Best Fake Mic: Hairbrush or Lint roller?

[beadattitude]

So, I'm desperately trying to reboot myself after the holidays - coming home after a good time down home is more depression causing than a bad time, for some reason - so I'm listening to my sure-fire good mood lemmehearyousayyeah! (yeah!) play list and am currently stuck comparing Otis Redding's "Hard to Handle" vs. the same of the Black Crows

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[ariadne83]

What songs are sure-cures for the blues for you?

Duran Duran, Rio. The song or the album. I find it impossible *not* to want to smile and dance and sing when I put that on (I still have it on cassette tape!)

[beadattitude]

And it's especially awesome if you can remember the video, too. :D

[siegeofangels]

I like Roxette, particularly One Wish, which is made of glitter and rainbows; Britney Spears' more power-y songs like Toxic or If You Seek Amy; Pink's 'Cuz I Can; some Cobra Starship like Guilty Pleasure and Nice Guys Finish Last; and of course My Chemical Romance, who have a surprising number of really rather chipper songs about death (and some more snarly songs for when that is the solution to the blues).

[beadattitude]

I'm going to have to look up some of those; awesome!

[cetpar]

Soak Up the Sun - Sheryl Crow
How Bizarre - OMC
I'm Yours - Jason Mraz
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers
Two Step - Dave Matthews Band
It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls
Rock Lobster - B52s
Pump It - Black Eyed Peas
I Won't Back Down - Pearl Jam (cover of the Tom Petty song)
White & Nerdy - Weird Al Yankovik
Birdhouse in Your Soul - or any number of They Might Be Giants songs
Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf
Code Monkey - Jonathan Coulton
Happy Together - The Turtles
Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper

[beadattitude]

Oh, "I'm Gonna Be" just makes me crack a grin reading it!

Ooooh, thanks for the recs!

[amycooper]

Touch of Grey by The Greatful Dead always works for me. When I'm really down, happy songs don't work for me. Touch of Grey concedes that, yup things are pretty bad but you'll get through it. It doesn't exactly uplift but it makes the pain easier to handle.

And definitely hairbrush.

[beadattitude]

My college roommate and I used to play sad songs to see who would cry first. We had long distance Epic Romances at the time.

What I do, when I'm really, really down or having a panic attack, is sing the first thing that comes to mind. If I'm having a panic attack, singing in a foreign language seems to really jump tracks to a different part of my brain and short circuit things.

And it's like a good internal massage, and who doesn't feel better after one of those?

[crayonbreakygal]

See. I should have this kind of list the other day instead of the sad one. I just love your mix.

[beadattitude]

Oh honey. We be not singing the sad songs this month. There are some right now that catch me a lump in my throat, because I associate them so strongly of home, so they're on mute. Just stompawompa swaggery sassy stuff this month, I thinks. ::big love::