Your go-to album when your brain is a little too busy?

[nickgutierrez]

It's almost the end of the week, and it's been a busy one for me. Not in a bad way - I'm actually pretty happy with what I've started doing this week - but I'm at that point tonight where my brain is pulling me in about a million different directions. Just as a way of settling my mind, I cued up some music, and what I realized is that I instinctively end up reaching for the same album when I get like this: Bishop Allen's "The Broken String". I'm not sure why. The music is soothing, but not especially happy, I wouldn't say. But every time it plays, it just seems to put me in just the right place.

Here's Flight 180: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLyPO_jj714

Anybody else got an album that does this for you?

[7wo7rees]

1. Robert Fripp. It's like a Reset button.

http://youtu.be/fIoaLNdUb1M

BTW, I enjoyed Bishop Allen. Thanks! :hi:

[nickgutierrez]

3. Yep, that works.

:hi:

[Aristus]

2. Sing, by Jim Bianco.

Wonderful stuff...

[Iggo]

4. These and others like these.

[Chan790]

5. Four Cornered Night by Jets to Brazil.

The lyrics are surrealist poems and I have to full-focus on them to make any sense of them which puts me at ease.

http://youtu.be/JGsxJPtl21s: My favorite song by JTB and an excellent example of their lyrical style. Pale New Dawn.

[HopeHoops]

6. "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" - the whole damn album.

[Tripper11]

7. Dark Side of the Moon

Classic...calms me down, brings me to places I need to escape to.

[Mudoria]

12. That's the one

[nickgutierrez]

14. A very sensible choice.

:thumbsup:

[Richardo]

8. Water Music and/or Music for the Royal Fireworks by GF Handel

[hifiguy]

9. Lately my nonclassical choice

has been Klaus Schulze and Lisa Gerrard's "Vielen Dank" live triple CD.

Classical: Vaughan Williams, Pastoral Symphony and "The Lark Ascending."

[lapislzi]

10. Getz/Gilberto

Never fails to bliss me out.

[Tikki]

11. I'm not the type to use music to calm down....when I am at...

a heavy concentration mode or plan to push on I will play a
whole album's worth of music....
Very often:
"Are We Not Men? We Are DEVO":



Start at the beginning and just power through.


Tikki

[meegbear]

13. Wish You Were Here ...

works on so many levels for me.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. Paul Hardcastle...specifically, the mix CD I made.

01). The Circle
02). Northern Lights
03). Slomotion
04). Acoustic Dreams
05). Rainforest
06). Golden Gate
07). Desire
08). Serene
09). Moments In Time
10). Lucky Star
11). Return Of The Rainman
12). Starchild
13). New Dawn
14). Chime
15). Shine
16). London Chimes
17). Peace On Earth

...on one hand, it's "smooth jazz," but far from the Kenny G "Quiet Storm" tripe most people associate with that term. It's like smooth jazz with teeth, strong melodies, interesting beats, and the occasional killer guitar solo.

DEFINITELY my go-to music when I need to do a re-set on my brain.

:roast:

[Burma Jones]

16. Not an Album, but a playlist

St. Ann's Gold, Daniel Lanois, Acadie
Velikaia Ekteniia, Choeur "Svetoslav Obretenov", Liturgie Orthodoxe Slave
Debussy: Suite Bergamasque, L 75, Clair De Lune Martin Jones Debussy: Complete Piano Works
Celtic Dawn, Philip Pickett, Alchemist
Satie: 3 Gymnopédies - 1. Lent Et Douloureux,Pierre Laniau, Satie: Pièces Pour Guitare
Deep Blue Day, Brian Eno, Apollo Atmospheres & Soundtracks
Always Returning, Brian Eno, Apollo Atmospheres & Soundtracks
An Ending (Ascent), Brian Eno With Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno, Apollo Atmospheres & Soundtracks
Weightless, Brian Eno With Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno, Apollo Atmospheres & Soundtracks
Saturn, The Sphere of Wisdom, William Wilde Zeitler, Music of The Spheres
A Pillow Of Winds, Pink Floyd, Meddle
Chase the Clouds Away, Chuck Mangione, 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: Best of Chuck Mangione
Nafha, Dhafer Youssef, Electric Sufi



If it were an album, I would probably go with Beethoven's Sixth Symphony.........