Happy or neutral normally. My thinking is, if I'm sad or depressed, I want to snap out of it, and sad/depressing music only makes me wallow in self-pity for longer so I listen to something upbeat and shake it off.
If I'm in a good mood, sad/depressing music doesn't bring me down, so I can still listen to it =)
listen to your favorite music, when I got extremely depressed post nervous breakdown in my 20's I literally felt like I couldn't listen to what made me happy, you have to hold onto the things you love most and that's the beginning of pulling yourself out of despair.
Happy or even funny songs for sure. Things like "You're my Best Friend" by Queen is good, but a song that can get me laughing is gold. Links to examples.
baroque.in the scale of Bach's ideal complexity, you're going to feel so small and insignificant that your problems won't matter anyone, not even to your own self.
This is kind of odd... but I take my favorite songs, put them into Audicity, and make chipmunk versions of them by pitching them up. Its a weird thing.
Or, you could wallow in your sadness and put The Smiths on.
Can't really say my taste in music changes with my mood...
I always want music with some sort of bite to it. You should probably just listen to whatever you feel like. My listening habits usually have me primarily spinning albums I've downloaded in the last few weeks, while occasionally listening to something older I like.
I'm always listening to musics when i'm home and on a travel it gives me inner peace and it was so relaxing whenever i'm listening to acoustic and love songs. btw guys have you heard about the new server of Rohan name isen? i came back playing the game again because of my friends suggestions and extremely good feedback from players that the new server was really different on the existing servers.
@thegerg: Easier to talk to people who go trough or went trough it than a Doc. Whats he?she gonna do, tell you what they learned at uni and prescribe you some poison anti depressants that will only destroy you in the long run.
I like chick rock for some reason when sad. Tune it to Flyleaf radio on Pandora/Last FM and it does me well. It is in general what I listen to when I am working out or trying to focus on writing.
Assuming you don't want to feel depressed at that moment, I would listen to something that makes you happy, obviously. That's at least what I would do if I was feeling sad. If you're asking what I would listen to, I'd listen to lighthearted metal like British Steel, or oddly, straight edge/oldschool hardcore punk I've found also works.
I've always been partial to something classical with a melancholic undertone, so I would say sad. I usually find myself listening to Godspeed You Black Emperor. And then there's Beethoven.
When I'm depressed. What I usually do is to play, play, play, play. But when it comes to music. I usually play songs that were made by LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY. When youre on a computer, you can actually do that all at the same time. So when Im playing my MMO's like Rohan and Flyff, I play those songs on my background.
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