A positive effect on your psyche

Could 80s music be aural Prozac?

I've been listening to this Internet radio station (http://www.977music.com/, The 80s channel) for about two weeks now and it has had a marked effect on my mental state of being. Whether it's happy memories of my childhood coming back with the old songs or the overblown naivety of the 80s and the music it produced, while I'm listening to this station I'm all smiles and chair dancing.

It got me thinking, does the type of music you listen to can effect your moods or is it an expression of the mood that you're in? I know that if I was depressed, listening to happy-go-lucky 80s music might make me want to throw something, but when I'm feeling generally okay about the world, can music start sending me up or or start dragging me down?

I guess my real question is, was I depressed to start with or did Nine Inch Nails make me that way?

Today's sing-a-long song: "Music" by Madonna

HRH