"Comfort music"

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What's your favorite "comfort music"? I'm talking about music that makes you feel good, that soothes your chi. Music that may not hold up to critical scrutiny but that holds a warm & fuzzy spot in your heart. Music that sounds like how a hug feels. I'm personally thinking of acts such as the Sundays, Alpha, mid-period to latter-day Cocteau Twins, Zero 7 and the like. What do you think of?

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 11 December 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

I like things that wankers think don't hold up to crutical scritany.

Also Steely Dan. Now shove Zero 7 up your mitherhugging harse.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Sunday, 11 December 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

Sorry. That was unnecessary. Hello, New Whirled Braves.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Sunday, 11 December 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

Louis Armstong Hot Fives and Sevens, Django Reinhardt, Duke Ellington

― *Jazz Douchebag* Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 11 December 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

pretty much any of the basic channel, chain reaction, rhythm and sound stuff.

― tricky (disco stu), Sunday, 11 December 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

Vince Guaraldi, Sade, Al Green, Alpha, even Album Leaf "in a safe place"

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Sunday, 11 December 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

Seconding the Guaraldi.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 11 December 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

David Bowie "Hunky Dory."
Jethro Tull "Thick as a Brick."

― vartman (novaheat), Sunday, 11 December 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

Honestly, anything that I know really, really, REALLY well, where every little flourish and change is hard-wired into my brain. IOW, stuff I heard throughout my childhood and still listen to today. Billy Joel's greatest hits and Graceland are the big winners. They're comforting both because of some lingering sentimental links to simpler times, and moreso just because they're so familiar and safe to my ear - they'll never surprise me, and they're so good to sing along to that my troubles will seem so far away etc.

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 11 December 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Thirding the Guaraldi - also seems to put my kids in their comfort zone at teatime.

Also Nanci Griffith - early albums, k d lang - Drag, Steely Dan - Aja, and an old NME compilation tape (013) called Night People which is a terrific selection of pretty mainstream jazz. Sitting here (in someone elses house babysitting!) I can hear the opening of the Art Blakey track which starts it off and it put's me in a good mood...

― Ned T.Rifle III, Sunday, 11 December 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

black box recorder - the facts of life

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Sunday, 11 December 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Fuxa

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 03:42 (twenty years ago)

Stina Nordenstam - And She Closed Her Eyes (album)

The Carpenters - Now And Then (album)

High Llamas - Bach Ze, The Walworth River

Cocteau Twins - Road, River and Rail

Black Box Recorder - Swinging

Frank Sinatra - Where Or When, Moonlight In Vermont

Steely Dan, obviously

Currently in heavy rotation: Kate Bush - Sunset, off the new album. So beautiful.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

Francoise Hardy - La Question
Dorothy Ashby - In A Minor Groove
Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings
Labradford - E luxo so
Basic Channel / Rhythm & Sound seconded
Signer - Low Light Dreams
Nico - Chelsea Girls

on the "know it so well it kind of reassures/disappears" tip:

Velvet Underground - VU
Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Aphex - SAWII
Autechre - Amber
Silver Jews - American Water

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

weird, as recently i have had a real passion to relisten to stuff that i knew should be classed as 'comfort music' .. as awful as it was to admit i found myself thoroughly enjoying both (yes both!) Gay Dad albums, but my real CM has to be Madness and David Bowie.

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

On Sundays I tend to listen to jazz, Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Polar Bear, Livingroom Headrush, tuneful stuff. I guess that qualifies.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

Junior Boys

that 4AD sampler that came with that magazine. Uncut maybe?

Massive Attack

Cagedbaby

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

Flying Saucer Attack's Distance has been doing this job lately. not so much 'warm and fuzzy' as just 'fuzzy'.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

Good call with the BBR.

Richard Hawley, A Girl Called Eddy, Belle & Sebastian of course, Dirty 3, Willie Nelson.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

mariah's Rainbow has become the ultimate "i'm feeling like i need some comfort" album... and i love that it exists

― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 10 August 2009 17:22 (sixteen years ago)

Lately, Conor Oberst's s/t solo record & the new Julian Plenti. Repeat, repeat, repeat.

― kshighway, Monday, 10 August 2009 17:23 (sixteen years ago)

doncha just love thos ethings you can repeat?

― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 10 August 2009 17:24 (sixteen years ago)

it's really a very specific yet intangible quality

― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 10 August 2009 17:24 (sixteen years ago)

i have playlist which i call lovely music, mostly informed by all the soft rock/yacht rock threads on here. i have recently added some delfonics and t-rex. to qualify the music must be unobtrusive but interesting.

― Crackle Box, Monday, 10 August 2009 18:08 (sixteen years ago)

Ys has started to take on this role for me. Formerly held by Village Green Preservation Society

― bendy, Monday, 10 August 2009 18:25 (sixteen years ago)

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