Episode #PLACEBO: Listeners’ Favorite Coping Songs
The Hilarious World of Depression
American Public Media
4.8 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2017
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
We asked our listeners to tell us about the songs they use when depression is hitting hard. Take a listen to some of the responses, both the songs themselves and the stories behind them in this highly musical trip through the jukebox that is Clinny D. You won’t often find mix tapes with Doris Day, hardcore punk, and Foghat all in one place but we are here to provide just that.
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| 0:00.0 | Dies |
| 0:18.7 | I've been wrong with me, I've got the sadness I can't shake now |
| 0:24.4 | Is there something I can't take now? |
| 0:29.2 | It's the hilarious world of depression, plus SIBO addition. |
| 0:33.0 | We're like emotional jukebox addition, really. |
| 0:36.0 | This time around, I'm John Moe. |
| 0:38.2 | So part of what we do on our program |
| 0:40.3 | is we talk to people about how they've treated |
| 0:43.2 | their clinical depression, the old, clinny D. |
| 0:46.7 | Not necessarily cured it, that's a pretty tall order for a podcast, |
| 0:50.4 | but we find out what has helped, what's given folks a break, a little respite. |
| 0:56.2 | Recently, I asked our listeners for songs. |
| 0:59.1 | What song do you listen to that's become reliable |
| 1:02.2 | for helping you out when times are dark? |
| 1:04.6 | I heard from a lot of people. |
| 1:07.1 | Here's some of them. |
| 1:09.6 | My name is Katie Mosher. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm from Cincinnati, Ohio. |
| 1:13.4 | And the song that's helped me most with my depression is Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles. |
| 1:19.9 | There's this version, specifically from The Beatles Love Soundtrack |
| 1:23.4 | that starts with this dreamlike rhythm and fades in and lyrics like |
| 1:29.1 | it's been a long cold, lonely winter. |
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