Good music to sleep to.
 

Give me some suggestions of music that is good to go to sleep while listening at. I'd like some more unknown artists.

A few samples of swedish artists for your pleasure:
Grenada - Amazing it seems
Sophie Zelmani - Time to kill
Stina Nordenstam - Little Star

This may not be your thing (probably won't be), but I listen to alot of Black metal/death metal when I'm going to sleep. Much of it is so fast it's kind of hypnotizing... knocks me right out.

As for some bands:
Nile
Satyricon
Morbid Angel
DarK Funeral
Marduk

Nah, not really. I'm looking for soft music.

I like to listen to a double CD set called Deep and Chilled Euphoria. It's ambient music that is pretty relaxing great for background music to sleep.

i've found that bjork's vespertine helps me sleep

Burzum - Rundgang Um Die Transzendentale Säule Der Singularität

the Blade Runner soundtrack, by Vangelis. every single song on that CD is perfect for bed time, or just relaxing in general.

As crazy as this sounds, I find it really easy to fall asleep listening to Megadeth and Metallica. I'm kinda weird though.

The lord of the rings soundtrack and any Abra Moore.

LOTR score and Sarah McLachlan. Both are sleepy music and rainy day music. Something Corporate's song Konstantine is a great song for before bedtime.

yea, Sarah McLachlan is amazing to fall asleep to. Also some very thought-inspiring lyrics if you pay attention. Do What You Have To Do is my personal favourite.

pink floyd puts me to sleep in a matter of minutes... maybe seconds, even.

David Sanborn if you like saxophone.

opeth - damnation

seriously, dont knock it til you've tried it, its not like their other stuff. very mellow. ive had a lot of trouble sleeping of late, ill throw this album on the Minidisc, and ill be out like a light before track 2.

im yet to find anything better to do the job, though these come close:

Strung out on OK Computer (violins, chellos and shit doing radiohead)
Third eye open - Strings tribute to tool (Same again, but tool)
Tea Party - Tangents

My clock radio is always set to oldies....at night they hardly ever play commercials and I don't find myself trying to follow the music because I already have heard it all......Plus I set it so that it shuts off in 90 min....I love oldies!

Leonard Cohen will put you right out if it doesn't bore you to death first..

Godspeed you! Black Emperor

This is great music to listen to when you want to sleep, very relaxing and the songs last about 20 minutes each.

Anything by Rabbit In The Moon, or Tranceport by Paul Oakenfold. The Oakenfold CD is about 5 years old so there is some quality to and to this day I've only heard been awake past the 4th track twice.

lately i've been tuning my computer into digitally imported's classical music stream at night... it lulls me down and gives me something to listen to when bongo is snoring.. ;)

I'm with the metalheads, a bit of loud music relaxes me. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Javanese Gamelan orchestra music is relaxing (not Balinese, it's quite disruptive to sleep patterns.) Japanese instrumental folk music can also be relaxing, as can ancient Japanese meditation hymns. Yes, I listen to all of that.

An interesting thing to look at, maybe it's not technically music, is a cassette called "Astral Sounds." It's a collection of synthesized sounds designed to stimulate the pleasure center of the brain, and can be used for meditation and relaxation. It's used in some hospitals as an alternative to painkillers and as a sleep aid.

Lorrena McKennit works well, and about any "mood" music, eg, Sade

You can fall asleep to GY!BE? Wow! Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love them, but the crescendos in their songs would just wake me right up.

If I need to sleep, I play either Aphex Twin's "Selected ambiant sounds vol.II", Cat Power's "Covers Album", a few tracks from the "Plunkett & MacCleane" soundtrack or almost anything by the Black Heart Procession.

Once, along time ago, I was staying with my cousin. everynight he would put on Santana or Chicago. AS LOUD AS HE COULD!! I asked him on the 4th night if he could turn it down abit. (I would have asked sooner but I didn't want to look square.) He said fine and the next night he didn't play anything at all. Around 11pm I heard "MARGARET!!! MARGARET!!!" over and over again. It was his grandmother who had dementia calling for her daughter-in-law.(my aunt) After about 20 minutes of this I walked over and put "houses of the holy" at max and fell asleep. Now a days I just have a fan next to my bed.

fascinatingly enough, sleep by blackalicious does the trick

Also, I find that anything by Labradford does the trick.

Enya is nice.

Appleseed Cast: Low level owl I and II

Anything Enya.

Tori Amos has some good ones too.

"Possibly Maybe" and "headphones" by Bjork work wonders for me..

I like to listen to some ambient once in a while when going to sleep.. Stuff like The Orb maybe.

Also, a wonderful record, very dream-like itself, is Boards of Canada's Music Has The Right To Children. I haven't listened to their lastest album yet but i've heard it's very much alike.. Highly recommended.

Beck - Sea Change or a special playlist I have by Jeff Buckly. No sheeps for me. :D

Dead Can Dance, especially their album "Spiritchaser" is full of hypnotising mellow rhythms. Not at all boring, but very soothing. One day I had to work at 4:00 pm, this was after spending the past night tripping, I was a wreck at the prospect of going to work, right before I left for work I played a song from this album and it calmed my nerves right down! Billie Holiday is quite soothing, as long as the depressiveness doesn't get to you.

Yeah, maybe some Tori Amos would be nice.

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother - so mellow.

Almost anything in the "chillout" type of trip-hop/ambient electronic music. I find it's great for falling asleep, relaxing, or studying.

I have a CD called "Essential Late Night Listening" It has a lot of that type of music on it, and is great for falling asleep to.

Avalon by Roxy Music.

Most Dave Matthews Bands' songs are nice to sleep to.

Messr. Phredgreen,
Thank you sooooooooooo much for the link to Digitally Imported. I have found a new favorite radio station. Truly, thanks again.

i take any zeppelin disk, and put it on repeat, also, Bad co works well for me

In the spirit of Roxy Music, you may want to try Bryan Ferry. Also, wierdly enough, I find that I doze off listening to Firesign Theatre.

Ok, I know what youre thinking, IS this guy crazy? Probably. But I have to go with:

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2

This one is probably for the electro heads only. Its a 2 cd box, no track names - each track is represented by a different circle with triangles inside. I think its not ment to be listend to actively if you know what I mean its just background sounds but I find it really soothing. Its molodic & almost doesnt qualify as music. Its really ambient & I mean seriously fucking ambient. When he released it the music press thought it was a joke coz Mr James usually releases nosebleed hard-as-nails techno. Maybe its not for everyone but it works for me.:p

Pink Floyd - Animals

Most anything by Robert Miles, and yeah, Animals is great too.

Vader. The "Revelations" album.

I don't know why, but I used to sleep to Pantera's "The Great Southern Trendkill". It's heavy as hell, but there's something in the production that makes it even and cozy.

Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri-La-Dee-Da

Right on, alpha. Boards of Canada is definitely some very good "chill" music one can sleep to. Their new album "Geoghaddi" is similar, if a bit more "organic", and also quite good.

Lullaby-Creed, always relaxes me and puts me to sleep, just love that gentle acoustic guitar sound.