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Craig Moore's avatar

My wife is a piano teacher and I work at home. Sometimes, I have Zoom meetings during lessons. One time, someone I work with was giving a report about a project and the struggles/challenges she had with it. I was muted, but I could hear the piano upstairs. As my colleague reported, the piano above was playing this menacing rhythmic song. It punctuated with periodic dramatic chords which always seemed to come as my colleague was finishing her sentence. I was practically crying from laughing. I had to explain to her what was going on so she didn't think I was laughing at her challenges. LOL.

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Adrienne Hedger's avatar

This is ALL TIME. I love it.

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Ororo Munroe's avatar

I'm laughing just reading this because I'm reminded of the hotel scene in Dr. No. A tarantula is crawling over Sean and onto his pillow. Then there's dramatic music playing as he's pounding it to death with his shoe. I howl with laughter every time I see it because the music is SO over-the-top dramatic.

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Ruth J's avatar

Lol, I have used this technique myself. Used to hum “kiss this” by the strut to myself the last few months before I retired. And I’ve always like U2’s “beautiful day” for days that were beautiful.

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Adrienne Hedger's avatar

Great ones!

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Adrienne Hedger's avatar

Added them to my playlist!

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polistra's avatar

My playlist:

Chopin's minute waltz for pointless hurry. (Allegedly it was inspired by watching a dog chasing his tail around and around and around)

Grand march from Aida for triumph. (eg a good dump)

For beautiful days:

http://ockhamsbungalow.com/blog155/surrey.mp3

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Adrienne Hedger's avatar

Oh my gosh, too funny! I added the first two to my playlist. Love the third, but it's not on Spotify, of course!

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Rebecca Jeffery's avatar

two things come to mind: 1) my theme song lately has been Tom Paxton's 'Monday morning in paradise' (even when it's not Monday. 2) Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes) telling us that we need more special effects and dance numbers.

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Adrienne Hedger's avatar

Very good! (Love Calvin & Hobbes!)

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Edith. T Byrne's avatar

Excellent suggestion!! Music can address a multitude of woes and makes everything bearable!

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Sharon Buchbinder, PhD's avatar

I love this play list! Might I suggest the theme music to Jaws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfQu5po6USo for when your day is really out of hand and all heck is breaking loose?

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Adrienne Hedger's avatar

YES!!

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Vickie House's avatar

I get The Lazy Song by Bruno Mars stuck in my head when I'm being a sloth at home 😆

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Adrienne Hedger's avatar

Adding!

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David Toupin's avatar

One hundred percent with you on this one. My recommendation, one I used when driving to a big event for work (or anything challenging, when I needed to bring my “A game”, get pumped up for something): “Ride of the Valkyries” (classical music piece by Wagner, played loud) - you might remember it from a scene from the 1979 movie, “Apocalypse Now”.

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Jadyn's avatar

Whenever there's a character with there mouth open yelling I hear their each individual little "AHHHHH" and I feel like a voice actor.

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Carol Trice's avatar

My husband is a big fan of Bruce Cockburn. He has a song called “The Strong One” that has many lyrics that are perfect for a supervisor or manager: “Isn’t it hard to be the one who has to give advice?” and “Isn’t it hard to be the one whose phone rings all day every day?”

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Wendy Martin's avatar

I have a play list for my funeral. My music, my choices, my life. I enjoy dancing to it while I am still breathing.

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Juliette's avatar

Excellent one! I loved the video!!

By the way it also works backward, ask yourself why you are humming this particular tune at that particular time and you might be surprised to find a message there!

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Adrienne Hedger's avatar

Yes!

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Janice M's avatar

Love the video.

Katy Perry - Roar, when you need to take on that person at work who keeps bringing you down

when I need to lift my energy on a normal day morning with a gentle start and a bopping chorus that gets me in the groove…

Alice Merton - No Roots, or

KT Tunstall - suddenly I see

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Ororo Munroe's avatar

I've never had music match my mood. It's been more like I've heard music at the right time, when I needed to hear it.

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