‘Girl’ by The Beatles
You and Me by Penny and the Quarters
TUNE.
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The Greatest by Cat Power
Set Fire to the Rain by Adele
#songstoplaywhenit’srainingandmakeupdanceroutinesto
Hysteric by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Will never forget seeing them at Reading in… 2009? This song was such a clear, perfectly focused moment within that festival madness of tents and field-temperature £3 wine. The playlist I listen to when I’m on trains has become my working playlist. Will post that next. AND THEN I WILL STOP PROCRASTINATING.
Scientists discover most relaxing tune ever
Sound therapists and Manchester band Marconi Union compiled the song. Scientists played it to 40 women and found it to be more effective at helping them relax than songs by Enya, Mozart and Coldplay.
Weightless works by using specific rhythms, tones, frequencies and intervals to relax the listener. A continuous rhythm of 60 BPM causes the brainwaves and heart rate to synchronise with the rhythm: a process known as ‘entrainment’. Low underlying bass tones relax the listener and a low whooshing sound with a trance-like quality takes the listener into an even deeper state of calm.
Dr David Lewis, one of the UK’s leading stress specialists said: “‘Weightless’ induced the greatest relaxation – higher than any of the other music tested. Brain imaging studies have shown that music works at a very deep level within the brain, stimulating not only those regions responsible for processing sound but also ones associated with emotions.”
The study - commissioned by bubble bath and shower gel firm Radox Spa - found the song was even more relaxing than a massage, walk or cup of tea. So relaxing is the tune, apparently, that people are being advised against listening to it while driving.
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Alone in Kyoto - Air.
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‘Human’ by Ellie Goulding
