Need playlist for yelling while hanging laundry
November 21, 2021 10:28 AM   Subscribe

Please send me songs I can listen to while being sad, angry, frustrated, and challenged to find places to hang four loads of damp laundry all over my apartment. A podcast won't cut it. (Later, I will have dinner and reward myself by continuing to read Elizabeth Gilbert's The City of Girls. Later, I will complete the stress-response cycle by exercising. But right now, I have to hang up this nightmarish amount of laundry.)

Right this moment, my life is shit. It won't be tomorrow because tomorrow will be better. But right now I am dealing with the sorrow of my inability to rescue people I love from the symptoms their mental illness AND my huge, enormous, overpowering frustration and anger that I volunteered to help with laundry for the grandkids and did four loads of laundry and THEN THE FUCKING DRYER WAS SHITTY AND SO WAS THE DRYING CABINET AND I JUST CAN'T EVEN.

Your suggestions are much appreciated. xo
posted by Bella Donna to Media & Arts (42 answers total) 25 users marked this as a favorite
 
A classic I enjoy shouting angrily along with: "Sabotage", by the Beastie Boys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE
posted by theatro at 10:36 AM on November 21, 2021 [5 favorites]


Alanis Morrisette - "You Oughta know"
posted by heathrowga at 10:46 AM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


Head Like A Hole
posted by Lyn Never at 10:50 AM on November 21, 2021 [5 favorites]


“This Corrosion” by Sisters of Mercy
posted by ejs at 10:53 AM on November 21, 2021 [3 favorites]


Would you try some unusual genres?

Speed Metal: "Through the fire and flames" by Dragonforce

Symphonic Metal: "The Greatest Show on Earth" by Nightwish (note: this is 20+ minutes long)

Eurobeat Mix by various artists (45 minute mix)
posted by kschang at 11:03 AM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


Kill Culture, The Hate.

This is the best song ever; I have no clue why it has like no views.
posted by Slinga at 11:03 AM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


Van Morrison tends to calm me down.

If you can get your hands on a dehumidifier, it will help immensely with the laundry problem.

HUGS!!
posted by LaBellaStella at 11:05 AM on November 21, 2021 [2 favorites]


Elliott Smith's XO was basically made for this situation. YouTube.
posted by saladin at 11:07 AM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


Almost anything by Nomeansno.
posted by vrakatar at 11:07 AM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


The Taxpayers ”God, Forgive These Bastards: Songs from the Forgotten Life of Henry Turner" sometimes works for me. (Edit: also, sympathy and best wishes.)
posted by eotvos at 11:14 AM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


Million You Never Made by Ani Difranco takes a bit to get to the raging, but it’s a good screamer.
posted by obfuscation at 11:14 AM on November 21, 2021 [5 favorites]


How do you feel about punk? I just realized there's a new(ish) Rise Against record out, and I have been appreciating The Numbers.
posted by Alterscape at 11:22 AM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


Not ragey, but engrossing enough to get me out of my head if I need it: Halfway Home by TV on the Radio!
posted by pepper bird at 11:25 AM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


Fallen Sarah McLachlan. I hope it is healing an helpful, Bella Donna.
posted by effluvia at 11:26 AM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


Kiss Off Violent Femmes is kinda more quietly seething rage but there are good yelling opportunities.
posted by obfuscation at 11:26 AM on November 21, 2021 [3 favorites]


Oh, Dear God by XTC (or Sarah mclachlan).
posted by obfuscation at 11:32 AM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


I sometimes think part of the reason Bleachers' "I Wanna Get Better" was such a hit was because you could yell along with it and convince yourself things would indeed get better.
posted by kitten kaboodle at 11:32 AM on November 21, 2021 [6 favorites]


Can't believe I'm the first to get to The Mountain Goats This Year, surely an entry in the Great Terrestrial Yelling Songbook.
posted by jocelmeow at 11:40 AM on November 21, 2021 [8 favorites]


Chumbawamba’s Tubthumping Is great for shouting along to, to relieve one’s frustrations.

Good luck with the laundry!
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 11:51 AM on November 21, 2021 [6 favorites]


I think the Ramones would have you well covered here. I Wanna Be Sedated, Teenage Lobotomy.
posted by brookeb at 11:52 AM on November 21, 2021 [2 favorites]


Also, Stupidity by Solomon Burke and of course Take This Job And Shove It.
posted by brookeb at 11:57 AM on November 21, 2021 [2 favorites]


Sick of You by Iggy Pop would hit the spot. Also Gut Feeling by Devo.
posted by Grunyon at 11:57 AM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


Seconding Tubthumping. Also, the album Showbusiness.
posted by eotvos at 11:59 AM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


Am I Ever Going to See Your Face Again. By the Angels. You have to sing/yell the unofficial callback after each verse of "No way, Get fucked, fuck off" for the therapeutic rage effects to work.
posted by wwax at 12:16 PM on November 21, 2021 [3 favorites]


Some of my favorites for this feeling:

The Boy Considers His Hair Cut by Spanish Love Songs (really their entire discography)
F.E.F.E. by Tender Defender
posted by General Malaise at 12:30 PM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


Put these ones toward the end of your playlist, when the endorphins are kicking in:

Tear it Down by Major Love

The Fool, Part 1 by Shad

Through and Through and Through by Joel Plaskett

And, for collapsing in a weary heap at the end, The Year Things Fell Apart by the Golden Seals
posted by armeowda at 1:04 PM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


Radiohead's Paranoid Android is my go-to for pain and shouting and singing at vocal cord-shredding volume.

Fuck your fucking dryer! I hope tomorrow is much better for you.
posted by DingoMutt at 1:05 PM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


Popular Monster - Falling in Reverse

The album Post Human Survival Horror by Bring Me The Horizon

Those are my two recent addictions.
posted by Crystalinne at 1:35 PM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]




Some Rage Against The Machine couldn’t hurt in this situation

Wake Up

And…. PJ Harvey. A lot from Rid of Me. Also

To Bring You My Love
posted by armoir from antproof case at 2:09 PM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


OH OH OH OH I KNOW I KNOWWWW

Living On A Prayer


And just for pure loud fun

Dance The Night Away


Fuck that fucking dryer, Bella. You’re gonna show that mechanical shit how it’s done!!
posted by armoir from antproof case at 2:15 PM on November 21, 2021 [3 favorites]


sleater kinney dig me out (full album)
posted by nightcoast at 2:41 PM on November 21, 2021 [2 favorites]


I’m partial to Paula Cole’s Throwing Stones (VERY sweary) and The Jam’s Town Called Malice.
posted by theBigRedKittyPurrs at 2:45 PM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


Ah, my favorite genre. Some reliable favorites:

Shy by Ani DiFranco
Good 4 U by Olivia Rodrigo
Every Single Night and Not About Love by Fiona Apple
Fire Drills by Dessa
posted by purpleclover at 3:00 PM on November 21, 2021 [2 favorites]


Life Is Shit
posted by credulous at 3:13 PM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


Ooh, another song to belt out with great rage and despair is Right-Hand Man from Hamilton.
posted by DingoMutt at 3:50 PM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


Hope to heck this is too late to be needed for this time, but --

Android Lust, try The Dividing or Devour, Rise, and Take Flight.

Thunderpussy, s/r
posted by away for regrooving at 7:28 PM on November 21, 2021 [1 favorite]


Blood and Thunder or much else from Mastodon may fit the bill.
posted by gleiris at 9:30 PM on November 21, 2021 [2 favorites]


You can yell along to most of Frank Tuner's album "Love, Ire & Song" [SLYT].
posted by wenestvedt at 5:47 AM on November 22, 2021 [1 favorite]




I make terrible playlists so not going to attempt it, but this sounds like a situation that calls for Belle and Sebastian. Their entire catalog is first-rate and every song is like a compact novella.
(Though your laundry is surely hung, dry and possibly even folded by now.)
posted by sjswitzer at 8:48 AM on November 22, 2021 [2 favorites]


Response by poster: In fact, I was unable to hang up all the laundry yesterday because there was too much. I just finished the rest of it and hope everything will be dry and ready to fold tomorrow. I survived last night by listening to some of the recommendations, going to an online Al-Anon meeting, and saying fuck-it to the remaining laundry and diving into City of Girls, which I highly recommend. I will come back later to choose so-called best answers but honestly, everyone who made suggestions is the absolutely best in my eyes. Thank you all so much!
posted by Bella Donna at 9:07 AM on November 22, 2021 [3 favorites]


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