Whats your favorite "late night" music?
 

Once again Im working midnights here at helpdesk and I once again can play whatever music I want when Im not on a call.. I prepared well this time and brought pretty much my entire music collection ala MP3s

Ive flipped through a few CDs and genres and Ive gone back to the old stand by.. Blues And Haikus by Jack Kerouac..


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What keeps you up late when you have to (or when you just want to)

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St Germain - Tourist.

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Best. Fucking. Album. Ever.

i like to relax with some mellow dnb.

ltj bukem is a nice place to start..

I think so 2.

Pink Floyd.

Music for every occasion.

Jazz/Swing or Dean Martin, Sinatra, Torme and more in that vein.
Jazz has a wonderful way of fitting every occasion as well with so many sub-genres and decades to choose from.

stereo modus - ex tempore

buckethead - colma

pink floyde- dark side of the moon

remy shand - the way i feel

buckethead - electric tears

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The Strokes: Room On Fire

Going on for a bit more than a month now and I'm still 100% into it. Especially their newest song with Regina Spektor on it (Modern Girls/Me Me Me/When Dogs Get Embarassed/Whatever they're calling it now).

thievery corporation

I love David Gray, White Ladder is one of my favorite CDs.

Ella Fitzgerald
Nora Jones
Opus III
Pink Floyd Us and Them
Sting
U2 The Joshua Tree

Beastie Boys - In Sounds From Way Out

Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Type O Negative.

Best late, late, late at night.

totally agree.
another late night fave would be George Michael - Older...

anything off of Good Looking Records is great night time stuff.

Mellower hip hop like Tribe Called Quest is also good for the late nights.

Jimi Hendrix

Right on. I also enjoy:

- Boards of Canada
- Massive Attack (spec. Mezzanine and Protection)
- Nick Drake
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Exhaust
- Death in Vegas
- Thievery Corporation

at the moment i listen to all three hours of this cd....

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I've got an beastie boys collection on my ipod and it's got an unlisted album name. I've been ripping it apart though tons lately! It's all instrumental, standup, live-sounding music. For some reason it's listed under the Root Down album but I have a feeling that it's a different one...?

Beyond this I've been chilling out to:

-Instrumental Beastie Boys (talked about above..)
-Plastikman (Artifact BC) especially when I do something like math homework.
-Any Mushroom Jazz collection (mixes by Mark Farina in SF)

I also have a 11+minute live symphony of Bach's Toccata En Fugue (sp..) and I love the entire development of the piece. I have no idea what kind of stuff he's done before or what he was up against. Can you recomend anything else like this I might like? ;)

One of my favorite albums too. Great late night music for sure. Also The Doors, Sloan, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, and Ben Folds [Five] are good at night.

portishead is a great latenight choice

for the guy who likes godspeed, check out: le fly pan am, it is a side project from them and it is insane

Latenite? Late night is when I pull out the odd stuff. BÖC albums that no one else owns, like Cultosaurus Erectus or Revolution by Night, Live King Crimson, like "Absent Lovers", or Blackmore's Rainbow.

I listen to some sarah mclachlan, nice and calming.

Joss Stone and Norah when I'm feeling really mellow.
Nika Costa is a bit more jazzy and up tempo.

When I'm really out there and just need some music that is all over the place (bits of jazz and skat, blended with growling rock and tons of industrial sizzle), its called Foetus (some of the album names eschew it slightly for a name that contains the word in a phrase). It is a bit out there, even for most, but give it an honest listen and you might be suprised. You might not, but hey, what do you have to lose?

nine inch nails - a warm place i listen to this song if i ever have trouble sleeping and it usually puts me right out. its just so relaxing.

Late night relaxing music: Coldplay, Oasis, Weezer, Engine Down

Late night "stay awake" music: Rufio, Thrice, Number One Gun

Of course, there are others, but here are some.

That's it. In Sounds From Way Out.

Vangelis and Sinatra are perfect for latenight.

led zeppelin's since i've been loving you, or elton john.

All depends on my mood- something like Pink Floyyd, David Gray, Coldplay, Norah Jones, older Jewel, Jack Johnson, or old jazz/blues when I just want to sit back & relax- but if I'm out to bounce around, it's gotta be some tight (especially local) trance or DrumNBass. I jump on my (cdj)tables when I can.

I have a huge playlist (over 11, songs) so it just depends on my mood, and what strikes my mind at the time.
tonight I will be listening to Firehouse, and the soundtrack to Onagai Teacher (anime).
ELO, journey, kansas, lifehouse, dream theater, and Live all get some major play too.

The later it gets, the harder the music gets. I start with something comparatively light like Metallica, then move toward death metal as it gets later. I can fall asleep listening to old In Flames.

After the sun goes down, I just don't seem to be in the mood for everything I listen to during the day.

Yeah, a few of those songs appear on "Check Your Head". "In Songs From Way Out" represents some of the Beastie Boys' finest work.

Actually, they're called simply "fly pan am". I've seen them live and own a few of their albums. They are indeed very good.

Both GY!BE and FPA release their music on Constellation Records, a great label from Montreal that also puts out Hangedup, Exhaust, A Silver Mt. Zion, Do Make Say Think (before they broke up), 1-Speed Bike and a few others. All kick-ass stuff for late nights.

These albums are my most listened to during the wee hours:

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Photek: Modus Operandi, Steve Hackett: Sketches of Satie, & Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain

Diana Krall. Especially, Love Scenes. A fabulous disc. Her best. (I would post an album cover like the rest, but I don't know how. Sorry)

How could I forgot Patricia Kaas???????????? Tour De Charme and Piano Bar are the very epitome of late night music. Plus, Patricia is soooooooooooooooo hot.

I've been listening to a lot of Elefant [Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid] and The Mars Volta [De-Loused] late night. Two great bands.

One more: Any of the Tony Bennett and Bill Evans albums. Solid freaking gold. Two geniuses together. You can't ask for more than that.