Submitted by canderson156 t3_11vkyr7 in Music
I'm looking for anything low tempo and relaxing. Any genre.
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Edit: Thanks for all the suggestions! I'm excited to check them all out. I'm gonna sleep so good!
Submitted by canderson156 t3_11vkyr7 in Music
I'm looking for anything low tempo and relaxing. Any genre.
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Edit: Thanks for all the suggestions! I'm excited to check them all out. I'm gonna sleep so good!
I listen to that almost every night, along with Epitaph, and In the wake of Poseiden.
In the waiting line by Zero 7
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Lullaby the cure
The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
You want the earlier, acoustic version from Wednesday Morning 3am without drums.
Moby - Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep.
Any song from the album. I would just put this whole album and it's all I need.
Mingus Letters to Duke
Beatles Long and Winding Road (naked version)
The entire Nick Drake Pink Moon album
The iron and wine cover of “such great heights”
Like half the catalog from “the carpenters” cause her voice is so soothing
Dust in the Wind by Kansas
Such a great song.
Harold Budd - Juno. I always fall asleep to this one.
Asleep by The Smiths. Of course, in the morning you'll be dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbuGWgYLqWk
Harry Connick Jr. has an instrumental album that's just easy listening piano jazz. I find it really relaxing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcEo7kec7LM&list=OLAK5uy_kpt8IU1d0-mLN4_bbQF-t19ijqBAz1llU
Vancouver sleep clinic
Cocteau Twins - Lazy Calm
“heaven or las vegas”
Pretty upbeat album but certainly one of my favorites by them.
I’ll also add:
Pieter Nooten and Michael Brook - Sleeps with the Fishes
Pharaoh Sanders / Floating Points - Promises
Soundtrack to Tous les matins du monde (All the mornings of the world)
“heaven or las vegas” (the actual title track) is upbeat yes, but also very dreamy and relaxing in a happy way i think!
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Aphex Twin- Stone in Focus , Rhubarb,
Brian Eno- First Light, Deep Blue Day
William Basinski- The Disintegration Loops
Cigarettes After Sex - Apocalypse
Really any Cigarettes after sex song.
Good Night The Beatles
Fearless - Pink Floyd
beautiful boy - john lennon
The acoustic version of Interstate Love Song by Stone Temple Pilots is quite lovely.
Aqueous Transmission - Incubus
Far from the normal Incubus you think of. It’s over 7 minutes and is about floating down the river of life.
Pretty much anything by Cigarettes After Sex
Smashing Pumpkins: Farewell and Goodnight
Corcovado ~ Getz/Gilberto
Video Games ~ Lana Del Rey
Plainsong ~ The Cure
Leave This City~ The Sundays
Ocean Eyes ~ Billie Eilish
Into The Mystic-Van Morrison
Sweet Baby James-James Taylor
Flume-Bon Iver
Goodnight Moon-Will Kimbrough
On The Nickel-Tom Waits
At Last, Sunday Kind of Love-Etta James
Easy-The Commodores
Let It Be, Blackbird- The Beatles
Four Strong Winds-Neil Young
Maggie May-Rod Stewart
Sleep-Azure Ray
Lullaby of the Leaves-Ella Fitzgerald
Wonderful World-Louis Armstrong
Goodnight Sweetheart-The Spaniels. Any Doo-wop really.
Cupid de Locke - Smashing Pumpkins
Yes!!!
The entire Bryan Ferry - Boys and Girls album
Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield.
Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 1
No. 5 while u r at it
Either Mercy Street by Peter Gabriel or Mercy Street New Blood Version (Instrumental) also by Peter Gabriel. Both are very quiet songs that I have in my own sleep playlist
Avalon by Roxy Music
aphex twin - flim
The collected works of r Carlos nakai
Sometimes - My Bloody Valentine
Oooooo, good call.
no name #3- elliott smith
Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin. I have almost fallen asleep driving home late at night with that song on so I can attest to its ability to put someone to sleep…lol
Me and You by Kenny Chesney
Nsp- Bedtime.
Roygbiv by Boards Of Canada
Sigur Rós - Olsen Olsen
Anything by Natalie Merchant...
Pat McCurdy - Say Goodbye to Yesterday
Duermeté - As Tall As Lions Also lots of ambient stuff out there, Tim Hecker, Brian Eno, some of Jon Hopkins stuff, etc
Avincenna by Love Spirals Downwards
sleepiest song i know
Sting - The Wild Wild Sea (CD The Soul Cages)
Also, Fields of Gold.
Bobby Charles, I must be in a good place now
Jules Massenet Thais Meditation
The ballad of Bobby Pyn - Ariel Pink
opeth - damnation, the album.
The Raven That Refused To Sing - Seven Wilson
Anything by lofi girl.
Check this playlist and choose what suits you, u/canderson156 But if repeat artistes but it's a start... I'd edit this one of these days Link - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5POxmPgrHyxRjjCpC0x8ZS?si=8-ih4E8kQ2mWe3ntZ64vbg
Map of the Problematique - Muse
Angel to Me by McKay
Let’s go to bed - The Cure
that just makes you wanna bop around your bedroom for awhile. put on their “lost wishes” instrumentals instead.
Star treatment- arctic monkeys
it’s Gonna Be (Alright) by Ween. Beautiful tune
Anything by Ray LaMontagne, Dido, Tal Wilkenfeld, Esperanza Spalding, Enya, and the like.
"Saving Us a Riot" (acoustic version) - Phoria
Wicked game - Chris Isaac Strawberry swing - Frank ocean Sleep away - bob acri Passenger seat- Death cab for cutie All along - kid Cudi Lots of city and colour
Easily by Bruno Major
Gotta have you - The Weepies
Narcolepsy by Ben Folds
Nine inch nails: A warm place.
Radiohead’s Moon Shaped Pool but skip Burn The Witch.
Daydreaming would be a great pick
Stellar Tombs - Draconian (Doom metal)
Dandy Warhols - Sleep https://youtu.be/R1XNtT1Nbis ; Rest Your Head https://youtu.be/sUDq6bTMqJ0
Lama Gyurme - The Lama's Chant (album) https://youtu.be/F3BkkZb0PMM
Low - Just Make It Stop https://youtu.be/5rAdzJ1U0RU (almost anything by Low. They're "slowcore")
"Epsilon in Malaysian Pale" by Edgar Froese.
Past Lives - Sapientdream
Girl Crush by Little Big Town
Lemon Tree by Peter, Paul, and Mary
Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
Breathe Me by Sia
The Flaming Lips - Sleeping on the Roof
Tommy’s Party - Peach Pit
I don't think it's perfect for sleeping, but whenever I want to calm down, I listen to Cake's 'Mexico'.
Let the beautiful ladies of Perfume lull you to sleep with this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjBRxHq_mxM
I Should Live in Salt, The National
Invisible - M-Seven
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Someone already mentioned Asleep by The Smiths, so I’ll add Pyramid Song by Radiohead.
Nathaniel Rateliff-"And It's Still Alright"
To Lay Me Down - Jerry Garcia
To Lay Me Down (Demo) - Grateful Dead
To Lay Me Down - Cowboy Junkies
To Lay Me Down - Perfume Genius & Sharon Van Etten
Anything cannons
Storms- Stevie Nicks
Lost Cause by Beck. Hypnotizing.
Gavin Bryars cello concerto “Farewell to Philosophy” (okay, kinda cheating as it’s 7 parts)
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session album
Yes, the entire thing.
Bleed - Meshuggah
Check out any song by Liquid Mind, sooo relaxing.
Drakon!
Great stuff in the latenighttales series.
https://open.spotify.com/user/latenighttales?si=ppf4__zkRKC5N_n8ahYRog
There’s also sleep baseball.
L’amore dice ciao- Armando Trovajoli
Easy Goin Evening (My Mama’s Call) - Stevie Wonder
Julia Shortreed - Clockwork Quick and Lightning Slow
Genesis - Entangled
Yuki Kajiura - Lullaby (heh); pretty much any version but the jazzy one with Tulivu-Donna Cumberbatch may fit your mood best. On that note, you'd probably fall asleep sooner than I'm finished listing all the Yuki Kajiura works that can fit the bill. Wayside, A Stray Child, At Nightfall are but a few examples.
Extermination Dismemberment - Disemboweled Engorgement
Sheltering Sky by King Crimson
Band of Horses - Detlef Schrempf
This entire Low album... https://open.spotify.com/album/61dByu8oBt4qdym9Rkz39w?si=KJpWDxmARPyiv1NefyKUxA
Brian Eno- Music For Airports (anything from that album, or better yet, just loop the whole thing)
… also many of his other ambient works are great for relaxation. They’ve helped me out on many redeye flights.
And also, nearly anything from the Minecraft Volume Alpha or Volume Beta (artist is C418)
Silent lucidity Hey moon John maus
This Mortal Coil:
Song To The Siren
You and Your Sister
Pat Methany Group - Phase Dancing 1979.
Pat Methany Group - Phase Dancing 1979
Lullaby for Grown-Ups by Ane Brun
The whole Jeff Buckley 'Grace' album.
Echoes- Pink Floyd at Pompeii.
Sweet Jane- Cowboy Junkies. Fade into you- Mazzy Star.
Blind-Swans. Dirt- Stooges.
Feel Flows- Beach Boys.
https://songwhip.com/pauleypauls fresh vibes
Make your own kind of music- Cass Elliot not really what you requested but it's good
Moonlight - Sting
Roxy music Avalon
Khruangbin - Mr. White
Scatology Ingurgitation by Taint Gobbler
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King Crimson - I talk to the wind