Best "I Have a Cold" Music

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Would Albums, Songs, and/or Band/Artist would you listen to if you have a cold (like me).

I'd say anything by Magnetic Fields. Stephen Merrit has the best Stuffy Nose voice.

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

sorry

"WHAT" albums, songs and/or bands/artist

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Cat Power always soudns like she has a cold.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 26 June 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Nico too

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Sunday, 26 June 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Jonathan Richman! Perpetual allergies.

― mike a, Sunday, 26 June 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

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― Another Allnighter (sexyDancer), Sunday, 26 June 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure someone will say The Fall.

― Ian Riese-Moraine eats nation-states for breakfast! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 26 June 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

"Sick of Being Sick" by the Damned

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 26 June 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

"Tired Of Waking Up Tired" by the Diodes

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 26 June 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

The record doesnt sold like sick music, but LET IT BE is always linked in my mind to sickness. When that let it be naked bullshit came out i had the flu for like a week plus i was reading that book about that record. noty only is it their worst record, but now i feel physically ill if i lsiten to it.

― tonyD (noiseyrock), Sunday, 26 June 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

the tall dwarfs 'thowing a sickie' lp

― chris andrews (fraew), Sunday, 26 June 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

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-- Another Allnighter (jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj...), June 26th, 2005.

this made me giggle

― chris andrews (fraew), Sunday, 26 June 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

It was a childhood sick-day favorite so Negotiations And Love Songs is a fallback for when I'm bedridden. When I'm having one of those nagging colds over a week and still going to work I find I'm quite sympathetic to the works of Matchbox 20. All that bawling about how he wants sympathy, someone to take care of him, wishing the real world would stop hasslin', it works really well when I'm feeling a little unwell and wanna be fuh-REE ohf MAH DUH-ZEEZE.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 26 June 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

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― chris andrews (fraew), Sunday, 26 June 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Superpitcher's Here Comes Love. First listened to it when I had one of the worst colds of my life (yeah, I know, a bad cold isn't all that horrible, but anyway). Could hardly breathe, sneezing constantly, feeling drained and woozy, and the album just fit in perfectly. Especially the bell sounds in "People," and the overripe cabaret stuff on "Traume."

― Telephonething, Sunday, 26 June 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

"Would You Believe (I Have a Cold)," Huey "Piano" Smith and the Clowns

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 26 June 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

J. Mascis often seems ill (definitely part of the charm).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 26 June 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

There's a Riot Going On. It sounds like a headcold.

― Burr (Burr), Monday, 27 June 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

mahogany. sounds like you're listening to it through a blocked fog

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 27 June 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

Music for Airports-- i think Brian Eno once said this was made for playing in hospitals as well.

― k wonder, Monday, 27 June 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Sparks, Achoo

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

"Still Ill" by the Smiths

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

"We Suck Young Blood" by Radiohead

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Hood 'Cold Music'?

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

crud. that was 'Cold House'. there is something drizzly and postnasal drippy about it, but i must have been thinking of Aim's 'Cold Water Music'.

how about Simon Fisher Turner's 'Revox Vol. 1'?

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Monday, 27 June 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

strangely, i once tried to convince a friend that there was a vague link or shared aesthetic between hood's cold house and aim's cold water music - i don't remember it being sonics, probably a sense of place (outskirts of leeds and lake district, respectively) and a fondness for the outdoors. it might even have been vaguer than that.

the only time i ever listen to spiritualised is when i have a cold (and have taken 4flu).

― dh, Monday, 27 June 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Autechre's Amber is THE album to listen to if you have a cold, flu, or pretty much any similar sickness, especially if you're on medicine that makes you spaced out. It's a soundtrack to inner body wars. The white blood cells love it, trust me.

― bill neil (inabillity), Monday, 27 June 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

The Cure - Faith

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Magazine esp. "Song From Underneath The Floorboards"

― Ben Dot (1977), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

Biz Markie

― ryan duelberg (duelberg), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

LCDSoundsystem. You know what songs.

― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

There's a Riot Going On. It sounds like a headcold.
-- Burr

An excellent description! (And choice.)
To which I would add Miles' Jack Johnson and Neil Young's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. (Or Decade, better still.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

Greensleeves perhaps?

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

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