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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 04:08 PM
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Poll question: What style of music do you listen to when you're stressed to the MAX?


For me, in the last week, it's been Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage" and Wayne Shorter's "Speak No Evil." I can't listen to any of my regular stuff. I pop most of my favorites into the car deck and within 30 seconds I'm yanking them out. So far, the mid-60s Miles sidemen are what the doctor ordered.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 04:25 PM
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1. Kind of Blue...
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Sky Masterson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 04:30 PM
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2. Very old music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWlJV03Vi-Q
Cheek to Cheek - Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers 1935
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 04:41 PM
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6. Now THAT is MUSIC!
Signed:
The Geezer
;-)
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BeachBaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 04:32 PM
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3. If I'm distressed, it's Joan Baez and Carole King.
If I'm pissed off, it's Metallica, volume 11. My black friends refer to it as my "angry white girl music". :)
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travelingtypist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 06:07 PM
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16. My mom calls it my death-die-kill music.
...or my anger management music. Enter Sandman at 20 does it for me.
Korn, Limp Bizkit, Ministry...
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geomon666 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 04:39 PM
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4. Tool or any other Maynard James Keenan material.
But mainly Tool.
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libodem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 04:41 PM
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5. I clicked 'songwriter stuff'
cuz I think I would listen to, COUNTING CROWS, for solace. They have meaningful words. Very, very, meaningful.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 04:54 PM
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7. When I'm really stressed I fix a Scotch and water...

...sit back and light up.
http://img.wallpaperstock.net:81/wallpapers/thumbs1/11506.jpg
AAHHHHHHHH...
What stress?
:-)
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Bennyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 05:05 PM
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8. Psychedelic jamband style...
Some SCI usuallly. Fire up a fatty and just drift off.....
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 05:10 PM
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9. Silence, then slowly move to classical...very slowly...then up from
there.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 05:11 PM
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10. For me I listen to really pissed off music. Rage Against The Machine always works.
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 07:58 PM
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22. Sometimes that works for me...
...my "go to" song is "New York" by the Sex Pistols. It's really pissed off AND snotty, so there's an extra layer.

:toast:
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Ivan Sputnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 05:14 PM
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11. "Music for Airports"
by Brian Eno. Either that, or something that has a lot of screaming in it.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:07 PM
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25. For the screaming, I'd suggest Einsturzende Neubauten
Any of the early stuff :D
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 05:14 PM
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12. Other: I listen to songs in languages that I don't understand and odd "cover" versions.
I believe it stimulates my subconscious mind, and distracts my brain
from whatever it's worrying about.

I have a mix CD I made just for that purpose.
It starts with Puffy Ami Yumi's "Teen Titans" theme song
in the original japanese, goes to Johnny Cash doing "Personal Jesus",
and continues on that fashion.
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MajorChode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 05:17 PM
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13. New age is good background music
I also like Big Band.

Very relaxing stuff.
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 07:13 PM
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20. Yes, definitely New Age
Edited on Sun Feb-01-09 07:14 PM by kentauros
Such as Jonathan Goldman, Steven Halpern, Mars Lasar, David Hykes, Deauter, Mike Oldfield (specifically, Songs of Distant Earth)

I like Big Band if I'm feeling energetic and need something to help motivate me to clean the kitchen and such :P Although Bellydance Music is also great for that ;)

:D
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 05:46 PM
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14. 80s and 90s rock, Metallica, Megadeth, Motley Crue, Warrant, Scorpions, GnR
Edited on Sun Feb-01-09 05:46 PM by CatholicEdHead
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eShirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 05:46 PM
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15. NERDCORE loud loud loud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw&feature=PlayList&p=F29CA16155190D0F&playnext=1&index=13
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abq e streeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 06:39 PM
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17. The Clash, especially Give Em Enough Rope
channels the negativity of the stress into feeling positive and focused.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 06:43 PM
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18. Depends- driving in traffic, generally pissed off, homework, political shit, interpersonal shit?
I have many shades of stress, and they all require a different sort of screaming and profanity laden music to cope.
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:14 PM
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27. Everything except homework for me, because I have my B.A....
Edited on Sun Feb-01-09 08:14 PM by Amerigo Vespucci
...but you're right, it's shades and tones and some days it's just white light, white heat...

...that's right. Some days, the only thing that will DO is LOU (can't believe I left him out of the poll. Oh well).

:rofl:
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 07:00 PM
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19. Either old blues or in your face psychedelic rock.
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 07:42 PM
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21. Ambient
Something like Boards of Canada or Global Communication
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:01 PM
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23. I picked Slayer.
Edited on Sun Feb-01-09 08:02 PM by ZombieNixon
I listen to that when I'm stressed. Of course, I listen to that anyway, even when I'm feeling great, but my tastes tend to run a little more toward 90s death metal.
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City of Mills Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:12 PM
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26. Same here
It's killer workout music too! Slayer, Death, Dark Angel, anything heavy and furious will do.
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:18 PM
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28. Very true.
Edited on Sun Feb-01-09 08:19 PM by ZombieNixon
I need to go back to gym and freak people out by singing Carcass on the weight machine. :P
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SKKY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-01-09 08:05 PM
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24. Nine Inch Nails, White Zombie, RATM, stuff like that...
...
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