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No matter how embarrassing, it's confession time.
For me, it's John Denver. I'm playing him on Spotify right now. (And yes, I know he's dead.)
Tool: Vicarious.
The cello music from 'Truly Madly Deeply'. Gets me every single time.
Sonata No. 3 for Cello (Viol de Gamba) & Piano, 2nd Movement Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, 1st Movement, Sarabande, Keyboard Concerto No. 7, Andante
Written by Johann Sebastian Bach (as J.S. Bach)
Arranged by Barrington Pheloung
SPOTIFY LINK:
https://open.spotify.com/track/3lR5Y2xIay3omzQLaRmZN6?si=rfh1XDXPT_ypkbVcei35AQ
Bonobo - all of them.
Louis Armstrong Wonderful world.
Roberta Flack Killing me softly.
Fleetwood Mac Albatross.
Future sound of London Papua New guinea.
Adagio for strings Barber version not Tiesto!
Delerium Silence.
Skunk Anansie Hedonism.
I could go on forever!
I didn't even realise I was deeply sentimental about a particular tune until Tuesday night.....
When all my kids were tiny babies, I used to always soothe them when they were crying by holding them against my chest, shuffling my feet from side to side and humming the tune to the Pink Panther. (It's extremely effective and I can still stop a crying baby in seconds using this carefully honed technique.)
On Tuesday night, I was at Glasgow Royal Concert hall to watch my two oldest perform in the North Lanarkshire Schools Music Group spring concert.
They closed the first half of the concert with a medley of Henry Mancini tunes.
As soon as they started playing I went to bits.
Soppy old fool that I am.
Soothing: The one track that can calm me down, pretty much no matter what
Sentimental: Old ghosts and old girlfriends
(Or pretty much anything by Suzanne Vega from that era - Undertow/Small Blue Thing/Blood Sings)
at the moment i seem to getting my sooth on with these odd bods. Gotta love a bit of playing human bones, throat singing and ancient norse poetry/bardic tradition
gets me every time
Soothing for me at the moment is anything by T G Elias / Tom Blackwell. Great artist who doesn’t get enough recognition.
Sentimental for me would be Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush and Harvest albums. When Funk Jr was ill and in pain when he was a baby they were the only things that would get him to sleep. Out on the weekend and Only love can break your heart were butchered by me too whilst I rocked him. Getting upset just typing this 😕
gets me every time
Agree with Louis Armstrong's Wonderful World
Also
Meditation from Thais by Massinet with Nicola Benedetti as the soloist
my go to relax album - has been for the last 30 years.......
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gonna need it now I've tried 8 ways of posting the video and not just a link. MCMXC by Enigma.
"Adagio for strings Barber version not Tiesto!"
This ^
Although the William Orbit version is pretty epic as well.
For me. Erik Satie - Gnossienne No.1
Two that are on my commute playlist just now.
Well done, hedley. I've now put on Satie: a compilation of his piano works. Perfect for me today.
Soothing: if the shit's properly hitting the fan then there's only one tune for it
When all my kids were tiny babies, I used to always soothe them when they were crying by holding them against my chest, shuffling my feet from side to side and humming the tune to the Pink Panther.
What a gentleman
And scholar
And acrobat
Don’t forget that I’m also a Groovy Cat 😉
Both albums by White Moth Black Butterfly ..One Thousand Wings ( 2013 ) and Atone ( 2017 ) ..
Formed as a side project by Daniel Tompkins ..and completely different to the main group he fronts ( TesseracT )
Well worth a listen ...
This track is on the first album..
Cinematic Orchestra - To Build a Home. Especially the opening chords
SaxonRider
Well done, hedley. I’ve now put on Satie: a compilation of his piano works. Perfect for me today.
Cool. They are lovely pieces.
Air -Moon safari
Portishead - dummy
badly drawn boy - the hour of bewilderbeast
and I am not at all embarrassed to admit I actually have a soft spot for "carry on up the charts" by the beautiful south.
and for an individual song rather than a whole album, little fluffy clouds by the orb
MSP
and for an individual song rather than a whole album, little fluffy clouds by the orb
Excellent choice. Still sounds as fresh as the day it was released.
I thrive on soothing/meditational music so have a huge collection. Difficult to choose. Not sure any of this is objectively 'sentimental' except for subjective memories of more relaxed, healthy and happy times, but awesomely soothing IMO:
- Orb 'Valley' (Live 93)
- Gas (Wolfgang Voigt) - Pop (track 7)
- 'Wild Geese Descending On A Sandbank' played solo on the guqin
- Debussy - 'Clare de Lune'
Now to the more objective sentimentalism:
'River Man' - Nick Drake (not quite so soothing as from the first time I heard it it reduced me to a dusty-eyed loon)
'Dreamboat Annie' by Heart
'Twice' - Little Dragon
And this by Moses Gunn Collective, possibly the most catchy (beware ear-worm) strangely soothing and yet uplifting song about death that I know of 🤧:
oh yeah, and vertigo by groove armada
Sebastian Tellier - La Ritournelle
Probably The Eagles and Pink Floyd.
I have an awesome ‘mellow ‘ playlist on Spotify. Got nearly 100 songs on it, all chosen very carefully.
^^ Oh please do make it public and share?
Akin. Ghost Orchid.
Fever Ray. Keep the steeets empty for me.
By the Sea by Wendy and Bonnie
Gabriel by Lamb.
It's what I'm leaving this life to.
Can I add a little bit of extra gravitas to this thread?
A lad I work very closely with - 24 years old with severe quadriparesic cerebral palsy, his ma committed suicide yesterday and I am desperately racking my brains for soothing music..
The only thing he loves more than music was his ma..
He'll be expecting me to have answers when I go into work on Saturday and all I've got so far is Don't Panic by Coldplay
Malvern Rider
– Debussy – ‘Clare de Lune’
I'm working my way through your list but wanted to add this remix by SCSI-9 to yours. Their whole album is divine.
Scsi-9 - Eclair de Lune
the whole Melody AM album by Royksopp and as mentioned by Jimjam Tool but it all depends on how soothed i need to be and if im at home or work.
Cheers Hedley I'll give it a spin.
Talking of Clair De Lune reworks, I'm a mad fan of Tomita for this:
Theme tune to the Mr Men cartoons
Nothing soothes like Hope
Since it's confession time, last night I was listening to Desert Island Discs - Eno, from 1991. He recounted a story of how he was coming through some airport and "the man" asked him to sign something. He thought it was some form, but it turned out to be a copy of his "Music For Airports".
Not really sentimental though. For that I'd have The Lark Ascending, and yes Nicola can play it for me, for the visual benefits.
Apocalypse by Cigarettes After Sex.
Soothing maybe.
Does stuff that deeply moves you count? Even if it’s not exactly soothing, given the subject matter.
This is an absolutely incredible piece of music. The singer from Lamb said that they named their album Gorecki after this. Its truly beautiful...