When I go to bed (in actual bed) for the night I turn on a compilation cd of soothing (to me) sleepytime songs. The cd player shuts itself off after the cd plays one time through -- which is a good thing -- because I generally don't make it past the first half of the cd before I drop off to sleep. If it goes much past that it is time for me to get back up for a while.
ANYway...every few months or so the songs get a little too predictable (and I can't trust that the shuffle will shut off) so I need to make a new cd. Tonight I have been working on putting together a new playlist and it has been surprisingly difficult to come up with just the right order for the songs. I also added a few new songs. I think I finally got it right.
I always limit myself to 20 songs. In order for the songs to be soothing to me the have to have at least one of these qualities:
- somehow repetitive
- relatively quiet/soft/low toned vocal
- fairly even levels (no saxophone/wild guitar/jarring piano solos)
- vocals rather than instrumentals (unless the original song is already an instrumental piece -- there are some really cool lullabye-ized versions of songs that I really really like but I have found that I tend to fill in the original vocal in my head and that keeps me awake.)
- 3 Libras -- A Perfect Circle
- Rain in Venice -- Steve Harley
- Moonlight Serenade -- Carly Simon
- Wicked Little Town (Hedwig Version) -- Hedwig and the Angry Inch Soundtrack
- One Time -- King Crimson
- Two Grey Rooms -- Joni Mitchell
- Temporary -- Rogue Wave
- Kangaroo Lake -- Ian Moore
- Pink Moon -- Nick Drake
- The Coast of Amalfi -- Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
- Just Not Just -- The Guggenheim Grotto
- Into My Arms -- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
- 29 Palms -- Robert Plant
- Across the Universe -- The Beatles
- Wichita Lineman -- Glen Campbell
- A Stranger -- A Perfect Circle
- Northern Sky -- Nick Drake
- Fountain of Youth -- Grant-Lee Phillips
- The Consul at Sunset -- Jack Bruce
- Don't Dream it's Over -- Crowded House
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