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Songs/rap about mental health problems.
Can anyone reccomend me some decent songs/rap about mental health struggles?
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Shiny happy people - R.E.M.
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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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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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Madhouse - Little Mix
I'm pretty sure the song is referring to someone running away from a mental asylum. |
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Jay Z - 99 problems
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Stan - Eminem.
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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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Paranoid - Black Sabbath ?
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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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Bonkers - Dizzee Rascal
She's Hearing Voices - Bloc Party |
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Last Resort by Papa Roach.
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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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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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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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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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She's Lost Control by Joy Division
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Gary Barlow - Dying Inside
The Wanted - Demons |
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I thought that was about a girl having an epileptic seizure?
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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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Kelly Clarkson - Irvine
Kelly Clarkson - Dark Side Pink - Nobody Knows Pink - The Great Escape |
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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.
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