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11 more songs to reset your mood | All Songs Considered

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🗓️ 9 June 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

NPR listeners share the songs they reach for when they need to reset the mood, their day or even their life.

This is a followup to our April episode on songs for starting over.  NPR’s Dora Levite joins host Robin Hilton.

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Questions, comments, suggestions or feedback of any kind always welcome: allsongs@npr.org  

Featured artists and songs:

(00:00) Intro

(01:13) Quincy Jones: “Dead End”

(02:12) Bill Withers: “Lovely Day”

(04:51) Florence + the Machine: “Shake It Out”

(08:06) Jacob Collier: “Something Heavy”

(11:24) Des’ree: “You Gotta Be”

(16:32) Peter Gabriel: “Washing Of The Water”

(19:57) Cat Power: “Nothin But Time”

(23:02) John Denver: “Sweet Surrender”

(27:46) Isley Brothers: “Summer Breeze”

(31:22) Green Day: “Still Breathing”

(34:10) Vienna Teng: “Level Up”


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0:00.0

This episode of All Songs Considered comes to you from the NPR Music podcast.

0:05.3

NPR Music, of course, you're home for tiny desks, but also for Alt Latino.

0:09.4

That show goes out in the feed every Wednesday.

0:12.1

We've got new music Friday at the end of every week, and we've got new episodes of this show.

0:17.1

All Songs Considered every Tuesday.

0:20.2

It really is the best place for you to hang out if you're

0:24.4

looking to get as far away from the news as possible. That's what I've heard. Everyone's saying that.

0:29.8

So NPR Music, also where you will find Dora Levitt. Hi, Robin Hilton. So Dora, back in April,

0:36.2

we did a show with Noah Caldwell, all about songs for starting

0:40.3

over, specifically songs that can reset like your mind.

0:46.3

We did that show as like an entryway to spring, a spring reset.

0:51.3

Yeah, clear your head, lift your mood, give you clarity, or, you know,

0:55.3

maybe spark even some epiphany that set your whole life in a new direction. You, Noah, and I

1:01.8

played a whole bunch of stuff, but we asked listeners to tell us what do they reach for, you know,

1:07.2

what do they put on when they need a reset? So we're going to share some of those

1:11.5

picks on this week's show. We've actually been listening to one of them here. You know,

1:16.3

you want to hear a little bit of this? Yeah.

1:32.4

So this is Quincy Jones, the song Dead End,

1:35.0

and this is one of the ones that listeners wrote in saying like,

1:37.3

oh, just guaranteed will put me in a better mood.

1:39.0

Actually, yeah, it's working.

1:40.2

It's nice, yeah.

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