Songs for Recovery

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Songs for Recovery

What songs do you guys find helpful when you're in a bit of a slump over your qualifier? I've been hoping to create a playlist to help me through the tough times when my AH and I are struggling. Thanks!
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Supergirl - Reamonn
Deliver me - Sarah Brightman
Under the Milky Way - The Church
Skyscraper - Demi Lovato
Whats Up? - 4 Non Blondes
Beautiful Day - U2
Don't give up - Peter Gabriel
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Nice list anodes! Great songs.

Ummm I have so many! They are on my gym playlist mostly

Fight Song - Rachel Platten
Part of Me, Wide Awake - Katy Perry
With Every Heartbeat, Dancing on my Own - Robyn
So Good - Rachel Stevens
You and I - Medina (Deadmau5 remix)
Titanium - Sia
Shake it Out - Florence and the Machine
Yellow Flicker Beat - Lorde
Stronger - Kanye West
Survivor - Destinys Child
Uprising - Muse
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The Funeral - Band of Horses

I'm not sure the above is a song to get you out of a slump, but it spoke a lot to me about my experience.

"I'm coming up only to hold you under
And coming up only to show you're wrong
And to know you is hard; we wonder...
To know you all wrong; we warn."

It made me think about my role as a codependent. Trying to control the addict and show them how wrong they are...that knowing them is hard. Ironically, when I fell in love with the song (even before I knew the words) I decided to find it on YouTube just to listen. I landed upon the video which happened to depict an alcoholic of all things:

https://g.co/kgs/Tf5JnZ

I can't watch without crying
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What's Up - 4 Non Blondes
Sinnerman - Nina Simone
Bulletproof - Radiohead
Not the Doctor - Alanis Morissette
Hurt - (version by Johnny Cash)
Moonshadow - Cat Stevens
Blue Black - Heather Nova
The Message - Grandmaster Flash
Joyful Girl - Ani DiFranco
Play Dead - Bjork
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Bob Dylan
Oysters - Tori Amos
She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
Luka - Suzanne Vega
Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk - Rufus Wainwright

Actually, this is a very depressing list, and it probably dates me.
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Oh, dandy, I KNEW it would be something like that from you! ALL that Staple Singers stuff is so good.

Here's a thread from a while ago on this topic: http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...s-3-songs.html

and another more recent one: http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...-cry-baby.html

And let me add that, on the day I filed for divorce, I left the courthouse and got in my car to drive home. Needing to stop the noise in my head, I flipped on the radio just in time to hear "Won't Get Fooled Again" from The Who. Rock on, Roger, Pete, Keith and John!

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Maybe I'm just old, but what about Gloria Gaynor I Will Survive? That's classic.

I also love the irony in Elton John's I Want Love\

And I happen to be an old-fashioned musical theatre geek, so I also have to go with It's A Fine Life from Oliver!

Finally, I sent this Eric Idle YouTube to my son who just lost his job last week. It just cheered me up, but then again, I was raised Catholic.

Note that all of the songs except for I Shall Survive are included for their irony and their cautionary tales about how our minds can delude us into thinking all's well when it actually isn't.
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Josh Groban - Don't Give Up. I love the youtube video.
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The song of the summer is the codie recovery anthem

It ain't me: Selena Gomez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3VTKvdAuIY
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Bruce Springsteen for me. Lucky Town and The Rising.
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Thanks to all who posted here--taking some time this AM to go through what people have posted and listen, b/c virtually all of it is stuff I'm not familiar with. I really like much of it and don't know that I would have found it on my own, so I appreciate all of you sharing!
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Wanted to add that I bumped into a post in another area of the forum where the OP mentioned a band (metal) called Dream Theater and a series of songs called the "Twelve Step Suite." This is from the A's perspective--apparently their drummer, Mike Portnoy, was having serious issues and the suite is about his experiences w/AA and recovery.

Lyrics here if you're interested: DREAM THEATER TWELVE-STEP SUITE LYRICS

And music here, if you dare--I listened a little but I am NOT a metalhead and didn't get far:

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I just posted this in my own thread. Kesha's Praying is where I want to be and really affects me right now. Crying as I listen to it.
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This list is all over the place...
  • The Bottom Line by Big Audio Dynamite
  • Big Sky by Kate Bush
  • Pick Yourself Up - Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields (Performed by various artists - but I love watching Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire perform it in "Swing Time")
  • Spring Street - Dar Williams (especially good for breakups)
  • F### You - Cee Lo Green (when I need to get angry and I need to laugh)
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Just found this one this AM while looking for something else! Hope you guys are as amused as I was!

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Walking away - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olk7mNK-VyE
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If you're into punk rock, Brand New just released a new album called Science Fiction and it gives me all the feels.
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Oh my, this is a favorite topic for me. I have too many favorites & I think I tend to prefer heavier rock than most other members on this board (although I am developing a taste for some mainstream pop). Here are fantastic past threads:


http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...983-music.html

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...us-alanon.html

I would add:

Treat You Better - Shawn Mendes
Down & Out - t a n t r i c (the swearing filter keeps blocking this word if I don't separate it out, lol)
Scars to Your Beautiful - Alessia Cara
Just Like Fire - Pink
Baby, I'm Worth It - 5th Harmony
No - Meghan Trainor
It Ain't Me - Selena Gomez
Numb - Lincoln Park
Roar & Wide Awake - Katy Perry
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Silver Lining - First Aid Kit is my jam lately!
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