What album make you feel better?

by Nosferatu 20 Replies latest jw friends

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  Abaddon

  Oooo.... all time mood lifers include Grace by Jeff Buckley (Eternal Life is fab, but the thrash-metal version he did is just that little bit more cathartic) and Warehouse: Songs and Stories by Husker Dü.

  Also Sweet Baby James by James Taylor, Ladies of the Cayon and Blue by Joni MItchell, and most Tori AMos material, especially Boys For Pele.

  Add in an abiding love for The Beatles (the last side of Abbey Road brings tears to my eyes (but then so does Winter and Darling Jackie, but that's because of the modulation of chords more than anything) which means anything (especially Rubber Soul,, the aforementioned, and The White Album) by The Beatles 'works' for me.

  Crowded House are also a very cheering band.

  I also have another catagory of albums, the 'I'm late gotta drive fast' catagory. Guns'n'Roses' Appetite for Destruction and Spiritualised's Ladies and Gentleman we are floating in space fit this group quite well, as does anything by NIN.
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  alias

  One or more of Kate Bush's CDs does it for me.
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  gumby

  " RUMOURS" .......by Fleetwood Mac.

  It reminds me of when my family was a family.

  Gumby
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  Shaft

  Warehouse: Songs and Stories by Husker Dü.

  What an excellent choice! I would pick "New Day Rising" myself! That'll get your blood pumping! I also love to play their debut "Land Speed Record" for a cathartic release. That album is poorly recorded and sloppily played but the ferocious intensity and passion make it thoroughly invigorating for me. By the way FlyingHighNow really loves "She Floated Away" from Warehouse
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  Abaddon

  Shaft

  "It was his aluminum that attracted her..."

  a great line... I love She Floated Away too, although I think ice Cold Ice is my favourate one.

  And if you've not heard Buckley, hear him; damn easy to collect, he's dead so you have Live at the Sin-E, Grace, and two posthumous albums. He varies between sweet little love songs (his cover of Lilac Wine) and full on guitar-driven ARGHHHH!!!! (Eternal Life; theme song for an xJW as far as I'm concerned). His voice and appearance are uncannily like the lead of Muse.

  Eternal life is now on my trail
  Got my red glitter coffin, man, just need one last nail
  While all these ugly gentlemen play out their foolish games
  There?s a flaming red horizon that screams our names
  And as your fantasies are broken in two
  Did you really think this bloody road
  Would pave the way for you?
  You better turn around
  And blow your kiss hello to life eternal, angel
  
  Racist everyman, what have you done?
  Man, you?ve made a killer of your unborn son...
  Crown my fear your king at the point of a gun
  All I want to do is love everyone...
  
  And as your fantasies are broken in two
  Did you really think this bloody road
  Would pave the way for you?
  You better turn around
  And blow your kiss hello to life eternal
  
  Oh...
  
  There?s no time for hatred, only questions
  Where is love, where is happiness, what is life,
  Where is peace?
  
  When will I find the strength to bring me release?
  And tell me where is the love in what your prophet has said?
  Man, it sounds to me just like a prison for the walking dead
  And I?ve got a message for you and your twisted hell
  You better turn around and blow your kiss goodbye
  To life eternal angel...
  Angel...
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  Shaft

  And if you've not heard Buckley, hear him;
  

  I am not familiar with Buckley so I will have to check out some of his music. In the recent thread about meeting celebrities I mention my encounter with Bob Mould. Another record which is uplifting to me in an odd way is "Katy Lied" by Steely Dan. Listening to these songs about wall street hustlers (Black Friday) paranoid schizophrenics (Bad Sneakers) drug addicts (Dr. Wu) perverts (Everyone's Gone To The Movies) and gamblers (Your Gold Teeth II) always makes me feel better about myself because at least I am not as bad off these people are.
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  Jahna

  Hello everyone
  
  I don't have "a" album just a group and that would be Metallica. they have helped me through a divorce and finding myself afterwards, not to mention giving me the spirit to move forward in my life without the Organization. Without a doubt, the artist and the style of music has helped me through out my adult life.
  
  Funny, when I was growing up with a Witness mother, she told me metal music would make me a whore, alcoholic and drug addict not to mention be demonized. Some 20 years later I still haven't seen any of that happen. For the time I stayed away from my preferred music, while being an active Witness, I just couldn't bring myself into the head space of "all will be fine" and I became more and more frustrated with my life and life in general.
  
  It's amazing that my so called "anger music" makes me feel so much better.
  
  Jahna
  
  Forever trusting in who we are, and nothing else matters....Metallica
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  Tuesday

  Kilgore Smudge "Blue Collar Solitude"

  Blue Collar Zen Lyrics
  
  See it lies before me somewhere
  Free me from my life of woe
  I remember feeling low
  I remember swallowing
  Last sips of beer before I hit the floor
  You'll always reap from what you sow
  Just keep on telling yourself not far to go
  And from whatever you may know
  Live for today and gain your soul
  Say that my life has no meaning
  Well I'll remain on this couch alone
  I remember talking shit
  Throwing punches around
  Before one hit me right between the eyes
  You'll always reap from what you sow
  Just keep on telling yourself not far to go
  And from whatever you may know
  Live for today and gain your soul
  Need some time to keep away
  Need some time to slip away
  Need some time to keep away
  A little time to slip away
  I Hate You
  And everything you stand for too
  You'll always reap from what you sow
  Just keep on telling yourself not far to go
  And from whatever you may know
  Live for today and gain your soul

  Cleaner Lyrics Artist(Band):Kilgore Smudge (Print the Lyrics) Cleaner Lyrics No apologies accepted You did this once before, just another game Now you're trying to keep score Your open hand is rejected You'll never be a part of me When you're on your knees Well then you'll see Better find a way Right now, to say yeah means no Then you'll see Sometimes Could you still be blind now that I can see Sometimes Could you just leave me here dying in peace Just fuckin' sorted my life out Pushed behind all memories And agony that you brought to me Now that scream for attention You lost your grip so long ago When you find yourself maybe you'll know Better find a way Right now, to say yeah means no Then you'll see Sometimes Could you still be blind now that I can see Sometimes Could you just leave me here dying in peace Waste I shit you Waste You'll never ever be Die Cast Mold Lyrics All of your opinions will be scrutinized You see your morals and beliefs Are not your own You've got to Follow the flock, catch up and stay in line Or they'll take away the keys To your own damn mind Your soul is not your own Your contributions will be recognized Only if they help to oil the machine In retribution you've got to realize You got to pick up a gun to be seen All of your ambitions will be demoralized You see you're only playing with half a deck Once again do you have to be told About the way you live your life In your die cast mold Shut up and only obey me Your contributions will be recognized Only if they help to oil the machine In retribution you've got to realize You got to pick up a gun to be seen All your applications will be denied You see you don't look and act like us My words hit hard as fist listen to what I say Or you will live a sheltered life ‘til your dying day There ain't no way out Your own ambitions Your applications Your own opinions don't mean shit Your contributions In retribution You will find that there ain't no way Out! Fridgafloor Lyrics Wrap my head in cellophane And place it in my Kenmore Maybe when we're not so full We can eat it all by four Thoughts drip out from the ears And fall into my open beer Penetrate the hardwood floors And fester there forevermore Evermore Don't close that door I'm in your floor Evermore Everything here that you see Is right here in front of me Wipe your feet before my head And think no thoughts before I'm dead My plastic body's wrapped in chains Confuse the thoughts inside my brain Even though I was told When I was born they broke the mold Broke the mold Can't get a hold Of what I control Broke the mold When will the play of words begin The angry crowd protests with murder Naked meat enters stage left She begins a speech and the men get a hard-on Tears come to eyes But men with muscles cannot cry Words slur to sighs Placed in the fridge before she dies Tears come to eyes But men with muscles cannot cry Words slur to sighs Placed in the fridge before she dies If it's not me that you see I doubt very much that'll ever be A man who thinks much more Don't be afraid. I'm in your floor In your floor Don't close that door I'm in your floor Evermore Hangtime Lyrics Artist(Band):Kilgore Smudge (Print the Lyrics) Hangtime Lyrics Been pounded by the powers that be Stripped of everything that is me Lookin' back I'm being chased by my ignorance And up ahead there ain't nothing but a fence Right now I'm hanging on To my friends and the ones I love Time's still wasting on With pain below and above Been told that Jesus is the way to see Go out and join a religious ministry Well you can lick my fuckin' rod ‘Cuz I believe in a merciful God Right now I'm hanging on To my friends and the ones I love Time's still wasting on With pain below and above I know when it's my time to live You see I only got one life to live And there's only so much that I have to give Future's not as dark as it seems If you just hold onto your dreams Right now I'm hanging on To my friends and the ones I love Time's still wasting on With pain below and above Metamorphosis Lyrics Do you remember me Lord? You're gonna find out I am a bug Crawling up and down your spine We're gonna fuck it up together And make it mine Do you remember me Lord? Mother, help me find myself alone Do you wish to help me find a home Metamorphosis Do you remember me? ‘Cause I'm a freaky baby Well can't you see? Crawling up and down your spine We're gonna fuck it up together And make it mine Do you remember me? Mother, help me find myself alone Father, sister, help me find a home Metamorphosis Middleway Lyrics Artist(Band):Kilgore Smudge (Print the Lyrics) Middleway Lyrics You see the body is the Buddhi tree The mind a clear mirror of me Strive to clean so as to see And not let the dust gather to be Oh Charioteer What is here? You see the sick, old, dying and wisdom For the Fourth I'd give all my kingdom There's got to be a way. Will I die, will I cry Will I suffer, what words shall I pick to say? Will I love, will I hate In between there's got to be a way Will I grow old, shall I break the mold And follow the Buddha? Am I wrong? The coin toss always ends up Sunyata I'm sick of all your religion That's not infinite wisdom Maybe here in material needs I'll find the answer to my dreams Oh Charioteer What is here? Maybe here in this mountain stream I'll find the answers to my dreams Yeah. There's got to be a way Will I die, will I cry Will I suffer, what words shall I pick to say? Will I love, will I hate In between there's got to be a way Will I grow old, shall I break the mold And follow the Buddha? Am I wrong? The coin toss always ends up Sunyata Senorita Beefeater Lyrics Artist(Band):Kilgore Smudge (Print the Lyrics) Senorita Beefeater Lyrics Everyone's footsteps pound like hammers to my brain And all the lives I've broke And all that remains Everything, everyone around me reminds me Of my sins If I was Mr. Turtle Man I'd pull my head back in I'm not your Jesus I'm not your Here in my shell, alone I dwell My so called friends come with pitchforks And drag me off to hell ‘Cuz I made too many promises That I can't alter I may look like your Jesus But I can't walk on water I'm not your Jesus I'm not your False, indifference Not really here right Just a lump of clay with a crown of thorns Could've been the leader of the master race Or a Greek poet before I was born My soul is not my own It's shared with a thousand fading dreams Exposed to the naked eye is why I'm always picked last on the team I'm not your Jesus I'm not your Therapy Lyrics You put up a good front man Trashing everything you see I can see behind your eyes You're hurting inside just like me Your mind's a dark cloud Should you keep your feelings in Or cry out loud Clouds parted, rain's gone I let out my aggression When I write these songs Look to the skies above Seek your disguise alone See the choice you made For all the times you've cried There will be never be enough tissue To dry your eyes Look at all the choices you made With the dark clouds raining on your parade For all the lies you ever spoke And all the lives you ever broke Another friend betrayed Visions of the past keep you afraid Look to the skies above Seek your disguise alone See the choice you made Enough of your whining You're making me sick You think you're alone that's not the last of it For the rest of your life you'll be on your knees ‘Til that day a hundred dollars please Look to the skies above Seek your disguise alone See the choice you made Three Lyrics Heart of stone, has turned to clay Angelic woman guided me from my evil ways Needed something to forget yesterday Caress my hand, please take me away Do you remember seeing me in heaven? I remember swallowin' every bit of my pride Do you remember seeing me in limbo? I remember wallowin' in every bit of my shit And then I'm crying for I need you to show me the one I need you to take me away I'd like to tell you ‘bout my problem Every single word, I ever said is a lie You seem to help me with my problem Slap me in the face and rub my nose in my shit And then I'm crying for I need you to show me the one I need you to take me away I thought I was invincible ‘Til I saw myself I tried to live young at heart But my mind is older now Trial Lyrics Seems like I'll never find My peace of mind I must be blind To not see in front of me My self-inflicted warning signs And even though I pay my sins With blood and sweat and jugs of wine No matter how much I give I owe, I owe, I owe, I owe Save me But pay the toll Not far to go Just like Josef K. Don't seem to know just what I owe This aching pleasure to be Weighed upon my aching soul And on these two bare feet I'm made to walk that hundredth mile To blister in the sun of My trial, my trial, my trial, my trial Save me But pay the toll Not far to go Save me But pay the toll Not far to go All I owe That's the albumn I listen to almost everyday, it's like the singer was a dub himself; but when I met him he wasn't he was raised catholic (he lives in the same town I do). Guess we all have religious issues eh?
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  talesin

  Mozart or really LOUD, classic R&R if I want to cheer up.

  But if I want to feel like 'someone understands', I play Billy Holiday. Here's one of my favorite pity party songs:

  Everything Happens To Me

  I make a date for golf and you can bet your life it rains
  I try to throw a party and the guy upstairs complains
  I guess I'll go through life just catching colds and missing trains
  Everything happens to me
  
  I never miss a thing, I've had the measles and the mumps
  And every time I play an ace
  My partner always trumps
  I guess I'm just a fool who never looks before she jumps
  Everything happens to me
  
  At first I thought that you could break this jinx for me
  That love would turn the trick to end despair
  Now I just can't fool this this head that thinks for me
  I've mortgaged all my castles in the air

  Black cats creep across
  My path until I'm almost mad
  I must have 'roused the devils's wrath
  'Cause all my luck is bad

  I've telegraphed and phoned and sent an airmail special too
  Your answer was goodbye and there was even postage due
  I fell in love just once; it had to be with you
  Everything happens to me.

  peace, love & happiness

  talesin
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  tink

  Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism or The Photo Album

  Osker - Treatment 5

  Greenview Circle - Supercharged Fascinations and the Fabric of Space