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jimbunny:
Is there any music out there that you put on primarily just to 'dull the pain'?

I mean, 'art for art's sake' is all well and good. But the fact remains that listening to music can very well affect your emotional (as well as physical) state. Sometimes, if you're like me, you just want to think or feel less, and that Fiery Furnaces album just doesn't seem to be helping. Or maybe it will. What's it for you? Or is music above that? Are you above that?

Hat:
Basically every Beatles song Paul McCartney wrote.  Also a lot of the time when I want background music or I'm just feeling really down I put on stuff I am just ridiculously familiar with due to previous floggings to death. So a lot of time I put on a Radiohead album.

The Viz:
R.E.M.'s "Automatic for the People" is a really good therapeutic album, for me at least, as is Elliott Smith's "Figure 8."  Both of those have gotten me through some weird nights.  Anything by the Flaming Lips works pretty well, too.

IronOxide:
It depends on how you want to 'dull the pain' as you say. I generally find that Owen Pallett/Final Fantasy does a good job, but because it is so full of emotion, but ends up as such a cathartic experience. On the other hand though, it can also work to put on some simple, quiet stuff like Air, or I Am Robot and Proud that I can just zone out to.

Or I can just listen to "Sex Bomb" on repeat until my iPod runs out of batteries.

pentaen:
i've listened to it more times than i have fingers and toes but Pet Sounds really takes the edge off, i can always physicaly feel the stress going away by the time Caroline, No, starts.

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