Music to RELAX to...
 

I have had trouble sleeping as of late. Anyone have any good songs to listen to that'll make me relax?

A shot in the dark, I know...

Brian Eno: Music for Airports

I have a CD of thunderstorms that knocks me right out.

I have a friend that relaxes and falls to sleep listening to hard rock and metal. But, he isn't someone I would call normal. ;)

I like listening to trance and new age music sometimes when I need help falling to sleep. Massive Attack and Sasha and Digweed's Communicate has been blended into my dreams quite often.

Yeah, some Brian Eno ambience oughta do it.

Some Japanese relaxation CD's, there are thousands.

How about a metronome?

Café del Mar series..

Norah Jones, Sade, Everything But the Girl, Paul Hardcastle..

Tori Amos' "Scarlet's Walk"..

Me'Shell NdegéOcello's "Bitter"..

Abraham - Magpie (Morgan Geist Remix)
Blue Six - Let's Do It Together
Blue Six - Sweeter Love
Chet Baker and Paul Desmond - How Deep Is The Ocean
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Moonlight In Vermont
Miles Davis - I Fall In Love Too Easily
Tony Bennett - The Way You Look Tonight
Wax Poetic - Technologie

:)

These work for me:

Brian Eno - Music for Airports

William Orbit - Pieces in a Modern Style

various composers - Adagios for Relaxation

various artists - Tea (a CD of traditional chinese music)

Donnie Darko soundtrack

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 and Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2

Coil - North (aka Winter Solstice) and most easily attainable on the compilation Moon's Milk (in Four Phases)

Banco de Gaia - Maya

Biosphere - Cirque, Patashnik, Shenzhou and Substrata (Substrata being my favorite)

Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country, Music Has the Right to Children, Geogaddi, Twoism

Tor Lundvall - Autumn Calls, Ice, The Mist

Moby - Ambient and any of his piano pieces ("God Moving Over the Face of the Waters")

Robert Rich - Trances/Drones

If you're looking for stuff with vocals:

Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun, ( )

Mum - Finally We Are No One, Yesterday Was Dramatic Today is OK

Delerium - Semantic Spaces, Karma, Poem, Chimera

Conjure One - Conjure One

Low - Long Division, Things We Lost in the Fire

The Notwist - Neon Golden

Since the first name that came to my mind when I saw this thread was Eno, I'll jump on the bandwagon and say any of his ambient music (such as Music For Airports) is excellenet for relaxation.

I'll try some Eno tonight. I'll let you all know!

Thanks!

Air
Sigur Ros

Enigma

Coldplay usually relaxes me. Like right now.

I like Morcheeba for relaxing.

Sigur Ros
Godspeed You Black Emperor
Royksopp
Cocteau Twins

...among others.

Zero 7: Simple Things

I used to do this all the time & I think I'm normal :p

I'll usually throw on some techno now days. Paul Oakenfold, Sasha & Orbital mainly.

SPEED - One More Dream

[J pop group]

That song is all it takes for Sarareku,sleepy and so sleepy.

Mazzy Star

Beat me to it, these are the first two that came to mind. Orbital's Snivilisation is also great for relaxing...superb album.
Jon

I try to avoid "songs", that is, music with words. I find myself mentally singing along or listening to the words too much, distracting me from the desired effect. When I listen to music to lull me to sleep, I usually grabbed some of Bill Nelson's instrumental albums, or pretty much anything under the "New Age" umbrella.

I may not be able to get to sleep tonite if Tarantino doesn't let us know how it turned out...

:p

;)

Last night I had a lot of stuff on my mind, a lethal injection wouldn't have put me to sleep. I'll try it tonight, promise.

Second Coldplay