Music That Calms You

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What music (songs, artists, albums, etc.) calms you when you are upset, angry, or sad?

For me, the soundtrack from VeggieTales tends to relax me and make me feel better about what's going on in my life. One, especially, "Fear Not, Daniel," makes me feel very relaxed, probably due to the angel's voice and the narrater at the end.
There are also a couple of songs from Owl City that calm me as well, including "Vanilla Twilight" and "Meteor Shower."

What about you guys?

Satie does it for me.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xm7s9eGxU[/youtube]

anything by Bjork or Tori Amos, Spyro Gyra, Dazzle by Siouxie and the Banshees, Jupiter by Jewel, Untouched by The Veronica's, Sweet Lullaby by Deep Forest, Linger by The Cranberries

Echoes and Music from the Hearts of Space

Enya.- Wild Child, One by one
Owl City.- Fireflies
Now we are free.- on piano, and sung by Lisa Gerard (or the one from Gladiator)
Hachiko a dog's story.- Japan and Goodbye
How to train your dragon.- Forbidden Friendship
The Fray.- How to save a life

Enya: Only Time, Water shows the Hidden Heart, Anywhere Is, Only If, Someone Said Goodbye.
Rachmaninov: piano conerto 2, symphony 2
Satie: Gymnopedie
Debussy: Arabesque 1, Clair de Lune, etc.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsrqfvwO_xE&feature=related[/youtube]

I find almost all of BT's This Binary Universe to very calming. I think the most relaxing track would be See You On The Other Side, but the first three tracks are calming too.

Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun

Days of Future Passed by the Moody Blues, specifically Tuesday Afternoon. <3

Satie - thank you for posting that - aaahhhh
Also most Mozart
I'm going to have to check out all these posts, maybe buy some

Sapphire by Juventa.

It's an upbeat song, but once the melody kicks in, just something about it makes me feel better and soothed by whatever's bothering me. It's the first thing I listen to when I feel overwhelmed.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OtCamdXbYY[/youtube]

blue man

R.E.M.
Nick Drake
U2 (more so their later material, though)
Joni Mitchell
(some) Bob Dylan
Joanna Newsom
Tori Amos
The Velvet Underground (mainly the Nico tunes)
Death Cab for Cutie
Snow Patrol (the ones I like of theirs)
most of Radiohead's material
Oasis
almost all Pearl Jam songs
The Beatles/John Lennon
early Springsteen (even the "harder" stuff, like I guess maybe "Born to Run", has a way of calming me - I guess its just that epic to me!! )
Regina Spektor
José Gonzalez
Van Morrison
Barenaked Ladies
Better than Ezra
old-school Counting Crows
Peter Gabriel
some Pretenders songs
Gin Blossoms
Toad the Wet Sprocket
old school Dave Matthews Band
Goo Goo Dolls once they became "mainstream" - but just the '90s stuff (though they've got some great "bad day" songs from before that happened, like "Long Way Down" and "Naked")
some Police (i.e. "Walking On the Moon", "Tea In the Sahara", "Walking In Your Footsteps", etc.)
The Shins
Belle and Sebastian
some Elvis Costello (i.e. "Alison", "Accidents Will Happen", "Everyday I Write the Book", and "Veronica" are all good examples of Costello's more "calming" side, to me)
Rickie Lee Jones
Cat Stevens
acoustic Neil Young songs
Guster
Pete Yorn
Feist
Jeff Buckley
Damien Rice
Elliott Smith
some Beck (like "Lost Cause" and "Orphans", for instance, or "Girl" and "Think I'm In Love" for a "happier" mood )
10,000 Maniacs
the more acoustic side of Ryan Adams (though for his "electric" songs, "Burning Photographs" and "So Alive" also calm me down )
Leonard Cohen (even his "eerie" songs, like "Everybody Knows", tend to have a calming quality for me)
Rilo Kiley

of course there's TONS more I could add to this list, but I think you'd get the general idea by now

Just noticed the OP (I think) mentioned "Veggie Tales". Some kids' music calms me down, too, lol The best are Joe Raposo (who composed many of the most famous songs for "Sesame Street") and Raffi IMO. Idk if there's any other children's music I know of that puts me in THAT calm of a mood