Musical Stress Balls?
 

What album or albums seriously relieve stress for you, or are most effective for calming you?

Petra's Unseen Power does the trick for me.

Something I can get lost in and help take my mind off of things really helps, any genre really. One of the best examples (especially that piano solo):

I don't know what Musical stress balls, but this musical stress cats.

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If I need to work out some anger I'd go with Suicidal Tendencies first album but if I need to calm the **** down I usually go with this.

Brian Eno - Neroli

This for me:
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My two go-to albums for relaxing and chilling out...

Good choice.

I usually break out some Enya, or some EJ.

At the moment, Fleetwood Mac. In the past, it's been Simon and Garfunkel. They're like comfort food for the ears. If I'm pissed, classic punk like the Sex Pistols.

I don't know what stress balls are, or how they compare to stress stones... but Gustov Holst automatically channels whatever stress I'm feeling, into something more productive...

"The Planets, Full Suite"

Let's see...here are a few that come to mind:

Ambulance - The Curse of Vale Do Lobo
Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children, Geogaddi
Foscil - Residential
Pinback - Pinback, Blue Screen Life
Pink Floyd - Meddle, Obscured by Clouds
Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork, Heaven's Door OST
Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, Bookends, Bridge Over Troubled Water
Sunken Foal - Fallen Arches
Tipper - Surrounded
Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze

This has reminded me that a lot of the music I listen to is relatively high anxiety. And I'm an anxious person. Maybe I should listen to more ambient and mellow stuff. But I like rock n roll dammit!

:beer:

Definitely these! adding a beer makes them even more relaxing. :)



Not all songs in this OST make me feel calm, but most do. :P

Agnes Obel, Soley, Florence, etc.. also stuff like Joe Cocker and Jim Croce.

Spiderland by Slint is my guardian angel.

A whole bunch of Tipper albums fall into this category for me. I love them for their ability to transport me somewhere else. Broken Soul Jamboree is probably my favorite for that. Makes me feel like I'm living on the spaceship in the movie Silent Running.