Best Chill Out Albums of All Time?
#26
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If you want to wander around some lesser known downtempo, here's a guy who compiles a pretty decent collection of links to legal free downloads from various artists. I've found a lot of cool stuff from him.
http://bahgheera.com/
http://bahgheera.com/
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my #1 chill out song of all time...
my #1 chill out song of all time...
#30
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I also enjoy Enigma music as somebody else posted.
I'll add a band I would have never heard of if not for a mis-shipment by an eBay seller - Era. Liked the one mistake CD so much I ended up buying two other releases. Style is like Enya and Enigma, but better.
#31
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I don't know if they're the best of all time but I really like Eddie Vedder's solo material. I'm a big Pearl Jam fan to begin with but Eddie's solo stuff is very awesome too. it's just nice mellow and laid back listening. Both the Into the Wild soundtrack and Ukulele Songs are frequently played by me. I also really like She & Him. Zooey Deschanel is one of the sexiest women in my opinion and I also happen to really like her as a singer. I listen to their albums a lot too.
#32
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If anyone else is a fan of Into the Wild I highly recommend Sully Erna's Avalon. Awesome 'chill' album. This might be a drawback for some, but he's the lead singer of Godsmack, but the album is kinda in the same mold as Into the Wild (i.e. slower, mellow side project full of songs that would never fly on a Godsmack album) Probably my most played album of the past few years. I wish he'd do a new one.
In regards to Era, you can't go wrong starting with any of his albums. The style doesn't change like Enigma did, so you can jump anywhere. Era 2 is probably my favorite, if I had to choose.
#33
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Definitely Enigma, Delerium, and Morcheeba.
I would also throw in
Conjure One
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Supreme Beings of Leisure
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Blue Foundation - Sweep of Days
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I would also throw in
Conjure One
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Supreme Beings of Leisure
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Blue Foundation - Sweep of Days
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#34
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I select Tangerine Dream's 1974 album Phaedra for tracks like these...
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Basically everything by Tycho, but I have a soft spot for Dive:
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#41
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Yup.
Others:
The Orb: UFOrb
Bill Withers: Still Bill
Everything but the Girl: Walking Wounded
Gregory Isaacs: Night Nurse
Brian Eno: Apollo
Wes Montgomery & Jimmy Smith: The Dynamic Duo
Kruder and Dorfmeister: The K&D Sessions
Pantha Du Prince: Black Noise
Warpaint: S/T
Air: Moon Safari
Boards of Canada: Music has the Right to Children
Jackson Browne: Running on Empty
Marvin Gaye: What's Goin' On
Nick Drake: Bryter Layter
Harmonia: DeLuxe
Others:
The Orb: UFOrb
Bill Withers: Still Bill
Everything but the Girl: Walking Wounded
Gregory Isaacs: Night Nurse
Brian Eno: Apollo
Wes Montgomery & Jimmy Smith: The Dynamic Duo
Kruder and Dorfmeister: The K&D Sessions
Pantha Du Prince: Black Noise
Warpaint: S/T
Air: Moon Safari
Boards of Canada: Music has the Right to Children
Jackson Browne: Running on Empty
Marvin Gaye: What's Goin' On
Nick Drake: Bryter Layter
Harmonia: DeLuxe
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I like the way Hokeyboy thinks. When I need to chill out, I go modal:
Not familiar with that specific album, but the track list looks pretty similar to the one I listen to (of my many Guaraldi albums, of course):
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I was all lined up to see The Blue Nile at Georgetown University in support of Hats in 1989 or so when they bailed on the tour due to extreme stage fright. Man, but I was bummed.
I do love me some Boards of Canada. "Roygbiv" is one of my all-time favorite songs. I'm also real fond of Trans Canada Highway.
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Yep, I have two or three Guaraldi Peanuts CDs so those tracks are really icing on the greatest hits compilations. Cast Your Fate to the Wind is supreme chill-out.
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Stage fright at a university?! As a social phobic I can relate to that, but that's one of the reasons I'm not a rock star/musician; another being that it's simply not my bag.
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Speaking of Boards Of Canada, I think their 2013 work Tomorrow's Harvest is the best electronic album of that year. It blows away most of the generic material that keeps getting pumped out.