Songs for Insomniacs
4 min readApr 21, 2021
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Come over to the dark side. We have music.
A deep dive into a few numbers you might have missed so far on your journey through life.
- 1: “Midnight Man” by The James Gang
- 2: “Starless” by the Unthanks
- 3: “Ach heile mich” by Cassiber
- 4: “Opening Theme” by Morte Macabre
- 5: “Gotta Go” by Bud Shank
- 6: “Night Life” by Ray Price
- 6a: “Repent Walpurgis” by Procol Harum
- 7: “Where Am I Going?” by Manfred Mann Chapter Three
- 8: “Galadriel” by Barclay James Harvest
- 9: “It’s a Blue World” by Beverley Kenney
- 10: “A Little Prayer” by Evelyn Glennie and Llwydcoed Band
- 11: “Sleepy Time” by Raymond Scott
- 12: “The Surrealist Waltz” by Pearls Before Swine
- 13: “Hymn” by Kevin Ayers
- 14: “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning” by Frank Sinatra
- 15: “On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring” by Frederick Delius
- 16: “A Rainbow in Curved Air” by Terry Riley
- 17: “Riverman” by Nick Drake
- 18: “Layla” by John Fahey and Terry Robb
- 19: Three Songs by Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt, and Connie Smith
- 20: “A Blessing of Tears” by Robert Fripp
- 21: “Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain” by Mono and World’s End Girlfriend
- 22: “Magdalen (My Regal Zonophone)” by Jennifer Warnes
- 23: “Out of My Mind” by Buffalo Springfield
- 24: “Gnossienne 1” by Erik Satie
- 25: “The Lonely, the Lonesome, and the Gone” by Lee Ann Womack
- 26: “Some Misunderstanding” by Erin Rae
- 27: “The Seven Sleepers’ Den” by Grinder’s Switch
- 28: “Theme from Hatari” by Henry Mancini
- 29: “Haru,” by Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto
- 30: “Death Came Creeping in My Room” by The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
