Top 3 "Sit Back and Chill" Albums.

[yakko]

Here are my top 10 albums to chill with.


1) KLF - Chill Out
2) The Orb - Live 93
3) Various Artists - Counterforce
4) Portishead - [P]NYC Live at Roseland Ballroom
5) Kitaro - The Light Of The Spirit
6) XTC - Skylarking
7) SETI - Pharos
8) Voodoo Child - The End Of Everything
9) Zen Cowboys - Electric Mistress
10) The Lost Continentals - Moonshine & Martinis

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: nater
I think "chill" music is rather relative to the individual.

Yup, pretty much.

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Check out ESL Music for some good chillout material...anything by Thievery Corporation, Desmond Williams, K&D etc. fits my bill...

What he said. I love Thievery Corporation, Kruder and Dorfmeister and Nightmares on Wax for good chill music. Excellent to listen to while high as well.

With that in mind, here are some of my recommendations:

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Nightmares On Wax - Carboot Soul

Nightmares On Wax - Smoker's Delight

Kruder and Dorfmeister - The K & D Sessions

Thievery Corporation - The Mirror Conspiracy

Thievery Corporation - Abductions and Reconstructions

Future Sound of London - Lifeforms (either the double CD album or the single CD album Lifeforms Paths are excellent)

Delerium - Spheres

EDIT: Also check out Groove Salad and Drone Zone for good streaming audio stations. Groove Salad is pretty kick-back chill stuff and Drone Zone is straight ambient/atmospheric stuff. I like Drone Zone for when I'm writing.

Oh, almost forgot. This sounds funny, but the Dungeon Keeper soundtrack ROCKS. Old game from a few years back that had an awesome ambient/atmospheric soundtrack. You could put the CD in any CD player and listen to the soundtrack. Good for about a 1/2 hour's worth of music. I still play the game on occasion or listen to the music by itself a lot.

 

[Maetryx]

Let me throw out a few lesser known titles that fit this bill:

Sky Cries Mary - A Return to the Inner Experience
Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus - The Gift of Tears/Mirror
The Choir - Circle Slide

 

[Gnurb]

Originally posted by: UglyCassanova
Oh fvck, how could I forget Nick Drake??? Anything by him is good.

Nick Drake, definitely.
I like Elliot Smith, Belle and Sebastian, Kings of Convenience, Mogwai as well.

 

[WhiteKnight77]

Originally posted by: NewSc2
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

 

[conjur]

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Van Morrison - Moondance

 

[amnesiac]

Morcheeba - Charango
Morcheeba - Big Calm

Two off the top of my head.

 

[ThaGrandCow]

Pink Floyd - The Wall
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Bob Marley - Chant Down Babylon
**Bonus**Sublime - 40 Oz. To Freedom

 

[deftron]

Portishead - Dummy
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks

honorable mentions..

Leonard Cohen - The Songs of Leonard Cohen
Radiohead - OK Computer
Roberta Flack - First Take
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
T. Rex - Electric Warrior
Velvet Underground & Nico
Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66

 

[deftron]

Anyone who likes Nick Drake should check out an artist called
Iron and Wine

 

[BatmanNate]

The Doors' first record was pretty chill.

 

[Zugzwang152]

RHCP's By The Way is my fave chill album nowadays

 

[ROTC1983]

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
RHCP's By The Way is my fave chill album nowadays

Hmm, you are going to let me have to borrow that sometime

 

[Acanthus]

Deftones - White Pony
RHCP - By the way
Portishead - (cant remember title)

Also doubles as great sex music!

 

[deftron]

yes it does.

 

[zippy]

Originally posted by: dolph

Originally posted by: tweakmm
5) Beastie Boys - The In Sound From Way Out!

very, VERY good chill album. all instrumental jazz, incredibly good.

Agreed. Beasties rule.

 

[DigDug]

KLF - Chill Out
The Orb - U.F.Orb
The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Muziq - Muziq v. Auteurs [Mindblowing!]
Dead Can Dance - Towards the Within
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
Kitaro - Silk Road Fantasy
Tangerine Dream - Canyon Dreams
Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
Pub - Summer
Red House Painters - Songs for a Blue Guitar
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Childen
Autechre - Amber

More Ambient:

Peter Gabriel - Passion
Peter Namlook - Air II <--phenomenal
Robert Rich - Trances and Drones
Steve Roach - Dust to Dust
Adam Shaikh - Drift

 

[Actaeon]

Originally posted by: jonmullen
any goo goo dolls or Weezer

I was thinking my number 1 pick...

Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl

Great album.

 

[basara318]

Without a doubt;

Om Lounge series 1-7

LTJ bukem logical progression sessions 1-8

enjoy!

 

[slackerinabox]

Originally posted by: fanerman91
Zero 7 - Simple Things
Previously stated Miles Davis albums

Simple things is an awesome album.. good call

 

[Supermercado]

I like anything by Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, John Mayer, and Coldplay. That's pretty much what I listen to when relaxing.

 

[ElFenix]

carl cox - phuture 2000

 

[UglyCasanova]

Anything by Brian Eno.