Albums to Listen to at Night

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

When I was a teenager, I used to have the following albums on the stereo changer every night...

 

George Harrison Side 1 Disc 1 ALL THINGS MUST PASS

Paul McCartney and Wings Side 1 BAND ON THE RUN

Rod Stewart Side 2 NEVER A DULL MOMENT

Pink Floyd Side 1 WISH YOU WERE HERE

Bruce Springsteen Side 1 BORN TO RUN

 

This was about a little over an hour and a half of music and would lull me off to the land of winken, blinken and nod

[Moss]

 

 

George Harrison Side 1 Disc 1 ALL THINGS MUST PASS

 

 

This is a good call.

[u2roolz]

The Cure - Pornography

 

I remember being young and in high school and I'd take the bus home and wouldn't get into my house until 4pm at which point it was dark in the fall. I would put this on before my parents got home and crank it. It also worked well with their Seventeen Seconds and Faith albums.

 

Edit: LOL. Yeah, maybe I didn't read the OP. You definitely don't want to be listening to these to help you sleep. I guess anything acoustic or quietly atmospheric would work.

[PopTodd]

1928 recordings from Mississippi John Hurt

 

Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings

[MeDave]

[bigshoulders]

A thousand times, yes. I sure do miss Mark Sandman.

[bigshoulders]

Edit: LOL. Yeah, maybe I didn't read the OP. You definitely don't want to be listening to these to help you sleep. I guess anything acoustic or quietly atmospheric would work.

Me neither. For the record, all of my submissions are not for falling asleep to... they're for listening and enjoyment at night.

 

The sunshine bores the daylights out of me,

 

KP

[calvino]

Pink Floyd - The Final Cut. "Not Now John" and a few bomb sound effects may jolt you back awake, but I always found the album relaxing.

[auctioneer69]

Great idea.

 

In addition to others:

 

Cocteau Twins "Heaven and Las Vegas" and "Blue Bell Knoll" - both fantastic albums if you have never heard them

Wilco "Sky Blue Sky" - really mellow with a couple of exceptions

Aphex Twin "Selected Ambient Works #1" - very chill but it does have a couple of very creepy songs on there too

Spiritualized "Ladies and Gentlmen We Are Floating In Space"

Kraftwerk "Trans-Europe Express"

Miles Davis "In A Silent Way" and "Sketches of Spain"

David Bowie "Hunky Dory"

Air "Moon Safari"

 

I feel like I am missing a whole bunch of California-based seventies country rock and acoustic folk albums.

[Mr. Heartbreak]

Also, Brian Eno's ambient stuff...

Yes, especially Thursday Afternoon, which is one 60-minute track!

[Wild Frank]

It's not an artist you see mentioned here very often but how about:

 

Jean Michel Jarre. His earlier albums are very nice night music. He also did a piece called 'Waiting for Cousteau', a forty-five minute ambient song which is perfect for insomnia (in a good way, not a critisim)

[howdjadoo]

Moody Blues "Days Of Future Past" seriously

[choo-choo-charlie]