your "help me feel better" playlists

[ro]

yah, it's a pretty personal thing, i guess.

but i have just now been sitting on a wet log in the woods with a bottle of wine in the beautiful warm spring rain, and was glad i had my "i-pod" with me.. playing my special "help me feel better" playlist, which runs like this, give or take, and i was just curious what-all you folk listen to when you're having those moments...

it's kind of tailor-made to my own personal suffering/redemption, easy stuff, slightly 80's centric (b/c that's where i come from), slightly not, and not in order, because i've too much wine to set in order, just words that speak to me in my extreme states...

feel so sad Spacemen 3
candidate Joy Division
new dawn fades Joy Division
I Don't Live Today Jimi Hendrix
She's Lost Control Joy Division
Guiding Light Television
Sitting Cat Stevens
Bright Phoebus The Watersons
Feel So Sad Spiritualized
so long, you pretty thing Spiritualized
The Ballad Of El Goodo Big Star
there she goes, my beautiful world Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Let It Flow Spiritualized
From Her To Eternity Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
No Name No. 5 Elliott Smith
Shine A Light Spiritualized CN Tower Toronto
Electric Electric Mainline Spiritualized CN Tower Toronto
Rachel Land Jazz Butcher
Street Hassle Lou Reed
Shine A Light Boston MFA
Guiding Light Television
Feel So Sad Spiritualized LGM
Temptation New Order

[shalloboi]

i make diary playlists every month. they're kind of compilations of what i'm listening to at the moment or what i'm getting all nostalgic and wistful about. it's a really fun practice- when i listen to one from years ago it really pulls me back to what was happening in my life when i made it.
i have quite a few that would fall under that 'help me feel better' category. i make a playlist on my birthday every year and in 2011 i was fired from a job i'd been at for three years in a really awful and drawn-out way on the day before my birthday and that one is something i listen to make myself feel better when i'm feeling low-

1. set your arms down- warpaint- 'the fool'
2. bo diddley jam- spacemen 3- 'copenhagen barbue 1989 bootleg'
3. alien rivers- crystal stilts- 'in love with oblivion'
4. like cockatoos- the cure- birmingham 87 bootleg
5. love fade- tamaryn- 'the waves'
6. untitled- koolaid electric company- s/t
7. tropical island suite- the fresh & onlys- 'play it strange'
8. winter '68- the black angels- 'another nice pair'
9. o, lilac- wild nothing- 'gemini'
10. i'll feel a whole lot better- the byrds- 'mr. tambourine man'
11. mary- jessica bailiff- s/t
12. tears in the typing pool- broadcast- 'tender buttons'
13. waves wash over me- spectrum- 'soul kiss (glide divine)'
14. scheherezade- panda bear- 'tom boy'
15. turtle island- beach house- 'devotion'
16. my time's up- the raveonettes- 'raven in the grave'
17. 200 bars- spiritualized- 'lazer guided melodies'
18. stinking cloud- thee oh sees- 'castlemania'

i really like your playlist- i had that same version of 'shine a light' from the acoustic mainlines boston show in a playlist from 2008 or so, i think.

[James T]

Leonard Cohen - Seems so long ago, Nancy (Isle of Wight)
Low - Down
Red House Painters - Rollercoaster
Blur - Caramel

[The Dr]

ray charles- can't stop loving you
Magdalena Kožená: Lascia ch'io pianga
spz- broken heart
velvets- i'll be your mirror
lou reed- vanishing act
mhendleson- on wings of a song
j spaceman- silent sound
leonard cohen- the window
leonard cohen- suzanne
spz- shine a light
scott walker- girls from the street
dylan- girl from the red river shore
dylan- dusqune whistle
spz- ladies and gentlemen
billie holiday- body and soul
ronee blakley- need a new sunrising
bobby darin- once upon a time
bobby darin mac the knife (live-legas- man he ssh-wings!) (also check out the film beyond the sea- instant feel good film)
ian mcculloch- candleland

(i'm guessing that is over 80 mins now so best stop!)

[jadams501]

Richard Ashcroft - Check The Meaning
George Harrison - Isn't It A Pity
Spiritualized - Won't Get To Heaven (The State I'm In)
Big Star - Holocaust
Tim Buckley - The Earth Is Broken
Gram Parsons - In My Time of Darkness
Bob Dylan - Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat)
George Harrison - Hear Me Lord
Spacemen 3 - Lord Can You Hear Me
Primal Scream - Damaged
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Bob Dylan - Shooting Star

[princeskinny]

David Crosby - Laughing
Gram Parsons - Hearts on Fire
Primal Scream - Higher than the Sun
Elvis - I'll hold you in my Heart
Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You
Otis Redding - These Arms of mine
Spiritualized - Come Together
Miles Davis - Solea
Marvin Gaye - Right On
The Verve - Little Gem
Four Tet & Burial - Nova
Rolling Stones - Let It Loose

[jadams501]

The Verve - Little Gem

Yes!

[Hofstadter]

Mine's sort of long, but that's cause I am a hormonal teenager and so I feel sad a lot and so I listen to this playlist a lot. I update a decent amount too but it's been pretty much the same since january. finally got my data back after a month as i got a new computer at last after a catastrophic crash, wasn't sure if the backup would work so I was afraid I had lost everything, including this list which i had just barely decided to not post on here the day before it crashed. was kicking myself for not doing that, but here it is now.

Spacemen 3 - honey
My Bloody Valentine - sometimes
Sun Araw - I'm Gonna Cross That River of Jordan
Sonic Boom - Help Me Please
Spectrum - Waves Wash Over Me
My Bloody Valentine - she found now
Yo La Tengo - Damage
Stereolab - K-Stars
Fuxa - Our Lips Are Sealed
Spectrum - All Night Long
Choice - Multitudes [1980]
Spacemen 3 - lord can you hear me?
Spiritualized - Shine A Light
John Maus - No Title (Molly)
Deep Magic - Minds in Lucidity III
Spacemen 3 - so hot (wash away all my tears)
Pure X - Heavy Air
LSD and the Search for God - Starting Over
The Brian Jonestown Massacre -I Love You
Galaxie 500 - Snowstorm
The Jesus And Mary Chain Something's Wrong
Teenage Fanclub - Every Picture I Paint
Mercury Rev - Car Wash Hair
Bardo Pond - Limerick
Sun Araw - Grip
Yo La Tengo - Big Day Coming
Can - Oh Yeah
Bintangs - Splendid Sight
The Pretty Things - Trust
Spacemen 3 - Just To See You Smile (Honey Pt. 2)
Animal Collective - Kids on Holiday
Stereolab - Super Falling Star
Camera - Morgen
Deerhunter - Red Ink
Hookworms - What We Talk About
Eternal Tapestry - Sand Into Rain
Sun Araw - Barstool Blues
Suicide - Cherree
Spacemen 3 - That's Just Fine
Sun Araw - Horse Steppin
Spacemen 3 - may the circle be unbroken
Belle And Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Bright Eyes - Devil Town
Bob Dylan - Shelter From The Storm
Yo La Tengo - Our Way to Fall
Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
Ganglians - To June
Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??
Teenage Fanclub - Everything Flows