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What are 5 of your Comfort Albums?

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tdat7192

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Very recently some true horror was put in my life's path. I donned my armor and fought the good fight. I have always loved music, but during this time I was even more sensitized to it.
So I dug through boxes and unearthed some "comfort" albums. They were albums I could listen to, get lost in and feel comfortable and content and safe. Some were because of good memories or they were tied to family/friends and others were probably because of what they meant to me at the time they came out. For others it might be the music itself or lyrics. No judgements on what makes you comfortable, just curious to see people's responses.
I had many such albums but want to limit the list to just 5. Lists of 10 always makes me want to be as inclusive as possible. They don't have to be the most comforting, just 5 that come to mind, sort of an emotional gut response.

If no music hits you like this, let us know that too.

My 5 are in no particular order
1. Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards
2. Ahmad Jamal - But Not For Me (Live at the Pershing)
3. Jethro Tull - Stand Up
4. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
5. Zappa - The Grand Wazoo
 
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Jackson Browne - Late For The Sky
Kate Wolf - Give Yourself To Love
Pat Metheny - just about anything
Dan Fogelberg - High Country Snows
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
 
Not in any particular order...

in Popular:
Big Star ~ #1 Record
David Bowie ~ Hunky Dory
Beatles ~ Rubber Soul (US Version)
Traffic ~ John Barleycorn
Cowboy Junkies ~ Trinity Sessions

in Jazz:
Cannonball Adderley ~ Somethin' Else!
Grant Green ~ Green Street
Kenny Burrell ~ Midnight Blue
Dave Brubeck ~ Time Out
Miles Davis ~ Kind of Blue
 
John Cale. "Paris 1919"
Sigur Ros. "( )"
Peter Gabriel. "Us".
Big Star. "3rd/Sister Lovers".
The Zombies "Odessey & Oracle".
 
When in one of those grey moods, I find that just about any Mills brothers album will lift me out of the funk.
 
Bob Marley: Natty Dread
Sarah Vaughan: Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown
Skatalites: Authentic Ska
Miles Davis: Seven Steps to Heaven
Handel:Water Music Suite
 
Lambchop - Is a Woman
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Master and Everyone
John Coltrane - Live in Japan 1966
Traffic - Low Spark
Joan Baez - Ballad Book (It's a later (mid 70's?) LP collection of her quieter songs)
 
Hendrix, Axis Bold as Love
The Beatles, Rubber Soul
Mahavishnu Orchestra, Inner Mounting Flame
Thelonious Monk, Monk's Music
Stanley Clarke, Journey to Love
 
Pete Townshend Who Came First
Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane Rough Mix
Grateful Dead American Beauty
Patty Larkin Tango
Wailin Jennys Forty Days

The first four were all - by others' accounts or by their own testament - products of tumultuous periods in their creators' lives/worlds. The fifth one I dunno about, but it is beautiful and soothing and graceful and a virtuoso singing performance to boot.

All five sound great, too.
 
Interesting. Different moods will draw a different need of 'comfort'. With that in mind...

Steely Dan - Aja
Morphine - Yes
Kittie - Until The End
Pusifer - V is For Vagina (occasionally swaps position with APC - Thirteen Steps)
The Eels - Soul Jacker
 
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Roy Orbison - Greatest Hits (Monument Records)
Dire Straits
One Size Fits All FZ
The Real Dave van Ronk
 
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Van Morrison - Moondance
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers
 
My newest is The Beach Boys ~ Smile album. It's like going back and hearing it for the first time in 1966.
 
Beck ~ Sea Change
Miles ~ Kind Of Blue
Kenny Burrell ~ Midnight Blue
Cowboy Junkies ~ Trinity Sessions
Bill Frisell ~ Good Dog Happy Man

Runners Up:

Lucinda Willimans ~ Sweet Old World
Emmylou Harris ~ Wrecking Ball


All these could have made my list too.....


tdat7192 said:
Zappa - The Grand Wazoo
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Celt said:
Traffic ~ John Barleycorn
Grant Green ~ Green Street
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JohnVF said:
Sigur Ros. "( )"
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Brett a said:
Lambchop - Is a Woman
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Master and Everyone
Traffic - Low Spark
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Bruno Walter - Beethoven's 6th
Luciano Pavarotti - Oh Holy Night
Vangelis - Heaven and Hell
Windham Hill - Piano Sampler
Norah Jones - Come Away with Me
 
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