Recording Silence: The healing power of good music

I spend the beginning of this week recording thrash metal.
Very young band. Not very tight. Or... not tight at all but the vibe was there. It was great fun. The lyrics were just hilarious. Very appropriate for a bunch of 17 year olds playing thrash metal. Lots of blood drinking and so on...
Usually I am not very keen on sessions like this but for some reason the songwriting was just so in tune with what the whole genre is about, I just found myself really digging it.

The Beyer Dynamics Opus 99 worked really well on this kids assdrum, oops, I meant to write bass drum, but was just about to say that it sounded like ...ass. A convenient and very appropriate typo. But the opus 99 and some aggressive EQing really put the B back in his assdrum. No sound replacing or samples required.
It was fun but sessions like that can really wear you out. The music is ok but it just isn't your brand of music. Ofcourse every engineer have to be able to put his personal taste in music aside whenever he is working on something he wouldn't normally listen to. I am actually quite good at that and can find enjoyable elements in pretty much every session I work on. But still... badly played metal can wear you out.

So now I've spent the rest of the weak healing myself with soothing sounds and pretty songs. Just to get back on track. These are songs that I turn to when I feel down, or optimistic, or when I have too much on my mind or when I am trying to forget the metal session I just recorded. I've got some more metal sessions in the next weeks so I think I will be needing some of this stuff to calm myself down.
I am not even going to explain these at all. Just make sure that your browser allows you to check out embedded youtube material and enjoy.

Fleet Foxes - He Doesn't Know Why