<p>So? What’s your favorite music to relax to?</p>
<p>Mine is Emmy Rossum’s “Inside Out” album. Her voice is incredible, and the songs…man. I could listen to them alllll day.</p>
<p>For relaxation - classical, but I rarely want to listen to music to relax. I mostly listen to music to make working at my computer and writing code more tolerable but then I only listen to fast music - mostly rock or oldies. I don’t like slow music of any kind - even slow classical.</p>
<p>Offspring (among others). Like ucsd<em>ucla</em>dad, fast chord-laden music it makes writing code go easier.</p>
<p>10,000 Maniacs, Roseanne Cash, Dylan’s Nashville Skyline, James Talley, Cowboy Junkies, Simon and Garfunkel, Coldplay.</p>
<p>I also like classical for relaxing, or occasionally as background music while working. Other favorites include Chris Tomlin, Newsboys, Michael W Smith, Twila Paris. When I’m in a nostalgic mood: Simon and Garfunkel, Moody Blues, Gordon Lightfoot, just for a few…</p>
<p>Chopin solo piano music.</p>
<p>The great instrumentalist Yanni. </p>
<p>What’s interesting is before Yanni was Yanni, he was classically trained pianist, then he toured with Russian rocks bands, and then all over, even include bayou music in Louisiana, to integrate all that subliminally into his own brand of music.</p>
<p>I listen to a lot of classical music. The specifics depend on my mood. I do have a Celtic CD I put on every night while I fall asleep (which I think is a great thing to do, by the way, because your body becomes trained to fall asleep to that music), but I don’t listen to it at other times of the day. Often I play Chopin like Originaloog, but other times I pick out Bach, Ponce, Mozart, Vivaldi, Salzedo, Tchaikovsky, Schubert, etc… I put on Satie’s Gymnopedies sometimes or Schumann’s Carnaval, or even Rite of Spring. I also really like I Wonder as I Wander. </p>
<p>If I want to relax I avoid pieces that I studied but struggled with or never perfected. It brings back discouraging, stressful feelings. On the other hand, it’s sometimes very comforting to listen to pieces that I’ve studied and know very well.</p>
<p>Enya. </p>
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<p>Mari</p>
<p>Norah Jones</p>
<p>ZZ Top…</p>
<p>lafalum - Enya is always my first choice when I go for massages! That way, when I play it at home, it helps me relax when I need to wind down.</p>
<p>I second Chopin…and while at it Debussey, Satie, Tavener, Gorecki, Bryars: At home.</p>
<p>In the truck/car: Emil</p>
<p>REM, Beck, acoustic Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Earth, Mogwai, The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Interpol, Dave Matthews, Jose Gonzalez, Fiona Apple, The Beatles, The Album Leaf, Bo Hansson, Benton Falls, Nirvana, Andrew Bird, Sigur Ros, Andrew Kenny, Perkins Wood, Luka Bloom, Shane Bartell, Doves, Jesse Cook, Massive Attack, Portishead, Paco Pena, Devendra Banhart, Ben Harper, Beth Orton, Williamson and many more…</p>
<p>Eric Clapton Unplugged and a Frank Sinatra compilation</p>
<p>I don’t know if I can give a link so I will just suggest you google pandora if you don’t already know about this site. You can create personal radio stations. It is SO cool!</p>
<p>If I’ve had a tough day at work, I listen to Enya in the car on the way home. It never fails to relax me by the time I get home!</p>