I can't sleep for thinking

[sovay]

Send me the music you listen to when you're too angry to sleep. I was thinking of making a playlist, but I could always use more.

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[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

You already know about these, but it's worth pointing out nonetheless: the first two songs on the Pogues' "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" are my angry music. The title song plus "Turkish Song of the Damned":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBLqp-s__o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6fFJX4OkDw

Forgive lousy YouTube links, but I've yet to figure out sendspace.

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

Either I can't listen to music when I'm too angry to sleep, or it has never occurred to me to try, or both. Probably both. It seems like all I can do is wait until sheer exhaustion takes it and me away. Among the most frustrating feelings on earth or under heaven, to be sure. But after pondering your question, I promise that the next time I am too angry to sleep, I will take three deep, slow breaths, and then I will put on the headphones and listen to Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart, which is the third movement from Beethoven's String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, Opus 132 (1825). It's just possible that that music would smooth away my rage, let me let go of it. It also happens to be the music I want played at my funeral.

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

[mrbelm.livejournal.com]

My brother mixed that record. I thought I was the only other person who had heard of it.

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

I first heard it as the bed music for the ECW (minor-league pro wrestling) video game.

[sovay]

"You trusted the devil and she will betray you . . ."

Thanks.

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

Neue Kraft fühlend.

[rosefox]

Since 1996, "Image II" off of Jason Rubenstein's album Image has been helping me find my way to sleep no matter how angry, stressed, lonely, sad, or scared I am.

[yendi]

"While You're Twisting, I'm Still Breathing," by The Gits.

Concord Dawn all the way

[selidor]

Because drum-n-bass is the backbone of the night. Both uplifting and shaking-to-the-spine.
Morning Light:

Man for All Seasons:

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I have a playlist called "grumpy," but what you're describing sounds worse than that (she's dead, Jim).

It's got Tears for Fears' "Shout" on it, along with U2's "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" done entirely from clips from George W. Bush's speeches, plus (of course) "I Hate Everyone" (by Get Set Go) and "Destroy Everything You Touch" (by Ladytron).

and a few more things.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Uh...The Astronaut?

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Also:
Barenaked Ladies, Who needs sleep?, for a peppy song about insomnia...
...and for that nasty hour around sunrise, the ever-disturbing Sonne

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

I'm also going to recommendVan Canto's "One to ten", which is pretty angry, even if not really about insomnia.
Speaking of which, did I already send you Faithless's song of the same name?

[sovay]

Speaking of which, did I already send you Faithless's song of the same name?

It's on my computer, so I'd assume so. Thanks! I had "Sonne," but not the others.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I don't have much right now -- our computers being subject to a plague of deathy plague and not recognizing their power sources -- but I'll think about it and see what I can scrounge.

When the climb looks like shit, it is acceptable to ask for a belay. Just sayin'.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I don't seem to keep music for anger: joy, yes, but rage seems to obliterate listening for me. What I will send you later today is for cheer.

I do hope you slept.

*hugs*

Nine

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

So. Found some stuff. Angry stuff, mostly. Stuff for wallowing in it. A couple of chasers, and one of my all-time favorite songs that I had lost track of until I remembered it yesterday.

This is a zipped file of 16 songs not guaranteed to go together called God Damn the Sleep.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/fjp0u7

(In no particular order)

Samuel L. Jackson (Black Snake Moan OST) "Stack o Lee"
Bleak (Lycia Side-Project) "Darkness"
In Strict Confidence "Sad but True" (Metallica Cover)
Deb Talon "Ashes on Your Eyes" (this one is a chaser; it was the only thing that kept me afloat some days following an old breakup).
.Hack/Sign "Aura's Theme (Evil Version)"
Thanatos "Cop Killa" (Body Count Cover)
Sleep of Reason "Moloch Machine"
Rozz Williams and Gitane Demone "Flowers"
Come "Dead Molly" "Off to One Side" and "Bell" (These guys are from Boston).
Grendel "Pax Psychosis" and "Harsh Generation"
Peter Murphy "Things to Remember"
Swans "God Damn the Sun"

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

"Flowers" is awesome. It takes pathos, dips it in bathos and then makes you feel better about the whole thing. See also "Failure" by Swans, which, if you don't have, you must be given.

[sovay]

This is a zipped file of 16 songs not guaranteed to go together called God Damn the Sleep.

You are pretty awesome.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Birds of a feather, then.

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

If you want something to complement the anger:
Einsturzende Neubauten - "Armenia"
Bright Sheng - "H'un - Lacerations"
Beethoven - "Grosse fuge"
George Crumb - "Black Angels"

If you want something to help you get to sleep:
Beethoven - 9th Symphony, third movement
Anything by Hildegard von Bingen
Pauline Oliveros - "Deep Listening"

[barry-king.livejournal.com]

I was about to say the same thing about Beethoven's 9th m3.
And Vanessa Mae's "I'm A-Doun for Lack of Johnnie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9j0-Ey3kw)"
And Loreena McKinnett's "Lullaby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWqQ9uwqQxk)". All very purging of that choleric humour.

But to keep the blood on the boil, I tend towards protest rock: Midnight Oil's "The Dead Heart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSybR_k_Ouo)", Rachid Taha's "Barra, Barra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-nF8ACz4k0)", or U2's "Mothers of the Disappeared (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZBlT9ycecQ)".

[ron-drummond.livejournal.com]

Pauline Oliveros is so wonderful -- one of my heroes.

To all the Beethoven I would add the slow movement of the Third Razumovsky.

And the Adagio movement of Schubert's String Quintet, D. 956.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

I tend to go with Take You to the Well by Tempest to dispel anger.

There's also a lot of good songs by Kris Delhorst for this purpose and also for soothing one into sleep.

I hope it resolves, whatever it is.

[helivoy.livejournal.com]

I will second the Pogues, early U2, Peter Murphy -- also Soundgarden's I'm Still Hungry; almost all of Warren Zevon and Tom Waits; a lot of Bruce Springsteen (Nebraska, for example).

Going beyond Western Europe, there are the Cretan rizítika and the Epirot laments; the entire oeuvre of Mikis Theodhorákis, especially the works based on the poetry of Ritsos, Elytis and Seféris; most of Stávros Ksarhákos, Yiánnis Markópoulos and Dhionyssis Savvópoulos; Mauthausen by Iakóvos Kambanéllis; Canto Nero and Elo Hi from Goran Bercovic''s music for Queen Margot; flamenco; the drum-with-vocables Plains Nations songs.

What prompted the question?

[cimeara.livejournal.com]

No one's yet mentioned Nine Inch Nails? which ranges all the way from "angry at myself" to "angry at the world" to "world, stop making me angry at you."

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

"Another White Dash" by Butterfly Boucher.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you're feeling that way, assuming, of course, that this query is prompted by something other than intellectual curiosity.

I hope you were able to sleep, eventually.

I'm trying to think if there is anything. I don't tend to listen to music when I'm angry, unless, of course, it's the music that's made me angry, or, to put it more accurately, the willful ineptitude and egotism of what some miserable excuse for a human being and/or soi disant musician is doing to the music has made me angry. Most of that, fortunately, doesn't get recorded.*

*I might have some snippets of out-of-tune warbly whistle player from last night, including where he was trying to play a D whistle on a tune in A and obviously not capable of sensing the need to half-hole for the G#, let alone capable of doing it, but that's more annoying than angrifying. True anger usually involves accompanists, in my experience.

[hans-the-bold.livejournal.com]

Anarchy in the UK!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbmWs6Jf5dc&feature=related

Nobody sings "I'm pissed off" like Johnny Rotten....

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Leonard Cohen's The Future. "Give me back my broken nights, my mirror's cracked, my secret's out, it's lonely here, there's no one left to torture!"