A friend of mine was interested in a selection of music that is pro self-esteem, any genre. I leaped for my mp3 list here at work (which is rather puny) and came up with this selection:
Great Big Sea is my favorite. (Everything Shines, Ordinary Day, When I’m Up, Beat the Drum, Let it Go, Lucky Me, When I Am King, and lots more)
Also, on a very different note, Dream Theater’s “Take the Time”.
Henry Rollin’s “Shine”
Catherine Wheel, “Sparks are gonna fly”
Duran Duran “Sunrise”
Fiona Apple, “Better Version of Me” “Extraordinary Machine”, “Sleep to Dream”, “Mistake”
Halou, “Everything is Okay”
KMFDM, “D.I.Y.”
Massive Attack, “I against I”
MC Frontalot “Braggadocio” (hehe)
Poe, “Control” and “Wild” and “Not a Virgin”
Soundgarden, “Rusty Cage”
The Decemberists, “The Infanta” (I don’t know why, it doesn’t seem to relate, but it always makes me feel better)
Timbuk 3 “Future’s so Bright (I gotta wear shades)”
Tom Cochrane “Life is a Highway”
Tom Petty “Running Down a Dream”
What do you think? Do you have any uplifting songs like that?
I love experiencing people overcoming their internal fears, musically and otherwise. It makes me want to cheer, and it seems like a fun challenge, an encouragement for me to face my own.