What music do you put on when you truly want to 'escape'?

The VERVE

The Beatles. They make everything better.

Stan Getz

Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, KISS, Van Halen, Lynyrd Skynyrd

Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
Or
Madlib – Shades of Blue

Oooh, it’s all good…but I’m really diggin’ the jazz.

Head banging music. Any long haired bands from the 80’s. Extreme, White Snack, etc.

Yeah, White Snack – and that other great band Van Hamburger or Judas Peach.

sorry. couldn’t resist

Classical, always classical. Chopin usually.

I usually go for some Bruce juice. Nothing like the Boss for getting you up and dancing round the kitchen!

Bruce juice, good one!
Ben Kweller, that’s a new one on me, I will check it out.
Astro, lurve for Alan Parsons Project.

air france
dean martin
mgmt
ben kweller or bright eyes (my most multi-purpose music preference)
be your own pet (they’re pretty distracting)
soundtrack to alice in wonderland! how could you get any further away than that?

Jimmy Cliff, The Beatles, and The Alan Parsons Project.

Emiliana Torrini, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, City and Colour, Mazzy Star

The Killers or Weezer.

SoapChef- Lurve for telling me lurve for The Alan Parsons Project before I posted it.
(Yes. I know about the edit feature.)

soup, soap: What do you mean?

Disappear into the sounds? Any of Brian Eno’s ambient albums do that for me.

Aphex Twin, or Achillea, or Shpongle, or Transglobal Underground, or Deep Forest or Dead Can Dance.

Astro, soup, soap, I’ll answer to anything. ;0)
Pretty tricky huh? I have ESPN.
Astro, Now it appears, you have ESPN.

@cprevite oops… White Snake is what I meant!

Collective Soul Dosage and a mix of Three Dog Night, CCR, and a bunch of 60s/70s rock.

asmonet- 3DN is probably the most deserving group that has not been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

@Astro: Fucking right.

Jeremiah was a bull frog!
Was a good friend of mine.
I never understood a single word he said,
But I helped him a-drink his wine.
And he always had some mighty fine wine…

Techno….or A Prairie Home Companion. :o)

@chyna: I know. Just teasing.

@Chica, talk about eclectic taste!

Gregorian Chants

that’s so funny. I have sex to Gregorian Chants.

@cprevite. Isn’t that kind of sacreligious? ;0)

my 90’s playlist. Enter the… 90’s world.
Sorry I have an obsession about the 90s.

@SoapChef: Nah; Father Gallagher told me when I was an alter boy that…um, never mind. ;^)

Ahhhhhh cprevite, now I’ll have that mental image everytime I’m trying to relax! Thank goodness I have no face to match with the image, I’ll have to use my imagination.

@bythebay: That’s OK. You have sex to Stan Getz and we’ll call it even.

@ cprevite: It’s a deal!

Long concept albums
Dream Theater – Scenes From A Memory
Pink Floyd – The Wall
Neal Morse – ?
Neal Morse – Testimony
Neal Morse – Sola Scriptura
Pink Floyd – Animals
Transatlantic – SMPT:e
Transatlantic – Bridge Across Forever

And some songs:
Dream Theater – Octavarium
Dream Theater – In The Presence Of Enemies
Dream Theater – A Change Of Seasons
Dream Theater – Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence
Pink Floyd – Echoes
Symphony X – The Odyssey
Kraftwerk – Autobahn

I also love live albums, but i wont list all of them here.

That was the first Pink Floyd, lurve.

umm…Pink Floyd is included in my playlist. Their album “Shine On” was released in 1992 I believe….

Then belated lurve to you 90s kid. :0)

I have a playlist:

The Predatory Wasp of Palisades Park – Sufjan Stevens
Butterfly Nets – Bishop Allen
Say Yes – Elliott Smith
Firelight – Snow Patrol
Sur le Fil – Yann Tiersen
I Will Call You Lover Again – Loney, Dear
Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl – Broken Social Scene
The Dress Looks Nice on You – Sufjan Stevens
Alice – Tom Waits
Sea of Love – Cat Power
Jeanie’s Diary – Eels
Black Flowers – Yo La Tengo
Here Comes the Sun – Ben Harper
Dream a Little Dream of Me – the Mamas and the Papas
Eiffel Tower – Color Theory
You Were Meant for Me – Jewel
Wrap Your Arms Around Me – Barenaked Ladies
New Year’s Eve – Color Theory
Give It Up (Acoustic) – the Format
To Be Alone With You – Sufjan Stevens
Yesterday – the Beatles
Life on Mars – Seu Jorge
Shiver – Maximo Park
Mad World – Gary Jules
Aurora – Veruca Salt
4:35 AM – Gemma Hayes
Hundreds of Sparrows – Sparklehorse
Fire and Rain – James Taylor
Moving Pictures, Silent Films – Great Lake Swimmers
Haiti – the Arcade Fire
This Place is a Prison – The Postal Service
Warmest Part of the Winter – Voxtrot
Blackbird – the Beatles
Books Written for Girls – Camera Obscura
Peach, Plum, Pear – Final Fantasy
Love Doesn’t Last Too Long – the Weepies
Carolina in My Mind – James Taylor
Baby Can I Hold You – Tracy Chapman
Gotta Have You – The Weepies
Flight 180 – Bishop Allen
Snow Come Down – Lori Carson
Walk Away Renee – Elliott Smith
Think of You – Reeve Carney
Took You Two Years to Win My Heart – Final Fantasy
This Modern Love – Bloc Party
Please, Please, Please – The Smiths
The Boy That You Love – Aidan John Moffat
At Seventeen – Janis Ian
Casimir Pulaski Day – Sufjan Stevens
Nightswimming – R.E.M.
No More – the Old Believers
Winter Light – Linda Ronstadt
Goodbye – Emmylou Harris
Hallelujah – Jeffy Buckley
There’s a Fine, Fine Line – Avenue Q
First Love – NiTasha Jackson
Hey – Backseat Goodbye
Good Morning – Aidan John Moffat
Nothing Came Out – the Moldy Peaches
Love Song – the Cure
Colorblind – Counting Crows
I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You – Colin Hay
Leaving on a Jet Plane – Peter, Paul, and Mary
The Drugs Don’t Work – Ben Harper
Blame It On Me – Barenaked Ladies
I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You – Emiliana Torrini
I’ve Just Seen a Face – Slow Runner
Song for a Sleeping Girl – Devics
Naked as We Came – Iron & Wine
Far Away Blues – Joe Purdy
Lua – Bright Eyes
If You Want Blood – Mark Kozelek
Eyes on the Prize – M. Ward
Poke – Frightened Rabbit
Miss Misery – Elliott Smith

It’s about four and a half hours of complete escape.

@Tits, is it easy to find Elliott Smith’s version of Walk Away Renee? I so want to hear him sing that song.

@SuperMouse: I got mine from a friend, but if it helps, it is a live version from Left Banke and it is off an album (or what I’m assuming is an album, my friend labeled it) called “Complete Live Covers Compilation.” If you’re not opposed to filesharing, I could send it to you.

I just checked itunes and they don’t have it (they don’t even have it by the Left Banke – my favorite version with The Four Tops being a close second). That is one of my favorite songs in the entire world. That being said, I am not opposed to filesharing.

Green Day.

@SuperMouse – just lemme know where to send it.

@ titsmggee

I LOVE it lurve because I saw 90’s songs.

Motion City Soundtrack . . . them, and the other songs that my Pandora account plays. Just turn it up really loud and listen.

Jazz,Bach,Anathema,Radiohead,Portishead.Techno is great too.Gregorian chants are relaxing too, they help me a lot.