Anyone got any ideas? I've been downloading alot lately and need some songs/ artists!

Anyone got any ideas? I've been downloading alot lately and need some songs/ artists!
it depends what your tastes are.

since i have many many tastes, when i want to relax, i'll listen to:
+ nora jones
+ 2pac
+ dave matthews
+ redman
+ john mayer

pretty much any song by these artists will be good quality.

This might sound kinda weird, but:

Isis
Leviathon
Behemoth
RJD2
lots of others

Although most of these are metal, I find that they are very relaxing to me. Isis is in my opinion perfect to chill to.

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RJD2
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Great choice.

Four Tet
Lemon Jelly
DJ Food

Jack Johnson

It all depends on your taste in music.

I second Jack Johnson & Dave Matthews (especially the new CD).

Coldplay
Mellow Trance like Oakenfold, Sasha, Digweed, etc...

When it comes to chilling music, my go-to guy is Stevie Wonder.

Not 80s "That's What Friends Are For" or "I Just Called to Say I Love You" Stevie Wonder - top-of-his-game Stevie Wonder from back in the day. Innervisions. Songs in the Key of Life. That Stevie Wonder.

Generally, I find Stevie Wonder better when I'm hanging out with other people (singular or plural) than when I'm hanging out by myself, but when I'm by myself, I don't tend to "chill."

I second Jack Johnson & Dave Matthews (especially the new CD).


I can't get into DMB new CD even though i loved the other ones. Im really thinking about getting Jack Johnson becasue like his two song he has out.

I just got the new Franz Ferdinand cd, I love it.

Thanks guys I'll give those all a try! As for my taste I like all genres but only artists with soul.

Gotan Project
Thievery Corporation
Zero 7

-Avo

Portishead!

Yes, depends on what you define as 'chillin' music. But hands down, my vote goes for Diana Krall. She is my favorite artist. Vocal jazz singer/pianist. GREAT stuff. If you need recommendations on which Cd's just let me know. :D

Thanks guys I'll give those all a try! As for my taste I like all genres but only artists with soul.

Soul huh? I know this'll raise a few eyebrows but......... Sade.
Her voice makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. :o

Soul = Seal.

Air, Ane Brun, Atjazz, Coldplay, Damien Rice, De-Pazz, Fila Brazilla, Four Tet, Goldfrapp, Koop, Lamb, Lemon Jelly, Morcheeba, Nick Drake, Norah Jones, Portishead, Teitur, Thievery Corporation, Zero 7.

The two swedes: Jens Lekman and José Gonzáles are two personal singer songwriter favorites.

I like slow music, lo-fi, chill. There are alot of good collections to, look for chillout, lounge.

There is no better internet radio station than Groove Salad: http://www.somafm.com/.

Seriously, I listen to this all day when I'm working.

Anything by the following artists:

Enya
Clannad
William Orbit (Classics in a Modern Style)

Soul huh? I know this'll raise a few eyebrows but......... Sade.
Her voice makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. :o
:nod:

Air, Ane Brun, Atjazz, Coldplay, Damien Rice, De-Pazz, Fila Brazilla, Four Tet, Goldfrapp, Koop, Lamb, Lemon Jelly, Morcheeba, Nick Drake, Norah Jones, Portishead, Teitur, Thievery Corporation, Zero 7.

The two swedes: Jens Lekman and José Gonzáles are two personal singer songwriter favorites.

I like slow music, lo-fi, chill. There are alot of good collections to, look for chillout, lounge.

I agree. IMHO, the best chillout ever created:

www.naked-music.com

particularly, the solo albums by Miguel Migs, and the Carte Blanche series.

Perfect

When it comes to chilling music, my go-to guy is Stevie Wonder.

Not 80s "That's What Friends Are For" or "I Just Called to Say I Love You" Stevie Wonder - top-of-his-game Stevie Wonder from back in the day. Innervisions. Songs in the Key of Life. That Stevie Wonder.

Generally, I find Stevie Wonder better when I'm hanging out with other people (singular or plural) than when I'm hanging out by myself, but when I'm by myself, I don't tend to "chill."

Yeah! Stevie! Songs like "I Wish" and "Superstition"... Classic.
Marvin Gaye too. You'll find some good chill tracks there.

Newer artists:
Try D'Angelo (his first album/CD)
Adriana Evans (VERY overlooked neo-classic soul artist)
and Rahsaan Patterson.

There's more, but then I'd have to start diggin' in the crates.

Soul huh? I know this'll raise a few eyebrows but......... Sade.
Her voice makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. :o

Soul = Seal.

:lol: Reminds me of when me and a buddy of mine went to pick up a surround sound system at the store. They were playing Sade on a 50" plasma in concert and me, my buddy, AND a sales associate musta stood there for a good 10-15 minutes just watching... :drool:

HOT!!!

* Arcade Fire
* Carl Craig - The Detroit Experiment
* Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
* Jamiroquai - Return of the Space Cowboy

and for Hiphop...have to go with 'Common'

zero 7 and boards of canada!!!

For me can never go past U2.. any of their albums :tucool: & Jackson 5.

If your are into chill music like Jack Johnson & Ben Harper check out The Beautiful Girls, John Butler Trio, Xavier Rudd (super talented, can play digeridoo and guitar at same time)!!! These 3 are all aussies so I'm not sure how hard they would be to find. Also check out Donavon Frankenreiter. :tu:

This thread officially rocks. Thanks everyone, I've so far gotten at least 1 song from every artist/band listed, except I haven't gotten to D.Dancer's list yet. I especially am enjoying Jack Johnson, Air, Sade, John Mayer... :cool:

This thread officially rocks. Thanks everyone, I've so far gotten at least 1 song from every artist/band listed, except I haven't gotten to D.Dancer's list yet. I especially am enjoying Jack Johnson, Air, Sade, John Mayer... :cool:

Thats right always good to save the best until last!! ;)

This thread officially rocks. Thanks everyone, I've so far gotten at least 1 song from every artist/band listed, except I haven't gotten to D.Dancer's list yet. I especially am enjoying Jack Johnson, Air, Sade, John Mayer... :cool:

oh yeah? thats a good idea actually.
which songs of the bands i posted did you get?

* Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain



Ooh, that reminds me of another one of my favorite CD's - Miles Davis's - Kind of Blue.

That is a great CD to have in the car for road trips, or just zoning out.

no one throws out trippy ambient better then boards of canada! yah heard!!!

:D

You have not "chilled" until you have listened to DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.

Trust me on this. Don't think "oh lol techno" based on the "DJ" in his name - it's far from it. Drum and bassy, sample-driven instrumental hip-hop is the closest I can come to classifying it, but that still doesn't really do a good job. It needs to be heard to be understood. It is one of my favorite releases of the 90's (and ever, for that matter).

Great choice.

Four Tet
Lemon Jelly
DJ Food

Four Tet: As Serious as Your Life, Everything is Alright, Robots in Disguise, She Moves She

Four Tet sounds pretty good so far! It always takes me a few listens to get into new artists.

Lemon Jelly and DJ Food have actually been hard to get a complete download on iMesh... still working on those actually... :o

I would like to add a couple of my favs.

The Grateful Dead- One from the Vault. This CD is just excellent from start to finish.

The Cowboy Junkies- The Trinity Session

NIN- Pretty Hate Machine

U2- The Joshua Tree

Johnny Cash- Live at Folsom Prison

Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson- VH1 Storytellers

Yeah it's hard to forget U2 :claphigh:

They throw the best concerts I've ever seen!!!

The edge still rocks it on his guitar!

Bright Eyes... I'm never in the mood for it directly, but once in a while his cd will come on shuffle and I get caught up in his music. Great stuff.

You have not "chilled" until you have listened to DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.

Trust me on this. Don't think "oh lol techno" based on the "DJ" in his name - it's far from it. Drum and bassy, sample-driven instrumental hip-hop is the closest I can come to classifying it, but that still doesn't really do a good job. It needs to be heard to be understood. It is one of my favorite releases of the 90's (and ever, for that matter).

"Midnight in a Perfect World" is still to this day one of my top 5 tracks.

Damien Rice, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, John Mayer, Emiliana Torrini(newest one), Soundtrack to Garden State, James Blunt, Anthony Hamilton, Joss Stone, John Butler Trio, Nina Simone, Sade, The Derek Trucks Band, Turin Brakes, Cake, Bill Withers, Keane, Dave Matthews,Tori Amos, Kyle Riabko, KT Tunstall, Faithless, Common, many many more

Esthero Breath from Another

Just plop in the CD and press PLAY.... :cool:

The trance disc on Moby's latest, hotel is great for relaxing.

oh i almost forgot...




SIQUR ROS


man... you cant get any more deep in the chill zone without them.


warning... dont play this music while you are driving.

Bright Eyes... I'm never in the mood for it directly, but once in a while his cd will come on shuffle and I get caught up in his music. Great stuff.


guys the father of emo... aint he? lol

Cold Play X&Y

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I second Enya, and some oif Clannad songs are also nice.
Enigma (esp. the first 3 cd's)
Gladiator OST
Time Machine OST
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Pink Floyd (esp. Wish You Were Here)
Paul Simon
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Khadja Nin - Sambolera

Probably there are others that I don't remember right now.

right now my three favorite bands are:

My Morning Jacket:
Good songs: One big Holidy, Off the Record, Anytime, Worless Chorus

and anything by The Postal Service and the Esbjorn Svennson Trio (the last one if you like modern jazz)

To add to my list of fantastic relaxing music.

Imogen Heap
Frou Frou

Same vocalist for both and she's awesome.

If you check the 'Garden State' soundtrack, Frou Frou - Let Go is one of the tracks on there. Its on my current tracklist as my 'happy song'.

frou frou is awesome.. so is the garden state ST

Metallica baby!!! :D well it helps me relax and calm down, but it can also get me pumped up to workout hardcore, I love them in all aspects, especially live, try their album "Live Shit - Binge and Purge" its amazing.

A new band I have enjoyed listening to is Avenged Sevenfold.

They are along the lines of a Rock Ballad band and though it is more like Dream Theater than Coldplay if you like listening to music when you are chilling to appreciate musical ability I would recommend checking them out. They go from rockin out into slower melo-dramatic pieces very well, it is really a very diverse and pleasurable listening experience.

Interesting thread. I was chillin' last night and here was my playlist:

Chris De Burgh - Borderline
Billy Klippert - Levon
Bruce Hornsby - Mandolin Rain
Diana Krall & The Chieftains - Danny Boy
Dixie Chicks & James Taylor - Carolina In My Mind
The Eagles - Dirty Laundry
Genesis - Thowing It All Away
Greatful Dead - Touch Of Grey
Jewel - Sweet Home Alabama
Michael Buble - Home
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Robert Palmer - Mercy Mercy Me
Sarah McLachlan - Building a Mystery
Sarah Harmer - Basement Apartment

I get into certain musical 'fits' every now and then. For some reason, I will spend countless hours researching the artist(s) to learn more about "why" a particular song was written -- what were the circumstances that warranted the artist to sit down and write the song? Did the artist personally experience some event during his/her life that caused such an impact or moved them so much (or fundamentally changed them forever) that they went off and wrote a song about it. I know, I'm weird...

There was a while there a few years back where I was really into Phil Collins. Then I got into Robert Palmer (RP RIP (http://www.robertpalmer.com/)). Then I got into Chris De Burgh. Then I got really into Blue Rodeo (http://www.bluerodeo.com/). Then Sarah Harmer, Van Halen (or Van Hagar as I like to call them), Genesis, and a whole host more.

Looking through my collection of tunes on my PC, I think I have more live acoustic recordings that anything else. I love the live ambience and the ad hoc style of live acoustic music.

Freddy

http://members.iinet.net.au/~michaelbolger/mp3/sigur%20ros%20-%20takk.jpg


hey hey
guess where I'm going on the 20th?





yes yes
Sigur Ros! :D
LIVE!!!!!

freddyaudiophile, Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd is my fav Floyd song, I love the guitar solos and the drumming, so amazing. :)

Juno Reactor -- Beyond the Infinite
Juno Reactor -- Bible of Dreams
Quicksilver Messenger Service -- Happy Trails
Sphongle -- Tales of the Inexpressible

I've been chilling to these albums lately.

Check out the song "Cavalry" on QMS -- the guitar is absolutely amazing and the song is incredibly emotional in an atmospheric way. It gives me major mind pictures. Off of the JR albums, pay particular attention to the tracks: Guardian Angel, Rotorblade, Jardin de Cecile, God Is God. Rotorblade and God Is God especially blow my mind. For straight up relaxing music, you have to look to Sphongle. It's ambient with goa/psy and all kinds of crazy influences (salsa and trip hop particularly come to mind).

JR and Sphongle are electronic music based, BTW. QMS is just good old psychedelic rock.

BOARDS OF CANADA! :nod:

This thread officially rocks. Thanks everyone, I've so far gotten at least 1 song from every artist/band listed, except I haven't gotten to D.Dancer's list yet. I especially am enjoying Jack Johnson, Air, Sade, John Mayer... :cool:

if you like the Jack Johnson/John Mayer/Nora/DMB clique, you might like David Gray also. Didn't see his name on here, so thought I'd toss it out.....

sitting in front of the woodstove drinking a beer sort of chilling?

belle and sebastian
nora jones
interpol

too lazy to scroll through all those posts... :o

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Explosions in the Sky. They are a great band that are pretty soft, but with a lot of crescendos and climaxes that just make them simply amazing(i hate using that word to describe bands). All of their albums are really good but I would recommend downloading their self-titled cd first and giving them a listen. I have not heard of one person who didn't like them.

2Pac, TQ, Baby Bash...

I like sad songs, so country is my pick here's some cool songs ...


one last time-dusty drake
christmas shoes-not sure who sings it but the girl singer is better
mad world-michael andrews
last kiss-pearl jam
honey-bobby goldsboro
tears in heaven-eric clapton
the little girl-john michael montgomery
lifes a dance-john michael montgomery
sleepwalk-santo and johnny
goodbye to romance-ozzy
sacrifice-elton john
daniel-elton john
bird on a wire-aaron neville or the neville brothers
why we said goodbye-tim mcgraw
wonderful tonight-eric clapton
only sixteen- dr hook
sylvias mother-dr hook
life goes on-tupac
i remember you-skid row
18 and life-skid row
every rose has its thorn-poison


I got a bunch more let me know if you wanna hear them

new addition to my list : samurai champloo music records

its the soundtrack to the japanese anime 'samurai champloo'. great album.
no vocals, well not that i've heared yet. :)

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Explosions in the Sky. They are a great band that are pretty soft, but with a lot of crescendos and climaxes that just make them simply amazing(i hate using that word to describe bands). All of their albums are really good but I would recommend downloading their self-titled cd first and giving them a listen. I have not heard of one person who didn't like them.


Just wanted to thank Itz for the headsup on "Explosions In the Sky". Just checked it out, really cool stuff! Great for chillin with your girl too!