Thread: Whats your sleep music?

Originally Posted by Ser3nity

In Flames are great!

I know, I love them! It always just surprises me that they can coax me to sleep!!

Originally Posted by Shift

I know, I love them! It always just surprises me that they can coax me to sleep!!

As loud as they are, I'm pretty surprised too! I think a lot of it just has to do with being completely familiar with the songs. That's how it is for me, I can basically fall asleep to anything as long as it's something I know really well. Maybe it's the same case for you!

Originally Posted by Ser3nity

As loud as they are, I'm pretty surprised too! I think a lot of it just has to do with being completely familiar with the songs. That's how it is for me, I can basically fall asleep to anything as long as it's something I know really well. Maybe it's the same case for you!

That's true, although I really hate most other metal. In Flames just has that amazing melodic quality which is why I fell in love with their music in the first place! Plus, as you said, once you are familiar enough with the music it really does knock you out

i have just about downloaded every modest mouse album and extra. the discography. i hope its worth it

Hemisync music-good for the brain and lucidity sometimes mozart or vivaldi

Has anyone tried Gregorian Chants? They are extremely relaxing!

Originally Posted by gagaku

Has anyone tried Gregorian Chants? They are extremely relaxing!

I used to love them!

I listen to Coldplay, Imogen Heap, The Beatles, Something Corporate, Jack's Mannequin and Jack Johnson to help me fall asleep. The Masters of Chant are also pretty cool.

My little cousin falls asleep every night to rap remixes...I don't get it

I think the best music for going to sleep, regardless of regular preferences, is ambient or soundscapes.

I enjoy listening to ambient anyway as it keeps me relaxed, but I doubt anyone would disagree in terms of 'music to fall asleep to'.

A few examples (taken from EVE Online, as the whole soundtrack is ambient anyway):
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Originally Posted by Fox

I think the best music for going to sleep, regardless of regular preferences, is ambient or soundscapes.

I enjoy listening to ambient anyway as it keeps me relaxed, but I doubt anyone would disagree in terms of 'music to fall asleep to'.

A few examples (taken from EVE Online, as the whole soundtrack is ambient anyway):
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Track 4
Track 5

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Originally Posted by Nazzul

Legend Of Zelda (Ocarina Of Time) - Forest Temple that song is the best.

haha I listen to that..also "dearly Beloved" "simple and clean" (original and orchestra version) from kingdom hearts

allot of metal also knocks me out...korn, opeth, metallica, marilyn manson...some pop/rock stuff like tokio hotel and allot of trance/techno stuff

-metal gear solid 1-4 OST's (I flipped when I got the 4th one)
-oddly enough, there was a remix of the kingdom hearts song "simple and clean" that has like, such an ambient intro that knocks me out so quickly.
-Some songs off of the super smash brothers brawl soundtrack

trance songs are good, daft punk is very good because most of it is the same repeated phrase and beat. knocks me out haha.

Iron and Wine I think can put anyone to sleep within four minutes. Give them a try (:

quiet. crickets.

Originally Posted by vee

quiet. crickets.

ive grown to enjoy hearing my clock ticking

stereophonics i have found have some good relaxing music

I listen to Dust In The Wind by Kansas in my head, recalling it as best as I can while I WILD. Just felt like throwing that in there. It helps pass the time until the lights start, and the entertainment begins.

Originally Posted by schlothinator

-metal gear solid 1-4 OST's (I flipped when I got the 4th one)
-oddly enough, there was a remix of the kingdom hearts song "simple and clean" that has like, such an ambient intro that knocks me out so quickly.
-Some songs off of the super smash brothers brawl soundtrack

trance songs are good, daft punk is very good because most of it is the same repeated phrase and beat. knocks me out haha.

wee! daft punk!

I dont think it would work for me cause most of their songs just make you want to get up and jump around..xD

Most of what I like to listen to is too hard to fall asleep to because it's too intense. I mean, could you honestly sleep with Metallica or Slayer or Dethklok blasting in your ear? Maybe at a very quiet volume...

But the thing is, there's a lot of disparity between the volume levels of each song on my mp3 player...if I turn the volume down low enough so that the louder files are tolerable, the quieter ones can't be heard...if I turn the volume up high enough so that the quieter ones can be heard, the louder ones will jolt me awake...

Originally Posted by Lëzen

Most of what I like to listen to is too hard to fall asleep to because it's too intense. I mean, could you honestly sleep with Metallica or Slayer or Dethklok blasting in your ear? Maybe at a very quiet volume...

But the thing is, there's a lot of disparity between the volume levels of each song on my mp3 player...if I turn the volume down low enough so that the louder files are tolerable, the quieter ones can't be heard...if I turn the volume up high enough so that the quieter ones can be heard, the louder ones will jolt me awake...

do you not like a different band that just for relaxing? i like alot of loud music, and when i pick through discographys for the best songs, i come across a few softer ones which i move aside. but then realising, at the time of seperating the songs, i was in the mood for harder, louder songs. but at night i realise i wanna hear something softer, thus going to the soft songs.

I suppose there are a few Tom Petty and Jimi Hendrix songs on my list that could easily lull me to sleep, but a majority of my playlist is all hard rock and metal.

I tried last night to listen to my playlist while falling asleep, and as I had predicted, the files with louder volumes would come on and shock me awake. But I also found that some Black Sabbath songs like War Pigs and Heaven and Hell could be great songs to fall asleep to, since they're relatively mellow.

I like to listen to Radiohead, especially In Rainbows.

Also, any Goldfrapp is also great.

Originally Posted by Lëzen

Most of what I like to listen to is too hard to fall asleep to because it's too intense. I mean, could you honestly sleep with Metallica or Slayer or Dethklok blasting in your ear? Maybe at a very quiet volume...

But the thing is, there's a lot of disparity between the volume levels of each song on my mp3 player...if I turn the volume down low enough so that the louder files are tolerable, the quieter ones can't be heard...if I turn the volume up high enough so that the quieter ones can be heard, the louder ones will jolt me awake...

Even with that disparity, the more you listen to them, the easier it will get to fall asleep. Once you know the playlist well enough you can subconsciously anticipate when the music will become loud or aggressive, and it won't bother you anymore.

And you reminded me, I do have a Metallica playlist lying around somewhere... and none of the songs like One, either In fact, I love Enter Sandman for its implication of dreaming!

I recommend Aphex Twin's ambient songs - especially albums such as Drukqs and Selected Ambient Works II