Calming Songs

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Calihan

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I was wondering what songs calm people down. For me off the top of my head I can think of a few:

Hallujah - Jeff Buckley
Everybody Hurts - REM
Knockin' on Heavens Door - Bob Dylan most of his songs are calming in or way or another.
Fire and Rain - James Taylor

I'll post more when I think of them.
 
Tiny Dancer - Elton John
Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones
Your Song - Elton John (lots of Elton :p)
Imagine - John Lennon
The Masterplan - Oasis

Really, just any slow low-beat song calms me down. Sometimes I really need that. Right now these are the only ones I can think of, but most Elton John songs calm me down :p
 
Hmm.. Well whenever I'm sad I listen to Fix You by Coldplay and I SOB to it for like 10 minutes and then I get sick of being sad and it really picks me up. :p I think it's calming too.

Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden
Gardian Angel - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Wonderwall - Oasis
You and Me - Lifehouse
Hide And Seek - Imogen Heap

Can't think of anymore right now.
 
Calihan said:
Hallujah - Jeff Buckley
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Such a wonderful song. I like Jeff's version the best. I've also heard covers from Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson (which isn't as bad as you'd think it would be), and of course, the orginal by Leonard Cohen.

Some of the songs I turn to when becoming introspective:

Just when I needed you most - Randy Van Warmer
Learning how to live - Lucinda Williams --actually her whole "West" cd would qualify, as well as most of her music
Anything sung by Jim Reeves
Coming back to you - Leonard Cohen
Go rest high on that mountain - Vince Gill
Anything by Peter, Paul & Mary (c'mon! That'll make you smile!)
Anything by Amy Grant
Anything by the Highwaymen (Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash & Kris Kristofferson)
Most anything by Shawn Colvin
and most of the older classic country music (Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, etc)
 
Well , I like
Whiskey lullaby by Brad Paisley
Beautiful Love by The Afters
Remember When by Alan Jackson .
 
no matter whats wrong, if i'm upset or sad the Elton John album "Tumbleweed Connection" on vinyl (the cd works too but it isn't the same) always makes me feel better. some of them aren't slow or soothing but the combination of all of them always has the power to calm me down.

Ballad Of A Well-Known Gun
Come Down In Time
Country Comfort
Son Of Your Father
My Father's Gun
Where To Now St. Peter?
Love Song
Amoreena
Talking Old Soldiers
Burn Down The Mission

another elton john song that always works is Song for Guy, an instrumental piece from the album "A Single Man"

theres a specific EJ album that goes with any mood i might be in. :)
 
hmm ..

David Gray - Babylon
Elton John - Tiny Dancer
Veils - Vicious Traditions
mostly Snow Patrol songs are my 'calm downies' :D
 
Yay! :D I'm happy to see more Elton John, I grew up on Sir Elton thanks to my mom, so I love everything he's done :D More songs that I can think of at the moment...

Brown-Eyed Girl - Van Morrison (this song seems to follow my mom and I around... it plays on the radio randomly when we're together, or in shops, the grocery store, on shuffle on my iPod... :lol:)
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Free - Donavan Frankenreiter
When The Stars Go Blue - The Corrs (I also love the original by Ryan Adams)
 
Slow Dancing in a Burning Room - John Mayer
River God- Nichole Nordeman
She's Every Woman - Garth Brooks
That's All- Michael Buble
The Blowers Daughter- Damien Rice
Rainbow Connection - Kermit the Frog (I'm not trying to be smart, I love this song)
 
Oh Calming songs, I've got a bunch *but some of the music I listen too, not really slow ones like the rest of you guys are posting :rolleyes: sometimes a fast pace song calms me better than the slow ones* I also have a bunch from some of the same artists.

Dierks Bentley:

What Was I Thinkin
I Can Only Think of One
My Last Name
Train Travellin'
Every Mile a Memory
Long Trip Alone
Free and Easy Down the Road I Go
Come a Little Closer :rolleyes:
Good Things Happen
Down on Easy Street
Modern Day Drifter
Gonna Get There Someday
Good Man Like Me

Blake Shelton:

If I Was Your Man :rolleyes:
Some Beach *One of those songs you can't sing without a grin on your face*
Cotton Pickin' Time :rolleyes:
Playboys of the Southwestern World :rolleyes:
This Can't Be Good
The More I Drink

Jason Aldean:

Johnny Cash

And My *cough* Current *cough* Favorite :rolleyes:
Joe Nichols:

If Nobody Believed In You
Size Matters :rolleyes:
That's What Love'll Get Ya
I'll Wait For You
Just a Little More
The Impossible
What's a Guy Gotta Do
Everything's a Thing
Cool to Be a Fool
Real Things
Another Side of You
Back in a Caddilac
It Ain't No Crime

Mongomery Gentry:

Gone
Speed
Hell Yeah
Lucky Man

Vanilla Ice:

Play That Funky Music White Boy :lol:
Ice Ice Baby
Ninja Rap :rolleyes:

Sweet Emotion
Stairway to Heaven
Tuesday's Gone
Freebird
She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy
All My Friends Say
Whiskey Lullaby
Picture
Redneck Woman
Online
Ticks
Celebrity
Little Moments
Redneck Yacht Club
Tough
Little Bit of Life
Don't Take the Girl
Watermelon Crawl
I'm From the Country
Must Be Doin' Something Right
Sold
Good Directions
Why Why Why
I Wanna Talk About Me/How Do You Like Me Now/Good As I Once Was
Save a Horse Ride A Cowboy
I Play Chicken With The Plane
Suds In the Bucket
I Like It I Love It
Pickin' Wildflowers
XXL
Wrap Around
Trouble
I Love Nascar
Jesus Take the Wheele
Before He Cheats
Guys Like Me
Ladies Love Country Boys
Swing
I Wanna Feel Something
Honkytonk Badonkadonk
Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On

Who Are You
Barbie Girl :rolleyes:
*Every Song from the Movie Grease*
*Al Weird Al Songs*
:lol: Spongebob Theme :lol:

:lol: Told you I had a weird list
 
Hard2Handle said:
Oh Calming songs, I've got a bunch *but some of the music I listen too, not really slow ones like the rest of you guys are posting :rolleyes: sometimes a fast pace song calms me better than the slow ones* I also have a bunch from some of the same artists.
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My list is gona be almost exactly the same.:lol: And totaly agree about not need slow song to make you feel better
My list:

Blake Shelton:
Some Beach (Totally agree with H2H you cant sing this without a grin)
Dont Make Me
This Cant Be Good
The Dreamer
Underneath The Same Moon
If I Was Your Man
Thats What I Call Home
She Cant Get That
What I Wouldnt Give
Back There Again
I Dont Care
It Aint Easy Being Me
Heavy Liftin
The Baby
My Neck of the Woods
Playboys of The Southwestern
She Dont Know Shes Got It
Every Time I Look At You

Dierks Bentley:
Modern Day Drifter
Long Trip Alone
Wish it Would Break
Is Anybody Loving You these days
My Last Name
What Was I Thinkin'
Distan Shores
Whiskey Tears
Train Travelin'
Come A Little Closer
Domestic Light and Cold
Down on Easy Street
Good Man Like Me
Gonna Get There Some Day
Good Things Happen
Every Mile a Memory
Soon As You Can
Hope For Me Yet
Free and Easy (Down the road I go)
Trying To Stop Your Leavin'
Cant Live it Down
Band of Brothers

Joe Nichols:
The Impossible
Everythings A Thing
She Only Smokes When She Drinks
Cool To Be A Fool
Comin Back In a Caddilac
Nobody Believed In You
Whats A Guy Gotta Do
Six of One (Half a Dozen on the other)
Size matter(Another one you cant sing without a grin)
Another Side of You
It Aint No Crime

Jason Aldean:
Your The Love I Wanna Be In
Relentless
She Loved Me
Laughed Until We Cried

Big & Rich:
Lost In This Moment
Loud
Save a Horse(Ride a Cowboy)
Slow Motion
I Pray for You

Brad Paisley:
Out In The Parkin'Lot
It Did
Better Then This
Mud on The Tires
Oh Love
Celeberty
Online


Eric Church:
Guys Like Me
How 'Bout You
Hard Way
These Boots
Sinners Like Me
Before She Does

The Wreckers:
Leave the Pieces

Gretchen Wilson:
Red Neck Woman
Rebel Child
You Dont Have To Go Home
Pain Killer
When It Rains
Good Ol' Boy
Here For The Party

Carrie Underwood:
Jesus Take the Wheele
Before He Cheats

Shania Twain:
Man I Feel Like a Woman
Any Man Of Mine
If Your Not In it For Love

Faith Hill:
Wild One

Trisha Yearwood:
Georgia Rain
Shes In Love With the Boy

Taylor Swift:
Tim Mcgraw
Teardrops On My Guitar
Our Song
Shouldve Said No

Tim Mcgraw:
Shes My Kinda Rain
Indian Outlaw
Country Boys and Girls Gettin Down on the Farm
I Like it I love It
Something Like That

Montgomery Gentry
Hell Yeah
Gone
Something to Be Proud of
My Town
Some People Change

Craig Morgan
Little Bit Of Life
Redneck Yacht Club
What I Love About Sundays

Tracy Byrd
Just Let Me Be In Love
Watermelon Crawl
Im From The Country
Reveng Of A Middle Age Woman
Drinking Bone
Truth About Men

Billy Curington
Most Be Doin Something Right
Why Why Why
Walk Alittle Straighter

Toby Keith:
Whiskey Girl
I wana Talk About Me
SHould Have Been A Cowboy

Martina McBride:
Concret Angel
This Ones For the Girls
Wild Angels

Keith Anderson:
XXL
Pickin' Wild Flowers
Wrapp Around
Three Chord Country and American Rock and Roll

Rodney Atkins:
Watching You
If Your Goin Through Hell

Brook and Dunn
Hillbilly Delux
Play Something Country
Rock My World Little Country Girl
Boot Scoot and Boogie

CorbLund Band:
Hockey Song
Hair In My Eyes Like a Highland Steer
Truck Got Stuck

Tracy Atkins
Ladies Love Country Boys
Songs About Me
HonkyTonk Badonkadonk

Aaron Pirchet:
Hold My Beer
Warm Safe Place
New Front

Adam Gregory:
World Could Use a Cowboy
Horse Shoes
Dont Send the Invatation

John Michell Montgomery
Sold

Emerson Drive
Moments
Fishin' in The Dark
Country Fied Soul
Good Man

And those are all the ones I can think of off the top of my head
 
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen/ k.d. lang
Shenandoah -Bruce Springsteen
Good Night, New York - Nanci Griffith
Fields of Gold -Eva Cassidy/Sting
Fragile -Sting
Somewhere only We Know - Keane
God Bless the USA - Lee Greenwood
I Love You = Sara McLachlan
I Will Remember You - Sara McLachlan
All the Wild Horses -Ray LaMontagne
Let it Be - The Beatles
Bridge over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkel
 
Vonda Shepard - Starry Starry Night
Loreena McKennit - Dante's Prayer
Shawn Colvin - Never Saw Blue Like That
Sarah McLachlan - In The Arms Of An Angel
Guus Meeuwis - Geef Mij Nu Je Angst
Melissa Etheridge - The Letting Go
Nightwish - Sleeping Sun
 
Man, how could I forget Sarah McLachlan? :rolleyes: New additions to my list:

Blackbird - The Beatles
Yesterday - The Beatles
Let It Be - The Beatles
Hey Jude - The Beatles
She's Always A Woman To Me - Billy Joel
Piano Man - Billy Joel
Whatever Gets You Through The Night - John Lennon
Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon
Working Class Hero - John Lennon
Circle Of Life - Elton John
Skyline Pigeon - Elton John
Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me - Elton John
Little By Little - Oasis
Stop Crying Your Heart Out - Oasis
Here In Pleasantville - The Wallflowers
Three Ways - The Wallflowers
6th Avenue Heartache - The Wallflowers
God Don't Make Lonely Girls - The Wallflowers
The Beautiful Side Of Somewhere - The Wallflowers
Days Of Wonder - The Wallflowers
We're Already There - The Wallflowers
From The Bottom Of My Heart - The Wallflowers
How Far You've Come - The Wallflowers (as you can tell I like The Wallflowers :rolleyes:)
Angel - Sarah McLachlan
I Will Remember You - Sarah McLachlan
Building A Mystery - Sarah McLachlan
Fallen - Sarah McLachlan
Mad World - Gary Jules
How To Save A Life - The Fray
Over My Head (Cable Car) - The Fray
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
Angie - The Rolling Stones
 
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