I was going to post some fairly serious content tonight but got sidetracked doing some podcasting experimentation with my new Alesis Multimix8 USB and Behringer C-1 microphone. Nope, not going to talk about my new toys either; it’s the music I had playing in the background that has peaked my interest tonight. My wife is out of the country for a few weeks so I have been cranking up the tunes like a bachelor. Most of my solitary nights, I just put it on one of the cable music channels and let it play until lights out. I have gone through the 70’s, 80’s, classic rock, classic country, cool jazz, light classical, and even sampled opera and bluegrass for a while. Yeah I know, that kind of play mix just might cause dizziness, seizures, and possible rectal leakage but I have survived. Tonight though I got off my lazy duff and dug through my old CD’s to play some old tunes I haven’t heard in ages. One in particular sparked my interest in particular, K. D. Lang’s Drag because I remember when I bought it I said to myself, “self, this is the ultimate recovery CD/album”.
Click here for a sample track courtesy of Amazon.com
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I know, many of you probably had to catch your breath from laughing so hard after I acknowledged this tough guy from Alabama has a soft place in his heart for the unique Ms Lang. Well get over it and let me know what YOU think is the ultimate recovery CD or if you must, break it down to a song. We will revisit this as an open thread at a later date to compare results.
Remember this is about recovery, drug and alcohol abuse are the topics we speak about round these parts but tonight’s topic is an open thread for all. Broken hearts, lost loves, and all other issues that require respite and recovery will fit the bill for this musical quest. The only rule we have is to keep it clean and give a brief explanation why you are have made your suggestion. I’ll get the ball rolling with the first comments below.
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Just read the lyrics by Boo Hewerdine/Gary Clark/Neill MacColl:
The room in the morning
Watching the rain turn to snow
But outside my window
Sometimes the rain falls harder than you'll ever know
Sometimes the things that you love in the night
The morning will choose to forget
I have a habit i have been trying to lose
Everyone thinks that they know what they want
Sometimes your drug chooses you
There are some things that i've promised myself
Things i haven't done yet
It's my last cigarette
This is my last cigarette
Sometimes the people you love in the night
The morning will choose to forget
This is my last cigarette
My last cigarette
This is my last cigarette
My last cigarette
I know you can intepret it a hundred ways, but I choose my way.
My current favorite recovery song (they change often) "Get up outta the dirt" by Butterfingers - http://www.myspace.com/butterfingersmusic - upbeat and uplifting. Good topic.
I'm not sure if you guys remember this song at all but it goes through the progression of addiction. The singer starts out explaining how good her drug feels to her, how it makes her feel so creative and great.
The song ends with her hitting bottom and realizing that she is an addict and that nothing else in the world matters to her anymore.
The hook goes:
It's not a habbit
it's cool, I feel alive
If you don't have it your on the other side
I'm not an addict...maybe that a lie
erinsav
www.whatwinnersdo.com
but David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes is a great song about the struggle to become clean and a better "new" person.
At the time in the 80's when this video was released, it was the most expensive ever made and the critics said the lyrics of the song contained more messages than any other song ever written.
Sorry, I am a Bowie fan, just listen to the words and you will see why I throw this in the recoverey column of songs.
Devo on SNL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RW01knrGV8
 Enjoy
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