Alternative 'music therapy'

[SmartIdiot]

Autechre.

If you've never heard them before, mind fuckery is imminent

Doesn't seem odd at first, but just wait untill it kicks in, you'll know

Spoiler: to save space

It gets weirder...

Spoiler: see above

I had a friend who was into Autechre, he spent some time in a mental hospital...
*clicks play*
Oh god my brain is melting.

I take it you must be familiar with Aphex Twin aswell then?

 

[SmartIdiot]

Having finished a stressful night working at the bar(2 more weeks and I'm gone, hooray), troublemakers, pigs and drunkards all about, not to mention someone(coward) jumping a friend of mine later on in the evening it's safe to say... I was pretty pissed off. So I got home and decided to stick some music on.

I don't know exactly what I was thinking by putting on

Spoiler: Agoraphobic Nosebleed

followed by

Spoiler: Rotten Sound

or even now as I follow up with Napalm Death.


Usually these are my energising/long drive ahead choice. However tonight it's had an unusually therapeutic effect. I no longer want to find the little fucker that hit my pal and kick the shit out of him before kicking it back into him, then out again, or scream and shout at everyone who has pissed me off for the last 6 hours. It's quite peculiar...

Intro finished.
Have any of you ever found music therapy in otherwise unlikely artists, bands or genres and if so, what were they? None of the typical chillout anthems, soothing music or other usual choices for relaxation. What is the most batshit insane music you've found to be calming, or numbing I suppose?

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Rammstein and E Nomine has effects on me. Hell even Hanzel Und Gretyl's "Third reich from the Sun"

 

[BonsaiK]

Having finished a stressful night working at the bar...

There's nothing even remotely unusual about unwinding with some grindcore after a hard day at work. In fact, I think that's why that entire genre of music was created. They call it "grind" for a reason...

I like to listen to Necro before going out on a date. Puts me in the right frame of mind.

 

[SmartIdiot]

Having finished a stressful night working at the bar...

There's nothing even remotely unusual about unwinding with some grindcore after a hard day at work. In fact, I think that's why that entire genre of music was created. They call it "grind" for a reason...

I always figured it was because the blasts of noise were akin to gigantic rocks grinding against one another right next to you. Also, going by what you're saying... all my friends are wrong and it is possible to calm down with this genre.

I like to listen to Necro before going out on a date. Puts me in the right frame of mind.

 

[BonsaiK]

Having finished a stressful night working at the bar...

There's nothing even remotely unusual about unwinding with some grindcore after a hard day at work. In fact, I think that's why that entire genre of music was created. They call it "grind" for a reason...

I always figured it was because the blasts of noise were akin to gigantic rocks grinding against one another right next to you. Also, going by what you're saying... all my friends are wrong and it is possible to calm down with this genre.

I like to listen to Necro before going out on a date. Puts me in the right frame of mind.

Actually your understanding of "grind" is probably the correct one, but given the sort of themes that crop up from time to time on grindcore albums there's a definite nod by the better practitioners to the concept that it's a catharsis of some kind, to make the "grind" of daily existence more tolerable.

Necro is hilarious. I recommend "The Sexorcist" to anyone with a sense of humour. If you can't laugh at sex you can't laugh at anything.

 

[SmartIdiot]

Having finished a stressful night working at the bar...

There's nothing even remotely unusual about unwinding with some grindcore after a hard day at work. In fact, I think that's why that entire genre of music was created. They call it "grind" for a reason...

I always figured it was because the blasts of noise were akin to gigantic rocks grinding against one another right next to you. Also, going by what you're saying... all my friends are wrong and it is possible to calm down with this genre.

I like to listen to Necro before going out on a date. Puts me in the right frame of mind.

Actually your understanding of "grind" is probably the correct one, but given the sort of themes that crop up from time to time on grindcore albums there's a definite nod by the better practitioners to the concept that it's a catharsis of some kind, to make the "grind" of daily existence more tolerable.

Necro is hilarious. I recommend "The Sexorcist" to anyone with a sense of humour. If you can't laugh at sex you can't laugh at anything.

Well, given the titles and lyrics of some of ANB's work I quickly learned it was a genre with humour in it, aswell as the borderline militant vegetarianism and animal rights ethics(not that I find anything wrong with that, before anyone starts).

Also I just looked up some necro. It's like someone took grind lyrics, changed a couple of things so it was about sex and made it coherent.

 

[WinterOrbit]

A lot of my heavy or f'ed up music tends to get me calm yet energetic. But for a deep chill, I can rely on "Moonlapse Vertigo" by Opeth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80UTrCKxb6U