3 Songs To Help You Survive. What Would they Be? The Psychology Of Surviving.

I don't know about my next 2 but number 1 would have to be "Bare Necessities" from Disney's Jungle Book. For me, it's the original don't worry, be happy song.

There are two which have helped me through some very scary times.

They are (I think) the 23rd Psalm ('The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want. He leads me through the Valley of Death', etc)

and another .. not sure what it's called, but again, it's from childhood, goes like this: ' All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small ... the Lord God made them all ... '


they really have helped me through what at the time did seem like the valley of death. They've just sprung into my mind and I've hummed them, silently or in a whisper, over and over, until I've emerged on the other side. My little lifesavers which serve the dual purpose, to my mind, of consigning my soul to God, regardless of what might happen to me

reply to post by Theli93


lol..thats a good one for sure...

reply to post by Deep Thoughts


lol...

1.Fear and loathing in Las Vegas

2.Half Baked

3.How high

really?? How Ironic your name is "Deep thoughts"...too good

More Than A Feeling > BOSTON
If You Leave Me Now > CHICAGO

I have a profound interest in music, and I find it enormously difficult to be decisive over anything of a mediocre interest. But these two songs are my most favourite of all time so I'm putting them in my 'Survival Playlist'. Yer, the second one's a bit sappy, but I'm sure it fits in on some level.

Also,

Don't Stop Me Now > QUEEN

All I'd be able to picture during this song is the scene from Shaun of the Dead when they're standing around the zombie hitting it in synchronised motion with the music. It's effing hilarious

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FOR THE AFTERMATH:

New Slang > THE SHINS

The biggest chill song of all time.

Here On My Own > U.N.P.O.C

Because it's ironic

Don't stop me now - Queen
You've got a friend - Carole King
I saw the light - Todd Rundgren
Love and affection - Joan Armatrading
Say a little prayer - Aretha Franklin

I forgot one-
Do you know the way to san jose - Dionne Warwick
That always cheers me up

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ya the more than a feeeling song has been popular..

actually, i read somewherr it is th emost popular song of all time...dont have the foggiest clue as to where or when i heard that, but i know i did..

a great choice for sure!

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So by thinking that my name is ironic, you're basically saying that pot smokers don't think much....humm, what a weird knowledge you have there.

I'm not trying to start a debate or anything here, I want to clarify what you're saying.

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I would only have one. And that would be the theme tune to Ghostbusters!

my 3, if I had a player to hear them on, to sing would be different, or to hear people sing
Requiem for a Dream
Killing in the Name of - RATM
Carol of the Bells

1. Against the Wind - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band

2. Long Cool Woman - The Hollies

3. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

3 songs is not enough......

Okay...I am back, could not stand it.....

Anything from the following:

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Jimi Hendrix
The Allman Brothers Band
Journey
Bad Co.
Billy Squier
Chicago
Pink Floyd
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Dokken
Ratt
Pantera
Dream Theatre
Clapton
Foghat
KISS
Joe Walsh
Skynyrd
Marshall Tucker Band
Neil Young
The stones
Steely Dan
Steve Miller Band
Van Halen

OMG.... I have to stop, this thread could go on for days!


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[edit on 15-8-2009 by desertdreamer]

Die for Your Government by Anti-Flag ~angry motivating song to remind me why we are in this mess.
Past the Point by Tilt encouraging song

I need one more happy forget about my troubles type song, I'm gunna have to put some more thought into this one.

I'll be taking at least to MP3 players with me. So that I'll have a second when the batteries run out on the first. It would be great if they had a crank radio that also had MP3 capabilities.

star, and flag to the Op.

Um, Um, my three songs??? donno their names but

Let the bodies hit the floor...rob zombie??

Ring of fire.....Johnny Cash

Ode to joy..........Beethoven

No no no, not The Bodies Hit the Floor song, that would be a sure fire way they could torture me in the FEMA camps. Bad, bad memories of that song.

reply to post by open_eyeballs



Good thread.

And mine would be

1. Survivalism - Nine Inch Nails.
Because it gives me energy and reminds me that I am bigger than whatever tries to attack me. Listening to this song, I could face an army and know that even if I died, I stood for something.

2. Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley.
Simply because I couldn't live without this song in my life. It reminds me of someone I love very much.

3. Colourful - Rocco DeLuca & The Burden.
It's travelling music. It's the kind of song that makes me feel positive about things, and reminds me of a lot of amazing people.

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Let the bodies hit the floor - - Drowning Pool


Oh.....and I can't believe I forgot Queensryche - Operation Mind Crime...LOL, guess I totally blew the 3 song maximum!

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well in a hostile area it would be

1) tri-polar album-sick puppies
2) disposable heroes-metallica
3) blackened-metallica

in a peaceful enviroment

1) Ocean front property-George Strait
2) country boy can survive- Hank Williams Jr.
3) Thank god I'm a country boy-John Denver

the songs will help keep you in the right mindset for enviroment that your in.

Aw heck, I -have- to add these two:

Out of Control - Hoobastank

Lyrics of Hoobastank's song "Out Of Control"

I've done everything as you say
I've followed your rules without question
I thought it would help me see things clearly
But instead of helping me to see
I look around and it's like I'm blinded

I'm spinning out of control
Out of control
I'm spinning out of control
Out of control

Where should I go?
What should I do?
I don't understand what you want from me
Cause I don't know
If I can trust you
I don't understand what you want from me

I feel like I'm spinning out of control
Try to focus but everything's twisted
And all along I thought you would be there
(Thought you would be there)
To let me know I'm not alone
But in fact that's exactly what I was

I'm spinning out of control
Out of control
I'm spinning out of control
Out of control

Where should I go?
What should I do?
I don't understand what you want from me
Cause I don't know
If I can trust you
All of the things you've said to me

I may never know the answer
To this endless mystery

Where should I go?
What should I do?
I don't understand what you want from me

Is it a mystery?
Is it a mystery?

I'm spinning out of control
Out of control
I'm spinning out of control
Out of control
I'm spinning out of control
Out of control
I'm spinning out of control...

Where should I go?
What should I do?
I don't understand what you want from me
Cause I don't know
If I can trust you
All the things you've said to me

And I may never know the answer
To this endless mystery

Where should I go?
What should I do?
I don't understand what you want from me

I'm spinning out of control
Out of control

And

She's Country - Jason Aldean

You boys ever met a real country girl
I'm talkin true blue, out in the woods
down home country

Verse 1
Shes a hot little number in her pick-up truck daddy's sweet money done jacked it up
Shes a party all-nighter from South Carolina
a bad mama-jama from down in Alabama
Shes a ragin cajun, lunitic from Brunswick,
juicy Georgia peach, with a thick sounthern drawl, sexy swing and walk

Chorus
Brother she's all country(shoot)
from her cowboy boots to her down home roots
She's country, from the song she plays to the prayer she prays
Thats the way she was born and raised, she ain't afraid to stay country
Brother she's country

Verse 2
A hell raisin sugar when the sun goes down mama taught her how to rip up the town
Hunny drippin' hunny from a hollar in Kentucky, gets ya flippin kinda trippy like a Mississippi hippy
She's a Kansas princess, crazy mother trucker, undercover lover, thick sounthern drawl, sexy swingin walk

Chorus
Brother she's all country(shoot)
from her cowboy boots to her down home roots
She's country,
from the song she plays to the prayer she prays
Thats the way she was born and raised, she ain't afraid to stay country
Nuthin' but country

Brother shes country
from her cowboy boots
to her down home roots
nuthin' but country, yeah yeah

(thick southern drawl)
(sexy swing and walk)
(aw show em how a country girl does it now)

She's country(shoot)
from her cowboy boots to her down home roots
she's country, from the song she plays to the prayer she prays
That's the way she was born and raised, she ain't afraid to stay country
Yeah she's nothin but country, she's all about the country

From the backwoods
Shes home a grown
Down to the bone
She's country

I heard a song this morning and realized its a song I come across periodically and never tire of, so I'm adding it as my 4th

Don't stop believing - Journey