[Help] Songs that kept you sane

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

This is a celebratory thread.

At times in my life certain songs have kept me sane. You?

What and how?

This is one from after the divorce and lost custody battle.

"I turn and face the sun
Then all my troubles fall behind me like a shadow
In solitude
Solitude"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60OstMWR1jc

 

[raymondo]

https://youtu.be/HoSOuYNNXjU
Many times through the 70s 80s and...'Nothing is easy' track

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBupS5PMMsc

You can guess the rest.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

If you ever spent any time watching The Albion at Gillingham and this doesn't hit the mark, you weren't there.

Hats off [MENTION=528]attila[/MENTION]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBDhJr-MHaA

 

[Pogue Mahone]

When my best mate died, on my birthday in 2004, I was at a Doves gig.

Every time I hear this I think of him, and I played it a lot at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IUfTgcHlVE

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

This . . .is. . . .just....everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFALroBF84w

Bit more detail...actually, no. No words.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

On a more postive note, I hit a rich vein of positive energising, albeit dark stuff around 1998....kept me well sane. Well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j44lZ-JQS0k

 

[Pogue Mahone]

I'm not usually one for things like this, but my dad died in 2012 when this was a big hit, and for some reason it touched me enormously.

I listened to it again and again.

Listening to it again now, tears are streaming down my face.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijel4Vcqd9g

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Anthem for a year. How far I've fallen. Staring at the ruins of purgatory.

Not for long though. We bounce back...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuwMapqzdgc

Pleasure to have seen their first gig in the UK. And the second. And the third

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I'm not usually one for things like this, but my dad died in 2012 when this was a big hit, and for some reason it touched me enormously.

I listened to it again and again.

Listening to it again now, tears are streaming down my face.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijel4Vcqd9g

We have music for a reason. Embrace it.

Going offline now. All the best from darkest Faversham. HWT.

 

[AmexRuislip]

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[Napier]

Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners.

I was never a great Dexy's fan, but back in the day when I was struggling to revise for A levels and was on the verge of chucking it all out the window, Geno was played on the radio and, for some unknown reason, it really lifted me up. I got my A levels (just) and went to Uni (Sussex).

 

[GT49er]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q

The last song I ever listened to in stereo before going to hospital to get the hearing in one ear removed and replaced by a noise like a cistern re-filling.

 

[jimhigham]

A shameless attempt to curry favour with HWT, but this has genuinely become one of the tunes at Chez Higham when things seem bleak. Sadly I can't generate the accompanying laser show in the kitchen.

 

[portlock seagull]

I'm not usually one for things like this, but my dad died in 2012 when this was a big hit, and for some reason it touched me enormously.

I lisatened to it again and again.

Listening to it again now, tears are streaming down my face.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijel4Vcqd9g

Sorry PM, songs do that to you, take us back to people and places we miss enormously. Perhaps take a trip to the village of West Wycombe one day, you’ll recognise it from the video and can climb to the top of the hill, with the mausoleum at the top, visit the yellow house, hell fire caves etc. Nice pubs and only a couple miles from Adams Park too where they’re playing some great football this season. Ainsworth’s really got em going!

 

[Madafwo]

I don't know about sane, but this song saved my life on more than one occasion.



I had a pretty rough time of it a few years ago and again when my son was born nearly 2 years ago. Whenever I feel really low this song seems to remind me of the things I've got that are good.

If ever I need to relax I always seem to find myself listening to this.



It's like an audio reset button for me.

 

[Durlston]

I get knocked down (but I get up again) by Chumba Wumba.

I love their quirky records!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Alomg with [MENTION=13715]jimhigham[/MENTION] I have a love for Ronan Harris.

The number of times I have stuck on VNV live.....I can't find the actual live track from the actual live album, but this is close enough. tears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btGATLE_-84

 

[Seagull85]

Incredible Song

 

[brakespear]

Several times but firstly when I was going through some really bad times at a previous job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZik6-UPOPs