Not bad or boring records. Albums that literally make you go to sleep.
I’ve just had a nice snooze through the Velvet Underground. Great album with Candy Says, Pale Blue Eyes etc but it makes me conk out.
Ophelia by Natalie Merchant also does it. I love it but three tracks in I can feel the eyelids getting heavy.
Any other contenders?
Records that send you to sleep
That’s way too lively to sleep to! (For me, anyway.)
Max Richter’s Sleep is composed to accompany a good, restful eight hours sleep. Try it:
https://youtu.be/jObcHzOcYdg
I’ve been listening to that recently actually. I think someone on here mentioned it recently. It’s really good.
I just listened to “On an island” by David Gilmour and am just ready for a nice little nap.
Side one of In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning by Sinatra. Never actually heard side two…
I love this album.
Anything by Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler
Telegraph Road. A song which seems to keep building to a rocking climax that never comes, just more tasteful, understated, polite guitar, all very skillfull but ultimately passes you by.
I pretty much use Lifelike, by Loscil, as if it was medication. Not sure I’ve heard past track 3. And there’s the Marquee Union album, which I think they even designed for sleep-inducement.
Not a problem I’ve had really. Podcasts are my preferred medium to make me sleep but I reckon the first Lemon Jelly album would do the trick.
JJ Cale can sometimes have the same result
Podcasts for me too.
However, the album I always turn to when I cannot sleep is Music for Airports by Brian Eno.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Records that make you WISH you could go to sleep: OK Computer.
Good point, well made.
Gorecki 3rd Symphony (yes, the Holocaust one) with Dawn Upshaw . I’m not sure if it’s just this version, but this fades in over what must be 5 minutes and then a lovely cyclical slow chord progression from the strings starts imperceptibly, and … I’m out. I’m told there are three movements in this work.
Yeah, agreed. I went to see the film of the live version with her from Portishead, in the cinema, and it was a struggle to stay awake during that first movement. Especially with the trippy visuals of a long slow walk down a corridor.
Hi @arthur-cowslip
So you had a date with Beth Gibbons! You lucky chap.