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As a born and bred rock and metal fan I often find it hard to find chilled music on my I-Pod
However I'm just working my way through Raising Sand - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss and it's rather lovely, what do you like to listen to when you just want to relax?

People that say Chill out dance mixes will get a slap
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:10, 120 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
Blues.
It's only a hop skip and a jump away from rock.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:13, Reply)
I've loved a bit of Seasick Steve since I saw him at Latitude 2008

Must expand repertoire...
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:15, Reply)
saw about ten minutes of him..
Had to watch the rest of youtube. Always the bloody way with festivals.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:40, Reply)
I fucking LOVE blues.
I love yer Robert Johnson, Charley Patton type country folk blues, I love your Buddy Guy electric Chicago blues, yer British 60s blues boom stuff right up to some of the present day stuff like Seasick Steve.

Fucking LOVE. IT.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:16, Reply)
"Bowie plays the Blues"
David Bowie turns his imeasurable talent to the broken down raw power of blues music and blows all blues away. ***** The NME
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:19, Reply)
You won't be surprised to know
...that that terrible, terrible penis even had a go at being a blues/r&b artist in the 60s. One of his many early failed bandwagon-jumping attempts.

Such integrity! God how I love him.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:23, Reply)
You say blues, I say Beefheart,
hardly relaxing though. Even when he does the almost normal stuff, it tends to descend into a stramash of hootin and a hollerin.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:21, Reply)
For a nice chill out
I rather like the latest Bat For Lashes one at the moment.
More often than not though I'll put on some of Nick Cave's less bombastic stuff or some early croony Tom Waits.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:14, Reply)
'Bat for the Other Side', more like

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:35, Reply)
Pffft!

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:37, Reply)
I am far more pleased by that one
than I should be.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:39, Reply)
Try this for this
homepage.ntlworld.com/mickthompson/sandyboys.mp3

EDIT: No takers on this modern appalachian 'old time' music then? Jaw harps are full of win!
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:14, Reply)
if you're digging the Appalachian thing,
try Bonnie Prince Billy, Will Oldham or Palace/Palace Songs/Palace Music (they're all the same bloke).

Check out Besnard Lakes 'Are The Dark Horse' - youtube 'and you lied to me' for mellow rock-out loveliness.

rafter
baz

ps - I could go on all day on this one if you want more.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:15, Reply)
mellow rock-out loveliness is exactly the ticket!

I shall investigate
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:17, Reply)
in which case,
I propose 'The Allman Brothers' who encompass the Blues recommendation also.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:19, Reply)
Live at the Fillmore.

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:20, Reply)
great record

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:23, Reply)
Zero7

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:15, Reply)
I would say Zero7 are too electronic for his tastes.

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:17, Reply)
Or Sia on her own?

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:17, Reply)
The Girl you lost to cocaine
top track
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 20:50, Reply)
Oh,
and Mumford and Sons. The album is just lovely.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:18, Reply)
Excellent band,
wouldn't really consider them chill-out though.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:30, Reply)
I suppose
They do get very stampy and upbeat.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:31, Reply)
Steve Hillage's 'Fish Rising'
or reggae. To be honest I don't often listen to music to relax - I listen to music to be blown away. I get too into what I'm listening to and find I'm not relaxed at all.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:19, Reply)
Got to agree with Reggae
Anything by King Tubby usually does the damage, really need to have sub bass capabilities though, as half of the musical joy is skanking away down there.

JAH!
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:24, Reply)
my brother is an advanced dub collector
I quite like some of the modern digital stuff like Iration Steppers from Leeds.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:29, Reply)
Aye, they have their own sound system
that they cart about, very good it is as well. For me it is the whole soundsystem culture and how they can't just roll up and play on a regular system as they would probably destroy it within minutes. The sheer power and clarity of the bass on a good system is a thing of beauty. Jah Shaka playing on The Messenger Sound System at the Glasgow Art School a few years back was possibly my favourite gig of all time. I ended up totally zombified, it quickly spilled over into a full blown religious experience.

The whole 'warrior' dub thing completely overwhelmed me and I was playing out all these bizarre hallucinatory 'episodes' in my mind, where I became a figurative warrior for all things good and holy and was battling against evil and dancing my way to a better future for all mankind. Unforgettable.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:37, Reply)
I used to go to see Shaka
on an almost-weekly basis. Gotta love the whole 60-year old man with one deck approach. Tufnell Park's Dub Club used to have a visiting system every week - and they'd bring their entire rigs despite the reasonably small venue.

On occasion you'd have to order drinks by sign language. Apart from Dillinja's Valve Sound System I've never been exposed to such extreme volume in my life. Motorhead are nowhere near.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:44, Reply)
Nice one
Shaka live is so addictive, he has the energy, the rekkids, the moves, the patois, the presence, the whole fucking package. I may have to make a pilgrimage down to London this year to catch Shaka, as he rarely plays up here. Your local knowledge would be a mighty fine skill to have onboard for such a venture.

The thing is with the well tuned systems is that they sound SOOO crisp and clear yet the bass still weighs a fucking tonne.

Check youtube for 'shaka plays rent man', and witness some proper Rastas totally losing their heads to the vibrations. This one guy just takes to running in a circle he's so far gone. Brilliant clip.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:54, Reply)
Will do definitely
You've seen 'Babylon' of course?
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:57, Reply)
Oh yes
"COME ON YOU SLAAAAGS"

Brilliant film, the scene where he stumbles into the Rastafarian Church at night is amazing.

What about Rockers? Another great reggae film with a top notch soundtrack and cast.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:01, Reply)
Absolutely
I picked up the soundtrack LP for that last year.

Jah no dead.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:02, Reply)
Some serious dreadlocks in that film.
A few that just look like one giant dread, like a mane. The intro scene where Horsemouth is drumming up money and there is this horn based track playing, then he eventually walks round and the 'soundtrack' is a group of rastas actually playing the music.

Hypnotic and brilliant. Jah no dead indeed!
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:13, Reply)
Never really "got" reggae
Bits and bobs (Marley) but it never clicked with me
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:26, Reply)
I like the conscious, religious
fire and brimstone type heavy Rasta stuff like Prince Far I, or cheeky rudeboy ska.

To my mind the best reggae Lp of all time is Best Dressed Chicken in Town by Dr Alimantado, or Lee Perry's From My Secret Laboratory.

Best reggae song ever: Walk & Skank by Jah Screechie, as sampled by SL2 for their rave anthem 'on a ragga tip'
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:32, Reply)
Burning Spear
is very beefy reggae. All roots and messages - not a novelty hit in sight.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:32, Reply)
the Marcus Garvey LP especially
and its dub counterpart, Garvey's Ghost.

Misty in Roots are also great.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:34, Reply)
Marcus Garvey is my favourite also.

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:41, Reply)
folksy sort of stuff
Ryan Adams, Emerson Hart, Bon Iver
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:22, Reply)
Muchos Gracias to one and all
I shall make a list and go downloading this evening!
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:23, Reply)
In a rock vein
Rodrigo Y Gabriela. Very uptempo Spanish accoustic instrumental genius.
They have a self-titled one and their new one 11:11 is great.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:25, Reply)
They have got fucking SKILLZ

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:33, Reply)
too fucking right

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:37, Reply)
your sig=win!

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:43, Reply)
thanks

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:44, Reply)
isn't he due a sci fi
book this year?

edit: damn, next year
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:44, Reply)
matter came out fairly recently didn't it?

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:47, Reply)
not really
I was still working in a book shop, and I left there a year and a half ago

He had a none sci fi one recently - Transitions - usually a sci fi one follows
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:49, Reply)
not read Transition
any good?
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:51, Reply)
'tis awesome
Well worth a read IMO. Not sure how it's ended up lumped in with his non sci-fi stuff as it's got parallel worlds and whatnot.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:52, Reply)
some of them do
can't remember which ones off-hand...walking on glass or the bridge probably
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:54, Reply)
I expect
he gets to decide himself

perhaps he's tempting scifi-haters to the dark side
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:56, Reply)

www.amazon.co.uk/New-Culture-Novel-Iain-Banks/dp/1841498939/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262707094&sr=8-13
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:59, Reply)
Jan 2008 I think.
Does that mean this time next year for the next one? Transition was practically sci-fi anyway.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:50, Reply)
still not read that
any good? I do like his nongenre stuff, but it varies
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:51, Reply)
the crow road, complicity and dead air were great
I thought so anyway
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:52, Reply)
Loved The Bridge and The Crow Road
Song of Stone is pretty blergh, but all the rest of it is all well worth reading.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:53, Reply)
canal dreams was weird
not sure I enjoyed that one much
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:54, Reply)
steep approach...
was pretty similar to The Crow Road
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:55, Reply)
I always think that is the one about whisky
so don't read it
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:01, Reply)
The whisky one is really
good, part whisky book, part autobiography, mostly Mr Banks arsing about in Scotland
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:02, Reply)
sounds reasonably interesting
He was on the "My planet rocks" segment on Planet Rock a little while ago

he likes good music
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:03, Reply)
cool
he also likes to climb the outsides of hotels at sci fi award parties, apparently.

When I (don't) grow up I want to be like him :)
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:06, Reply)
Not so convinced by Dead Air
fairly enjoyable, but not as gripping as the others. I suppose it gets marks for having mark and lard in it :)

Was Complicity the one where he wrote in the second person, I liked that one
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:53, Reply)
complicity was about the journalist
made into a reasonable film with Johnny Lee Miller in it
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:55, Reply)
perhaps that's the one
I haven't read and never buy because I think it's one of the others
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:56, Reply)
For what little it's worth..
I rank them thusly :
The Bridge
Transition
Complicity
The Business
Whit
The Wasp Factory
Garbadale
Espedair Street
Dead Air
Canal Dreams
Song of Stone
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:00, Reply)
fuck
I forgot Espedair Street!

that's one of my all time favourite books

must buy Transition
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:01, Reply)
Wasp Factory
is on loads of reading lists for college now, that,1984 and Handmaid's Tale. Lucky bastards
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:03, Reply)
I liked the Wasp Factory

It divides opinion I find
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:10, Reply)
if I made a list like Barnaby's
I think it would be somewhere near the top, although I agree The Bridge was best (of the ones I've read)
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:12, Reply)
the worst thing about making a lsit like that
is that the very second I posted it I wanted to go back and revise it as I've not read some of them in years, but sod it - that would be cheating
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:31, Reply)
They certainly have

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:37, Reply)
that robert plant alison krauss album is very good
I tend to listen to rock and metal to relax though, as well as at most other times.

or a bit of simon and garfunkel.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:37, Reply)
^ BEN-DERRRRR

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:45, Reply)
quiet you
get back to your altar boys
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:47, Reply)
I'd love to know how I ended up being portrayed as
some kind of kinky vicar, I really would.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:48, Reply)
it was the preaching and the rogering of young catholic boys that did it

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:51, Reply)
I see
And you think the rogering may have been a bit 'off-message'?


Well I never did. Except that I actually did. Which is the problem.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:54, Reply)
Mogwai?
Might be a bit too dour rather than chilled, but 'tis splendid stuff.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:39, Reply)
I like Mogwai.
Only heard a little of their stuff, basically on dance mix albums.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:50, Reply)
Mogwai on dance mix albums?
Are you sure? There's an electronic act called Moguai. Mogwai have had very few remixes done, and the ones they have had aren't exactly suitable for dance comps.

And my faves are Come On Die Young, Young Team and The Hawk is Howling. Rock Action was a massive disappointment.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:04, Reply)
Ten Rapid
is my favourite.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:58, Reply)
Davros and Tourettes put me onto Nouvelle Vag.
Basically covers of all your out there stonking songs but sang as if you're in a small smoke filled club with cool people wearing lots of black polo neck jumpers.

Coooool!
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:53, Reply)
Nouvelle Vag?????
Are you fucking sure?

Not Wayne Rooney's cup of tea, I've heard...
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:55, Reply)
Cosmetic surgery gone mad

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:10, Reply)
Nouvelle Vague ;o)
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nouvelle+vague&search_type=&aq=0&oq=nouvell
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:41, Reply)
I've seen their posters around Shoreditch
I was just being an arse.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 17:34, Reply)
My recommendation is:
Wilco: Being There
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 15:59, Reply)
What about a nice bit of rockabilly?
The early Sun Records stuff was fucking fan-bloody-tastic.

I was raised on that stuff but have recently got back into it of my own volition. Sonny Burgess, Billy Lee Riley, those cats.

That said it's generally pretty upbeat. But if you're a rocker, you should know about all that stuff. IT'S YOUR ROOTS.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:11, Reply)
I was born from an egg on a mountain top.

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:12, Reply)
One of my favourite records EVER
but this is where you tell me I should have downloaded it or some other ridiculous notion, isn't it?
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:13, Reply)
depends how much you want to listen to it,
or how much you want to tell people about owning it.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:15, Reply)
It took me over ten years to find it on vinyl
With this in mind when I did get it, I considered the event to be somewhat momentous - it was hardly a 'woo look at me' thing, just a remark that I loved it to the extent that I'd spent years looking for it.

A normal person would have replied in the vein of 'yeah I love it too'. But then you're not normal, are you?
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:20, Reply)
You prompted it, don't get your knickers in a twist.

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:29, Reply)
I don't mind one bit
I just imagine your persistent bitterness must grind you down sometimes, that's all.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:40, Reply)
I listen to the sound of snow shenanigans outside my HOUSE
because Im not in WORK!
I do hope University lockdown continues tomorrow...
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:14, Reply)
Or maybe Massive Attack
Blue Lines.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:14, Reply)
Love Massive attack
Remind me of my yoof
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:29, Reply)
Aye

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:29, Reply)
I tend to listen to
Death Cab for Cutie and The Shins when I want to be calm. Also Placebos version of Running Up That Hill is a great chill out song! Oh and Brand New - The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot is super.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:20, Reply)
I like a bit of The Shins too

New stuff seems best to me but then I heard that first!
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:21, Reply)
Their new stuff is pretty good but my favourite album of theirs is
Chutes Too Narrow
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:23, Reply)
Yey me too!
is that not their newest album?
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:28, Reply)
Hehe nope
I think they have had three since then! :D

Oh, Inverted World, I think was the next album after Chutes - that's pretty good. I think they have had two more in recent years, I'm not too sure what they are like!?
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:30, Reply)
According to Wikipedia
When You Land Here, It's Time to Return ((1997)
Oh, Inverted World (2001)
Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
Wincing the Night Away (2007)

I thought wincing was older than chutes, meh, shows what I know!
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:47, Reply)
Haha shows what I know too
I thought Oh, Inverted World was after Chutes - confused! Hehe
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:51, Reply)
my mate Richard
made that boy from Placebo cry at a party once. Brian somebody?
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:23, Reply)
Brian Molko
He is a great big girl, but I do love his music.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:24, Reply)
You heard him do Five Years
by D*v*d B*w*e?
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:31, Reply)
WASH YOUR MOUTH OUT

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:33, Reply)
I didn't say it!!!

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:37, Reply)
I have indeed
that is also good!

I think when they released Sleeping With Ghosts you could buy a copy of the album that had an extra disc of Covers - it had Robert Palmer's Johnny and Mary on it too - that was wicked! I bloody love Robert Palmer!
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:35, Reply)
Oh they do that song ACE!
I've got Bigmouth Strikes again.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:36, Reply)
They do indeed!
Ooooh good call! :D
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:38, Reply)
The Boy Least Likely To

(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:28, Reply)
How about...
Some Portishead?
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:44, Reply)
Their DJ Andy Smith put out a superb mix CD called The Document
there's a volume 2 as well I believe. The vinyl version had unmixed full tracks - I played that fucker to death when I used to DJ for money back in't day.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:48, Reply)
Beth Gibbons record with Rustin Man
is superb also... kinda sounds as if a smoked-out John Barry recorded an album with a smacked-up Billy Holiday.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 16:56, Reply)

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