What are your comfort albums?

[CoinOperatedGirl]

Plus have you liked any "popular music" lately?

I suppose my comfort albums would be:

Radiohead- bends/ok computer
Rem- Automatic for the people
Crowded House- Recurring dream
Frank Black & The Catholics: Dog in the sand

Lately I really do love florence and the machine, err thats about it really.

The whole Libertines/Artic monkeys thing baffled me really, didn't get it at all.

Nick Drake / Kings of Convenience / Badly drawn Boy's 'Bewilderbeast' are all 'comfort blanket' classics for me. Lately I'm loving Midlake and Death cab for Cutie. Fire 'em up on Spotify!

Arcade Fire so I can sing really loudly along to it
Flaming lips for same reasons as above

and you can't beat A-Ha Hunting High and Low to pick you up from feeling down beat IMO

Fats Waller, the best of.
Paul McCartney, Ram. He usually gives me the dry boak.
The lightening Seeds, best of.
Second Aha!

Atm I like very little.

Some of mine:

Mice Parade s/t
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Aphex Twin - SAW 1
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Nina Nastasia - On Leaving

Lately I am obsessed with Laura Marling.

Communique - Dire Straits - i am 14 again....

Anything by the Wildhearts (old or new) but esp 'Earth Vs' - always cheers me up.

Nothing much at the mo - DH and i pooled our CD / MP3 collection, you can look t the year the album came out, and there wasn't much outside the yrs '68 - '74. We are saddos....

Oo yes, the Bends is for me too. Reminds me of a great time in my life.
Also the Stone Roses
Most recent one for me is Youth Novels by Lykke Li

And Mystery White Boy by Jeff Buckley

Manic Street Preachers- The Holy Bible
Suede- DogManStar
Pulp- His 'n' Hers
Hole- Live Through This

I'm trying to listen to at least one new album a week for the next 10 years, in an attempt to stave off old gittishness, but I've not found anything I've really loved yet. I fear I'm stuck in the mid 90's forever.

There are worse places to be stuck, AnathemaDevice

Absolution by Muse. It's always the album I most want to hear when I switch on my iPod.

Anathema, one new album a week for the next 10 years?! That's some challenge

Anathema - there isn't anything worth listening to these days so you have good reason to stick to the music from better days

Of course there is. There's loads of great music out there. But if you listen to Radio 1 you'll never find it

There's loads of good music around.

Radio 1? Surely no-one in adulthood actually listens to that drivel?
Lyra - kindly retract the suggestion that Mrs Display would ever stoop so low

But also please give me a few examples of what decent music is out there now as I can't think of any that springs to mind that isn't a rehash of something released aeons ago....

Well, I dunno. I tend not to worry about whether music sounds like other stuff, and just try and listen to what it is and like/dislike accordingly.

Recently (as in the last 6 months) downloaded/bought music: The XX, Band of Skulls, Mumford and Sons, Marina and the Diamonds, Audio Bullys, Plan B, Jamie T, Biffy Clyro, Delphic, Ellie Goulding, Laura Marling, Florence and the Machine, Hot Chip, Kasabian, Lostprophets, Maximo Park, Vampire Weekend, MGMT, Miike Snow, Two Door Cinema Club. Among may others.
I listen to XFM and Absolute Radio.

I am going through a big A-ha renaissance at the moment. I think most of their albums are amazing, but particularly "Foot of the mountain" one of my favourites!

There's an artist called Schizoid Bass, if you google it you can download the album (legally!) for free. It's difficult to describe, but I feel it's like a massage to my eardrums...

Gawd, I LOVE A-ha, always makes me happy.

My comfort albums are:

Mansun, Attack of the Grey Lantern
Crowded House, any
The Verve, Urban Hymns
Primal Scream, Screamadelica
Ocean Colour Scene, Moseley Shoals
Happy Mondays, Pills Thrills and Bellyaches

Lately I like The Gossip, Black Kids and The Killers.

B52s Cosmic Thing
The Streets A Grand Don't Come For Free
REM Murmur
Otis Redding and Sam Cooke best ofs
The Killers Hot Fuss

I've turned into my dad and it's all just noise these days

Comfort albums -

Nirvana - Unplugged
Pulp - Common People
Deftones - Around the Fur
Eels - Meet the Eels
Therapy? - Troublegum
Slipknot - All Hope is Gone
Faith No More - Angel Dust
James Taylor - Best of
NOFX - Punk in Drublic

Oh and Machine Head's - The Blackening

Recent music?

Hmm really enjoying the new offerings from The John Butler Trio - Close to you

Simon and Garfunkels Greatest Hits. reminds me of when my mum and dad were happy.

Comfort albums -

The colour and the shape - Foo Fighters

Let it come down - James Iha

Anathema - have recently rediscovered The Holy Bible, and Hole.

I don't get Arctic Monkeys either.