What would you rather listen to?

music that makes you angry? upset? brings up emotions that you would rather have more control over?

or

love songs.

songs about loving others?

songs that have poetry? (songs that say things to the effect of "I wanna fuck that bitch an kill" don't count)

Why would anyone want to listen to music that only makes their emotions express more anger or frustration?

Not me.

since the later - love songs - are generally so pathetically saccharine and utterly unartistic that I want to kill myself.

The angry/upset music I can ignore, because often at least it's good.

Unless it's that shitty rap/hip hop/salsa kind of angry music, in which case I'd rather just kill myself than have to choose between that filth and love songs.

But some music that brings up the so-called "bad" emotions, which you categorically deny as having validity and a place in our lives, is very helpful - I think of anti-war songs (like Crumb's "Black Angels" or 60s protest songs), requiems, threnodies, etc.

I won't list them here. oh, what the hell.

http://friendshipvillage.homestead.com/Music.html

I used to pretend to subscribe to a whole pretentious system of values and genre subdivisions that met my approval, but now I realize I am hopelessly subjective and have no good reason for liking or disliking anything. :)

"I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you. I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think you've not any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow."
- Woody Guthrie.

No sense in making myself a dish of rage-stew.

Like love, frustration, and anger all in one, a lovely potpourri of angst. :grr:

when I'm already calm.

Dance music, Sting, etc...are the types of music that does that.

Sometimes it gives me the good swift kick in the ass to get going.