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07 October 2005 — Self-Improvement Mix (8)

I'm solicting suggestions for a new CD mix. I'd like to make a mix of happy, upbeat songs of self-empowerment: therapy through music. Any ideas? I'm willing to consider any sort of music, from the cheesy to the sublime.

For example, here are some candidate songs off the top of my head:

  • "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips ("Why do lock yourself up in these chains? No one can change your life except for you.")
  • "It's All Good" by Sinead O'Connor ("And positivity, it is the way for me: it is truth, it is youth.")
  • "The Emperor's New Clothes" by Sinead O'Connor ("Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies. I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in peace.")
  • "Extraordinary Machine" by Fiona Apple ("Be kind to me or treat me mean: I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine!")
  • "Momentum" by Aimee Mann ("I hate to think of effort expended, all those minutes and days and hours I have frittered away.")
  • "Bad" by U2 ("If I could through myself set your spirit free, I'd lead your heart away, see you break, break away into the light and to the day.")
A few years ago I made a Happy Sunshine mix, and this is similar, but different. The Happy Sunshine Mix was filled with songs that sounded fun and peppy, regardless of their actual lyrics.

This new compilation is about finding strength inside. It's about self-confidence, courage, direction. The lyrics and the music both need to be explicitly about self-mastery.

On this day at foldedspace.org

2004 — iTunes Top 25   What are you listening to lately? What songs do you find playing over-and-over? What groups do you love? What music would you like to share with others?

2003 — Best Song of the 80s   In which I ask you for your favorite song of the 1980s.

2002 — 193-1/4   This afternoon I went to the gym for the first time in five months. The first thing I did was weigh-in: 193-1/4. Not great, but not bad, either. Certainly better than the 200 pounds I weighed at the beginning of the summer.

Comments
On 07 October 2005 (11:57 AM), Alan said:

Try Power to the Meek by Eurythmics -- it's uplifting and rocks out too!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/wma-pop-up/-/B00001T3GA001003/002-4495838-9472007


On 07 October 2005 (01:55 PM), tammy said:

Joyful, Joyful we Adore Thee; by Beethoven. Music and words can be found here. http://www.hymnsite.com/lyrics/umh089.sht


On 07 October 2005 (02:05 PM), Lane said:

Come a Long Way by Michelle Shocked (Album: Arkansas Traveler)


On 07 October 2005 (10:39 PM), Scott II said:

Jimmy Eat World's "In the Middle" is always a good pick me up song.


On 08 October 2005 (10:10 AM), Jim Osmer said:

"Life is Grand" by Camper Van Beethoven which says "and life is grand, and I say this at the risk of falling from favor, from those of you, who have come to expect something darker"

or "Good Good Day" by Nick Cave.


On 08 October 2005 (12:42 PM), Mom said:

I guess I will date myself by saying this, but I really like Whitney Huston's "The Greatest Love of All" when it comes to secular music, about the importance of learning to love oneself. Other than that, the great old hymns are wonderful for general uplifting of my spirits, although I don't often go out of my way to listen to them.


On 08 October 2005 (03:12 PM), Scott II said:

Also, "Tangerine" by Buffalo Tom. Rockin'!


On 08 October 2005 (10:52 PM), jody said:

"End of the Line" by The Traveling Wilburys
http://traveling-wilburys.lyrics-songs.com/lyrics/40758/



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