What songs make you feel like Bo Burnham’s All Eyes On Me?
October 19, 2021 12:09 PM Subscribe
I lost my mom 9 days ago and the only thing that makes me feel anything right now is music. I’m obsessed with All Eyes On Me because it’s haunting and sonically beautiful and painful and chant-y and real. I love the distortion and the Brandon Urie-style voice. What’s more beautiful chanting distorted stuff that might help me right now?
I am into DONDA as well, but that’s more for the mental anguish than the music (although I have historically loved Kanye.) Any genre, anything that you can imagine yourself sob-chanting or screamed along with in a dark room full of strangers.
I am into DONDA as well, but that’s more for the mental anguish than the music (although I have historically loved Kanye.) Any genre, anything that you can imagine yourself sob-chanting or screamed along with in a dark room full of strangers.
Mokyo wrote the song "Uleum" in memory of his mother.
B.I's song "Illa Illa" is one that's meaningful for me. The lyrics of the English-language version ("Lost at Sea (Illa Illa 2)") are slightly different from the lyrics of the original Korean version so they have somewhat different feelings.
I'm also very sorry for your loss.
posted by Lexica at 1:06 PM on October 19, 2021
B.I's song "Illa Illa" is one that's meaningful for me. The lyrics of the English-language version ("Lost at Sea (Illa Illa 2)") are slightly different from the lyrics of the original Korean version so they have somewhat different feelings.
I'm also very sorry for your loss.
posted by Lexica at 1:06 PM on October 19, 2021
I'm so sorry.
Gem Club's album Breakers would work. "252," from that album, especially.
This Mortal Coil, "Bitter" and "Song to the Siren"
Sparklehorse, "Getting it Wrong"
Nick Hakim, "The Light"
Opossum's "Inhaler Song"
posted by cocoagirl at 1:07 PM on October 19, 2021
Gem Club's album Breakers would work. "252," from that album, especially.
This Mortal Coil, "Bitter" and "Song to the Siren"
Sparklehorse, "Getting it Wrong"
Nick Hakim, "The Light"
Opossum's "Inhaler Song"
posted by cocoagirl at 1:07 PM on October 19, 2021
Very much a different genre, but Chavela Vargas is incredibly emotional and powerful. Great for crying into your tequila.
posted by SinAesthetic at 1:44 PM on October 19, 2021
posted by SinAesthetic at 1:44 PM on October 19, 2021
Sorry to hear about your mother.
I'm going to suggest Springsteen's cover of Suicide's Dream Baby Dream, the least-Springsteen sounding song he ever sang.
posted by dobbs at 1:54 PM on October 19, 2021
I'm going to suggest Springsteen's cover of Suicide's Dream Baby Dream, the least-Springsteen sounding song he ever sang.
posted by dobbs at 1:54 PM on October 19, 2021
When my former father in law died unexpectedly, I flew across the country listening to School of Seven Bells’ Alpinisms album loudly over and over again, that may fit. I’m so sorry for your loss.
posted by centrifugal at 2:01 PM on October 19, 2021
posted by centrifugal at 2:01 PM on October 19, 2021
You might like the new Low album, "HEY WHAT." It's pretty extreme in its production, and a more difficult listen than "All Eyes On Me," but it's got a ton of pushed sonics, distortion, and some of that same epic delivery.
I'd also suggest trying the Banks songs "Gimme" and "Stroke."
posted by edlundart at 2:21 PM on October 19, 2021
I'd also suggest trying the Banks songs "Gimme" and "Stroke."
posted by edlundart at 2:21 PM on October 19, 2021
The Antlers or Sharon Van Etten are my go-tos for releasing emotion. I’m so sorry for your loss.
posted by sevensnowflakes at 3:21 PM on October 19, 2021
posted by sevensnowflakes at 3:21 PM on October 19, 2021
The Sigur Rós album Ágætis byrjun ended up being my lifeline in a similar circumstance several years ago. I am so sorry for your loss.
posted by somanyamys at 4:22 PM on October 19, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by somanyamys at 4:22 PM on October 19, 2021 [1 favorite]
I'm so sorry.
A few possibilities that sprang to mind for me:
Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl
Röyksopp - Monument
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
posted by eponym at 5:09 PM on October 19, 2021 [2 favorites]
A few possibilities that sprang to mind for me:
Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl
Röyksopp - Monument
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
posted by eponym at 5:09 PM on October 19, 2021 [2 favorites]
I’m so sorry. It’s not distortiony, but the feeling might be right: Downbound Train by Bruce Springsteen
posted by EXISTENZ IS PAUSED at 6:45 PM on October 19, 2021
posted by EXISTENZ IS PAUSED at 6:45 PM on October 19, 2021
Also, one of my favorites, World Party by The Waterboys
posted by perhapses at 7:48 PM on October 19, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by perhapses at 7:48 PM on October 19, 2021 [1 favorite]
I am so sorry for your loss. When I lost someone close a few years ago, I obsessively listened to Afterlife by Arcade Fire. Another song that hit me hard in the feels the same way is Killer Crane, by TV on the Radio. But to scream/cry along, Arcade Fire is your band. So much of their work is about grief.
posted by msali at 8:02 PM on October 19, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by msali at 8:02 PM on October 19, 2021 [1 favorite]
Sorry.
It's perhaps not exactly what you are after but Hiss Golden Messenger's "Sufferer (Love My Conqueror)" was a surprising comfort for me when my sister died a few years ago.
posted by turbid dahlia at 8:28 PM on October 19, 2021
It's perhaps not exactly what you are after but Hiss Golden Messenger's "Sufferer (Love My Conqueror)" was a surprising comfort for me when my sister died a few years ago.
posted by turbid dahlia at 8:28 PM on October 19, 2021
I’m sorry for your loss.
When I was a mixed-up twenty-something, I listened to For Emma, Forever Ago a by Bon Iver a lot. Recorded alone in a cabin by a single artist (similar to Inside, in some ways, actually) with layered voices, distortion, haunting melodies. It still gives me very specific memories and emotions more than a decade later.
posted by Happy Dave at 1:54 AM on October 20, 2021
When I was a mixed-up twenty-something, I listened to For Emma, Forever Ago a by Bon Iver a lot. Recorded alone in a cabin by a single artist (similar to Inside, in some ways, actually) with layered voices, distortion, haunting melodies. It still gives me very specific memories and emotions more than a decade later.
posted by Happy Dave at 1:54 AM on October 20, 2021
A few of IAMX's songs remind me of All Eyes on Me. Dark, intense, synth-y production and emotional, heavy lyrics that I've found cathartic. The ones I'd recommend the most are Surrender and Insomnia.
posted by Anonymous at 4:06 AM on October 20, 2021
posted by Anonymous at 4:06 AM on October 20, 2021
Feral Love by Chelsea Wolfe
Pain by Boy Harsher
Magic Chords by Sharon Van Etten
The Rat by The Walkmen (less synthy, more sob/shouty)
New York by St. Vincent
Setting Sail, Coming Home from the Bastion soundtrack (bit of a wild card, but def has that melancholy repetition)
Pepper by Butthole Surfers (another wild card, but I think it might have the vibe you seek)
Also, not as much shouty potential, but if you're looking for melancholy repetition, Massive Attack might be worth checking out. Paradise Circus, Angel, Inertia Creeps, and Risingson are good places to start.
I'm so sorry about your mom.
posted by helloimjennsco at 9:04 AM on October 20, 2021
Pain by Boy Harsher
Magic Chords by Sharon Van Etten
The Rat by The Walkmen (less synthy, more sob/shouty)
New York by St. Vincent
Setting Sail, Coming Home from the Bastion soundtrack (bit of a wild card, but def has that melancholy repetition)
Pepper by Butthole Surfers (another wild card, but I think it might have the vibe you seek)
Also, not as much shouty potential, but if you're looking for melancholy repetition, Massive Attack might be worth checking out. Paradise Circus, Angel, Inertia Creeps, and Risingson are good places to start.
I'm so sorry about your mom.
posted by helloimjennsco at 9:04 AM on October 20, 2021
LCD Soundsystem: Someone Great and All My Friends in particular
posted by atlantica at 11:43 AM on October 22, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by atlantica at 11:43 AM on October 22, 2021 [1 favorite]
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I love that song too. Fiona Apple's voice has a great haunted and soulful quality. The song "Love Ridden" comes to mind but all of her stuff is amazing.
Also, Aimee Mann. Try "It's Not"
posted by bearette at 12:42 PM on October 19, 2021