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[ImRonBurgundy?]

i want to make a big playlist of songs to listen to while falling asleep, and while sleeping in the hopes that they might influence me to have nice dreams.  i would like suggestions as to songs about sleep, dreams, or generally happy/dreamy-sounding songs.  here's what i've got so far:

The Decemberists- "Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect"
the pillows- "My Girl"
Mike Park- "Counting Sheep"
The Postal Service- "Sleeping In"
Eels- "Woman Driving, Man Sleeping"
SNMNMNM- "Another Song Ray Hates!"
Eels- "3 Speed"
Mike Park- "Kiss Me Baby, I'm Always Here for You"
Slowreader- "Every Part of Nothing"
Sufjan Stevens- "Holland"
The Most Serene Republic- "In Places, Empty Spaces"
ee- "One Less Year"
the pillows- "Good Dreams"
Weezer- "Only in Dreams"
The Weakerthans- "My Favourite Chords"
Against Me!- "Eight Full Hours of Sleep"
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra- "One Night"
Ben Folds- "The Luckiest"
The Aquabats!- "Hello, Goodnight!"
Modest Mouse- "Sleepwalkin'"

[Field Fire]

I agree with The Decemberists, The Postal Service and Sufjan, but I generally prefer post-rock bands such as Sigur Ros, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and The Evpatoria Report to go to sleep to. Bright Eyes is also good.

[E. Spaceman]

I think the Smiths' Asleep would fit in that list.

However my two preferred methods are Echo and the Bunnymen's entire "Ocean Rain" and philosophy audiobooks. Michel Foucalt's Culture of the Self gets me everytime. When I'm truly awake Ocean Rain is one of my favourite album but when I'm sleepy it gently craddles me. I,like Foucalt too but having a dude rant makes me go sleepy.

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

I hear The Walkmen - Hang Siobhan before going to bed.
It just seems like that kind of song.

[jcknbl]

I have a playlist for sleeping. Its almost all post-rock. I agree particularly with Sigur Ros. Also, My Bloody Valentine is perfect right before bed.

[MilkmanDan]

I like to drift off to:
Gas - Zauberberg
Marsen Jules - Herbstlaub
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops

Keeping it minimal.

[FreshJive787]

sigur ros, its all you need.

[Mikendher]

iron & wine, definitely

[Coonstar]

I agree with My Bloody Valentine. I've been listening to Loveless right before I go to sleep for the past 2 weeks now. I'm usually gone out by Loomer.

For Echo and the Bunnymen when it comes to sleeping, I prefer Porcupine to Ocean Rain.

Joy Division's Substance is also good too, for me anyway.

I can't listen to anything Morrissey/the Smiths before I go to sleep. For some reason the tracks just end up sounding extra depressing.

[greenMonkey]

( ) by Sigur Ros usually does the trick for me.

If you're open to classical check out Arvo Part.  I listened to one track and I was dead asleep 3 minutes in.

Oh and Crotchduster (I'm not kidding).

[nescience]

You might appreciate some of the more new-agey Krautrock albums, like:

Cluster - Zuckerzeit
Cluster - Sowiesoso
La Dusseldorf - Dusseldorf
Harmonia - Deluxe
Harmonia - Harmonia
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Tangerine Dream - Zeit
Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra
Popol Vuh - Aguirre

[El Opium]

I totally agree with Arvo Part. Also try Music for Airports by Brian Eno.

[Kai]

Shit, I can do ANYTHING to Crotchduster.



"Dude, Dirty Asians Who Love Jewish Dildos is on in 37 seconds!"

[IronOxide]

Iron & Wine
Jack Johnson
Select Barenaked Ladies
Philip Glass
John Cage

Those are some of my favourites.

[Coolhanderik]

I also agree with My Bloody Valentine, it's good music to make you sleepy...it's also just good music, also alot of post-rock

[Felix]

Anything from Radiohead makes me fall asleep, In a good way. Daniel Lanois too, especially his last record, Belladonna.

[KharBevNor]

Agalloch - A Desolation Song
Assemblage 23 - King of Insects
Ayreon - Carried By the Wind
Bob Dylan - Hey Mr. Tambourine Man
Borknagar - The Weight of Wind
Burzum - Tomhet
Carpathian Forest - The Last Sigh of Nostalgia Rehearsal
Current 93 - The Bloodbells Chime *
Dead Can Dance - Severance
Death in June - Symbols of the Sun
Demons & Wizards - Fiddler on the Green
Finntroll - Svart Djup
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls
Halo of Flies - Stormclouds and Skrealings
Inkubus Sukkubus - Young Lovers
Isengard - In the Halls and Chambers of Stardust the Crystallic Heavens Open
Jeff Wayne - Forever Autumn
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Loreena McKennit - Ancient Pines
Lothlorien - A Stor Mo Chroi
Marillion - Ocean Cloud
Mortiis - Everyone Leaves
Nine Inch Nails - A Warm Place
Nortt - Dystert Synd
:Of The Wand And The Moon: - In A Robe of Fire
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
The Sisters of Mercy - Driven Like the Snow
Skyclad - Spinning Jenny [Acoustic Instrumental Version]
Sol Invictus - The Praties Song
VNV Nation - Colours of Rain
Within Temptation - Mother Earth
Yithian Prophecy - The Cosmic Funeral Procession


Shit, I dunno if all that would put me to sleep, but it's a fucking awesome mix.


* The more I think about it, the more I think this may be one of the wierdest and most disturbing songs in my collection:

"Sell all you have, and give it to the kittens
And pour the milk on Louis' grave
And Catland (sometimes called Pussydom)
Opens for you instantly

It's the inmost light!
It's the inmost light
Somewhere over the rainbow
On the good ship lollipop...

There oh there
Goodnight
The inmost light
The happy children rise all from their pools
Eyes still sealed
Sleeptight
With mud and night
It's their inmost night
Goodnight

And yet still I which I could dream as when young
Sleeptight
As she came to me so young and honest
Goodbye

Yet the bloodbells chime
I do not notice them I shall not notice them
Yet the bloodbells chime

Tommy Katkins still send his regards
Frozen for ever on some animal somme
The last thing on his mind is marriage
But the call of home and heart

Yet the bloobells chime
Yet the bloobells chime
Yet the bloobells chime"

It may just be the strange, piercing intensity of Tibets voice

[LIVE!Forever]

you need to throw some mum on there

[MilkmanDan]

Surely post-rock is a really bad genre for this. How the hell do you fall asleep to an epic, track-long crescendo?

[nescience]

Vibraphones, man.  VIBRAPHONES.

[McTaggart]

I can fall asleep to almost anything. Recently; Pelican - The Fire in our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw has been working really well.

[negative creep]

the only album i ever fell asleep while listening to it is master of puppets. and that was on a bus-trip home from paris, and i was very tired. it was the first time i ever listened to that album and i fell asleep during "the thing that should not be" and woke up during "damage inc.". i was like "huh buh wha? isn't that cd supposed to have more songs?"

[TrueNeutral]

Within Temptation - Mother Earth

I think "In Perfect Harmony" or "Never Ending Story" would work better than Mother Earth.

Within Temptation were huge in Holland a while ago. And by huge, I mean huge. They were basically the biggest rock band in Holland for a while.

[Field Fire]

After further persuing the subject, I have decided that Sigur Ros is absolutely perfect. Just listening to their music starts to send me into a dream-like state, it's wonderful.

[Thrillho]

Wilco - Less Than You Think, Reservations, I'm Trying To Break Your Heart
The Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping, Good Night (I guess...)

[pat101]

For some reason I have trouble falling asleep to music, though hip-hop seems to do the trick. No idea why.

[NiCKLESS]

Slipknot Scissors/Iowa.

consider me weird but i found myself falling asleep a couple of times while listening to those songs, around 5 of the times were at school.

[Kai]

.... You listen to Slipknot? I'm sorry. </Me being a fucking elitist>



Aphex Twin, Bill Laswell and Death Cube K releases put me to sleep. and John Phillips Sousa. I don't know why.

[Rubby]

There was a time when I would not be able to fall asleep unless Sigur Ros' () was playing. But then my roommate took it back from me and I was very irritable for a while.

[StrikeThePostman]

I pay way too much attention to music to fall asleep with it playing, but if I were to try, I think the playlist would be along these lines:

Now At Last by Feist
M. Ward's Transistor Radio album (skip Four Hours in Washington, though, it's about insomnia)
Pink Moon (the album) by Nick Drake
Vashti Bunyan's Lookaftering album
Return to Hot Chicken and Green Arrow by Yo La Tengo

[FreshJive787]

oh also maybe some sufjan stevens, hes good to listen to going to bed, i slept to his music last night and it was soem great sleep.

[Mr. Oysterhead]

I agree with The Decemberists, The Postal Service and Sufjan, but I generally prefer post-rock bands such as Sigur Ros, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and The Evpatoria Report to go to sleep to. Bright Eyes is also good.

Bright Eyes is good to go to sleep to because it PUTS you to sleep. Damn boring.

[Thrillho]

I agree with The Decemberists, The Postal Service and Sufjan, but I generally prefer post-rock bands such as Sigur Ros, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and The Evpatoria Report to go to sleep to. Bright Eyes is also good.

Bright Eyes is good to go to sleep to because it PUTS you to sleep. Damn boring.

Well done on making one of the most ridiculously obvious posts anyone could have put on this thread.

Everyone else had too much dignity to put it down, but not you, I salute you sir, for not being worried about pissing away all of yours so that we may continue.

[Mr. Oysterhead]

Aye aye, captain. I am shameless.

[KharBevNor]

Bright Eyes do suck, but if I actually put down peoples tastes on this forum whenever I thought it sucked, man, I would be getting nowhere.

I try to do it only occasionally therefore.

[Tinjessla]

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works/Richard D. James
Cat Power - You Are Free
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Sigur Ros - Takk and ()
Mercury Rev - All Is Dream

They usually help me drift off. Oh as well as PJ Harvey's, Horses In My Dreams.

[Kai]

The Richard D. James album is great.



I fell asleep listening to Christian Death last night. That's odd.

[Narr]

I think most of the stuff I listen to would subliminally brainwash me, were I to listen to it while sleeping, into placing babies on spikes.  </Eddie Izzard reference>

Actually, the album Purple by Stone Temple Pilots has put more than one person to sleep in my truck.  It's a good album and all, but if you listen to it while tired, you'll probably nod off.

wait....

Are we posting songs that put you to sleep or you should listen to while sleeping?  I've got myself confused now.

[neighborhood socialist]

if i'm having trouble going to bed, i'll play album leaf's "in a safe place" at a very low volume. it usually gets the job done.

[nescience]

I once fell asleep to a mix I had on repeat and woke up in the middle of the night to Christian Death.  I thought I had actually woken up in Hell.

Hell was really glam.

[PhunkieBehaveYer]

"Anthems for a 17-Year-Old Girl" usually does the trick for me.

[Unicornsareradx]

Iron & Wine,
 Sigur Ros,
 and afew Death Cab For Cutie songs
 =)

[Kai]

I once fell asleep to a mix I had on repeat and woke up in the middle of the night to Christian Death.  I thought I had actually woken up in Hell.

Hell was really glam.

what an awesome way to wake up.

[edscoble]

I'm surprised no one has posted Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You Into The Dark, that song kept making me sleepy, it annoying when it pop up during lecture at uni, it's not helping.

a good blast of The Who clearly woke me up, or London Calling.

[penpen17]

I threw together a sleeping playlist at some point; it consisted of mostly Mazzy Star and American Analog Set

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

Oh I forgot Mazzy Star, I have fallen asleep to Among My Swan on occasion