bands/albums you listen to alone in your flat with a cup of coffee on a chilly, overcast morning

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I know, I know. Eye rolls, etc. But Ned made me think of this when he brought up Chameleons this morning. Perfect band for this sort of day. Joy Division and overtly goth bands seem a tad too dark for what I have in mind.

What other bands and/or albums are essential under such circumstances?

Felt's "Cleansing the Antiseptic Beauty" and "Splendor of Fear" come to mind.

"Faith" and "Seventeen Seconds" also fit, but not "Pornography".

Anyone?

(No emo! We're talking about quiet and contemplative, not whining and moaning....)

(Although I gues maybe Black Heart Procession would almost pass...)

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Those circumstances hard to come by because of ...

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:33 (twenty years ago)

If I Could Only Remember My Name - David Crosby.
The West - Matmos.
The Milk-eyed Mender - Joanna Newsome.
Juju - Wayne Shorter.
Endless Summer. - Fennesz

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:39 (twenty years ago)

http://www.brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/discog/krank036.html

― Yawn (Wintermute), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:41 (twenty years ago)

max richter - the blue notebooks

― jergins (jergins), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:47 (twenty years ago)

nick cave and the bad seeds - murder ballads.

yo la tengo - and then nothing turned itself inside out

cat power - moon pix

electrelane - axes

kruder and dorfmeister - the k&d sessions

― Emily B (Emily B), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Mayo Thompson Corky's Debt to his Father

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:19 (twenty years ago)

boards of canada "geogaddi"
grizzly bear "horn of plenty"

― trick trat dat, Monday, 20 March 2006 22:26 (twenty years ago)

fennesz - endless summer
slowdive - i saw the sun
sly and the family stone - (all of them)

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:38 (twenty years ago)

this never happens since I proved my fertility however... if this house ever had a moment's solitude then Leftism or In Sides would do fine.

― winter testing (winter testing), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:59 (twenty years ago)

vladislav delay - anima. i probably mention this on ilm 2.7 times a
week.

― harshaw (jube), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:31 (twenty years ago)

other albums, maybe:

mad professor vs massive attack - no protection
cardigans - gran turismo
junior boys - last exit

― harshaw (jube), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:33 (twenty years ago)

Martin stephenson and the daintees Boat to Bolivia is perfect for this.

― ant, Monday, 20 March 2006 23:39 (twenty years ago)

'Felt Mountain' - Goldfrapp
'Hinterland' - Aim

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:50 (twenty years ago)

'Vespertine' - Bjork

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Monday, 20 March 2006 23:57 (twenty years ago)

Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Pavement - Brighten the Corners (skip track one)
Flying Saucer Attack - Chorus
Insides - Euphoria
Goldmund - Corduroy Road
The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F#A# Infinity

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:02 (twenty years ago)

Anima is great music to wait for subway trains by. I wrote a freelance piece on that album once, somewhere.

Chilly, overcast morning music:

Ghosts of the Great Highway (Sun Kil Moon)
Solo Piano (Philip Glass)
Ingenue (k.d. lang)
Music for Egon Schiele (Rachel's)
Le Pas du Chat Noir (Anouar Brahem)
Lady in Autumn (Billie Holiday)

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:29 (twenty years ago)

second vote for: Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
Lovesliescrushing - Bloweyelashwish

― van igloo (van smack), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 00:55 (twenty years ago)

Oh I forgot to mention Rachel's.

Right up there with Chameleons and Felt for me.

XPOST

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 01:05 (twenty years ago)

Jamie Lidell - Multiply
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
The Clientele - Suburban Light
Sigur Ros - ( )
Cat Power - The Greatest
Big Star - Radio City

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 01:17 (twenty years ago)

these are single songs actually:
Lindstrom - I Feel Space
The Beatles - Long, Long, Long

― youth problem (YouthProblem), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 01:28 (twenty years ago)

Messiaen - quatour pour la fin du temps
sy - evol
bar khokba

― jcartledge (jcartledge), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 01:31 (twenty years ago)

Multiply no waaaay man! 100% pure music for a summery dusk.

― harshaw (jube), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 01:33 (twenty years ago)

oh and...

Lullatone - Little Songs About Raindrops
Alejandra & Aeron - almost anything of theirs
Fridge - Happiness
Leonard Cohen - Bird On a Wire

― youth problem (YouthProblem), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 01:34 (twenty years ago)

Reggaeton

― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 02:46 (twenty years ago)

My Chemical Romance

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 02:47 (twenty years ago)

vladislav delay - anima. i probably mention this on ilm 2.7 times a week.

oh man! completely! 'entain', too.

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 02:51 (twenty years ago)

Tara Jane ONeil - In the Sun Lines

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 05:21 (twenty years ago)

Great thread, actually. It's now a chilly, rainy evening here, and this:

http://www.park.nl/park_cms/public/index.php?thisarticle=118

...is still doing my head in.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 05:22 (twenty years ago)

For me: George Harrison, All Things Must Pass, or either of the Billy Bragg-Wilco Mermaid Avenue albums.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 06:06 (twenty years ago)

Yeah nice weather, huh? We don't get enough of this down here (though March sure is trying to make up for a sunny January).

Going a little heavier now that we're into the evening- I'm on The Great Annihilator for the first time in a few years. "She Lives!" sounding perfect for a rainy night.

So does this thread mean I'm off your troll list, Ned?

XPOST

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 06:12 (twenty years ago)

sandy denny - north star grassman and the ravens
bridget st. john - songs for the gentle man

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 06:21 (twenty years ago)

Tarentel - Ephemera: Singles 99-2000

It's working right now at least.

― Elastique (Elastique), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:26 (twenty years ago)

kate bush - the hounds of love

― dr x o'skeleton, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Magazine

― Ben Dot (1977), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:32 (twenty years ago)

Tones on Tail
John Cale - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

― Dave AKA Dave (dave225.3), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Joni Mitchell Hejira

― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Spinanes Manos

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:35 (twenty years ago)

sorry folks .. but for me this is currently the new (and its soon to be actually released!) album by grand mal - love is the best con in town.

http://www.newyorknighttrain.com/recordings/loveis.html

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 15:42 (twenty years ago)

days just like today in charlotte, in fact

― Mitya (mitya), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Lau Nau-Kuutarha
Lichens bootlegs
Leonard Cohen-I'm Your Man

― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

dar1a otm

― jergins (jergins), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:11 (twenty years ago)

more!

Wintersleep - Wintersleep
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Deaf Center - Pale Ravine
Vince Watson - Sublimina
DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo - Ki-Oku

― harshaw (jube), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Are there any shoegazer-type records (as of yet unmentioned) that fit here?

Most of the albums that come to mind have a little too much SOUND to work in this frame.

Loveless, Whirlpool, Souvlaki just a little too noisy.

Pale Saints, maybe?

― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Closedown's one album works on this front.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:43 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Slowdive's Pygmalion would work pretty well

― Baaderonixx rides the neon lights (baaderonixx), Sunday, 14 May 2006 10:24 (twenty years ago)

Sam Prekop

― Mark (MarkR), Sunday, 14 May 2006 10:46 (twenty years ago)

Low, Rodan, June of 44, Palace Music.

― paulhw (paulhw), Sunday, 14 May 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

some kind of THE GAP comp for boring people who wear boring clothes and sit around their flats sipping coffee, being boring, wearing clothes by THE GAP and talking about the weather and basically being really boring.

― ath (ath), Sunday, 14 May 2006 21:58 (twenty years ago)

so like, tortoise

― ath (ath), Sunday, 14 May 2006 21:58 (twenty years ago)

le Trio Infernal - inventeiesteargumento

http://www.myspace.com/musikcafe

― membrana, Sunday, 14 May 2006 22:08 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

'Manos' is such a spot-on pick - it really owns that mood

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Sunday, 13 May 2012 18:53 (fourteen years ago)

sorry folks .. but for me this is currently the new (and its soon to be actually released!) album by grand mal - love is the best con in town.
http://www.m.com/recordings/loveis.html

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, March 21, 2006 3:42 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^

replace coffee with wine, and this statement persists.

― mark e, Sunday, 13 May 2012 19:32 (fourteen years ago)

"The Point" by Nilsson

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 13 May 2012 19:33 (fourteen years ago)

"Ocean Beach" - Red House Painters
"White Light" - Gene Clark
"Directions In Music" - Directions

― Mule, Sunday, 13 May 2012 22:03 (fourteen years ago)

The latter is especially great if you spend the chilly, overcast morning drinking your coffee on a train.

― Mule, Sunday, 13 May 2012 22:05 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

Spinanes weather today

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 10 June 2013 07:23 (twelve years ago)

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