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Air - Moon Safari

Great to fall asleep to

All Air albums are great for this kind of moment

Any Eluvium album works for me.

The Trapeze Swinger - Iron and Wine
Blowing in the Wind - Bob Dylan
All Apologies - Nirvana

These songs are great for falling asleep to especially The Trapeze Swinger as it is very mellow and slow and nearly 10 minutes long.

Enjoy,

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i don't ever listen to music when i'm falling asleep, but i have a few times on bus rides recently listening to kid a. it seems to be a popular choice. i'm a bit surprised, but i guess with an album as ubiquitous as kid a is around these parts, if it's good to fall asleep to, people are gonna find out. that being said, i think i'm gonna hit the hay with kid a spinning (er, playing on the lappy). goodnight!

I put on the new Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan album driving home from work today and I nearly dropped off, so tht's probably a good choice.

Personally I go out like a light with Gomez's Bring It On on, though Boom Bip is also a good choice.

Oh, and Jeniferever's Iris Ep is both soporific and really terrific.

Do you people find it easy to fall asleep to music with lyrics? I can't do that, it never works.

on the flipside, i was on the road for about ten hours two days ago (damn traffic/construction made me miss all but the last four songs of the radiohead show) with about an hour of sleep from the night before, and i discovered that menomena's "friend or foe" is great for keeping awake, especially when paired with rolling the windows down while going 80 and singing along loudly. in the past i've found that the mars volta's "de-loused in the comatorium" works pretty well too.

god speed you black emperor


by far

As somewhat of an expert on this, having suffered with insomnia for the best part of the last six months, I can state confidently that Smog ("Red Apple Falls") and Lullatone ("Plays Pajama Pop Pour Vous", although new album "The Bedtime Beat" sounds promising!) are the best albums to get you to sleep.

believe it or not something by Enya.

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album "Meddle" Pink Floyd

I can't believe I still haven't heard this album yet. It's one of those records I keep forgetting to buy when I'm at the record store; that and Rolling Stones' Aftermath. I've been meaning to buy those two for the past 6 or so years.

Joanna Newsom

Kate Bush's "Aerial"
Sufjan Stevens' "Seven Swans"
Feist's "The Reminder"
Andrew Bird
Radiohead - Kid A
David Gray
Sigur Ros
Nick Cave's "The Boatman's Call"
and as bad as it's considered, R.E.M.'s "Around the Sun" is a real snoozer (in a good way)

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Originally posted by BAfé:
Do you people find it easy to fall asleep to music with lyrics? I can't do that, it never works.

On rare occasions I have really cool experience where, as I'm falling to sleep, the lyrics take on entirely different and strange meanings. It's very cool. I've had a similar experience with purely instrumental music, where I'll get these abstract visions that correspond in strange ways to the sounds of the music. My most vivid memory of this sort of thing is when I fell asleep while listening to Four Tet's "Hands." The songs sort of has these inchoate instrumental flourishes, and there was this strange, composite, spherical, tentacled sea creature in my mind whose tentacles and various other part of it would spread out at every flourish, and then slowly retract.

Nearly every night for the last 10 years sleep has claimed me to the glorious Blade Runner soundtrack.

Eno & Fripp's The Equatorial Stars is equally a gateway to REM bliss.

I just made a mix cd for my girlfriend for her to fall asleep to, that goes something like this:

1. The Smiths - Asleep
2. Stars of the Lid - Even if You're Never Awake
3. Stars of the Lid - Even (Out) +
4. Broken Social Scene - Feel Good Lost
5. Jon Brion - Bookstore
6. Brian Eno & Harold Budd - First Light
7. Andrew Bird - [untitled]
8. Brian Eno - 2/2
9. Microphones - (Something)
10. Jon Brion - Phone Call
11. Stars of the Lid - The Lonely People (Are Getting Lonelier)
12. Brian Eno & Robert Fripp - Wind on Wind
13. Brian Eno - French Catalogues (Variation on the Canon in D Major)
14. K.C. Accidental - Instrumental Dies in the Bathtub and Took the Daydreams With It
15. Brian Eno - Always Returning

I put the two Stars of the Lid at the begining because they just so happen to be two of my favorite songs off of And Their Refinement of the Decline, and they transistion into each other very beautifully.

Hopefully, if all goes well, this will make her sleepy...or kill herself. Haha, I've been rethinking The Smiths song at the begining for awhile now.