when you feel like complete sh*t, what album/song comes to your rescue...

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...to either make you feel better, or assist you in feeling worse?

My picks:
Elvis Costello -- Imperial Bedroom
Blur -- "This is a Low"

― devon (popmatters devon), Thursday, 18 March 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Mogwai - CODY

If I actually want a good cry, I'll stick on The For Carnation and skip to Moonbeams.

― damian_nz (damian_nz), Thursday, 18 March 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Sun Ra's Out There a Minute usually makes me feel better.

(Why would I ever feel like sh*t though when my job turns me into a fucking robot?)

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 18 March 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

to feel better: Exile on Main Street
to feel worse: Palace's Days in the Wake

― cws (cws), Thursday, 18 March 2004 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

LIGHTNING BOLT (!!!) FRIDAYS

― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 18 March 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Pet Shop Boys - Discography makes me feel great! Until Jealousy comes on and then I want to cry. But DJ Culture is just around the bend!

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 18 March 2004 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f170/f17046oouct.jpg

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 18 March 2004 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i was having an almost difficult time on mushrooms and my roommate put on the first song from Spiritualized's "Ladies and Gentlemen" and it totally made everything better.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 18 March 2004 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

when i was 8 or so, and my parents were hassling me or was upset about something, i would listen to slippery when wet and feel a lot better.

― Mitchell (Mitchell), Thursday, 18 March 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Mood shifter - Fela Kuti "He Miss Road"
Wallow enhancer - Tom Waits "The Piano Has Been Drinking"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 18 March 2004 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

no such music exists (or could exist, in my case).

― m., Thursday, 18 March 2004 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

oh man, gygax so otm

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 18 March 2004 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002U3G.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― eleki-san (eleki-san), Thursday, 18 March 2004 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

when i need to get picked up, Teenage Riot, Shake Some Action and Starry Eyes.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 18 March 2004 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was younger I would use NIN's The Downward Spiral for this, but now I think Low's The Curtain Hits the Cast is a much healthier choice.

― boldbury, Thursday, 18 March 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

So does AWK get your blood pumping or just exascerbate your gloom?

― Aaron A., Thursday, 18 March 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

BIG STAR.

Dan Selzer OTM.
starry eyes is awesome

― ddb, Thursday, 18 March 2004 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

unrest imperial ffrr, specifically "cherry cream on" and "suki"

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 18 March 2004 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Soundgarden - "Fell on Black Days" "Outshined" "No attention" "Never Named" "Drawing Flies" "Zero Chance"
Metal Church - "Badlands"
Shellac - "Prayer to God"
Tool - Aenema
Iced Earth - My own Saviour
Metallica - Escape

― Cacaman Flores, Thursday, 18 March 2004 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.nofxofficialwebsite.com/albums/decline/decline_cover.jpg

― subgenius (subgenius), Thursday, 18 March 2004 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Sparks - Kimono My House
Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
Parliament - The Mothership Connection
Peter Thomas Sound Orchester - Raumpatrouille

I'm not sure why the MDB works so well, as it seems designed to pull me down even worse, but never does.

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Thursday, 18 March 2004 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=896

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 March 2004 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"I Will Refuse" by Pailhead

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 March 2004 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=877

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 March 2004 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=642

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 18 March 2004 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

of course when I'm down I want to listen to downer music, for the ol' pat on the back that says "Yeah I know how it is..."

The Handsome Family - In the Air
the The - Dusk
Low - Trust
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
Saint Etienne - Good Humor

although [i]Since I Left You[/i] by the Avalanches is a guaranteed pick-me-up.

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 18 March 2004 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

okay I guess I don't know how to italicize

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 18 March 2004 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

feel better: a song such as Saint Etienne: He's on the Phone, Flying Saucer Attack: Outdoor Miner.
To Feel worse or the same: Drugstore : s/t, Tindersticks : (s/t debut, but not as much lately), Plastikman : Closer (a recent fave for capturing urban isolation, try riding around the suburbs of Berlin on the S-bahn with it in your discman sometimes -- it's quite hte sobering experience)

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 19 March 2004 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

bob hund's second album, the "omslag: martin kann" one.

― Kornél Kovács (Kornél Kovács), Friday, 19 March 2004 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Usually I put on the Stooges or Richard Hell, who transmute my unhappiness into healthy aggression like the alchemists they are. Otherwise it's straight up Morrissey. That's when I enjoy feeling like poop. New Order has the same effect, strangely (as, of course, does Joy Division).

Though to tell the honest truth though, last time I got dumped I listened to "Cry Me a River" on repeat for an entire weekend. Last time I dumped somebody else it was every version I had of "A Fine Romance" for a the better part of a week.

― alec, Friday, 19 March 2004 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Always Saint Etienne, any album really, but lately Too Young To Die, Good Humor, and So Tough.

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 19 March 2004 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Elvis Presley - The Wonder Of You

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 19 March 2004 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"When no-one else can understand me/when everything I do is wrong/ You give me hope and consolation/You gve me strength to carry on/And you're always there to lend a hand/When ever I feel blue/That's the wonder/The wonder of you"

*sobs*

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 19 March 2004 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

to feel better 'Lets hear it for the boy' by Deniece Williams and 'we've only just begun' by the Carpenters, and 'absolute beginners' by Bowie. Anything by Dido makes mwe feel terrible.

― lukey (Lukey G), Friday, 19 March 2004 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/B000009QPE.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 19 March 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Long songs that build slowly:
Blue Line Swinger - Yo La Tengo
Uninspired/ Low Spark - Traffic
Bluebird - Buffalo Springfield
Gross Chapel - The Fall

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 19 March 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

wallowing - 'devil in the details' by the Broken Family Band, at the moment.
But usually Autechre's Tri Repetae. No idea why, but it works.

― cis (cis), Friday, 19 March 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Wallowing: Dylan 'Blood on the Tracks'
Fist-pumpin' the tears away: New Order "Temptation"

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 19 March 2004 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Faye Wong - Fable

― Jole, Saturday, 20 March 2004 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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