Good Songs to Relax To

I've been out in the market for soft melodic songs that make you relax to. Now I'm not into music that consists of waterfalls and the sound of nature or native monk music or even classical music, but songs that are from this age and have nice lyrics and a nice piano/orchestra tune to it but having a hard time finding some. Can anyone recommend me music that is easy to relax to without headbanging to it?

 

Anything by Tori Amos.

 

Any Radiohead album from OK Computer onwards.

Cat Power (pretty sparing with the instruments in recent albums, though)

Kaki King is usually amazing to relax to. Listen to Montreal in specific.

 

Circa Survive (In Fear and Faith, Kicking Your Crosses Down, Meet Me In Montauk, House of Leaves)
Minus The Bear (We are not a football team, burying luck, check out their Acoustic EP)
+44 (Weatherman, Lillian, Little Death)
Angels & Airwaves (A Little's Enough, Distraction, Breathe, Sirens)
The Sound of Animals Fighting (The Ocean and The Sun, full album. Just let it play)
City & Colour (Waiting..., Sometimes, The Girl, The Death of Me, Body in A Box, Comin' Home)
Tegan and Sara (Nineteen, The Con, Wake Up Exhausted, Back in Your Head)
Death Cab For Cutie (What Sarah Said, Follow You Into The Dark, We Looked Like Giants)
The Dear Hunter (Red Hands, Black Sandy Beaches, The Pimp and The Priest, Where The Road Parts)
Colin Frangicetto (Let Me Change, Walls, Giving Up)
Anthony Green (Devils Song, Baby Girl, Plays Ugly For Daddy)
Good Old War (That's What's Wrong, No Time, I'm Not For You)
Brand New (Jesus Christ, The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot, Play Crack The Sky)
Dear and The Headlights (Run In The Front, Saintly Rows, I'm Bored, You're Amorous)
Days Away (The Regular G, Wish, I'm Sorry I Told You All My Problems)
Motion City Soundtrack (The Conversation, Antonia, Even If It Kills Me, Can't Finish What You Started)
Coheed And Cambria (Wake Up, Mother May I, The Velourium Camper I: Faint of Hearts)
Halos (Amalgam, Spectres, Landmine, Helium)
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin


I listen to a lot of relaxing stuff.

 

"Still" by Nine Inch Nails is the perfect lazy, rainy Sunday afternoon type of album. For me, anyway.

 

My December?

I'd say from my collection of music, go Silverchair (songs: Cemetery, Petrol & Chlorine, After All These Years, Asylum, Luv Your Life, My Favorite Thing, Across The Night, Tuna in the Brine, many others).

 

Radiohead.
Silverchair (basically the stuff Tomozaurus said)

I gotta say though, I only listen to still if I wanna depress myself at the same time... It just does that to me.

 

anything by owl city

 

I find the most relaxing NIN songs are the softer instrumentals. If I just want to space out and forget everything, i get high i listen to songs without lyrics.

Oh, and I might think their lead singer is a giant douchebag, but the Exogenesis collection off of Muse's new album is very relaxing. For me.

 

I have been listening to Owl City - Fireflies lately, it's pretty amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI4JLa0hbUw

Other melodic stuff on my playlist that I listen to when I want to relax:
Idlewild - American English, Live in a Hiding Place, You held the world in your arms
Thrice - Digital Sea, Red Sky
Dredg - Information, Sang Real, Bug Eyes
The Fray - Where the Story Ends, Syndicate, How to save a life, Say when

 

Anything by This Will Destroy You or Explosions in the Sky.

 

Thrice's Water EP

 

Yeah i feel the same way. Still is one of my favourite albums, but it's not an album i relax to .

Anyway, as for the original question. Happier themed ambient like Eluvium is good, many downtempo electronic bands like Boards Of Canada, Amon Tobin, Dubstep like Burial or Kode9, Trip-Hop like Massive Attack or Portishead. DJ Shadow is my favourite thing to relax to, i sleep to Entroducing... a lot.

 

Yes to this.

Also, the song I'm listening too this second "Contact" by Falling Up.

 

The Ditty Bops, the Puppini Sisters, Chester French, the Hush Sound, Eisley. Damn, I was just thinking about the sort of bands you're talking about, but can't remember which ones.

 

I don't see how someone can say that they can't relax to "Still", then immediately suggest Portishead.

 

Still, yes, and a few other tracks off of The Fragile, like La Mer, The Great Below, the softer stuff.

 

Any song on any album Iris have released.