Roots reggae. It’s good for the soul.
For me, it’s eurobeat. But specifically, eurobeat while I’m driving my car. Ideally, doing something other than rolling down the interstate, merely holding my steering wheel straight for 20 minutes on my way to work.
It’s not exclusively eurobeat, but I use this playlist whenever I find the right road for wringing out my engine a little bit. Or if I realize I’m in a rush and I need to floor it. Sometimes both.
Death in Vegas’s Dead Elvis album. Is mostly upbeat instrumental, good background or going to sleep music without being boring
Listened to a playthrough, everyday for 2 or 3 months, after finding this album.
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If it’s on this public playlist of mine, I’ve listened to each song countless times on repeat for that reason:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOh2I7j4IWH5FXNuZyGUtnaZQpBYMQAnw
But generally it’ll be Psychedelic Rock, Metal, Punk, and Electronica. Especially if I connect with the lyrics.
Right now that’s Layten Kramer and Red Vox:
https://laytenkramer.bandcamp.com/track/strange-displacement
Recordings of old shortwave numbers stations. And a steak.
Merzbow and Emmett Otter’s Jugband Christmas.
Eclectic taste!
Any of JS Bach’s works for organ. Toccata and Fugue in D minor is the most famous, but I mean the guy wrote like a million of them. Adagio and Fugue in C Major or Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor are a couple more examples that I find particularly nourishing. (I’ve never heard music described as nourishing before, but I like that. It’s a great way of putting it.)
Stoner rock and doom metal, like Sleep and Electric Wizard. It’s cathartic to me for some reason. Sonic drugs for someone not into actual drugs.
Fantastic stuff, and it’s great sober. But I’m not gonna lie to ya - it’s really great with drugs.
Metal music is the majority of what I’m listening to most of the time.
Progressive metal is my reset music. Something about a good prog track with crazy technical instrumentality just helps my brain calm down and focus. Between the Buried and Me was the band that got me hooked on prog metal and dirty vocals, and tends to be one of my most listened to artists most of the time.
Power metal is a great genre to work/vibe to. Sabaton was my first venture into the genre, but I’m more into bands like Amaranthe, Powerwolf, and Gloryhammer these days.
Buckethead
Boards of Canada.
Romantic songs (or songs about love in general), whether it be R&B, disco, soul, ballads, salsa, soft rock and others, make me FEEL. I’m a very sensitive and verbal guy! 😁
I feel like so much romantic and popular music is quite borderline or unhealthy.
There are loads of romantic music! It’s easy to chose the songs/authors you like and not listen to the ones you find unhealthy.
It’s not all I listen to but I still don’t see why you would say that, lol.
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There’s a big leap between ‘Disney princess tales’ and “you are the reason for my laughter and my sorrows, blow out the candle I will burn again tomorrow”, “in my life only you make me do for love what I would not do”, “every part of you has the ideal shape, and if you’re next to me it’s a complete coincidence of concave and convex” (literal translation of “O concavo e o convexo” by Roberto Carlos), “you can try to destroy anything you want, she only needs to open the span of her arms to rebuild everything” (“Je l’aime a mourir” by Francis Cabrel)… all of this makes total sense to anyone who has truly loved anyone in earnest, it’s not fantasy but mere lived experience expressed through poetry. Have you, or is this just a big case of scared ignorance/sour grapes? 👀
The Blow has long been my go-to for this. Really wish they’d get back together and drop another album, but thats alright. What they’ve already made has shaped my life in countless ways as is, and all things, even my most favorite of them, must eventually end.
There’s also Magdalena Bay, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Kate Bush, Hakushi Hasegawa, Open Mike Eagle, and Modest Mouse too, depending on what sort of nourishment I’m needing. Honestly, though? This list could on for a long while. I love music and had to seriously redact a lot as is. Am I kicking myself for not mentioning Heavenly and the Long Blondes? Absolutely! But if I mentioned them, then I’d also have to add Plumtree, because obviously i would, but then where’s the room to fit Louie Zong and Silversun Pickups?
I think I might just need to take a time to have a very neurodivergent session of cataloging all the bands that have changed the way I think on some level. There goes the rest of my night ig
Edit: Joanna Newsom came on in the shuffle and I couldn’t help but remember this thread. Ys is one of the finest albums of its era, by far. And the same for Feist’s Monarch! Im going to listen to my better nature and stfu now lol
…Sorry [Gilly smirk]
