The most relaxing song of all time?

Tellox

I'd have to go with either
Blue Oyster Cult - Dont Fear The Reaper
or
Dream Dance - Matrix II (Trance Mix)

what about you lot?

kamobe

Jeff Buckley's cover of Halleluyah is pretty relaxing...

Bard

all time, eh?

broke it down to a few candidates...

Air - Casanova 70
JS Bach - Air for a G String
David Gray - This Years Love
George Michael - I cant Make You Love Me
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Radiohead - Exit Music for a Film


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I guess... Jeff takes it.

Greenbean

I've trouble deciding, so I've fired down the contenders:

(Ambient)
Jaffa - Elevator
Groove Armada - At The River
Groove Armada - Inside My Mind
Fila Brazillia - A Zed and Two L's
Fila Brazillia - Soft Music Under Stars
Orbital - Halcyon & On & On
Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
Klf - Chill Out (album, one big long song - might knock you into a coma)
Daft Punk - Voyager
Leftfield - Melt
Zimpala - New Home
Avalanches - Summer Crane
Deadbeats - Funky For You (Spacehopper remix)
StGermain - Montego Bay Spleen
StGermain - Sure Thing
Jon Hopkins - Lost In Thought
Lux - Secret Fish
Zero 7 - Give It Away
Kinobe - Skyscraper
Kinobe - Hammock Island
Blue States - The Trainer Shuffle

(Non-Ambient)
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Sting - Fields of Gold
Coldplay - Sparks
Radiohead - Bullet Proof
Radiohead - The Tourist
Cardigans - After All...
Beck - Nobody's Fault But My Own
Bob Dylan - Forever Young
Stone Roses - Shoot You Down
Elvis - I Can't Help Falling In Love With You
Elvis - You Were Always On My Mind
Louis Armstrong - We Have All The Time In The World

After taking time to list them (which are obviously just the songs that I know), I reckon it has to be Echoes by Pink Floyd.

tman

Orbital - Halcyon & On & On

beat me to it!
neee na na na:)

Frank Grimes

I'd go for Echoes and Us and Them by Pink Floyd.

mike65

Albatross by Fleetwood Mac must be the most laid-back and
relaxing tune ever!

Others - Spaced-out FutureMusicCorp and Very Nice Atmosphere
also by FutureMusicCorp (thats enough plugs-ed!)

Mike.

p.s. I'll win a prize latter!

r0sc0

another one off meddle that has to be mentioned is fearless.. I drift away during that song

moby - everloving is nice
nick drake - pink moon
paul simon - graceland

(and logic's favorite cali beach bum hippy crap)
sublime - summertime
sublime - pawn shop

€0.02

T.G Catter

Royksopps- So easy
Eple

Kinobe- Slip into something more comfortable
Massive Attack-Teardrop
Moon safari -all of it.

Kali

Múm - K/Half Noise (or Ballad Of The Broken Birdi.. equally good)
Bjork - Headphones
Mogwai - Now You're Taken
Spiritualized - Going Home or You Know It's True
Funki Porcini - Purrfect (or Going Down)
Yo La Tengo - Saturday
Miles Davis - Blue In Green
Neil Young - Natural Beauty (live version off Harvest Moon)
and Pink Floyd - Echoes..

personally that Royskopp album is grating my ears a bit at this stage.

Karl Hungus

Those Orbital, and Blue Oyster Cult songs mentioned are two of my favorites to calm down to... Really fantastic, dreamy stuff.

Here's a few more.

Anathema - Inner Silence/Shroud Of False/Everwake/Fragile Dreams
My Dying Bride - For My Fallen Angel/Sear Me MCMXCIII
Tweaker - Linoleum
Mesh - You Didn't Want Me


But I'll have to say that "Anathema - Everwake" is the best of all.
Just an acoustic guitar peice, with some of the most haunting and beautiful vocals I've ever heard.
I really reconmend that everyone who posted on this thread check it out.

Robbo

Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm, Next Heap With
Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky
Bjork - Joga, All Is Full of Love
Kraftwerk - Radioactivity, Spacelab
Massive Attack - Angel, Inertia Creeps

staring elf

Originally posted by Kali
Múm - K/Half Noise (or Ballad Of The Broken Birdi.. equally good)

wow! i can't believe someone else here knows of and likes Múm. cool. my personal favorite songs by them are awake on a train or we have a map of the piano.

relaxing songs for me are:
the 2 i mentioned above
sigur ros - olsen olsen (actually any song by them)
radiohead - how to dissapear completly
gomez - m57
gomez - even song
cornelius - drop
melaton - daylight
dj shadow - stem-long stem
+ loads of others i can't recall just now.

adnans

zero 7 feat. Sia and Sophie - Destiny. (great voice, excellent track)
syl johnson - is it because im black
slum village - climax (girl shit)
led zeppelin - tangerine
horace andy - skylarking (he's got a really good dub version of "aint no sunshine")
FSOL - cerebral, 1 in 8, papua new guinea ...
tricky/portishead - hell is around the corner (evil and calm tune?)
daft punk - fresh (close your eyes when you listen to it, its like a day out to the sea)
d'angelo - spanish joint
ice cube - today was a good day

mmmm røyksopp. damn straight! if you listen to at least a few tunes mentioned in this thread you'll be relaxed as ****.

adnans

Karl Hungus

Ah, adnans... Thanks for reminding me.

Portishead - Roads

BuffyBot

Groove Armada - At The River: This has to be one of my favourites out of all that was mentioned here.

daveg

Light by Hans Zimmer... Its from the Thin Red Line soundtrack and is by far the most relaxing peice of music (classical) I've ever listened to. Check it out.;)

Ruaidhri

Dream by Quo Vadis
Harvest By Opeth
Face Of Melinda By Opeth
Textures By Cynic

Jimi-Spandex

Groove Armada - At the River
Zero7 - Polaris
Air - La Femme d'Argent
Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
DJ Shadow - Blood on the Motorway
UNKLE - Chaos
Cornelius - Bird watching at inner forest

Lucutus

Originally posted by mike65
Albatross by Fleetwood Mac must be the most laid-back and
relaxing tune ever!

Mike.

I hereby proclaim Mike to be the winner!

Congratulations.




Luc

Thanx 4 The Fish

Why worry by Dire Straits.

fuse

Cymande - Dove
10 minutes of the most chilled out tune,
download it....if you find it on kazaa etc,

flyz

Tori Amos - Winter.

darthmise

Melt - Leftfield.
Higher Than The Sun - Primal Scream. (Orbital Mix)
La Femme D'argent - Air.
Everything You Do is A Balloon - Boards of Canada.
Al Green - Lets Stay Together.

Mossy Monk

i would say the whole of the Chemical Brothers - Surrender cd. it is the perfect thing to listen to after a rough day

CHRISTYG

Here are some of my favourite "relax tracks" (to steal the name of a slot on local drivetime radio)


Fields Of Gold- Sting or Eva Cassidy

Ocean Drive-Lighthouse Family (what a DAMN cool song!)

Anything by Enya (but especially Orinoco Flow)

And on the classical side-

Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony"

And not forgetting my favourite of all-

Massenet's "Meditation"-which is a fantastic piece of "calm down" music. I enjoy doing yoga, and I sometimes use this while I do my stretches.

Kopf

Originally posted by staring elf

dj shadow - stem-long stem
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i'd hardly call the drum rhythm in stem-long stem relaxing.. I don't think hallelujah by jeff buckley is either; it's a bit too emotional for it to be relaxing.

A favourite of mine which hasn't been mentioned is Aphex Twin - Cliffs. Basically anything on SAW2 actually.

staring elf

stem-long stem is very relaxing. it's over 9 mins long and the drum build up you mention is only about 2 mins of that, the rest is piano, strings and samples.

Karl Hungus

Originally posted by Ruaidhri
Dream by Quo Vadis
Harvest By Opeth
Face Of Melinda By Opeth
Textures By Cynic

I think Benighted is Opeth's mellowest song.

Makaveli

The Beach Boys - In My Room
Lucy Pearl - Dance Tonight
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Queen - These Are The Days Of Our Lives
Leftfield - Melt
Otis Redding - Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay
Blackalicious - Make You Feel That Way
Orbital - Halcyon
Marlena Shaw - California Soul
Dj Shadow - Blood On The Motorway
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Most of the above have already been mentioned. As for the single most relaxing song of all time, I have no idea.

Illkillya

I would have to agree with Albatross, and most Sigur Ros songs.

Fidelis

Aphex Twin - Avril14th

Monkey

Beta Band - I know

Kolodny

Orbital - Attached, Adnans and the slow version of Times Fly.
Massive Attack - Protection & Teardrop
Cocteau Twins - Know Who You Are at Every Age
REM - Endgame
Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You
Air - Le Voyage de Penelope


to name but a few...

Gordon

Actually, funnily enough, you're all wrong!
The answer is actually - Mazzy Star "Fade into you".

Sorry peeps, better luck next time etc etc...

NeMiSiS

Pink Floyd - Great gig in the sky
" - Shine on You crazy Diamond
RHCP - Could have lied
Bob Marley - Pimpers Paradise
" - Wait in vain
Frankie goes to Hollywood - Power of Love
The Doors - Bird of prey
Bruce Springstein - The River
Al Green - Im still in Love with you
Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
" - So Long Marianne
Metallica - Nothing else matters
Temple of the Dog - Say hello to Heaven
Guns N Roses - Dont Cry
Leftfield - A Final hit
The Velvet Underground - Venus in furs..
Hazel O`Connor - Will You (sax solo is amazing)

All I can think of atm..

adios

nem

Jim Daniels

Tezeta.... from Ethiopiques Vol 4

byte

Pink Floyd - Great Gig in the Sky
Groove Armada - At the River
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

Dont be at yourself

Luna's cover of Sweet Child Of Mine