I'm quite ill. What should I listen to as I cough my weekend away?

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I have come down with some sort of sore throat/earache/headache/pretty much all over ache, as well as a dry, uncomfortable cough. This all sprang up within the past 24 hours and has gotten much worse as the day has progressed. It is not fair to be sick during the summer.

What should I listen to?

1. Ween - Mononucleosis was the first one to spring to mind.

― Emily B (Emily B), Friday, 30 June 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

Eno's "Music For Airports" - soothing and relaxing. Ideally, this would be listened to while drinking garlic/ginger/cayenne/lenon juice tea.

― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 30 June 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

uh, "Lemon" juice, that is.

― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 30 June 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

listen to some Devendra Banhart. so soothing. and child like. its gorgeous resting music. especially Oh Me Oh My.

― Pop Ryan (Rebelwordsmith), Friday, 30 June 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

Sickness & Diseases - Fairport Convention

"My friend Willy—well he looks so ill
His face as white as milk
Everybody runs for miles when he’s in town
He’s got every known disease
And some without a name

Sickness and diseases pull you down, pull you down
Sickness and diseases pull you down"

Please - John Cale

"Won't you help me please,
I'm growing old
A million years ago

Won't you help me sneeze,
I've caught a cold
Another way to go"

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 30 June 2006 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

Listen to some early Tyrannosaurus Rex. That's where Devandra Banhart got his ideas.

But seriously... the Eno suggestion is good. Maybe some Miles Davis or Coltrane?

― vartman (novaheat), Friday, 30 June 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, Sketches of Spain.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 30 June 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

I have that same exact cough. It's quite unpleasant, and came on suddenly a day and a half ago.

I'm going to listen to Dylan's Love and Theft for the billionth time.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 30 June 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

"Sippin' On Some Syrup" (feat. UGK)

― jodawo (jodawo), Friday, 30 June 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

garlic, ginger, cayenne and lemon tea? i'd rather have that in a stir fry.

― Emily B (Emily B), Friday, 30 June 2006 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

My own personal all-purpose sickness soundtrack is Fripp & Eno; either of their LPs will do nicely.

"Sippin' On Some Syrup" (feat. UGK)
-- jodawo

Too bad Lester Bangs wasn't alive to hear this.

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Friday, 30 June 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

the Cure, it had to be done

― BeeOK (boo radley), Friday, 30 June 2006 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

disturbed, cause they had that song "down with the sickness"

― latebloomer aka rap's yoko ono (latebloomer), Friday, 30 June 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

Joy Division - Isolation

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

last time i was sick, it was all about Gas, John Cale, Robert Haigh, and my Buddha Machine

― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

ooh yeah Gas would be great for just lying in bed zoning out.

― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Sparks, Achoo

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

DJ Kool "Let Me Clear My Throat"

― you can email me if you wish to challenge the truth (nickalicious), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

I've just been through a bout of the summer flu and spent my days lying in bed listening to the Pet Shop Boys, specifically Actually, Behaviour and Bilingual - and the "further listening" discs that came with each of those 3 remasters. definitely helped.

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

you're sick... you gotta listen to the blues!

Mississippi John Hurt or Henry Thomas will help it hurt so bad.

― silence dogood (catcher), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

I would read Charles Bukowski's 'Women'

― def zep (calstars), Friday, 30 June 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Rialto - "Quarantine"
just once, though - the song's not very good
if your sickness gets worse, thay also have a song called "Untouchable"

― davelus (davelus), Saturday, 1 July 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

pulp is good for you according to MOM.

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 1 July 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

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