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Good relaxed music, what do you recommend

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J2 Cool

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What are some good songs to listen when you're just relaxing and you're looking for something soft? I'll just name some shit and see if you guys can't add to it.

Norah Jones - Don't know why
Dave Mathews Band - Crash into me
 
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aoi tsuki

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1. Air - Afternoon Sister (2:24)
2. Air - Albion (5:47)
3. Air - Tomorrow never knows (1:48)
4. Air - All I Need (4:28)
5. Air - Alone in Kyoto (4:48)
6. Air - Alpha Beta Gaga (4:38)
7. Air - Another Day (3:20)
8. Air - Bathroom Girl (2:25)
9. Air - Biological (6:02)
10. Air - Brakes On (4:22)
11. Air - Californie (2:27)
12. Air - Caramel Prisoner (4:58)
13. Air - Casanova 70 (5:53)
14. Air - Cemetary Party (2:36)
15. Air - Cherry Blossom Girl (3:39)
16. Air - Clouds Up (1:30)
17. Air - Dark Messages (2:28)
18. Air - Dead Bodies (2:59)
19. Air - Dirty Trip (6:12)
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That's just a sample of my default "sleep" soundtrack, with my favorites bolded. Most of it is Air (spacey French rock), with Boards of Canada (atmospheric lo-fi samples over simple beats). With the exception of a couple of tracks, you can't go wrong with either them for sleeping. Air's tracks double as mood music for dates. :)
 
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Jim Bowie

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Beck's Mutations and the entire Boards of Canada catalogue, sans Music is Math... that's not too relaxed.

EDIT: Alpha Beta Gaga = teh secks
 
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Forgotten Ancient

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I've just started to listen to Spiritualized's "Ladies and Gentleman We are Floating in Space". Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but it's pretty relaxing for me.
 
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demon

I don't mean to alarm you but you have dogs on your face
both Beck's Mutations and Sea Change are good ones.

Explosions in the Sky, definitely.

And if you like that kind of stuff, definitely look into some earler Brian Eno. He invented ambient music. Music For Airports is a good one.

Nick Drake's Pink Moon
 
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Vicious

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Just some random songs off the top of my head...

Blur - Caravan
Blur - Good Song
Pearl Jam - Off He Goes
Pearl Jam - Fatal
Pearl Jam - Hard to Imagine
Pearl Jam - Man of the Hour
Pearl Jam - Around the Bend
Pearl Jam - Nothingman
Pearl Jam - Indifference
Pearl Jam - Low Light
Smashing Pumpkins - To Sheila
Smashing Pumpkins - Crestfallen
Stone Temple Pilots - Kitchen Ware & Candy Bars
Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely
The White Stripes - I'm Bound To Pack It Up
The White Stripes - You've Got Her In Your Pocket
The White Stripes - The Same Boy You've Always Known
Fiona Apple - Slow Like Honey
Fiona Apple - The First Taste
Fiona Apple - Pale September
Gorillaz - Tomorrow Comes Today
Interpol - Next Exit
Mad Season - Wake Up
 
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AniHawk

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J2 Cool said:
What are some good songs to listen when you're just relaxing and you're looking for something soft? I'll just name some shit and see if you guys can't add to it.

Norah Jones - Don't know why
Dave Mathews Band - Crash into me
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Frou Frou - Only Got One
Frou Frou - Let Go
 
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Jill Sandwich

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KLF - Chill Out
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Massive Attack - Blue Lines
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Matt

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Most of the stuff by Travis and Coldplay is pretty relaxing. Hell, Travis is the only music I've yet encountered that I can fall asleep too.
 
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teiresias

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What about good sex music? I had a "straight" friend who swore by Enigma for sex music, which seems pretty cliche to me, but oh well. :lol
 
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aoi tsuki

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teiresias said:
What about good sex music? I had a "straight" friend who swore by Enigma for sex music, which seems pretty cliche to me, but oh well. :lol
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We need another thread "mood" music thread, with proper playlists that flow and last longer than an hour. i've got a few playlists on my old hard drive with 70s soul, jazz, some newer stuff like Air and Lovage, and various other artists.
 
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Doth Togo

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Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor: No Protection

Massive Attack: Mezzanine

Blade Runner: Director's Cut Soundtrack

Dave Brubeck: Take Five

Anything Chet Baker...
 
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Mr. Spinnington

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Lemon Jelly
Sigur Rós
Yesterday's New Quintet
Action Figure Party
Caetano Veloso
Clinic
Four Tet
Penguin Café Orchestra
The Books
Coldplay
Vince Guaraldi Trio
Brian Eno
Weather Report
Madlib

If you like electronic music by any stretch, I HIGHLY recommend you d/l this album. It's quite free, and with 28 ambient tracks, worthwhile. Check out the other artists if you like what you hear. http://www.sutemos.net/en/ What you want is "Intelligent Toys 2"
 
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radioheadrule83

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I'll back Sigur Ros and Boards of Canada again...

Air - Moon Safari, Talkie Walkie
Craig Armstrong - Space between us, As if to nothing, Piano Works
Depeche Mode - Violator (relaxes me!)
Doves - Lost Souls, The Last Broadcast
Ennio Morricone - (see select tracks below)
Joe Hisaishi - Hana Bi, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away soundtracks
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Radiohead - Kid A
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
The Cure - a greatest hits or singles cd if you havent heard any before.
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No 2 (Meno Mosso, Adagio Sostenuto, Allegro Scherzando)
Vangelis - Blade Runner, 1492 Conquest of Paradise, Chariots of Fire
Bjork - Homogenic, Vespertine
U2 - Pop

fixed "Doves" :D
 
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radioheadrule83

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I decided to make a seperate post about specific songs. Harder to remember them than I thought - especially relaxing music - and my Media Library is not complete on this PC:

Indie/Rock/Alternative- guitar music:
Dire Straits: Romeo and Juliet, Brothers in Arms... Radiohead: Let Down, Bulletproof, Kid A, Spinning plates (many more)... Mew: Comforting Sounds... Spiritualised: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space... Sigur Ros: njósnavélin... Muse: Screenager, Recess, Shine Acoustic, The Gallery, Hyper Chondriac Music, Falling Away With You, Blackout, Ruled By Secrecy... Aqualung: Strange and Beautiful... Babybird: Back Together... Jeff Buckley: hallelujah... Embrace: Gravity... The Music: Open Your Mind, Into the Night... Ooberman: Roll me in cotton... Ours: Sometimes, Dizzy... Super Furry Animals: Arnofio / Glo In the Dark...

More classical kinda stuff:
Ennio Morricone: Gabriel's Oboe, The Ecstacy of Gold, The Trio, The Untouchables (ending), A sillhouette of doom, l'arena, Once Upon A Time in the West / The Man With The Harmonica, Death Theme (untouchables), Once Upon a Time In America... Claude Debussy: A Time For Us... Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli: Con Te Partiro / Time To Say Goodbye... LV Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata (all 3 movements)... Michael Kamen: The Highlander Theme... JS Bach: Air on a G string... Gabriel Faure - Pavane... Gustav Holst: Jupiter (or other tracks from the Planets suite)...

Industrial/Electronic/Dance/Synth/whatever music:
Nine Inch Nails: Hurt, The Great Below... Royksopp: Epple.... Chicane: Saltwater... Aphex Twin: Avril 14...

that should be a good start on the things I like.
 
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Loki

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J2 Cool said:
What are some good songs to listen when you're just relaxing and you're looking for something soft? I'll just name some shit and see if you guys can't add to it.

Norah Jones - Don't know why
Dave Mathews Band - Crash into me
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Great song.


These are my four favorite "serene songs" to take a nap to:


"Sailing", by Christopher Cross (the fade-in intro just captures you and then you're hooked :p-- incredible song)

"Fragile" and "Fields of Gold", by Sting

"Return to Innocence" by Enigma (don't play it too loud though, or it ruins the sleepy mood; something about this song at low to moderate volume just makes me drift off :D)
 
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SD-Ness

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Miles Davis - So What
Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches
Radiohead - Knives Out
Radiohead - The Tourist
Radiohead - High and Dry
Opeth - Benighted
Opeth - Hope Leaves
Opeth - Face of Melinda
Testament - The Legacy
M83 - Gone
Pink Floyd - Breathe
Porcupine Tree - Trains
 
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fart

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the grace rerelease the estate of j.buckley decided to bless us with that i am coincidentally listening to right now

it is very clean, and also awesome
 
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Unresponsive Bee Victim

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I dunno if this would work but COmfortably Numb by Pink Floyd is a good relaxing song
You make me high-Jason Mraz
Summer Breeze- by alot of people, any of them work
Here in my Room-Incubis
Space Oddity-David Bowie
Oh Me-Nirvana
For Martha- Smashing Pumpkins
 
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tree fiddy

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Just to name a few...

Led Zeppelin - Tangerine
Lily Chou-Chou - Wound That Heals
Pearl Jam - Oceans
Matthew Good Band - Suburbia
Smashing Pumpkins - Rocket
 
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