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08-11-2007, 08:24 PM #1
Insomniac needs reccomenations to help get some sleep
As a lifelong insomniac, I find it hard to fall asleep without listening to music or watching TV or doing something else to keep my mind from racing. Unfortunately, mot of my music purchases consist of stuff that most people would not consider relaxing (for some reason Soundgarden, the Beastie Boys, and thr Rollins band don't make me want to doze off). So I'm hoping you guys can suggest some tunes to help me relax and get some decent nights sleep. However, there are a few parameters that need to be followed.
1. No "jam band" style music. I can't stand that shit. Same for country.
2. Nothing with lyrics that might actually make me think. If I think, I'll just stay up later thinking.
3. Not a big fan of the female singer/songwriter genre (Joni Mitchell, Carole King, etc.)
4. No show tunes.
Other than that, I'm open to suggestion."There is a hell of a huge difference between skiing as a sport- or even as a lifestyle- and skiing as an industry"
Hunter S. Thompson, 1970 (RIP)
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08-11-2007, 08:26 PM #2
I suggest drugs. Really good drugs. then you won't care that you're awake.
I mean REALLY good drugs.
maybe some hookers too!
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08-11-2007, 08:32 PM #3
think about pussy.
it works.its the whisky talking
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08-11-2007, 08:47 PM #4
N,
My guarenteed fall asleep music is Knopflers soundtrack album
mellow familiar, good musicianship.
works for me
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08-11-2007, 08:59 PM #5
can you give us a few bands/songs that work well to provide a little more guidance.
and i also recommend strong drugs...but bong rips wouldnt help your lungs
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08-11-2007, 09:20 PM #6
Ulrich Schnauss, Far Away Trains Passing By
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08-11-2007, 09:21 PM #7
waves crashing on the beach. works for me when i have those impossible to sleep nights. or a couple fingers of whiskey.
Dude chill its the padded room. -AKPM
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08-11-2007, 09:35 PM #8Registered User
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08-11-2007, 09:37 PM #9
pot brownies laced with LSD eaten off of a hookers chest.
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08-11-2007, 10:29 PM #10Registered User
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That's about as good as it gets. Unless the hookers were on E.
Life is more fun if it has no value.
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08-12-2007, 02:46 AM #11
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08-12-2007, 09:47 AM #12
Massive Attack + Nyquil
We're sorta like 7-Eleven. We're not always doing business, but we're always open.
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08-12-2007, 10:01 AM #13
Tune into a late night jazz program. New York must have a few good ones.
Daniel Ortega eats here.
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08-12-2007, 11:33 AM #14
melatonin and some hypnosis shit.
works like a charm.
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08-12-2007, 01:28 PM #15
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08-12-2007, 10:21 PM #16
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08-12-2007, 10:28 PM #17
Try some Gregorian chants.
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08-12-2007, 10:38 PM #18....................
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I take melatonin. I don't know if its a placebo effect, but I have not lain awake in months.
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08-12-2007, 10:46 PM #19
I know you don't like country... Even though the review says county, I'm not so sure... Put this disc on and your out like a light.
Mazzy Star
So that tonight I might See
Mazzy Star's spacey fusion of old blues, creepy psychedelia and down-and-out country & western could've proved as unpleasant as the combined effects of cheap whiskey, magic-mushroom tea and black coffee. But the West Coast duo neutralized the weird mix into cool, laid-back ballads for their highly acclaimed 1990 debut, She Hangs Brightly. Mazzy's follow-up, So Tonight That I Might See, spaces off into even hazier dreamscapes that are so relaxed it makes the Cowboy Junkies seem wired.
Hope Sandoval's vocals echo and waver throughout Tonight as if they were bouncing off the walls of an old, abandoned mansion. Her voice, which rarely peaks or dips, flows in long, languid sighs over reeling background effects by partner and producer David Roback. In "She's My Baby," he spins a web of sheer, trippy feedback under simple acoustic guitar while dragging Mazzy's already slow pace to a crawl. The anesthetized sounds wind out beneath a blanket of foggy production.
While this is all intriguing at first, Tonight grows increasingly monotonous. The muffled "Mary of Silence" nods off into opiated drifts of organ, while in "Five String Serenade," Sandoval's fuzzed-out voice drones to whispery guitar and trancey violin. The songs are pretty but too hollow to allow for real feeling. Slowpoke country guitar wilts, slides and moans over the sparse tambourine shakes of "Fade Into You" yet never comes to life. Even the dusty and resonant sounds of pipe organ in "Blue Light" and the bluesy saunter of "Wasted" dissipate before reaching the gut or the soul.
It's strange. Even though So Tonight That I Might See incorporates many of the same warm elements that made Billie Holiday bloom and Gram Parsons bleed, it still winds up feeling as dull and disconnected as a lone junkie at a crowded party. (RS 671)Last edited by rehabit; 08-12-2007 at 10:52 PM.
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08-12-2007, 11:13 PM #20
create a pandora.com account, and type in any ambient artist
i use pandora's aphex twin station regularly, it rules
and a dose if not 2 over the recomended on tylenol caugh and cold nightime extrastrength"If we can't bring the mountain to the party, let's bring the PARTY to the MOUNTAIN!"
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08-12-2007, 11:24 PM #21
pure moods...
but yeah um here are some good ones that i frequent
god speed you black emperor
silver mt. zion
slowdive
charlie haden
mogwai
sigur rosI don't hunt because the word hunting infers the probability of failure. JOhNGchrist goes killing.
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08-12-2007, 11:33 PM #22Squatch Guest
trip hop. Massive Attack is a good suggestion. Depending on how your brain is wired, various forms of beat music can do it.
edit: the single biggest thing for me is exercise. Physical exhaustion and mental exhaustion often come hand in hand for me.
edit2: actually the single best sleep aid are the training video's I had to watch for work. I don't know what sort of pavlovian response has been set up, but I find myself yawning within the first 20 seconds as the opening music comes on. It's a shame, though--everything (including uninteresting stuff) at IBM is confidential. Otherwise you could be dozing off the soothing sounds of an explanation of our "query management facility"Last edited by Squatch; 08-12-2007 at 11:42 PM.
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08-12-2007, 11:34 PM #23Registered User
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I usually listen to Alexi Murdoch to fall asleep, second in line is probably Sigur Ros, then Travis, Keane, Aqualung, or plus/minus...come to think of it most of the music I listen to would put most people to sleep.
Reading a book usually puts me fast to sleep though
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