Mine’s “Fell On Black Days” by Soundgarden. It captures the way I feel when I’m down.
Pink Floyd Brain Damage/Eclipse
The theme song from the movie MASH works nicely when played 3 or 9 times in a row.
Regina Spektor - Firewood
The piano is not firewood yet, but the cold does get cold so it still may be that…
Don’t judge so harsh, you don’t know, you’re only spying…
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Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush. It was my go-to album when I needed a cry, but also needed a trigger to get started. "Only Love Can break Your Heart’ was especially good.
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOl01vKXv6I
Having “battled” depression for most of my life, I have several go-to anthems for wallowing in sadness:
Dennis Yost: “Traces”
Brian Wilson- “Caroline, No”
Linda Ronstadt “Keep Me From Blowing Away”
Beatles- “For No One”
Boz Scaggs “Now You’re Gone”
Dimitri Shostakovitch: Symphony #5, “Largo”
“Something Vague” by Bright Eyes.
The Broadway cast recording of “Les Miserables.”
I just found a new one, Blue Sunny Day.
It sounds so happy and upbeat. (but it’s not)
“The First Cut Is the Deepest”
I have a strange sense of humor.
Or this one. Big Bad World One
I don’t have an anthem. I’m still working on designing my logo.
Soundgarden has another song that fits the bill. “The Day I tried To Live”. I’m not sure what it’s about but it also resonates with me when I’m depressed.
“Yesterday” by the Beatles pretty much sums it up.
For a real wallow, I like “Mad World”, by…well, any version.
Johnny Cash’s version of Hurt.
Walked away, heard them say
“Poison hearts will never change, walk away again”
Turned away in disgrace
Felt the chill upon my face cooling from within
Or
AFI
“Silver And Cold”
I… I came here by day, but I left here in darkness
And found you, found you on the way
And now, it is silver and silent, it is silver and cold
You, in somber resplendence, I hold
Love both versions, the NIN and Cash, but Cash’s rendition is so painful it’s beautiful.
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Also, Adele’s *Someone Like You *invariably puts tears in my eyes.
Grateful Dead’s Wharf Rat wallows in the depths of depression.