Music for Meditation & Madness By Jonathan Berman

Songs to relax to, meditate, sleep to... some of my favorite songs ever made... 

I hope you enjoy them and feel free to make your own suggestions in the comments below.

(Include Artist - album or song title)

You can also listen to all of these songs, by using SPOTIFY and listening to my starred list.

  1. 10cc - I'm Not In Love
  2. 10,000 Maniacs - Hey Jack Kerouac
  3. a-ha - Take On Me
  4. A Fine Frenzy - Lifesize
  5. Aerosmith - Dream On, I Don't Want To Miss A Thing
  6. Air Supply - The one that you love
  7. The Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue
  8. Alanis Morissette - Mary Jane
  9. Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign
  10. Alexander Borodin - In the steps of central Asia
  11. Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind: Broken Down
  12. Alice in Chains - Brother
  13. Alizee - J'En Ai Marre
  14. Alphaville - Forever Young
  15. Al Stewart - Year of the Cat
  16. America - You Can Do Magic
  17. Ananda Girl
  18. Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman - Time to Say Goodbye
  19. Anggun - Snow on the Sahara
  20. Annie Lennox - Into The West, Why
  21. Anoushka Shankar - Breathing Under Water
  22. Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 no 1/RV 269 "Primavera"
  23. Art Garfunkel - All I Know
  24. The Audreys - Box of Kittens
  25. Avantasia - Farewell
  26. Aykanna
  27. B.B. King - If You Love Me
  28. Bacon Brothers - Memorize
  29. The Band - The Weight
  30. Baruch Levine - Kol Haberuim
  31. The Beatles - Because, Black Bird, Eleanor Rigby, Golden Slumbers, Here Comes The Sun, In My Life, Julia, While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  32. Ben Bedford - Land of the Shadows
  33. Bette Midler - The Rose
  34. Beth Orton - It's Not The Spotlight, Live As You Dream
  35. The Big Dish - Creeping up on Jesus, Satellites
  36. Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - I Had The Time Of My Life 
  37. Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face
  38. Billy Joel - And So It Goes, She's Always A Woman
  39. Billy Ocean - Suddenly
  40. Billy Preston - Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin', Outa-Space 
  41. Bjork - Bachelorette, Unravel
  42. Blackmill - Reach for Glory
  43. Blondie - Heart Of Glass
  44. Blues Traveler - Look Around
  45. Bob Dylan - The Times Are A-Changin'
  46. Bob Marley - Redemption Song
  47. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart
  48. Boston - More Than A Feeling
  49. Bowling for Soup - When We Die
  50. Bread - If 
  51. Brian Eno - Another Green World
  52. Bruce Hornsby and the Range - The Way It Is, Mandolin Rain
  53. Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
  54. Buddy & Julie Miller - Don't Say Goodbye
  55. Buddy Guy - I've Got Dreams To Remember
  56. Buddy Miles with Jimi Hendrix - Doriella Du Fontaine
  57. Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
  58. Bush - Letting The Cables Sleep
  59. Carbon Based Lifeforms - Abiogenesis, Interloper
  60. Carmella Baynie - Ashraya
  61. Carole King - It's Too Late, You've Got A Friend
  62. Carpenters - Close To You, For All We Know, Rainy Days and Mondays, We've Only Just Begun
  63. Cat Stevens - Father and Son, Morning Has Broken, Sad Lisa, Tea for the Tillerman
  64. Celtic Woman - May It Be
  65. Chakra's Dream
  66. Charlotte Church - Carrickfergus, Confessional Song, Even God, The Prayer, The Water Is Wide
  67. Cheb i Sabbah - Shri Durga
  68. Chicago - If You Leave Me Now, You're The Inspiration
  69. The Chieftans - The Essential Chieftans, He Moved Through The Fair
  70. Chris de Burgh - Fatal Hesitation
  71. Christopher Cross - Sailing
  72. Chuck Berry - You Never Can Tell 
  73. The Church - Under The Milky Way
  74. Clannad - Coinleach Glas an Fhómha, PastPresent
  75. Claude Debussy - Clair de lune
  76. Cocteau Twins - Pearly Dew Drops, Wolf in the Breast
  77. Coldplay - Fix You, In My Place, Swallowed In The Sea, Til Kingdom Come, Viva La Vida, What If
  78. Colin Hay - Waiting For My Real Life To Begin
  79. Concrete Blonde - Joey
  80. Connells - Lay Me Down
  81. Coverdale/Page - Shake My Tree
  82. Cranberries - Dreams, Linger
  83. Crash Test Dummies - At My Funeral
  84. Crosby, Stills & Nash - Helplessly Hoping
  85. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
  86. Culture Club - Love is Love
  87. The Cure - Just Like Heaven, One More Time
  88. Curtis Mayfield - The Impressionist Of Soul
  89. Cyndi Lauper - Time after Time
  90. Dala - Levi Blues, Life On Earth
  91. Damn Yankees - High Enough, Where You Going Now
  92. The Damned - Portrait
  93. Dan Fogelberg - Run For The Roses
  94. Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer
  95. David Bowie - Changes, Life On Mars, Quicksand, Seven, Space Oddity, Thursday's Child
  96. David Gilmour - Out of the Blue, So Far Away, There's No Way Out Of Here
  97. David Grey - Babylon
  98. Dead Can Dance - Spiritchaser, The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove, Toward the Within
  99. Deanna Carter - Colour Everywhere
  100. Deep Forest - Deep Blue Sea, Will You Be Ready?
  101. Diane Warwick - I'll Never This Way Again
  102. Dido - Life For Rent, White Flag, Thank You
  103. Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet, Sultans Of Swing
  104. Djivan Gasparyan - I Will Not be Sad in This World
  105. Don Henley - New York Minute
  106. Don McLean - Vincent (Starry,Starry Night)
  107. Donovan - Love Will Find A Way, Make Up Your Mind To Be Happy, Sailing Homeward, There Is A Mountain
  108. The Doobie Brothers - Another Park Another Sun, Listenin' To The Music, Minute By Minute
  109. The Doors - An American Prayer, The Crystal Ship, Strange Days
  110. Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town
  111. The Dubliners - The Town I Loved So Well
  112. Dubstar - Stars
  113. Duran Duran - The Chauffeur, Lonely in Your Nightmare, Save A Prayer
  114. Dvorak - Humoreske
  115. The Eagles - Desperado, The Last Resort, Take It To The Limit
  116. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon, Nothing Lasts Forever
  117. Edie Brickell - Circle, Picture Perfect Morning
  118. Elton John - Daniel, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, The One, Tiny Dancer
  119. Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love
  120. Enigma - McMxc A.D. "Return to Innocence"
  121. Enya
  122. Eric Carmen - All by Myself
  123. Eric Clapton - Autumn Leaves, Change The World, Old Love, Running On Faith, Tears in Heaven, Wonderful Tonight
  124. Esperanza Spalding
  125. Evanescence - Breathe No More, Good Enough, Hello, Imaginary, Missing, My Immortal
  126. Extreme - More Than Words
  127. Faith No More - Midlife Crisis
  128. Feist - The Limit To Your Love
  129. Firefall - It Doesn't Matter
  130. Fleetwood Mac - Dreams, The Chain, Landslide
  131. Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is, Waiting For A Girl Like You
  132. Frédéric Chopin - Nocturnes, Waltzes
  133. Gavin Rossdale - Forever May You Run
  134. General Public - Tenderness
  135. Genesis - Follow You Follow Me
  136. George Frideric Handel - Water Music Suite no 1 in F major
  137. George Michael - Careless Whisper, Freedom
  138. Georges Bizet - Carmen - Habañera
  139. Gerald Markoe - Meditation Music of Ancient Egypt
  140. Gloria Estefan - Anything For You
  141. Gordon Lightfoot - Early Mornin' Rain, If You Could Read My Mind, Sundown, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
  142. Grateful Dead - Attics Of My Life, Bird Song, Black Muddy River, Box Of Rain, Brokedown Palace, Candy Man, China Doll, Dark Star, Eyes Of The World, He's Gone, If I Had The World To Give, Must Have Been The Roses, Ripple, Rosalie Mcfall, To Lay Me Down, Touch of Grey
  143. Guns N' Roses - Civil War, Don't Cry, November Rain, Patience
  144. Hall & Oates - Sara Smile
  145. Harry Chapin - Cats in the Cradle, I Wanna Learn a Love Song, Taxi
  146. Hary Nilson - Without You
  147. Hariprasad Chaurasia - Abhogi
  148. Heart - Alone, These Dreams
  149. Helios - Bless This Morning Year
  150. Henry Mancini - Days of Wine and Roses
  151. Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better
  152. The Human League - Human
  153. Imogen Heap - Hide And Seek
  154. Jackson Browne - Stay
  155. James Keelaghan - Princes of the Clouds
  156. James Taylor - Fire and Rain, Shed A Little Light
  157. Jeff Beck - People Get Ready
  158. Jefferson Airplane - Embryonic Journey, Lather, White Rabbit
  159. Jewel - Hands
  160. Jimi Hendrix - Angel
  161. Jimmy Smith - See See Rider
  162. Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
  163. Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D
  164. Johann Sebastian Bach - St. Mathew Passion
  165. John Denver - Autograph
  166. John Lennon - I'll Follow The Sun, Imagine, Jealous Guy, Mother
  167. Johnny Cash - Hurt
  168. Jon Hopkins - Light Through The Veins
  169. Jonathan Berman - I Fall Awake
  170. Jonathan Coulton - Still Alive from the game: Portal
  171. Joni Mitchell - A Case Of You
  172. Journey - Faithfully, Girl Can't Help It, Open Arms, We Will Meet Again, Who's Crying Now
  173. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
  174. Joy Kills Sorrow
  175. Judy Garland - Somewhere Over The Rainbow
  176. Kalli - Nothing At All
  177. Kansas - Dust in the Wind, Play The Game Tonight, The Wall
  178. Kate Alexa - Another Now
  179. Kate Bush - The Man With The Child In His Eyes, Wuthering Heights
  180. Kate Nash - Nicest Thing
  181. Kelly Clarkson - Because of You, Breakaway, Where Is Your Heart
  182. Khursor - When You're Dreaming
  183. Kitaro - Heaven And Earth
  184. Laura Nyro 
  185. Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song, Thank You
  186. Leon Russell - Death Of The Flowers
  187. Leonard Cohen - Anthem, Hallelujah, Suzanne
  188. Linda Rondstadt and Aaron Neville - Don't Know Much
  189. Lionel Richie - Hello, Stuck On You
  190. Lisa Gerrard - Sanvean
  191. Loggins & Messina - Danny's Song, House at Pooh Corner
  192. Loreena McKennitt - The Stolen Child
  193. Lou Rawls - Pure Imagination
  194. Lou Reed - Perfect Day
  195. Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World
  196. Ludvig Van Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata, Romance for Violin
  197. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
  198. The Main Ingredient - Everybody Plays The Fool
  199. Maneesh de Moor - Sadhana
  200. Manish Vyas - Sattva
  201. Maria Callas - O Mio Babbino Caro
  202. Mariah Carey - My All, Outside
  203. Marianne Faithfull - As Tears Go By
  204. Marty Willson-Piper - Rhyme, She's King
  205. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
  206. Mary Fahl - Going Home
  207. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
  208. Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
  209. Men at Work - I Can See It In Your Eyes
  210. Mercedes Bahleda - Domine Fil Unigenite, Om Tare
  211. Metallica - Nothing Else Matters, Sanitarium
  212. Michael Jackson - Human Nature, Thriller
  213. Michelle Branch - Goodbye To You, One Of These Days, Stewart's Coat, Tuesday Morning
  214. Microdisney - Our Children
  215. Mike Oldfield - The Songs of Distant Earth
  216. Miranda Lee Richards - Here By the Window, Light of X
  217. The Mission UK - Butterfly on a Wheel, Beyond The Pale, Into The Blue
  218. Modern English - I Melt With You
  219. Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an exhibition
  220. The Moody Blues - Isn't Life Strange, Never Comes the Day, Tuesday Afternoon
  221. Moya Brennan
  222. Mozart for Meditation (2011)
  223. Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
  224. Natalie Merchant - Beloved Wife, Seven Years, Wonder
  225. New Model Army - Ballad, Green and Grey, Nothing Touches
  226. No Doubt - Don't Speak
  227. The Nylons - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
  228. October Project - A Lonely Voice, Ariel, Deep As You Go, Return To Me, Take Me As I am, Where Are You
  229. Oingo Boingo - Skin, Try To Believe
  230. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - If You Leave
  231. OST: Apollo, Brian Eno
  232. OST: Arthur - Christopher Cross
  233. OST: Bladerunner - Love Theme, Vangelis
  234. OST: Braveheart, James Horner
  235. OST: The Breakfast Club - Don't You (Forget About Me), Simple Minds
  236. OST: Crazy Heart - The Weary Kind, Ryan Bingham
  237. OST: Dead Man Walking - The Long Road, Eddie Vedder with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
  238. OST: The Deer Hunter - Cavatina, John Williams
  239. OST: Dirty Dancing - She's Like The Wind, Patrick Swayze
  240. OST: Donnie Darko - Mad World, Gary Jules, Michael Andrews
  241. OST: Electric Dreams - Together In Electric Dreams, The Human League
  242. OST: Empire Records
  243. OST: Final Fantasy VIII - Eyes on Me, Faye Wong
  244. OST: Final Fantasy IX - Melodies Of Life, Emiko Shiratori
  245. OST: For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton
  246. OST: Grease - Hopelessly Devoted To You, Summer Nights, Olivia Newton-John
  247. OST: Labyrinth - Sarah, Trevor Jones and David Bowie
  248. OST: Legend - Tangerine Dream
  249. OST: Legends of The Fall - The Ludlows, James Horner
  250. OST: Les Miserables - Original London Cast
  251. OST: Live and Let Die - Paul McCartney
  252. OST: Lunar Silver Star Story - Luna's Boat Song (Wind Nocturne)
  253. OST: Meet Joe Black - Whisper of a Thrill, Thomas Newman
  254. OST: Moonraker - Shirley Bassey
  255. OST: Neverending  Story - Limahl
  256. OST: Poltergeist - Jerry Goldsmith
  257. OST: The Rocky Horror Picture Show - I'm Going Home, Tim Curry, Science Fiction/Double Feature, Richard O'Brien
  258. OST: Skyfall, Adele
  259. OST: Somewhere in Time - Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini 18th Variation, Rachmaninoff and Theme
  260. OST: The Spy Who Loved Me - Nobody Does It Better, Carly Simon
  261. OST: Star Wars - Princess Leia's Theme
  262. OST: Stigmata - Identify, Natalie Imbruglia
  263. OST: Taxi (TV) - Angela, Bob James
  264. OST: Titanic - My Heart Will Go On, Celine Dion
  265. OST: Whalerider, Lisa Gerrard
  266. OST: Xanadu - Magic, Xanadu, Olivia Newton-John
  267. Otis Redding - The Dock of The Bay
  268. Ozzy Osbourne - Changes, Revelation: Mother Earth, Tonight
  269. Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia - Chourasia's Choice
  270. Paul Mauriat - Love Is Blue
  271. Paul Simon - Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War 
  272. Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind
  273. Peter Cetera - Glory of Love
  274. Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
  275. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake
  276. Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up
  277. Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi
  278. Pietro Mascagni - Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
  279. Pink Floyd - On The Turning Away, Lost For Words, Breathe, Us & Them, Wish You Were Here
  280. Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale
  281. Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
  282. The Psychedelic Furs - Ghost in You
  283. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody, Who Wants to Live Forever?, The Show Must Go On
  284. Queensryche - Falling Behind, I Don't Believe In Love, Silent Lucidity
  285. Ray Charles - Hey Girl
  286. R.E.M. - Find the River, Man on the Moon, Night Swimming, Star Me Kitten
  287. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
  288. The Redlands Palomino Company - Sleep Song
  289. Remy Zero - Save Me
  290. REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling
  291. Richard Wright - Pink's Song
  292. The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
  293. Rimsky Korsakov - Scheherazade, Song of India
  294. Rita Marley - Good Morning Jah, Who Feels It, Knows It
  295. Robbie Williams - Feel
  296. Robert Turgeon - Shaman's Journey
  297. Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
  298. Robyn Hitchcock - The Man Who Invented Himself
  299. Roger Waters - Amused to Death, Every Strangers Eyes, Fletcher Memorial Home, The Tide Is Turning, Two Suns in a Sunset
  300. The Rolling Stones - Angie, Wild Horses
  301. Roxette - It Must Have Been Love
  302. Roxy Music - More Than This, Avalon
  303. Roy Orbison - Only the Lonely
  304. Rush - Different Strings, Losing It, Madrigal, Manhattan Project, Natural Science, Rivendell, The Sphere, Tears
  305. Rusted Root - Beautiful People
  306. Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come, Wonderful World, You Send Me
  307. Samuel Barber – Adagio For Strings Op.11
  308. Santana - Europa, Samba Pa' Ti
  309. Sara Melson - Feel it Coming
  310. Sarah Brightman 
  311. Sarah McLachlan - Adia, Angel, Answer, Building A Mystery, I Will Remember You, River
  312. Schubert - Ave Maria - Leontyne Price
  313. Seals and Crofts - Summer Breeze
  314. Secret Garden - Songs From A Secret Garden
  315. Shaina Noll - How Could Anyone
  316. Shania Twain - From This Moment On, You're Still The One
  317. Shpongle - Spaceships of Imagination
  318. Silverchair - Miss You
  319. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Waters, The Boxer, The Sounds Of Silence
  320. Sinead Lohan - I Am No Mermaid
  321. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U, The Lion and the Cobra
  322. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Kiss Them For Me
  323. Sixpence None The Richer - There She Goes
  324. Smithereens - Blue Period
  325. The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
  326. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - The Tracks Of My Tears
  327. Solar Fiends - Sol
  328. Spandau Ballet - Only When You Leave, True
  329. Split Enz - Hard Act To Follow, I Got You
  330. The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There
  331. Starship - Sara
  332. Steely Dan - Reeling In The Years
  333. Stephanie Dosen - A Lily For The Spectre
  334. Steve Burns - Troposphere
  335. Steve Vai - For The Love Of God
  336. Steven Chesne - Grassland
  337. Stevie Ray Vaughn - Little Wing
  338. Sting - Desert Rose, Fields of Gold
  339. Styx - Come Sail Away
  340. Supertramp - Breakfast In America
  341. Survivor - Search Is Over
  342. Susan James - A Weeds Is Not A Weed (When It Grows Where It Belongs), Life Between Two Worlds
  343. Suzanne Sterling - Sivasana (Surrender)
  344. Syd Barrett - Dark Globe
  345. t.A.T.u. - All the Things She Said
  346. Tabla Beat Science
  347. Tan Dun - For the World
  348. Tasmin Archer - Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (Elvis Costello cover)
  349. Taylor Swift - Innocent
  350. Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels
  351. Tim Curry - Simplicity
  352. Tim Finn - Persuasion
  353. Tori Amos - A Sorta Fairytale, Happy Phantom, Hey Jupiter, Pretty Good Year, Silent All These Years, Winter
  354. Toto - Africa
  355. The Traveling Wilburys - Handle Me With Care
  356. Tres Chicas - Sway
  357. Tricky - Hell Is Around The Corner
  358. U2 - 40, Love Rescue Me, MLK, October, One, Pride, Running to Stand Still, Stuck In A Moment, Van Diemen's Land, With Or Without You
  359. Ulalena
  360. Van Halen - Love Walks In
  361. Van Morrison - Brand New Day, Into the Mystic, Queen of the slipstream
  362. Vanessa Williams - Save The Best For Last 
  363. Various: Reel Chill
  364. The Wallflowers - One Headlight
  365. Warrant - Heaven
  366. White Lion - When the Children Cry
  367. Whitney Houston - All At Once
  368. The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
  369. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Divertimento for String Quartet in F major
  370. The Wreckers - Hard To Love You, One More Girl, Stand Still, Look Pretty
  371. XTC - Dear God
  372. Yello - The Rhythm Divine
  373. Yes - I've seen all good people, Owner Of A Lonely Heart
  374. Zakir Hussain - Magical Moments of Rhythm

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