What is your favorite music for relaxing?

[jpgray]

For my money, nothing beats Can's Future Days. Damo never turns into the babbling shriekball he is on some of his other Can albums, and the music is very swinging--calm and pleasant.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

1. I like

Lovage, Tricky, Son Volt, Elysian Fields, Jay Farrar, Marley, Cibo Matto, Sigur Ros, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Johnny Cash. All of its very good relaxing music.

Ive never heard of any of the groups you mentioned, but ill check em out.

[KissMyAsscroft]

4. Good taste...

Love that Lovage, Baby..Jennifer Charles...

also Mogwai...

Right now Im listening to a John Frusciante solo albume thats pretty chill...I like it.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

5. 2 words

Jennifer Charles.

wow. (sorry thats 3 words).

[radiclib]

2. Me, I like head-banging thrash-metal

To paraphrase Zevon, I'll relax when I'm dead.:bounce:

[NightTrain]

3. R&B vocal group ballads.

The Orioles, Rave,s Larks, Spaniels, Five Keys, Moonglows, Flamingos, Chantels.... They're the perfect soundtrack to lying in bed late at night while you're trying to drift off to sleep but haven't yet succeeded.

[bobthedrummer]

6. Classical, for relaxing and driving.

J.S.Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven are my favorite composers.

[iconoclastic cat]

7. This week? Bowie or koop.

Maybe some Gomez.

[Quahog]

8. Try these

Dead Can Dance "Into The Labyrinth"
Any recording of Sundanese Gamelan Degung music
Mazzy Star
Astrud Gilberto compilation "Jazz 'Round Midnight"
Patrick Ball "Fiona" (Celtic steel-string harp)
Jimmy Smith "Angel Eyes"
Gillian Welch "Time (The Revelator)"
Any recording by saranghi virtuoso Ram Narayan, but especially his exposition of the evening ragas Shankara and Jogia
Kate Rusby "Sleepless"
Keith Jarrett "The Melody At Night With You"
The KLF "Chill Out"

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[OneBlueSky]

9. "Kind of Blue" . . . Miles Davis . . .

also Paul Winter Consort's "Icarus", Bill Frisell's "Good Dog, Happy Man", several Thelonious Monk solo albums, and the "Echoes Living Room Concerts" series . . . plus a little Mozart, a little Handel, or a little Bach . . .