“trying to keep an eye on you / like a hurt lost and blinded fool / oh no i’ve said too much”

[larryhammer]

As a palliative for repeat-looping Patty Griffin’s Tony for an hour, Queen’s Under Pressure has been only a partial success. Ditto Iron & Wine’s Call It Dreaming.

Please rec me ‘take care of yourself’ songs.

---L.

Subject quote from Losing My Religion, REM.

Comments

[karanguni]

Do you have a particular tone/genre you'd like?

[larryhammer]

My home space is typically folk pop, but I'll cast my net widely for this.

[karanguni]

Chill, jazzy, lo-fi late-night loopable: In The Gentle Rain - Astrud Gilberto RJD2 Remix - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkdy812qrc0

Angryish UK rock: Working Man's Town - Kid Kapichi - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDdm2jYhmRE

It's Cage The Elephant, which has always been good for me during work streaks: Ain't No Rest For The Wicked - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKtsdZs9LJo

[karanguni]

Remixed for a more loopable EDM-y beat, if that's your thing, Lykke Li's I Follow Rivers can be a good background track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FXMsoTTcog

On the far other side, Vanessa Mae's Bach Street Prelude for lyricless high-energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_K82_c4Zks

[larryhammer]

Oo, anything with Astrud Gilberto is likely to be tasty -- and indeed, that's excellent. Thanks!

[graydon]

I have no earthly idea what genre this is in, and it doesn't either: Mean Mary, "Death and the Maiden"

Not a self-care song and not precisely uplifting, but one I find mood-altering in a direction of serenity.

Similar with this tagelharpa cover of "If I had a heart"; it's supposed to be sad, or at least elegiac, but that's not really any human mood at all.

Does the generally triumphant tone of metal work for you at all? Bagpipe music?

[larryhammer]

That second did tend me towards serenity. Nice, and interesting as well.

Metal (aside from BabyMetal) rarely uplifts — it is sometimes exactly the right thing, but that’s not what I’m needing. I’m more of a hammer dulcimer than bagpipes person.

[oracne]

Angelique Kidjo - "Born Under Punches" cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR8jgFGmqvU

[larryhammer]

!!

Okay, that worked. And she did a full album cover of TH? Whee!

Thank you!

[oracne]

She did. And that was one of the last live concerts I saw before lockdown...including a part where large chunks of the audience, including me, were up on stage all dancing together.