A Drug for the Downhearted

There's so many opportunities to become downhearted & only a handful of reliable ways for any of us to feel better again: Money, cars, food, travel, sex, winning at sports. ... Everybody needs to figure out what works for them, what brings the good feelings back. If you've been hanging around BeatConscious for any length of time, you know that for me, it's music.

So here it is, a drug for the downhearted. Therapists on call this hour include A Man Called Adam, Freddie Cruger, Blackfish, Afterlife, The Pretenders, Stac, Nightmares on Wax, All India Radio, Cold Busted artist Sixfingerz, and much more.

The seed track from Primitive Radio Gods (1996) is both a sample-lover’s treat & a metaphoric delight, offering images like this:

That life is time, they teach you growing up
The seconds ticking killed us all, a million years before the Fall
You ride the waves and don't ask where they go
You swim like lions thru the crest and bathe yourself in zebra flesh...