Your Song

[SuperBacon]

What is that one song for you that means more than the others?

Is this an impossible task? Sure, it can be. But there must be one song that means more for whatever reason.

I'm not even a massive fan of Modest Mouse (although I do like them and love this particular album) but for me it's Gravity Rides Everything by them.

I remember hearing this on KEXP on a particularly bad depression day during the lockdown period, walking on my own by the river, and it stopped me in my tracks and I just burst into tears. 

As someone who often has a hard time expressing their feelings, especially around how my depression and anxiety makes me feel, hearing someone sing "What's that riding on your everything? It isn't anything at all" made me feel seen. Other songs have before, and I'm sure the time period played a factor (what a shit time that was) but this felt different. 

Ultimately you can read into a song anyway you want, but it just makes me feel OK, and that it will all pass, and that's all I ever want most of the time.

I pretty much cry every time I hear it, and I'll be honest, am welling up even thinking about it now.

It's also just a simply gorgeous song.

"It all will fall, fall right into place"

Over to you guys.

[Wretch]

The Modern Leper is the greatest song about mental health ever recorded. I first heard it about twelve years ago, when I was at the height of my own MH issues, and it absolutely floored me. 
 

The song took on greater significance in May of 2018 when Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison took his own life, foretold in a different song released a decade prior (“Am I ready to leap? Is there peace beneath the roar of the Forth Road bridge?”). The only time I’ve wept over the death of someone famous.

Of course, the above pales in comparison to the suicide of my own brother exactly two months to the day after Scott’s passing. I pretty much had this song on repeat for months after he decided to leave. As with most Frightened Rabbit songs, there was a slight glimmer of hope in amongst the doom and gloom.

I’d urge you all to listen to this at some stage:

“I am ill, but I’m not dead. I don’t know which of those I prefer”. 

[wordsfromlee]

41 minutes ago, Wretch said:

The Modern Leper is the greatest song about mental health ever recorded. I first heard it about twelve years ago, when I was at the height of my own MH issues, and it absolutely floored me. 
 

The song took on greater significance in May of 2018 when Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison took his own life, foretold in a different song released a decade prior (“Am I ready to leap? Is there peace beneath the roar of the Forth Road bridge?”). The only time I’ve wept over the death of someone famous.

Of course, the above pales in comparison to the suicide of my own brother exactly two months to the day after Scott’s passing. I pretty much had this song on repeat for months after he decided to leave. As with most Frightened Rabbit songs, there was a slight glimmer of hope in amongst the doom and gloom.

I’d urge you all to listen to this at some stage:

“I am ill, but I’m not dead. I don’t know which of those I prefer”. 

I can’t listen to this album anymore after he died. I put it on when I first heard they’d found Scott and hearing Floating In The Forth, which describes pretty much exact what ended up happening, was the biggest gut punch I ever had from listening to music. 

[DavidB6937]

Bit of a cliché one but:

It's funny looking back at when Hybrid Theory first came out (2000 maybe?) because I just loved how fresh and real it felt. Such a different energy and musical style to anything else I was listening to at the time.

25 years later and it's still in regular rotation on my Spotify and it's fascinating to see how differently I've related to various songs on it over the years in different stages in my life. I probably always felt something in a lot of the lyrics but I didn't realise until after Chester died that so much of it spoke to me because it was me.

It all hits differently now for the Chester reasons but my own feelings and experiences too, especially after the last 6 months of my life and losing my son.

It's not a complex song. A lot of it is incredibly on the nose and not exactly lyrically genius, but there aren't many songs that just sum up the futility of life for me as much as this one. For a few minutes I just feel like someone's singing about what's in my brain and laying it all out on a plate for everyone to see.

 

[King Coconut]

 

[Ironic Indie Lad]

GREAT idea for a thread and great shouts so far.

The Modern Leper is an incredibly powerful song. Biffy Clyro did a pretty decent cover of it too.

Speaking of, there is some material by Biffy Clyro and Against Me! that I actively avoid now. They are just far too evocative of where I was as a person in the early to mid 2010's. Without going into too much detail, I found myself living alone, proper job for the first time, split up with my first long term girlfriend after several years and most importantly trying to come to terms with the death of my Gran. I was so up and down at the time and very confused. In hindsight, it should have been absolutely clear I had mental health issues that needed addressed but at the time I thought I could just ride it out. 

I know its supposed to be ONE song but my choices are To Sheila and For Martha. Two very beautiful songs that sort of bookend Smashing Pumpkins 'Adore' album. Impossible to separate these two. I created a playlist of songs that played softly in the background at various points on my wedding day and both of these were included. 

Honourable mentions - Rotterdam (Or Anywhere) by The Beautiful South (literally cannot listen to this without getting teary, thanks mum!)

 

 

[SuperBacon]

1 hour ago, Wretch said:

Of course, the above pales in comparison to the suicide of my own brother exactly two months to the day after Scott’s passing. I pretty much had this song on repeat for months after he decided to leave. As with most Frightened Rabbit songs, there was a slight glimmer of hope in amongst the doom and gloom.

I'm so sorry to hear this Wretch.

Similarly this song by Band Of Horses got me through a tough time when I lost a close family member. 

 

[gmoney]

 

 

[Just Some Guy]

Not a song I suppose many have heard, but this helped me get through a tough time with depression.

 

Edited August 26, 2025 by Just Some Guy

[The Gaffer]

Always and forever.

 

[Sphinx]

I remember listening to this album in bed with cans on in the dark after coming home from a job I hated wondering where I was going in life. It was like the mundanity of my life was blown away.

It's a song and an album that changed my life. It shook things up. I quit the job a few months later, moved out of my hometown for the first time to another city, started on my career path, made new friends, and discovered a nightlife I fell in love with (rather than my local clubs just playing chart music). This song in particular hit me at the time, and I treasure the memory of seeing it live at a festival with my best friends and girlfriend a few months later.

To Pimp A Butterfly came out around the same time as when I listened to this. That one blew my mind too.

 

[sivy]

https://youtu.be/r8cEzdjLn60?si=if5kLtR8MLfypd06

I always listened to this a lot through college. Got me through some down days. Not sure how to insert the video like you guys have 

 

[gmoney]

You've had a nightmare there mate, you've accidentally posted a Staind song. 

[Sergio Mendacious]

There was a block of a few years where I felt like I was on a hellish treadmill of "wake up in the morning at 2am at night, do freelance work till I had to get ready for work, cycle to work because I couldn't afford publics transport, work, cycle to help out my grandfather instead of lunch, back to work, cycle home, make food, sleep at 11pm."

The harmonies in this may have kept me alive.