Playlists: Music for the Credit Crunch?

Laura Barton offers her picks, hits and misses on Music to help you get through the credit crunch (The Guardian, July 21).
She first mentions The Filter (a recommendation site with Peter Gabriel amongst its founders. As the name suggests they filter music for you) who she says "would have us believe that the sorry state of the economy has sent us all off in search of misery; a study recently conducted by the site found that "more of us are choosing downbeat and dreary tunes as our favourites, rather than happy, feelgood numbers." They cite the Smiths' Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Coldplay's Trouble, REM's Everybody Hurts and Radiohead's How to Disappear Completely as examples"...