What is your "go to" album when you really need to unwind?

[Johnny Vinyl]

I don't know if everyone has one, but I certainly do, and it hasn't changed since 1973 when I first heard it. After a long day, whether physically exhausted or emotionally drained, if I take the time to sit and listen to this album, all of whatever bothers me fades away, and I can face the world with a rejuvenated outlook.

For me that record is "Tubular Bells", and to this day I have yet to discover an album that could serve as its replacement.

What is your "go to" album?

 

[Ron Party]

Easy. SEBtP.

 

[Steve Williams]

Easy. SEBtP.

OK, I must be geting old. I'll bite
?? SEBtP ??

 

[JackD201]

Lemme guess. Ron is a Prog Head so My guess is Genesis' Selling England By the Pound. Pushing my luck, the track that brings the chilling is, Firth of Fifth

 

[Steve Williams]

Jack you da man

 

[JackD201]

A classmate in Highschool made me a cassette. I listened to it in the car everyday to and from school for two months because it got stuck in there. Hahahahaha.

 

[jadis]

Carol Kidd's "All My Tomorrows". Long time ago, while I was working for my dad in a factory, we had labor problems and I felt so drained and stressed after so much haggling and intrigue, and when I went home, I played her album, and everything (headaches) just went away and I felt ready for the next day.

I should listen to it more often these days.

 

[Phelonious Ponk]

Couldn't name just one. "If I Could Only Remember My Name," David Crosby's first solo album, would be on the short list. So would Shelby Lynn's "Just A Little Lovin,'" Bill Evans' "Portrait in Jazz," and many more. Even when I'm not in need of relaxation, I generally prefer warm, mello and sweet to throbbing, piercing, invasive...that's what takes a special mood.

Tim

 

[flez007]

Andreas Vollenweider - Down to the Moon
Ketih Jarret - Kolhn Sessions
Radiohead - Kid A

 

[RogerD]

Any Jobim,

I like Astrud Gilberto and Anna Caram on Chesky.

lot's more too.

 

[jadis]

Lately, I got this album by Tony Mottola called 'Close To You' and it has been serving as my 'new' chill out album. Nostalgic guitar sound playing old songs like Close to You, Yesterday When I Was Young, Moon River, We've Only Just Begun, etc. Mottola's guitar has been called the 'the best tranquilizer' in those days.

 

[Steve Williams]

I turn off the lights, and then turn on my laser lights

http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showt...Conversation-Piece&p=3408&viewfull=1#post3408

as I play the first three tracks Dead Can Dance/Into The Labyrinth

 

[mep]

I turn off the lights, and then turn on my laser lights

http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showt...Conversation-Piece&p=3408&viewfull=1#post3408

as I play the first three tracks Dead Can Dance/Into The Labyrinth

Steve-I'm a johnny come lately to this album, but I love it.

 

[Steve Williams]

The first three tracks will light up your ears when the system is dialed in

 

[mep]

They light up the whole room.

 

[Steve Williams]

Even though I am not a lover of classical music another of my go to albums is from Tape Project

David Oistrakh/London Symphony Orchestra: Horenstein-Hindemith

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B004K3TTAA/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music

Side A Track 1

From TP
The two works on this tape are splendid examples of 19th and 20th century virtuoso concertos; but for their great difficulty they would surely be played more often. No adjectives can add to David Oistrakh's fame, but it is worth mentioning the special interest in hearing one of the country's finest violinists in one of its finest concertos with, in one piece, the composer as the conductor. This is Oistrakh's first western recording of the Hindemith Concerto, and his very first of the Bruch Fantasia, which is recorded complete. Oistrakh here plays his "Fontana" violin made by Stradivarius in 1702. TP-006

 

[JackD201]

Steve-I'm a johnny come lately to this album, but I love it.

I'm a big Lisa Gerard fan. I remember being floored when I heard that haunting voice in the Gladiator soundtrack the first time I saw it. It elicited a huge WTF moment. I thought she'd fallen off the face of the earth years before.

If you like Into the Labyrinth I'll bet you will like Cocteau Twin's Heaven and Las Vegas too Elizabeth Frazier and her made up language/lyrics is surreal.

The cross collaboration between members of the two bands along with other artists from the 4AD label, This Mortal Coil, is in in the same vein but VERY dark.

I still can't think of a single go to album. There are just too many to go with the too many moods.

 

[RBFC]

I turn off the lights, and then turn on my laser lights

http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showt...Conversation-Piece&p=3408&viewfull=1#post3408

as I play the first three tracks Dead Can Dance/Into The Labyrinth

Steve,

Have you heard the SACD of Into the Labyrinth? Sort of pricy these days, but is it worth it?

Lee

 

[Steve Williams]

Lee

I haven't heard the SACD version.

The ringing of that huge drum about 2 minutes into the first track is a very good way of testing your system's bass

 

[AMP]

Saint-Saens Symphony #3 "Organ" / Charles Munch / Boston Symphony Orchestra on RCA.

Best on vinyl, but the XRCD is pretty good too.

This is one of the few that I always seem to go back to when I just want to listen to some music and forget about everything else.