29 Playlists To Listen To When Everything Sucks

Whether you need to calm down, cheer up, or let it all out, there's a mix that will make it all feel OK.

Note: All playlists are from Spotify or 8tracks, so you can listen onsite or take them on-the-go with the corresponding app.

1. This calming mix that comes with a guided anxiety relief exercise:

8tracks.com

Featuring:

1. The Wolves (Act I and II) — Bon Iver

2. Don't Panic — Coldplay

3. The Great Dictator Speech — Charlie Chaplin

4. Safe — M83

5. Two Ativan — Florist

Find the playlist and instructions here.

2. This motivational mix for getting better:

8tracks.com

Featuring:

1. Fight Song — Rachel Platten

2. I Wanna Get Better — Bleachers

3. Classic — MKTO

4. One Foot — fun.

5. Beautiful Soul — Jesse McCartney

Check out the full mix here.

3. This collection of cute songs for tuning out the world and focusing on yourself:

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4. This playlist for when you're fed up and want to let it all out:

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Featuring:

1. The Sticks — Mother Mother

2. Future Starts Slow — The Kills

3. Retirement — Kaiser Chiefs

4. Nugget — Cake

5. Gasoline — Halsey

Check out the whole playlist here.

5. This upbeat alternative mix to make you feel stronger:

8tracks.com

8tracks.com

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6. This mix that will lull your anxious mind to sleep:

8tracks.com

Featuring:

1. Lover's Artic — Arms and Sleepers

2. Doc's Song — Rostam Batmanglij

3. EssM Theme — Jon Brion

4. Yumeji's Theme — Shigeru Umebayashi

5. Cinemas For Marseille — Arms and Sleepers

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7. This purely classic mix that will soothe your soul:

8tracks.com

8tracks.com

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8. This fun pick-me-up:

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9. This mix that will warm you up and quiet your thoughts:

8tracks.com

Featuring:

1. Arrival In Nara — Alt-J

2. Marvin's Room (Drake Cover) — Sir Sly

3. Pawn Shop Blues — Lana Del Ray

4. No Diggity (Blackstreet Cover) — Alice Jemima

5. Baby — Warpaint

Check out the whole playlist here.

10. This mix of covers of all your favorite songs as comforting AF lullabies:

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Featuring:

1. I Will Follow You Into the Dark — Death Cab for Cutie

2. The A Team — Ed Sheeran

3. Fix You — Coldplay

4. Carry On, Wayward Son — Kansas

5. Under The Bridge — Red Hot Chili Pepper

Listen to the whole playlist here.

11. This mix to get you feeling like a badass again:

8tracks.com

8tracks.com

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12. This mix that basically can't fail to make you feel better:

Spotify

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13. This dreamy electronic mix to tune out to:

8tracks.com

Featuring:

1. Unknown (feat. Vanessa Elisha) — xxyyxx

2. Lost in Tokyo — Koreless

3. Tried To — Tapes

4. One Day They'll Know (ODESZA Remix) — Pretty Lights

5. Real — Years & Years

Check out the full playlist here.

14. This mix of layered dual-headphone songs that will transport you to another plane:

8tracks.com

Featuring:

1. One Way Or Another Vocals — One Direction

2. This Is Gospel (Piano Version) — Panic! At The Disco

3. You — The 1975

4. Torn (Empty Arena Audio Effect) – One Direction

5. Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? (Layered) — Arctic Monkeys

Check out the full playlist here.

15. This soul playlist that will have you feelin' good in no time:

Spotify

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16. This mix for when you want to wallow in your feels for a bit:

8tracks.com

Featuring:

1. Sometime Around Midnight — The Airborne Toxic Event

2. Stubborn Love — The Lumineers

3. Give Me Love — Ed Sheeran

4. Landfill — Daughter

5. Fools — Lauren Aquilina

Check out the full playlist here.

17. This mix for giving you hope:

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Featuring:

1. Hoppípolla — Sigur Rós

2. Trains — Porcupine Trees

3. Comforting Sounds — Mew

4. Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása

5. Acropolis — Jazzkamikaze

Listen to the full playlist here.

18. This mix for when you just want the world to fuck off:

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Featuring:

1. Queen Of The World — Ida Maria

2. E.V.O.L — Marina and the Diamonds

3. Bad Day — Darwin Deez

4. Fucking — Yournalist

5. Bad Karma — Ida Maria

Check out the full mix here.

19. This mix for when you need a good cry:

8tracks.com

8tracks.com

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20. This mix that will help you smile, even when you feel like you can't:

8tracks.com

Featuring:

1. Africa – Toto

2. Bring Night – Sia

3. Buddy Holly – Weezer

4. Come On Eileen – Save Ferris

5. Dancing With Myself – The Donnas

Check out the full playlist here.

21. This two-part mix that will calm you down, then pump you up:

8tracks.com

Featuring:

1. Bach's Sonata No. 1 In G Minor, Bwv 1001 Ii. Fuga Allegro — Chris Thile

2. No One But You — Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile

3. Ooh Child — Beth Orton

4. Out of the Woods — Nickel Creek

5. Some Other Time — Bill Evans

Check out the full playlist here.

22. This collection of songs that will cheer you the eff up:

8tracks.com

8tracks.com

Listen to the full mix here.

23. This ethereal mix to help you escape this planet for a little bit:

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Featuring:

1. Cosmic Love (Instrumental) — Florence + The Machine

2. Breathe Me (Instrumental) — Sia

3. Ride (Instrumental) — Lana Del Rey

4. Aurora In Faerieland — James Newton Howard

5. Feast of Starlight — Howard Shore

Check out the full playlist here.

24. This mixtape of sad songs that are somehow calming AF:

8tracks.com

Featuring:

1. Be Calm — fun.

2. That’s Okay — The Hush Sound

3. Little Talks — Of Monsters And Men

4. Everything Is Alright — Motion City Soundtrack

5. Round Here — Counting Crows

Check out the full playlist here.

25. This mix of feel-good rap and hip hop that will keep you chill:

8tracks.com

Featuring:

1. Big Bank Dank — Olu

2. Dreamers — Marvin Divine

3. Girlfriend — Tayyib Ali

4. End of the Road — Nick Luebke

5. Wrong (feat. Spodee) — B.o.B

Listen to the whole playlist here.

26. This mix that will make you feel like a superhero no matter what's going on in the shitshow that is your life:

8tracks.com

8tracks.com

Listen to the full mix here.

27. This inspiring mix that will make you feel like you can keep it together:

8tracks.com

Featuring:

1. Afterlife — Ingrid Michaelson

2. Believer — American Authors

3. Sweet Serendipity — Lee DeWyze

4. King — Lauren Aquilina

5. The Middle — Jimmy Eat World

Check out the full playlist here.

28. This mix that will help you forget all your problems:

Spotify

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29. This calm but uplifting mix to remind you that you'll be OK:

8tracks.com

Featuring:

1. House by the Sea — Moddi

2. How Do You Feel Today? — Gabrielle Aplin

3. Oxford Comma — Vampire Weekend

4. The Only Place — Best Coast

5. I'll Follow You Into The Dark (Cover) — Gavin Mikhail

Listen to the whole playlist here.