What song saved your life?

Posted by Ralphy ™ at ool-18b80ec2.dyn.optonline.net on March 10, 2004 at 13:48:51:

As part of BBC 6 Music's campaign about mental health and music, 6 Music listeners nominated the song that meant most to them in their time of need. It reveals "the songs you cry along to, the ones you shout at, and the tunes that just make you feel a whole lot better." Number 1 was 'I Know it's over' by The Smiths. Below is the top 20.

The Full Top 20
1. The Smiths - I Know it's Over 17.55%
2. Bowling For Soup - Girl all the Bad Guys Want 12.68%
3. REM - Everybody Hurts 10.41%
4. The Cure - Pictures of You 10.06%
5. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees 9.08%
6. Joy Division - Love Will Tear us apart 8.19%
7. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb 5.85%
8. Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up 4.06%
9. Blur - This is a Low 3.43%
10. The Beatles - Good Day Sunshine
11. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge 2.49%
12. Tori Amos - China 2.27%
13. Portishead - Glory Box 2.24%
14. Al Green - Tired of Being Alone 1.79%
15. Mercury Rev - The Dark is Rising 1.65%
16. Lou Reed - Pale Blue Eyes 1.58%
17. Spiritualized - Stop Your Crying 1.3%
18. The Darkness - I Believe in a thing Called Love 1.05%
19. Faithless - Insomnia -1.02%
20. Polyphonic Spree - Light & Day 0.81%

Those wacky Brits. Songs like #18 make me want to TAKE my life rather than save it.

So what song or songs were there in your biggest time of need?

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Follow Ups:

• Re: What song saved your life? Spriteshadow 19:12:21 3/10/04 (0)
• No Rage Against the Machine? Ryall 18:22:09 3/10/04 (0)
• I can't say a particular song ever saved my life- Cokechic 15:22:28 3/10/04 (3)
  • if its responses you are after... Xtian 15:28:49 3/10/04 (2)
    • I'm sooo not a white stripes fan... Cokechic 15:31:35 3/10/04 (1)
      • ahh, i see Xtian 15:35:34 3/10/04 (0)
• "Jizzlobber" by Faith No More. Championship_Vinyl 15:01:21 3/10/04 (0)
• Re: What song saved your life? Mister Smosh 14:25:02 3/10/04 (2)
  • be that as it may Xtian 14:27:32 3/10/04 (1)
    • Point taken Mister Smosh 14:54:49 3/10/04 (0)
• My list Mrs. Isis Fabulous 14:24:10 3/10/04 (0)
• I can't believe Elton's " Someone Saved My Life The O~* in Phantoms 14:15:09 3/10/04 (0)
• A great song that might save your life would be... Joey cheri popper 14:08:13 3/10/04 (0)
• Don't think there is one. Barry, Suave MF 14:05:15 3/10/04 (1)
  • I know some day you'll have a beautiful life... Barry Lutz 14:13:47 3/10/04 (0)
• Love Song by Sam Kinison Baby Jesus 14:04:16 3/10/04 (0)
• alot of those song seem to be oldangelmidnight 13:59:42 3/10/04 (0)
• brits are indeed wacky... nogoodnik 13:58:42 3/10/04 (0)
• #1 - Maudlin Street - Morrissey... Volksgirl 13:54:30 3/10/04 (10)
  • and #2 This Woman's Work by Kate Bush. *nt* Volksgirl 13:56:04 3/10/04 (0)
  • Holy shit it's Volksgirl! Ralphy ™ 13:55:32 3/10/04 (8)
    • Holy shit is right I was actually just thinking of Hardly Clerkin 14:13:33 3/10/04 (1)
      • Doing fine! Volksgirl 14:31:48 3/10/04 (0)
    • What a nice reception! Volksgirl 13:58:07 3/10/04 (5)
      • Hey Girlfriend! fluffy 14:15:35 3/10/04 (1)
        • They were, and I replied to that thread. *nt* Volksgirl 14:29:17 3/10/04 (0)
      • He's fine.......a bit bloated but The O~* in Phantoms 14:04:40 3/10/04 (2)
        • Fuuuuuuuuuuck yooooooooooooou Ralphy ™ 14:06:13 3/10/04 (1)
          • Sorry lets kiss and makeup....... The O~* in Phantoms 14:24:33 3/10/04 (0)
• I love that song! Will Turner, Karaoke King 13:53:02 3/10/04 (3)
  • My choices Will Turner, Karaoke King 13:59:32 3/10/04 (1)
    • #7!!!!! hi will! dspotz 14:24:49 3/10/04 (0)
  • Yeah! They rock out! *nt* Little_Shaver 13:56:06 3/10/04 (0)

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