Any Music Suggestions (What Music Helps Keeps You Clean?)
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Any Music Suggestions (What Music Helps Keeps You Clean?)
I know I listen to a whole lot of music now, and was a big thing during the beginning .. what song(s) (title & artist) do you listen to for inspiration?
Ill start ..
1. Broken Crown by Mumford and Sons
2. My First Day by Haystack
3. Promises by Skrillex & Nero remix
4. Broken by Seether and Amy Lee
Ill start ..
1. Broken Crown by Mumford and Sons
2. My First Day by Haystack
3. Promises by Skrillex & Nero remix
4. Broken by Seether and Amy Lee
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I recently heard a rendition of "Simple Gifts" by Yo Yo Ma and Alison Krauss that is really beautiful.
It is indeed a "gift to be free."
Simple Gifts Yo Yo Ma and Alison Krauss - YouTube
It is indeed a "gift to be free."
Simple Gifts Yo Yo Ma and Alison Krauss - YouTube
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Originally Posted by o0Levitikuz0o 
I know I listen to a whole lot of music now, and was a big thing during the beginning .. what song(s) (title & artist) do you listen to for inspiration?
Ill start ..
1. Broken Crown by Mumford and Sons
2. My First Day by Haystack
3. Promises by Skrillex & Nero remix
4. Broken by Seether and Amy Lee
Ill start ..
1. Broken Crown by Mumford and Sons
2. My First Day by Haystack
3. Promises by Skrillex & Nero remix
4. Broken by Seether and Amy Lee
Just posted this in 24 club today.
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Neil Young - Needle And The Damage Done.
Steppenwolf - Snow Blind Friend.
Steppenwolf - The Pusher
Buffy St. Marie - Codine
Hooty And The Blowfish - Let Her Cry
Arlo Guthrie -Lightning Bar Blues
The Velvet Underground & Nico - Heroin
Kenny Chesney - That's Why I'm Here. KENNY CHESNEY - THAT'S WHY I'M HERE LYRICS
Chris Young - Flowers Chris Young - Flowers Lyrics
Steppenwolf - Snow Blind Friend.
Steppenwolf - The Pusher
Buffy St. Marie - Codine
Hooty And The Blowfish - Let Her Cry
Arlo Guthrie -Lightning Bar Blues
The Velvet Underground & Nico - Heroin
Kenny Chesney - That's Why I'm Here. KENNY CHESNEY - THAT'S WHY I'M HERE LYRICS
Chris Young - Flowers Chris Young - Flowers Lyrics
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Sometimes listening to my old favorites puts me back into the using state of mind.
So I started listening to completely different music. I got on Pandora and tried out all sorts of stuff. Asked kids and friends for recommendations, put different stations (even NPR) on my car radio. Heck, I now have a medival troubador station on pandora!
I've found some new stuff I like. I can listen to my old faves too, mostly. But I did find it useful to shake things up a bit.
So I started listening to completely different music. I got on Pandora and tried out all sorts of stuff. Asked kids and friends for recommendations, put different stations (even NPR) on my car radio. Heck, I now have a medival troubador station on pandora!
I've found some new stuff I like. I can listen to my old faves too, mostly. But I did find it useful to shake things up a bit.
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I have a little problem in that I have always associated music with partying. To get around this what I've done is to start creating a sobriety playlist for myself with songs that inspire me on this path. So far I've found three songs.
1.QueensRyche - Redemption (partial lyrics in my signature)
2.DGM - Trust
3.RUSH (HUGE RUSH fan here) - Wish them Well (my goodbye song to my drinking buds)
That's where I am so far.
Thanks for creating this thread because I'm getting some great additional ideas!
1.QueensRyche - Redemption (partial lyrics in my signature)
2.DGM - Trust
3.RUSH (HUGE RUSH fan here) - Wish them Well (my goodbye song to my drinking buds)
That's where I am so far.
Thanks for creating this thread because I'm getting some great additional ideas!
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I am a real music lover. Music has been at the center of much of my life. It has been a real blessing. I played guitar with my father and now, with my daughter (who is now performing professionally 
), when she comes to visit.
Yea, there was a period of time when I needed to explore genres and artists that I had little experience with and thus fewer associations.... That was actually a blessing because some of what I listened to has become part of my daily listening, almost 5 years later!
Now, ALL music helps me through my day... I love the Grateful Dead concert tapes from the 70's.... They have a very spiritual message if ... "you look at it right"
... LOL... and the celebratory and mind expansive quality of the music, surprise!!, is NOT dependent on mind altering substances, how cool is that??
But the music that is almost literally in my DNA is mountain folk and country (read appalachian) and bluegrass. Since being clean and sober I can really channel the meaning and mood like never befoire, and truly appreciate it. Blues and Jam bands are a close second, but they aren't in my DNA.
There are some recovery specific songs that I truly rleate to, one of the very best is K.D. Lang's cover of David Wilcox's (Chet Baker) "My Old Addiction":
My old addiction
Changed the wiring in my brain
So that when it turns the switches
Then I am not the same
So like the flowers toward the Sun
I will follow
Stretch myself out thin
Like there's a part of me that's already buried
That sends me out into this wind
My old addiction
Is a flood upon the land
This tiny lifeboat can keep me dry
But my weight is all that it can stand
So when I try to lean just a little
For just a splash to cool my face
Ahh that trickle turns out fickle
Fills my boat up five miles deep
My old addiction
Makes me crave only what is best
Like these just this morning song birds
Craving upward from the nest
These tiny birds outside my window
Take my hand to be their mom
These open mouths would trust and swallow
Anything that came along
Like my old addiction
Now the other side of Day
As the springtime of my lifestyle
Turns the other way
If a swan can have a song
I think I know that tune
But the page is only scrawled
And I am gone this afternoon
But the page is only scrawled
And I am gone this afternoon
If you haven't heard it, I highly recommend a listen.
), when she comes to visit.Yea, there was a period of time when I needed to explore genres and artists that I had little experience with and thus fewer associations.... That was actually a blessing because some of what I listened to has become part of my daily listening, almost 5 years later!
Now, ALL music helps me through my day... I love the Grateful Dead concert tapes from the 70's.... They have a very spiritual message if ... "you look at it right"
... LOL... and the celebratory and mind expansive quality of the music, surprise!!, is NOT dependent on mind altering substances, how cool is that??But the music that is almost literally in my DNA is mountain folk and country (read appalachian) and bluegrass. Since being clean and sober I can really channel the meaning and mood like never befoire, and truly appreciate it. Blues and Jam bands are a close second, but they aren't in my DNA.
There are some recovery specific songs that I truly rleate to, one of the very best is K.D. Lang's cover of David Wilcox's (Chet Baker) "My Old Addiction":
My old addiction
Changed the wiring in my brain
So that when it turns the switches
Then I am not the same
So like the flowers toward the Sun
I will follow
Stretch myself out thin
Like there's a part of me that's already buried
That sends me out into this wind
My old addiction
Is a flood upon the land
This tiny lifeboat can keep me dry
But my weight is all that it can stand
So when I try to lean just a little
For just a splash to cool my face
Ahh that trickle turns out fickle
Fills my boat up five miles deep
My old addiction
Makes me crave only what is best
Like these just this morning song birds
Craving upward from the nest
These tiny birds outside my window
Take my hand to be their mom
These open mouths would trust and swallow
Anything that came along
Like my old addiction
Now the other side of Day
As the springtime of my lifestyle
Turns the other way
If a swan can have a song
I think I know that tune
But the page is only scrawled
And I am gone this afternoon
But the page is only scrawled
And I am gone this afternoon
If you haven't heard it, I highly recommend a listen.
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The same music I loved when I wasn't clean. Grateful Dead, Cowboy Junkies, Miles Davis, and a hundred others. For me there isn't "high" music and "sober" music. There's just music. When, at first, I got sober/clean I didn't listen to music for a while. It's back into my life again. The TV is off and the music is on. Probably off topic ... but I'm always a little off topic 
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i don't want to be a downer, but i stopped listening to music so much to help me get clean. it helped. i listen to myself.
and when i do hear music i really appreciate it and even more if i select something and put it on on occasion. it makes it special to me.
i am a huge music person, but i gave it up some to just listen. not saying you will find my response helpful.
and when i do hear music i really appreciate it and even more if i select something and put it on on occasion. it makes it special to me.
i am a huge music person, but i gave it up some to just listen. not saying you will find my response helpful.
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There is one song that hits home with me. The sobriety, the mediation it's just exactly perfect. "The Rising Sun" by George Harrison
On the street of villains taken for a ride
you can have the devil as a guide
crippled by the boundaries, programmed into guilt
'til your nervous system starts to tilt.
And in the room of mirrors you can see for miles
but everything that's there is in disguise
every word you've uttered and every thought you've had
is all inside your file, the good and the bad.
But in the rising sun you can feel your life begin
universe at play inside your DNA
you're a billion years old today
oh the rising sun and the place it's coming from
is inside of you and now your payment's overdue
oh the rising sun, oh the rising sun.
On the avenue of sinners I have been employed
working there 'til I was near destroyed
I was almost a statistic inside a doctor's case
when I heard the messenger from inner space
he was sending me a signal that so for long I had
ignored
but he held on to my umbilical cord
until the ghost of memory trapped in my body mind
came out of hiding to become alive.
And in the rising sun you can hear your life begin
and it's here and there nowhere and everywhere
though it's atmosphere is rare
oh the rising sun and the place that it's coming from
is inside of me and now I feel it constantly
oh the rising sun, oh the rising sun, oh the rising
sun.
But in the rising sun you can feel your life begin
universe at play inside your DNA
you're a billion years old today
oh the rising sun and the place it's coming from
is inside of you and now your payment's overdue
oh the rising sun, oh the rising sun, oh the rising
sun.
On the street of villains taken for a ride
you can have the devil as a guide
crippled by the boundaries, programmed into guilt
'til your nervous system starts to tilt.
And in the room of mirrors you can see for miles
but everything that's there is in disguise
every word you've uttered and every thought you've had
is all inside your file, the good and the bad.
But in the rising sun you can feel your life begin
universe at play inside your DNA
you're a billion years old today
oh the rising sun and the place it's coming from
is inside of you and now your payment's overdue
oh the rising sun, oh the rising sun.
On the avenue of sinners I have been employed
working there 'til I was near destroyed
I was almost a statistic inside a doctor's case
when I heard the messenger from inner space
he was sending me a signal that so for long I had
ignored
but he held on to my umbilical cord
until the ghost of memory trapped in my body mind
came out of hiding to become alive.
And in the rising sun you can hear your life begin
and it's here and there nowhere and everywhere
though it's atmosphere is rare
oh the rising sun and the place that it's coming from
is inside of me and now I feel it constantly
oh the rising sun, oh the rising sun, oh the rising
sun.
But in the rising sun you can feel your life begin
universe at play inside your DNA
you're a billion years old today
oh the rising sun and the place it's coming from
is inside of you and now your payment's overdue
oh the rising sun, oh the rising sun, oh the rising
sun.
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does it ever become an issue with people that many of the best and finest musicians out there are not sober, yet we listen to them?
it's such a complex subject and not worth going in to. i answered my own question.
not going there.
it's such a complex subject and not worth going in to. i answered my own question.
not going there.
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Itchy mentioned a song I've listened to probably 1,000 times before, but never realized. I heard the words, but never realized what the song "Why I'm Here" was about. Guess I'm going to have to take Kenny Chesney off my resentment list now.
For me, most of the album "Dirt" by Alice In Chains is good, namely "Down In A Hole". Ol' Layne Staley went through all of this, and it shows in the words and feel of that song.
For me, most of the album "Dirt" by Alice In Chains is good, namely "Down In A Hole". Ol' Layne Staley went through all of this, and it shows in the words and feel of that song.
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There isn't a music that helps me, but there is a music that does NOT help stay sober, and I consider a trigger...that's classic country music.
Nothing like some Merle Haggard, Walon Jennings and Willie Nelson to make me want to pick up a bottle of booze. I have been staying away from it for now. I suspect I will be able to enjoy it again WITHOUT the desire to drink, but until then...no can do.
Actually...maybe there is a music that might help...Pat Benatar I have been listening to again while working out, and it really pumps me up to stay fit (way back when I was an avid runner, she was my music of choice), which I guess translates to not wanting to drink:-)
Nothing like some Merle Haggard, Walon Jennings and Willie Nelson to make me want to pick up a bottle of booze. I have been staying away from it for now. I suspect I will be able to enjoy it again WITHOUT the desire to drink, but until then...no can do.
Actually...maybe there is a music that might help...Pat Benatar I have been listening to again while working out, and it really pumps me up to stay fit (way back when I was an avid runner, she was my music of choice), which I guess translates to not wanting to drink:-)
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My Anthem for sobriety
Every time I hear this song, I tear up..... I could have written these lyrics about my own lifelong struggle with alcohol.
As of today, I have been sober for 1 YEAR!
Joe Walsh - One Day at a Time
Well you know I was always the first to arrive at the
party,
Oh and the last to leave the scene of the crime.
Well it started with a couple of beers,
And it went I don’t know how many years,
Like a run away train heading for the end of the line.
Well I finally got around to admit that I might have a
problem,
But I thought it was just too damn big of a mountain to
climb,
Well I got down on my knees and said Hey,
I just can’t go on living this way,
Guess I have to learn to live my life one day at a
time.
Oh yeah, One Day at a Time.
Oh yeah, One Day at a Time.
Well I finally got around to admit that I was the
problem,
When I use to put the blame on everybody’s shoulders
but mine,
All my friends I use to hang with are gone,
But I hadn’t planned on living this long,
Guess I’ll have to learn to live my life one day at a
time,
It was something I was too blind to see,
I got help from something greater then me,
Now I have to learn to live my life one day at a time.
As of today, I have been sober for 1 YEAR!
Joe Walsh - One Day at a Time
Well you know I was always the first to arrive at the
party,
Oh and the last to leave the scene of the crime.
Well it started with a couple of beers,
And it went I don’t know how many years,
Like a run away train heading for the end of the line.
Well I finally got around to admit that I might have a
problem,
But I thought it was just too damn big of a mountain to
climb,
Well I got down on my knees and said Hey,
I just can’t go on living this way,
Guess I have to learn to live my life one day at a
time.
Oh yeah, One Day at a Time.
Oh yeah, One Day at a Time.
Well I finally got around to admit that I was the
problem,
When I use to put the blame on everybody’s shoulders
but mine,
All my friends I use to hang with are gone,
But I hadn’t planned on living this long,
Guess I’ll have to learn to live my life one day at a
time,
It was something I was too blind to see,
I got help from something greater then me,
Now I have to learn to live my life one day at a time.
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If I Had a Million Dollars by The Barenaked Ladies..... No recovery message for me it just makes me happy EVERY time I hear because it is goofy and those guys voice are just funny
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