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Best music to go to sleep to...

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by Anthonyc

When I was about 14 I went to bed every night to Jimi Hendrix 1983 a merman I shall be for at least year.. Now I have Bon Iver, Sigur Ros, Tindersticks etc. Never go to sleep without music what do you guys reckon?

Anthonyc | 06 Jul '08, 11:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Lightspeed Champion

Specifically Midnight Surprise.


Mars Volta


^

i love drifting off to that.. especially when it gets to emmy "wake up princess" (is it emmy or florence there?)


Nightmares

of every festival ever?


i saw a snippit

with dev mentioning that he wanted his album to be music for people to fall asleep to...

worked obv.

x josh


Boards of Canada

Fucked up dreams all the way


^^ i opened this thread

to add this band (Y)


Radiohead

Amnesiac


I don't tend to sleep well without music.

Nick Drake
Simon and Garfunkel (mid 60s stuff)
Some Byrds
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker


If you're as knacked as me - anything

I went to sleep with lightning bolt on my headphones last week. :(


good choice

I have done this quite a bit too.


i don't like sleeping to music

but sometimes when i'm drunk i'll stick on Ocean Songs


if i do its usually either

explosions in the sky
american analog set
stars of the lid


EITS

The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place


i like

ellegy for all the dead rock stars by thurston moore


do you have

Hammock's latest album?


Nick Drake

is also really good, and Mountain Goats.. Really not sure about Mars Volta though! Frances the Mute?


Metallica

Somehow I managed to fall asleep while listening to Enter Sandman, no idea how.


Hip-hop usually

El-p, I can penetrate his rhyme schemes easier when Im half asleep!
Sometimes something like Tindersticks or Sunny Day Real Estate


Falling asleep listening to Enter Sandman would be easy.

I reckon I could sleep through the whole Black Album and everything else they released after it.


he left

that one wide open


Stars of the lid,

Max Richter, Boards of Canada, tunng... etc etc.

Although to be honest i sleep to most of my music... apart from the odd exception (like Hella et al...)


love

el p


Eluvium - Copia

Takashi Wada - Araki

The latter will have you dreaming of japanese beaches, the sort that appear in every Kitano film.


yup

Pink Moon for me recently


good albums:

stars of the lid - refinement....
a lily - wake:sleep
beach house - s/t (2nd album is poor by comparision)


Say Hi


I once fell asleep

at a Mogwai gig


another good one..

Michael Andrews' orchestral Donnie Darko soundtrack.
again; some pretty odd/intriguing dreams.


Grace by Jeff Buckley.

I should try this more often actually. I usually listen to music right before I go to sleep, but never actually try and fall asleep while listening.


Liars - Drum's Not Dead

minimal techno is surprisingly nice as well. That Minilouge album "Animals" is very relaxing.


I used to go to sleep to

Mogwai - Rock Action
Sigur Ros - ( )
My Morning Jacket - It still moves
John Martyn - Solid Air
Black Box Recorder - The Facts of Life
Mercury Rev - All is Dream/Deserters Songs/The Secret Migration

I stopped putting music on to fall asleep to though when I saw an interview with Stuart Braithwaite and he was saying that it was insulting when fans would come up to him and say that they go to sleep with his music on, he'd much prefer that they actually listen to it.....fair point, really


i love

solid air more than i love macaroni cheese. stunning album.

also, Air have made some quality sleeping tunes, especially the Virgin Suicides soundtrack.


Epic 45

and also Trembling Blue Stars


more a voice. . .used to love

listening to Mark Radcliffe when he did R2 cos a)I love his rambling voice b)he tended to pick great tunes. He moved to day time then and was replaced by some honking, yakking twat. At least I still have the lovely Guy Garvey on Sundays - again, great voice,good tunes.


Mazzy Star


I listened to some Steve Reich

before bed time last night,thinking it would help as its pretty chilled (minimal and that) and just couldn't get the sodding rhythms out of my head.

() by Sigur Ros is a good one, as is a bit of Murcof.


El Perro Del Mar

By the fourth track of the self-titled debut, guaranteed sleep will occur.


Eluvium

or The Field.


Anything...

if I'm tired enough otherwise alt/free folk by people like charalambides, Cath and Phil Tyler and Edith Frost.


eits

( ) by sigur ros also but i'll start feeling really sad if it gets to untitled 3 and i'm still awake

all air albums and interpol - turn on the bright lights


Tim Hecker

Harmony in ultraviolet,
amazing soundscapes, this record takes you places


Efterklang


lots and lots

I tend to listen to these on a fairly regular basis; Hammock (Kenotic), Labradford (Mi Media Naranja), Nick Drake, Ghastly City Sleep (s/t)


i always find Low

Drums & Guns works very very well. im not saying that its boring. just soothing.


Fuck Buttons

yup.


^ i did this the other day

with beer in my summerhouse just so amazing album whole way through


Yndi Halda

'Dash & Blast' in particular.


something moody/drony when i am sober

bohren club de gore, earth, black dog.

Sleeping when drunk: cro mags, bad brains, black flag [insert any other sing along earlyhardcore], lots of videogame music.


either loveless or

hatful of hollow.

Sleeping to music is really difficult though!


Talk Talk

'Spirit Of Eden'. Oh, and Mercury Rev's 'Deserter's Songs' usually does the job.


My favs are;

Nick Drake
Portishead
Richard Hawley
Jeff Buckley


Spirituailzed...

Laser guided melodies.

I do have a habit of listen to Sigur Ros, but then getting loudly awakened in a panic by aggressive dance music, as Simian mobile disco are next on itunes.


I used to listen to EITS, Godspeed, Sigur Ros

until one time I had some EITS playing and here was a really loud bit that woke me up really suddenly. Since then i've stuck with Sigur Ros, The Everly Brothers, Panda Bear, Stars of the Lid, Boards of Canada or the good ol' Russell Brand Podcast. Oh, every so often I go through phases of listening to the radio in bed - usually LBC. Funny... there are so many insane people that listen to the radio and call in in the middle of the night.


It must also be noted

that i often find it hard to sleep when listening to The Russell Brand Podcast as I laugh too much. I will also listen to a stand up DVD or this collection of prank phonecalls I have every so often. Genius.


for

me it has to be something that is consistently quite, such as Nick Drake , 'Pink Moon' I suppose, or the Last Town Chorus.


if you're Tom Hanks..

..and / or very skinny, "Streets of Philadelphia".


Lullatone

Hell, even their 'best of' was called "We Will We Will Rock You (To Sleep)"


Eno all the way

Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports
Brian Eno - Music For Films
Brian Eno - Ambient 4: on Land
Brian Eno - Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
Brian Eno - Discreet Music
Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks


Pualy P - S'No Beats

Which you can download from my blog handily http://thesonicminefeild.blogspot.com/2008/06/balearic-skirmish.html

My step bro did it, its a DJ mix of ambient music and I often drift off to it.

And no he still cant find or be arsed to make a track list heheh

KLF, Burial, Eno, Hammock, Aphex Twin, amongst many many others I cant rember feature on it.


Zauberberg or Pop

By Gas


oh yeah

good choice. I have had those on for about a week on and off.


ever since it came out

I love going to sleep to Colleen's Golden Morning Breaks. I like dreams where you explore really old buildings and that album evokes just that for me.


I could sleep to pretty much anything

Chopin last night
Black Dice the night before


if you can find it

i suggest the dream house/sketches for flea by windy and carl.

its brilliant for falling asleep too


I thought I'd

fall straight off to sleep with Interpol - TOTBL, but it totally didn't work. It put me on edge and kept me awake :(


Ivor Cutler

old loon reads bedtime stories, is nice.


i once fell asleep

during a richie hawtin set at creamfields, when he played harder music than he does now.
another vote for sigur ros (), it's harder to sleep if i can understand the words.


Bruce Springsteen

Nebraska is wonderful to put on before you go to bed.


I dont listen to music while going to sleep

i want to listen and appreciate music, not have it as a background.


mazzy star

...


Pink Moon

on the rare times I'm not listening to the radio.


Sigur Rós ( everything)

Jeff Buckley - Grace
Beck- Mutations
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Pink Floyd - Devision Bell
Royksopp - Melody A.M.


Laura Marling

Richard Hawley


Well...

I reckon that these are worth a mention;

Cornelius - Point
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 2
Brian Eno - Music For Airports
Holy Fuck LP
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother

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And actually...

The soundtrack to Midnight Cowboy is pretty cool too!

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