Those Clear Your Mind type of albums

[garcia3441]

Jimmy Buffett works every time for me.

 

[metalfiend666]

A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms

 

[Thomas]

Any album by Smashing Pumpkins or A Perfect Circle.

 

[DelfinoPie]

Anything by Tool or Satch
Marty Friedman - Introduction and Scenes
Aphex Twin - Ambient Works Volume II
Devin Townsend - Terria
Dave Martone - A Demon's Dream
Bill Laswell - Panthalassa
Buckethead - Colma and Electric Tears

All good for napping to

 

[oompa]

psy/ambient does it for me.
shpongelesque music or whatnot.

 

[neon_black88]

Zakk Wylde - Book Of Shadows
Massive Attack - Anything
Meshuggah - Catch 33

Usually I fall asleep when doing this but I still kind of listen, and get into it in a different kind of way than normal.

 

[Shawn]

I'll have to agree with you on Smashing Pumpkin's Saimese Dream

Lately, King's X's Dogman and Ogre Tones has been very good for clearing my head. Eric Johnson's Venus Isle and Joe Satriani's Crystal Planet too.

 

[Shaman]

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

WYWH along with Dark Side of the Moon are perfect when I need to relax.
David Gilmour's On an Island is great for that purpose too.

Others are: Blackmore's Night, Arcturus, Winds, A Perfect Circle, Ulver

Oh, and of course Devin Townsends solo material!

 

[stuz719]

The KLF - "Chill Out".

 

[FortePenance]

Psyopus - Ideas of Reference.

Nah, not really. >.>

Maybe Kind of Blue by Miles Davis.

 

[telecaster90]

Miles Davis.

John Coltrane-A Love Supreme
Dream Theater-A Change of Seasons
Rush-A Farewell to Kings

 

[garcia3441]

Some James Taylor

 

[TomAwesome]

Well, I really like these kinds of albums, so sorry if I list more than I should:

A Perfect Circle
Anathema - A Fine Day to Exit
Cold - 13 Ways to Bleed on Stage, Year of the Spider
Deftones - Around the Fur, White Pony
Finger Eleven - Tip, The Greyest of Blue Skies
Incubus - Make Yourself
Yoko Kanno
Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
NIN - The Fragile
The Notwist - Neon Golden
Opeth - Damnation (for some reason, this is my "driving home" album)
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia, Stupid Dream
Smashing Pumpkins - MCIS, Adore, Machina, Mashed Potatoes, and sometimes Pisces Iscariot
Pulse Ultra - Headspace
TOOL - Lateralus
Type O Negative - October Rust
Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution (and probably some others)
VAST
Virgos Merlot - Signs of a Vacant Soul

...and more, but I won't bother trying to make a comprehensive list.

 

[leatherface2]

in this fast food country i never thought people actually listen to cds front to back with headphones on.why i miss records, u know the big black circles...........album cover was huge, the art,liner notes.lookin at it while the music played...........an experience kids will never have these days.

 

[garcia3441]

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon

 

[machinegunriffer82]

Explosions in the sky - The Earth is not a cold dead place. I have been listening to that album a lot before going to bed lately.

yeah MAn! kick ass! this band needs more exposure there fucking amazing and relaxing, they did the music ( the score) for that movie friday night lights. This is my list, meshuggah I, mogwai, mono, alot of post rock bands. and also thom yorke's eraser album,

 

[Blexican]

George Carlin and pretty much any kind of extreme metal tend to relax me.
Some favorites:

Actually, anything from Carlin will do. I seriously have the man's entire discography playing when I go to bed at night.

 

[Splees]

I think someone already mention Explosions In The Sky. Apex Twin is always good too. Mmmm Mars Volta, De-Loused in the Comatorium is usually what comes on. Some Tool usually finds it's way in the mix. Radiohead, Kid A. Celebration to get funky. Infinite Number of Sounds, Radio Whales is another great. Tycho is great electronic IDM artist, UGH I spent an entire day stuck in Sea-Tac airport.. good thing I had Tycho with me.