What are the softest music acts you like?

Soft Works

 

Soft Bounds

 

The Carpenters
Bread

 

I love easy listening standards like "The shadow of your smile", "Fly me to the moon" and "Autumn leaves"

 

What soft music acts do I like?

I'm no longer afraid to admit it. I'm coming out of the shadows. I love almost all yacht rock.

That felt good to say.

 

Yes on both.

Agree w/Big Calm & I also have Blood Like Lemonade...the same female singer, Skye is on both.

Adding:
Shawn Colvin
Mazzy Star
Cocteau Twins
Diana Krall
Alison Krauss in that I have Raising Sand w/Robert Plant
Ricki Lee Jones, particularly Naked Songs, live acoustic performance
Aldous Harding
Laura Marling

 

From my point of view, this is Karen Carpenter’s best vocal performance!

 

I love me some Herb Alpert and the TJB

 

Agreed. I actually really like soft rock and easy listening in general.

 

Come Softly to Me by the Fleetwoods, soft enuff?

 

Lucy Wainwright Roche

 

Nick DeCaro
Roger Nichols and The Small Circle of Friends
The Free Design
Johnny Harris

 

I only have CD-R copies of the first Cyrkle album and The Minx OST as well as a 45 of Red Rubber Ball. Their records never show up in the UK. I really like them though.

 

I'm a big fan of guitarist Eric Gale's (not to be confused with Eric Gales) silky smooth jazz/R&B/soul stylings.

 

That prairie girl, she's as hard as nails.

 

Mazzy Star

 

All metal, all the time. \m/

 

Sade also has the soft, mellow sound. She may not be true "rock", but I think she fits the vibe. As does a lot of Norah Jones' discography. Both Sade and Norah have the calming sound I love.

 

Michael Franks

 

I don't really like hard rock and I like a lot of '60s big hits, minor hits and not-even-close-to-hits that would probably be considered "soft".

How about the '60s-'70s Moody Blues, to name one?

 

I am not sure where to draw the line at what is “soft” here. On a spectrum including the hardest music I like, the Beatles and the Band would both be much closer to the soft end...

Is Mazzy Star really soft? I guess I can see it.

 

I kept thinking of some favorites like Darryl Hall & John Oates and Dusty Springfield, but then I thought otherwise. I guess they can be seen/heard that way on some songs. Feels like they're too soulful. I'm guessing Gordon Lightfoot fits.

 

I guess so, but I don’t think of him that way until some of his ‘80s output.

 

There's nothing I like that could be categorized solely as easy listening. The closest might be something like the Platters. Some of the early country-pop I listen to such as Patsy Cline is pretty soft, but not consistently.