Lately I’ve noticed my own mental health has taken a beating. Chalk it up to anxiety over the state of things worldwide, spending too much time on social media, shitty genes, lack of exercise, failing medication — or all of the above. Even creating new podcasts has been too stressful. Yet, when I turned the topic of this episode to mental health, I felt a strange release while compiling and mixing it. (Go figure.) Despite what you may be thinking, this episode isn’t a total downer; there are some humorous and lively cuts included within. But mental health is no laughing matter. I hope yours has been better than mine.
Playlist
- Spacemen 3 — Losing Touch With My Mind
- Sonic Youth — Schizophrenia
- Bettie Serveert — Healthy Sick
- The Only Ones — Breaking Down
- Skafish — We’ll See A Psychiatrist
- Husker Du — Actual Condition
- The Waves — Nightmare
- Ramones — Teenage Lobotomy
- Black Flag — Nervous Breakdown
- Lester Bangs And The Delinquents — Life Is Not Worth Living (But Suicide’s A Waste Of Time)
- Roky Erickson — You Drive Me Crazy
- Devo — S.I.B. (Swelling Itching Brain)
- Models — Unhappy
- Dalek I Love You — Health And Happiness
- The Cure — Sinking
- Tears For Fears — Mad World
- Rain Parade — What She’s Done To Your Mind
- Versus — Crazy
- BMX Bandits — Serious Drugs
- Mekons — I Am Crazy
- The Jesus And Mary Chain — Half Way To Crazy
- Robyn Hitchcock — Uncorrected Personality Traits
- Blondie — Die Young Stay Pretty
- The Mau Maus — (I’m) Psychotic
- The Outnumbered — Why Are All The Good People Going Crazy
- The Dead Milkmen — Take Me To The Specialist
- Die Kreuzen — Pain
- The Adicts — Straight Jacket
- Suicidal Tendencies — Institutionalized
- Nirvana — Lithium
- Wipers — Potential Suicide
- The Replacements — The Ledge
- No Trend — Reality Breakdown
- Joy Division — She’s Lost Control
- The Fall — Mr. Pharmacist
- Morphine — Cure For Pain
- Pixies — Where Is My Mind?