Roots reggae. It’s good for the soul.
For me, it’s eurobeat. But specifically, eurobeat while I’m driving my car. Ideally, doing something other than rolling down the interstate, merely holding my steering wheel straight for 20 minutes on my way to work.
It’s not exclusively eurobeat, but I use this playlist whenever I find the right road for wringing out my engine a little bit. Or if I realize I’m in a rush and I need to floor it. Sometimes both.
Death in Vegas’s Dead Elvis album. Is mostly upbeat instrumental, good background or going to sleep music without being boring
Listened to a playthrough, everyday for 2 or 3 months, after finding this album.
CC by-nc-nd
Recordings of old shortwave numbers stations. And a steak.
If it’s on this public playlist of mine, I’ve listened to each song countless times on repeat for that reason:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOh2I7j4IWH5FXNuZyGUtnaZQpBYMQAnw
But generally it’ll be Psychedelic Rock, Metal, Punk, and Electronica. Especially if I connect with the lyrics.
Right now that’s Layten Kramer and Red Vox:
https://laytenkramer.bandcamp.com/track/strange-displacement
Merzbow and Emmett Otter’s Jugband Christmas.
Eclectic taste!
Any of JS Bach’s works for organ. Toccata and Fugue in D minor is the most famous, but I mean the guy wrote like a million of them. Adagio and Fugue in C Major or Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor are a couple more examples that I find particularly nourishing. (I’ve never heard music described as nourishing before, but I like that. It’s a great way of putting it.)
Stoner rock and doom metal, like Sleep and Electric Wizard. It’s cathartic to me for some reason. Sonic drugs for someone not into actual drugs.
Fantastic stuff, and it’s great sober. But I’m not gonna lie to ya - it’s really great with drugs.
Jazz
Buckethead
Boards of Canada.
Metal music is the majority of what I’m listening to most of the time.
Progressive metal is my reset music. Something about a good prog track with crazy technical instrumentality just helps my brain calm down and focus. Between the Buried and Me was the band that got me hooked on prog metal and dirty vocals, and tends to be one of my most listened to artists most of the time.
Power metal is a great genre to work/vibe to. Sabaton was my first venture into the genre, but I’m more into bands like Amaranthe, Powerwolf, and Gloryhammer these days.
The Blow has long been my go-to for this. Really wish they’d get back together and drop another album, but thats alright. What they’ve already made has shaped my life in countless ways as is, and all things, even my most favorite of them, must eventually end.
There’s also Magdalena Bay, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Kate Bush, Hakushi Hasegawa, Open Mike Eagle, and Modest Mouse too, depending on what sort of nourishment I’m needing. Honestly, though? This list could on for a long while. I love music and had to seriously redact a lot as is. Am I kicking myself for not mentioning Heavenly and the Long Blondes? Absolutely! But if I mentioned them, then I’d also have to add Plumtree, because obviously i would, but then where’s the room to fit Louie Zong and Silversun Pickups?
I think I might just need to take a time to have a very neurodivergent session of cataloging all the bands that have changed the way I think on some level. There goes the rest of my night ig
Edit: Joanna Newsom came on in the shuffle and I couldn’t help but remember this thread. Ys is one of the finest albums of its era, by far. And the same for Feist’s Monarch! Im going to listen to my better nature and stfu now lol
…Sorry [Gilly smirk]
