Music for "Tough Times"

Keith Jarret's piano solo records.

Like the PJ and Nick Cave references... Flaming Lips after midnight on Sundays works for me. The Harder They Come and Jackie Brown. Are soundtracks too lame? Junior Murvin and Desmond Decker always make me feel better. Bob Mould. Jayhawks. Yo La Tengo can also work wonders. Too eclectic?

Ian Anderson's Divinities.

Ditto Tudordennis: anything by Elliott Smith, one of the few musical geniuses to have walked the Earth in our time, suffered greatly, but left an amazing and definitive musical statement quite unlike others of his kind.

This is one of the many a cool threads on this site with lots of good ideas. Music to make you feel better is about feel for me weather it be instrumental or lyrical. The singer song writers like Joni Mitchell, Dylan, Danny O'Keefe, Tom Waits, early Rod Stewart, Martin Sexton, many others write some songs I can REALLY identify with. Some come acoss with prefectly crafted insightful, poignant lyrics and music that truly take me away. On the classical side Debussey, Mozart, Brahams, Ralph Vaughn Williams,and on and on also send me. Music has rescued me many times from the neatherworld of depression. Cheers