Comfort Music

[GoodSpeak]

There is a comfort zone of music for me and it doesn't always include Jazz.

Sometimes I listen to 60s rock, sometimes I listen to Funk and other times I dig the Blues.


Where is your music comfort zone?



Somewhere between a Rock and a Jazz place...?



Share it here.



TimMc

[Pete C]

Comfort music is the same as comfort food, right?

[tippy]

Brian's comfort music is peanutbuttery.

Depends really.

Comfort from what?

Either way, my top five "comfort albums" in no particular order:



The Sickness - Disturbed



You're The One - Paul Fucking Simon!!



Themes - Vangelis



Root Doctor would most definitely disapprove. So what? Fuck Root Doctor!!!



The Coconut Telegraph - Jimmy Buffett



Root Doctor just had a heart attack...............



The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails

Noyz Central:

Rah!!!!!!

"Punk azz, are you listenin?"


"Tell me what I'm supposed to be. Another goddamn drone?"

[vibes]

Originally Posted by Scott Dolan

Depends really.

Comfort from what?

Either way, my top five "comfort albums" in no particular order:



The Sickness - Disturbed

I'm surprised to see this on your list. Good album, though. I saw these guys in concert with Stone Temple Pilots and Godsmack, back when "The Sickness" was a relatively new album. Crappy sound, but they had a lot of energy and played well. I've been listening to their second album a lot lately.

[Root Doctor]

Vangelis, Paul Simon, and schwag-era Buffett? You'll end up voting for Dennis Kucinich if you keep listening to that stuff, Scott.

[patricia]

Classical and flamenco guitar records by Liona Boyd and Jesse Cook, or Rafael Mendez's trumpet soothe the nasties for me. I usually lie on my back on the floor when I listen to them.

[Gary Sisco]

Jazz

[patricia]

Originally Posted by Gary Sisco

Jazz

Goes without saying, Gary. The music I listed is the music I use for heavy medication. It serves as a form of white noise. That is not to say that it's not wonderful music, but it relaxes me and sometimes helps me sleep, if I need to.
Jazz is for my every day listening pleasure. I don't want to fall asleep when I listen to it.

[Gary Sisco]

I wasn't associating comfort with sleep but with familiarity. There are too many kinds of jazz and too many ways of playing it for me to generalize in that way, though I've fallen asleep nuff times with "Waltz For Debby" on low volume. There's a whole huge pile of jazz records I'm familiar with as my favorite jeans. I can ease right into them while doing other things or I can ease right in with full concentration and have excellent results, either way.

[patricia]

Sorry Gary, I actually meant restful relaxation, not sleep. OOPS.
Non-music procedures are best for inducing sleep.

[Noj]

A splash of swampy funk, a bit of blues-infused rock, a latin or african rhythm, a grimy dusty beat, or a Bjorkish bit of fun Euro production comforts me to the core nearly to the level jazz does. My comfort zone is eclectic.

[cookie]

I'm pretty comfortable with any organized sound as long as it isn't too loud. I know that you're supposed to crank up, say, the heavy metal. But I even listen to that stuff at a medium volume. I can better appreciate it at a level where the "ugly" factor of the music (screaming vocals, thrashing guitars) isn't heightened by loud. I need to take the edge off.

I do like to listen to my country music loud especially if I'm driving and especially if the song is an asskicker. But even then, my idea of loud is relatively tame.

Originally Posted by vibes

I'm surprised to see this on your list. Good album, though. I saw these guys in concert with Stone Temple Pilots and Godsmack, back when "The Sickness" was a relatively new album. Crappy sound, but they had a lot of energy and played well. I've been listening to their second album a lot lately.

Yeah, it's funny.

Of all the new stuff out there, this is the one band who caught my ear. Haven't heard Believe. How would you rate it?

Originally Posted by Root Doctor

Vangelis, Paul Simon, and schwag-era Buffett? You'll end up voting for Dennis Kucinich if you keep listening to that stuff, Scott.

Well, the Buffett is a homesick Florida boy thing. It accompanies those mental trips back down to the Gulf coast.

And the Paul Simon kicks ass. I've loved his music since his wicked left hand turn into polyrhythmic Brazillian flavored music. Rhythm Of The Saints is a phenomenal album as well.

Peaceful as a Hurricane, baby!!!

Oh, and besides, if you recall correctly last year, I SAID I was going to vote for Kucinich. I just never made it to the ballot box.

[Root Doctor]

Originally Posted by Scott Dolan

Oh, and besides, if you recall correctly last year, I SAID I was going to vote for Kucinich. I just never made it to the ballot box.

I beieve you've proven my thesis. Take four doses daily of the Dirtbombs and you'll be right as rain in no time.

No!!

I like it where I am now.

It's..................................peaceful.......................................serene....

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, the subtle strains of Vangelis' synth flowing through the air..................flowing though my body. All life begins with a single vibration, says the Greek God of Music.

Yes.....................













namaste

[Root Doctor]

Paul Westerberg thought the same thing after he split the Replacements. Look what happened to him.

[clinthopson]

Free For All

[graypencil]

Originally Posted by Scott Dolan

No!!

I like it where I am now.

It's..................................peaceful.......................................serene....

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, the subtle strains of Vangelis' synth flowing through the air..................flowing though my body. All life begins with a single vibration, says the Greek God of Music.

Yes.....................













namaste

It's only a short but slippery slope from Vangelis ..

to Yanni ...

to John Tessssssshhhhh ...

to the point where your mind liquifies and runs out of your nose ...

[groover]

I'm a little confused as to what this thread is about, which probably isn't surprising. "Comfort music" suggests to me the music one would listen to when they want to be soothed, not challenged.

However, Goodspeak's definition of "comfort zone" seems to be the entire range of music one feels comfortable listening to under any circumstances. Yet there's a difference between yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater and yelling "Fire!" in the Grand Canyon, so I think the setting has to be considered.

I'm willing to give just about anything a chance in privacy, where I can turn it down or shut it off if it really annoys me. If I have company, I usually am more considerate of their comfort zone, unless I want to get rid of them quickly. In a crowded public setting, certain music can even incite a riot, as the Stones proved at Altamont.

[Doc Martin]

Originally Posted by groover

In a crowded public setting, certain music can even incite a riot, as the Stones proved at Altamont.

You should have at Madison Square Garden Last week. No fatalities, but DAMN!

[BFrank]

Since JT was one of my early favorite bands, it's comforting to pull out their old stuff from time to time.

[vibes]

Originally Posted by Scott Dolan

Yeah, it's funny.

Of all the new stuff out there, this is the one band who caught my ear. Haven't heard Believe. How would you rate it?

Maybe 3.5 stars. It's not as gritty as what I've heard of the first one, but I still enjoy it a lot. Lots of religious overtones in the lyrics. I seem to remember hearing the lead singer was bitter about his upbringing or something like that. He definitely sounds pissed/alienated.

I only have the DVD-Audio version. Doesn't have the best surround mix, but I like to crank it up and get it going through all the speakers in my setup.

[Jim Dye]

I'm not one to throw away a perfectly good whiskey glass.

Of course, you DID miss another obvious piece of Dolphins paraphenalia in the first picture.