Music for When You're In a Bad Mood (And Want To Stay)

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You know those songs you listen to when you just WANT to groove to your bad mood? Your cat yelled at you, your girlfriend threw up on the carpet, and you just want to hear something that goes well with your crappy day/life, to heck with cheering yourself up. Well, if you have songs like that, share them here.

Here's some playlists I have for some "moods" of Morisette songs which reflect particular moods (in the order I have them in to play, currently- and I also have happy, introspective, and catchy playlists of her):

Angry:

Sister Blister
Narcissus
You Oughta Know
Right Through You
Bent For You
Sympathetic Character
Spineless
Would Not Come
I Was Hoping
Fear Of Bliss
Purgatorying
Can't Not

Mopey:

Simple Together
Flinch
That Particular Time
(Hidden Track)
I Was Hoping
Can't Not
Sorry To Myself
Hands Clean ((Included because it's mopey in the acoustic version))
Hands Clean [Acoustic]
Unsent
Are You Still Mad
Offer

There's more I can think of but that's a start.

Hey, I make mood playlists too!

Here's my "towering rage" one:
Mogwai - Mogwai Fear Satan
Isis - Deconstructing Towers
Bonk - Waiting in the Car (Norwegian thrash metal for the win!)
Mono - Com
Shining - Goretex Weather Report (this is Godzilla's pump-up music)
Ministry - Burning Inside
The Mad Capsule Markets - Cracker
Sigur Ros - Popplagid (for a downright apocalyptic mood)
Milhaven - A Simple Plan
Godspeed You Black Emperor - BBF3
Explosions in the Sky - A Poor Man's Memory

Depression:
Sigur Ros - Vaka (if there's a song that comes any closer to capturing the sheer soul-crushing that depression brings, I'm afraid to hear it)
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 8, Pathetique
Ludwig van Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
Doveman - Secret
Something Corporate - Konstantine
Gary Jules - Mad World
Spiritualized - Broken Heart
Radiohead - Exit Music (For a Film)
Mono - Mere Your Pathetique Light
Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl
Sufjan Stevens - Flint
The Wrens - Happy (a song named Happy in the depression list omg wtf?)
Dreamend - Passing



These are just highlights, though. My playlists are huge

My anger playlist:

Godsmack - I Stand Alone
Savatage - I Am
Donna Williams - Enemy Lines
Great Big Sea - Chemical Workers (take it as a metaphor and it's the best sensory overload song I've got)
Evanescence - Whisper
Jekyll and Hyde musical - The World Has Gone Insane
Evanescence - My Immortal
Guns 'N Roses - Sympathy For The Devil
Luca Turilli - Demonheart
Queen of the Damned soundtrack - Forsaken
Jekyll and Hyde musical - Confrontation
Moulin Rouge - El Tango De Roxanne
Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
Nightwish - Phantom of the Opera

Well, some of this might kinda be rehash from the 'We lack what your listening to!" thread but here it goes.

P***ed:
Method Man - Torture
Method Man - Suspect Chin
Method Man - Grid Iron
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt II
Mobb Deep - G.O.D. Pt III
Mobb Deep - Man Down
Mobb Deep - Get Dealt With
Mobb Deep - Right Back At You
XZibit - Best Of Things
Cypress Hill - Steel Magnolia
Cypress Hill - How I Could Just Kill A Man
Eminem - Amityville
Ghostface - Run
Ministry - Burning Inside
Ministry - So What
Tool - Track 7, Aenima
Pantera - F'ing Hostile
Subwave - Dirty Dozen
Trace - Sonar
Technical Itch - Dark Hearts
Drumsound & Simon Bassline Smith - Aneurysm
Ram Trilogy - No Reality
Doc Scott - Shadowboxing
Ram Trilogy - Overload
Raiden - Six Foot Ditch
Human Resource - Dominator (Raiden Remix)
Ed Rush & Fierce - Locusts
)EIB( - The Nine
Stakka & K-Tee (?) - Shrapnel rmx
Absolute Zero - The Code
3D - Rollout
Dj SS - Symphonic

Searing/Depressive/Moody:
Dj Mosus - I like It Rough (Bailey Remix)
Dillinja - Lightyears
Kay and Lee - Tuning
John B - Up All Night
Johnny L - I Let U
Omni Trio - Renegade Snare
Wu Tang - Can It Be All So Simple
BT - Dreaming (Libra remix)
Amin Van Buren - Communication
Jon the Dentist vs. Ollie Jay - Imagination (K90 remix)
Digital Blonde - Legato (JamX & Dumonde remix)
Roni Size - Only A Dream
Digital - Down Under
Wax Doctors - The Spectrum
John '00' Fleming's more dark & somber trance sets
Simon Bassline Smith - Hypnosis (Aphrodite Remix)
Aphrodite - Wishing On A Star rmx
Dangermouse - Jay-Z v. Beatles 'Gray Album'
Goldie - The Calling
Dj Krust - Maintain
Alex Reese - Pulp Fiction (Lemon D Remix)
BK - Revolution (Alpha Zone Remix)
Dillinja - Your Gonna Miss My Face
Dillinja - Silver Blade
Matrix - Mute

Other categories might be me trying to harden up my mood, find something dark and mysterious to get me on point and thinking, and a lot of those off the two lists I just made work for that too.

hecate's evil thirteen:

1. i think that i would die - hole
2. covet - jack off jill
3. little baby swastikkka - skunk anansie
4. handsome & gretal - babes in toyland
5. sacrifice theory - AFI
6. of walking abortion - manic street preachers
7. use your fist and not your mouth - marilyn manson
8. vengeance - new model army
9. milk it - nirvana
10. shove - L7
11. south texas deathride - the union underground
12. get free- the vines
13. captain - idlewild

hecate's requiem thirteen:

1. perfectly still - halo
2. doll parts - hole
3. by my side - INXS
4. the nobodies - marilyn manson
5. almost diamonds - marc almond
6. black money - culture club
7. cup of coffee - garbage
8. the dancer - p j harvey
9. love song - the cure
10. tsunami - manic street preachers
11. caribou - pixies
12. lucky - radiohead
13. i know it's over - the smiths

My friends all think I am nuts for having music to keep me in a bad mood glade I’m not the only one


Angry:
Linkin Park Numb
Linkin Park Don’t Stay
Linkin Park Hit the Floor
Linkin Park Faint ---Well most of it
No doubt Just a Girl
Nirvana Aneurysm
The Living End Prisoner of Society
Offspring Cool to Hate
Tool Stinkfist
Hatebreed Most of it
Matallica Most of it
NIN all of it

Mopey:
Evanescence Tourniquet
Evanescence Missing
Garbage Bleed Like Me
Garbage Can’t Cry These Tears
Linkin Park Easier to Run
Nirvana Come As You Are
Nirvana All Apolgies
Nirvana Where Did You Sleep Last Night
Live Ok
Placebo Teenage Angst
Placebo Swallow
Silverchair Suicidal Dream
Velvet Revolver Fall to Pieces

theres more but thats most of my faverts

Excellent taste in music there ajs_line_of_silver. But depressing sounding music makes me happy for some reason. I guess it's just a coincidence that a lot of the music I like happens to be depressing.

Last edited by thatrsdude on 23 Sep 2005, 2:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Oh! Forgot. Both of those should have been on my anger list too.

Anything by Peter Andre!

'come as you are' is mopey??

that song is great

roflmao! too right!

the smiths cheer me up no end. when i'm angry - something LOUD.

and techstep - is simon bassline smith anything to do with smith and mighty?

"coded language" by Krust is a winner too - all that list bit at the end is great for screaming along to in the car.

Anything by Linkin Park, IMO.

lol, once again it looks like I'm the odd one out on music.

-lol that happens to me with really angry music I just start happily bouncing off the walls with a big smile some of my friends think I am nuts, but if I am really #!*^ off when I start listing to it I just get angered and that can b fun. but with sad types of music I just stay down even if I wasn’t in to bad a mood when I started listing. I think I mite be a Goth under all this geek cos a lot of my favoured music could be considered depressing.






I was not implying that it was not good, its possibly not mopey but a type of sad feeling.

I think what it does for me is it can take me being silly-happy and turned it into something more refined that I feel a lot better about. That and when I am in a down or depressive mood I do get off on a real somber and burnt track; instead of making me feel worse it almost kinda adds some kind of spitual beauty or higher sense to what I'm feeling if that makes any sense.

As for a lot of the angry jam-out type tracks, at least with the dark jungle, I've mentioned in another thread from a while back that when I'm driving on a real nice spring day and cranking that stuff it's like the beauty of things arround me is amplified. Not that the music offsets it in the bad way, it's more like that beautiful weather makes the music that much more beautiful, the music makes the weather that much more beautiful, and again, it can get going back and forth like that till I'm getting chills and sometimes even tears in my eyes if I've got the right stuff in. Especially real moody and epic tunes, epic stuff gets me every time.

Beck – everybody’s gotta learn sometime

Blue oyster cult – don’t fear the ripper <looking back at the past and the inevitability of death>

Chris issac – wicked game

Evanescence – my immortal

Gary jules – mad world

<Nirvana>
You know you’re right
The man who sold the world
Rape me
Polly
Dumb
Come as you are (right, sorry about my previous comments)
All apologies

<Pearl jam>
Yellow ledbetter
Once
Last kiss
Elderly woman behind the counter is a small town
Black
Betterman
All those yesterdays
Daughter

<Pink floyd>
Comfortably numb

<REM>
The one I love
The great beyond
Man on the moon
Losing my religion
Imitation of life
End of the world
Everybody hurts
At my most beautiful

<Radiohead> (pretty much anything qualifies here)
Where I end and you begin
There there
The bends
Sulk
Street spirit
Sit down. Stand up
Pyramid song (this song should be destroyed so no is made sad by listening to it)
Optimistic
No surprises
Nice dream
Lucky
Karma police (oh so evil)
How to disappear completely
Creep

<Soundgarden>
Like suicide
4th of july
Black hole sun
Slaves and bulldozers (more anger than sadness really)

<The Verve>
Bittersweet Symphony**** (this is powerful)
The drugs don’t work