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Music always influences people. I usually listen to two genres of music. Rock and classics. When I'm very angry I listen to something very hard from rock, for example something from "Three days Grace". And when I'm thoughtful and in a romantic mood some tender classics like Gabriel Faure's "Pavane". By the way I recently have found a new disk with the same name "Pavane", at eclassical.com, it's performed by Maxim Rysanov and all compositions there made me so calm and happy... Don't know how to explain it, but I simply wanted to cover myself with them like with the warm blanket...
If I am "feeling down", upbeat music (which I like) is not going to help much.
What helps me the most is if someone says something nice to me. Or interaction with other people. Just chatting a bit with a neighbor or whatever can work wonders!
The trick is to find someone positive to talk to. And of course don't talk about "feeling down", rather talk about anything other than that.
FYI - I find the following music "upbeat"...
(Turn it up loud and do things around the house, get ready to go somewhere, etc.)
When I'm down, Irish celtic folk always brings me out of it. I think its the under laying strength in the music. Its music of people who had troubles, but chiose to go on and dance anyway. I have a whole collection on the computer which gets played through the good speakers with the tv setup when I have to do boring things since then they don't get noticed.
Music is said to have a direct brain connection, much as color does. Drumming, for instance, is found universally, and has the same effect of pulling people together. I think part of what can pull us out of a sinkhole is dependent on the music itself and how it connects and our own memories and meanings. And what we like, of course.
Yeah, there was a couple of decades during which I would from time to time get depressed. At some point I learned that I could put on an Eagles tape, theirs being the rock music I preferred at the time. In short order I'd be singing along and by the end of the second tune I wouldn't be depressed. If there was ever a charm that worked for me, that was it.
With availabilities on the Internet, I now just self medicate. Don't need no stinkin' depression to have a party. But I mostly listen to Zen music on direcTV Sonic TAP.
My mood was just depressed by watching this video by SRV because I was just getting into him when he died. So it was bittersweet to watch this video, and made me feel sad.
My mood was just depressed by watching this video by SRV because I was just getting into him when he died. So it was bittersweet to watch this video, and made me feel sad.
I never get tired of watching one of the best (at least top 5) guitar players of all time.
Music does affect my mood, but I also use it to calm me down when I'm angry, boost me a up a little when I'm sad, etc. I'm not saying that I listen to "Walking on Sunshine" when I'm depressed (that song would just make it worse! Haha...), but I can't stay depressed when listening to songs like "Say Hey (I Love You)" by Michael Franti. (Example: I just found this video on You Tube, and I'm already "chair-dancing" - makes typing rather difficult! )
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