Soundtrack for a Headache

Slept. Awoke. Slept. Awoke. 6 hours of fitful sleep with a headache to boot. Waking up in the mornings is especially painful with a headache (well, duh.)

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb It's hard not to hear of Pink Floyd when all the music lovers of the previous generation gush about it, about how great they were live, how much of their youth was spent listening to them. Pink Floyd's music is all about the whole experience - not just the music or the melodies - but losing yourself in the whole atmosphere while you listen to their albums in their entireity. When you'ge got a pounding and raging headache, the best way is to lose yourself in some slow, soft music.





The Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise
Recommended to me by a friend on IRC some years ago. Love it.











Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Old, good stuff.











Foo Fighters - Walking After You
I remember listening to this song many many times on the radio when I was 14, back when radio actually still played alternative rock rather than soppy manufactured crap. From the X-Files movie soundtrack, if I recall. However, the album version with mellower guitars is much better in times of a bad pain in the head though.






Sigur Ros - Hoppipola
Lovely song. 'Hopping Puddles' in Icelandic it is. Dreamy, sweet, lulling you into a peaceful retreat from that crushing ache in the skull.









Elbow - Powder Blue
Another, soft slow piece and the headache's hopefully gone now.











(Cover art blatantly spirited from www.amazon.com )