Music that calms you, makes you feel comfortable and at home

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Most Neil Young. It's like water, it really settles me. At every point in my life when I feel lost or unstable or shitty, it just brings me back to where I should be.

― David Allen (David Allen), Sunday, 27 June 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Paul Revere & The Raiders
JJ Cale
Thin Lizzy
Durutti Column
Babe Ruth
Damnation Of Adam Blessing
Mandrake Memorial
Anathema
Katatonia
Thin Lizzy
Bob Dylan
Felt
Roxy Music
Steely Dan
Red House Painters
Schooly D
Divine Styler

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 27 June 2004 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Flying Saucer Attack
Subarachnoid Space
Tribes Of Neurot
Neurosis
Windy & Carl
Glass Harp
Tucky Buzzard
Illinois Speed Press
Wild Turkey
Memphis Slim
Magic Sam
Lil Son Jackson
Junior Wells
Aunt Molly Jackson
Sonny Boy Williamson
Funkadelic
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Sons Of The Pioneers
Conway Twitty
Michael Franks
Eddie Harris
Free
Antonin Dvorak
Ottorino Respighi
Hoagy Carmichael
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Art Blakey
Gil Evans
Charles Mingus
Gza
Franz Schubert
Wu Tang Clan
Bauhaus
The Smiths
The Chameleons
Rock Goddess
Mandrill
Judas Priest
West, Bruce, & Laing
Mobb Deep
Camille Saint-Saens
Tonio K.
Blurt
Necros
Ghost
Bloodstar
Young Gods
Treponem Pal
Antonio Vivaldi
Willie Hutch
Ohio Players
The Ronettes
Madonna
Depeche Mode
The Monochrome Set
Shalamar
Nina Hagen
Crown Heights Affair
Big Daddy Kane
Sandy Denny
Brownsville Station
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Hot Tuna
Shirley Scott
Judy Henske
The Rotary Connection
Suede
ELO
The Brothers Johnson
Black Sabbath
Bad Brains
Champion Jack Dupree
My Bloody Valentine
Slowdive
Chet Atkins

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 27 June 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

When I'm listening to Chet, I'm not looking to get calm. Comatose, maybe.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 27 June 2004 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

For me it's Another Green World. Whenever things seem out of control or I feel overwhelmed, I can throw it on, sit back, and relax. It's almost always guaranteed to work.

Also, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is great for when I need to just chill out.

For those days when I just don't feel like things are clicking, like I can't get settled I like any Cheap Trick through Budokan.

For women problems, I like This Years Model, since I've listened to it through so many it makes me realize they're all pretty much the same.

If I ever feel homesick for Memphis I usually get in Oblivions moods or Al Green moods (which are very different).

― Mike Salmo (salmo), Sunday, 27 June 2004 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

John Wilkes Booze
Mouse On Mars
Beach Boys
My Love I Love
Endless Summer
most any dub

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 27 June 2004 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Jim & Jean
Fleetwood Mac
Talk Talk
The Aislers Set
Underworld
Wire
Anonymous 4
Spacemen 3
Doves
Damon & Naomi
EPMD
Wendy & Bonnie
Hayley Mills
Lisa Germano
New Kingdom
We The People
Manu Chao
Thee Hypnotics
Godflesh
Spectrum
Swans
Sun City Girls
Bowery Electric
Magnog
Azalia Snail
Amorphis
The Gathering
October Tide
Maudlin Of The Well
My Dying Bride
Kyuss
Opeth
Entwine
Converge
Sleep
Earth
Beta Band
The Sound
Unrest
Unwound
Unsane
Catherine Wheel
Android Lust
The Tower Recordings
Ulan Bator
Arling & Cameron
Air
Fatback

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 27 June 2004 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

This describes 95% of my cd/record collection. The rest I rarely listen to.

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 27 June 2004 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Nicely timed thread. I bought a cheapo Virgin roots reggae sampler yesterday, and realised it had something like this effect on me.

Which is kind of odd, as I remember when I first heard roots and dub, on Peelie's night-time shows back in 1975-76 (we didn't get sound systems in Sunderland), and it sounded so alien it might as well have been from another planet.

And yet now, it feels... dependable, solid, warm.

Endless Summer good choice too.

― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Popol Vuh!!!!

― evan chronister (evan chronister), Sunday, 27 June 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Fripp & Eno's Evening Star
Can's Future Days
Spacemen 3's The Perfect Prescription
Miles Davis' In A Silent Way
Popol Vuh's Letzte Tage-Letzte Nachte
Heldon's Electronique Guerrilla/It's Always Rock N Roll
Rolling Stones' Goats Head Soup
Don Cherry's Brown Rice
Pharoah Sanders' Karma
Harmony Rockets' Paralyzed Mind Of The Archangel Void

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 27 June 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Folke Rabe- What??
Spacemen 3- Dreamweapon
Terry Riley- A Rainbow In Curved Air
Steve Hillage- Rainbow Dome Musick

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 27 June 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Friendsound's Joyride
Big Swifty's Akroasis
William Basinski [anything]

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 27 June 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

jayhawks / marc olson / creekdippers
"Mushaboom" by feist
neil young
Tusk
Johnny Thunders 'So Alone'

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 27 June 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." In the interest of remaining faithful to the persona a few members of ILX have projected on me and all.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 28 June 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Van Morrison
Todd Rundgren
Aretha Franklin
Tubes
Taj Mahal
Joe Jackson
Elvis Costello
Glen Gould

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 28 June 2004 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

PHAROAH SANDESRS OTM

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 28 June 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Mamas and the Papas
Elmore James
Beach Boys
Beth Orton
Suede
Shirelles
David Bowie, esp Hunky Dory and Pinups
Mahler
Beatles tunes my parents like (I do too, I just mean a handful of particular ones I associate with them)

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 28 June 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Stars Of The Lid- Avec Laudanum
Pan American- Pan American; 360 Business
Steam- "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"
Rapoon- Vernal Crossing
Byrds- Notorious Byrd Brothers

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Monday, 28 June 2004 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

My Bloody Valentine- "Slow"
Slowdive- Slowdive EP
Beatles- "Blue Jay Way"
Sunroof!- Bliss
Alice Coltrane- Journey In Satchidananda

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Monday, 28 June 2004 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I had need of comfort music today at work. Thank god I brought Siamese Dream with me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

anything involving Michael Rother or Klaus Dinger
REGGAE

― Old School (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Brian Eno - Ambient 1
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

― Jack L., Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Trouble Every Day OST by the Tindersticks never really leaves my cd tray. The first bass lines let me know the day is over.

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

Ryuichi Sakamoto - /04
Anything by Eno
Coltrane
Susumu Yokota
William Basinski - Disintegration Loops
King Tubby
John Martyn - Solid Air

― Brakhage (brakhage), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Pavement Slanted and Enchanted
Blur Leisure
The Stone Roses s/t
Tortoise TNT
Spiritualized Lazer Guided Melodies

― wmlynch (wlynch), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

kate bush OTM
talk talk OTM
iron & wine OTM
garcia & grisman - old and in the way

― viborgu, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

what does OTM mean?

― Jack L., Wednesday, 14 September 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

on the mark. or:
I agree
I concur
You are correct
I believe this to be true
Word
etc

― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

Got it. Thanks.

― Jack L., Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

Cocteau Twins 'Heaven Or Las Vegas' loosens my limbs.

― Mr Gripper (Mr Gripper), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

i just heard the twilight singers "thats just how that bird sings" and it made me cry. i don't know if there's a thread for songs that make you cry or not.

― viborgu, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

today this would have to be baikonours 'for the lonely hearts of the cosmos' on melodic.

with excellent cover :

http://melodic.co.uk/images/melo031.jpg

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

Need some classic minimalism for this, for example, Steve Reich: Six Marimbas, which somehow manages to be relaxing and exhilarating at the same time. Also...
Philip Glass: Music in Twelve Parts (part one)
John Adams: Hallelujah Junction
Paddy McAloon's 'I Trawl the Megahertz' I reckon qualifies in this category too.

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

a few records i reach for to settle me down and make me feel whole again:

elliott smith - either/or (seem to be mentioning this one a lot lately)
bjork - debut
billie holiday - all or nothing at all
john coltrane - a love supreme
the cure - disintegration
built to spill - perfect from now on

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

For me, almost anything Joe Boyd produced for Witchseason - especially Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, and most recently Vashti Bunyan's _Just Another Diamond Day_.

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Laura Nyro - Smile
Soul Family Sensation - New Wave
The Russian Futurists - Method Of Modern Love
St. Etienne - Tiger Bay
Plush - Fed

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Most Prince singles, strangely.

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Todd Rundgren's BALLAD OF RUNT. Bowie's HUNKY DORY. Eliot Murphy's AQUASHOW. High Llamas HAWAII. And TIGER BAY, seconded.

― matt the queeg (veal), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

come to think of it, Runt seconded...

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

I think Bjork will always be my safe zone, free of stress.

My hidden place, you might say.

― bassace (bassace), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

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