stress relief songs
5Weird day. (off meh). Hmmm. Still trying to figure it out. Don’t think that will happen quickly
What are some good go-to personal choices of songs for stress relief and decompression? It’s fine if the songs are overplayed clichés.
/youtube green day time of your life live
Of maybe what I need is a little headbanger madness or AC/DC. Open to suggestions.
/youtube AC/DC back in black
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Back in Black is a great choice. I love a lot of the old Scorpions stuff too. I’ve also mentioned in a few posts Frog Leap Studios. Great metal covers and some really entertaining videos.
Leo is a guest in this one.
@tweezak
There ya go. Just what I might be needing.
Hope others toss some musiks this way.
(Even if it’s truly terrible musiks). : )
You might check out Walk Off The Earth too. They are an extremely talented Canadian group and their videos are often really fun and amazing. Their cover of Royals won an award as I recall. Here are a couple of examples of their work.
And in keeping with the season
@tweezak You might as well, be walking on the Sun!! If memory serves me.
@tweezak love Walking Off the Earth!!
@kerryzero Hey!! Another flat-earther!
Some classic Weird Al.
/youtube Weird Al - Ricky
/youtube Weird Al - Like a Surgeon
/youtube Weird Al - Smells Like Nirvana
/youtube Weird Al - Amish Paradise
/youtube Weird Al - The Saga Begins
Off days, stress-relief music depends a lot on the cause of the stress.
Sometimes any sort of (no not metal) celtic instrumental is a relaxer.
Other times you want to sing along (loud maybe) to something with a beat, usually more like a genre you listened to as a child. I sometimes go for folk because I’m a child of the 60’s. May not even be 60s folk, but it’s the genre.
@Cerridwyn
ever listen to any of Stan Rogers’ stuff?
@chienfou
I do.
@Cerridwyn
good stuff! LOVE his voice, and always amazed at how much his brother Garrett and son Nathan sound like him!. He was an excellent storyteller.
feel better @f00l, 2022 is around the corner.
@njfan
Bonnie is always a go-to. : )
Alexa, play Escape on Sirius XM. I miss EZ listening stations.
@sammydog01 I know you can’t get MeTV, but do you have a MeTV.fm affliate by you for your AM Gold/easy listening needs? Our affiliate doesn’t seem to stream online (it used to with different songs, which was weird), but I’m listening to the Milwaukee station online right now and it’s the same songs listed on the Chicago site. They just played Cat Stevens, Steely Dan, The Three Degrees, Jack Jones’ Sleigh Ride, and Elton John. They’re playing Burl Ives now.
/youtube white stripes - we’re going to be friends
At work when I’m stressed I start quoting or singing “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood” from Mr. Rogers. Always lightens the mood.
@AuntMean67
/youtube beautiful day buble
I’m liking this acapella cover of Mad World by Pentatonix a bunch.
@f00l They have done a lot of great acapella over the years. I REALLY love this one. The lyrics really get me. I guess 246M other people agree.
I wish Avi Kaplan was still with them. He’s amazing.
Old, but still great for escapism.
IMO, the first song is the weakest on this album, but still enjoyable – it’s probably a good one to start up while you are preparing your mug of hot tea and heading for the easy chair.
Sorry – I don’t know YouTube well enough to link to this album without the ads playing throughout. :>(
@phendrick
Oh goodness! I listened to PP&M incessantly for a few years during elementary school. I believe I prob still know all the words.
/youtube in the early morning rain peter paul and mary
Those three, and the Beatles, and the Beach Boys, were semi-parent-approved;
even tho my parents tried hard to persuade us that what we really wanted to hear were a bunch of middle-aged pop-jazz singers and crooners. Nothing against Como or Sinatra or Goulet or any of that; but those guys’ styles were pretty much all established as pop music before WWII.
/youtube Eve of distruction
the times, they were a-changing, one might say.
My parents tried to withhold or block the perceived-as-less-innocent groups: the Stones, Chubby Checker, Dylan, etc; as being “less appropriate for children” But that didn’t work; we just went over to friends’ houses w older siblings, and listened there.
/youtube ksenona satisfaction
The parents finally gave up on musical control, as long as we didn’t drown out their music.
And all my allowance and earnings went to music, and to “all those commie books” (everything the parents didn’t understand: from Tolkien to Ayn Rand to Erich Fromme).
And we kids punished them for the attempted censorship and criticism by playing The White Album and Hendrix’s version of The SSB all the time and as loudly as possibly.
/youtube hey Joe live
(Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command)
Always true, I suspect.
Old times. Good music’s.
/youtube smoke on the water
We were, all of us, beyond their command, and they were generous and devoted enough as parents to pay for the best the could afford for us anyway. Even if they didn’t “get it”.
(Or even if they were often right not to “get it”). ; )
/youtube the Cyrkle Red Rubber Ball
From this distance, even with bomb shelters and nuclear distruction looming: it seems, looking back, to have been such a time of innocence
/youtube simon and garfunkel bookends
@phendrick
I don’t know if an entire youtube playlist can be linked w one link here. It might have to be song by song.