Artists you prefer to fall asleep or dream to.

I can't use music in this way. I either listen intently to music, dissecting the harmony and how the bass part either does or does not create counter-movement (or something similar) or I don't listen to it. I refuse to use music as a distraction while doing most mundane tasks (commuting, peeling carrots, picking up my dog's poop, shoveling snow, et alia) or as ambient filler. I will confess to occasionally listening to music while tightening door hinges or shining my clogs but that's only because I was already listening to music when I noticed a nearby loose hinge screw or a scuffed pair of clogs.

 

The album that always does it for me would be...

Brian Eno - Another Green World

It's just such a beautiful album.

 

None, right now. When I was younger, Pink Floyd - The Wall.

 

I have a 5 disc CD changer that I load up in preparation for bed. (yes, I'm single ) so the artist changes all the time. But I have some favorites. Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Sandy Denny. I usually don't mix artists but occasionally I do.

 

The past month or so I've been doing this, playing an album as I've been going to sleep. Some favorites of mine are:

Beach House, any album (though "Teen Dream" and "Depression Cherry" are my favorites)
Tamaryn, "The Waves" and "Tender New Signs"
These New Puritans, "Field of Reeds"
Coldplay, "Ghost Stories"
Zola Jesus, "Versions"
Frankie Rose, "Interstellar"
Julia Holter, "Ekstasis"
Acrylics, "Lives and Treasure"
Memoryhouse, "The Years"
Sigur Ros, "Agaetis Byrjum"
Air, "Moon Safari"
Low, "I Could Live in Hope"
the Verve, "A Storm in Heaven"
Talk Talk, "Spirit of Eden"
Lots of jazz, although a recent favorite has been Miles Davis's "In a Silent Way"

 

My batting average for falling asleep to Pink Floyd is quite remarkable.

 

Haha, same thing happened to my buddy back in college, except we were at a Jane's Addiction concert.

 

Anything sung by John Lennon or Leon Russell. I used to go to sleep as a teen with the 45 of "Back to the Island" playing over and over as a 45.

 

Don't try to fall asleep but I never succeed to listen to the whole BERLIN - LOU REED.

 

Liquid Mind.

 

I don't mean any disrespect to you and your preferences but that sounds way more like an endeavor than an enjoyment.

 

This might be a little on the nose, but Enya usually does the trick.

 

Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon
Nico
Elliott Smith
Leonard Cohen
Vashti Bunyan
John Renbourn Group
Witthuser & Westrupp

 

Saw someone mention Sandy Denny, and I agree. Pretty much any of her albums (even Rendezvous on some occasions) can do it for me, since her voice is so soothing...

 

Just so you know, I get more enjoyment out of analyzing music than almost anything else in life. No disrespect taken. My sense is that some folks here are passionate about the minutiae of hardware, to the detriment of what the music is actually doing. Not all, but some. But I was a professional jazz double bassist and played in symphony orchestras. I like my music to sound great, but I'll always take a lousy recording of great music over a phenomenal recording of rather pedestrian music.

In the end, it's irrelevant whether my take is an endeavor rather than an enjoyment to anyone other than myself. I enjoy what I enjoy. You don't have to by any means.

 

Talk Talk, preferably the entire "It's My Life" album.

Dream Academy. Everything by this band sounds good late at night. David Gilmour did a great job on production.

 

Having a musicians background you more than likely hear and understand things in how music is played more so than I do. I may equally enjoy what is heard but not have the understanding you might of what is being done. A more analytical listening would be understandable.

 

I usually play ASMR videos on my phone to go to sleep.

I used to put the Beatles on shuffle, and sometimes I'd actually hear them in my dreams, which was pretty crazy.

 

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock/Spirit of Eden
Grateful Dead - Anything live
Classical guitar compilations
Alan Parsons - Eye in the Sky (probably my choice for tonight)
Pink Floyd (not so much anymore but "Wish You Were Here" is perfect)
I also have a Time-Life soft rock collection of late 70's and early 80's hits, 8 Cd set, put 3 or 4 in the player on shuffle and it's snooze time....
Mazzy Star/Hope Sandoval...Her voice just lulls me to sleep

..to name a few..

 

Can - Tago Mago

I've been listening to it this way for ten years and I still don't know what the last couple of tracks sound like.

 

I recently napped while listening to his Beethoven sonatas. The dreams were very pleasant, and the wake up wasn't grumpy at all. I did the same with Annie Fischer's as well. Perhaps it is Beethoven's sonatas that get me, come to think of it!

 

Steve Ashley
Syd Barrett
Pierre Bensusan
Anne Briggs
Karen Dalton
Donovan
John Fahey
Billy Fay

 

The "Sweet Surrender" to sleep & dreams:

Sara McLachlan most of what she's recorded i suppose would qualify. Especially, "Surfacing" 1997.

Dream on...

 

Jazz music, classic music, including Mozart, good for a snooze......

 

falling asleep listening to the Cure used to give me some vivid dreams.