Do you have a 'comfort album'?

"With the Beatles" or "Help!" maybe. Or just early The Beatles. It's such jolly good fun without trying to be. The feelgood vibe is infectious.

 

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Summerteeth, both by Wilco

 

Hmmm...a "comfort" album. I don't know, I never thought of it that way. So probably something that reminds me of better times, lifts my spirits and I can never get sick of. That would mean to me personally, a myriad of Elvis Presley albums.

And...the entire Zeppelin catalog.

 

Sugar Ros - Takk

 

Abbey Road. Cleanses the mind.

 

Surf's Up by the Beach Boys. It's such an innocent but emotional record, there's always a song on there to cheer me up or a song that gets how I'm feeling. As long as I replace Student Demonstration Time with Fourth of July.

Other records I turn to are Odessey and Oracle by the Zombies, In a Silent Way by Miles Davis, Ocean Rain by Echo and the Bunnymen, Heaven or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins, Laughing Stock by Talk Talk... Any album I like can be turned into a comfort album, I suppose!

 

This is odd but anything by Roxy Music (except Avalon).

 

Cheap Trick - Rockford. GREAT power pop album. Relaxing fun.

 

Hejira - Joni Mitchell

 

Moody Blues- Children's,Children's, children
U2 - Unforgettable Fire
The Church - Starfish
Miles Davis - Porgy & Bess
Wes Montgomery - Bumpin

 

Spiritual Unity, Albert Ayler. It's like church music to my ears.
The second side of Games Guitars Play, Harvey Mandel. Always takes the edge off.
Another Green World, Brian Eno. Troubles? What troubles?
Tonight's the Night, Neil Young. The ultimate late night chilling out LP for me.

 

Beatles - For Sale
Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
XTC - English Settlement

 

Why oh why does she treat me like a snowman hurrrahhhh!

 

Breakin' Away - Al Jarreau

 

i use to have one...sigur ros - brackets album

but not anymore.... now i just sit down look at my collection and look through it until an album speaks to me.

 

Carpenters - The Singles 1969-1973.

 

Richard Hawley - Coles Corner. Always gets rid of the stress.

 

Tastes like sweet country pie.

 

Neutral Milk Hotel's Aeroplane

 

Steve Forbert - What Kinda Guy?

 

Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind

 

Van Morrison - St. Dominic's Preview
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
Phoebe Snow - Eponymous
Nick Drake - Bryter Latyer
Tom Waits - Heart of Saturday Night
Ike Quebec- Soul Samba
Ben Webster - Soulville
Stan Getz - Jazz Samba Encore! with Luis Bonfa
Joe Henderson - Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn

Those are just a few, there are plenty more.

 

Charlotte Greig - At Llangennith
R.EM. - Out of Time
David Bowie - BBC Radio Theatre London, June 27 2000

 

Generally, anything that can be described as "autumnal" seems to do the trick for me.

Songs from the Wood by Jethro Tull, for instance. I look at that album cover while I listen and I can smell the campfire burning in the crisp autumn air.

 

For some reason I find The Lemonheads' It's A Shame About Ray as comfortable as an old shoe.