10 Comfort Songs To Listen To When Feeling Gloomy

Bobby McFerrin – Don’t Worry Be Happy

Are you having trouble every night, as Bobby himself implies in the song, before recommending you not to worry? Well then this is for you.

Funny sounds produced exclusively by the human body and no employment of musical instruments whatsoever should give you a very heart-warming feeling in this world filled at every step just with technology and more technology.

Well actually, I’m sorry to break it to you, but Bobby McFerrin is, in fact, a robot. Yes, he’s a FERRIN5000 Android, produced by the American Government in 1950 as a response to the Russian’s invention of the Passive resonant cavity bug. So that’s why Bobby doesn’t worry. Yeah, I know, I thought it was humanly impossible too anyway.

Black Box Recorder – Child Psychology

Now this song might make you get the wrong idea and commit suicide because of its chorus, but hey, it wouldn’t be my fault.

Eventually, once you get to the bottom of the meaning of this song, you realize that *SURPRISE* life is unfair. I know, you didn’t see that coming. Mmmhm, yup. So now you can go out on the streets, shout at the world, its newly discovered secret. Let everyone know that life is unfair. You’ll truly feel better and relieved… Or get over it.

Bob Marley – No Woman No Cry

Lapse of words to tell to a crying girlfriend in need has been known worldwide in the past decades to be a major tissue wasting cause.

Do you need to shut that bitch up? Well pee-hee, everyone’s favorite Jamaican has a song for you! And he’s even ready to repeat “Everything’s gonna be alright” eight times in a row each time he wants to convince her that you got 99 problems, but the bitch shouldn’t have one. Go for it! This should calm her down.

The Pixies – Where Is My Mind?

Now you’re a rebel, aren’t ya? Of cooourse you are. I mean, you’re a very complex person, you’ve got unusual and rather unexplainable feelings about the world and people around you, you’ve also looooved Fight Club’s last scene when Norton and Bonham Carter watch the explosions and you regard yourself as a potential yet-to-be-discovered genius.

Well then, when you’re feeling down, you’re actually not feeling down at all, you’re redirecting it into feeling awesome. For those who aren’t rebels, let me explain the mechanism:

A rebel person never allows true flaws to the surface, keeps them on the inside and hides them even from themselves, since rebellion requires many other portions of the brain shut down, in order not to become normal. I know, it sounds twisted and frankly I don’t get it either but that’s the way a rebel works. Word.

So then, in times of failure and wrongfulness, all they can do about it is obsessively and rhetorically repeat “Where is my mind? Where is my mind?”, just about enough until their agitation fades away into awesomeness again.

Bazz Luhrmann – Everybody’s Free To Wear Sunscreen

This one’s got all the cliches you need, makes you stand straight finally and feel OK with your ugliness, lack of perspective and/or friends. It’s interesting to realize how, even if this song is already dated, being more than 10 years old, human self-pity and tear-shedding of weaklings is still the same.

Wear Sunscreen is THE ULTIMATE feel-good-while-on-withdrawals-of-self-esteem-song!