Chill out music

stuey

OK im going through a very rough spot at the moment and I'm looking for some good chill out music. Open to all genres. Just looking for some good music to relax and reflect to.

What would you listen to?

ella minnow pea

Ah poor stuey, too many noons up your spoose?

listen to 'the district sleeps alone tonight' by postal service

alternative, find several academic articles on media framing for me so I can get at least 3 hours sleep before my train in the morning....if you could also compare and contrast them for 1500 words that'd be great....

**EDIT**

or My Friend by Groove Armada or All I Need by Air

thanks stuey playing with musicmatch is so much more fun than doing actual work

Karl Hungus

stuey wrote:

Just looking for some good music to relax and reflect to.

Morbid Angel - God Of Emptiness

Milkman

Nightmare's on Wax - smokers Delight
Air - moon safari
Gotan Project - La Revancha Del Tango
Enigma - MCMXC

All classic chill out.

enjoy.
M.

stuey

ella minnow pea wrote:

Ah poor stuey, too many noons up your spoose?

I knew that spoon would kill my cred. Still no regrets!!

This is more of a serious note tho. I really need to chill out. Too much crap going on in my life.

Thanks for the suggestions so far. I will look them up. Anymore going?

Wertz

stuey wrote:

I knew that spoon would kill my cred. Still no regrets!!

This is more of a serious note tho. I really need to chill out. Too much crap going on in my life.

Thanks for the suggestions so far. I will look them up. Anymore going?

Go hunt up Selected Ambient Works by Aphex Twin. Just the whole album really...

0utshined

stuey wrote:

some good chill out music.

Karl Hungus wrote:

Morbid Angel - God Of Emptiness

Daniel Figgis - Skipper
FSOL - Lifeforms

Maybe some ORB too.

Or if you're going down the Karl Hungus route then I find Filosofem by Burzum relaxing.

0utshined

Wertz wrote:

Go hunt up Selected Ambient Works by Aphex Twin. Just the whole album really...

Don't know how I forgot that one. I second this.

PcP

Thievery Corporation - The Cosmic Game, great album.

arbeitsscheuer

John Mayer and Beth Orton. Easy listenin all the way.

and maybe a song called Konstantine by Something Corporate. Wicked song.

[nicK]

anything by Air or Zero7..

fade2black

This will be an unpopular choice but I'm a huge fan of chill out music and I think you should check out the forrest gump album on cd and the very last track,....the forrest gump suite by Alan silvestre......beautiful.

Practical

Karl Hungus wrote:

Morbid Angel - God Of Emptiness

LOL I actually went to the bother of downloading that song, heard the first 20 seconds and had enough. I cannot comprehend how you 'people' can listen to
such depressing ****e which requires little or no talent....


GGGGRRRRR :mad:

hawkmoon269

Future Sound of London, as already suggested.

Also The Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk.

D!ve^Bomb!

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
the whole 'shine on you crazy diamond' track - Pink Floyd
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Grace - Jeff Buckely
Blue for You - Nina Simone(best of)
Adore - Smashing Pumpkins
Ok Computer - Radiohead
Impressions of Paris - Wes Montogomery
any piece of classical music

skywalker

second the classical music.
also/ otis redding, norah jones, sting, I find all of them very relaxing to listen to.

lilulila

The division bell - Pink Floyd

Abdiel

Air - Moon Safari
Aim - Cold Water Music
Autechre - Amber
Biosphere - Substrata
Dirty Three - Ocean Songs
Mogwai - Rock Action
Philip Glass - Glassworks
Portishead - Dummy, Portishead
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Tarwater - Silur
The Cure - Disintegration
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

The_B_Man

The "Almost Famous" soundtrack.

Blisterman

The second half of Ritual de la Habitual by Janes Adddiction

Trizo

For Chill Out music
I listen to:

Air
Leftfield
Zero 7
Morcheba
Deep Forest
Thievery Corporation
Nightmares On Wax
Royksopp
Lamb
The Cure

Some of Aphex Twin and The Cardigans and Faithless also

Bill Withers (cant beat his music)

0utshined

Practical wrote:

such depressing ****e which requires little or no talent....

talking out your a$$ buddy. Trey is a brilliant musician and songwriter. You may not like it but that is a classic tune.

Anton17

It's been said already but you cant go wrong with any of the air albums. Get moon safari first, i've seen it on sale for like a tenner in loads of places.
Lemon jelly are just so cheerfull and wacky its like a big musical hug. Spacewalk is my favourite song bar none.
Beth Ortons voice is unusual and takes awhile to get used to but once you do you'll love her.
Chicane released an ep a few years back with chill out mixes of their earlier tracks, well worth tracking down, i think it was called chilled.

dearg_doom

What Trizo said

Plus a bit of early guyCalledGerald, MOBY(Everything is Wrong has some relaxed tunes) 808State, and the ORB... What was the sky like when you were young?

Jonathanpbk

i find air (like everyone's said) very relaxing (well, moon safari anyway...)
pink floyd - dark side of the moon... stick on the album and sit back!!
goldie - timeless... very chilled drum and bass (seriously, it is chilled out)
simon and garfunkel have a good few easy listening tracks but some depressing ones too... (they do put me in a great mood though)

good luck

Sleepy

Michael Nyman's 'Theme from The Piano' has seen me through some hard times
Radiohead's 'Street Spirit [Fade Out]'
Brad Mehldau's jazz/classical piano versions of Radiohead songs are fantastic for vegging to...
Otis Redding's 'Sitting on the Dock of the Bay'
Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On'
Miles Davis - the entire 'In Blue' album.
Carole King's 'Tapestry' album
James Taylor - Any greatest hits album
Bob Dylan's - Greatest Hits

or anything that's just piano with no accompaniement.

eljono

Air - The Virgin Suicides
Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon

There is also a compilation album that was released about a year ago. It's called "Strange and Beautiful" and there are loadsa classic chill out tracks on it. It's a two cd compilation and there are lots of different genres on it so it's a good mix. Check it out...

dearg_doom

Jonathanpbk wrote:

goldie - timeless... very chilled drum and bass (seriously, it is chilled out)good luck

Cheers for that! You know when your trying to remember an album/artist and you can't... I was going ****king mental!!

It's a classic, buy it now people.

Oh yeah and get some Bjork.

*Sassy*

Depends on what you're into, some good suggestions there. Hed Kandi do some nice chill out stuff. I got the last Winter Chill album and thought it was good for just chilling out and clearing your head.

Hope things pick up

Roar

my chill out albums are

The Cinematic Orchestra - "Everyday"
Nightmares on Wax - "Carboot Soul"
Nirvana - "unplugged in New York"

And, for some bizarre reason,

Wu Tang Clan - "The W"

Mossy Monk

The Chemical Brothers - Surrender

works every time for me

Dave

DJ Shadow
The Doors

dearg_doom

Another couple of compilations:

Coldcut - JouneysbyDJs
Kruder+Dorfmeister - the gold one (forgot it's name )
Ministry Chill - the first one(sky blue iirc) [I know, I know, but it was a few years ago, and is actually quite good:D)

_blank_

I saw someone mention Radiohead's OK Computer.

I would recommend Amnesiac by them. I spent some of my college years coding away with that in the background.

Chilled as feic.

Wertz

All this talk of Goldie made me recall another D'n'B act, the formative LTJ Bukem, and not just "Horizons"; anything from his Logical Progression series will chill you to f**k out, pretty nicely...
Some real nice suggestions in this thread...I'll be going in hunt of a few titles in here myself...

Third_Echelon

My chillout albums that usually work for me are:

Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Sigur Ros - ( )
David Gray - White Ladder (not really chill music, but relaxed music)
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Leftfield - Leftism
Massive Attack - 100th Window
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Stina Nordenstam - The World is Saved
Rufus Wainwright - Poses

If Sigur Ros doesn't get you chilled nothing will.... seriously get a lend of or buy those 2 albums!!!!

popinfresh

Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Beats II. Make sure you not to listen to any other of his albums though cause they are horribly hard-core.

dregin

The Getup Kids - Something to write home about

tovalee

Blisterman wrote:

The second half of Ritual de la Habitual by Janes Adddiction

Good choice. 3 Days is an amazing song to let your mind wander to.

GraveRobber

K all the rest of the suggestions suk. Ya no all da adds where you go I wonder where dat song is from and then you forget all about it... well try download portishead (not a rock band) some really cool chillout tunes dat you can just flake out 2.

Mossy Monk

GraveRobber wrote:

K all the rest of the suggestions suk.

it's all about personal choice
try using all the letters on your keyboard also

Third_Echelon

Mossy Monk wrote:

it's all about personal choice
try using all the letters on your keyboard also

but its kool to sp33k in txt tok.

mike65

Check out downloads from Bliss and if you just want to er bliss out completely and you have broadband then check out this stream Its 10 hours long and thats my music at the start!

Mike.

Bard

As was said already...

Check out Lemonjelly.Ky, Air (particularly Moon Safari and Premieres Symptomes) and give Sigur Rós' "Agætis byrjun" a listen too. Eva Cassidy's "Songbird" album is pretty good too as is Enigma's "Cross of Changes".

nlgbbbblth

Here's a few I like

The KLF - Chill Out
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol 2
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
DJ Krush - Meiso
Tek 9 - It's Not What You Think It Is
Up, Bustle & Out - Carbine 744 (12")
Boards Of Canada - Twoism
Isan - Digitalis
Autechre - Amber
The Black Dog - Bytes
Fridge - Sevens And Twelves
Bola - Shapes
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Fuxa - 3 Field Rotation
Arab Strap - The Week Never Starts Around Here
Gentle People - Soundtracks For Living
The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
Hypnotone - Ai
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Slowdive - Pygmalion
Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Julee Cruise - Floating In The Night
Cranes - Loved
This Mortal Coil - Filigree And Shadow
Spacemen 3 - Recurring
God Speed You Black Emperor! - f#a#oo
His Name Is Alive - Livonia
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
Joni Mitchell - Mingus
Beach Boys - Friends
Mira Calix - One On One
Peter Gabriel - Passion
Ennio Morricone - The Exorcist II: The Heretic OST
David Sylvian - Gone To Earth

fade2black

If you can, try and find the original soundtrack to the movie What Dreams May Come by Ennio Morricone. For some reason the people involved in the movie turned it down but it's beautiful and still floating around somewhere.

dcarroll

I think netin by Bob Marley is good for just panning, or even Damien Rice maybe if thats what your into

JackKelly

Asura-Lost Eden.

Go for some classical Piano.

griffdaddy

Wertz wrote:

Go hunt up Selected Ambient Works by Aphex Twin. Just the whole album really...

he knows the score stuey. i've got it here if ya want it

Cousin it

Bob Marley, some ccr, pink floyd, otis redding, ben folds, david kitt, frank sinatra, jack johnson, jeff buckley, a lot of how the west was won by led zeppelin is really good (going to california, thats the way etc. etc.) Little Barrie, Paul simon's Graceland, Tom waits closing time. sigh :eek: :cool:

mp3guy

Liquid Tension Experiment - Chewbacca
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Dreams
TransAtlantic - My New World
TransAtlantic - We All Need Some Light