Is there anything better?

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Than lying in bed with headphones, listening to an essential album straight through before you go to bed?

For me, I do this every Sunday evening before I start a new week.

I pick out an album to listen to. i can either pick a new one i haven't tried before, or one that I know will do the job. i mainly stay within the electronic genre, but won't hesitate to take a step out every now and then. for example, i listened to boarRAB of cananda last week (epic), but the week before that i listened to explosions in the sky. i am still picking my selection for tonight if anyone has any 'must listen to' albums. i have so many gigs of albums, and haven't listened to the majority of them. i like to go one by one. i will also smoke small amounts of pot to enhance the experience.

Does anyone else do this religiously? If so, what's your favorite album to go to bed to?
 
i tend to do this when ive had a really full on day at work, when im ready to crash ill get all then slap on a disc.

some of my favourite sleeptime albums are..

Boris - Flood
Grey Daturas - Return to Disruption
Alcest - souvenirs d'un autre monde
Alex Smoke - Incommunicado
Tame Impala - antares, mira, sun
 
The Radio Dept. will put me down pretty quick.
Explosions in the Sky-The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
BoarRAB of Canada-Music Has The Right to Children
Broken Social Scene-You Forgot it in People

Any ASOT episode

those are usually the albums I can just chill and really listen to and eventually just fall asleep to.
 
I like Enigma's latest album, Seven Lives Many Faces, for when I want to chill out. Eagles - Hell Freezes Over is a great album, not only for the music, but for the amazing mastering. This album's perfection will allow you to really get into the music without bothersome and fatiguing balance issues.
 
To answer the original question, I can think of only one thing that compares to this. The moment when you "get" an album or a band, or that moment when everything clicks is one of my favorite things with music. You know you've made a life lasting relationship with that piece of music - that moment is up there with any musical experience.

But listening to an essential album all the way through with headphones on is like hitting a big reset button in your head. There's nothing like that journey the music takes you on.

I also like to listen to these albums:
The Wrens - MeadowlanRAB
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of a Great Highway
 
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