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Old 29-01-2014, 13:43
Lexii-Mae
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Can anyone reccomend me some decent songs/rap about mental health struggles?
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Old 29-01-2014, 13:54
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Shiny happy people - R.E.M.
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Old 29-01-2014, 14:08
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Not mental health specifically, but REM's Everybody Hurts is probably apt at times.

A lot of Slipknot's songs could be interpretted as being about mental health, but Duality especially.
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Old 29-01-2014, 14:11
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Lunatic to Love by The Presidents of the USA, although it depends on the reason you want the songs, if it's for a serious discussion it may not be the best example.

It's about being in love with a mental patient

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkDnXtgSWmc


I said I loved you and I told you on a tuesday
You say you're happy but your mind is slidin' sideways
You say you're happy but you're dozy in the theater
The goons keep grillin me wonderin' how I'm treatin' ya
I say she's happy that's all that matters
I say she's happy that's all that matters
Her clothes are crappy and her brain is badly battered
You say she's happy that's all that matters now
That's all that matters now
When I get you home in my room 'tween my sheets
And I got a chance to tell you face to face
How I feel about you darling now I say

You're a lunatic to love
You're a lunatic to love
You can hold my hand to stand up
Hey lunatic

I dropped you off at the asylum on a friday
You looked like hell but I said that you looked ok
You spent the weekend flailing round the trailer
I had to tie you down and strap on you inhaler

I wish that I could help you feel the cold breeze
Set up an iv of sanity
Say there's a spy in one half of your brain
Spyin' on the other half and it's drivin' you a little insane

But you're happy that's all that matters
You say your happy that's all that matters
Your clothes are crappy and your brain is badly battered
You say your happy that's all that matters now
That's all that matters right now

When I rescue you from those concrete rooms
Where they keep you tied up to your bed
Giving you shots of electricity every morning at 7 am
It's enough to drive a sane person crazy
Baby let me tell you how I feel about ya

You're a lunatic to love
You can hold my hand to stand up
Hey lunatic

Love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love
Love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love
Luncatic to love
A luncatic to love
A luncatic to love
A luncatic to love

A luncatic to love
A luncatic to love
A luncatic to love
A luncatic to love love love love love love
A luncatic to love
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Old 29-01-2014, 14:32
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Madhouse - Little Mix
I'm pretty sure the song is referring to someone running away from a mental asylum.
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Old 29-01-2014, 15:03
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Jay Z - 99 problems
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Old 29-01-2014, 15:07
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Stan - Eminem.
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Old 29-01-2014, 15:37
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Bright White Jackets by April Smith.
4st 7lb by The Manic Street Preachers.
Medication by Garbage.
The Real Me by The Who.
Lithium by Nirvana.
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Old 29-01-2014, 15:45
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Paranoid - Black Sabbath ?
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Old 29-01-2014, 16:52
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Imaginary-Evanescence
High Anxiety- The Suicide Machines
She's Falling Apart-Lisa Loeb
Numb- Marina and the Diamonds
When It Rains- Paramour
How Soon Is Now- The Smiths (a lot of their songs seem to be from the perspective of a depressed person)
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Old 29-01-2014, 17:01
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Bonkers - Dizzee Rascal
She's Hearing Voices - Bloc Party
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Old 29-01-2014, 17:41
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Last Resort by Papa Roach.
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Old 29-01-2014, 18:03
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Notorious b.i.g - suicidal thoughts
Cypress hill - illusions
Eyedea - even shadows have shadows
Tyler the creator - yonkers
Roots manuva - awfully deep
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Old 29-01-2014, 18:23
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Christine by Siouxsie and the Banshees (schizophrenia)
She's Lost Control by Joy Division
Fade to Black by Metallica
Sebastian by Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
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Old 29-01-2014, 19:35
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I don't think that it's ever been confirmed but I always thought that Darkness Descends by Laura Marling was about mental health. My Manic & I is about mental health. As is Crazy by Gnarls Barkley.

It's possible that some of Florence + The Machine's music references mental health too.

Dog Days Are Over
Shake It Out
Breaking Down
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Old 29-01-2014, 22:50
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If you want an entire album about mental breakdown, depression, addiction and dysfunctional relationships try Aimee Mann's Lost in Space. Bleak but brilliant.

Try also Fiona Apple's albums.

Going way back in time, Pink Floyd's music often references mental health - most of the Dark Side of the Moon, Shine on You Crazy Diamond and the entire Wall album. A lot of that is inspired by former lead singer Syd Barrett who had a lot of mental health problems.
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Old 29-01-2014, 22:55
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On a slightly wackier note:

Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
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Old 30-01-2014, 01:37
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She's Lost Control by Joy Division
I thought that was about a girl having an epileptic seizure?
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Old 30-01-2014, 03:46
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Gary Barlow - Dying Inside
The Wanted - Demons
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Old 30-01-2014, 08:07
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I thought that was about a girl having an epileptic seizure?
It's a song prompted by seeing a girl have an epileptic seizure but the lyrics are a little darker bearing in mind Ian Curtis himself was diagnosed as epileptic and suffered bouts of depression.
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Old 30-01-2014, 12:07
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A nod to mgvsmith for
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Christine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSSlxp0FAS8

Jimi Hendrix - Manic depression
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLF_WNF3qp4

Ramones - Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx0rwtVDi1I

Nirvana - Lithium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkcJEvMcnEg

Napoleon XIV: 'They're coming to take me away'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fn36l_z3WY

I Hear Voices - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT8Iu8hzQgE
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Old 30-01-2014, 12:55
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Kelly Clarkson - Irvine
Kelly Clarkson - Dark Side
Pink - Nobody Knows
Pink - The Great Escape
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Old 30-01-2014, 14:56
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It's a song prompted by seeing a girl have an epileptic seizure but the lyrics are a little darker bearing in mind Ian Curtis himself was diagnosed as epileptic and suffered bouts of depression.
I'm aware. I suppose the lyrics towards the end of the song could lend themselves to it.
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