Mohs Rock Metal / Level 1

Here lie the softest, most radio-friendly songs in the scale. Make sure you pass here if you came from listening to songs at the scale's hardest end, they might help you unwind. A vast majority of music enjoyed by children can be found here, as well.

Genres: Acoustic, softer Soft Rock, Piano music, Folk Music, Modern Classical, Baroque music, Chamber music, the softest Electronic Music, Ambient, softer Tropical music, softer Dream Pop, Gregorian Chant, Ragtime, Nursery Rhymes, Slowcore, Lowercase, Chillstep, Cloud Rap, Field Recordings, Nature Recordings, Reductionism, Indeterminacy, the softest Pop, Elevator music

Matching mineral: Talc

• Someone Like You (Adele)
• Teeth Out Pt. II ^note  Despite the dark atmosphere, it ultimately doesn't get heavy enough to reach higher levels. (ADULT.)
• The Eagle Will Rise Again, Old and Wise and Time (The Alan Parsons Project)
• Raining Blood (Tori Amos) ^note  The original Slayer song is a 9. Arguably a borderline 2 due to retaining some of the darkness of the original song in its music.
• Picnic of Love (Anal Cunt) ^note  Anal Cunt is known for being on Level 11, but this comes from their album of the same name as this song that intentionally tried to be really soft as a joke.
• Snow on the Sahara (Anggun)
• Craving Satan's Violence (Apator) ^note  Hard 1 due to Apator's growled vocals. This is a rare example of a song with growled vocals reaching this low on the scale, due to how minimalist and sparse it is (consisting of little more than a demonic grunt of the song title). The entire album this track comes from is exactly like this.
• Rhubarb, Fingerbib, qu 1, Nanou 2 and Avril 14th (Aphex Twin)
• Cherish and Never My Love (The Association)
• Fruit of Love (Audiovision)
• Altibzz, VLetrmx21 and Yulquen (Autechre)
• Two Hearts in 3/4 Time (The Avalanches) ^note  The ending jumps up to a 7, though.
• Watch the Cat (Bahramji & Maneesh De Moor)
• Triage at Dawn (Kelly Bailey, Half-Life 2 soundtrack)
• Ravens (Baldrs Draumar)
• Gravity (Sara Bareilles)
• Coffee (beabadoobee)
• Surfer Girl and The Warmth of the Sun (The Beach Boys)
• Good Night (The Beatles)
• Beneath the Mask (Bell Witch) ^note  A rare instance of a funeral doom band going this low.
• Music of the Spheres ^note  The intro is closer to 3. (Johanna M. Beyer)
• Thirteen (Big Star)
• Young Folks (Peter Bjorn & John) ^note  Definitely one of the fastest level 1 songs
• Moonlight (Black Gryph0n & Baasik)
• Changes and Fluff ^note  A peaceful-sounding instrumental. (Black Sabbath)
• Skin and Puppetmaster (bladee)
• Carnivores Unite (Blockhead)
• For the Damaged Coda (Blonde Redhead)
• Roygbiv (Boards of Canada)
• First Fires and Kiara (Bonobo)
• The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep) (Boris & Sunn O)))) ^note  Bet you did not expect to see Sunn O))) at this level!
• Fifteen Fathoms, Counting and Memorial (Bring Me the Horizon)
• Trouble (Lindsey Buckingham)
• Train Song (Vashti Bunyan)
• A Lovely Pear (Bull of Heaven)
• Exit Woundz and Forgive (Burial)
• Der Tod Wuotans and Rundtgåing av den transcendentale egenhetens støtte ^note  This fades in after the level 11 Decrepitude i. (Burzum)
• Turn! Turn! Turn! (The Byrds)
• Minecraft (C418, Minecraft soundtrack) ^note  a rather soft 1.
• Secrets VIP (Cahb) ^note  Very tranquil and euphoric song. Even the drums have a "hypnotic" quality to them. The original version is even softer.
• Someone You Loved (Lewis Capaldi)
• Stop Smoking (We Love You), I-94 W (832 mi) (Car Seat Headrest)
• I've Never Been To Me (Charlene)
• Asleep From Day (The Chemical Brothers)
• If You Leave Me Now (Chicago)
• Mr. Sandman (The Chordettes)
• Haunted Sky ^note  While creepy, it's not that heavy. (Robert Christopher)
• Think of Laura and Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) (Christopher Cross)
• Mary's Theme (Stelvio Cipriani)
• Wearing Out My Shoes (Club Des Belugas)
• Carolyn's Fingers and Sea, Swallow Me (Cocteau Twins)
• The Last Amethyst Deceiver (Coil)
• Desperately Safe and The Meaning Of His Tears (Alias Conrad Coldwood, OFF soundtrack)
• The World I Know (Collective Soul)
• Depression Nap and Punishment (ConsumerSoftproducts, Cruelty Squad soundtrack)
• Voices of the Mountain (Cormorant)
• Kairos (Covenant)
• Ascent (Coyote Oldman)
• Linger (The Cranberries) ^note  Becomes a bit closer to a 2 towards the end.
• Better Be Home Soon (Crowded House)
• And With Her Came the Birds (Cult of Luna)
• Train Station Ambient (Martin 'Cedyn' Czartynski, Painkiller soundtrack)
• Horizon and Nightvision (Daft Punk)
• D e t e r m i n i s m ( [ D A T A B U R S T ])
• Everything You Are (deadmau5)
• Dance Macabre (Decapitated) ^note  Yes, a freaking Death Metal band did a song at this level. Borderline 2 because of how eerie it is.
• Glow (DeepChord)
• Sweet Lullaby (Deep Forest)
• Chamber of Reflection (Mac DeMarco)
• My Heart Will Go On (Céline Dion)
• SA BIR (Dir en grey) ^note  Not necessarily their softest song, but comparing it to much of their discography can be extremely jarring, considering that they're an ultra-aggressive experimental outfit
• Adventure (Disasterpeace, Fez soundtrack)
• Darkness (Disturbed)
• Paradise Bird Theory (DJ Krush ft. Sunja Lee)
• What a Fool Believes (The Doobie Brothers)
• The Crystal Ship and Wishful Sinful (The Doors)
• Pink Moon, Which Will, and From the Morning (Nick Drake)
• The Silent Man (Dream Theater) ^note "Vacant" and "Wait for Sleep" are around this level as well.
• Jeans On (David Dundas)
• when the party's over (Billie Eilish)
• Sabrina (Einstürzende Neubauten)
• Return To Innocence (Enigma)
• 1/2 and Alternative 3 (Brian Eno)
• Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
• Kriegsromantik ^translation War Romance (Feuertaufe) ^note  It's unlikely to get any radioplay due to other reasons, though.
• Agony (Fleshgod Apocalypse) ^note  Yes, they're a Death Metal act, but they also put out a lot of piano tracks such as this one.
• The Fallen Child ^note  Hard 1 due to the deep, thudding bass drum., Shop (Genocide) ^note  The normal version is also here., Snowdin Town (Genocide) ^note  Borderline 2. The original version is here as well., Your Best Friend, Reunited, Undertale, Snowdin (Genocide) ^note  The regular version reaches this level, too. and Fallen Down (Toby Fox, Undertale soundtrack)
• Nuclear Winter (Funker Vogt) ^note  Borderline 2 for Jens Kästel's deep, guttural voice.
• Songbird (Kenny G)
• [untitled] (Gas)
• You Look So Fine and So Like a Rose (Garbage)
• Herr Mannelig (Garmama)
• Horizons (Genesis)
• Sketch2 (Glitched Hero Y) ^note Borderline 2 for the glitchy portion in the middle.
• Somebody That I Used to Know (Gotye)
• Main Street (Alec Gould)
• Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) (Green Day)
• At the River (Groove Armada)
• Flutey (World Map) (Mathew E. Harwood, Castle Crashers soundtrack) ^note There is some percussion, but the track is light and airy enough to be at level 1.
• Delta Rain Dream (Jon Hassell & Brian Eno)
• No Drums and This Life (Tim Hecker)
• Bubbles (Herbie Hancock)
• A Story (hide)
• First Love (Utada Hikaru)
• Gats (Susumu Hirasawa, Berserk (1997) soundtrack)
• Are We Still Married? (His Name Is Alive)^note  The Dirt Eaters and Someday My Blues Will Cover the Earth versions only; the album version is a 3
• True Love Ways (Buddy Holly)
• Uncharted Worlds and Vigil (Sam Hulick & Jack Wall, Mass Effect soundtrack)
• I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire and Maybe (The Ink Spots)
• TIME, AURORA and MAP (INTERNET CLUB)
• Maritime (Isis) ^note  Borderline 2 because of the drums.
• Garrotte (Isserley)
• Don't Do Drugs Just Take Some Jack Ü (Jack Ü) ^note  Yes, there's already an umlaut this early.
• Steppin Out (Joe Jackson)
• She's Out of My Life (Michael Jackson)
• Oxygène, Pt. IV (Jean-Michel Jarre) ^note  All in all, the entirety of Oxygène is a 1.
• Dun Ringill, Requiem and Thick as a Brick Edit 1 (Jethro Tull) ^note  The 46-minute album cut immediately turns to a hard 3 where the single picks up from.
• Deep Water (Jewel)
• Just the Way You Are (Billy Joel)
• I Want Love and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John)
• Kaede and Shuichi (JohnJRenns)
• Cave In ^note  Borderline 2. and Neurosis (June Miller)
• Accumula Town (Shota Kageyama, Pokémon Black and White soundtrack)
• Tutorial (KawaiSprite, Friday Night Funkin' soundtrack) ^note  The beats are soft enough for the song to be at this level.
• Rhenit (Roland Kayn)
• I'd Rather Sleep (Kero Kero Bonito)
• Barracks Settlement (KIKIYAMA, Yume Nikki soundtrack) ^note  Most of Yume Nikki's ambient pieces are on this level, though some tracks manage to go higher due to the fear factor alone.
• Be Still (The Killers)
• The Last Goodbye (The Kills)
• Stand By Me (Ben E. King)
• Moonchild (King Crimson)
• Beth (KISS)
• Ground Theme ^note  Borderline 2. (Koji Kondo, Super Mario Bros. soundtrack)
• Summer Madness (Kool & the Gang)
• Chill Noons (Kronicle)
• Retrospect (Kubbi)
• Such Small Hands (La Dispute)
• That's the Way, Battle of Evermore and The Rain Song (Led Zeppelin)
• Imagine (John Lennon)
• One More Light and Empty Spaces (Linkin Park)
• Packaged-piano ver. (livetune ft. Hatsune Miku)
• Hey Now (London Grammar)
• The Night We Met (Lord Huron)
• Royals (Lorde)
• Lullaby (Low)
• Low Speed (Otto Luening)
• Lovesick - 80,000 Lightyears, Finding Shapes in the Clouds and Good Morning (Jami Lynne, OMORI soundtrack)
• Wait (M83)
• Sneaky Adventure (Kevin MacLeod)
• Teardrop (Massive Attack)
• Sine Music (Richard Maxfield)
• Look On Down From The Bridge (Mazzy Star)
• I'll Be (Edwin McCain)
• Junk (Paul McCartney)
• Big Rock Candy Mountain (Harry McClintlock)
• The Dark Night of the Soul (Loreena McKennitt)
• San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) (Scott McKenzie)
• Mr. Arrow Key (Lena Meyer-Landrut)
• I Felt Your Shape and Headless Horseman (The Microphones)
• K.K. Cruisin' (Toru Minegishi, Animal Crossing soundtrack) ^note  Performed by character K.K. Slider in-game.
• Richland Woman Blues (Mississippi John Hurt)
• Morning Morgantown, My Old Man and Ladies of the Canyon (Joni Mitchell)
• I Wanna Be Free (The Monkees)
• Slow Down (Morcheeba)
• Radiation Storm, Vats of Goo ^note  One of Mark's drone ambient pieces, and a borderline 2. and Dream Town (Mark Morgan, Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout: New Vegas soundtracks)
• 2 Nocturnes, Op. 15: Elegiaco, poco stentato (Alexander Mosolov)
• 1916 and Whorehouse Blues (Motörhead)
• Cut My Hair (Mounika ft. Cavetown) ^note The song it samples, This is Home by Cavetown, is a 2 that is a 1 in the intro and end.
• Medicine (Mouth of the Architect)
• We Have a Map of the Piano (múm)
• Angst (myuu) ^note  Proof that you don’t need to be at the high end of the scale to be very scary.
• Nimb #9 and Nimb #1 ^note  Borderline 2 for how chaotic it gets in the second half. (Toshimaru Nakamura)
• Into The Desert (Pete Namlook)
• Exile Vilify (The National, Portal 2 soundtrack)
• Time Zones ^note  Borderline 2. (Negativland)
• The Day the World Went Away (Nine Inch Nails) ^note  Quiet and Still version respectively; the original Fragile version is much higher.
• Something in the Way (Nirvana)
• Rust (No, Really)
• Left Bank Two (The Noveltones)
• Dreams (Nuages)
• Feather (Nujabes ft. Cise Starr & Akin)
• Songbird and Wonderwall (Oasis)
• Counting Down the Hours (Ockeroid, K.O.L.M. soundtrack)
• Ommadawn Pt.1 (1975 Stereo Mix) (Mike Oldfield)
• Replica (Oneohtrix Point Never)
• Patterns in the Ivy (Opeth)
• Cannibal Holocaust (Main Theme) (Riz Ortolani, Cannibal Holocaust soundtrack)
• ...Speaking... (collapsed version) ^note A stripped down, banjo (plus vocals) only version of the original ...Speaking..., which after the relatively soft (still harder than most of the collapsed version) first three and a half minutes goes up to a 10. and Norwegian Nights (Panopticon)
• Hate to See Your Heart Break and 26 (Paramore)
• Too Close to the Sun (Alan Parsons)
• Afterglow (Phaeleh ft. Soundmouse)
• Modus Operandi (Photek)
• A Pillow of winds, Summer of 68, Speak to Me, If, Fearless, Green Is The Colour and Outside The Wall (Pink Floyd)
• Where Do We Draw the Line (Poets of the Fall)
• Hosianna Mantra (Popol Vuh)
• Chained Dog ^note  Borderline 2. (Dave Porter, Breaking Bad soundtrack)
• It's A Fire, Roads ^note  Borderline 2., The Rip (Portishead)
• Beyond the Deathray (The Prodigy)
• Love My Way (The Psychedelic Furs)
• Dear Friends, You Take My Breath Away, Is This the World We Created?and Love of My Life (Queen)
• 1382 Wyclif Gen. ii. 7 And spiride in to the face of hym an entre of breth of lijf. (Akira Rabelais)
• Treefingers, MK1 and MK2(Radiohead)
• Situation: Relation (Rainer Maria)
• Ein Lied (Rammstein)
• You're Now a Hero (Reachground)
• Porcelain (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• Leaving New York, Nightswimming (R.E.M.)
• Skyway, Here Comes a Regular (The Replacements)
• Cry of the Unheard ^note  Though very creepy (the song consists of the sound of a theremin and nothing but), it’s ultimately not heavy or harsh enough to be higher. and Forgotten ^note  Borderline 2. (REPULSIVE)
• Little Boxes (Malvina Reynolds)
• Necropolis (Trent Reznor, Quake soundtrack) ^note  Proof that you certainly don't need to be at the high end of this scale to be downright creepy or haunting.
• Dorian Reeds ^note  There are some parts that reach higher than 1, so it's a borderline 2. (Terry Riley)
• Mutations ^note  The parts toward the end become a little heavier, so it's a borderline 2. (Jean-Claude Risset)
• Blossom (Porter Robinson)
• Not Told (Roc Marciano ft. Knowledge the Pirate & KA)
• A Quiet Flexible Background For A Harmonious Life (Steve Roden)
• As Tears Go By (The Rolling Stones)
• Oxleay (Keith Rowe & John Tilbury)
• Remind Me (Röyksopp)
• Tears (Rush)
• Your Reality (Dan Salvato & Jillian Ashcraft, Doki Doki Literature Club! soundtrack)
• Robotnik's Lab ^note  Borderline 2. (Kyuu Sawamura, Sonic.exe soundtrack)
• Bayreuth Return, Wahnfried 1883 (Klaus Schulze)
• Tiny Little Adiantum (Shibayan, milka and 3L)
• Sky Chord (Tsuji Shion)
• Title, 100 Sunny, Sugar Star Planetarium, Aquifer, Fleur, DUET, Something ^note  Consists of mainly an ominous choir, but isn't heavy enough for higher levels. and Clean Slate (Pedro Silva, OMORI soundtrack)
• 13 Angels Standing Guard 'Round the Side of Your Bed (Silver Mt. Zion)
• Untitled (How Could This Happen to Me?) (Simple Plan)
• Fly Me to the Moon (Frank Sinatra)
• Clarus ^note  Borderline 2. (SizzleBird)
• The Goat ^note  Borderline 2 due to the vocals towards the end. (Sopor Aeturnus and The Ensemble of Shadows)
• Dearly Beloved and Roxas (Yoko Shimomura, Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II soundtracks, respectively)
• It's Okay To Cry (SOPHIE) ^note  Despite the heavier sounds in the middle and especially the ending, there is enough breathing room for it to remain at 1.
• Inception (Spawn of Possession)
• Everytime (Britney Spears)
• Samson (Regina Spektor)
• N. Sanity Island (Spiralmouth, Crash Twinsanity soundtrack)
• I Hope I Never (Split Enz)
• Tommib (Squarepusher, Lost in Translation soundtrack)
• The Landing (Standing on the Corner)
• Down 3 and The Evil That Never Arrived (Stars of the Lid)
• i think you're really beautiful (starry cat) ^note  The distortion at the end of the song brings it close to a 2.
• Home At Last (Steely Dan)
• If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out, Trouble, and Where Do the Children Play? (Cat Stevens)
• Shape of My Heart (Sting)
• Big Jet Plane (Angus and Julia Stone)
• Imperfect (Stone Sour)
• Forever (Stratovarius)
• Balcony (Studio Pixel, Cave Story soundtrack)
• The Next Life (Suede)
• Cry of Giegue (Keiichi Suzuki, EarthBound Beginnings soundtrack) ^note  Though very creepy (the song consists of a screeching-high Drone of Dread and nothing but), it's ultimately not heavy or harsh enough to go higher.
• Blind (Swans) ^note  Definitely one of the band's gentler songs, musically and lyrically (where it’s a hard 4/soft 5).
• Fifteen (Taylor Swift)
• Hidden in the Sand (Tally Hall)
• Giygas' Lair, Giygas' Intro, Giygas Stirs and Prayer for Safety (Hirokazu Tanaka & Keiichi Suzuki, EarthBound (1994) soundtrack)
• Doll's House and Pieces of Me (Patricia Taxxon)
• A Distance There Is (Theatre of Tragedy) ^note  This song serves as a breather on the debut album, the rest of which is all 9-10 material. Raymond's vocals don't feature at all, nor do any guitars or drums. Just Liv, a piano, and a violin.
• Song to the Siren (This Mortal Coil)
• Living in the Sunlight (Tiny Tim)
• Parabol and Lipan Conjuring (tool)
• Shade (The Tossers)
• Fly (Devin Townsend) ^note  Yes, that Devin Townsend. The rest of the Ghost album—a dreamy, non-metal new age effort—is also a 1 or a very light 2.
• Hell Is Around The Corner (Tricky)
• Happy Together (The Turtles)
• Golbez, Clad in Dark and Aerith's Theme (Nobuo Uematsu, Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy VII soundtracks)
• Heaven (Unkle) ^note Despite having a distorted guitar and crunchy industrial drums, the song is very airy and light-hearted.
• Sunday Morning and Pale Blue Eyes (The Velvet Underground)
• P and Felbomlasztott Mentökocsi (Venetian Snares)
• Love will be born again (English ver.) (Versailles)
• From My Hands (VNV Nation)
• Ave Maria, O autrix vite and Caritas habundat in omnia (Hildegard von Bingen)
• Still Doll (Kanon Wakeshima) ^note Borderline 2 due to its use of minor chords
• Butterfly (Weezer)
• Only One (Kanye West)
• We're Going to Be Friends (The White Stripes)
• Golden Cage (The Whitest Boy Alive)
• Break My Stride (Matthew Wilder)
• Aquatic Ambiance, K. Rool's Cacophony, Stickerbush Symphony and Windmill Hills (David Wise, Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze soundtracks)
• Lean on Me (Bill Withers)
• Somewhere (Within Temptation)
• Endless Rain and Forever Love (X Japan)
• Crystalised, Night Time, Sunset, Islands ^note  Borderline 2. and Intro (The xx)
• Not Tomorrow, Nowhere ^note  The final part reaches 7., Silent Hill, Alone in the Town, True, White Noiz, Letter ~ From The Lost Days and Never Forgive Me, Never Forget Me (Akira Yamaoka, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3 soundtracks)
• loss (yandere)
• One More Minute ("Weird Al" Yankovic) ^note  On the Mohs Scale of Lyrical Hardness, however, it’s a 9.
• Hear Our Prayer (Yuki Kajiura)
• Lotus Waters (Yume 2kki soundtrack)
• Little Umbrellas (Frank Zappa)