Songs that leave you physically drained

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I keep listening to "When I Was Young" (Julie Driscoll/Trinity) and Its so overwhelming I feel like I am recovering from a severe beating. I can never play another song after it because I have to...well...rest afterwards. What songs leave you drained?

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"poptones"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

slint - good morning captain
massive attack - angel
butthole surfers - 22 going on 23
mercury rev - very sleepy rivers

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

According to rumor, "Good Morning, Captain" left Brian McMahon physically drained during the making of it, as well.

Personally, the only thing I can think of is the entirety of Metal Machine Music, the only thing I own which seems longer when listening to it than it actually is.

― hstencil, Monday, 21 April 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

speedy j-pannik
gorecki-third syphony,part one
dirty three-first song off whatever you love,you are

i started a similarly themed thread today,about albums that are so engrossing you rarely listen to them,great and all as they are,and there were similarly few responses...
come on people!sort it out!

― robin (robin), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Poptones is exhausting! i haven't dared a listen in over a decade for fear of a permanent mood alteration

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I can sure feel it my shoulders, forearms and knees after "Purple Rain's" 8:45 of posturing and air guitar aerobics. And I even though I just pantomime the singing and screeching, my voice is shot afterwords nonetheless.

― avery_schreib, Monday, 21 April 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

The last song on "In an Aeroplane Over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel. The sound of the guitar thudding against the ground is... It's intense. Though it may also have something to do with the cumulative effect of the album.

― Ess, Monday, 21 April 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Big Black's Atomizer used to do this to me, but I listened to it not so long ago and found it...corny. It's strange to have once been terrified by "Kerosene;" now I just think, "That guy's trying way too hard to be scary."

Gang of Four's "Ether" still exhausts me, though. And both NMH albums.

― mike a (mike a), Monday, 21 April 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't believe nobody brought up "frankie teardrop" by suicide yet. well, i just did, so that's that.

― Andrew Calaman (Andrew Calaman), Monday, 21 April 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

the live version of 'dazed and confused' on the song remains the same

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Chemical Brothers 'The Private Psychedelic Reel'

its too fucking long for the repetition and the three times i've seen them live i've been standing there getting kinda bored by the 7th minute

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 21 April 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Not so much bored but more wasted from sheer emotional overload was what I was aiming for.

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Monday, 21 April 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

You Light Up My Life

― William R Henderson (Cabin Essence), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Barry Ryan's "Eloise", every time, but that never actually affects my behaviour. the other weekend "We Can't Lose" by Shells & Styles P reduced me to a gibbering wreck incapable of saying anything other than "I saw them ... blood running down their faces ... I SAW THEM". and I'm not proud of that. there was a reason for it, though.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Pretty On the Inside -- Hole

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Walk On By by Isaac, all 12 MINUTES of it. Love it love it love it. I end up rolling around on the floor panting.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Lightning Bolt do this to me sometimes.

Also anything like Altern8 or "Energy Flash"!!!!!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Cecil Taylor: Silent Tongues. My cat also sits mesmerized along with me. I don't really like jazz too much, but this floors me.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"How Many More Times?" by Zeppelin, "Anthrax" by Gang of Four, "Kennedy" by the Wedding Present, "Whole Lotta Rosie" by AC/DC.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"Three Days" by Jane's Addiction.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Based admittedly on last night's Breeders show, I was reminded how readily both "Cannonball" and "Gigantic" can do just that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Gigantic can make me teary

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Not so much bored but more wasted from sheer emotional overload was what I was aiming for

well i did get that from the Chemical Brothers live experience as well

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Soooo many Fishbone songs..."Housework", "Bonin In the Boneyard", "Ma and Pa", "Sunless Saturday", "Everyday Sunshine", "In the Heat of Anger", "Karma Tsunami", "Kingpin", "Party at Ground Zero", the Meter Maid jams, "Black Flowers", "Alcoholic", "In the Cube", "Down Boy", "Drunk Schizo", and ESPECIALLY "Pressure", to name just a few.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, in the non-Fishbone division:

Radiohead's "Electioneering"
Ween's "Pumpin 4 the Man" (followed by serene-as-fuck "Sarah" = PERFECT)
System of a Down's "Psycho", "Needles", "Sugar", "P.L.U.C.K."
Bjork's "I Miss You"
Gift of Gab/Cut Chemist "Alphabet Aerobics", "Chemical Calisthenics"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

The Beatles "A Day In the Life" (I love how my muscles relax when its over)
Mr. Bungle's "Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz", "Ars Moriendi"
Beck's "Motherfucker", "Diamond Bullocks" (Mutations hidden track)
Ol' Dirty Bastard's "I Can't Wait"
The Roots/Jill Scott's "You Got Me" (live version)
Talking Heads' "The Great Curve"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, last one: Sigur Ros' "Hjartad Hamast".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

15-60-75: Jimmy Bell
The Fall: Tempo House

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry to go off-topic but nickalicious, you reminded me that I used to own a Fishbone album - it's the "Monkey With A Brain..." one or whatever. I think I quite liked it once. And to link fabulously to the topic, that song that goes "my mom is a (x), my dad is a (x), etc." over and over again is pretty exhausting.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Almost anything out of "soundtracks for the blind" by Swans.

― rexJr., Wednesday, 23 April 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Nordic, that's "Drunk Schizo", that's one of the ones I mentioned. That was always one of my favorite of their albums; although it's also one of the most all-over-the-place, and cuz of that, one of the hardest to really dig yr teeth into.

Some other physically draining Fishbone songs: "The Warmth of Your Breath", "Monkey Dick", "It's a Wonderful World (We Gonna Have a Good Life)", "Lyin' Ass Bitch", and "Ugly".

But, of all their songs, "Pressure" from Reality of My Surroundings is the one that seriously throws ya down, and is a great representation of one of my favorite of their hybridizations: that of punk rock and gospel. I listened to it ripped drunk the other night and just fell down when it was over.

< /FishboneFreakRant>

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Lots of fushitsusha's dbl live.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

A lot of The Sound's Jeopardy, at the moment.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

red house painters - medicine bottle

leaves me feeling as though i just came home from a funeral

― Michael Dubsky, Tuesday, 10 June 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Converge - Jane Doe

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Serart "Devil's Wedding"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Uhm.
No?

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

It leaves me physically drained.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

(Arto's voice is my nu-favorite thing evah!)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Last Exit, "Discharge"
Vitalic, "La Rock"

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

DK's "Fresh Fruit"

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

and Band of Susans in general

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"let the music play" by shannon, very intense record for me, i just get really into it.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

nickalicious: my post was a reply to the thread in general, not your post, heh.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

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