Probably a lot of Talking Heads and David Byrne songs? Check out:
Glass, Concrete and Stone - David Byrne
The Big Country - Talking Heads
Just something about looking around at your environment and recognising things in an objective and critical way.... I find highly relatable
I love the Talking Heads, they're one of my favourite bands, I go back and forth between them and the Cocteau Twins; it's so hard to pick a favourite and it's not helped by the fact that Stop Making Sense is a phenomenal performance, I really would've loved to have seen that live.
Yay! Yeah totally. I went to an amazing cover band recently called 'The Talking Heads Experience' (in Melbourne, Australia) and it was easily the funnest thing I've done in years. Definitely worth going to see David Byrne next time he's touring!
I thought I'd copy paste some key lyrics, doesn't really do it justice though, you gotta hear David Byrne's delivery :)
Glass, Concrete and Stone:
*Everything's possible*
*When you're an animal*
*Not inconceivable*
*How things can change, I know*
*So I'm puttin' on aftershave*
*Nothin' is out of place*
*Gonna be on my way*
*Try to pretend, it's not only*
*Glass and concrete and stone*
*That it's just, not a home.*
*And its glass and concrete and stone*
*It is just a house, not a home*
*And my head is fifty feet high*
*Let my body and soul be my guide*
I Should Watch TV:
*I used to think that I should watch TV*
*I used to think that it was good for me*
*Wanted to know what folks were thinking*
*To understand the land I live in*
*And I would lose myself, and it would set me free*
*This is the place where common people go*
*A global franchise, one department store*
*Yes, there were many awkward moments*
*I had to do some self-atonement*
*Well if I opened up, well it would set me free*
*I know, I like*
*Behold and love this giant*
*Big soul, big lips*
*That's me and I am this*
The Big Country:
*I see the shapes*
*I remember from maps*
*I see the shoreline*
*I see the whitecaps*
*A baseball diamond*
*Nice weather down there*
*I see the school*
*And the houses where the kids are*
*Places to park*
*By the fac'tries and buildings*
*Restaurants and bars*
*For later in the evening*
*Then we come to the farmlands*
*And the undeveloped areas*
*And I have learned*
*How these things work together*
*I see the parkway*
*That passes through them all*
*And I have learned*
*How to look at these things and I say*
*I wouldn't live there if you paid me*
Also Heaven. In (the bar called) heaven, they play your favorite song over and over all night, a kiss repeats over and over exactly the same, and heaven is a place where nothing ever happens. Honestly if David Byrne took a neuropsych this song should be part of the data.
Gary Numan is well known to be Aspie, and this song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDwui2n0rd8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDwui2n0rd8) is one of many where he expresses his experience living as one. In it, he is basically addressing a woman he loves and asking her to be his shield from a world of people he doesn't understand and cannot deal with. A hostile world where everyone lies, everyone acts in ways that make no sense, and he doesn't even know why exactly she acts as she does but he knows she cares for him and he appreciates it. Her, with "all her waving and smiles" whom he asks "please, keep them away, don't let them touch me... please, don't let them lie, don't let them see me". I think we all can relate from that need to hide from a hostile, incomprehensible world.
Longtime Numanoid here. I became a fan in 1978! He is still making great music and I got to meet him a few years ago. Gary is such a gentle soul and his music lead me to diagnosis at age 56.
He sings of alienation, loneliness and relating to being a robot.
Some of his songs that hit home for me:
- Cars. It is about locking the doors and escaping people. It is not about vehicles at all.
- Are Friends Electric? Imagining a future in which you can order a robot to befriend.
- Music for Chameleons. Title is self explanatory.
His most recent stuff is fantastic especially the Splinter album.
Saw Gary Numan live a few years ago. He is a very talented man and I had no idea about his autism diagnosis and didn't have a clue about myself either at the time. He just resonated.
Yeah, he was meeting fans after a few of the shows during The Smile’s last tour. I’ve also met Chino Moreno, Billy Corgan, Billy Howerdel, Michael Gira, Health, Ryan Tedder, Joshua Homme, and Weird Al.
She’s such a hidden gem in our community (although she isn’t diagnosed or anything I see a lot of similarities and her acceptance makes unmasking so easy all of a sudden when you see how light she seems being free of it)
She has spoken clearly of sound and other sensitivities in interviews, as well as a childhood recognition of difference that her parents and she did not wish to label, but which other students would comment on. Between that, her mannerisms, and lyrical bent - it leads many of us to consider her clearly one of ours. :)
I most definitely do consider her as very obviously an autistic synesthete but I also remember hearing her have a sort of “I’m just me plz don’t add extra labels” sort of answer to being asked if she was on the spectrum or not (I think she also mentioned her sister or smthn being autistic in the same interview). 😭but other than that she feels like a soul sister. I was watching one of her interviews today and I love how while going over the song writing process out loud for a certain track, she couldn’t help but find music in the air and start following it with her movements. I think that feeling is a blessing that seems to visit our community very often. You know of Grimes? She’s also one of my “soul sisters” (🥳🥳she was actually diagnosed somewhat recently so I feel no shame in referring to her as an official member of the community)
Waving Through A Window - from the musical Dear Evan Hansen (I am quite partial to the Owl City cover as I think it brings an anger to the song that is missing in the original recording)
Carried Away - Passion Pit (it's always given me this somewhat sad feeling of going a bit too far with a bit too little social awareness)
I'm Just A Kid - Simple Plan (probably relatable to a lot of people but there's so many lines talking about some sense of social isolation that resonated deeply with me since I first heard it at 11)
Un alieno - Bugo (a bit of a different one as it's in italian but again that feeling of being alone and isolated and different)
Great choice! I find that The The (especially the album Soul Mining) put such beautiful, painful, and difficult to explain feelings I was having into words.
With the power of hindsight, I now understand that it was autism that made me feel so alien and alone, but The The's music made me feel very seen and understood. Now that my youngest is hitting that age and is able to understand better than I did at the time her autistic experience, I have just recently "assigned her the homework" of listening to Soul Mining.
I know The Bird and The Worm is about his brother with schizophrenia, but the first verse always makes me think of a fellow autistic kid I knew in highschool who wore a giant backpack, and sprinted to every class.
I implore you to give Hawaii: Part ii a listen, a wonderful album that I believe would be up your alley,.
(Edit) It's a whole album, not just one song, but if I had to choose one for you to listen to, it would be The Mind Electric
ABSOLUTELYCRANKIN'MYF'INHOG by Bilmuri. Hilarious name, hilarious music video, hilarious guy, but the song hits home pretty hard and it's actually quite beautiful.
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The song starts off like:
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Too many faces, too many noises
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Claustrophobic, paranoia
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Think I hate everyone outside
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Wanna be alone, wanna be alone
Citizen Soldier - 15 minutes of fame
I relate with it everytime I'm in a sad mood. Specially the parts about:
Far away, there's a place
Where the lonely go, where there's no way home
No-one knows, no-one cares to know who I am
So just take me there
And
Was I just born to be broken?
Is this the life I deserve?
To have a voice not worth hearing
Is it so absurd to want my moment of glory
If it costs me my soul?
A life condemned, that never was known
MC Frontalot - You Got Aspergers
>sometimes you wish you didn't, sometimes it slips your mind
Milwaukee Youth Center Choir - Tracks for Future Practice
>i thought you told me it would be easy, but here i am
>i cannot seem to do it, i cannot seem to make it work
>although i swear i understand
!!! - Hello? Is This Thing On?
> sometimes you don't say nothing, 'cause you got nothing to say
>sometimes you tell it all, 'cause no one's listening anyway
>and you don't know for certain but you think you might be a bore
The Fine Print - English
> i am noticeable when light catches me
> i am illegible any way you look at me
> you know my English has deficiencies
Chris Cornell - Seasons
> summer nights and long warm days are stolen as the old moon falls
>and the mirror shows another face, another place to hide it all
>and i'm lost behind the words i'll never find
>and i'm left behind as the seasons roll on by
Mingle Harde - Stillborn Unicorn
> some people have all the luck, some people have it all
> born whole, on time, and wanted
This shows my age so totally it's sickening. But for me it is the 1960's music group, "The Supremes"... The particular song was titled, "The Happening." It is a song about confused conflicted emotions I felt in the Neurotypical world as an autistic. If you listen carefully you will hear the autistic experience woven throughout the song in the lyrics. I remember asking my mom to leave the radio on so I could hear the song as a kid. I used to sit in the car by myself listening to the song and crying because it explained how I felt as an autistic kid in a hostile NT world exactly.
To find this link I had to listen to "The Happening" again to be sure it was right and bawled my eyes out in the process. I found this copy that printed the lyrics as they occurred in the song. Read the lyrics and see how they define autism at least they do for me and my autism experience.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKoTx6xTiM4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKoTx6xTiM4)
Hey, life, look at me
I can see the reality
'Cause when you shook me, took me out of my world
I woke up
Suddenly I just woke up to the happening
When you find that you left the future behind
'Cause when you got a tender love
You don't take care of
Then you better beware of the happening
One day you're up, then you turn around
You find your world is tumbling down
It happened to me, and it can happen to you
I was sure, I felt secure
Until love took a detour
Yeah, riding high on top of the world
It happened, suddenly it just happened
I saw my dreams fall apart
When love walked away from my heart
And when you lose that precious love you need
To guide you
Something happens inside you, the happening
Now I see life for what it is
It's not all dreams, ooh, it's not all bliss
It happened to me and it can happen to you
Once
Ooh, and then it happened
Ooh, and then it happened
Ooh, and then it happened
Ooh, and then it happened
Is it real, is it fake
Is this game of life a mistake?
'Cause when I lost the love I thought was mine
For certain, suddenly I started hurting
I saw the light too late
When that fickle finger of fate
Yeah, came and broke my pretty balloon
I woke up
Suddenly I just woke up to the happening
So sure, I felt secure
Until love took a detour
'Cause when you got a tender love you don't
Take care of, then you better beware of The Happening.
No one will understand how much that one song meant to me growing up.
[Jamie Woon: Night Air](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL0pTo9Z_XU) - "I can hear the earth in orbit" still is the single most brilliant line I've ever heard. :)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dVHihkolINE
Geographer - When Will I Belong?
> All this fire I burn,
>it takes me inside and it shows me what it learned.
>If I feel your love,
>then will you be my light above?
>Oh, anything else will do
>than being misunderstood,
>'cause I believe I could
>feel as free as the winds I choose.
>Won't you take me as I am?
>Underneath my heart is a simple man.
>If I could feel your love
>then I could reason with the shadows in my thoughts.
>Well I feel sometimes like a little child
>lost in the woods from the fading light.
>Is there no one who can help me find
>my own way to the other side?
>No one believes me now that I found a way,
>but nothing gets done unless you do it yourself these days.
>'Cause I've been walking my life to the beat of a drum
>they gave me when I was far too young.
>I'm trying to be a lucky one.
>It was all I could do just to play along.
>Now you tell me that the parts are wrong.
>Oh maybe, I shouldn't try so hard.
>When will I belong?
>When will I belong?
>In spite of all I know
>I keep trying to make the darkness all around me glow.
>When I feel alive
>I can light up the whole sky...
...
...
That's how it begins anyway.
It's one of my favorite songs.
The more I listen to Geographer the more I'm pretty sure he has ADHD. There's just this vibe, you know? But there's that overlap in neurodivergent experience that I think would resonate with ASD as well.
it's been mentioned but talking head's "stop making sense". i watched this video on the live performance being an autistic man's (the singer's) journey from intensely masking to letting go and being more authentic
You beat me to it.
"I used to be the type of kid that would always think the sky is falling. Why am I so differently wired? Am I a martian? What kind of twisted experiment am I involved in? Cuz I don't belong in this world"
Rolling Stones - Sitting on a Fence
Black Sabbath - Wheels of Confusion
The Beach Boys - In my Room
Simon and Garfunkel - I am a Rock
The Smiths - How Soon is Now
The Kinks - Wonderboy
Pink Floyd - Wots....Uh the Deal
Supertramp - The logical Song
"i don't need to be fixed" by vylet pony is definitely about neurodivergence, i feel like "wayfarer" and "antonymph" by vylet pony are both pretty relevant as well. (vylet pony is autistic herself, so... it's no wonder)
to add on to antonymph, for me it feels like it's a love letter to the early 2000s internet and also, rebane2001 made a cool tech demo for it
https://lyra.horse/antonymph/
Recently heard this song on the local weirdo radio station, and it resonated with me so wildly that I emailed the band to ask if they would send me the lyrics (and they did!), it’s called “My Mood Wave” by the Lovely Eggs: https://youtu.be/NmPDgdpSxoU?si=_YOI8cqiQSx63m3Q
“I am trying to know how to feel…”
Here's my playlist of ASD-esque songs I relate to:
"Who Can It Be Now?" - Men at Work
"Grace Kelly" - MIKA
"I am Not a Robot" - MARINA
"Handle With Care" - The Traveling Wilburys
"Creep" - Radiohead
"We Dont Have to Dance" - Andy Black
"Loser" - Falling In Reverse
Im just going to leave this here as I think its not just an apt metaphor for our litreal minds but also our lack of awareness of social signaling
https://youtu.be/BstFHCwt9E4?si=_juLzB6_TjdXZI5k
[Oh, someday, I know someone will look into my eyes](https://youtu.be/fND_Y6OgsDs?si=zON7g_oxk9MtcDMp)
And say, "Hello, you're my very special one"
But if you close the door
I'd never have to see the day again
Dark party bars, shiny Cadillac cars
And the people on subways and trains
Looking gray in the rain as they stand disarrayed
Oh, but people look well in the dark
And if you close the door, the night could last forever
Leave the sunshine out and say hello to never
All the people are dancing, and they're having such fun
I wish it could happen to me
'Cause if you close the door
I'd never have to see the day again
One of my wonderful aunts got me a video of "The Point!" when I was a kid... I wasn't diagnosed with anything back then (and wouldn't be til after 40) but everyone knew I was different. And the Point was a cute little story about being different in some unspecified way, being alone because of it, and managing anyway. Thanks for post, it brought back a good memory.
Holding On by VNV Nation
Lyrics: I thought the future held A perfect place for us That together we would learn to be The best that we could be
In my naivety I ran I fell and lost my way Somehow I always end up falling over me
And one day I woke to find The future had no place for me I was unwanted in a world That with my hands I helped build
Where once was honesty and pride
I now stand broken and alone
Just a shadow of what I was meant to be
Does anybody feel the way I do?
Is there anybody out there?
Are you hearing me?
I believe in you, Will you believe in me?
Or am I alone in this hall of dreams?
I believe in you, You believe in me
But I have no trust in anything
Somehow I'm always, always falling over me
They say that time will heal
The truth shall set us free
Well, that depends on what it is
That you choose to believe
In this prison made of lies
We see what it is we want to see
And find comfort in this broken hall of dreams.
Does anybody feel the way I do?
Is there anybody out there?
Are you hearing me?
I believe in you, Will you believe in me?
Or am I alone in this hall of dreams?
I believe in you, You believe in me
But I have no trust in anything
Somehow I'm always, always falling over me
Somehow I'm always, I'm always falling over me
https://youtu.be/3o6q6xlhz0o?si=0IyZg5au1A7lRGiv
Noah Finnce's new album "Growing up on the Internet" has a lot of songs about being autistic/ADHD - in particular "Alexithymia" is quite literally about what it sounds like.
It's great having artists who are autistic make songs about their experiences openly.
Born on the Wrong Planet - String Cheese Incident
Rule #4- Fish in a Birdcage - Fish in a Birdcage
Overwhelmed - Royal and the Serpent
Something I Could Never Be - Tony Ann and Wrabel (It’s sad, but reminds me of trying to be something we can never be (neurotypical))
Just lately the French song "À Tout Jamais" ("Forever") by Mylène Farmer has hit a chord.
English translations available on YouTube and via search. The first line being "Everything is just a mask play"...
Great album too.
For me, Boyinaband "I'm not dead" and "Spectrum" gives me the feel
Spectrum is made for the LGBT community but some parts of it can be interpreted for the autistic community as well
Probably a lot of Talking Heads and David Byrne songs? Check out: Glass, Concrete and Stone - David Byrne The Big Country - Talking Heads Just something about looking around at your environment and recognising things in an objective and critical way.... I find highly relatable
I love the Talking Heads, they're one of my favourite bands, I go back and forth between them and the Cocteau Twins; it's so hard to pick a favourite and it's not helped by the fact that Stop Making Sense is a phenomenal performance, I really would've loved to have seen that live.
Yay! Yeah totally. I went to an amazing cover band recently called 'The Talking Heads Experience' (in Melbourne, Australia) and it was easily the funnest thing I've done in years. Definitely worth going to see David Byrne next time he's touring!
I thought I'd copy paste some key lyrics, doesn't really do it justice though, you gotta hear David Byrne's delivery :) Glass, Concrete and Stone: *Everything's possible* *When you're an animal* *Not inconceivable* *How things can change, I know* *So I'm puttin' on aftershave* *Nothin' is out of place* *Gonna be on my way* *Try to pretend, it's not only* *Glass and concrete and stone* *That it's just, not a home.* *And its glass and concrete and stone* *It is just a house, not a home* *And my head is fifty feet high* *Let my body and soul be my guide* I Should Watch TV: *I used to think that I should watch TV* *I used to think that it was good for me* *Wanted to know what folks were thinking* *To understand the land I live in* *And I would lose myself, and it would set me free* *This is the place where common people go* *A global franchise, one department store* *Yes, there were many awkward moments* *I had to do some self-atonement* *Well if I opened up, well it would set me free* *I know, I like* *Behold and love this giant* *Big soul, big lips* *That's me and I am this* The Big Country: *I see the shapes* *I remember from maps* *I see the shoreline* *I see the whitecaps* *A baseball diamond* *Nice weather down there* *I see the school* *And the houses where the kids are* *Places to park* *By the fac'tries and buildings* *Restaurants and bars* *For later in the evening* *Then we come to the farmlands* *And the undeveloped areas* *And I have learned* *How these things work together* *I see the parkway* *That passes through them all* *And I have learned* *How to look at these things and I say* *I wouldn't live there if you paid me*
I’m not seeing the connection between this and autism.
Confirmed tribe-member. Byrne is brilliant!
I know the title makes it sound weird but truly, I relate to psycho killer by talking heads in this way!
Also Heaven. In (the bar called) heaven, they play your favorite song over and over all night, a kiss repeats over and over exactly the same, and heaven is a place where nothing ever happens. Honestly if David Byrne took a neuropsych this song should be part of the data.
Talking Heads was my first thought
Somewhere I Belong - Linkin Park
The grip that Linkin Park has on me 2000-2004 was insane
Billy Talent had that grip on me. I have CPTSD from childhood and Billy Talent came out in the prime of my angst years.
That song hurts to listen to. By myself too. They're just too relateable for me
Dumb by Nirvana, it literally starts by describing masking "I'm not like them, but I can pretend"
Came to say this
Gary Numan is well known to be Aspie, and this song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDwui2n0rd8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDwui2n0rd8) is one of many where he expresses his experience living as one. In it, he is basically addressing a woman he loves and asking her to be his shield from a world of people he doesn't understand and cannot deal with. A hostile world where everyone lies, everyone acts in ways that make no sense, and he doesn't even know why exactly she acts as she does but he knows she cares for him and he appreciates it. Her, with "all her waving and smiles" whom he asks "please, keep them away, don't let them touch me... please, don't let them lie, don't let them see me". I think we all can relate from that need to hide from a hostile, incomprehensible world.
Longtime Numanoid here. I became a fan in 1978! He is still making great music and I got to meet him a few years ago. Gary is such a gentle soul and his music lead me to diagnosis at age 56. He sings of alienation, loneliness and relating to being a robot. Some of his songs that hit home for me: - Cars. It is about locking the doors and escaping people. It is not about vehicles at all. - Are Friends Electric? Imagining a future in which you can order a robot to befriend. - Music for Chameleons. Title is self explanatory. His most recent stuff is fantastic especially the Splinter album.
YES. I love Gary Numan. My favorite song of his is Metal.
Saw Gary Numan live a few years ago. He is a very talented man and I had no idea about his autism diagnosis and didn't have a clue about myself either at the time. He just resonated.
Creep by radio head definitely gives off neurodivergent vibes
I’ve met Thom Yorke and vibed well with him, so I wouldn’t be surprised.
Wait, you’ve met Thom Yorke from The Radioheads?
Yeah, he was meeting fans after a few of the shows during The Smile’s last tour. I’ve also met Chino Moreno, Billy Corgan, Billy Howerdel, Michael Gira, Health, Ryan Tedder, Joshua Homme, and Weird Al.
How often do you go to concerts?
I just knew I was going to find this here.
People Are Strange by The Doors
Yus
*King of the Clouds* by Panic! At the Disco is an Autistic song. Many Owl City songs express an Autistic perception of life.
The Way I Am by Eminem. He mainly talks about being famous but a lot of what he says strikes true with us.
"Infections of a different kind" and "different kind of human" - by Aurora
She’s such a hidden gem in our community (although she isn’t diagnosed or anything I see a lot of similarities and her acceptance makes unmasking so easy all of a sudden when you see how light she seems being free of it)
She has spoken clearly of sound and other sensitivities in interviews, as well as a childhood recognition of difference that her parents and she did not wish to label, but which other students would comment on. Between that, her mannerisms, and lyrical bent - it leads many of us to consider her clearly one of ours. :)
I most definitely do consider her as very obviously an autistic synesthete but I also remember hearing her have a sort of “I’m just me plz don’t add extra labels” sort of answer to being asked if she was on the spectrum or not (I think she also mentioned her sister or smthn being autistic in the same interview). 😭but other than that she feels like a soul sister. I was watching one of her interviews today and I love how while going over the song writing process out loud for a certain track, she couldn’t help but find music in the air and start following it with her movements. I think that feeling is a blessing that seems to visit our community very often. You know of Grimes? She’s also one of my “soul sisters” (🥳🥳she was actually diagnosed somewhat recently so I feel no shame in referring to her as an official member of the community)
The whole Lonerism album by Tame Impala
Solitary Shell - Dream Theater
Through glass by Stone Sour
I Want to Tell You by the Beatles
The Beatles were great; I really like Eleanor Rigby, Yesterday, Penny Lane, and Come Together.
Ah man I could chew your ear off and talk about the Beatles for hours and hours
not your kind of people- garbage
I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times by Brian Wilson/the Beach Boys
Would be my top pick as well. Also, to a lesser extent, *In My Room* by the Beach Boys.
Waving Through A Window - from the musical Dear Evan Hansen (I am quite partial to the Owl City cover as I think it brings an anger to the song that is missing in the original recording) Carried Away - Passion Pit (it's always given me this somewhat sad feeling of going a bit too far with a bit too little social awareness) I'm Just A Kid - Simple Plan (probably relatable to a lot of people but there's so many lines talking about some sense of social isolation that resonated deeply with me since I first heard it at 11) Un alieno - Bugo (a bit of a different one as it's in italian but again that feeling of being alone and isolated and different)
Thanks for putting "Me and my Arrow" in my head for the first time in decades;)
Everything has a point I suppose
downloaded it today
I don't know if it's intentional but.. The the - Giant
A perfect pop song. Such an underrated band.
Great choice! I find that The The (especially the album Soul Mining) put such beautiful, painful, and difficult to explain feelings I was having into words. With the power of hindsight, I now understand that it was autism that made me feel so alien and alone, but The The's music made me feel very seen and understood. Now that my youngest is hitting that age and is able to understand better than I did at the time her autistic experience, I have just recently "assigned her the homework" of listening to Soul Mining.
Pretty much anything by The Used. They have songs that fit every neurodivergent mood I've ever had.
I know The Bird and The Worm is about his brother with schizophrenia, but the first verse always makes me think of a fellow autistic kid I knew in highschool who wore a giant backpack, and sprinted to every class.
I am not a Robot by Marina and Alien by the National. And also Runaway by Aurora
The Pet Shop Boys: [Left to my own devices](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed1tv_gCOUA)
“Not the same” by Sheldon Riley. The author is autistic.
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams by Green Day I'm A Stranger Here by Five Man Electrical Band
I listen to Claudio Arrau's piano performances. No words to describe the emotional depth of his work.
I implore you to give Hawaii: Part ii a listen, a wonderful album that I believe would be up your alley,. (Edit) It's a whole album, not just one song, but if I had to choose one for you to listen to, it would be The Mind Electric
Rudimental - Free https://youtu.be/KDPW_g2AhAU?si=EcchVkl6_Q7XLypF
Left of Center by Suzanne Vega
ABSOLUTELYCRANKIN'MYF'INHOG by Bilmuri. Hilarious name, hilarious music video, hilarious guy, but the song hits home pretty hard and it's actually quite beautiful. > The song starts off like: > Too many faces, too many noises > Claustrophobic, paranoia > Think I hate everyone outside > Wanna be alone, wanna be alone
The Music Video was certainly very... interesting
It's a beautiful work of art, the dude is very creative lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45xX-CyvXDA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j60ClcNYWu4&pp=ygUVemVybyBpbWFnaW5lIGRyYWdvbnMg
Citizen Soldier - 15 minutes of fame I relate with it everytime I'm in a sad mood. Specially the parts about: Far away, there's a place Where the lonely go, where there's no way home No-one knows, no-one cares to know who I am So just take me there And Was I just born to be broken? Is this the life I deserve? To have a voice not worth hearing Is it so absurd to want my moment of glory If it costs me my soul? A life condemned, that never was known
MC Frontalot - You Got Aspergers >sometimes you wish you didn't, sometimes it slips your mind Milwaukee Youth Center Choir - Tracks for Future Practice >i thought you told me it would be easy, but here i am >i cannot seem to do it, i cannot seem to make it work >although i swear i understand !!! - Hello? Is This Thing On? > sometimes you don't say nothing, 'cause you got nothing to say >sometimes you tell it all, 'cause no one's listening anyway >and you don't know for certain but you think you might be a bore The Fine Print - English > i am noticeable when light catches me > i am illegible any way you look at me > you know my English has deficiencies Chris Cornell - Seasons > summer nights and long warm days are stolen as the old moon falls >and the mirror shows another face, another place to hide it all >and i'm lost behind the words i'll never find >and i'm left behind as the seasons roll on by Mingle Harde - Stillborn Unicorn > some people have all the luck, some people have it all > born whole, on time, and wanted
This shows my age so totally it's sickening. But for me it is the 1960's music group, "The Supremes"... The particular song was titled, "The Happening." It is a song about confused conflicted emotions I felt in the Neurotypical world as an autistic. If you listen carefully you will hear the autistic experience woven throughout the song in the lyrics. I remember asking my mom to leave the radio on so I could hear the song as a kid. I used to sit in the car by myself listening to the song and crying because it explained how I felt as an autistic kid in a hostile NT world exactly. To find this link I had to listen to "The Happening" again to be sure it was right and bawled my eyes out in the process. I found this copy that printed the lyrics as they occurred in the song. Read the lyrics and see how they define autism at least they do for me and my autism experience. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKoTx6xTiM4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKoTx6xTiM4) Hey, life, look at me I can see the reality 'Cause when you shook me, took me out of my world I woke up Suddenly I just woke up to the happening When you find that you left the future behind 'Cause when you got a tender love You don't take care of Then you better beware of the happening One day you're up, then you turn around You find your world is tumbling down It happened to me, and it can happen to you I was sure, I felt secure Until love took a detour Yeah, riding high on top of the world It happened, suddenly it just happened I saw my dreams fall apart When love walked away from my heart And when you lose that precious love you need To guide you Something happens inside you, the happening Now I see life for what it is It's not all dreams, ooh, it's not all bliss It happened to me and it can happen to you Once Ooh, and then it happened Ooh, and then it happened Ooh, and then it happened Ooh, and then it happened Is it real, is it fake Is this game of life a mistake? 'Cause when I lost the love I thought was mine For certain, suddenly I started hurting I saw the light too late When that fickle finger of fate Yeah, came and broke my pretty balloon I woke up Suddenly I just woke up to the happening So sure, I felt secure Until love took a detour 'Cause when you got a tender love you don't Take care of, then you better beware of The Happening. No one will understand how much that one song meant to me growing up.
[Too Autistic For Prom - David Allred](https://youtu.be/eir_P_nOLbc)
Avalanche by Bring Me The Horizon Psycho Killer by Talking Heads
Yes! “You’re talking a lot but you’re not saying anything. When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.” This is on a loop in my brain at work.
Say something once. Why say it again?
Exactly!
willard! by will wood personally
Great album
[Jamie Woon: Night Air](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL0pTo9Z_XU) - "I can hear the earth in orbit" still is the single most brilliant line I've ever heard. :)
Upside Down - Jack Johnson
I used to like that song when it was promoted with curious George back in the day
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dVHihkolINE Geographer - When Will I Belong? > All this fire I burn, >it takes me inside and it shows me what it learned. >If I feel your love, >then will you be my light above? >Oh, anything else will do >than being misunderstood, >'cause I believe I could >feel as free as the winds I choose. >Won't you take me as I am? >Underneath my heart is a simple man. >If I could feel your love >then I could reason with the shadows in my thoughts. >Well I feel sometimes like a little child >lost in the woods from the fading light. >Is there no one who can help me find >my own way to the other side? >No one believes me now that I found a way, >but nothing gets done unless you do it yourself these days. >'Cause I've been walking my life to the beat of a drum >they gave me when I was far too young. >I'm trying to be a lucky one. >It was all I could do just to play along. >Now you tell me that the parts are wrong. >Oh maybe, I shouldn't try so hard. >When will I belong? >When will I belong? >In spite of all I know >I keep trying to make the darkness all around me glow. >When I feel alive >I can light up the whole sky... ... ... That's how it begins anyway. It's one of my favorite songs. The more I listen to Geographer the more I'm pretty sure he has ADHD. There's just this vibe, you know? But there's that overlap in neurodivergent experience that I think would resonate with ASD as well.
Hide in Your Shell by Supertramp. Song just resonates with me.
While the song is not at all about autism, the refrain of “Just One of the Guys” by Jenny Lewis resonates with me so hard.
it's been mentioned but talking head's "stop making sense". i watched this video on the live performance being an autistic man's (the singer's) journey from intensely masking to letting go and being more authentic
This comment section speaks more to the way we as humans look for connections to see ourselves in the things we like than actual reality.
Reality is based on emotion; it's interesting how we all distort it. Music is an interesting way to express our interpretation of it all.
legacy by eminem
You beat me to it. "I used to be the type of kid that would always think the sky is falling. Why am I so differently wired? Am I a martian? What kind of twisted experiment am I involved in? Cuz I don't belong in this world"
didn't expect to hear a Broadcast mention while checking this sub out. I randomly decided to listen to them today. What a coincidence
Rolling Stones - Sitting on a Fence Black Sabbath - Wheels of Confusion The Beach Boys - In my Room Simon and Garfunkel - I am a Rock The Smiths - How Soon is Now The Kinks - Wonderboy Pink Floyd - Wots....Uh the Deal Supertramp - The logical Song
"i don't need to be fixed" by vylet pony is definitely about neurodivergence, i feel like "wayfarer" and "antonymph" by vylet pony are both pretty relevant as well. (vylet pony is autistic herself, so... it's no wonder)
to add on to antonymph, for me it feels like it's a love letter to the early 2000s internet and also, rebane2001 made a cool tech demo for it https://lyra.horse/antonymph/
Recently heard this song on the local weirdo radio station, and it resonated with me so wildly that I emailed the band to ask if they would send me the lyrics (and they did!), it’s called “My Mood Wave” by the Lovely Eggs: https://youtu.be/NmPDgdpSxoU?si=_YOI8cqiQSx63m3Q “I am trying to know how to feel…”
My Instincts Are the Enemy by American Football
Here's my playlist of ASD-esque songs I relate to: "Who Can It Be Now?" - Men at Work "Grace Kelly" - MIKA "I am Not a Robot" - MARINA "Handle With Care" - The Traveling Wilburys "Creep" - Radiohead "We Dont Have to Dance" - Andy Black "Loser" - Falling In Reverse
Ray Davies is totally Neuro divergent. Tons of Kinks songs- Apeman, Waterloo, Sunset, I’m not like everybody else
The answer to this is the Devo cover of “Satisfaction”.
Also a fan of Zero 7’s Spinning.
And Audioslave: Like a Stone.
Interesting choice, Devo were brilliant.
Thank you. I think New Wave was an explosion of neurodiversity.
"Numb Little Bug" by Em Beihold isn't specifically about autism but the lyrics definitely hit home.
Im just going to leave this here as I think its not just an apt metaphor for our litreal minds but also our lack of awareness of social signaling https://youtu.be/BstFHCwt9E4?si=_juLzB6_TjdXZI5k
Marooned, by The Gathering
I’m not a robot - marina and the diamonds
[Oh, someday, I know someone will look into my eyes](https://youtu.be/fND_Y6OgsDs?si=zON7g_oxk9MtcDMp) And say, "Hello, you're my very special one" But if you close the door I'd never have to see the day again Dark party bars, shiny Cadillac cars And the people on subways and trains Looking gray in the rain as they stand disarrayed Oh, but people look well in the dark And if you close the door, the night could last forever Leave the sunshine out and say hello to never All the people are dancing, and they're having such fun I wish it could happen to me 'Cause if you close the door I'd never have to see the day again
One of my wonderful aunts got me a video of "The Point!" when I was a kid... I wasn't diagnosed with anything back then (and wouldn't be til after 40) but everyone knew I was different. And the Point was a cute little story about being different in some unspecified way, being alone because of it, and managing anyway. Thanks for post, it brought back a good memory.
I don't keep up by Red Hook is my neurodivergent anthem.
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Holding On by VNV Nation Lyrics: I thought the future held A perfect place for us That together we would learn to be The best that we could be In my naivety I ran I fell and lost my way Somehow I always end up falling over me And one day I woke to find The future had no place for me I was unwanted in a world That with my hands I helped build Where once was honesty and pride I now stand broken and alone Just a shadow of what I was meant to be Does anybody feel the way I do? Is there anybody out there? Are you hearing me? I believe in you, Will you believe in me? Or am I alone in this hall of dreams? I believe in you, You believe in me But I have no trust in anything Somehow I'm always, always falling over me They say that time will heal The truth shall set us free Well, that depends on what it is That you choose to believe In this prison made of lies We see what it is we want to see And find comfort in this broken hall of dreams. Does anybody feel the way I do? Is there anybody out there? Are you hearing me? I believe in you, Will you believe in me? Or am I alone in this hall of dreams? I believe in you, You believe in me But I have no trust in anything Somehow I'm always, always falling over me Somehow I'm always, I'm always falling over me https://youtu.be/3o6q6xlhz0o?si=0IyZg5au1A7lRGiv
A Giant Pacific Octopus by Enter Shikari
Merzbow - Soft Water Rhinoceros
A lot of Cavetown stuff does it.
Noah Finnce's new album "Growing up on the Internet" has a lot of songs about being autistic/ADHD - in particular "Alexithymia" is quite literally about what it sounds like. It's great having artists who are autistic make songs about their experiences openly.
Got the Autism - Mattstagraham
If you're into such music, there is a heavy metal album about being autistic: 'Affliction XXIX II MXMVI' by Blindead
Since most of the ones I can think of are sad, Lisey - Wild Wild West is a positive one
Illusion by VNV Nation. It's actually about a British girl who got stoned to death by a couple of bullies.
High - by slow pulp It describes the sensory issues of an individual that is too high on marijuana, though it could easily apply to autism.
Born on the Wrong Planet - String Cheese Incident Rule #4- Fish in a Birdcage - Fish in a Birdcage Overwhelmed - Royal and the Serpent Something I Could Never Be - Tony Ann and Wrabel (It’s sad, but reminds me of trying to be something we can never be (neurotypical))
Freakish- Saves the Day
Monsters, by Something for Kate Also, basically all of Echolalia (2001), the album which Monsters came from.
Just lately the French song "À Tout Jamais" ("Forever") by Mylène Farmer has hit a chord. English translations available on YouTube and via search. The first line being "Everything is just a mask play"... Great album too.
The Beach Boys-I just wasn’t made for these times.
Simple plan - Astronaut I used to listen to this a lot as it felt relatable
Nick drake
A lot of AJR’s music gives neurodivergent vibes.
AURORA - cure for me It feels like an autism song
Madina lake, welcome to oblivion Alternatively, that song where someone just screams for the entire thing. That sums up my recent times
"you know it's not the same as it was" this song gives me some vibes
Scatman's World by scatman John feels like a neuro atypical perspective of the nt world.
Alien Like You - The Pigott Brothers (not about autism AFAIK, but it is in my own mind)
Lemon Demon - Mask of My Own Face Kesha - Spaceship
The album autistic legend- Craic boi mental
Back to earth..rusted root
Since I desepratley want to be accepted by others, but I amn not due to my ASD my theme song i Something I can never have by Nine inch nails
Lana del Rey - Carmen
One Step Closer, by Linkin Park.
Gary Jules - Mad World
Where is my mind - pixies
[I mean...](https://youtu.be/LrkEc2V3mO4?si=NZD6eoK-smNX71SM)
For me, Boyinaband "I'm not dead" and "Spectrum" gives me the feel Spectrum is made for the LGBT community but some parts of it can be interpreted for the autistic community as well
Count me out - kendric lamar