Songs/Bands that get you through rough times

So what do you all turn to to get you through tough patches? Seems like I've had several over the past year and a half.

Job stuff seems to bring me back to Flogging Molly. When I got laid off from teaching, "Black Friday Rule" helped me keep up faith to move on and pursue a dream. Weird training, moving, scheduling stresses now have me listening to "The Worst Day Since Yesterday".

When I first got to Berlin a year ago, and everything was cold and grey in a completely foreign place, Queen Latifah's rendition of "California Dreamin" carried me through early mornings.

From the time I was leaving Berlin through my internship in Minnesota, trying to figure out where I'd get a job and settle, and how to coordinate that with a fiancee, it was "A Place Called Home" by Kim Richey.

Sorry if this is a bit of a downer. It's been a rough day/week (I loosened the wrong clamp today and took a beer-and-yeast shower that I hope does not end up infecting a bunch of yeast we need for next week). The New Year has also had me reflecting on everything I've been through in the past year.

Not sure if it helps me get through the rough times or just perpetuates them but I listen to a lot of Wintersleep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw8IGgBqIio

this may sound a little dramatic and over the top, but it's not much of a stretch to say that Suicidal Tendencies got me thru my teenage years.

Everybody Hurts- REM

music doesn't help me cope.....it tends to make me wallow in self pity. getting outside into the sunshine and woods helps. making stuff helps.

The Who's Quadrophenia was the soundtrack to my angst-ridden years.

JoeyM wrote: music doesn't help me cope.....it tends to make me wallow in self pity. getting outside into the sunshine and woods helps. making stuff helps.

For me it's a bit of both. When I'm feeling down I'll listen to songs like GnR's Coma or Metallica's Fade to Black, along with various other metal bands from my youth... really loud... It seems to distract me for awhile... not that my youth was a particularly positive period of my life. That said, nothing improves my mood faster than a nice, solo bike ride for either a couple of hours or so in the woods or a long day on the road.

logdog wrote: Everybody Hurts- REM

You smile, but the whole automatic for the people album helped me through breaking up with my 1st wife. The funny thing is when ever I hear anything off that album now it takes me back to a happy place

My "Petula Clark's Greatest Hits" CD. But then I'm older than most of you.

Early Pearl Jam does it for me...

Queensryche's "Operation: Mindcrime" usually straightens me out of a funk. Gotta listen to it from beginning to end though, no skipping.

Anything Radiohead.

The Avett Brothers works for me. Elemental folksy stuff.

I can't stand music when I am having a bad day, it all just annoys me. Music fuels my good times, when things suck, I want it quiet.

A round or two of Call of Duty helps massively . . .

Music pisses me off during times when I'm down.

Got me through adolescence.

Candlebox's 'He Calls Home' and Pearl Jam's 'Even Flow' both remind me that no matter how tough and dark things may seem there's others who have it worse and I should be happy with what I've got. Offspring's 'Gone Away' serves as a reminder of those I've lost.

John Prine and Steve Goodman.

OMG poopie, Low Self Opinion / Tearing / You Didn't Need are quite possibly the three greatest power-through-it songs ever.

guess I'm a bit different but for me it's old school bluegrass gospel

An almost immediate pick me up when everything is going wrong with your day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pNCR3xubgU

Get Set Go - I hate everyone.

Duke wrote: The Who's *Quadrophenia* was the soundtrack to my angst-ridden years.

Best album ever.

wbjones wrote: guess I'm a bit different but for me it's old school bluegrass gospel

I'll take the Kruger Brothers. Not quite the same genre, but not far off.

Iron and Wine
Boards of Canada
Joni Mitchell
Gordon Lightfoot
Sera Cahoone
Rachel McCartney
William Fitzsimmons
Billie Holliday
Nina Simone
Leela James
Sade

I've been listening to a lot of Reggae/Ska stuff now. It mellows me out.

The Expendables
Pepper
Slightly Stoopid
some Incubus now
(these make me look like a stoner, but I'm not)