it's 2am, you've been up for two days straight and the crystal meth is wearing off; you need sleep, what album do you put on to lull yourself into a deep alpha state...?

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As a corallary to This thread I ask about music for insomniacs.

I suggest Enya at a volume slightly between "desktop fan" and "brian eno"; Buts thats just me. What is your personal audio sedative?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thomas Koner - Aubrite

― Elliot (Elliot), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Margo Guryan - Take a Picture

― Catherine (Catherine), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Harry Bertoia - Unfolding. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Stars of the Lid - The Gravitational Pull versus the Desire for an Aquatic Life. Double mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Both of Mr. Maxwell's recommendations are urgent and key.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

no pussyfooting or bonnie prince billy

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jessica Bailiff : < s/t >
Aix Em Klemm : < s/t >
Plotkin / Gutzeit : Mosquito Dream
(most Kranky releases will do, actually)

Nurse with Wound : Salt Marie Celeste
Tangerine Dream : Zeit
Atom Heart : Live at Sel I/S/C

― Frühlingsmute (Wintermute), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

eno - another green world. Side 2 in particular.

― pauls00, Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

KLF - Chill Out
Stars of the Lid - Avec Laudanum
Aphex Twin - SAW2

but the thing that makes me really drowsy is the sound of a hairdryer... mmmmmmmmmm....

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Brian Eno--Apollo Soundtracks or Music for Airports
Miles Davis--Kind of Blue

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Second vote for Aphex Twin's SAW2. Always sends me into a lovely state.

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Er. I like some of the tracks on SAW2 but overall there's too many disturbing/jarring ones to cause me to have bad dreams.

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'll Second "Kind of Blue", and add "My Favorite Things" by Coltrane.
For some reason, any time I put on the second disc of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" I doze off around "Comfortably Numb".

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

SAW2 most definitely. The first disc preferably (I'm terrified by disc 2 track 3)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Eno: Music For Airports or Jean Michel Jarre: Waiting For Costaeu (title track only in the latter case)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 1 May 2003 22:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

do you really need music to lull you off when you're coming down from meth?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 1 May 2003 22:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Miles Davis--Kind of Blue
Hmmm. Interesting Choice. I woulda thought that "In a Silent Way" woulda been the prime choice for a Miles record.

do you really need music to lull you off when you're coming down from meth?
Wouldn't know. Its just a random piece of whatif/ferinstance.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 2 May 2003 01:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Music won't do it. Try a valium. Or half a bottle of vodka.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 2 May 2003 02:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ooooh, yeah 'In a Silent Way'. that's a better choice.

(I'm terrified by disc 2 track 3)

so I'm not the only one, eh?

― buttch (Oops), Friday, 2 May 2003 03:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

'crystal meth wearing off', just go get some more, stupid

― dave q, Friday, 2 May 2003 09:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

That Gillian Welch album lately.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 May 2003 09:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

mum - finally we are no one

― gabriel (gabe), Friday, 2 May 2003 09:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

you guys are all hopelessly straight, if you're in the thread-titles condition freakin' SLAYER will lull you into an alpha state as quickly as any of these

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 2 May 2003 11:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

I hate to be the fucker to point this out, but 'alpha'-state = AWAKE. Methinks (if I can remember anything from my brief college years) that the deep-sleep-state brainwave patterns are referred to as "theta" waves.

And, as for the thread question, put on that Bill Laswell/Talvin Singh ambient album or Future Sound of London's Lifeforms or Buckethead's Electric Tears, and you. are. gone.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 2 May 2003 11:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

you guys are all hopelessly straight, if you're in the thread-titles condition freakin' SLAYER will lull you into an alpha state as quickly as any of these

I have a buddy who listens to music while he goes to sleep. Thing is, most of his cds are things like Dillinger Escape Plan or Botch or Meshuggah or whatever, so this is what he ends up listening to... without the aid of crystal meth even!

But my suggestion is Keith Fullerton Whitman's Playthroughs. Something about the tones he uses just knocks me out in SUCH a good way.

SAW2 most definitely. The first disc preferably (I'm terrified by disc 2 track 3)

Thing is, a couple of tracks on the first disc terrify me as well. (like the one with the slo-mo tribal drums)

― original bgm, Friday, 2 May 2003 12:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

if it's wearing off at 2am i don't think it really matters how much more you do, dave

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 2 May 2003 13:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

john oswald's 'plexure'.

― milton, Friday, 2 May 2003 16:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh i didn't see the "two days straight" part.

Well like I said on the other thread I'd put on "Shorty Swing My Way" by K.P. and Envyi, the Carl Mo remix. Once that was over I'd put it on again.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 2 May 2003 17:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

joey beltram - collage of dreams

― minna (minna), Friday, 2 May 2003 17:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nothing beats Folke Rabe's What?? on Dexter's Cigar.
Jim O'Rourke may still have copies
collecting dust in his mansion.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Friday, 2 May 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't listen to music. I put on the HBO special "CRANK" and wonder what direction my life is headed. Crystal Meth is no good (at least, from what I gather by watching that Crank special and Spun, the movie (spunthemovie.com).

― Scaredy Cat, Friday, 2 May 2003 19:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

'crystal meth wearing off', just go get some more, stupid
(shivers, grits teeth, woozily wipes sweat from his brow)
i-i-i'm trying to c-c-cut bacccckkkk.....

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 2 May 2003 23:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Rather than stuttering, have you heard any tweakers talk in a whisper? It's weird, it's like they're so devoid of any energy aside from being propped up by chemicals that they can't even muster the strength to speak in a normal tone of voice.

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 3 May 2003 00:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Elektro Nova/Elektro Nova - double disc of deep-ass drone on Smalltown Supersound. simply somnilicious.

― summerslastsound (summerslastsound), Monday, 2 June 2003 15:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

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