favourite atmospheric songs

[ozric]

what are your favourite atmospheric songs, meaning songs that you can shut your eyes to and let the music 'take you somewhere'? try and list about 10, obviously including some Opeth. mine are (...15 max):

1. The Moor- Opeth
2. Ambulance chasing- porcupine tree
3. Echoes- pink floyd
4. Road to tunguska- alan parsons
5. disposition- tool
6. Jaasta Syntynyt Varjojen Vita (Born Of Ice Stream Of Shadows)- moonsorrow
7. jesse- scott walker
8. saeglopur- sigur ros
9. exit music- radiohead
10. kim- steve hackett
11. origin of supernatural probabilities- tangerine dream
12. grablick blev hun vaer- ulver
13. silhouette- opeth
14. glass arm shattering- PT
15. most songs by vangelis

would love to hear some of yours...

 

[Hedon-]

no epilogue?

 

[Brave.Archangel]

Slowdive
everything slowdive
if you haven't heard of this band, check them out

 

[in_my_time_of_disease]

^Was thinking of spinning "Souvlaki" at some point tonight, awesome album.

 

[Blackfield]

portishead 3rd(whole album)

 

[DarkGift]

1. Epilogue - Opeth
2. It will rain for a million years - Porcupine Tree
3. Libation Unto The Shades Who Lurk In The Shadows Of The Temple Of Anhur - Nile
4. Antarktis - Promise and the Monster
5. Olsen Olsen - Sigur Rós
6. Not Unlike the Waves - Agalloch
7. The Promised Future Aeons - Dimmu Borgir
8. The Umbersun - Elend
9. Brave - Katatonia
10. Hemfärd - Månegarm
11. ...to live for my death... - Shape of Despair
12. Luminum - Cryptopsy
13. Ruins - Nile
14. Hours of Wealth - Opeth
15. Lazarus - Porcupine Tree

Tried not to pick bands twice, but failed at the end

 

[in_my_time_of_disease]

Cbf writing a list, but I'll put two that shamefully have been missed. Esoteric and Earthless.

 

[Xadeas]

1. Nightingale - Deep Inside of Nowhere
2. Opeth - April Ethereal
3. Septic Flesh - Sunlight Moonlight
4. Demiurg - Cult of Dagon
5. Katatonia - In Death, A Song
6. Steel - Say Goodbye To Love (lol)
7. Demons and Wizards - Wicked Witch
8. Opeth - Hope Leaves
9. Unmoored - Unspeakable Grief
10. Opeth - To Rid the Disease
11. Opeth - Epilogue
12. Iced Earth - I Died For You
13. Opeth - Demon of the Fall
14. Opeth - Godheads Lament
15. Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde

lots of Opeth... that's why i'm in this thread

 

[anarchy420]

the first song that comes to mind is russia on ice by PT. if i must name an opeth song... hours of wealth.

 

[DanLights]

Sunn O))) for me!! Black One is great, and the whites and the new live album Domkirke really gets me in the mood to relax and just listen

 

[Serhan_pnr]

Camel - Ice
Porcupine Tree - Russia On Ice
Opeth - Epilogue, Godhead's Lament, Blackwater Park, Patterns In The Ivy,.......... too many to write

 

[Korlich]

Popol vuh - Nosferatu (whole album).
Opeth - Epilouge, the moor, white cluster, silhouette, Apostle, UTWM, TNATSW, BRI, Ending Credits.
+ lots more.

 

[foodforthegods]

anything by eluvium or explosions in the sky. Sigur Ros are awesome for this too.

 

[x_OPETH_x]

Motionfield - Nightwalk
Eivind Aarset - Dust Kittens
Asche & Spencer - the entire "Monster's Ball" and "Stay" soundtracks
Boards of Canada - Left Side Drive
Tony Grey (Hiromi's Sonicbloom) - Awaken
Loess - Dasein
Textures - Messengers
Porcupine Tree - Small Fish
Intronaut - The Reptilian Brain


check out some of the electronic ambient stuff, definitely - Motionfield and Eivind Aarset are TOP NOTCH....ultra-high quality

 

[Seanindarkness]

Maeror Tri-Desidrium
Any Steve Roach song
Ulver's Svid Negger soundtrack
maudlin of the Well-The Blue Ghost/Shedding Qlippoth
Lykathea Aflame-Walking in the Garden of Ma'at
Porcupine Tree-.3
Nadja-Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds

 

[Dammnare]

1-Epilogue
2-Under the Weeping Moon
3-Apostle in Triumph
4-Shine on You Crazy Diamond
5-The Wall ( as an album )

 

[Iki-ilkkuja]

Anything from Klaus Schulze, Kitaro or Jääportit. But this isn't a place for a thread like this.

 

[Annihilat0r]

Blackwater Park (the song, the last some minutes are unbelievably and motherfuckingly atmospheric.)

 

[Koi]

oceansize:
music for a nurse
the frame
savant

paatos:
téa

noman:
truenorth

PT:
collapse light into earth
russia on ice
feel so low




fuck...too tired now, those are the first that popped in my mind.

 

[DarkGift]

PT:
collapse light into earth

OMG, I love that song. It's so emotional and... yes.