Mundane experiences felt special when I marked them as such. Even if it felt ridiculous, this effort to make the ordinary feel extraordinary usually worked. I wondered, could I find a way to know when the best days were coming and really feel them as they happened? So I tried declaring a best day in advance. If we missed your catharsis song, send it to us and we’ll add it to the list. It always makes me cry a little, and it reminds me of the joy of being alive.”
And the lyrics! I vividly remember driving to the hospital in the days my father was dying, playing this song, singing, crying and then pulling myself together and heading to his room. She wrote, “Trust me, leaves are falling all around (hear that leaf blower going all day during Zoom meetings?) I’ve smelled the rain (as much as possible through an N95), felt the pain (years since I’ve hugged family) and I wish like heck my life once again had the spontaneity so I too could take flight on a whim, with the autumn moon lighting my way.”Īnd Norah Blackaller from Downers Grove, Ill., wrote: “My catharsis song is Springsteen’s ‘The Promised Land.’ The harmonica launch. Led Zeppelin’s “Ramble On,” with the “burst of the chorus after the build of the intro” provides catharsis for Megan Schade in Brooklyn. It’s an ode to long love, which we all need to sustain ourselves in tough times,” he wrote. Linda Watson in Madison, N.J., said that “Together Again” by Janet Jackson “makes you want to dance, and a little dancing always makes me feel better!”įor Mark Miller-McLemore in Brentwood, Tenn., it’s Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon” that does it: “This song has such a steady beat and lovely shuffling, swing. Kate Lauderdale from Annandale, Va., is finding release listening to “big anthem songs” like Indigo Girls’s “Land of Canaan” and “Prince of Darkness” on her way to work. Life as I knew it will never be the same.” “Patti LaBelle, live in New York, singing ‘You Are My Friend’ held my fragile tears of grief gently.
“Lost my aunt in May and my mom in July,” wrote Elaine Jones from Atlantic City, N.J. The emails you sent accompanying your submissions were often cathartic themselves. We’ve compiled the songs you sent into a Spotify playlist - check it out. I asked for your catharsis songs, the tracks that help you process big emotions, and you delivered. A few weeks ago, I wrote about the release that songs like Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)” provide.
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