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The Michael Nyman Band's Drowning By Numbers always gets me in a relaxed mood.
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
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Sh!t! I've done this one already.
Go to sleep now, Francis.
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Thrash Harry wrote:If you haven't already tried it:

A clear night sky
An empty field
A portable CD player
A copy of The Dark Side Of The Moon

No drugs required.
I told you, i'm not allowed out on my own.
I don't wanna live like I don't mind
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emilystrange wrote:I told you, i'm not allowed out on my own.
I'll accompany you ems I'm 6' 1" so I ward off scary strangers, and I go sleep very quickly once I reach horizontal, so you can lie back and listen to the wonder that is the DSOTM by the Pink Floyd.
BTW I come complete with Wish You Were Here, but more importantly - Meddle, spesh Echos (side 2 to us really Old Pharts).
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emilystrange wrote:
Thrash Harry wrote:If you haven't already tried it:

A clear night sky
An empty field
A portable CD player
A copy of The Dark Side Of The Moon

No drugs required.
I told you, i'm not allowed out on my own.
I'm sure Mr. Strange would appreciate it. Together is even better.
Go to sleep now, Francis.
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Thrash Harry wrote:
emilystrange wrote:
Thrash Harry wrote:If you haven't already tried it:

A clear night sky
An empty field
A portable CD player
A copy of The Dark Side Of The Moon

No drugs required.
I told you, i'm not allowed out on my own.
I'm sure Mr. Strange would appreciate it. Together is even better.
Fair point, Mr. Harry, sir. I will bear that in mind.
My car's faster than your mum, but not as dirty.
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emilystrange wrote:carmen buranda.
Must... fight...
the urge..
to correct...
aghh...
so hard... it is

:P
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_emma_ wrote:Friday night inspiration...
... or anything by Vaya Con Dios...
Vaya Con Dios is my favourite band ever
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Gripper wrote:
d00mw0lf wrote:Qntal
Forgive my crass ignorance. What does that mean?
Means german band playing medieval, female chanting and electronic beats music. And very well they do it too.
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Thrash Harry wrote:If you haven't already tried it:

A clear night sky
An empty field
A portable CD player
A copy of The Dark Side Of The Moon

No drugs required.
Tried that. :D

The german border guards wern't too fussed when they found me in a beetroot field. Personally the title track of the next album did it for me, 'loves lost etc'. Makes me cry.

* I am not a hippy. I am not a hippy bastard (unless it's the original source or the other source which is from ....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Anorak Time! * :lol: :wink: :| :urff:
Loki was never worshiped as the other Gods,
Which is quite understandable.
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Cool. Some good ideas there.

Thanks guys. Now I can go back to scaring her ladyship with sounds she doesn't like very much.

Since relaxed is the vibe, though, I'd suggest something by Tindersticks. The untitled second album is rather good in a smoky, whisky-stained bar of some ill-repute kind of way.

In a similar vein, how about Copenhagen's "Songs from the Forest"? Laid back in a miserable style.

As for culture (you'd be upset if I didn't), I'll put Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. It's probably the closest thing I've heard to "life-changing" music, since it was quite literally what opened my ears to the possibility of sounds that didn't hang on a drumbeat and a bassline.

I was playing clarinet in the county youth orchestra and it was the main piece we did in my first term there. I couldn't make anything of a couple of passages so I had to actually sit down and listen to it (something of a novel experience for me) and it was just overwhelming.

Beautiful and powerful in equal measure - and the start of a life-long love affair with my own pretentiousness :oops:
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zigeunerweisen wrote:
emilystrange wrote:carmen buranda.
Must... fight...
the urge..
to correct...
aghh...
so hard... it is

:P
sorry i was in a hurry
I don't wanna live like I don't mind
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thank you Mr Harry and Mr Sunsets... but the bliss of being alone is a hard won thing.
I don't wanna live like I don't mind
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When I feel the need to relax I play early "Leonard Cohen" - although Mrs Goth thinks its "depressing" - and shes a big Cure fan!
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The cure, Disintegration. Just listen to those lyrics, very moving. Or Roger Waters, Amused to Death!
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