crying… lets out the endorphins.
Yes. Blues exists for pretty much that reason.
I fucking love the blues. Grew up in austin Texas with it. I often run into a barriers getting people to listen to it out in California. Like some people might need some modernization of it. For that, check out Bad Luck City - RL Burnside
Man, I’m always up for some Burnside. Blues is remarkable for its ability to draw together diverse people. There was this small blues bar in Copenhagen called Mojo. Tiny place - could seat maybe twenty, max capacity perhaps twice that. Always packed. Live gigs every evening of the week, something like five dollars admission at the door - God only know how they managed to pull that off. Some of the best live music I’ve experienced and in good company ranging all the way from teenagers to people in their eighties, all having a good time together.
Edit: And while we’re on the topic of modernized Burnside: Someday Baby (feat. Lyrics Born)
I dig it!
Every once in a while I need a good cry session just to get it out of my system and feel better. I have a playlist titled “Cry Baby”.
After I wash my face, I’ll listen to some dance and techno while I have my frozen gel mask over my swollen eyes.
Like most people, music moves me…
Sometimes. There are moments while doing so that I feel heard or related to. Other times, it’s just to let it out.
For me it’s always more on the sad side. When I’m down, and I start to listen to my kind of sad music, it mostly starts to go down the real bad spirale, which kinda means… well, selfharm.
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I tried doing that when my first girlfriend broke up with me back in the day and it had mixed results… It felt a tad performative and it kinda got me out of it, lol. But my wife does it! I guess it’s always better to process the emotion and music helps?
I think the word you’re looking for is ‘commiserating’?
Well, “misery still delights to trace its semblance in another’s case.”
Sometimes I am sad but I don’t really feel sad, or feel sad enough… Music helps me feel the feelings I already have, but have a hard time feeling. Some of those feelings are sad and the sad ones are just as important to feel. I guess what I’m describing is catharsis.
Yes, I tend to roll that way. Then again, when you’re a depressed, suicidal priest, it can also work the other way…
There’s one song that immediately makes me cry with the first lyric. I save it for just that occasion, when I know I need to get it out. It helps so much.
Neil Diamond agrees
Beware sad media when you’re depressed, it will worsen your depression. Instead, watch your ‘comfort movies’ and cheesy romcoms
This one will damn near make me weep regardless of how happy I might be at the time
There is, in certain living souls, a loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine. And know by this that in Immensity there’s one lonelier than you.
- Thou, Inconsolable album description
I’ve had the privilege, or curse, however you wanna look at it, to randomly listen to and organize around 26,000 or so songs as best as I could. I managed to organize like 650 complete albums, and that was only like a 20% dent in the entire collection.
I’ve become burned out on everyday music, I like obscure crazy music anymore. Welcome to the Internet…
you ever heard of the KLF?
No, sorry I haven’t…?
