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Music for "Tough Times"

When you're feeling lousy, or maybe just had a tough day, what one LP, CD, tape, etc. do you play to make you feel better? In my case it's Cowboy Junkies CD "The Caution Horses". Margo Timmins voice is at once soft and soothing, but also haunting and immediate. This is music that I can get lost in. What music do others use on occasions like this?
garfish
resuviator
14 posts
 
Disintergration by The Cure. Painful by Yo La Tengo
Mutations by Beck. Hal Wilner presents Weird Nightmare meditations on Mingus. The Replacements. Rum sodomy and the lash by The Pogues. God bless the child by Billie Holiday and What a wonderful world by the late Joey Ramone. ;)R
tubegroover
2,320 posts
 
If I want to smile my way out of the doldrums I put on Jorge Aragao 'Live". Nothing lifts my spirit more than great samba. Truly music that reaches the heart, soul and feet simultaneously.
lightbloom752dd7
2 posts
 
The Caution Horses! Garfish, you and I are exactly alike. Nothing like listening to Margo's voice quiver on "You Will Be Loved Again." (check out Mary Margaret O'Hara's original) I also like the Trash Can Sinatras- "A Happy Pocket" and the Cranberries "No Need to Argue."
dacostab
84 posts
 
The 3rd movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. I like the defiance in the trumpet blasts after the initial sad music !
judit
217 posts
 
I think "the Flower duet" by Leo Delibes is the most beautiful thing ever written for the female voice. I cannot hear it often enough. If this doesn't take you closer to heaven than you've ever been, then you must be wandering the world in chains with Jacob Marley.
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