# Songs for relaxation. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2004, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-relaxation/279275 "2004-12-11T05:26:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-relaxation/279275/1 "2004-12-11T05:26:26Z")
You finish a long hard day at work. You have a headache from all the crap you have to take at your job. You come home a wreck. What song do you turn on to remind you the world is still a beautiful place and that everything will be ok? Right now I listen to Bob Dylan’s Blowing In The Wind and Mrs Robinson by Simon and Garfunkel. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-relaxation/279275/2 "2004-12-11T13:18:29Z")
_Poetic Champions Compose_ by **Van Morrison**. Had the tape and it broke long time ago, so decided to pick up the cd finally. Forgot how good it is. ---
**Author:** ![EmeraldGrue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dc4da7/32.png) [@EmeraldGrue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmeraldGrue)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-relaxation/279275/3 "2004-12-11T22:37:02Z")
“Wheat Kings” by the Tragically Hip (never mind the subject matter), or “Beauty” by Tegan & Sara. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-relaxation/279275/4 "2004-12-11T23:17:31Z")
‘My heart is inditing’ by Handel. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-relaxation/279275/5 "2004-12-11T23:21:33Z")
[This](http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/bathtime_clerkenwell) version of “Bathtime in Clerkenwell” by The Real Tuesday Weld, “Last Train to Lhasa” by Banco De Gaia, “Tongues of Kali” by Martyn Bennet, (very cool artist) [“Only If”](http://www.enya.org/lyrics/ps05.htm) by Enya, [“Cursum Perficio”](http://www.enya.org/lyrics/wm02.htm) by Enya, and [“Storms in Africa”](http://www.enya.org/lyrics/wm04.htm) by Enya, and various Baroque composers are several of the ones I like to listen to for a pick-me-up. You can find videos for the first two on [Launch.com](http://Launch.com) btw. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-relaxation/279275/6 "2004-12-11T23:30:25Z")
I linked to lyrics, and a page on Atomfilms that has the “Bathtime in Clerkenwell” video btw. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-relaxation/279275/7 "2004-12-11T23:40:10Z")
“Let Go” by Frou Frou. Beautiful and a little haunting. ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-relaxation/279275/8 "2004-12-12T02:15:08Z")
Summertime by Mungo Jerry, and Black Water by the Doobie brothers does it for me every time. Also, so does the end theme for a Metal Gear Solid, a game for the PS1. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-relaxation/279275/9 "2004-12-12T03:33:05Z")
“Miserere” by Allegri–hauntingly beautiful–and most anything by Enya. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-relaxation/279275/10 "2004-12-12T12:15:22Z")
_Songs of the Spirit_ - a collection of Native American musics Hindemith - _Mathis der Maler_ Kitaro - _Silver Cloud_ ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-relaxation/279275/11 "2004-12-12T14:08:58Z")
I actually have a couple CDs, _Beethoven for Relaxation_ is my favorite of them, but there’s also _Mozart for Relaxation_ and _Brahms for Relaxation_. Not great performances, but certainly adequate, and a very nice soothing mix. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-relaxation/279275/12 "2004-12-12T14:28:21Z")
Not so much a single CD, but several different songs: “Alexander the Burn Victim” by scarling. “Can’t” by scarling. “Germfree Adolescents” by X-ray Spex “Solitude” by Black Sabbath “Laguna Sunrise” by Black Sabbath “Fluff” by Black Sabbath “Scarlet Pimpernel” by Black Sabbath “Orchid” by Black Sabbath I guess the last four are technically by Tony Iommi, but they’re billed as being by the band, so there you go. …and could a mod please fix CK Dexter Haven’s coding? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-for-relaxation/279275/13 "2004-12-12T21:34:50Z")
> [@Zabali\_Clawbane](#): > > [This](http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/bathtime_clerkenwell) version of “Bathtime in Clerkenwell” by The Real Tuesday Weld, “Last Train to Lhasa” by Banco De Gaia, “Tongues of Kali” by Martyn Bennet, (very cool artist) [“Only If”](http://www.enya.org/lyrics/ps05.htm) by Enya, [“Cursum Perficio”](http://www.enya.org/lyrics/wm02.htm) by Enya, and [“Storms in Africa”](http://www.enya.org/lyrics/wm04.htm) by Enya, and various Baroque composers are several of the ones I like to listen to for a pick-me-up. **You can find videos for the first two on [Launch.com](http://Launch.com) btw**. :o By that I mean “Last Train to Lhasa”, and “Tongues of Kali”. “Bathtime in Clerkenwell” is also available on Launch, but I really, really don’t like that mix. It’s less jazzy, and more trendy. It’s charm is spoiled IMO.