# Soundtrack for a mental breakdown **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 10, 2018, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-a-mental-breakdown/821088 "2018-09-10T04:08:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-a-mental-breakdown/821088/41 "2018-09-12T05:27:47Z")
Niel Innes - [_How Sweet to Be an Idiot_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cNsmt2YZXA) Isn’t _Dear Prudence_ about Mia Farrow’s sister going a little loopy during the Beatles’ deadbeatery in India? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-a-mental-breakdown/821088/42 "2018-09-12T06:25:40Z")
[Liar](https://youtu.be/7mTeBpyEE4I) by **The Rollins Band**. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-a-mental-breakdown/821088/43 "2018-09-12T06:59:21Z")
I would take the combined catalogs of Nirvana and Alice in Chains, sprinkle in some Pearl Jam, various Chris Cornell songs and a bunch of Gray Matter, then smooth the whole nightmare over with the Soul Asylum catalog. Shake well and top it off with _Wrong Way Up_. Depending on the randomization algorithm, you will make it through or you will never come back. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-a-mental-breakdown/821088/44 "2018-09-12T09:05:35Z")
I’d nominate some of Scott Walker’s more recent work, particularly Bish Bosh, which mixes orchestral music with wailing, disturbing sounds and an over-riding sense of depression and foreboding. Not at all easy to listen to [in relation to challenging content, not implying they are shite]. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-a-mental-breakdown/821088/45 "2018-09-12T12:29:14Z")
Some of my go-to songs in this ?genre are Eno’s “Third Uncle”, “55 The Law” by the Screaming Blue Messiahs and numerous selections from The Minus Five’s album “The Minus Five”, including “With A Gun”: \*"I’ll kick your sister’s ass I’m going to take your brother’s face and smash it in the grass It’s no wonder I am spiral-bound 'Cause I just want to I just want to be around Every day when I feel this way I need somebody to say, “It’s okay” Shoot some holes in my crow-black sky Saying, “Life doesn’t really half-suck most of the time”\* From the same album, “Cemetery Row” is a near-genius song that should probably not be listened to by anyone in or near a depressive state. It has one line about “this old house is cold and crowded with half-wits” which for some reason reminds me of the Dope. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![txjim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f07891/32.png) [@txjim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/txjim)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-a-mental-breakdown/821088/46 "2018-09-12T13:34:44Z")
Did I miss a [Rolling Stones 19th Nervous Breakdown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoNSFFhyEi8) reference above? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-a-mental-breakdown/821088/47 "2018-09-12T14:07:14Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > [Liar](https://youtu.be/7mTeBpyEE4I) by **The Rollins Band**. And [Wreck-age](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynVRUyOooHw) ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-a-mental-breakdown/821088/48 "2018-09-12T14:17:24Z")
**Nurse with Wound** : [Fashioned to a Device Behind a Tree](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AlVoCyNYopI) **Current 93** : [Faust](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zz8901TotIs&t=533s) **Throbbing Gristle** : [Hamburger Lady](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fih-xzWGKPA) **[Bardoseneticcube](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=61IqVE--Fgs&t=1310s)** ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-a-mental-breakdown/821088/49 "2018-09-12T15:18:09Z")
Pretty much any song from _Jazz Funk Greats_ by **Throbbing Gristle**. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-a-mental-breakdown/821088/50 "2018-09-12T17:43:57Z")
Some might feel this way about **The Well-Tuned Piano** by La Monte Young. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-a-mental-breakdown/821088/51 "2018-09-12T17:52:30Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > How could you miss [the pretty much definitive one](https://youtube.com/watch?v=l-lJZiqZaGA#)? Also the sequel: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5m138-Fn5Tw/hqdefault.jpg "Josephine XV- "I'm happy they took you away- ha-haa!" (Lyrics)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m138-Fn5Tw) ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-a-mental-breakdown/821088/52 "2018-09-12T18:53:28Z")
“Breakdown” by Tom Petty! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-a-mental-breakdown/821088/53 "2018-09-12T19:10:05Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Some of my go-to songs in this ?genre are Eno’s “Third Uncle”, “55 The Law” by the Screaming Blue Messiahs and numerous selections from The Minus Five’s album “The Minus Five”, including “With A Gun”: > > \*"I’ll kick your sister’s ass > I’m going to take your brother’s face and smash it in the grass > It’s no wonder I am spiral-bound > 'Cause I just want to > I just want to be around > > Every day when I feel this way > I need somebody to say, “It’s okay” > Shoot some holes in my crow-black sky > Saying, “Life doesn’t really half-suck most of the time”\* > > From the same album, “Cemetery Row” is a near-genius song that should probably not be listened to by anyone in or near a depressive state. It has one line about “this old house is cold and crowded with half-wits” which for some reason reminds me of the Dope. 🙂 How could you miss Eno/Cluster’s _[After](https://youtu.be/LEaOUoKI-T8) the [Heat](https://youtu.be/LyLXZGTwQOg)_? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundtrack-for-a-mental-breakdown/821088.md?page=2)