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Title: What Album/Artist/Group Sends Your Mind To A Far Away Place?
Post by: Newguy562 on May 26, 2012, 11:11:54 PM
Everytime you hear them you picture yourself in a different world a beautiful(sometimes dark place) :) in a distant plateau..
Idk if anyone really knows what I mean..like a far away area away from earth..that if you close your eyes you can feel like your above it all or in a fairytale..(even a dream)
I guess I feel that way when I listen to genesis & pink floyd :) how about you? which album or group or artist gives you this feeling every time you listen to them/it?
These are my 2 examples :        
1.  Genesis - Happy the Man

2.  Pink Floyd - A Pillow of Winds


Title: Re: What album/artist sends your mind to a far away place?
Post by: Alan Smith on May 26, 2012, 11:20:35 PM
REM - Green

To me, It's very night-timey and I approach it as a specific song cycle that describes a twilight view of the world, hence my mind shuffles off to this different plane.

Similarly so with Doolittle by Pixies - again, these songs are very evocative and open you to a vision of a different earth.


Title: Re: What album/artist sends your mind to a far away place?
Post by: Newguy562 on May 26, 2012, 11:30:54 PM
REM - Green

To me, It's very night-timey and I approach it as a specific song cycle that describes a twilight view of the world, hence my mind shuffles off to this different plane.

Similarly so with Doolittle by Pixies - again, these songs are very evocative and open you to a vision of a different earth.
which song from green? :)


Title: Re: What Album/Artist/Group Sends Your Mind To A Far Away Place?
Post by: Alan Smith on May 26, 2012, 11:39:39 PM
I'm talkin' the whole album (although it's a close call for Stand), I rarely listen to individual cuts.

Ditto for Doolittle.


Title: Re: What Album/Artist/Group Sends Your Mind To A Far Away Place?
Post by: Newguy562 on May 26, 2012, 11:43:33 PM
I'm talkin' the whole album (although it's a close call for Stand), I rarely listen to individual cuts.

Ditto for Doolittle.
wow this isn't what i meant lol..it doesn't sound atmospheric at all lol


Title: Re: What Album/Artist/Group Sends Your Mind To A Far Away Place?
Post by: Jay on May 27, 2012, 01:30:17 AM
Till I Die puts me into a weird trance every time I hear it. I close my eyes and consentrate only on the music. By the fade out at the end, I'm so into it that it's like I'm floating. I literally lose my sense of touch/feeling. I also lose touch of where I am. I just totally zone out into another world. The solo section in Feel Flows does it too, but not as strong as in Till I Die.


Title: Re: What Album/Artist/Group Sends Your Mind To A Far Away Place?
Post by: Newguy562 on May 27, 2012, 06:29:35 AM
Till I Die puts me into a weird trance every time I hear it. I close my eyes and consentrate only on the music. By the fade out at the end, I'm so into it that it's like I'm floating. I literally lose my sense of touch/feeling. I also lose touch of where I am. I just totally zone out into another world. The solo section in Feel Flows does it too, but not as strong as in Till I Die.
i totally know how you feel but for some reason when i close my eyes and listen to til i die i imagine myself at a beach by the mountains at night time sinking deep and deeper into the ocean :)


Title: Re: What Album/Artist/Group Sends Your Mind To A Far Away Place?
Post by: MyGlove on May 27, 2012, 05:12:25 PM
Blur's self titled album.


Title: Re: What Album/Artist/Group Sends Your Mind To A Far Away Place?
Post by: buddhahat on May 30, 2012, 05:14:18 AM
John Barry's theme to the Nic Roeg film Walkabout does it every time. I find it an incredibly emotive piece of music. Maybe because the imagery in the film is so powerful too - not sure. Definitely my favourite Barry tune.

http://open.spotify.com/track/2Sdcgpi07Y1LHc4mTxEMwE


Title: Re: What Album/Artist/Group Sends Your Mind To A Far Away Place?
Post by: JK on September 04, 2013, 02:44:22 AM
(http://www.soulstrut.com/images/uploads/reviews/if-i-could-only-remember-my-name_-david-crosby.jpg)

Even the more down-to-earth tracks ("Cowboy Movie", "What
Are Their Names") have something otherworldly about them...


Title: Re: What Album/Artist/Group Sends Your Mind To A Far Away Place?
Post by: Peter Reum on September 04, 2013, 07:24:32 PM
Kava Kon


Title: Re: What Album/Artist/Group Sends Your Mind To A Far Away Place?
Post by: runnersdialzero on September 04, 2013, 08:19:51 PM
You guys keep bumping Newguy threads and it's scaring the sh*t out of me.