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Tuesday, September 06, 2005

iPod Playlist: Sleepy Time


Periodically I will post a playlist I've composed, particularly if I've published it as an iMix on iTunes, as I have with this one.

The point of the "Sleepy Time" playlist is pretty much what it sounds like. This is a collection of some great tunes to fall asleep to, if you're like me and can fall asleep to music, or have a touch of tinitis and from time to time have to fall asleep to some kind of noise or music to drown out the rining. It's quite simple, set your iPod's "sleep timer" to 90 or 120 minutes (or less if it takes less for you), tell your iPod to shuffle songs within a playlist if you don't already have it set to do so, pop in the earbuds and sweet dreams! You'll notice this particular playlist is heavy on the Michael W. Smith and Roger Whittaker. I don't know why, I just find the voices easy to fall asleep to I guess. :)

Alan Jackson - Remember When
U2 - One
Howie Day - Collide
The Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin
Billy Joel - Always a Woman
Evanescence - My Immortal
Geoff Moore & the Distance - Heart to God, Hand to Man
Geoff Moore & the Distance - When All is Said and Done
Dido - White Flag
Eagles - Desperado
dc Talk - The Hardway
John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire
Enya - Carribean Blue
White Heart - Silhouette
Michael W. Smith - I Hear Leesha
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Switchfoot - Home
Bryan Adams - Everything I do
Michael W. Smith - Somebody Love Me
Audio Adrenaline - My World View
Lifehouse - You and Me
Michael W. Smith - Friends
BJ Thomas - Raindrops Are Falling on my Head
Roger Whittaker - The Last Farewell
Dixie Chicks - You Were Mine
Audio Adrenaline - Tremble
Billy Joel - She's Got a Way
Marc Cohn - One Safe Place
Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
Mr. Mister - Broken Wings
Roger Whittaker - I Don't Believe in "If" Anymore
Joe Satriani - Always With You, Always With Me
Newsboys - Rain
Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling in Love
dc Talk - What if I Stumble
Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting
Roger Whittaker - New World in the Morning
Michael W. Smith - I Miss the Way
John Denver - Take Me Home Country Roads
Michael W. Smith - Kentucky Rose
Jars of Clay - Worlds Apart
Enya - Only Time
Michael W. Smith - Pray for Me
Switchfoot - Twenty-four
Alphaville - Forever Young
White Heart - How Many Times
Phil Collins - Another Day in Paradise (live)
Geoff Moore & the Distance - If You Could See What I See
Michael W. Smith - Somewhere Somehow
Madonna - This Used to be my Playground
Willie Nelson - My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Switchfoot - You
Elton John - I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues
Police - Every Breath
Audio Adrenaline - Rest Easy
Chris De Burgh - Lady in Red
Amy Grant - How Can We See That Far
Christopher Cross - Best That You Can Do
White Heart - Desert Rose
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
Blink 182 - I Miss You
Newsboys - When You Called My Name
Dido - Thank You
Roger Whittaker - Sailing
Amy Grant - Hopes Set High
Michael W. Smith - Do You Dream of Me
Beatles - Yesterday
Amy Grant - I Will Remember You
Roger Whittaker - Dirty Old Town
Larry Norman - Wish We'd All Been Ready
Roger Whittaker - Streets of London
James Taylor - Carolina In My Mind
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
Don Henley - End of the Innocence
Garth Brooks - To Make You Feel my Love
Brad Paisley - Whiskey Lullabye
Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out
DeGarmo & Key - Addey
Michael W. Smith - Straight to the Heart

Bazooka-Joe made it so at 6:54 AM

11 Comments:

  • At September 06, 2005 7:34 AM, Anonymous Anonymous added:

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  • At September 06, 2005 7:41 AM, Blogger Bazooka-Joe added:

    Ah yes. Isn't it beautiful? Marketing disguised as a personal contact. Is anyone falling for this? At any point do Marketing teams think to themselves, "Maybe we're irritating people with our advertising schemes and ruining our word-of-mouth?" Just yesterday I received a credit card ad in the mail, but this time it was most cleverly made to look like something from the IRS. I wish there was a www.donotspam.gov list similar to donotcall. I could always disallow these kinds of comments, but then what would I complain about on my lunch hour?! :) |  

  • At September 06, 2005 7:45 AM, Blogger Bazooka-Joe added:

    I got it. Credit card junkmailers particularly, must think that when we open the letter that cleverly appears to be a check from the IRS, a bank statement, or a letter from the government telling us there's been a tragic accident and they owe us money, they must think we open these, and upon realizing it's ANOTHER Capital One offer for a card with a limit that we should never be allowed to have and aren't the least tempted to call them right up and set the wheels in motion for a 26.7% interest rate that we smile widely and chuckle. "Oh those guys at Capital One...they got me again," and then wink and thumbs up to the camera like some sort of bad Mentos commercial. Capital One, the Fresh Maker. |  

  • At September 06, 2005 5:55 PM, Blogger Dan added:

    Just happened upon your blog. Your topic was great, well thought out. Want to buy a singing fish? If so head on over to my site, Singin' Fish Emporium! Hey look Elvis! ----->

    Ha, ha, seriously... Roger Whittaker?! Madonna!? Are you trying to undermine your credibility with your musical insights!? ;-)

    Have a great day. That reminds me, I should find "Desert Rose" and that Dido song. Take care,
    Dan

    P.S. You should turn on the new comment spam inhibitor. It works well. |  

  • At September 07, 2005 7:23 AM, Blogger Bazooka-Joe added:

    Dan pondered: "Are you trying to undermine your credibility with your musical insights!?"

    Quite the opposite Dano. I've come to find that when it comes to music, I just gotta be me. If I like something, I've stopped worrying about whether it's 'cool' to like it and trimming my playlists accordingly. Those with true music appreciation may not like it, but will appreciate my ecclecticness and willingness to go out on a limb and say I like something even though the masses may ridicule me for it. Keep in mind too...this is music I fall asleep to, and that's also the only Madonna song I own.

    And don't knock the Roger Whittaker. |  

  • At September 07, 2005 7:38 AM, Blogger Dan added:

    Good point.

    Although, a playlist to fall asleep to, shouldn't be nearly that long. ;-)

    Here's my playlist to fall asleep to:

    1. Moby - We Are All Made of Stars.

    ;-Dan |  

  • At September 07, 2005 7:54 AM, Blogger Bazooka-Joe added:

    I think a playlist to fall asleep to should be no less than 100 songs. Otherwise you wind up hearing the same songs every night, and that will frustrate me just enough to keep me awake. Variety is key, which is why I have tunes from Blink 182 and Enya in the same list.

    But I will have to check out that Moby song.

    2:^y |  

  • At September 08, 2005 8:48 AM, Blogger Dan added:

    Hey! That's a cool smiley face!

    That hairdo is dated to your high school days though. You might need to use this:
    ( :^y

    The point with Moby is that it's a Moby smooth sounding repetitive song that should put anyone to sleep the first time, every time. (C;-D

    Personally, I usually fall asleep with one of the fine selections from this company in my hand.

    By the way, I love that Blink song. Their duets are awesome. Excellent vocal contrast.

    Dan |  

  • At September 08, 2005 11:39 PM, Blogger Michael added:

    I've been camping at the beach here most every weekend lately and have tried some of the privately owned and free camp sites with no noise restrictions or anything called "quiet time". So I tend to either end up at campgrounds that feature camp-wide late night kareoke or next to someone that decides to leave there car running all night so that they can pump their car stereo noise into the great outdoor until early morning hours. Therefore my "playlist to fall asleep to" is as follows:

    Uncle Jed (who's drinking while singing) - Email My Heart (Britney Spears Kareoke)

    Annette of Toledo, Oregon singing "Redneck Woman" (originally by Gretchen Wilson) in such a way that captures the pure essence of the song and almost brings a tear to the eye . . . well, until she puts a bigger piece of chew in her lip and starts slurring her words a bit more.

    Rob Zombie - "I Hate You, You're All Going to Die A Miserable Death, Where's My Gun, Now I'm Going to Bark Like a Dog." (I think that's what its called) - Proudly pumped out of the neighbor camper's car at 147 decibles until 3 AM (serious about the 3 AM part)

    That's the end of my play list as I seem to fall asleep before I hear anymore. By the way I may have the title of the Rob Zombie song mixed up with another one, the one I'm thinking of may be called, "Die You Sick Freaks!!!! BlllleeeeeeaaaaaaAAAAAHHHH!!!!! I Hate You AAAAALLLLLL" But I think Itunes may be able to help you locate the proper title name. |  

  • At September 09, 2005 8:14 AM, Blogger Dan added:

    I think that song was most commonly performed by Insane Clown Posse. ;-) |  

  • At September 09, 2005 8:46 AM, Blogger Bazooka-Joe added:

    Mike you've been following me, haven't you? Checking out all those "bands" that open for Creswell and scare away the "fans". That's what they do when they're not on stage before us...they infiltrate campgrounds and "sing" covers of screamo tunes.

    You can literally see me making the quotation marks with my fingers, can't you?

    2=^y |  

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