[okeuro49]

"Sitting among the gleaming steel fixtures and softly glowing concrete lines of the modernist Cologne Bonn Airport on a sunny Sunday morning in late 1977, en route to his homebase, the perennially nervous flier recoiled once again at the canned pop pleasantries mindlessly piped into such an inspired space. The music was not only an afterthought but also insulting to the idea that you would soon climb into a sleek metal tube and be propelled by engines through the sky at 40,000 feet. “I started thinking, ‘What should we be hearing here?’ I thought most of all you wanted music that didn’t try to pretend you weren’t going to die on the plane, ” Eno, laughing but serious."

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/brian-eno-ambient-1-mus...

[soulofmischief]

It's a ritual of mine to play Eno's Discreet Music during takeoff. Something about it is just so enveloping, introspective and morose and no other piece of music hits me that way. So I figure, if I'm going to die, I want it to be to Discreet Music.

[bloopernova]

Thank you for sharing! I'm currently playing Discreet Music while there's lightning and thunder outside. My dog shivers with fright during bad storms and this is helping me to calm down, which in turn helps my pup.

[sebmellen]

Mine is Burning Airlines Give You So Much More, also by Eno.

[shlant]

> It's a ritual of mine to play Eno's Discreet Music during takeoff.

Mine is Giegling Mix 07. Less ambient and more 4/4 + breakbeat but beautifully emotive. Even better during sunset

[erictd]

This and Neroli are my favorites to play when I want something that doesn’t take over my attention, but grounds it.

[AdamN]

Perhaps the uplifting responsorial to this would be "An Ending (Ascent)" from his Apollo soundtrack.

[pimeys]

I never thought to see a link to a Pitchfork Sunday review on HN. I've been reading them with my morning coffee every Sunday for years.