Musical Mania

There is a positive correlation between listening to music and cycling moods.

I'm sure most of you are already aware of this.

I always noticed this growing up. I had three songs (Undying - Demon Hunter, Pantomime - The Kovenant, Kings of the Carnival Creation - Dimmu Borgir) that I would just listen to over and over.


Thoughts?

There's definitely a correlation between music being listened to and mood.
Often we match the music to the mood.
I have started taking my bad moods and improving them with music, which can send me into mania if I'm depressed and pull out a lot of techno or something.
It would be an interesting study.

Oh yeah. When I'm up, it's all jazz. When I crash, I start listening to Sentenced and Type O Negative.

I'm not sure what the payoff is. It's hard to tell if listening to something like "excuse me while I kill myself" puts it into perspective and helps things, or if this is just a case of wallowing in self-pity. I do think it might be a better idea to switch it around and get into the stimulating jazz when I'm down, but I just gravitate towards the self-pity stuff automatically. And then there are the mixed states. That's an interesting playlist.

Another part of this is that since I'm a musician myself, the hypomanic states are pretty productive, and it's interesting to note the difference in the music I create depending on what part of the cycle I'm in.

My tastes change on the season, right now we're going into metalcore time. AILD/ATR/ABR/KSE/IDT/IKTPQ/Lots of Scandinavian bands

What I listen to is reflective of my mood always. During my most depressive times, it's basically all Metallica. Fade to Black is my anthem during those periods. And when I listen to the darker stuff when I'm not sad it means something different, it's just a good song to me then, not a description of my melencholy mood.
And when I get manic I'll notice that happy songs will pop into my head, like this one Fleetwood Mac song that's real sweet, the song sounds like sweet pink clouds with beautiful rytham haha.

Oh my god you describe things like me.
"I Can't Dance" by Genesis sounds like cold iced tea and a moon pie...
No one except me seems to know what that means.

^^Nah I get it. There's a Dolly Parton song that sounds like a starry night with love in the air, an R.E.M. song that sounds like a hot day in the South; I can picture the dusty dirt roads. A Stone Temple Piolets song that sounds like a windy green field with blue sky. Hahaha, yeah & I think our perception from many songs can be influenced by what was going on when we first started listening to it.

Kings pf the carnival creation always filled me with anger and rage made me misanthropic it was a feeling i enjoy greatly

List the songs that you identify with your manic/depressive/mixed states it will be interesting

Mania: Five finger death punch - The bleeding
Depressive: Bright Eyes - Nothing gets crossed out
Mixed: The paper trails - We know where you sleep

I am definitely major metalhead when I am depressed and happy/pop/classic rock when I am hypo.

hmmm, depressed- I suppose in high school it would have been hurt by NIN. Now it is pretty much any metal, cant recall all the bands. Breaking Benjamin, Chimaira, hatebreed, meshuggah, taproot, etc.

Hypo- Sublime, of course, Lady Gaga, Black eyed Peas, the Beatles, Creedence clearwater Revival, Tool, ohhh. love Paper planes by M.I.A. "Fly like paper, get high like planes" yeah, that about fits.