Best music for catatonic state

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OK, so you just got dumped. Or on your first day of the job you'll be doing the rest of your life, you realize you're miserable. Or you just take a lot of drugs and you're on a nasty comedown. Or you're just in dire need of navel gazing. Whatever. You're not feeling depressed, but you know it's in the mail. Your body has just not registered it yet, but you know it's coming soon.

Now, you want to put on something that nurtures your current state of numbness. Not something that'll get you to depressed state faster, neither something to cheer you up because you *want* to wallow in it. Just something bland but not boring or devoid of personality. I'm stressing that it's not a state of depression, just you lying on your bed with the blankest expression on your face. What do you put on?

Personally, I loop Dismemberment Plan's "Back and Forth".

― alex in montreal, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Back and Forth" makes me happy. Perhaps "Music Has the Right to Children"? Also, "Daydream Nation" doesn't really cheer me up or depress me (or make me want to break things), it just swallows me up in its expansiveness.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not that it's bland, by any means, but the entirety of Scud Mountain Boys' _Massachusetts_ might be a good way to prolong the sweet stupor of numbness.

It's also a great record to listen to stoned. And it's even BETTER straight. Wowza.

― David Raposa, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pygmalion by Slowdive, Another Green World by Brian Eno, Chelsea Girl by Nico, Atol Scrap by Arovane, Whirlpool by Chapterhouse, any Pole record...

― Michael Taylor, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I quite like the new Manual album Until Tomorrow. Akin to early Autechre, and Boards of Canada. Good music to zone out to while on the subway.

― bnw, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Find this "bland" clause confusing esp. given "Back and Forth". But: any long Dylan song from "Bringing It All Back Home" thru "Blonde on Blonde." Mogwai, "Helps Both Ways". Labradford. Coltrane live in Japan. Massive Attack, "Protection". Nirvana. Well, fuck, a good portion of my records. A lot of them involve me lying on my bed with the blankest expression on my face. And not just the droney ones.

― Josh, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

South Pacific 'Constance' turned up to an ll.

― Jason, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't think this is the first time I've mentioned Tetsuo Inoue's "World Receiver".

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Josh: I mentioned "Back and Forth" because of the way the lyrics (esp. verses) are delivered, i.e. a fast-speaking way. Mostly, because the lyrics themselves remind me of looking back at a time in my life, especially the last verse.

I can picture being in a car at 3am, drunk and stoned outta my mind, parked outside a glitzy celebration where I just spent the past few hours, shirt unbuttoned, not knowing what lies ahead, what lied behind, not caring, knowing everything's gonna come crashing down tomorrow but my only concern is to stay awake long enough to go crashing home. And mustering enough energy to flash a half-grin before I slide away into the night.

― alex in montreal, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Windy & Carl "Antartica."

― Mark, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The "Storm Of Drones"/"Throne Of Drones"/"Swarm Of Drones" dark ambient collections. Comfortably numbing.

― X. Y. Zedd, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well then I approve, Alex. :)

― Josh, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MASONNA: Ejaculation Generater

― Kodanshi, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Godspeed You Black Emperor! album with the funny squiggles for a title. Plus 'Maxinquaye'.

― Johnathan, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Plus Nick Drake for a pleasant catatonic state. Catatonic states are GRATE!

― Johnathan, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pretty much anything by Piano Magic. I had "Music For Wasps" on loop most of today ...

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nine Inch Nails makes me mellower.
Phillip Glass makes me truly catatonic.
Velvet Underground always does the job. What job? Any job. Particularly "Sister Ray".

― Lyra, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

More or less anything on G-Stone.

― mdieter, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the flaming lips'"suddenly everything has changed" and "feeling yourself disintegrate" back to back.

― ernest, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Johnny Cash- Live at Folsom Prison

― anthony, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Good choice Ernest, I was actually gonna put down "What is the Light" and "The Observer" back-to-back.

― alex in montreal, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New Order - Murder

it's not bland but for me it's good for fostering the state you describe.

― Nick, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anything by Red House Painters, Joy Division or Black Heart Procession.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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