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« on: January 18, 2006, 09:01:51 AM » |
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It's a great pleasure to fall asleep to music. Not because it's boring, or you're not listening, but because it relaxes you and blisses you out ... I used to use Santana's "Welcome" album for this - the final, epic soar-a-thon with John McLaughlin "Flame/Sky" would always carry me off.
Any other nod-out recommendations?
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« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2006, 09:04:18 AM » |
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McCartney II (with two or three songs programmed off the CD). Most relaxing, turn your mind off album I think I have. Perfect for that.
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« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2006, 09:07:53 AM » |
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My girlfriend, when she left her house and moved in with my family, and before we moved into an apartment together, loved listening to the Jellyfish's "Spilt Milk" album every night. I'd browse the internet and we'd listen to that as she drifted off to sleep.
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« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2006, 09:26:54 AM » |
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It used to be Simon & Garfunkle until I dropped the habit. Now I'm addicted again, can't sleep without music on.
I sometimes stay up late to make playlists and new mixes to put on when I fall asleep. I never get past the 3rd song. Stupid habit.
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« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2006, 09:31:03 AM » |
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Young Marble Giants and The Feelies -played softly- used to do the trick for me many years ago. Long before that, my parents used to etherize me with gentle Pete Seeger records, or wear me down and then knock me out by playing White Album's Revolution Number Nine followed by Good Night (!sounds strange, but if you're really stressed and agitated before bed and bouncing off the walls, this combination works remarkably well!)
I don't program music for the overnight portion of my day any more -music playing in the background interrupts my sleeping too insistently so I'm more in a kind of lucid dream trance state, enjoyable as a soy burger substitute for lysergic tripping but no way to get a decent night's rest.
Instead I cue songs for weekend nap time, a favorite leisure activity of mine. If I want to trance out blissfully I find that Sinatra and euro lounge singers of either sex crooning incomprehensible sweet nothings puts me there on a little castaway south seas island beneath a pink cloud.
If I want to rock the dream boat, Suzi Quatro, Runaways and various other glam-dynamic seventies girl bands make for very pleasant fantasies!
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« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2006, 09:52:35 AM » |
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« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2006, 09:57:08 AM » |
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I used to use Clouds Taste Metallic, Music for Airports, and tried Metal Machine Music a few times.
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« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2006, 10:10:14 AM » |
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Dennis Wilson's "Thoughts Of You", always set the stage for very pleasant dreams  |
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« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2006, 10:43:32 AM » |
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"Wouldn't It Be Nice - A Jazz Portrait of Brian Wilson" is very relaxing
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« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2006, 11:13:07 AM » |
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For years it was L.A. Woman. Now it's the All-Elvis Sirius station.
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« Reply #10 on: January 18, 2006, 11:26:35 AM » |
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I can't do it. My adrenaline gets pumping when I listen to music.
Maybe Eno could do it, though.....
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« Reply #11 on: January 18, 2006, 01:36:44 PM » |
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Beck - Sea Change
Zero 7 - Simple Things
Koop - Waltz for Koop (probably the best of the bunch!)
Michael Hedges - Watching My Life Go By
In college, it used to be:
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Heart - the Butterfly side of Dog and Butterfly (back in the vinyl days!)
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« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2006, 03:10:42 PM » |
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Lou Reed's Berlin, for some reason. And without fail, I'd wake up and hear those damn kids yelling "MOMMYYYYY!!!!!!" Pretty unsettling.
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« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2006, 03:19:04 PM » |
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It helps to beat your kids to a pulp and tell them they'll die if they make another noise. Then they don't wake you up any more.
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« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2006, 03:22:00 PM » |
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It helps to beat your kids to a pulp and tell them they'll die if they make another noise. Then they don't wake you up any more.
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« Reply #15 on: January 18, 2006, 03:24:27 PM » |
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Hey, you want your kids to be geniuses right?
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« Reply #16 on: January 18, 2006, 03:25:01 PM » |
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Hey, you want your kids to be geniuses right?
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« Reply #17 on: January 18, 2006, 03:26:29 PM » |
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I give that post 4 couches! (my new rating system)
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« Reply #18 on: January 18, 2006, 03:29:27 PM » |
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« Reply #19 on: January 18, 2006, 03:51:27 PM » |
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It helps to beat your kids to a pulp and tell them they'll die if they make another noise. Then they don't wake you up any more.
Maybe, but the kids doing that screaming are older than me. That album was recorded years before I was born. |
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« Reply #20 on: January 18, 2006, 03:53:50 PM » |
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Oh, you were talking about the album? Never mind.
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« Reply #22 on: January 18, 2006, 04:29:35 PM » |
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Try Raymond Scott's "Soothing Sounds For Baby" series. Very simple music, but immensely relaxing. Recommended for all Scott fans.
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« Reply #23 on: January 19, 2006, 04:25:40 AM » |
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Pink Floyd - "Us And Them"
Pink Floyd - "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
R.E.M. - "Airportman"
Peter Gabriel - "My Head Sounds Like That"
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« Reply #24 on: January 19, 2006, 04:41:31 AM » |
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Ian, maybe you shouldn't have children....
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