Music to fall asleep to...any ideas?

JerryHandbag

Im compiling a playlist of really chilled out songs, the type of music that might put me to sleep (in a good way of course!).....so if any of you know some songs of the mellow, laid back variety if you could post them here that would be really cool...I'm thinkin soft whispery vocals, gently played acoustic guitar/piano, that sort of vibe....
At the moment I have Sigur Ros, Kings Of Convenience and Iron & Wine in my collection so if anybody 'chills out' to similar artists/songs/albums let me know!

yevveh

Grizzly Bear (youtube "grizzly bear bathroom paris", it's shift, such a beautiful song), The Album Leaf (try Twenty Two Fourteen)... can't help you any more right now, I'm better at 'music to wake people up with'

invincibleirish

Royksopp Melody AM
Duke Ellington & Orchestra live
Boards Of Canada Campfire headphase
Lemon Jelly Lost Horizons

these are some of the albums that have sent me to the land of Zs in times gone by, helps if you're stoned but sure they'll work anyway without.

lordgoat

Burial Untrue

MagicMarker

Pink Floyd.

Fanny Cradock

Two good suggestions, yevveh. The Light by The Album Leaf is also excellent.

A few off the top of my head:

A Coral Room by Kate bush.

Bluemthal by Ulrich Schnauss (excuse the crappy sound quality)

I would recommend the album Music for Airports by Brian Eno. Very simple and minimalist stuff that will let you slip off gently to sleep. And nearly anything by Sigur Ros, especially their () album

Jim

Kings of Convience. Very very chilled out indie acoustic.

Daithio

Nick Drake really works for me. Also Bon Iver, and Aphex Twin's selected ambient works.

Aspiration

The Knife - the Silent Shout album. It's what I fall asleep to most nights and I never get sick of it. Their other albums are brilliant too but I like Silent Shout to chill out too.

bowsie casey

Low
Dirty Three

...or even better the Low / Dirty Three colloboration album In the Fishtank

JaneyMc

The Postal Service is always good for me.

mehfesto2

I second Nick Drake.
David Gray as cheesy as he is nowadays is perfect too. And Jack Johnson too. Say what you like about them both, they really have a lovely calming effect on me.

Individual songs I have on my own playlist are:

Radiohead - Fake plastic trees (live in tibet). Fades in and out, so it's perfect.
She & Him - You Really Got A Hold on Me. Ukuele and two voices only.
Air and Damon Albarn - Black Book. Lovely stuff this.
The Beatles - For No One
Jens Lekman - Call Me Al. It's a cover. Lovely and soft.
Ladysmith Black Mombazo - Nomathemba - African vocal group. Droning and beautiful

overexcitedaj

I find lately that Moby or Damien Rice is nice to fall asleep to

MikeHoncho

Sigur Ros is by far and away the best music to fall asleep to.

smackbunnybaby

Stars of the Lid

Gone West

the knife

KnifeWRENCH

Bjork - Cocoon.
The Breeders - Here No More.
Radiohead - Sail To The Moon.

Nolanger

Hothouse Flowers would put anyone to sleep.

ANarcho-Munk

Cocteau Twins
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Schneider TM
The Notwist
Arvo Part
some Neu! can be really chilled out..
Blue Man Group
Neutral Milk Hotel
some Stereolab
Broken Social Scene
Apostle Of Hustle
Lambchop
Manu Chao

mewso

Spiritualized

Im_No_Superman

square_igloo wrote: »

Radiohead - Sail To The Moon.

Great call.

Can I also recommend:

Videotape - Radiohead
In the Waiting Line - Zero 7
Come and Find Me - Josh Ritter

Thats just afew off the top of my head.

mental07

I used to fall asleep to Radiohead's 'Kid A' album around about the time it was released. I remember one particular incident whereby I fell asleep while listening to it with earphones in, but I was awoken with a jump by the beginning of 'Motion Picture Soundtrack' :pac:

dave.omeara

Mogwai - Zidane:A 21st Century Portrait, Mr Beast (certain songs) and Happy Songs for Happy People.

The Knife - The Knife

Anything by Sigur Ros

Might even throw in a bit of Kraftwerk as well.

Unkle - Psyence Fiction

LemonJelly - Lemonjelly.ky and Lost Horizons

Fringe

Modest Mouse and Weezer.

Photi

smackbunnybaby wrote: »

Stars of the Lid

Absolutely.

Been drifting off to And Their Refinement... and The Tired Sound Of... a lot recently. Love Piano Aquieu, Mulholland and Don't Bother They're Here.


OP, also try Cody by Mogwai, the version off the Goverment Commissions album if you can. Also a lot of Loveless by MBV sets me off, just make sure you're sleeping before Soon or you'll be up dancing.

Check out Fennesz too, especially the album Endless Summer.

Oh. And Mazzy Star. Especially the track 'Into Dust'.

Photi

ANarcho-Munk wrote: »

Cocteau Twins
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Schneider TM
The Notwist
Arvo Part
some Neu! can be really chilled out..
Blue Man Group
Neutral Milk Hotel
some Stereolab
Broken Social Scene
Apostle Of Hustle
Lambchop
Manu Chao

Neutral Milk Hotel? Sleep? Christ, I'd be up all night having nightmares about Anne Frank.

JerryHandbag

I see The Knife mentioned here a few times, must check em out...for some reason they sound familiar but i cant place where ive heard of them...

yep I forgot to mention Mogwai Zidane soundtrack on my original list, its class, just got it recently....and Jose Gonzalez, first album anyway, havent heard his 2nd one yet...

Im liking my list already, very eclectic

TestTransmission

Leftism - Leftfield

mike65

Some of mine

http://www.artistserver.com/artist/song.cfm/a/1608/tid/19420/FutureMusicCorp feel free to download.

Mike.

Scubadevils

I need them to be pretty much beatless or at least very subtle beats. I actually can't go to sleep now without an ambient album for a while first. Some of my favourites...

Biosphere - Substrata / Shenzou
http://www.discogs.com/release/67037
http://www.discogs.com/release/40436

Brian Eno - Any of the Ambient series
http://www.discogs.com/release/1106034
http://www.discogs.com/release/332666
http://www.discogs.com/release/1174456

Pan American - Quiet City
http://www.discogs.com/release/290642

Tuu - One Thousand Years
http://www.discogs.com/release/163902

Tetsu Inoue - Ambient Otaku
http://www.discogs.com/release/99901

And lots more on the same label as above release (Ambient World) -

http://www.discogs.com/label/Ambient+World

To name a few!


Gas - Nah Und Fern
http://www.discogs.com/release/1363736

Ekels

Sigur Rós has to be the worst music to fall asleep listening to. I always awake mid-album.

I'd definitely say Mogwai- Happy Songs for Happy People
God is an Astronaut- Far From Refuge
Caspian- The Four Trees
This Will Destroy You- S/T

Non post-rock stuff:
The Twilight Sad- Fourteen Autumns and Thirteen Winters
Death Cab for Cutie- Plans
The Cure- Disintegration
Belle & Sebastian- The Boy With The Arab Strap
Love- Forever Changes
Portishead- Third
Cat Power- The Greatest
Joan as a Policewoman- Real Life
Hope of The States- Lost Riots (slightly post-rock also)
Air- Moon Safari
The Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

I find Guillemots dead boring, but that Windowpane album is perfect to get you to sleep, such is it's dullness, yet upbeat and warm nature.

Ekels

lordgoat wrote: »

Burial Untrue

I can imagine this kind of stuff doing the trick alright. Not for me though, I can't stand the stuff.

RodVelvet

I always find Mercury Rev albums are normally my chosen tunes for snooze espically Deserter's Songs.

Ekels

I fell asleep listening to Test Icicles- For Screening Purposes Only the other night.
No mean feat. I must have had a few sleeping pills before hand.

invincibleirish

JerryHandbag wrote: »

yep I forgot to mention Mogwai Zidane soundtrack on my original list, its class, just got it recently

Zavvi sale ftw

ahaaha

john martyn.....

Aspiration

FuzzyLogic wrote: »

the knife

Jinx

JerryHandbag wrote: »

I see The Knife mentioned here a few times, must check em out...for some reason they sound familiar but i cant place where ive heard of them...

The Knife are great - brother and sister duo from Sweden. José Gonzalez did a cover of Heartbeats which you might be familiar with as it was on that Sony HDTV ad with all the bouncy balls. They're very good friends. Karin from The Knife is also featured on one of the Royksopps's tracks, "What Else Is There?"

ball ox

Ekels wrote: »

The Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

Jesus, you can sleep through yoshimi battles the pink robots, part 2?! :eek:

kerash

ahaaha wrote: »

john martyn.....

+1 and if you can get your ears around some Matthew Santos, kinda john martyn/jeff buckley style voice. Very relaxing:)

ChumpStain

Explosions in the Sky, fantastic band. They'll make chilling out feel like you should be thinking about life, love and everthing in between.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn2CwzhD8W0

flyswatter

I would recommend some Boards Of Canada, Burial, Air and Zero 7.

JerryHandbag

Aspiration wrote: »

Jinx

The Knife are great - brother and sister duo from Sweden. José Gonzalez did a cover of Heartbeats which you might be familiar with as it was on that Sony HDTV ad with all the bouncy balls. They're very good friends. Karin from The Knife is also featured on one of the Royksopps's tracks, "What Else Is There?"

Ah yeah now that rings a bell, love Jose Gonzales first CD didnt realise that song was a cover version....anybody like that band Talk Talk? Not their early 80s new romantic stuff, their later chill-out ambient stuff is really good....

Scubadevils

Talk Talk are excellent, the two later albums being Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock - amazing albums.

IanCurtis

Ekels wrote: »

Portishead- Third

Are you mad man!!?? 'Magic Doors' starts with the sound of a high pitched test signal for one!!!

Great album, but not relaxing by any means

I'd suggest either of David Kitt's first two albums....really nice to listen to in bed.

Brad Goodman

I Went To Sleep by the Beach Boys is a beautifully chilled piece of music plus it ties in with the whole sleeping theme!

paddylonglegs

Yeah Jose Gonzalez is good for night time.
Sift through DJ Shadow albums to find chilled out.
Also been listening to Fink lately,chilled acoustic similar to Jose.He's playing EP too.

monellia

Ventill/Poki by Strafaenn Hakon
Neroli by Brian Eno
The first half of The Sea and the Bells album by Rachel's

Twenty Two Fourteen by the Album Leaf
Pauvre Simon by Sylvain Chauveau

Hanne Hukkelberg has a sound that is good both to fall asleep and wake up to.

Harold Budd

agree with whoever said DJ Shadow. nice metronomic tempos really good to chill you out.

Bach is a favourite of mine for when I'm in bed. not because I want to fall asleep tho.

Moneymaker

Enigma, Porcupine Tree, Explosions in the Sky all work for me.

doonothing

Y'know that toilet roll add with everyone falling into the bog roll? What is that song!

do do do do-do
do do do do-do

It's so satisfying and sleepifying...

Makaveli

Lullatone - Plays Pajama Pop Pour Vous

The Everlasting

any joy division