Despite being really tired, I love putting on music to fall asleep to... and in college I had one playlist for SLEEP on my itunes that I would let play at random, a general mixture of Explosions in the Sky, Bebel Gilberto's remix cd and yes... Coldplay (among many other random songs/bands like Nick Drake's Things Behind the Sun). I'm not afraid to admit that my go-to sleeping music was Coldplay. You could seriously turn on Coldplay and I would sleep within one or two songs. This doesn't mean that I think they are boring, it is more that Chris Martin's soothing voice and the band's balance calms me and puts me at ease allowing me to close my eyes and rest.
I would say that the classic The Scientist or In My Place or Green Eyes would be the easiest for me. Romantic, sad, emotional, and uplifting all at the same time. Really anything off of A Rush of Blood to the Head would work. I bought the cd one year for my mom as a gift, but I decided after listening to keep the accompanying dvd. Lately, for the last few years, I just put on my carefully customized Pandora station of female singers such as Cat Power and Feist, but Coldplay is my throwback. I don't care what you say, but try actually falling asleep tonight to Coldplay.
What is your music of choice to fall asleep to?
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Explosions in the Sky, The Album Leaf, Kings of Convenience
ReplyDeleteThe song I would pick by Coldplay would be Sparks.
ReplyDeleteFree the Robots has some great, low key electronic jazz songs for dozing, including "Moonchild (king crimson)", "lesson 5.5 (instrumental)", and "Our Time (science & technology)"...
Country - Empire of the Sun... but I feel like thats more of an in-between sleep song
Also, Blue Scholars Bayani instrumentals has some great tracks for drifting off to sleep (Loyalty, 50k deep, Morning in America, Joe Metro, etc...)
I usually fall asleep to a fan, but if I had to fall asleep to something, it would probably be sigur ros. Or anything by Tool.
ReplyDeleteScores are usually the best way to go. Listen to some Clint Mansell or Hans Zimmer...it'll knock you right out.
ReplyDeleteSigur Ros, Boards of Canada, and Ulrich Schnauss are at the top of the list too.
Coldplay is like Radiohead minus the talent. Recently passed out to Gangstarr over the weekend, but I probably could have passed out to the Sex Pistols given the state I was in.
ReplyDeleteAny lilting lady voice. Cat Power, Laura Veirs, some Regina Spektor, etc.
ReplyDeleteNora Jones...zzzzzzzzzzz
ReplyDeletefabolous street dreams.....weird huh?
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