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Originally posted by MusicInMe:
I don't exactly know what it is about this album, but I can fall asleep to Enigma's MCMXC A.D. any time! It's very soothing to me.

I agree. I have that CD too, plus the other one...um... The Cross Of Changes.

As I'm about to retire for the night, I think it appropriate to recommend what's worked for me in recent weeks:

ALBUMS
Mogwai. "Mr. Beast"
DJ Shadow. "...Endtroducing"
Ides of Space. "There Are No New Clouds"
Stellastarr*. "Harmonies for the Haunted"
Isis. "Panopticon"
The Juan MacLean. "Less Than Human"

SONGS
From Monuments to Masses. "Sharpshooter (J Clark remix)"
Nine Inch Nails. "Right Where it Belongs"
The Physics of Meaning. "Oregon, My Only True Friend"
TV on the Radio. "Dry Drunk Emperor"
I Am Kloot. "Same Deep Water as Me"
Death Cab for Cutie. "Summer Skin"
Coldplay. "Talk"
VHS or Beta. "You Got Me (Juan MacLean remix)"
William Basinski. "Disintegration Loops 1.3"

Bob Dylan or Bryan Adams is always good, Shirley Bassey too is good to fall asleep too.

Alison Krauss or Mary Chapin Carpenter are good ones.

"The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid" - Stars of the Lid - The album title says it all. This record is the champion of this topic.

Also recommended:

"Talk amongst the Trees" - Eluvium
"Everyone Alive Wants Answers" - Colleen
"We Made It For You" - The Boats

Julee Cruise had an album out called "Floating Into The Night." Had a couple of her 'Twin Peaks' songs on it.... very mellow, very sleep inducing.....zzzzzzzz

M83, Nathan Fake, and some of that sort of stuff is good. The Microphones will fill your dreams with majestic animals and lovely forests.

Iron and Wine always puts me right to sleep. I was listening to Miles Davis when I was falling asleep yesterday and the music fused into my dreams and fucked with my head. I think I was watching a punk band in my dream, but they were playing jazz...

For me, music that I like doesn't make me fall asleep. It might relax me, but it doesn't make me sleepy. When I need to sleep, I sometimes put on this really crappy emo mix that a friend gave me. It's got a bunch of really long emo songs that are all whiny and shit. Anyways, they're so goddamn pathetic/lame/boring that I can only fall asleep.

Very repetitive music tends to put me to sleep. Doens't even have to be relaxing as long as it's repetitive. Godspeed You! Black Emperor is great for that because it's usually like 10 minutes of the same thing. I've even fallen asleep to ...And Justice for All because that album is relentlessly repetitive.

Video game music tends to put me to sleep too. If someones playing a game around me, I'm bound to doze off.

Sigur Ros' () or Iron And Wine's Our Endless Numbered Days lull me nicely off to the land of nod.

I also agree with Sigur Ros' () and I will add Takk... and Agaetis Byrjun. Also for some reason Mogwai's "Young Team" and My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless".

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs

The Softest Voice and Visiting Friends are the best examples. Quiet, acoustic strumming, ambient blips and effects, chant-like vocals...I can't think of a better way to doze off.

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Originally posted by Everyoneanindividual:
I also agree with Sigur Ros' () and I will add Takk... and Agaetis Byrjun. Also for some reason Mogwai's "Young Team" and My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless".

Man, Young Team is way too dynamic for me to fall asleep to. I'd probably be just falling asleep when some huge guitar crash comes in to wake me up. Or maybe that track where the sound goes back and forth from one speaker to the other. That gets loud.

Really, the American Analog Set is a pretty perfect band to fall asleep to. Not much change in volume and it's all laid back and mellow. Any one of their albums would work.

Unicorn by Tyrannosaurus Rex (Marc Bolan & Steve Peregrine Took).
One of my favorite albums ever, and certainly my favorite to fall asleep to.

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Originally posted by Blossom Friend:
Steve Peregrine Took

Please tell me that's his real name.

No, Steve "took" the name Peregrine Took from a character in Lord of the Rings.

But as for Mickey Finn -- the bongo player who replaced Steve in T. Rex -- that actually was his real name!

*** hic ***

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:

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Originally posted by Everyoneanindividual:
I also agree with Sigur Ros' () and I will add Takk... and Agaetis Byrjun. Also for some reason Mogwai's "Young Team" and My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless".

Man, Young Team is way too dynamic for me to fall asleep to. I'd probably be just falling asleep when some huge guitar crash comes in to wake me up. Or maybe that track where the sound goes back and forth from one speaker to the other. That gets loud.

Really, the American Analog Set is a pretty perfect band to fall asleep to. Not much change in volume and it's all laid back and mellow. Any one of their albums would work.

The American Analog Set is a good one. I don't know why but the thrashing guitar in Young Team puts me in this dream like mode. Usually the songs start off slowly and progressively become faster and faster and then I would understand if you couldn't fall asleep but for songs like the first track Yes! I am a long way from home you could just sit and wait and stare until you fall into your dreams.

Talk Talk's "Laughing Stock" is also another one for me.

New Grass is just outstanding...