Non-U2 songs you listen to when you're blue...?

[Merc]

I've had this song on repeat for the entire day - Teitur "Sleeping with the lights on"...

It creates a really sad mood... and after the hights of last week and returning back home I've been feeling a little blue plus there's the whole moving-thing... and this song just captures the mood perfectly...

I was just wondering - what do my fellow plebans listen to of non-U2 music when you're blue or feeling sad?!



Oh I've been haunted by this old ghost before
I want to hear your voice you know it's been so long
well I could dance and wave you balance on the shore
oh it would feel so good to see your face again

I still sleep with the lights on
I still stay up late alone
I still love another one
I still sleep with the lights on

oh we both understand we got no way back
oh our love was strange in a strange land
and we got broken wings we were bound to fall
until the sun comes up you can hold my hand

I still sleep with the lights on
I still stay up late alone
I still love another one
I still sleep with the lights on

and take it easy and take it slow
let's just watch the tides they grow
but wind is comin' from the side and
we are sleepin' in the light
in the light

I feel like wakin' up in your house someday
or eatin' off your hand like a bird astray
but nothin's gonna change we'll still be the same
We said what's to stay nothin's buried nowhere

I still sleep with the lights on
I still stay up late alone
I still love another one
I still sleep with the lights on

I still sleep with the lights on
I still stay up late alone
I still love another one
I still sleep with the lights on

I still sleep with the lights on
I still stay up late alone
I still love another one
I still sleep with the lights on

 

[Bonochick]

"Downtown" - Petula Clark

 

[Numb1075]

Somebody to Love by Depche Mode
Waiting for the Night by Depeche Mode

 

[dandy]

Somebody to Love by Depche Mode
Waiting for the Night by Depeche Mode

yeah, those are good ones. let me add:

'halo' by depeche mode
'northern lad' tori amos
'who will love me now' pj harvey
'hurt' nine inch nails
'soledad' natacha atlas and jah wobble

...and pretty much anything by the smiths and the cure (especially 'pictures of you').

 

[Numb1075]

Ahh, Hurt, nice choice.
Dandy, going w/ the Cure route, I always enjoy the song "Catch" when i am blue

 

[TheWho4Life]

Who Are You? and Happy Jack by The Who cause they make me so much more happy when I hear them

 

[Souly]

The Frames - Star star
Oasis - Little James
David Gray - Best I ever had (Gray sky morning)
Something Corporate - Konstantine

 

[TheWho4Life]

And Live Forever too I guess... by Oasis... but I haven't been sad yet while liking Oasis Oh well, I'm sure when I get sad I'll listen to it

 

[ultraviolet*bb]

Sigur Ros...can't name any of their songs, because most of them are untitled. Ireally like the one from Vanilla Sky at the end. Very dramatic!

 

[verte76]

Anything by Gabrieli (sixteenth century writer of masses from Venice). Amazing. It's like praying and doing recreation at the same time.

 

[U2democrat]

Anything by Coldplay, John Mellencamp. (by the way i just bought his greatest hits album its great!)

 

[bonojr62]

Even though I'm not a pleaban I'd say the number one song when I'm blue is.

How do Disappear completely by Radiohead

 

[starsgoblue]

Two words: Fiona Apple

 

[dandy]

Even though I'm not a pleaban I'd say the number one song when I'm blue is.

How do Disappear completely by Radiohead

good call. forgot about that one.

 

[nurse chrissi]

Bob Dylan
Jeff Buckley - esp. his cover of Hallelujah
The Police - message in a bottle/so lonely/beds to big without you/so lonely/and of course king of pain
anything by Morrissey/The Smiths
and most certainly radiohead's how to disappear completly

All of those are on my "moody" playlist

 

[Anirban]

bright eyes - "something vague"
dashboard confessional - "this ruined puzzle"
jimmy eat world - "table for glasses"
jimmy eat world - "23" (CHECK THIS SONG OUT!!! ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS EVER!!!!)

also...i listen to entire sarah mclachlan albums when sad...

 

[xtal]

"stay"- belly
"stay"- shakespears' sister
"leaving las vegas"- sheryl crow
"i shall believe"- sheryl crow
"universal"- blur
"nothing compares 2 u"- sinead o'connor
"maps"- yeah yeah yeah's
"november rain"- guns n roses
"what can i do"- the corrs
"linger", "i still do" - the cranberries

 

[verte76]

I put a Renaissance composer, now I'll say anything by Coldplay as well! I saw them not quite two years ago and they put on a killer show! The first time I ever heard "Clocks" I thought I was going to have to pull over I was so knocked out! Wow!

 

[meegannie]

"stay"- belly

...depends on whether I want to wallow in sadness or want something to cheer me up.....

Elbow -- Asleep In the Back
Mojave 3 -- My Life in Art
Idlewild -- The Bronze Medal
Counting Crows -- A Murder of One
Neil Halstead -- Hi Lo and Inbetween


Super Furry Animals -- She's Got Spies
Ed Harcourt -- Apple of My Eye
The Charlatans -- Judas
anything by The Polyphonic Spree
Doves -- Cedar Room
Seafood -- Similar Assassins
The Delgados -- Mr. Blue Sky (ELO cover)
The Zutons -- Zuton Fever

 

[elevation2u]

i know its over -smiths
asleep- smiths
trouble - coldplay
how to disappear completely - radiohead
everybody hurts - rem
hurt -johnny cash version
have you forgotten - red house painters
by this river - brian eno
angie - rolling stones
yesterday - beatles

 

[Needle_Chill]

The Waterboys - Glastonbury Song, This is the Sea (and many others...)
Coldplay - Clocks, The Scientist, In My Place
Red Hot Chili Peppers (Fun stuff when you're down...)
The Band

(This is only when there's no U2 to play, cause that cheers me up in no time, and sometimes helps me hit rock bottom and not kill myself...)

 

[Merc]

everybody hurts - rem

.... and I just took my old Queen cd's again... "Innuendo" and "Made in Heaven" - really beautiful music, Freddie possibly sounding the best he ever did, but some of the songs... and the lyrics...

"Too much love will kill you, just as sure as none at all..."

...that's moody music!

 

[hippy]

Jumps on the Coldplay bandwagon


Yellow, Trouble, and pretty much all of AROBTTH can make me cry like a baby

I like to listen to Mozart's Requiem sometimes when I'm in a down mood.

I also listen to the Doors. "The End" puts me in a strange place

edit: Coldplay's "Spies" is another one...

 

[BluRmGrl]

When I am unable to soothe myself with U2 Audio Therapy, I choose the following albums:

- "City to City" by Gerry Rafferty.....I doubt if anyone here besides myself has ever heard of the guy!
- "Kick" by INXS
- "Avalon" by Roxy Music
- "She's So Unusual" by Cyndi Lauper
- "Synchronicity" by The Police

Hmm....looks like my 80's roots are showing - and the 70's are peeking through a bit, as well!

 

[Siren]

Creep- Stone Temple Pilots
Who wants to live forever- Queen
No One But You- Queen
Carnival- Natalie Merchant
Why Go- Pearl Jam
Black- Pearl Jam
Angry Johnny- Poe

 

[u2bonogirl]

Oh gosh, definitely the scientist by coldplay.
seriously im weird, i love depressing music. its my thing.
maybe because i'm a brooder

High and dry by radiohead
Bush- faithful (i think thats the name of it)
practically the whole Kid A album- well i guess radiohead period. thom yorke seems to be a brooder too
purple rain!

 

[U2Kitten]

There are some tearjerkers I have listened to, but I have found that when something is REALLY bad, upsetting and disturbing nothing helps more than something bouncy or silly like ABBA or Aqua. I tell you there were literally long dark roads in tragic times I could not have driven down without these CDs in the car.

 

[Lil'Bono]

'iris'-goo dolls
'i don't wanna know'-new found glory
'the saddest song'-the ataris
'we believe'- good charlotte
'perfect'-simple plan
'streets of philidelphia'-bruce springsteen
'why'-annie lennox
'at my most beautiful'-rem
'emotionless'-good charlotte

And if i want to cheer myself up then any other songs by good charlotte,new found glory and the ataris works!!