What is the music genre of your preference to calm you down when you're upset?

When I'm upset... I dont go straight to the "clam down" music... No! I go fast into the angry,mad music so I can grab that with my madness to level myself out that I wont go any higher in rage.

That music is more like FFDP,RONNIE JAMES DIO,KORN,DISTURBED,you know, shit like that!

Once I'm there face to face with myself, I use the same bands with the music that shifts down like Black Sabbath,Korn,Man Againt Machine,FFDP and whine down..

Long story short I end up mellowed out to Led-Zeppelin then sweet calmness with them good Oldies smoking some herb and chugging down some Heineken..

Ahhhhhh....
........ Life is good!

My playlist looks as if has an identity crisis . Sometimes I drown in the melancholic, or even those that were once sentimental but no longer meaningful like the illusory moments attached to them. Other times, it's the distorted screams of hardcore metal, and even the ethereal found in gothic metal, or the bluesy rhythm of folk/country. But NOTHING heals my soul more than guitar riffs, and ONLY those riffs, especially those of Zakk Wylde. It's all dependent on the mood and emotion. And often, I need to OVERLY feel that emotion just to unleash it in the form of tears. The list is ever changing, and just like me, a total a conundrum in and of itself...

Oh yeah, I had to come back and say I hope you're in better spirits today. Chin up buttercup.😉

Orchestral and other music often very loosely called "classical". Much of it is not Classical but of styles from Baroque, sometimes earlier, to contemporary.

Not only if upset but it's also my preference when driving long distances in difficult conditions, to help keep me calm.

I don't have my own selection of music for this, but rely on the far greater range offered by Radio Three, which also has the bonus of being very friendly and welcoming, and treating listeners as intelligent grown-ups.

(I don't mind 1960s-70s pop music, that of my generation after all, but I find pop radio, including day-time Radio Two, stress-raising rather than calming. It's not the music that annoys me, though I don't like the modern styles anyway, but being patronised by the intervening, artificially cheery, blether.)

Symphonic metal. ⚡

I don't listen to music anymore. I sit down or lay down, stop everything, close my eyes and just stay chill.

Alternative

80’s songs

An example. Probably not your thing, but I listen to it while I’m getting organized; it both energizes me and soothes my nerves.
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I don't have just one... I just listen to whatever sounds good at the time. I can say it won't be heavy metal. lol I think by now you've gotten that idea. :)

Space Music.

Folk

Christian Radio. K-Love or FamilyLifeRadio

Tim Story - "Lydia" - from his 1994 album, "The Perfect Flaw," on Hearts of Space Records

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varies. either rock or rap/hip-hop

Doom metal

Instrumental, or instrumental mixed with some techno - of the relaxing types. No words, no bs, just peace :)

Classical, or mellow jazz…

classical guitar works or cosmic synths music (ie: Jean Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze..and others)