Music for late nights

Above · 11-30-2011, 04:08 PM

What is good music for when you're up late, just idly browsing the internet and maybe contemplating life? Night-time is probably when I listen to music the most.

Thom Yorke · 11-30-2011, 04:14 PM

Kid A has always been this album for me. I often put it on repeat if I have to be up late studying.

Zer0 · 11-30-2011, 04:29 PM

In terms of music that sounds good late at night you can't beat Portishead's debut Dummy. It's the perfect album for those bleary early hours.

In a similar way and keeping with the trip-hop feel, Bowery Electric's last album Lushlife hits the spot nicely.

The last Joy Division album Closer also sounds brilliant late at night. The production and overall pitch-black mood gives it that eerie late night feel.

**Janszoon** · 11-30-2011, 04:32 PM

REM's Dead Letter Office was always my up-all-night-finishing-a-project album when I was in college. It still is to a certain extent. I'm not sure why exactly, maybe because it's low-key without being something that will lull you to sleep. Being an odds and ends collection it's pretty different for REM. Lots of cover songs, some of flirtations with other styles of music and generally more raw and off-the-cuff feel overall.

One of my favorite tracks off of it, "White Tornado":

Burning Down · 11-30-2011, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

REM's Dead Letter Office was always my up-all-night-finishing-a-project album when I was in college. It still is to a certain extent. I'm not sure why exactly, maybe because it's low-key without being something that will lull you to sleep. Being an odds and ends collection it's pretty different for REM. Lots of cover songs, some of flirtations with other styles of music and generally more raw and off-the-cuff feel overall.

One of my favorite tracks off of it, "White Tornado":

That's some pretty solid drumming from Bill Berry right there. But yeah, my late night music usually consists of REM or some jazz.

___ · 12-01-2011, 04:06 AM

Cat Power and the album The Greatest

It's like an album you'd think about f'ing to but you can't and you'll just crawl into the shadows.

bob. · 12-01-2011, 09:57 AM

Coil

start with Music To Play In The Dark Vol. 1 and 2.....this IS moon musick

spiderland · 12-01-2011, 11:43 AM

The album by an emo band called Mineral, the power of failing is an album I listen to. For some reason, I could fall to sleep to it. It's quite upbeat actually.

Slint's Spiderland is another album I could fall to sleep to. Or have I missed the point?

SATCHMO · 12-01-2011, 12:15 PM

To me Miles' In a Silent Way has always embodied the wee morning hours:

As well as Isis' Panopticon album:

And a newer album to me, but one that's gaining a lot of late night play is The Black angels Phosphene Dream:

captaincaptain · 12-01-2011, 06:40 PM

All the way man.

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Zer0 ∞ Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Ireland Posts: 3,792	In terms of music that sounds good late at night you can't beat Portishead's debut Dummy. It's the perfect album for those bleary early hours. In a similar way and keeping with the trip-hop feel, Bowery Electric's last album Lushlife hits the spot nicely. The last Joy Division album Closer also sounds brilliant late at night. The production and overall pitch-black mood gives it that eerie late night feel. __________________ Last FM \| RYM \| The Final Sound

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Thom Yorke Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 1,848	Kid A has always been this album for me. I often put it on repeat if I have to be up late studying.

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spiderland Groupie Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 23	The album by an emo band called Mineral, the power of failing is an album I listen to. For some reason, I could fall to sleep to it. It's quite upbeat actually. Slint's Spiderland is another album I could fall to sleep to. Or have I missed the point?

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SATCHMO Al Dente Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 4,708	To me Miles' In a Silent Way has always embodied the wee morning hours: As well as Isis' Panopticon album: And a newer album to me, but one that's gaining a lot of late night play is The Black angels Phosphene Dream:

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