Music for "Tough Times"

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there are 2 great versions of the song 'Hard Times'.
One version is by Eric Clapton & the other Run D.M.C. both are excellent. Happy listening!

Some really interesting suggestions. I have found so much good music by following up threads in the music section. It does interest me, that an in an "interconnected world"", there is so much North American music, I simply have never heard of, I come from the UK.

My twopenny, sorry 2 cents worth:

Eric Clapton Pilgrim, not a popular album of his but some wonderful, bleak songs on there

Richard Strauss "Metamorphosen", I believe, his response, as a German/Austrian, to discovering the truth about the Concentration camps in 1945. A wonderful sad, all string piece of music

Agree with Beck's Sea Change but so the latest Morning Phase. And almost anything by Brian Jonestown Massacre.

American Music Club - Mercury, Everclear, San Francisco. 

Also: Arab Strap - Live. 

Really bad days, when the boss is a sack of ***, mistreating you, or laid off, or wife is really ragging, someone knifes ur back, etc etc.

 I have always turned to Metal, ALWAYS.

 FEROCITY, AGRESSION, ANGER, always sets me in a good mood.

  After a few hours of Mercyful fate, kreator, Hirax, living death, death, dark Angel, forbidden, Bathory, mayhem, zoetrope, and so on.........
i feel great, then hit the LPs’, John Denver, Donovan, Lennon, humble pie, all worries and anxiety, anger is gone.

your results may vary.