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I've seen various discussions on this and other LJs (and occasionally, seditiously, had real conversations) about "Songs that make you X", for various values of X.

We had songs that make you want to dance, a while back (in my case Another Girl Another Planet is still the top favourite, I think) and songs that make you happy (pretty much anything by Helen Love). I've heard people talking about songs that make you cry (I'm not telling you), and songs that fill you with righteous anger (they're usually talking about Rage Against the Machine, closest I can manage to that is Tonight, Tonight by the Smashing Pumpkins).

However, today: songs that make you relax. I occasionally meet these, my favourite for some time has been Mercury Rev's Goddess on a Hiway, though I haven't heard it in ages. I certainly have, in the past, put on that album in an effort to make a headache go away, and been successful. Today I found another... just a few notes of the intro, and I immediately felt a certain amount of tension just leave. The Cure's Fire in Cairo - a song I've liked for a long time, but never really noticed it having this effect before.

Anyone else ?