# Recommend some peaceful music. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2007, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837 "2007-09-20T04:00:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/21 "2007-09-20T20:30:01Z")
Sigur Ros’ album that’s all white and titled “( )”, and, appropriately enough, Brian Eno’s ambient album **Thursday Afternoon** – which was used in the movie **9 1/2 Weeks** , playing softly in Kim Basinger’s apartment, IIRC. 🙂 The Buddha-Bar series is great too. ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/22 "2007-09-20T20:40:50Z")
[QUOTE=Ogre] Anything by Nick Drake. [/QUOTE] Or the “new Nick Drake”, [Iron & Wine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_and_wine). ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/23 "2007-09-20T20:46:22Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] Look into the Buddha-Bar series. [/QUOTE] Love Buddha-Bar. I think 6 is the one I have, it’s white and Buddha is gold. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/24 "2007-09-20T20:52:29Z")
My favorite CD to listen to when I’m stressed is George Winston’s December. I like it all, but specifically I like his variations on the canon by Johan Pachebel. [Link](http://www.amazon.com/December-Piano-Solos-20th-Anniversary/dp/B00005NNDO/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-4071462-4793634?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1190321525&sr=8-1) ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/25 "2007-09-20T21:02:13Z")
I’ll go along with Eno, Deep Forest, Shpongle, Air, Buddha Bar & Stereolab. I’ll add: Zero 7 Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. II Ulrich Schnauss Red Jerry - Deep & Chilled Euphoria Chill Trance Essentials series The Orb - “Little Fluffy Clouds” & others Moby - “The Sky Is Broken”, “When It’s Cold I’d Like To Die”, “The Rain Falls & The Sky Shudders”, “God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters”, “Hymn”, “Guitar, Flute & Strings”… ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/26 "2007-09-20T21:05:42Z")
Maybe not what the OP is looking for, but I tend to like listening to **Massive Attack’s “Protection”** when I’m looking for something mellow that still has a beat to it. Great album. ---
**Author:** ![Dunawake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dunawake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunawake)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/27 "2007-09-20T21:05:48Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] My favorite CD to listen to when I’m stressed is George Winston’s December. I like it all, but specifically I like his variations on the canon by Johan Pachebel. [Link](http://www.amazon.com/December-Piano-Solos-20th-Anniversary/dp/B00005NNDO/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-4071462-4793634?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1190321525&sr=8-1) [/QUOTE] That’s a really good suggestion, his Autumn album is extremely relaxing as well. Perfect thing to go with a good book, a warm couch, and a rainy winter day. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/28 "2007-09-20T22:10:18Z")
[Godspeed! You Black Emperor](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspeed_You!_Black_Emperor) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/29 "2007-09-20T23:37:59Z")
[QUOTE=fessie] Love Buddha-Bar. I think 6 is the one I have, it’s white and Buddha is gold. [/QUOTE] IIRC, I have _VII_. Bright blue and gold. I’d have more of them, but Jebus they’re expensive. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/30 "2007-09-20T23:53:57Z")
[QUOTE=jharvey963] Another Eno Suggestion: try the album Another Green World, and in particular the song named (I think) “Julie with”. [/QUOTE] A lovely, languid song, but it’s from _Before and After Science_, not _Another Green World_. And only what used to be Side 2 of _BAAS_ (in the pre-digital days) is peaceful; the first half of the album being mostly pretty frenetic. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2007, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/31 "2007-09-20T23:59:01Z")
I’ll second \*\*Massive Attack’s \*\* Protection - great, great CD - other Bristol / trip-hop bands include \*\*Portishead \*\* (get “Dummy”) and \*\*Morcheeba \*\* (first two albums are great). Really surprised no one has mentioned \*\*Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue \*\* - not only one of the greatest albums of all time, period, but incredibly mellow. Can be perfect for a Sunday morning, or a very romantic evening. My obscure recommendaton is **Tabula Rasa by Arvo Part** , an Estonian composer. I picked it up when he and that work were profiled in The New Yorker and there was a lengthy discussion of how terminally-ill patients found this piece calming, moving, but ultimately uplifting. It is all that an more - there is so much open space in the piece, but it is amazingly subtle and moving. (on a side note, I had it on once when my young son and I were building a model together; I asked him what he thought of the music and he replied “it’s cool - it sounds like Queen Amidala is entering a big room” so I guess that means it _must_ be good!)… ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/32 "2007-09-21T00:40:31Z")
[QUOTE=WordMan] I’ll second \*\*Massive Attack’s \*\* Protection - great, great CD - other Bristol / trip-hop bands include \*\*Portishead \*\* (get “Dummy”) and \*\*Morcheeba \*\* (first two albums are great). Really surprised no one has mentioned \*\*Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue \*\* - not only one of the greatest albums of all time, period, but incredibly mellow. Can be perfect for a Sunday morning, or a very romantic evening. [/QUOTE] You second me, I’ll second you. Kind of Blue is one of my all time favorites, but I would never have thought of recommending jazz because jazz seems to annoy a lot of my friends. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Onan\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ce73a5/32.png) [@Onan\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onan_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837/33 "2007-09-21T00:51:53Z")
Some suggestions off the top of my head… Rounds by Fourtet Pygmalion by Slowdive Tired Sounds of… by Stars of the Lid Young Prayer by Panda Bear Ambient 2 by Brian Eno and Harold Budd Farenheit Fair Enough by Telefon Tel Aviv [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-peaceful-music/419837.md?page=1)