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[fat_chris]

Good night all...er...Good morning!

Even though I am in North America, I am on the same hours as our Far East brethren/sisthren. I work during the third shift and I just got home and am about to hit the hay (8 AM). However, before journeying to ZZZ land, I will listen to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Mood." This is my favorite album with which to slow things down and catch a decent snooze.

And so my question: what is your favorite album with which to slow things down and take it easy and relax and soothe shattered nerves?

[shmooj]

Best of Ravi Shankar

[Lynn]

I like pop music, but I usually don't chill out to it. Instead, I clean house or dance or run or take the subway. For chill out music I like some of my soundtracks:
Magnolia
The Hurricane
Spirited Away
Harold and Maude

[Capergirl]

For regular chilling out, something like Evanescence does the trick. For major chilling/falling asleep/going into a trance-like state, I grab an Enya CD.

[dreadnought]

The Italian film music maestro, Ennio Morricone. I'm also quite fond of Radiohead, Grandaddy and Kate Bush.

Luckily, here in Kyrgyzstan, if you don't have any music of your own, you can venture out onto the freezing boulevards and witness the bizarre phenomena of 'street karaoke': groups of youngsters huddling around TVs on the street belting out Russian favourites to anyone who cares to listen - which, as far as I can gather, is noone. Do they do this in any other country (not just karaoke, I know they do this everywhere, but karaoke on the street)?

[dyak]

Jazz... ... but funky, abstract, colourful, pretentious even... out there somewhere.

Or just some Tom Petty...

[denise]

I prefer darkish moody droning whiny alternative-type stuff. Placebo are my favorite to chill to or to do just about anything to.

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[Celeste]

Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, CHet Baker, that sort of thing. I also like the Magnolia soundtrack. An actor I used to work with in my other life (I was a theatre technician and stage manager back in the homeland) used to love to warm up to that CD. After the show closed, I had to go out and buy it because I missed my daily dose of it.

[Roger]

Depends on whether I need to wind myself up or wind down.

When I work or read in my living-room, I can't stand any music with singing; then it's time for
- new age music
- Alan Stivell (a Brittany ethnic musiciian)
- Yanni (if you don't know - the guy that composed Santorini, among
many other works);
- Celtic sounds;
- classical: Beerthoven, Mozart, Chopin;

When I need to recharge my battery:
- Beatles, BeeGees or similar;
- Simon & Garfunkel;
- Pink Floyd
- African Gospels (yes, very discordant here, but they work);
- Enigma;
- French rock (Frederique Chateau);

Contemplative mood:
- Ravi Shankar;
- Beethoven and Mozart;

I don't know if am living proof of a progressive sinicisation but it is true that on some days, I get pretty worked up by this acoustic pollution of the environment by the radio in the bus that incessantly blares commercials (in my case, i have to endure this for up to 1 hour), and when I am at home, I turn on my own ghettoblaster.

[been_there]

For total relaxation:

Godspeed! You Black Emperor
Low
Buena Vista Social Club soundtrack
Grassy Knoll
POE
Ella Fitzgerald
Bessie Smith
Morphine (the mellow tracks)
Bombay the Hard Way (Album- remix of Bollywood soundtracks)
Talvin Singh

[biffinbridge]

Massive Attack (Blue Lines) and anything by the Orb or Moby....should do it for you..

[richard ame]

Hi
I think at one time or another I have chilled out (not sure I like that phrase) to most of the above plus others like Dep Mode, T. For Fears, Stones, Cream, Dire Straits,etc, etc, can't make with jazz though ,sorry tried a few times doesn't seem to click . Most of my neighbours seem to rap a lot,strange but true!! Just lately Cafe Del Mare has been the mainstay and its big attraction for me are the number of different artists/ musical styles that you find on each album all based on a similar idea of sitting in your favourite chair watching the sun go down with a drink and good company, does it for me every time ,check it out .

[Will.]

I have to admit to not really being at all interested in chilling out to music or what the poll has listed as music. This is probably due to the inanity of the lyrics of modern, and not so modern, music interfering with my thought process. I really think music is over-rated as an occupation to chill out to and find far too many people obsessed by this or that band or singer. Here today, gone tomorrow so many of them are ephemeral at best and soon forgotten.
Like Roger I use music to wind myself up and use classical, Vivaldi, Mussorgski, Tchaikovski or Ravel and only play one side of a disc/cassette and do not play more, just enough to get the synapses popping. I chill out best listening to World Service of information radio a good book if alone and if in company a nice wood or coal fire and failing that a starry night and shooting the breeze wins hands down.
Too many years of Tom's Diner I guess.
Does 'two minutes of silence'count in this poll?

[fat_chris]

[george61]

I've got "Zero" (Chinese rock group)...12 Girls Band (Chinese instrumentals) Scots Guards, Enya, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix,Bee Gees, Fake Beatles,depends on my mood which one goes on first. Also Dire Straits gets a fair beating, too.