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Drixorial Oscar® Winner	I'm currently bouting a big case of insomnia right now, tried everything in the book, so some soothing movie music is my last hope! I made a playlist of some tracks that will hopefully do the trick. I'm actually hoping some of you guys will chime in with some great suggestions as well Here's what I got(alas it's a short list seeing how the lack of sleep has affected my ability to think clearly) Leaving, Harry and Grace Make Peace - Armageddon The Secret Wedding, For Love of a Princess - Braveheart The Lighthouse, Casper's Lullaby - Casper Rose's Death, Sad Goodbyes - Cocoon Care of the Spitfire Grill - Spitfire Grill The Confession, Diego's Goodbye - The Mask of Zorro The Wedding, The Ludlows - Legends of the Fall anyone sensing a disturbing trend yet? Goodbye Joe - Black Beauty Storytime, Ice Dance - Edward Scissorhands Promise, Farewell, Grand Finale - Family Man Jon Dunbar Theme - Dances with Wolves Ashitaka and San - Princess Mononoke That's just about it, what do you guys pop in when you need to be out in a hurry? I was feeling a little experimental and decided to try Elliot Goldenthal's atmoshperic score to Sphere which almost did the trick until I hit that obnoxious trumpet trill that kicks off the third track and made me leap about 6 ft in the air when it came on. But I'm desperate, I have class in a few hours and don't think I've felt more wide awake...it's going to be a long day NP: sleep mix( !) [Message edited by Drixorial on 05-01-2001]
posted 05-01-2001 06:06 AM PT (US)

wistiti Oscar® Winner	Saving Private Ryan sends me to sleep in less than a minute.
posted 05-01-2001 06:15 AM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	Good ones are Rachel Portman's The Cider House Rules and Glassworks by Philip Glass. I have the same problem as you at the moment (basically because I find it incredibly hard to get up in the morning and therefore sleep much longer than I want to). Today's a holiday in Austria, so yesterday I simply decided to stay up and work until I get tired enough to fall asleep quickly. I ended up going to bed at 6 am, but it didn't help much.
posted 05-01-2001 06:31 AM PT (US)

Will Oscar® Winner	1. American Beauty 2. The Patriot - (The Patriot, Ann & Gabriel) 3. Titanic - Rose More to come...
posted 05-01-2001 06:47 AM PT (US)

BobaMike Oscar® Winner	This one' easy! : THE SPECIALIST, by John Barry. Even the action scenes are sleep-inducing. I actually really like the score, but I can't play it in the car cause I start to doze off BobaMike
posted 05-01-2001 06:53 AM PT (US)

Camillu Oscar® Winner	Just don't try falling asleep to the last track from Hannibal
posted 05-01-2001 10:41 AM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	I have actually fallen asleep even to "hardcore" scores at average volumes. Star Wars, Poltergeist, etc. NP: The Mummy (Jerry Goldsmith)
posted 05-01-2001 11:36 AM PT (US)

scoreman Oscar® Winner	1492: Conquest of Paradise is a great way to journey into the land of dreams. -matt NP- Cleopatra (Trevor Jones)
posted 05-01-2001 12:24 PM PT (US)

Graham Watt Oscar® Winner	Drix, I've gone through insomnia too. I find that ANY music is better than silence (I even fell asleep to Gerald Fried's blaring horror compilation recently). But for a sure-fire cure, put on one of those late night chat shows on the radio. Sweet dreams!
posted 05-01-2001 02:21 PM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by Graham Watt: I find that ANY music is better than silence Though when there's silence, I feel that the reason why I can't sleep is that I keep playing music in my head. NP: The Phantom Menace - "Ultimate" Edition (John Williams) - Still FAR better than the original release.
posted 05-01-2001 02:51 PM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	Similar to what Marian has said, I've fallen to sleep during Total Recall and Aliens, and most surprisingly to Shostakovitch No.7?!, when your tired your tired! 10 minutes of Mark Isham's Blade or Goldsmith's Russia House should be enough to bore anyone to sleep though! NP : Where Eagles Dare on t.v., this great Goodwin score could wake anybody....'cept maybe me'n Marian
posted 05-01-2001 03:06 PM PT (US)

Gae Oscar® Winner	Well, I can listen to most any film music while trying to sleep..anything from James Bernard's Hammer music or Basil Poledouris' "Robocop" to David Arnold's "The World is Not Enough". Not the most soothing of music but when I'm tired I could listening to construction workers and still fall asleep! The main idea is that any distraction of sound is better than getting stressed out thinking about work or money or even god forbid your young hearts...thoughts about mortality which do sometimes crop up in the wee small hours of the morning (especially if you get some trapped wind in the chest area and start think you're having a heart attack!! ) Seriously though, I always have a John Barry compilation next to my bed. I find his themes the most beautiful and tranquil sounds heard at at any time, day or night! I'm just waiting to get my hands on the 4 CD "John Barry: The Collection-40 years of film music (Nic Raine conducting) I was expecting delivery this week but its currently out of stock with Audiostreet NP Zulu and other themes (J. Barry) [Message edited by Gae on 05-01-2001]
posted 05-01-2001 03:15 PM PT (US)

Gae Oscar® Winner	Timmer..I'm watching "Where Eagles Dare" also..Channel 5 right? Great minds think alike eh? "Where Eagles Dare" seems to be having an amazing amount of screenings recently. In the past few months its been on TCM twice maybe three times..I think it was on ITV or BBC last month and now Channel 5. Oh well, you cant keep a good commando force down! Gae NWAL(now watching and listening) Where Eagles Dare...Great Goodwin score..check those atonal harmonies during the cable car fight.. amazing stuff!
posted 05-01-2001 03:22 PM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by Gae: when I'm tired I could listening to construction workers and still fall asleep! Everything, but NOT CONSTRUCTION WORKERS! Last summer, I had them starting their work right in front of my window on 6:30 am on SUNDAYS! NP: The Phantom Menace - "Ultimate" Edition (John Williams)
posted 05-01-2001 03:34 PM PT (US)

BMikeJ Oscar® Winner	Music to fall asleep to... I heartily recommend... Dreamscape by Maurice Jarre. You'll be mellow and relaxed before the main title is over... Where The River Runs Black or Vibes by James Horner. Two excellent electronic efforts that sound very different from the big orchestral things he was doing at the time. Also excellent for something to motivate you when you want to do some writing.
posted 05-01-2001 03:36 PM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	Too right Gae, and those 'Atonal Harmonies' during the brutal cable car fight are 2 of my favourite tracks from the album...Ascent and Descent? I think they were called ...I don't have the album in front of me! NP : Where Eagles Dare ....it's almost ended
posted 05-01-2001 03:42 PM PT (US)

Richard Street Oscar® Winner	The score I always used to fall asleep to was MIRACLE MILE by Tangerine Dream. Also TWIN PEAKS by Angelo Badalamenti (the TV score, not the film score, though with a little programming out of some of the more loonie cues, such as "A Real Indication", that one could do the job as well).
posted 05-01-2001 05:30 PM PT (US)

Mark Olivarez Oscar® Winner	Deep Impact by Horner..ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..........what a snoozer. The only reason I've hung on to it these past 4 years is for those sleepless nights.
posted 05-01-2001 05:35 PM PT (US)

Kross Oscar® Winner	I am one of the few that CAN'T fall asleep to music unless it is ambient say like Brian Eno or Chinese Classical...but if any music is playing, especially that of a film score, and I hear a note that inspires me to think of a song, or an addition to my script my brain kicks into hyper-creative mode and I stress out untill I turn the music off or write some things down. Watching TV does the trick for me. Wtaching any of the late shows, especially Leno since the writters are so horrid and banal. Watching any of the 24 hours news channels like, FNC or MSNBC, CNN especailly since they have gone to boring crap, works for me since I watch them all day and they replay what I already have seen late at night. Or, if suffering ffrom insomina, earlier that day make sure to bust your ass and then when you are done bustinfg yourt ass go work out. Run a few miles or box or do whatever to kill every ounce of energy you have. I had a HUGE sleeping patter problem a while back and only two things solvd it...many hours of exercise each week, anda few over the counter sleep aiding pills.
posted 05-01-2001 11:28 PM PT (US)

JJH Oscar® Winner	I fall asleep to Penderecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima.
posted 05-02-2001 08:18 AM PT (US)

Shaun Rutherford Oscar® Winner	JJ can rest easy knowing that I also use that exact Penderecki piece to put me to sleep. Shaun
posted 05-02-2001 08:33 PM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Oscar® Winner	True there is some music so boring that it'll put you to sleep. True, once asleep, the 1812 Overture cannons chorus and bells will not wake me (it was tried at top volume once and failed!). I can fall asleep to anything if tired enough. But when I actually want to play something soft and sleepy, I play Delius.
posted 05-02-2001 10:35 PM PT (US)

Gae Oscar® Winner	Lou...Delius has got to have composed some of the most dreamy music ever hasn't he? His music just ebbs and flows and runs its course with incredibly fluidity and subtle nuances of texture and colour. My all time favourite is "The Walk to the Paradise Garden"..incredibly moving piece! Funnily enough though I find it difficult to listen to most of his music at it is quite haunting and complex to listen to while trying to fall asleep. I find my mind becomes hyper-active listening to Delius and tends to keep me awake..weird eh? I much prefer something simpler and of less harmonic texture to doze of comfortably!! Gae
posted 05-03-2001 03:21 PM PT (US)

Lorien Oscar® Winner	If you can do any editing or fading of your sound files, I reccomend 1 . The Clark Gets taught Stuff segment from FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE on the SUPERMAN soundtrack. 2. From STAR TREK INSURRECTION the tracks NEW SIGHT and CHILDREN'S STORY. 3. From PAPILLON track #6 ("Gift From the Sea"?). 4. From PRINCESS MONONOKE tracks 3, 6, 7, 12, and especially 9. Probably more too, but I don't have it to hand.
posted 05-04-2001 01:38 AM PT (US)

Dylan Oscar® Winner	I would have to say that Sleepy Hollow is a great score to sleep to, I tried it once and it worked like a charm.
posted 05-04-2001 08:55 PM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Oscar® Winner	My strangest Delius asleep story: I set the machine to repeat so it played all night while I was out cold. I woke up just at the part at the end of "On Hearing the First Cookoo in Spring" where you hear the orchestra do the bird call. If I really put my mind to it, I'd probably have the same experience as Gae, but I play music to sleep with very low and ambient (as Brian Eno would call it) and its the overall sound and the fact there are no sudden climaxes to wake you up again that make it work for me.
posted 05-05-2001 01:20 AM PT (US)

Gae Oscar® Winner	Lou, I have a similar funny experience with a piece of Delius' music called "Eventyr (Once Upon a Time)" If you can imagine how calm and tranquil Delius' music is, well this piece is the same. I fell asleep listening to this piece the first time I listened to it but was rudely awoken about 3 a.m., heart pounding and sweating after hearing a mass of voices shout full blast "HOY!" I had such a shock and thought "What the hell was that?" only to find out that in this piece of tranquil orchestral music the orchestra has a cue to actually shout this out in mid performance....weird eh? Gae
posted 05-05-2001 07:01 AM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	LOOOL! NP: RVW: The Wasps (LPO, Sir Adrian Boult)
posted 05-05-2001 08:50 AM PT (US)

Drixorial Oscar® Winner	falling asleep to Total Recall and Aliens?..that's hardcore!! thanks for the suggestions guys
posted 05-05-2001 05:00 PM PT (US)

Valere Oscar® Winner	633 Squadron love theme followed by any Horner theme that you would like to name,mostlty,Man Without a Face!
posted 05-05-2001 05:32 PM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Oscar® Winner	Delius couldn't have imagined CDs so I suspect he added the HOY! to wake up anybody who was nodding off in the concert hall.
posted 05-05-2001 08:42 PM PT (US)

Valere Oscar® Winner	nice touch,Lou! actually,there are some nice cozy love cuts from CLEO that can make me nod off as well!
posted 05-05-2001 08:55 PM PT (US)

Valere Oscar® Winner	The Blue Max love theme.Does it every time.
posted 05-05-2001 09:12 PM PT (US)

Gae Oscar® Winner	Originally posted by Lou:- "Delius couldn't have imagined CDs so I suspect he added the HOY! to wake up anybody who was nodding off in the concert hall". And I'm sure he never in his wildest dreams imagined that one day we could be listening to his music while falling asleep in bed! What a surreal image eh? A bed right next to a 100 piece orchestra with someone asleep in it. No wonder the orchestra shouts "Hoy"...its a bit of an insult to them really isn't it? Especially, as the person sleeping had only just lifted his head up and said "Do y0u mind? I'm trying to get some sleep here!" Gae
posted 05-06-2001 07:40 AM PT (US)

rblake Oscar® Nominee	Stepmom will put you out fast!!!!
posted 05-07-2001 09:59 PM PT (US)

ursulas dad Oscar® Nominee	I always program my CD player to play the softer parts from Braveheart. I just skip the action music. It works for me. By the time I get to "The Princess Pleads For Wallace's Life", I'm all tuckered out!
posted 05-07-2001 11:20 PM PT (US)

BMUSTANG Oscar® Winner	Originally posted by Gae: Not the most soothing of music but when I'm tired I could listening to construction workers and still fall asleep! Hey, if the construction workers were very handsome and wearing no shirt (or anyting else!!) then I couldn't fall asleep!! I try Field of Dreams, but not "Building the Field" NP: The Postman
posted 05-13-2001 10:01 PM PT (US)

BMUSTANG Oscar® Winner	Wow!! I am just finishing listening to The Spitfire Grill, and try this one to fall asleep to. Great moving music. Not much bombast either. This is the one thing that gets me when I am trying to fall asleep to a score, it is really soothing then all of a sudden it is quiet, and then, BOOM!!!
posted 05-15-2001 07:47 PM PT (US)

Jeron Oscar® Winner	I tend to fall asleep quickly when listening to horror scores like Alien Resurrection, Sleepy Hollow, or X-Files (The Movie). Jeron PS- By the way, did I mention I'm kinda weird?
posted 05-15-2001 07:56 PM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	quote: Originally posted by Jeron: By the way, did I mention I'm kinda weird? No, you didn't. But don't worry: You didn't have to. NP: Sabrina (John Williams)
posted 05-16-2001 06:31 AM PT (US)

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