Hey Guys.

Maybe this thread seems a little weird to you or whatever , but i wonder if it's just me or there are more people who have or experienced this !!

And it's a personal thing to , but i'm really curious...'



Have you ever been in really bad , negative time in your life , but i'm not talking about just feeling sad but really really something terrible happend or whatever and you're totally fucked up ? Okay , well that's kind off where i was last week and before , it's going better now because i ... i kind off found a remedy...and that's Music.



Wether i listen to the chems or Bloc Party or whatever , , for some reason , it just seems to me that the music ( not even the lyrics ) is helping me to think normal again , to think with my actuall brains instead of with my feelings.It helps me to see things straight and to realize that everything that happend and happens sucks but that i will get over it and feel better in a while. And to realize a lot off things , that i'm not gonna mention now. And also i feel like , i dont know , no mather how messed up i am , i'll always have the music.



Is that weird ?! I mean , does anybody recognize this things or is it really weird....? It's hard for me to explain myself good as i can't find the right english words...but if you kinda understand this , reply ;)



Thanx !!

no, darling, it is NOT weird. it's just normal.



i've experienced just the same last year, when i went through some real bad part of my life. the only thing to help me and make me feel better was music. not only chemical brothers but a lot of very sad, depressive and melancholic stuff: mogwai, bright eyes, godspeed you black emperor...



music is the best thing around. what would the world be without it...

yes.



music helps me not to think of feel. just listen. it gives me rest, instead of feeling and thinking about stuff all the time.

something like that.



and Im new. yay!

so, Setragasj, welcome! have a good time with us

hey ed.

Anyway...with me , i can't listen to depressing music. Makes me cry. Not depressing but just music that makes me think off al that shit. I listen to...well yeah , like yesterday when i was listening to Surface to Air , i don't know , i just felt like new power came and said YOU WILL GET OVER THIS! hehehe. okay that sounds weird :p But its true though

but jeanie, crying can be the best thing to do in some moments. few weeks ago i just wanted to cause i was just tired and weak and wanted to lose bad emotions and just wanted to cry. thing was: i did not have a reason. not really. i had to watch a good movie first the other day to be able to :-//

I know but i'vr cried enough. Believem e i cry A LOT. No it's enough. Time to get my shit togheter and try to get/ be happy again. You know ?!

thank you, boy with the golden eyes! 8)

I doesnt matter to me whether the music is depressive or happy or whatever.

as long as there is energy in it and it can PASS their energy to me its good music to me.

music gives me the energy to live. without music I'd pass out and die.



rawk \m/

jean, when we both have the time, we're gonna visit all the rollercoasters in the world. how about next month?



ok.. lets just say sixflags then :P

Jeanie, I have always felt that music is one of the most powerful mediums out there. It has the ability to change your mood. And if you let it, change your perspective on many things. It gives us a voice when we think we don't have one, and can even help us find our soul when we think all is lost.



Music therapy is actually legitimate course of study, and there was a young kid who lost his father in the world trade center who found so much solace in music, he decided to make music therapy his major in college and hopefully in the future, his living. Music has been known to pull people out of comas, helps soothe women during labor, and help with the healing process. There is also another organization that I saw a special on a few years back. A group of harpists who go into hospitals at the request of families, so they can play soothing music as their loved ones are passing away.



Music is a very powerful thing indeed.



So anyway, music has helped pull me out of a depression a few years back so I can totally understand and relate to what you're experiencing right not. You can read about my experience and what it has to do with the Chems here:



http://forums.theche...?t=1107&start=0

Hey Whirly...i actually read your story before , but it's amazing to read a lot off the things i'm trying to explain...



"There was something about the situation that made me feel like I was listening to the world with a new pair of ears and a new outlook on life. I got these strange emotions, like I was meeting a good friend after years and years - or I felt like I did when my husband and I went on our first truly fuckwitted and hilarious adventure together, or I felt like how I did when I first saw my son. And I knew everything would be all right, and I would be a better person for having gone through what I did. I know it sounds cheesy and overly dramatic, but that's the sum of it."



This is what i'm trying to say. That feeling , i mean i'm still kind off messes up , but i know everything will be allright , no mather how depressed i'm feeling now...



thnx for your post Whirly , it's quite...helpfull !

this is a very nice thread, jeanie. i love it. thank you!



be good right soon, okay?

I'm trying hehe ;)

Love to see some more reactions!!

I'll agree with music helping you out.

A few months ago, I was in a bad emotional place when me and my girlfriend broke up. It was hard to adjust to the change, it had been 2.5 years. I got into Radiohead (I hated them before that) and it just fitted, it was so emotional, it grounded me and made me think straight. Amazing effect really.

I don't know which is your situation nor what happened to you and why you're that way.



Music can cheer you up, as well as it makes you cry.



When I joined this forum, sombody posted PTB's lyrics, and I said that Galvanize cheered me up.

yes, radiohead are amazing. on the one hand they leave you just being confused but on the other hand you can fall into their music. i sometimes catch myself singing parts of fake plastic trees, airbag or pyramide song just for myself, or i play their songs on the guitar. it is not happy music but somehow it can make me happy. that does not mean it can't bring me down as well

haha, I knew radiohead would be mentioned here. A little tip: Listen to them whilst driving, you'll probably end up driving into a wall X-D

yes music can help durring tough situations mentaly physicly or emotionly

Flaming Lips "Soft Bulletin" is a very personal record that saw me through the final months and death of my grandmother last year, and all the weight that those events carried...

It's good for me to read that it's something normal hehehe.

And yeah its funny how you get into music in a bad period that you never really listened to before or that you never really knew. That's what i have with Bloc Party. I don''t know why but there record is just so amazing , i really started listening to it since all this shit happend. Weird , isn't it.



Anyway , thnx for all the "personal" reactions.

I see you all kind off got out of this bad period , so i know i will to.