# Tell us about your musical comfort food **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 17, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709 "2008-03-17T22:06:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/1 "2008-03-17T22:06:23Z")
What music do you listen to when you need to be convinced that, despite appearances, the world is not an infinitely vile place in which wounds never heal and only the wicked prosper? For me, it’s the cast recording to [The Secret Garden](http://www.stlyrics.com/t/thesecretgarden.htm). For anyone who doesn’t know, this is the 1991 musical based on the children’s novel, about an grieving young orphan girl, Mary Lennox, who finds healing for her grief by working in her deceased aunt’s garden, and in the process helps heal her cousin and uncle of their own physical and spiritual woes. I love the book too, but the musical is where I was first introduced to the story, and it is inexpressibly love. I could go on and on about how “Winter’s on the Wing,” “Wick,” and “A Bit of Earth” are as magical as Lothlorien, but I shall restrain myself. Anybody else? ---
**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:** [March 17, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/2 "2008-03-17T22:08:54Z")
\*\*All Things Must Pass \*\* [especially Disc 1] – George Harrison. It must be the tambourines. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/3 "2008-03-17T23:03:31Z")
Depends on why i need comfort. If I have a migraine, a collection of BeeGees softer music [like How Deep is your love]i f I am nervous, Magic Flute by Mozart. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/4 "2008-03-17T23:07:44Z")
Anything by Jimmy Buffett. After that, Scarlatti or Telemann or Glenn Miller. After that, the Andrews Sisters. ---
**Author:** ![Salmo\_Trutta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@Salmo\_Trutta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salmo_Trutta)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/5 "2008-03-17T23:08:53Z")
Joanna Newsome’s _Milk Eyed Mender_. It’s sort of an upbeat thoughtful flavor of sad that makes the world seem allright. ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/6 "2008-03-17T23:18:48Z")
My “Visit my happy place, calm the hell down, life doesn’t always suck, it’ll be better tomorrow, get your zen on” song is _New Mother Nature/No Sugar Tonight_ by the Guess Who. Someday, I’ll get rich, and somehow get a copy of it with the vocals removed. And then I’ll be a calm happy pleasant sane person, as long as the headphones are over my ears. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/7 "2008-03-17T23:28:09Z")
[QUOTE=aruvqan] Depends on why i need comfort. If I have a migraine, a collection of BeeGees softer music [like How Deep is your love]i f I am nervous, Magic Flute by Mozart. [/QUOTE] When I have a migraine, I can’t stand human voices – even ethereal ones (see below) – so John Renbourn, _very softly_ works for me. Otherwise, it’s [Wee Tam and The Big Huge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee_Tam_and_the_Big_Huge). ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/8 "2008-03-17T23:29:43Z")
Most happy music strikes me as sounding fairly stupid and trite. Only [Bonnie Pink](http://youtube.com/watch?v=XkBpouFudjM) and [Phish](http://youtube.com/watch?v=0aFByioqlPE) have a large selection of songs that I like that are happy-sounding and make me feel also cheery instead of just annoyed. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/9 "2008-03-17T23:39:05Z")
[QUOTE=Creaky] Anything by Jimmy Buffett. [/QUOTE] True dat. **One Fair Summer Evening** - Nanci Griffith **Jesus Christ Superstar** - Soundtrack (Broadway, not the movie) and, most embarrasingly, **Hot August Night** - Neil Diamond ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/10 "2008-03-17T23:50:04Z")
Pink Martini or Schubert ---
**Author:** ![Pixilated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aeb1de/32.png) [@Pixilated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixilated)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/11 "2008-03-17T23:54:41Z")
Either Godsmack or Celtic ballads ---
**Author:** ![pprgrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f6c823/32.png) [@pprgrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pprgrl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/12 "2008-03-18T00:17:23Z")
“Talula (BT’s Tornado Mix)” and “Tear In Your Hand” by Tori Amos “Beautiful World” and “Waiting For My Real Life to Begin” by Colin Hay “Glass House” by Ani DiFranco I don’t think any of these songs have really ‘happy’ lyrics, but they’ve all got a lot of personal meaning to me, so they usually make me feel better about life and sometimes myself. “Rebel Girl” by Bikini Kill works sometimes, too. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/13 "2008-03-18T00:17:50Z")
Things like The Loch Tay Boat Song, Peggy Gordon, Twa Corbies, or other love sucks, people are rotten, or just everybody dies songs. Depressing songs help me cheer up. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/14 "2008-03-18T00:29:06Z")
Less Than Jake, Rancid, the Pietasters, MU330, Skavoovie and the Epitones, the Usuals – ska and ska-punk bands that take me right back to my carefree college days (1996-99, or thereabouts). I don’t listen to that stuff much anymore, but I can always rely on ska to HEY HEY HEY pick me up! Also, _The Chronic_ by Dr. Dre, _Doggystyle_ by Snoop Dogg, and the \*Pulp Fiction \* soundtrack. Can’t go wrong with any of them. ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/15 "2008-03-18T00:58:26Z")
Beans beans the magical fruit. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/16 "2008-03-18T01:59:29Z")
Moon River (Mercer/Mancini); Instrumental versions, primarily, but vocals will do as long as it’s not Andy Williams (who, I feel, overdramatizes the melody). It should be simple and not overly orchestrated nor vocally embellished to really make me feel at peace. I could listen to it over and over and I’m hoping someone remembers I’d like it played at my memorial. Other than that I love Edith Piaf as well as torch songs (Julie London is at the top of that list). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/17 "2008-03-18T02:38:51Z")
**Getz/Gilberto** , Stan Getz’s bossa nova masterpiece. ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/18 "2008-03-18T02:53:45Z")
Fleetwood Mac is my comfort music. Reminds me of more innocent days, more raw emotions. Even when they’re angsty, it’s somehow comforting to me. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/19 "2008-03-18T03:04:22Z")
[The Band](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Band) and [Van Morrison](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Morrison). Almost anything my parents listened to while I was growing up works, but these two in particular always have that comforting quality. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709/20 "2008-03-18T03:36:18Z")
My favorite is Stephane Grappelli playing with David Grisman. I can’t find them both together on Youtube, but here is Stephane Grappelli playing and this clip has a short biography of him, also: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-BH52lwDUk) This is an Amazon link to the recording I like: [http://www.amazon.com/Stephane-Grappelli-David-Grisman-Live/dp/B000002KMA](http://www.amazon.com/Stephane-Grappelli-David-Grisman-Live/dp/B000002KMA) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-your-musical-comfort-food/441709.md?page=2)