Does anyone else listen to music to go to sleep? It seems I really struggle to get to sleep if there is no background music playing. Usually a bit of ambient dub does the trick. Recently it's been a lot of 10 Ft. Ganja Plant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcxYC7vk7yA) and Panda Dub (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDMiLcpXPk8)
So what does everyone else listen to when going to sleep? Post up some links!
I tend to put on some Mogwai if I want something to doze on and off to. I've read somewhere that they hear that all the time and hate it because it implies their music is dull, but it's not that at all! I just think they create such a nice flowing soundscape that I get a bit lost in it and forget that I'm trying to get to sleep, which is usually the key to getting to sleep for me.
If that makes sense.
Here's a gig video that's a pretty good overview of what they do -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgYiQPuXMhE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgYiQPuXMhE)
Like Mogwai but love Low.
Try sleeping to this (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wXgc0I0zsYs) :)
I listen to audio books at bed time.
Started life as a Draightsman and needed more than the R4 Afternoon play to distract me during inking in. Turned to Books For The Blind at the library during the 80's, and books on CD in the early 90's. I now buy two books a month from Audible.co.uk - always great to get a 30 hour unabridged book.
I occasionally listen to harp music to sleep, but it's hard to find an album that doesn't have rousing numbers on it. This one is quite good, as a lot of tracks have an austere, ethereal quality:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001HUENKA/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp?ie=UTF8&qid=1400503521&sr=8-9
Before I started living with a Real Live Lady I used to leave the World Service all night. Nothing like it for easing me to sleep. If I was sharing a room I'd sleep with earphones on, but when I started sharing a bed regular-like the tinny noise was deemed disturbing, and the unmuffled eminently comforting sounds of a subsidised bicycle scheme in Mogadishu at 3.30am were apparently out of the question.
Took me ages to adapt to silence, and I cheekily revert to type whenever I'm away for a night or two.
The things we do for sex love.
Quote from: TordelBack on 19 May, 2014, 01:52:02 PM
Before I started living with a Real Live Lady I used to leave the World Service all night. Nothing like it for easing me to sleep.
Off to the Land of Nod (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFdas-kMF74)
According to
SCIENCE (and the Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049948/Most-relaxing-song-UK-band-Boffins.html)) this is the most relaxing music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMmMNyTwePY).
I can't sleep with any music or speech, I just can't disengage my brain and not actively listen. I can however sleep in full light. At college, I shared a room with a guy who could sleep through a metallica concert but not if there was any light in the room - which made things interesting.
I can sleep to anything but it kind of has to be something. Focussing on it stops the brain from ticking over.
Seriously though - Gardener's Question Time on Radio 4. That is the best thing to sleep to bar none.
I used to nod off to the "dances with wolves" soundtrack john barry's score was just soooo soothing...I must get a new copy as like most of my old tapes died in the attic.
Like others, I'd like to basically ignore the terms of your request and recommend Radio Four/The World Service at low volume. The gentle strains of SOAP's relaxation music counter intuitively just
MAKE ME WANT TO FUCK SHIT UP (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZpUYjpKg9KY#t=119)
These four never fail to send me off to the land of nod:
The Smashing Pumpkins - Thirty Three
http://youtu.be/AYSbztCCTlA (http://youtu.be/AYSbztCCTlA)
Buddy Holly - Love Is Strange
http://youtu.be/RGwgPhrEo5k (http://youtu.be/RGwgPhrEo5k)
Low - In Metal
http://youtu.be/WdH3mTpjq-U (http://youtu.be/WdH3mTpjq-U)
Mercury Rev - Hudson Line
http://youtu.be/Gua6CYaScp8 (http://youtu.be/Gua6CYaScp8)
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 19 May, 2014, 02:20:54 PM
Off to the Land of Nod (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFdas-kMF74)
Ah, now Sailing By is a funny one. Much as I love it, long long ago it assumed a terrible place in my life, as I was working horribly long hours to get an overdue thesis finished, and whenever Sailing By came on it was the signal that I had
yet again failed to meet my target and another sleepless night loomed ahead. (Then there was the inevitable post-Forecast scrabble to mute the radio before someone else's National Anthem came on and my neighbours inferred I was a Billy Boy by night). That pattern reasserted itself regularly until iPlayer freed me from the tyranny of a collective diurnal cycle.
Subsequently my father requested it be played at his funeral (he's not dead quite yet, thanks be to the FSM), which has given it yet another gloss coat of dread, not least because I've always rather fancied having it played at mine too.
Still love it though.
It may be slightly odd, I don't know, but I find that I can fall asleep to almost anything with a heavy, repetitive bass line. I would guess, thinking about it objectively, on some level, it must remind me of hearing my mum's heartbeat while I was in the womb...
Quote from: TordelBack on 20 May, 2014, 08:21:30 AM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 19 May, 2014, 02:20:54 PM
Off to the Land of Nod (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFdas-kMF74)
Ah, now Sailing By is a funny one.
Like the original
Dr Who theme tune, I can never quite understand how it was made, what the hell is making those noises, or how they create that odd atmosphere. It has the same enchanting and unsettling effect on me as David Lynch films.
Oh jeez I can't believe that I forgot about these two...
Lambchop - The Man Who Loved Beer
http://youtu.be/0vTjGZzMXCM (http://youtu.be/0vTjGZzMXCM)
Luna - Superfreaky Memories
http://youtu.be/Ssoivb0G0-c (http://youtu.be/Ssoivb0G0-c)