List songs that have a "healing" quality for you.

[begin_within]

Songs or recordings that seem to heal you emotionally or mentally.

A few that do it for me - not because of any lyrics, just the sounds:

"Avalon" by Roxy Music
"Never My Love" by the Association
"It's So Hard to Say Goodbye" by Boys II Men
"Watermark" by Enya
"Please Don't Make Me Cry" by UB40
"Ameno" by eRa
"Down to You" by Joni Mitchell
"Claire de Lune" by Claude Debussy

and yours?

[taterguy]

1. Blues Brothers: Everybody Needs Somebody to Love

First one I thought of.

More might follow.

Thanks for reminding me to listen to it.

[supernova]

2. Lots of those

Agree about Avalon, also

Into the Mystic, Van Morrison
Killing Moon, Echo & the Bunnymen
Largo, From the New World, Dvorak

[east texas lib]

3. These do it for me, among lots of others.

1. Silent Lucidity by Queensryche
2. No Quarter by Led Zepplin
3. No One At The Bridge and Panecea by Rush
4. Five G by Bill Bruford
5. Love You To Death by Type O Negative
6. Beercan by Beck

[supernova]

4. Enigma - Principles of Lust

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj-ZcZB1OeU

[begin_within]

9. I liked it

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. "An Ending (Ascent)" by Brian Eno.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJBxva-NyiI&feature=related

[begin_within]

11. Very nice

and a great series of pictures there

[Starbucks Anarchist]

18. Have you heard the album?

All the songs were inspired by (outer)space.

[begin_within]

22. No, never heard it or even heard of it.

I have heard of Eno, though, for years.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

24. It's worth checking out.

It's called "Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks."

Also check out "Ambient 1: Music for Airports," which is excellent as well.

[skygazer]

6. Oddly, both Dark Side of the Moon (the entire album) and The Wall (ditto)

In my worst hours, they have been like a friend in the darkness, letting me know I'm not alone. I've never found them depressing - on the contrary, I find them uplifting.

[begin_within]

8. I get the same effect from Stevie Wonder's "Innervisions"

at least the side that begins with "Higher Ground" and ends with "He's Mistra Know-it-All." I always feel really good after listening to those 5 songs in the order they are on the album.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

17. "The Great Gig In the Sky" in particular for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAydj4OJnwQ

[RedShoes]

7. janis joplin cures my blues most times. and Nina Simone. nt

[Sidney J Mussburger]

10. Otis Redding - Happy Song

That's probably my favorite Otis song. Actually anything with Otis is great, I bought a vinyl from a now closed record store on the North Side of Chicago a couple years ago, Otis Live in Europe. Got it for like 10 bucks, best live album I've bought and I've got some goodin's. More recent music would have to be Ben Harper. Here's a good link to his websites jukebox, I very much recommend listening.

http://www.benharper.net/popup.php?page=jukebox

by the by, he's a big Obama supporter, so that's a plus.

[Forkboy]

12. You'll laugh, but some of the most hateful music is cathartic for me.

And it works whether I'm sad or angry.

Here's a couple examples lol...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ukYkC7Ek-0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Mvn13um4I

And sometimes actual happy music works too, stuff like big band/swing music, or anything with horns for that matter.

[Iggo]

13. "Kodachrome" by Paul Simon.

That's some goddam feel good music right there.

[pookieblue]

14. lots of songs...but this one does it for me everytime...

Someday I'll be A Saturday Night- by Bon Jovi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39joRdi0LOo

[BeachBaby]

15. "I Will Survive" and "It's Raining Men". n/t.

[Mad_Dem_X]

16. Let It Be and Year of the Cat

I could be in the worst mood ever, but if I hear one of those songs, I'm suddenly so much better.

[fishwax]

28. here's a vid of Let it Be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67J_66hdN-I

Good stuff. That always brings me up, too :)

[zanne]

19. Ripple by the Grateful Dead and Moondance by Van Morrison. nt

[Deja Q]

20. "Le Freak" - Chic

[Inchworm]

21. Prodigy - Breathe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VymqFCxV2Gw

Inhale!

Weeeeeeeeeeeeee!

:hi:

[madeline_con]

23. Santana's Oye Como Va.

I have no idea why, but he just plays it all away. :)

[kentauros]

25. The entire CD of

"Songs of Distant Earth" by Mike Oldfield :)

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

26. A weird motley mixture

The late, great Virgil Fox playing Bach's Passacaglia and Double Fugue in C minot from the 1970 Heavy Organ at Fillmore East LP. I consider this to be the greatest composition in the history of music, and no I am not forgetting Beethoven's 9th, To me this piece encompasses the universe, and it had no greater champion than Fox, the greatest classical organist of the 20th century. His Bach was always so alive and inspiring, unlike the dry as dust "original intent" performers. Virgil grabbed music by the balls and played like no one else.

Enya's "Caribbean Blue"

A second for "Clair de Lune"

"Heart and Soul" by the K/J-pop girl group Sugar (incredible energy and effervescence, a great techno track and four ridiculously cute girls who can sing - who cares if I don't understand a word of Japanese)

Joni's "In France They Kiss on Main Street" but only the live version from "Shadows and Light" with Jaco Pastorius lighting up the night with his superb fretless bass guitar work.

The Fab Four's "She Loves You" A perfect pop song

"California Girls" and "Good Vibrations" Two of Brian Wilson's greatest creations

Ronnie Spector and the E Street Band's version of Billy Joel's "Say Goodbye to Hollywood." Joel wrote the song for her.

Pink Floyd's "Echoes" It's like going somewhere completely else and engrossing on an alien world.

Those are the things that come immediately to mind.

[fishwax]

27. most of the grateful dead catalog

[AwakeAtLast]

29. kd lang - "Hallejujah"

There's a lot of others, but her voice is incredible!

edit to add link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVViL3puBpU

[Minimus]

30. Into the Mystic - Van Morrison

We were born before the wind
Also younger than the sun
Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic
Hark, now hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic

And when that fog horn blows I will be coming home
And when that fog horn blows I want to hear it
I dont have to fear it
I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
Then magnificently we will float into the mystic
And when that fog horn blows you know I will be coming home
And when thst fog horn whistle blows I got to hear it
I dont have to fear it
I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
And together we will float into the mystic
Come on girl...

[CampDem]

31. There are so many great ones posted...

How about the Elgar cello concerto? With Jackie Du Pre, conducted by her young husband.

so gorgeous, melancholy, bittersweet

only a few years before she had to stop playing...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5C99JyP2ns

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

32. Good one

Jacqueline duPre was such a sensitive and powerful performer.

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