Music As Therapy: Dealing With Anger

[Danine]

I'm just 18 months into my injury, still grieving...sad, angry, etc. Sometimes I find that "angry music" helps me get through those days when I just need to "rage against the universe." Below is one song that I've found particularly helpful.

Have any of you found particular songs that help you get through those days when you're just angry at everything and everybody...or those days when you're just pissed off at SCI? Please post!

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[NorthQuad]

Dixie Chicks Rock.

There are a few songs that help me release steam a little better than others. But listening to just about anything helps calm me the frick down. Music allows my brain to wander to any place I'd rather be.

[RaeRae]

One song that helped me out early on in my injury was Christina Aguilera, Fighter.

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[jody]

danine, making your own music is great for what you request. would you maybe consider learning how to play an instrument? no one in the band I play bass for has had lessons. all began to learn as adults. we are all physically challenged too. I was 25 when I began to teach myself. drummer tina was over 40, I would suggest starting with ukulele or dulcimer.

[doingtimeonmyass]

Nine Inch Nails never seems to disappoint.


Burn

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Happiness in Slavery

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And also ONLY (studio version is best), which YouTube doesn't seem to have a video for at the moment.

[Danine]

Dixie Chicks Rock.

I agree! I'm not a big country music fan, but the Dixie Chicks have it going on!

[Danine]

One song that helped me out early on in my injury was Christina Aguilera, Fighter.

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Wow, that's an awesome video! I had never heard that song, but I like Christina Aguilera. Thanks for sharing!

[Danine]

danine, making your own music is great for what you request. would you maybe consider learning how to play an instrument? no one in the band I play bass for has had lessons. all began to learn as adults. we are all physically challenged too. I was 25 when I began to teach myself. drummer tina was over 40, I would suggest starting with ukulele or dulcimer.

Thanks for the suggestion. I've actually always been fairly "musical." I was introduced to the dulcimer by a middle school art teacher...it's a really cool instrument...I'd love to own one someday. I also had some banjo and piano lessons when I was younger.

Currently, I have a keyboard and a guitar that I fool around with sometimes; but the only instrument I learned to play really well is the trumpet. I was a "band geek." I played from the time I was about 12 until I finished my undergrad degree. Music has always been a huge part of my life! As you know, it's a wonderful coping technique!

[Danine]

Nine Inch Nails never seems to disappoint.


You're right, you can always count on NIN to help you work out some anger. Thanks for posting!

[jody]

http://www.myspace.com/rockmamaoff

[2jazzyjeff]

If you haven't yet, check out this thread for some great songs and videos..

http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/showthread.php?t=112807

[Danine]

Kelly Clarkson

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[dgrotz]

Nine Inch Nails never seems to disappoint.


Burn

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Happiness in Slavery

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And also ONLY (studio version is best), which YouTube doesn't seem to have a video for at the moment.

NIN has some great singles, so many to choose from, I like terrible lie & everyday is exactly the same

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[quadvet]

Dimmu Borgir - Vredesbyrd [Burden of Wrath]

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Special thanks to CC member Raven's son Nick, for turning me on to this one. :thumb:

[woman from Europe]

Gosh, I never thought I will see any music of Dimmu Borgir in this forum. LOL. Maybe you should try to listen to Turboneger too :D

[Danine]

Dimmu Borgir - Vredesbyrd [Burden of Wrath]

Special thanks to CC member Raven's son Nick, for turning me on to this one. :thumb:

Not sure that's angry or just scary...LOL...thanks.

[Danine]

I think Paula Cole does a good job of simultaneously capturing sadness and anger in a lot of her music.

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[HeathQuad]

It's Creepy

Twiztid and Insane Clown Posse
"We Don't Die'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDkafgmTWTU

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[christopher]

I found playing in a band was great therapy in my pre-accident days. I quit my band 3 days before my accident. :o

They still play but its hard for me to watch now that they're just a 2-piece. And they need a good singer (don't tell him that though!)

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[christopher]

Here's an old song I sang. I can't believe it's over 15 years old now! We recorded it in 1998. I chopped the bitrate in half to make the file uploadable. (1.2 mb, 64kbps).

[betheny]

I was just wondering if you ever started playing again, Chris. I started to write and ask if you'd nailed it down yet.

Guns n Roses here. I don't need your Civil Wa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ar.

PS-Ashtray Heart needs you back. That would be pretty bad without you and your guitar! (Says the woman that wears earplugs to her kid's gigs LOL.)

[ricanstruction]

music therapy has been especially helpful to me since I'm voiceless right now. Top 5 artists/songs for dealing with my blues are;

1.The Smiths--Still ill
2.Concrete Blonde--true
3.Ani DiFranco--Wish I may
4.Roberta Flack--I told Jesus
5.Savoy Brown--I'm tired

[Danine]

Here's an old song I sang. I can't believe it's over 15 years old now! We recorded it in 1998. I chopped the bitrate in half to make the file uploadable. (1.2 mb, 64kbps).

Are you shitting me? You can rock, Chris! :applaud:

[Danine]

It's Creepy

Twiztid and Insane Clown Posse
"We Don't Die'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDkafgmTWTU

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LOL...I learned about Insane Clown Posse when I was working as a counselor for run-away and homeless youth...seemed to be "the thing" for all the goth kids.

[Danine]

music therapy has been especially helpful to me since I'm voiceless right now. Top 5 artists/songs for dealing with my blues are;

1.The Smiths--Still ill
2.Concrete Blonde--true
3.Ani DiFranco--Wish I may
4.Roberta Flack--I told Jesus
5.Savoy Brown--I'm tired

I'm a Concrete Blonde fan too! Here's my favorite.

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[Mateo]

This got me through my divorce. I would loop it over and over while I worked out. When I was done, I always felt too tired to be angry.

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[Danine]

This got me through my divorce. I would loop it over and over while I worked out. When I was done, I always felt too tired to be angry.

I like GodSmack, but I hadn't heard that one. I agree, it is a good divorce song...:p

[quad79]

For me, it's Breaking Benjamin.

[doingtimeonmyass]

I'm a Concrete Blonde fan too! Here's my favorite.


Bloodletting is a great album. :)

[Sue Pendleton]

<a href="http://noolmusic.com/yahoo_videos/deric_ruttan_-_when_you_come_around.php">Deric Ruttan - When You Come Around</a><br>

This guy writes for several others mainly Dierks Bentley but when my body comes back around..

[Danine]

<a href="http://noolmusic.com/yahoo_videos/deric_ruttan_-_when_you_come_around.php">Deric (http://noolmusic.com/yahoo_videos/deric_ruttan_-_when_you_come_around.php%22%3EDeric) Ruttan - When You Come Around</a><br>

This guy writes for several others mainly Dierks Bentley but when my body comes back around..

Sue, I couldn't get the link to work...can you confirm it and post again?
Thanks.

[hackson]

music can do amazing things. I don't know what I would do without it sometimes.

[quadvet]

Sue, I couldn't get the link to work...can you confirm it and post again?
Thanks.http://noolmusic.com/yahoo_videos/deric_ruttan_-_when_you_come_around.php

[micah_d]

I'm so in need of some heavy metal - head banging - loud ass music right now. my p-222 power chair blew out a gear box new years eve. i've been barely able to hobble around the house with it til i could get it looked at on the 5th. now i'm in a piece of sh!t loaner that is total uncomfortable. happy f'in new year. the good news is my favorite band is playing tonight at my favorite bar, so i think i might just go get hammered and have some fun.

[Danine]

http://noolmusic.com/yahoo_videos/deric_ruttan_-_when_you_come_around.php


Thanks QuadVet.

[Danine]

I'm so in need of some heavy metal - head banging - loud ass music right now. my p-222 power chair blew out a gear box new years eve. i've been barely able to hobble around the house with it til i could get it looked at on the 5th. now i'm in a piece of sh!t loaner that is total uncomfortable. happy f'in new year. the good news is my favorite band is playing tonight at my favorite bar, so i think i might just go get hammered and have some fun.

Sorry to hear about this. There's a metal thread going right now...may want to check it out!

[HeathQuad]

When I am angry and need hope.

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[Danine]

Another sad and angry song...illustrates well how I feel about SCI..."your uninvited!"

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HeathQuad, I like the second song...it hits home!

[HeathQuad]

limp bizkit---break stuff

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[ricanstruction]

Anybody into Drum and Bass? I used to dance to it in my room with the lights off and let all my frustrations out. Went to clubs where they spin it on the decks, even spun some myself. It's hard hitting, heavily syncopated, accompanied by deep bass lines and soundscapes that let your imagination fly and dance out raw emotion. My fave right now is squarepusher.

[Danine]

limp bizkit---break stuff


Excellent choice!

[Danine]

Anybody into Drum and Bass? I used to dance to it in my room with the lights off and let all my frustrations out. Went to clubs where they spin it on the decks, even spun some myself. It's hard hitting, heavily syncopated, accompanied by deep bass lines and soundscapes that let your imagination fly and dance out raw emotion. My fave right now is squarepusher.

Post some for us!

[ricanstruction]

here's another one of my favorite DnB artists, Dieselboy. There are different kinds of drum and bass integrating different styles from hip hop to jazz...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi223aue1tY

[Sue Pendleton]

Sue, I couldn't get the link to work...can you confirm it and post again?
Thanks.

Hang on....:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFo4anhWwv8

[Danine]

Thanks Sue.

Rican, I liked that a lot! I've gotta check out some more Dieselboy.

Here's another song I listen to when I'm feeling angry...

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[rdf]

rican, here's how to embed. It's near the bottom of the page.
http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/misc.php?do=bbcode
here's another one of my favorite DnB artists, Dieselboy. There are different kinds of drum and bass integrating different styles from hip hop to jazz...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi223aue1tY
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[dgrotz]

Speaking of good divorce tunes here's one that helped me thru mine:

For some reason I can't embed this one, it's Limp Bizkit My Way or the Highway

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[rdf]

This one always brings me back to Earth. Mellows me out ya might say, although it's not truly not a song to do such a thing. But it does make you think, and from there lies enlightenment, or more anger. Depends on the individual I suppose.

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[ChipS]

Thanks Sue.

Rican, I liked that a lot! I've gotta check out some more Dieselboy.

Here's another song I listen to when I'm feeling angry...

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Excellent choice Danine. I am having a real rough time of it lately and I just spent the last three hours listening to The Craanberries. Seems to get me out of the anger/depression, if only for a while. :)

[Danine]

Excellent choice Danine. I am having a real rough time of it lately and I just spent the last three hours listening to The Craanberries. Seems to get me out of the anger/depression, if only for a while. :)

Speaking of zombies, I think this thread could use some Rob Zombie.

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[jhm]

i like rise against,atreyu,some t.i. and and escape the fate songs i crank em when im pissed and needa get motivated.

[jhm]

oh forgot silverstein there my favorite!

[xtravla]

One by Metallica always helps. Gravedigger by Dave Matthews Band does it also.

[Danine]

OMG...I laughed my ass off over this one!

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[Danine]

Damn insomnia...this one's pretty evil.


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[quad79]

I love Disturbed, but that song is a real picker upper,heh?

I'm into Pink's new song "Sober".IDK why cause lately I wanna be anything but.lol.

[Danine]

I love Disturbed, but that song is a real picker upper,heh?

I'm into Pink's new song "Sober".IDK why cause lately I wanna be anything but.lol.


Yeah, real picker-upper...lol.

I just watched that Pink vid...it's effing HOT !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJMVvYM2Gns

[ChipS]

OMG...I laughed my ass off over this one!

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Friggin classic!!!! :applaud:

[wheelz1989]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh2SVuX03h4


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[wheelz1989]

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[1010011010]

my Raver showed me this thread recently ,
so i was compelled to donate
my addition to the excellent musical selections...

there's still debate about the lyrics, yet still a good song .....

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[Blaze Ya Dead Homie:]
Last of a dyin breed, salt of the Earth
Policed and been hated by the Church since birth
Bent and forgotten was the Prophet in the Prophecy
The Opaque Brotherhood they label it hypocrisy
Like a lost practice of the guilty crimes
Drinkin from the blood so they think it won't survive
But the Call the Brotherhood Opaque is too strong
Time to write another chapter, we've been gone far too long

[Shaggy 2 Dope:]
Look once you see a flash like a shadow
Make a double take your wife gets left a widow
Dark Lotus kinda like a boxer's fist
Five of us packed together, covered up and ready to hit
We turn bodies to souls, souls to blackness
The Devil's most cleverest trick is to make you think you don't exist
We Opaque, translucent and eternal Brotherhood
A secret society buried deep up in the woods

[Jamie Madrox:]
Opacity basically means that can't see
The Brotherhood of Five Elements we get deadly
Behead thee
Throw it at your Devil call it wicked
Knee deep in the cloudy water see a Lotus never pick it
Conflicted by thoughts of life and death and in between
If you're true psycho skitso then you're knowin what I mean
As we marchin in concession down the long and windy path
Skeleton hand for a compass, dead skin for a map

[Violent J:]
Even on a sunshiny day, I'm grimy
I can't find my way, untie me
I don't mind the hate, it reminds me
I'm of time and space
Five nomads (five)
Followers of no fads
Lotus stem rises up above the pedals of grass
Which was once over towering
Now we overpowering
Planting our seeds for whatever tomorrow brings

[Monoxide Child:]
I'm separated and laughed at from most kinds
I stood firm on my own two and passed by
My middle finger in the air because I'm that guy
Who don't give a fuck to watch each and every one of y'all, die
Now put that signal in the sky and let em that I'm a Lotus
And Brotherhood is the life and if we grow and keep the focus stronger
And we're gonna get it
No longer can we forget on that path where the wicked shift

[Chorus:]
Opaque, black light haunted by the flash
The Lotus grows where the roses pass
No light, no dark, no bad, no good
You can't see through the Opaque Brotherhood
Opaque, black light haunted by the flash
The Lotus grows where the roses pass
No light, no dark, no bad, no good
You can't see through the Opaque Brotherhood
Opaque, black light haunted by the flash
The Lotus grows where the roses pass
No light, no dark, no bad, no good
You can't see through the Opaque Brotherhood
Opaque, black light haunted by the flash
The Lotus grows where the roses pass
No light, no dark, no bad, no good
You can't see through the Opaque Brotherhood
Opaque, black light haunted by the flash
The Lotus grows where the roses pass
No light, no dark, no bad, no good
You can't see through the Opaque Brotherhood

[Danine]

101, interesting lyrics, indeed...glad you like the thread.

Wheelz, I'm gonna try to embed what you tried to embed in your previous post...let's see if this works.

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[Danine]

I have insomnia again, damn it! I'm really pissed off that I can't sleep right now.

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[Danine]

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[Patrick Madsen]

I make my own music literally. I make Native American Style flutes. Best sound for soothing the soul. Also have played guitar and banjo for over 50,yikes, years now.

[Scorpion]

Nonpoint - "What a Day"
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Living Colour - "Auslander"
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Stuck Mojo - "Not Promised Tomorrow"
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Sevendust - "Denial"
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Linkin Park - "One Step Closer"
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Stereomud - "Pain"
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Korn - "Blind"
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Mushroomhead - "Kill Tomorrow"
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Static-X - "This is Not"
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Limp Bizkit - "Break Stuff"
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From Zero - "Check Ya"
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King's X - "Alone"
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Soundgarden - "Rusty Cage"
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[Danine]

Well Scorpion, you've definitely given us some stuff to digest there! ;)

[Taylor1]

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[Foolish Old]

I absolutely love me some angry songs! There is little else with equal therapeutic power (that doesn't result in police being summoned) to release angry pent up emotions. I have many favorites which I hope to contribute as time allows. For now, let's start with a romantic song from yesteryear.

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[quad79]

My kinda music Scorpion,too bad most vids were disabled though.There's nothing quite like looking @ Fred Durst from LB,my kinda guy too.I love Nonpoints remake of the old Phil Collins song.

I've been listening to two good bands from the past & still lovin' them..Live & Audioslave.My fav band,Breaking Benjamin has a new cd coming out @ the end of the month.Yay!There's nothing like music that you can feel the words to.

I know people pull up beside me thinking,wtf is she listening to?Too bad the volume only goes to 65 though.