Albums like Blankets?

[Ghosts_on_TV]

Astral Weeks for sure.

Radiohead--Kid A
Strand of Oaks- Leave Ruin
Beck-Sea Change
Conor Oberst- S/T
Smashing Pumpkins-Siamese Dream

[wolof7]

I'll play, but first the obvious:
Tennessee Fire
It Still Moves

Probably too many to count but i'll list the first to come into my mind this morning:
Bon Iver - For Emma
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The Low Anthem  - OMGCD
Josh Ritter - the Animal Years
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding / time out of mind / oh mercy
David Bowie - Low
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Timber Timbre - s/t
Justin Townes Earle - Midnight at the Movies
Sigur Ros - ( )
Radiohead - Ok Computer / Kid A / Amnesiac / In Rainbows
....and what the hell : Rush - Permanent Waves

[kydiddle]

/shaking my fist at ky for beating me to Neko by one minute/

Don't you shake your fist at me, you fist shaker!!  ;)

[Crispy]

It Still Moves (Nobody, seriously? Or is it too obvious?)

I have a standing assumption in the "other music thread" that MMJ is presumed for all questions where appropriate, like unless it's in a shitty albums thread.

Good policy, chode -- guess I haven't played along in these threads enough.

I'd like to add the Decemberists' Castaways and Cutouts to my list.

I wish I could add the White Album, but if Revolution 9 didn't disqualify it, Good Night would.

[BH]

I would like to give a big HELL YEAH!  to Love Is Hell, Fox Confessor, For Emma and of course IT STILL MOVES (me)

[johnnYYac]

Love this.

Not sure it fits just right, but my blanket album is Roger Waters' Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking.

Morphine - Good and Andrew Bird - Mysterious Production of Eggs also make me want to just close my eyes and soak them all in.

Interesting choice with Pros and Cons.  I was thinking Floyd for this, maybe Meddle or Wish You Were Here (or AHM, or DSOTM, or...).

For the Dead, American Beauty is a masterpiece. 

I'd definitely include It Still Moves.

How about some Traffic, say Low Spark or John Barleycorn?  I always stop what I'm doing so that ALL I'm doing is listening to those albums.

Great thread.

[ophidiophobia]

Ryan Adams- Heartbreaker
This is Ryan Adams at my favorite. So much heart is put into this album, and I love the soft tenderness to it.
Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks
If I had to only choose one Dylan album to listen to this would be that album.
Grateful Dead- Reckoning
So many different Dead albums to choose from, but this one gets the nod because it is an acoustic album.
Nirvana- MTV Unplugged
This is the album that started me down the musical rabbit hole. Lake of Fire was the song that made me want to play guitar.

I love my music soft and sad for the most part, and these albums do soft and sad perfectly.

[headhunter]

love this thread ...

Most Van Morrison (esp, Astral Weeks, St. Dominics, Into The Music, Moondance, Too   Late, Philosopher's Stone, No Guru)
Most MMJ (ok, all MMJ)
Early Bruce  (Born to Run, Wild & Innocent, Greetings, Darkness)
Pink Floyd (esp Wish You, Dark side, Animals, Wall)
Most Wilco (esp YHF, Summerteeth, Sky Blue Sky, Kicking Television, Mermaid Ave)
Most Iron & Wine
All Ray LaMontagne
Willie Nile (who you say, this guy's last 3-4 albums are awesome!)
Early Rickie Lee Jones
Most Blue Rodeo (the best canadian band i know)
All early Neil Young and anything around the Rust Never Sleeps days
All early Tom Waits
All Dire Straits
Avett Bros - I and Love and You
Most Jerry Garcia live recordings and any Dead doing Dylan
Most Dylan (but definitely not all dylan)
Lucinda Williams- almost everything
Anything from the Last Waltz


ok, I'll stop now-- i have too many blankets

[ALady]

Al Green- I'm Still In Love With You

This record makes everything better.

[pawpaw]

Yo, cool thread! So, I see these as, like, my ulitmate "comfort" albums. Calming, so familiar, so loved, the ones I always know I can always turn to:

Astral Weeks - Van Morrison (seems to be a pretty clear favorite for a lot of us!)
Veedon Fleece - Van Morrison
Night Beat - Sam Cooke
I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You - Aretha Franklin
Red Headed Stranger - Willie Nelson
The Greatest - Cat Power
After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver
The Tennessee Fire - My Morning Jacket
The Genius Sings the Blues - Ray Charles
The Trinity Session - Cowboy Junkies

[ralph]

Add to my list:

The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
Sweetheart of the Rodeo - The Byrds

[headhunter]

Willie - Red Headed Stranger and the Lips Soft Bulletin; o how i love those!

especially on vinyl.

[woodnymph]

This....

Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly

Man I KNEW I didn't dedicate enough time to looking through my archive...... Awesome call!! 

I'd like to add her album Among My Swan, too :)

[woodnymph]

Joni Mitchell - Blue

Absolutely adore

Ok... tryin to go through the list....

Garcia/Grisman - Self-Titled
Kings of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
Bob Marley - Rastaman Vibration / Confrontation
Citizen Cope - Clarence Greenwood Recordings
CSNY - So Far
Eric Clapton - Unplugged
Fleet Foxes - Self-Titled
HUM - Downward is Heavenward / You'd Prefer An Astronaut
Radiohead - The Bends
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary / How It Feels to Be Something On
Thievery Corporation - Cosmic Game / Richest Man in Babylon
Ween - White Pepper

Sorry for any repeats.... I know there's been a lot of Floyd posted, that should cover things, along with The Mollusk somewhere in here I'm pretty sure!  8)

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

I'll play, but first the obvious:
Tennessee Fire
It Still Moves

Probably too many to count but i'll list the first to come into my mind this morning:
Bon Iver - For Emma
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The Low Anthem  - OMGCD
Josh Ritter - the Animal Years
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding / time out of mind / oh mercy
David Bowie - Low
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Timber Timbre - s/t
Justin Townes Earle - Midnight at the Movies
Sigur Ros - ( )
Radiohead - Ok Computer / Kid A / Amnesiac / In Rainbows
....and what the hell : Rush - Permanent Waves

yeah, that one! Sigur Ros - ( )  was the first thing to come to mind.  it's hypnotic, relaxing, and beautiful.  soundscapes with structure.  they've actually convinced people their music is brainless when it's extremely intricate and meaningful.   that album is perfection, can't believe I'm saying this but it kinda rivals any album ever made.  it's quite genius conceptually and the studio sound is amazing.


Sigur Ros - (Untitled)

= spine tingling.

[Murph]

Off the top of my head:

Neil Young - On The Beach
Port O'Brien - Threadbare
Bright Eyes - Wide Awake and its Morning
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Band - Music From Big Pink

[Ruckus]

Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Grisman/Garcia (since Woodnymph mentioned 'em) - Shady Grove
MMJ - At Dawn
Jimmy Cliff - Unlimited

[Ghosts_on_TV]

I'll play, but first the obvious:
Tennessee Fire
It Still Moves

Probably too many to count but i'll list the first to come into my mind this morning:
Bon Iver - For Emma
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The Low Anthem  - OMGCD
Josh Ritter - the Animal Years
Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding / time out of mind / oh mercy
David Bowie - Low
Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Timber Timbre - s/t
Justin Townes Earle - Midnight at the Movies
Sigur Ros - ( )
Radiohead - Ok Computer / Kid A / Amnesiac / In Rainbows
....and what the hell : Rush - Permanent Waves

yeah, that one! Sigur Ros - ( )  was the first thing to come to mind.  it's hypnotic, relaxing, and beautiful.  soundscapes with structure.  they've actually convinced people their music is brainless when it's extremely intricate and meaningful.   that album is perfection, can't believe I'm saying this but it kinda rivals any album ever made.  it's quite genius conceptually and the studio sound is amazing.


Sigur Ros - (Untitled)


= spine tingling.

I agree with all of this.

[pawpaw]

I added another one to my original list...

The Trinity Session - Cowboy Junkies

[Tracy 2112]

add

David Bowie- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars