Comfort listening.

[murasaki_1966]

We all know about comfort food, and some of us have comfort reads, but do any of you have comfort listening? You know, the music that you listen to when you need comfort, when all about is black and dark. It may be the stuff that confirms how sad and evil the world is, or it may be the stuff that lifts you our of the gloom and makes you feel "With

Comments

[angevin2]

I always listen to Ian Bostridge albums when I am sad. Especially The English Songbook and most especially "Linden Lea."

Also, Paul Robeson singing "This Little Light of Mine" is the closest thing there is to an auditory substitute for a hug.

[murasaki_1966]

I love that Paul Robeson number, too. I will need to find a copy of The English Songbook. Thanks for replying.

[3lobed]

Soft, slow, melancholy stuff is my comfort sound. If I'm actually feeling blue I prefer silence, but when I'm just tired and needing some wind-down I can listen to mournful songs without actually feeling mournful myself.

My absolute favourite for this is "Glycerine" by Bush. Deborah Conway's slow songs like "She Prefers Fire" are good too. Just about any trip-hop fits but I've a particular soft spot for "Six Underground" and "Angel".

[don_fitch]

I'm now profoundly deaf, & with a poor auditory memory, so thinking about this is a kind of torture, but my comfort music would be Eine Kline Nachtmusik, the Brandenburg concerti, "Danny Boy", and "Summer Is Icommen in", I guess, though there are fifty or so things (such as "Le Marseilles" & "La Donna E Mobile" & "Largo al Factotum", & "If You're Anxious for to Shine/In the High Aesthetic Line") that would come close.