What music helps you get through life?

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When I was extremely depressed I found Hatebreed made me feel strong when it was needed and Staind and In Flames's album Soundtrack to Your Escape really helped me. Flaw's Through the Eyes really helped out as well.

As far as day to day life goes it has made me need to see passionate emotional lyrics like that for me to really be able to get into a song. Emotive music is very powerful and it should always be passionate in one emotion, otherwise I just see it as filler.

Metallica, Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Kamelot.

This is gonna sound weird, but...eurobeat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC2UCM-1ST4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtfvsnkd80

The music is upbeat, usually pretty happy, but it's a good escape. It reminds me that things weren't always so bad, or aren't going to be so bad.

John Lennon, from beatles all the way through to his solo career, I can really relate to his lyrics and his artwork as well, I'm pretty much obsessed with the guy to be honest
but he helped me through a lot of hard times, I guess I found song writing and my own music through him as well

Oasis were the first famous band I'd been into, they helped me not kill myself when I was 13, but I really wish it had been Echo & The Bunnymen all along, Especially since I see Ian, Will, and Pete as examples of neurodiverse people (and Les being the token NT, bless!... He's so normal!)

Radiohead, when I'm feeling really down it's Radiohead that pulls me through.

the late string quartets by beethoven

When i was at college, a lot of Pantera, Fear Factory, Type O Negative, Alice in Chains, Faith No More and Paradise Lost helped me through some tough times, especially those of the relationship and angsty teen type, - This Love by Pantera helped me cope with a few messy break-ups, while Timelessness by Fear Factory helped me massively when my mother passed away from cancer.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgnkZcVQJEA[/youtube]

Jimmy Cliff... especially this

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1-IG-AFjME&feature=artistob&playnext=1&list=TLp0q7SKnFmpg[/youtube]

and this

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqfyMnyZpvY&feature=channel&list=UL[/youtube]

The Kinks and The Beatles do it for me. I've listened to both bands since I was 9.

Nirvana, Metallica, The Clash, Sex Pistols, The Pogues, Motorhead, The Dubliners, Tullycraft, Belle and Sebastian, Beat Happening, Rancid, James Brown, Public Enemy, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, King Tubby, The Specials, Burial, Sub Focus, Doctor P, Excision, Datsik, Skrillex, The Beatles, Ash, Bob Dylan, Sonic Youth (the list goes on)

Also the songs from MLP:FIM and brony musicians like AlexS, JackleApp, The Living Tombstone, Foozogz etc.

My first favourite musician was Elton John and I really liked Eminem when I was a teenager. At the moment I like Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson, Say All I Need by One Republic, the Limp Bizkit version of Behind Blue Eyes, and Fill My Little World by The Feeling. I also like to listen to the Trigun soundtrack.

^ That's pretty diverse.