feeling low

I have also recently had surgey. Llhasa did it for me. However, when I was at a real low some 24 years ago it was Happy Come Home by Victoria Williams that picked me up.

Usually Nico, Joy Division and Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. Cheers me up no end.

Sister xx

The Cure?

If you look through my record collection there is very little cheerful.......and it keeps me happy............or does it ?

Winky LOL I hadn't thought of that.

5 days later I'm actually not feeling any pain but take Tylenol after eating. And laying low in the apartment which I love so much, warm weather has come back, windows open, birds chirping, classical on the radio.

I had carcinoma skin cancer 4 years ago on my scalp, Drs said it could reappear and it did in my right lymph gland, 3 small bumps. I had them take the whole gland out since it seemed aggressive. I certainly didn't want to go back for another operation. I have a lovely scar that curves from back of ear down neck to collar bone in front.

Pay attention to any hard bumps on your body, catching something early is better than thinking it will go away. I'm a happy patient type as long as I'm not in pain so I'm very happy right now considering...

In April after taxes I'm taking a trip out to Joshua tree to see the desert bloom as we've had a wonderful rainy winter during the olympics. I'll take my U2 CDs along for the ride. Stay in Palm Spgs and then down to Anza Borrego east of San Diego, thru the National Forest and back up the coast.

Now for that Brahms set by Abbado. I'll really sit down and focus one at a time over several days.

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Originally posted by Sister E.:
Usually Nico, Joy Division and Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. Cheers me up no end.

Sister xx

I know the feeling. It's as if you can't get any lower when you listen to 'Lawns of Dawns' and then you start to feel brighter again. MMM is a cure for everything .

It's like feeling low and going to a therapy group and you hear of other peoples problems and you come out feeling chipper and saying "GLAD I don't have THEIR problems".

I had a friend over to clean my place and great fun conversation and I put Ella on vinyl, he likes jazz/blues, he says he's never heard such a great sound system and there is a difference in vinyl. He hadn't seen the new wood floors, carpets or Clearaudio TT. Very impressed.

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Originally posted by Sister E.:
Usually Nico, Joy Division and Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. Cheers me up no end.

Sister xx

Good selection of cheery tunes Sis, to which one might add the Floyd's Animals, Tilt and The Drift by Scott Walker, and happy pop group Throbbing Gristle's 20 Jazz funk Greats

mud, I'm sorry to hear of your travails, and may I wish you a full and speedy recovery.

I think that you need to be inspired during your recovery process by uplifting (as opposed to happy) music

One of the most truly life-affirming musicians of the last century was the Roumanian pianist, Dinu Lipatti, who died in 1950 aged only 33. He didn't live to record much, what with WWII and all that, but what he did record was sublime. Famed for his playing of Chopin, he also recorded music by Bach, Mozart, Liszt, Grieg, Schubert and Schumann, amongst others.

You can get his authorised output (bootlegs abound) on a 7CD EMI 'Icons' release, cat no 50999 2073 1823, although I believe that the international edition substitutes the last four digits 1854.

I recently corresponded with GFFJ elsewhere here about the most remarkable disc in the set, a live recital that Lipatti gave at the 1950 Besancon Festival. He ignored his doctors' advice, got himself pumped full of cortisone to enable him to go on stage, and produced solo performances of Bach, Mozart, Schubert and Chopin that defy belief. He never appeared in public again, and was dead within weeks.

A wonderful testament to the human spirit.

Just a thought.

Graham

Dear Glenn,,

Graham is right about the wonderful, noble, and uplifting playing of Lipatti.

If you can spring for the cost get them! They will never leave you, and such music making is a true uplift.

Best wishes for your recovery, from George

Thanks all I'll put that on a list, I have 3 Satie LPS played by Ciccolini that is wonderful simple parisian cafe music. One friend over had never heard him so we paused the conversation and imagined ourselves in mont marte with it as background music.

A couple years ago we had a concert with 5 songs of the Auvergne by Canteloube which he didn't know, I said oh wait this is all sorts of beautiful you won't forget.

I will look up the Lipatti.

Whilst my wife was having surgery last year I played Richard Hawley-and wept! Kinda cathartic.

Something cheerful seemed inapropriate.

If I do want some energy and zest both Vampire Weekend albums are reliably effective.

Bruce

After a particularly stressful time before an op a few years ago I found that Dire Straights song Why Worry very calming..........

One can also try Low (the band, I mean). Soothing and calming with a sting. Mimi Parker's voice is fenomenal.

Hi Mudwolf, I've just seen your post from Tuesday and want to wish you all the best. Enjoy your trip in April and take care.