I Like Orchestras.

Sometimes I get these headaches where the only thing that will cure them is either classical music or particularly masterful film/tv soundtracks.

Orchestra was a misleading title. Not all of this is orchestral. In fact, stylistically there's very little that binds this categorization together in my head beyond simple beauty and a lack of reliance on lyrical songwriting.

Some favorites (please disregard any dislike or disdain for the sources and just give peas a chance):




A classic, just don't argue with it.



Simply put, this may be the most romantic song I have ever heard. Is it a bit gushy? Are the strings a bit syrupy and overindulgent? Yes. But I am a hopeless romantic at heart and I am sorry you'll just have to deal with it. Also, since I often put things to movies in my head and this is inexorably tied to my childhood as a trekkie and general dreamer about the stars, for me the romance here is not between two people (even though it is the film's love theme) but my romance with an exploration of the stars. This is what space sounds like to me folks, as unrealistic and as much denial of it's emptiness and coldness and harshness as that implies.



Chills. This whole soundtrack is amazing, but I rarely listen to any of the other tracks on it to quell that headache, because they put me less at rest rather than more. Which is great—a lot of the best art tips its audience out of their place of ease rather than keeping them in it, but the need, the urge I'm talking about in this here article is the one for things that settle me.



Because there's no way I could not include things from this soundtrack, and the variations on the "Shape of Things to Come" theme are always highlights for me.



Starts off admittedly really derivative of "Moonlight Sonata" and then blows my mind around 1:38



Oh lord the string arpeggios take me to heaven.



Creepy as hell and I love it.

Listen to all of these in headphones.