What album(s) has helped you through depression?

Please no songs!

 

Really, pretty much anything from Ronnie Lane, but this one is a particular favorite.

 

Any music I really like helps lift my mood..always. There have also been a few through the years that were so bad they have put me into a state of depression, unfortunately.

 

Anything from Louis Armstrong's first decade of recordings.

 

Always Led Zeppelin and Always The Butthole Surfers and always the Sex Pistols!

 

Anything by Joy Division usually helps...

 

As much as I love Joy Division, their music puts in a depressive state.

 

To paraphrase Louis Armstrong, "If you have to ask why ... you'll never know."

 

Velvet Underground s/t

 

An album that has since become my all time favourite album:



If you've heard all of Side 2: "The Ninth Wave" you'd know why.

 

I don't think I ever was in serious depression or anything but if I'm in a bad mood I most likely won't be playing upbeat music (I know, I know, I'm a weird guy ). I usually will reach out for something like this instead:

 

In alternative medicine it's called homeopathy:

 

Little Richard

 

Little Richard's Best

 

Hmm... many of the albums mentioned above seem to be geared at pulling you out of a depression.
I tend to listen to stuff that I can wallow in.

Roger Waters - Amused to Death
Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life
Genesis - Calling All Stations
Iron Maiden - The X-Factor

 

Little Richard's Best

 

X's first four albums.

 

The Verve's Urban Hymns was the soundtrack to my Junior year of High School which was a bit of a dark period.

 

Anything by The Smiths or Morrissey

 

Bob Marley. Pick an album, late period works best. The man felt what he sang more, perhaps, than any other musician I know

 

Wilco Sky Blue Sky
and
Dr. Dog Fate

 

I second Bob Marley´s Kaya