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532 sats \ 14 comments \ @DavidoftheDesert 6 Apr Music freebie

I feel like music has played an instrumental role in my survival. Music allows me to feel connection, when I otherwise I feel completely alone. I am so grateful for music. I have always been an Album guy. Listening to a single song feels like reading one chapter of a book or watching just part of a movie. When I was a teen, The Fragile, by Nine Inch Nails saved me. It was so raw and dark and it reflected how I felt at the time. It helped me feel like I was not the only one feeling things so intensely. I don't listen to it much anymore, as I am in a much different space these days.

What music saved you when you needed it most? Why was it so important?

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110 sats \ 0 replies \ @itermathi 10 Apr

I use to listen to Logic songs a lot back in 2016, his old albums and some new ones got nice hopeful lyrics. But i also listened to any game soundtrack that gave me that same hopeful essence. Nowadays i listen to different genres: psychedelic rock, house progressive, some indie bands and post punk rock.

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 6 Apr

I'm not sure I can place one individual album. But there's a bunch of individual tracks from different artists that have really resonated with me.

Here's two. https://youtu.be/7F2vNShcECk?si=ePpQ9Ah3KwDrUtHY

They speak to my stubbornness and unwillingness to be beaten or broken down.

110 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 6 Apr

No question for me. I needed the whole album too, and I was also a teen, though a decade or two earlier. Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here.

86 sats \ 1 reply \ @DavidoftheDesert OP 6 Apr

Oh man. That album saved me, much later on. It still kills me. I feel like it was made for me. That album will probably be top 10 for me always. Pink Floyd is such a gift. My other favorites are animals, the wall, and dark side of the moon.

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 6 Apr

Me too. Love all three you mentioned. When I was 15 Wish You Were Here came out during my winter break. I spent the whole week playing the album over and over. I didn't know Dark Side yet. Then I discovered it. 🐖 Animals is still a favorite, and of course The Wall.

11 sats \ 3 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 6 Apr

In college, NIN's Pretty Hate Machine and Tori Amos's Little Earthquakes were probably the two albums that kept me alive.

42 sats \ 2 replies \ @DavidoftheDesert OP 6 Apr

Pretty hate machine is amazing. I was a bit young when it came out but once I got into nine inch nails, I fell In love with it. I never listened to Tori Amos much but I know she is legit. I may need to give her a listen.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 6 Apr

They're also friends, and in "Precious Things," Tori has the lines:

those demigods / With their nine inch nails

And Trent himself does guest vocals on "Past the Mission," from her second album.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DavidoftheDesert OP 6 Apr

Awesome. I will definitely look into it. I don't use Spotify or anything like that so I rely on great recommendations from real people like you. Thanks.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 6 Apr

2016/17 I was pretty depressed. I think music did save me back then. I listened to a lot of different things, but that was when I got into Bones' music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5v2WhpA59TJSdPh7LCx1lN?si=RoU6Vfs4SiS_O9CLrbRb_g Also a legendary Estonian hip hop album "XIBALBA SPA" was released by 12EEK Monkey that year, which also left a huge mark: https://open.spotify.com/album/4zCeScOGtieo4sal9xlz0I?si=I1DgSjEBQIyrcgbI1bxK8g I don't even know, perhaps music still saves me till this day, every day. Like food, or water, or oxygen...

11 sats \ 3 replies \ @plebpoet 6 Apr

It helped me feel like I was not the only one feeling things so intensely.

I love this, and I get this out of literature. Also I once wrote a book of poems called "The Intensity of Life" and it was very emotional, you bet. I'm listening to an album right now that I first heard when I was younger, a real sad one, "Birthdays" by Keaton Henson.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @plebpoet 6 Apr

okay but if I have to be truthful, Ed Sheeran's first album + saved me at age 18.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DavidoftheDesert OP 6 Apr

Awesome. I haven't listened to him much but he strikes me as a kind soul.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DavidoftheDesert OP 6 Apr

That makes sense. I was never much of a reader but it feels like it could be the same. Perhaps that is what art is all about.