You're Trying To Escape Reality - What Do You Play?

[jaycee]

This is something I've been doing regularly lately for the sake of sanity. Anyway, I've been listening to lots of psychedelia and progressive rock. Last night (after the Tour De France) I lay in bed listening to The Beatles:
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Magical Mystery Tour
Sgt. Pepper
And lastly FM's Heroes Are Hard To Find ("Coming Home" and "Angel" are pretty progressive in my books).
The night before I listened to LB's Go Insane (again, "Play In The Rain" and "D.W. Suite" are pretty progressive) and Pyramid by The Alan Parsons Project.
I bought Tarkus and Trilogy by Emerson, Lake & Palmer today, along with Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys and Transformer by Lou Reed.
Other bands on high rotation at the moment are Peter Gabriel's Genesis, The Moody Blues, and ELO.
So, what other bands are useful for when you want to take a magical mystery tour? (I'm only really aware of the existence of King Crimson, Yes, and Jethro Tull...)

[ButterCookie]

I get as drunk as I can without being sick and listen to The Velvet Underground and Nico turned up full.

Either that or just white noise.

[sara1998]

Pink Floyd.

[bluefox4000]

Thomas Dolby-Gate To the Mind's Eye
Pink Floyd-Wish you Were Here
Genesis-Trick of the Tail
Beatles-White Album
Fleetwood Mac-Tango in the Night
Peter Gabriel- 3 and 4
Queen-II

I'm sire i'll think of more.

Mick

[SapphireSister]

Biggie or Tupac.

[CreepingDeath]

Pink Floyd - all
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
The Doors - Strange Days
Cream - Disraeli Gears
The Clash - London Calling
The Who - Tommy
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
Tool - Lateralus
Type O Negative - October Rust
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

[estranged4life]

I feel in the mood to listen is how I escape "reality"...Takes longer than most for me to decide on what to listen to.

[GarboSpeaks!]

Generally Siouxsie. As effed up as it is, when I face really dark times, or indifferent situations, she's what perks me up the most. Though much of her stuff isn't "perky."

[chelluversu]

Tegan and Sara- Living Room...first and then everything else
and then the "Fine Lines" playlist I made for my iPod..

[iamnotafraid]

If I'm mad or depressed I usually listen to Pink Floyd.
Which isn't necessarily a good thing to do.

[APerfectLie]

Doing the Unstuck- The Cure

[jaycee]

Originally Posted by ButterCookie

I get as drunk as I can without being sick and listen to The Velvet Underground and Nico turned up full.

I want to be at your place when you're drunk!

Originally Posted by sara1998

Pink Floyd.

But of course. Unfortunately I only own Dark Side Of The Moon at the moment, because I intend to buy this when I get the money - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh,_by_the_Way.

Originally Posted by bluefox4000

Thomas Dolby-Gate To the Mind's Eye
Pink Floyd-Wish you Were Here
Genesis-Trick of the Tail
Beatles-White Album
Fleetwood Mac-Tango in the Night
Peter Gabriel- 3 and 4
Queen-II

I'm sire i'll think of more.

Mick

Interesting - although TITN is my favourite after Tusk, I don't consider it to be an especially psychedelic/progressive album. Also, the White Album doesn't have the same effect as something like Revolver or Sgt. Pepper for me. The other albums (bar Thomas Dolby, who I've never heard of) get full marks for the "gone factor" from me though!

[bluefox4000]

Oh TINTN has a big effect on me. That's an album I use to help me drift off to dreamland at night and White album. Just fills my head with trippy freaky images. Now Thomas Dolby. He's like a synthpop guy from the 80's and the album listed is pretty much an instrumental album..that I grew up with. You talk about being taken away...that's the album that really does it for me.

[jaycee]

Originally Posted by bluefox4000

Oh TINTN has a big effect on me. That's an album I use to help me drift off to dreamland at night and White album. Just fills my head with trippy freaky images. Now Thomas Dolby. He's like a synthpop guy from the 80's and the album listed is pretty much an instrumental album..that I grew up with. You talk about being taken away...that's the album that really does it for me.

I've found the album I, Robot by The Alan Parsons Project to be very proficient at inducing sleep (conversely, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination will stop you from sleeping until "The Fall Of The House Of Usher"), which is arguably unfortunate with its being such a masterpiece!
Well, I'll try the White Album again soon then, but their previous three albums (including Magical Mystery Tour, that is) are what really make me "gone" (just to be clear, I mean in the sense of the line from "LITSWD" that always makes me smile - "Climb in the back with your head in the clouds, and you're gone").

[Kena]

Usually my favorite songs/albums/artists address subjects about things and feelings I can relate to, most always related to my wild heart and things I've done for love, lust, loneliness, etc.

OutKast is not one of those artists and that's why I love em.

Aside from the catchy beats, the reason I love Outkast is because their songs cover subjects I have little experience with, or either similar experiences but from a different point of view. So when I listen to their music I put myself in different shoes for a minute...for example, in "Da Art of Story Telling" from the Aquemini album, I'm Sasha Thumper for a minute " with a needle in her arm, baby two months due."

See, as a mother with a history of drug abuse, I can relateish. Fortunately, I was clean before I got pregnant but what if hadn't been, could I have been Sasha Thumper?

Thank goodness for NA... Keep Coming Back, It works if you work it!