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An album that recently lifted your mood?

Mr. Lin

Mr. Lin

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I'm having one of those weeks where the pressures of life make one anxious and uptight. So a little while ago I put this on:

Beethoven, Symphony no.6 in F, Op.68 "Pastoral" (JVC XRCD2, Reiner, CSO)

Within moments I started to relax and the anxiety just disappeared. Listening carefully to this CD I'm starting to really appreciate how wonderful it is.

A year or two ago I posted a thread in here about the same thing happening when I played an lp of Strauss' Waltzes. Then, as now, I was inspired to post it because the effect was rather surprising.

So the question is: Recently, what album helped you do a 180 during a very stressful time?
 
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Gin and Tonic. Often imitated, never duplicated. :banana:

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Oh the album? Whatever is playing, while I am drinking the aforementioned G&T. :D
 
Music actually kept me having minimal stress throughout my life! I still remember the old days of the general exams at the university. Everybody was nervous expect me, because I've been listening to (classical) music all day long. I could say that I'm a happy person, enjoying all the moments of my life, and that music has a lot to do with that! I am so thankful to it for existing, just as Schubert felt a couple of centuries ago...

PS: Beethoven's music has for me this especial quality you mentioned, that makes me happy of being alive.
 
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music is a drug for me. No matter the record or genre, it soothes the soul.
listened to Buddy Guy "Sweet Tea" on the way to work last night, mellowed me out good
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_die_Musik

Franz Schubert/Franz von Schober

"An die Musik" (German for "To Music")

Original German

Du holde Kunst, in wieviel grauen Stunden,
Wo mich des Lebens wilder Kreis umstrickt,
Hast du mein Herz zu warmer Lieb' entzunden,
Hast mich in eine beßre Welt entrückt!

Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!

English Translation

Oh lovely Art, in how many grey hours,
When life's fierce orbit ensnared me,
Have you kindled my heart to warm love,
Carried me away into a better world!

How often has a sigh escaping from your harp,
A sweet, sacred chord of yours
Opened up for me the heaven of better times,
Oh lovely Art, for that I thank you!
 
Now that you mention it...

I just picked up 150 ( give or take ) albums locally.
Was going through the newly acquired assortment of
LP's, Rock, Blues, Surf, R&B etc.. I found a Chet Atkins
disk that looked interesting ( Chet Atkins, Stay Tuned)
and gave it a spin, well, I find it very enjoyable and
soothing. Some people may find it boring or dull but
it puts a smile on my face and is very relaxing.... just
what I need right now. Thanks Chet!!
:music:
 
Just listened to the Dylan's No Direction Home Soundtrack, Disk 1, on the way to work and was singing along with all the good, old acoustic Dylan. Amazing how "Masters of War" can actually lift ones mood, but it did.:dunno:
 
Dug out B.B. King's LA Midnight the other day. Made me feel real good after a generally stressful couple of days.... "I believe I have some help I don't really need."
 
The band's name is The Clean, the album: "Anthology". A collection of many of this New Zealand band's best songs. I've been going to it for years for a good cheer-up.

They're actually in town tonight and I'm not sure I can make it.
 
What a great thread.

The most recentl "mood-elevator" I listened to was probably my old favorite, Sir Hugh Beam's take on Vaughan Williams "The Lark Ascending".
 
Recently got the SACD of Nashville Skyline....I had never realized what a great album that is. Very uplifting, especially the last song, "Tonight I Will Be Staying Here With You"
 
Chuck Mangione's Debut album. 75 cents at a moving sale, definitely the best 75 cents I've spent in forever.
 
Another that is in my car and has been for 6 months, Keb Darge and Paul Weller: "Lost and Found: Real R&B and Soul." It's a recent compilation compiled by DJ Keb Darge and the Jam's Paul Weller, and consists of somewhat obscure '60s Soul/R&B...and it is fantastic, from the opening lines "They call me Big Mama cuz I weigh 300lbs...." through nearly 30 tracks. Darge did the 1st half, Weller the second. It's great uplifting driving music. Dancing, too, if you're so inclined. One of the best CDs I've bought all year long.
 
Bach - Brandenberg Concerto #2
Dave Grusian Lee Ritenour - Harlequin
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (will take your mind off of anything!)

Regards,
Jim
 
Not an album, but a particular version of a song. This one lifted my mood, satisfied my soul and concluded a lengthy search.

"The Seeker"
The Who
Berkeley, CA
1970

This is the first "live" instance of this number I have heard with its full weight & magnificance intact "in the wild". It's a '70 performance so we're still treated to the crushing power of the "Tommy" rig (SG Specials + HIWATT DR103s) along w/ everything else that made the 1970 (think Leeds University & Isle Of Wight) performances so enrapturing. Unlike those BBC "live in studio" renderings, both (I recall two) of which are perfect examples of the BEEB's thinly disguised "live treatment" of studio material (add echo, turn up the volume, they'll never know the difference), this Berkeley performance is the whole megillah. Gosh, I wish I'd been old enough in 1970 to attend their concerts.
 
I listened to a new pressing of Mark Knopfler's Get Lucky last nite. It was just perfect...so well preformed and so well recorded...just perfect! :thmbsp:
 
Mystic said:
Not an album, but a particular version of a song.
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Riffing on Mystic's observation, I always smile when I hear the Rolling Stones' "Star Star." Especially live.

In particular, Ft. Worth, TX 1978 where Mick bellows the line "And Jimmy Page was all the rage!"

This concert is infused with over-the-top, degenerate humor and great, tight but loose, playing.

Plus, it's really fun to sing the chorus in the car. Cleans out the day's debris/ennui like nothing else.

Ken
 
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