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Best music to go to sleep to...

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?



  • 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. :(

  • tracks from atlas sound's blog...

    .

  • 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

  • Anything by Sparklehorse

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Definitely Nick Drake

  • 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.

  • anything puts me to sleep.

  • 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.

      • well theres lots of stuff, but the quintisential sleep music for me is

        simply, Board of Canada.

  • 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.

  • red house painters

    • 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.

  • The For Carnation

  • 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.

  • 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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