Track listing:

1. Black Night – Deep Purple (1970)
2. Sweet Dreams – Marilyn Manson (1995)
3. Enter Sandman (S&M) – Metallica (1999)
4. Amish Paradise – Weird Al Yankovic (1996)
5. Synthetic – Spineshank (2000)
6. Coma White – Marilyn Manson (1998)
7. Smoke on the Water (Live) – Deep Purple (unknown year)
8. Long Hard Road out of Hell – Marilyn Manson (1999)
9. Fade to Black – Metallica (1984)
10. New Disease – Spineshank (2000)
11. The Night Santa Went Crazy – Weird Al Yankovic (1996)
12. Californication – Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999)

This is the story of how my life was saved by music, and two kids in high school. If that seems like hyperbole, I’d argue you’ve never known a teenager suffering from clinical depression. There was once a time when I was desperately close to suicide, and this set of twelve songs quite literally stopped me.

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