Hopeless Records launches ‘Songs That Saved My Life’ as part of World Suicide Prevention Day

Hopeless Records and its not-for-profit organisation Sub City used World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10) to launch a new compilation album Songs That Saved My Life.

It highlights the way songs have affected artists and music fans, and will also raise funds for a variety of mental health and suicide prevention organisations.

Currently, these include Crisis Text Line, Hope For The Day, The Trevor Project, and To Write Love On Her Arms.

The lead-off single by Welsh pop-punk band Neck Deep’s cover of Torn, written by LA rock band Enaswap but made into a global smash by Australia’s Natalie Imbruglia.

Her version reached #2 in the UK and sold a million copies there, and by 2011 was the most played track on Australia radio since 1990.

Released on November 9 and set to be an ongoing annual series, it collects songs that bands thought pulled them through their dark periods.

1. Neck Deep – Torn (made famous by Natalie Imbruglia)
2. Movements – Losing My Religion (** R.E.M.)
3. Stand Atlantic – Your Graduation (** Modern Baseball)
4. Dance Gavin Dance – Semi Charmed Life (** Third Eye Blind)
5. Against Me! – People Who Died (** The Jim Carroll Band)
6. Taking Back Sunday – Bullet With Butterfly Wings (**Smashing Pumpkins)
7. Dream State – Crawling (** Linkin Park)
8. As It Is – Such Great Heights (** The Postal Service)
9. Oceans Ate Alaska – Shape of My Heart (** Sting)
10. Too Close To Touch – Let It Be (** The Beatles)
11. Dan Campbell & Ace Enders – Broom People (** The Mountain Goats)
12. The Maine – Transatlanticism (** Death Cab For Cutie)