Sing You To Sleep...

[Randy Darling]

Lately,I have begun to engage the practice of having music on,to put me to sleep.Music has always played a big part in my life,mainly in building up my creative juices.A few weeks ago though,I left a song from Radiohead`s last album on and fell asleep.I slept really well considering that I had always been prone to uneasy if violent dreams,so now I have even got a playlist which consists of Radiohead`s House Of Cards,a few instrumentals and the live version fo Life is a Pigsty with the lullaby at the end,so I was wondering if anyone else were doing this,and if so/if not what songs do/would you choose to put you to sleep.

Randy

 

[Corrissey]

Sounds nice. I sleep with a noise machine, on "rain".

 

[nugz]

I used to have a cd called "Beethoven for Bedtime."

but I have no idea where it is now.

 

[Zelda Zonk]

I do this. Perfected it over the years! I find any song will work as long as you listen to a group of songs over and over.

Try these:
Dolly Parton - Travelin' Thru
These Old Bones
Coat of Many Colors
Elvis Presley - Kentucky Rain
Love Me
Nina Simone - I Wish I Would Know How It Would Feel To Be Free
Gladys Night - Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me
Dean Martin - I'm Yours
Return To Me
Blur - Tender
Antony And The Johnsons - Fistful Of Love
David Gray - We're Not Right
Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining
Johnny Cash - One
Solomon Burke - Cry To Me
The Bloodhound Gang - The Ballad Of Chasey Lain
The Beatles - A Day In The Life
The Beach Boys - Cotton Fields

Happy Slumbers.x

 

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

Bach's Goldberg Variations, the Glenn Gould version from 1959 or thereabouts.

I always listen to it in hotel rooms, drops me right off.

 

[Corrissey]

Bach's Goldberg Variations, the Glenn Gould version from 1959 or thereabouts.

I always listen to it in hotel rooms, drops me right off.

My kids have been falling asleep to a "Baby's First Classics" (Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Chopin...) and "Smart Music (Classical Music for Babies)" CD for years... I can't do music (but sometimes TV) I just need a constant droning noise...like a fan, etc...

 

[slantedenchanted]

sleepy tracks

most of the 1st Richard Hawley lp
Smiths - Well i Wonder
my bloody valentine - loveless
the songs of leonard cohen
Nick Cave - the boatman's call

 

[Dow Jones]

Brian Eno's Apollo lp is the one true answer.
Easy sleep and creepy dreams, guaranteed!

When I'm ill and can't sleep but need to it's either that or some good shoegaze, like Slowdive or Daysleepers on the headphones and I'm off. Otherwise I just need the TV on. Fresh Prince of Bel Air is the best sleeping pill ever if you've seen every ep. like I have.

 

[EPbabe]

Lately,I have begun to engage the practice of having music on,to put me to sleep.Music has always played a big part in my life,mainly in building up my creative juices.A few weeks ago though,I left a song from Radiohead`s last album on and fell asleep.I slept really well considering that I had always been prone to uneasy if violent dreams,so now I have even got a playlist which consists of Radiohead`s House Of Cards,a few instrumentals and the live version fo Life is a Pigsty with the lullaby at the end,so I was wondering if anyone else were doing this,and if so/if not what songs do/would you choose to put you to sleep.

Randy

I tried that once, but instead of putting me to sleep, it got me totally excited. I was so carried away. On a second thought, I do listen to his music when travelling (and I travel a lot). Hated for Loving is my chill-out music.

Sounds nice. I sleep with a noise machine, on "rain".

Doesn't it make you wanna pee?

 

[vivabob]

Doesn't it make you wanna pee?

im stealing this as a quote

 

[half a person]

I can't listen to music when I'm going to sleep, it wakes me up. I have the radio on all night though, (my parents just love it), on radio 5, but the problem with that is that sometimes they have a good debate on just as I'm trying to go to sleep and I end up getting angry and texting in and pacing about I can't sleep with silence though, I end up with a really high pitched noise going round my head, and I get too bored, it always takes me about 40 minutes to get to sleep...

 

[Not Right in the Head]

I haven't been able to fall asleep to music since I was a teenager.

 

[oye terence]

i really cant sleep with music on,i prefer the tv on,generally on msnbc,so i basically fall asleep to the sounds and words of those prison docs,that may explain alot.

but if i had to choose an album to listne ot to fall asleep to,i would say "penthouse" by luna

 

[nowherefast944]

but if i had to choose an album to listne ot to fall asleep to,i would say "penthouse" by luna

i always fall asleep to galaxie 500.
sooo much droooonnnneee

 

[oye terence]

i always fall asleep to galaxie 500.
sooo much droooonnnneee

that is true.
i cant decide ifi like luna or galaxie 500 more,they are quite different other than dean warehams voice.

he went to school with conan o'brien.useless terence fact #3435

 

[Corrissey]

Doesn't it make you wanna pee?

No

I've tried 'white noise' but it's overwhelming, too much 'static'. Rain is just right. For a good, scary time, I put it on 'heartbeat' j/k

I'm sad... For years, I haven't sleep without something making a constant noise (fan, noise machine, etc.) If it's too quiet, I have a hard time sleeping. My brothers are the same way. I blame my parents for buying us noise machines one Xmas long ago

course there is always those exceptions if I'm sick or hungover that I can sleep to anything.

 

[nowherefast944]

that is true.
i cant decide ifi like luna or galaxie 500 more,they are quite different other than dean warehams voice.

he went to school with conan o'brien.useless terence fact #3435

true.

i always kind of preferred Damon and Naomi over Luna

 

[oye terence]

true.

i always kind of preferred Damon and Naomi over Luna

really?!?!?

i am way more partial to luna.

i like dean wareham,he is a strange and odd man,and his mix of boston,nyc and new zealand accent is different.

here ,this is him singing a luna song and it fits the thread as some may recall vh1 used to play these little videos at midnight as a good night thing.

 

[nowherefast944]

really?!?!?

i am way more partial to luna.

i like dean wareham,he is a strange and odd man,and his mix of boston,nyc and new zealand accent is different.

here ,this is him singing a luna song and it fits the thread as some may recall vh1 used to play these little videos at midnight as a good night thing.

ah i like that song.

 

[still ill life]

The "Disintegration" album by The Cure.

Haven't tried it, but would also want to try to listen to the song "Sound A-Sleep" by Blondie to put me to sleep. Both the title and the song itself sounds like it kind of was made for that...it's a good song.