Music as Therapy: What's Yours?

[NurseLefty]

This week, I've been particularly down in the dumps. When I got home tonight, I listened to Randi Rhodes on AAR. It was good to hear her kvetching with her listeners. Misery loves company, right?
But then, after her show was over, I realized what I've been missing lately. Not enough music!
I pulled out "The Best of the Damned" and played "I Just Can't be Happy Today", my designated theme song of my day. I then clicked on to "Smash It Up", and ya know what? I danced all over my living room! (You have to know the song - it's a rather joyous tune.)
Since then, I've been pulling out more tunes from my catalog. Music definitely has a therapeutic effect. I've seen music therapy used on patients and it DOES work!
So, what music is therapy for you? What songs are your elixir?

[Huckebein the Raven]

1. A amount of Trance and Drum and Bass and

some Metallica "Master of Puppets" thrown in for good measure

[NurseLefty]

4. I'm listening to Killing Joke now.

Loud, and very anti-RW music. Cathartic.

[Lady Effingbroke]

2. I'm glad that your self-prescribed music therapy worked!

It really depends on my mood as to what music I self-medicate with.

I have always found the music of Steely Dan to be a relaxing and refreshing tonic, as it were.

[NurseLefty]

8. Soothing music is therapeutic as well, I agree.

The soundtrack to "The Motorcycle Diaries" is something I obtained recently. Eerie and beautiful songs.

[susanna]

3. Hmmm...

I can think of a few off the bat (though I know there are more)...

Johnny Cash "A Boy Named Sue"
Tones on Tail "Go"
Beethoven "Ode to Joy"

:-)

[LearnedHand]

5. "Disintegration"

The Cure. Best slit-your-wrists-type music ever. (Sicko me; when I'm down, I DO NOT want music to lift me up.I want the wallow-in-it-some-more music. )

There's an indie-music website (can't remember the name, but heard about it on NPR) that categorizes their music (very creative categories), and one category deals with the situation I described above.

[NurseLefty]

9. I'll have to look for it - thanks.

Music lists are fun!

[havocmom]

6. Music is my drug of choice. Different types for different needs.

But when I am REALLY down, it's Billy Joel's Minor Variation. Me 'n that song have come thourgh some bad ass time together. Play it loud, sing it proud, and dance dance dance! That's a trick my daughter taught me.

[libnnc]

7. Rickie Lee Jones

"Chuck E's in Love"
and

"Eddie's Allstar Joint" (they got a juke box, goes 'doyt-doyt')
and

"The Real End"

and lots of others

[NightTrain]

10. Good old '60s and '70s soul music, baby!

:headbang: