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Originally Posted by waves
Sounds like a fairly sound strategy per behaviorist theory (Skinner),  if you can be successful at it the first few times. What I might do is listen to the "chosen" music when already calm, in order to try to condition the desired response.
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Waves,
Well it only worked if I was strung out and wired in addition to being sleep deprived tired.
I usually listed to
Melissa, Melissa Etheridge's debut album (1988).
The first couple of tracks were intense -- almost as intense and angry and powerful as my mood. I listened to one or two other albums that worked for volume and intensity but their lyrics were less helpful than hers were. ( . . .never once felt the need to consider the neighbors's ears.)
After a few tracks of hers, I would fall sleep. Often when a loud track followed a slow quiet track, I would be awakened and get up to turn the stereo off and go back to sleep.
Or if it is was really a bad day (and I was not sleepy) I would play the album again.
Etheridge -"Similar Features"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMAbqbjzADk
Quote:
Go on and close your eyes imagine me there
She's got similar features with longer hair
And if that's what it takes to get you through
Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you
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Melissa Etheridge - Bring Me Some Water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIvXUNp8HtU
Quote:
Somebody bring me some water
Can't you see I'm burning alive
Can't you see my baby's got another lover
I don't know how I'm gonna survive
Somebody bring me some water
Can't you see it's out of control
Baby's got my heart and my baby's got my mind
But tonight the sweet Devil's got my soul
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I did try drinking wine after work to calm myself but it did not help because I probably needed copious amounts and I did not want to join the ranks of people in my mother's family who have ruined the lives of their spouses and kids. Carbs (pasta) worked in those days.
I most likely needed better drugs. I did get a better job soon . .. . got fired or quit. . . depending on how I choose to tell the work story.
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I have not found music that works like that for me now.
Maybe I should spend some time looking. The Black Keys are not awful.
M