Morning music?

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I generally don't like mornings too much, all the more so when I have to get up by an alarm clock. If there is any time of day I do not want mellow music, it is generally first thing in the morning. Abrasive music works well then, for me. Reggaeton makes pretty good morning music. (The beat is comforting (to me), but the rest of it is often abrasive.)

Do you have any special morning music needs?

(I think we talked about this before--I'm sure we talked about this beore, because we've talked about everything before--but I can't find that thread.)

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 28 August 2006 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

the first track I listened to today was Vitalic's 'You Are My Sun' which kinda worked.

Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 28 August 2006 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link

(I have to modify this a little: it has to be abrasive, but grounding, so rhythm is good. Abrasive floaty avant-garde won't do.)

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 28 August 2006 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i was listening to the stonemans family and their excellent album from 1970 called *In All Honesty* on RCA. great creedence covers, the great tom t.hall song "hang them all", a townes van zandt song "i'll be here in the morning". just a great record. now i'm listening to the go-betweens. metal and shells. specifically "man o' sand to girl o' sea".

scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 28 August 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

now i'm listening to *Romanceros Judio-Espanoles* by Sarah Gorby. And Jose Luis on guitar. Sarah sings a mean ladino. i like hearing this in the morning.

scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 28 August 2006 11:50 (seventeen years ago) link

right now: Andrew Hill's Smokestack avant/accessible jazz piano quartet w/two basses (no waiting) any minute now: "DAD! what is this stuff you're listening to..."

m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 28 August 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

In my senior year of college I remember getting up to the first New Pornographers album and a Rainer Maria album a lot. The NPs work great, energetic-get-you-on-your-way but not too jarring.

Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 28 August 2006 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link

"I'm a Thug" by Trick Daddy

Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 28 August 2006 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Bobby Gentry's voice is pur morning glory...

hank (hank s), Monday, 28 August 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Gimme some sweet, sweet Antonio Carlos Jobim with which to take my coffee.
Oh, and The Polyphonic Spree's first album seems suited for little else, come to think of it.

ryborg3k (Badarts), Monday, 28 August 2006 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

The Tilly and the Wall albums!

clodia pulchra (emo by proxy), Monday, 28 August 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

On and off for the last 5 years I've woken up with the Dead Milkmen's "Serrated Edge" in my head.

derekerdman (Derek Erdmany), Monday, 28 August 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Go to sleep with Mogwai Young Team on the stereo, wake up, skip to 'With Portfolio', turn volume up, press play, and then throw remote-control across room for maximum getting-out-of-bed incentive.

Zeno Piston's Cruel Cartoon (Haberdager), Monday, 28 August 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i like mellow for the morning, but even within that there's nuance(lounge-era Stereolab is for Saturday mornings, Don Williams works on a Monday, etc., Barbara Lewis works just about anytime...)

the most 'abrasive' I want to get is the beatles generally.
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tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 28 August 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i listen to Califone's "The Orchids," over and over.

youth problem (YouthProblem), Monday, 28 August 2006 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

"Springtime Can Kill You" by Jolie Holland
Feels by Animal Collective (at least the first few tracks, because I have to leave, yo)

always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll take mellow over abrasive when I first wake up anyday.

Bizarrely, this is one of my favorite reissue CDs of 2006, honest!:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/morningmusic

xhuxk (xheddy), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 01:43 (seventeen years ago) link

John Fahey.

also, early Jazz Butcher.

sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 01:45 (seventeen years ago) link

For me, hearing mellow music first thing in early in the morning is like being given some sort of gas to put you to sleep. It just seems perverse. I have bothered to wake up, do not subvert my efforts.

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, but music that's jarring in the morning is worse. I refuse to be jarred out of consciousness. I resent that. I like music that's plenty engaging at a low volume.

always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Go to sleep with Mogwai Young Team on the stereo, wake up, skip to 'With Portfolio', turn volume up, press play, and then throw remote-control across room for maximum getting-out-of-bed incentive

Great idea. Aphex Twin's "Ventolin" or something by Merzbow would be even more effective!

less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 02:17 (seventeen years ago) link

or something by Merzbow

Which thing? "Ventolin" is way worse than most Merzbow.

always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 03:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i remember my sophomore year of college i would wake up to sonic youth's "sister" for a good chunk of the first semester. that or le tigre's self titled, or anything fugazi, for a brisk walk to class. i am really, really, really not a morning person, so i do prefer the more upbeat or angry side of things as i'm trying not to crash my car on my commute to work.

however, if i'm allowed the luxury of sleeping in and waking up on my own and puttering around for a few hours, certain artists/albums are very morning to me. joni mitchell. patrick wolf. electrelane. sufjan stevens. "pet sounds", for some reason, has always been a morning album to me. so has the dismemberment plan's "emergency and i", though now that can be a night time album for me as well. yo la tengo's "and then nothing turned itself inside out". bowie's "hunky dory", elliott smith's earlier albums are very winter mornings to me. and so on.

Emily B (Emily B), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Ideal is something that starts mellow and slowly gets ... less mellow to ease into being awake slowly.
But I prefer to be coddled to being kicked out of bed into the cold and unfriendly morning.

clodia pulchra (emo by proxy), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 07:41 (seventeen years ago) link

joanna newsom is good in the morning

el juan (el juan), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link

something that starts mellow and slowly gets ... less mellow to ease into being awake slowly

this is usually my strategy. this morning it was: eva quartet -> gesualdo -> minimal house -> acidy minimal house -> ?

Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought this was going to be about morning musume

ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know why, but I think Pacific by 808 State would be really good to wake up too.

Thomas Mehlt (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 03:06 (seventeen years ago) link

something that starts mellow and slowly gets ... less mellow to ease into being awake

the embodiment of this ideal, for me, is smallville by tobias thomas

W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link

"I don't know why, but I think Pacific by 808 State would be really good to wake up too."

yes!

nod off to Chill Out (KLF), wake up to Pacific State...

hank (hank s), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link

As xhuxk alluded to earlier, there is a disco subgenre known as morning music (also known as "sleaze" to some). This website will tell you all about it:

http://www.discomusic.com/forums/disco-music-70s-80s/8822-morning-music-vs-sleaze-debate.html

I love how sleaze is distinguished from the merely sleazy, i.e. The Skatt Bros. magisterial "Walk The Night" (and, one presumes, The Village People's Live and Sleazy).

I made myself a morning music/sleaze CD. Here's the tracklisting:

Bucks Fizz - I Hear Talk 4:37
Chris Rea - I Can Hear (Your Heartbeat) 5:26
Detroit Emeralds - Feel The Need In Me 3:43
Patti Jo - Make Me Believe In You 6:16
Buddy Miles - Pull Yourself Together 4:21
Bionic Boogie - Hot Butterfly 5:21
Lamont Dozier - Take Off Your Make Up 4:48
Johnny Bristol - Take Me Down 5:08
Stevie B - Midnight Music 6:47
Miquel Brown - Close to Perfection 3:55
Novecento - Movin' On 3:44
Gazebo - I Like Chopin 4:05
RAF - Self Control 2:50
Savage - Don't Cry Tonight 6:43
Any Trouble - Touch and Go 4:36
Rose Laurens - American Love 6:48

Kevin John Bozelka (Kevin John Bozelka), Saturday, 2 September 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

augustus pablo - valley of jehosophat

still the best way to spend the first hour of the day.

Do you wake up to music each day?

pablo (brother loves dub), Sunday, 3 September 2006 03:16 (seventeen years ago) link

stuff that generally appeals to me in the morning:

al green
billie holiday
elliott smith (s/t, either/or)
blur (parklife!)

Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Sunday, 3 September 2006 06:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Rhys Chatham - "Drastic Classicism"

Yeah. Bracing.

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 09:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Orishas - "Represent"
Tego Calderon - "Plante Bandera"
Voltio - "Julito Marana"

(I siwtched off Free Radicals because it was getting too inaudible and then too aleatoric or something.)

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 10:10 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...
Polaco (Featuring Freeway): Soñando

R_S (RSLaRue), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Incredible String Band worked well for me today. Especially The Minotaur's Song (check the chorus:
"I'm strong as the earth from which I'm born
He's strong as the earth from which he's born
I can't dream well because of my horns
He can't dream well because of his horns"

Andi Headphones (Andi Headphones), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

nine years pass...

ten years ago or so a friend told me Keith Jarrett was great morning music and that's been true for me - played some very early Bill Evans this morning and that worked nicely, too, I feel like piano music is great in the morning, and so's a lot of late 70s soul - Rufus, for example. But today Nurse With Wound's Man With the Woman Face is kinda perfect too. This thread has been asleep for ten years; what do people like in the morning these days?

though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 12:34 (seven years ago) link

sade

marcos, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link

for like, cloudy gray mornings

marcos, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link

anything with a rhodes is good morning music too, this morning i listened to some gil scott heron & brian jackson stuff on my way to work

marcos, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link

Was reading that as de sade for a moment and thinking, that's a bold start to the day

Bill Evans' opiated tinkling perfect for Sunday mornings, def

Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 14:25 (seven years ago) link

I've always felt the title track of Astral Weeks sounds best in the morning, when you're alone and everyone else is still asleep.

Jazzbo, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link

suzanne ciani's - seven waves
herbie hancock - sunlight, mr hands
random vaporwave mixes
steve roach - structures from silence

clouds, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 16:27 (seven years ago) link

bryter layter

F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link

I still think a lot of the music that most people think of as morning music is like having chloroform held over one's face. I need encouragement to wake up, not something that will put me back under or keep me suspended in an in-between state.

_Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

_Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 16:57 (seven years ago) link

my default appearance is somewhere between awake and half asleep

state of mind is kind of a dreamy state, like watching everything go by fast and just zeroing in on the details every so often

F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 17:06 (seven years ago) link

hmmm

roedelius - tape archive 1973-1978
keith jarrett - the koln concert
bill evans/jim hall - undercurrent
andras schiff - bach: goldberg variations
miles davis - in a silent way
triola - triola im funftonraum
jd emmanuel - wizards
various - history of indian film music (disc 1)
voices from the lake - s/t
james ferraro - last american hero
hafese halefaye - zemana getem derasi

brimstead, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link

I still think a lot of the music that most people think of as morning music is like having chloroform held over one's face. I need encouragement to wake up, not something that will put me back under or keep me suspended in an in-between state.

― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, October 19, 2016 9:52 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's about balance, an easing into consciousness..it's not about drone albums and "ambient" hypnosis

brimstead, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 20:02 (seven years ago) link

whatever gets your chakhras flowing

brimstead, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 20:03 (seven years ago) link

brimstead OTM

Ross, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link

i love brimstead's list (what a shock right)

clouds, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 21:20 (seven years ago) link

ferraro's iAsia and clear are good morning music

clouds, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 21:21 (seven years ago) link

bill evans/jim hall - undercurrent

this also works as late night music for me, but whatevs - I get a lil buzz off any list that contains this and Voices From The Lake

calzino, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 21:53 (seven years ago) link

Susan Alcorn - Soledad
Satie's Gymnopedies (probably obvious or corny to some but fuiud)
Lee Hazelwood - Love $ Other Crimes
Ahmad Jamal - Happy Moods
Mal Waldron - Plays Eric Satie
Duke Ellington - The Far East Suite

calzino, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 22:05 (seven years ago) link

brimstead that is a great great a.m. list

though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 23 October 2016 23:15 (seven years ago) link


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