Tool. Anything old. Anything new. Tool
I sure could use a vacation from this bullshit three-ring circus sideshow.
or
I know the pieces fit, I watched them fall away.
Exactly.
Bruce_Daddy, if Tool helps you cope with the farking madness that is life, you’ll dig some of Chevelle’s tracks, too.
Family Business has, as you put it,
Now that I think about it, Mudvayne’s Not Falling starts out with a ngrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaruuurrggghhh!!!
“Welcome Home (Sanitarium)” by Metalica is always welcome in times of stress, but I can’t believe we got this far into the thread without somebody mentioning “Helter Skelter”. That’s, like, the original Crazy Psycho Dude song.
-lv
Um, the soundtrack of Star Wars. It just always makes me feel good.
For when I’m going megalomaniacally mad, The Imperial March from star wars.
“thus spake zarathrustra” by strauss. Remember that scene where the monkey invents tool use in 2001: A Space odyssel and all the monkeys start using bones to hunt and kill animals. That would be the scene and music running through my head if I went absolutely violently mad.
If I ever decided to do something unutterably evil in my political career just to benefit myself - say, if I were working in the state department and began advising “pre-emptive” war, the Guns and Roses cover of Sympathy for the Devil. To me, it’s all about evil that seems rational, even charismatic, but has that bit of gibbering insanity to it. The Imperial March would be good for political evil and insanity too, though.
“Lord Excellent, the Enterprise is nearing the Syrian coast. What are your orders?”
“Is my press conference ready, Admiral?”
“Yes, my lord.”
“Then proceed with the attack, Admiral. No mistakes, no excuses.”
“Yes, lord Excellent.”
A man can dream, can’t he? A man can dream. 
And for pure delusional craziness, “Dark Side of the moon”.
That song by Green Day- “Basket Case.”
And I can’t help but connect “Crazy” by Patsy Cline with real live insanity, after watching that episode of “The Simpsons” where Marge is put on hold with that song, when Homer gets institutionalized, for wearing a pink shirt.
The few times I’ve honestly felt like I was about to go crazy, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band made it better.
Definitely the music from the shower scene in Psycho
Try the Siouxsie and the Banshees cover of “Helter Skelter.” Even crazier than the original.
I also am a huge fan of Hole on those sorts of days. Live Through This is good music to be enraged to.
Yeah, but I can’t get past their. . . schtick.
Raaaaahhhhhhh!!!
Hmmm, how 'bout my pre-game tracklist, for when I need to be on the edge of snapping?
NOFX - The Decline. One 18-minute punk song. It’s awesome.
Also NOFX - San Francisco Fat
Pennywise - Bro Hymn
Green Day - She or Basket Case
Ted Nugent - Fred Bear (I don’t know why, either)
That’s all I can think of right now.
Main question: do you want to encourage your insanity or discourage it?
Many good suggestions have been made already, I’ll try to add some new ones and not repeat others posts.
Songs to encourage your insanity:
NIN - Heresy
Tool - Third Eye
The Offspring - Bad Habit
Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction
Songs to relieve your insanity:
NIN - La Mer
Tool - The Patient
Tool - Lateralus
Apocalyptica - Hope
I like “I Don’t Like Mondays” by the Boomtown Rats, for when I know I’m about to snap with frustration/anger but I can stop myself and laugh about it (a little).
When I feel so stressed out I think I could cry, I like “Holiday” by Jimmy Buffett (off the otherwise nearly dreadful “Banana Wind” album).
For its soothing effects, I’d throw on Dark Side of the Moon, specifically Us and Them (I prefer the Gilmour-era Floyd sound).
If you want some upbeat craziness (and I know you do), can’t go wrong with the Ramones’ Teenage Lobotomy, Operation Ivy’s The Crowd or Goldfinger’s version of 99 Red Balloons
If you’re talking about the kind of lunacy where you jump up and down a lot and go “blibble-blibble-blibble” with your finger and lips, may I suggest Raymond Scott or Spike Jones?
(Raymond Scott was a jazz composer whose works were incorporated into a lot of Warner Bros. cartoon soundtracks. His most recognizable piece is probably “Powerhouse” – DUN dun dun dun DUN dun dun dun, DUN dun dun dun DUN dun dun dun…)
Forgot one: “Kiss Off” by Violent Femmes, particularly the part where he starts counting “I take one, one, one 'cause you left me and two, two, two for my family… and TEN, TEN, TEN, TEN FOR EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING!!!”
Anything by Jacksone Browne…
or Sinatra
…
if it’s REALLY bad…
Foghat’s “Slow Ride” while holding a nice, cold, tall 'rita