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Episode 281
The lack of sleep is one of the most common care in my circle of friends. Wherever you look: everywhere you stared into widely open -ended yawns, the tear bags hang to your knees, and the hormone balance dances clip blues.
Her devoted chronicler himself often rolls around in bed without success. I tried everything: chemical and natural medication, soft drugs, hard mattresses-even esoteric rippling playlists and extremely threading podcasts.
Can help be found in pop music in the end?
The best -known pop song about insomnia is presumably “Insomnia” from Faithless, although the title -giving grievance is due to the carefree use of discotheque powder: “At Lease a Couple of Weeks I Last Slept, Kept Takin ‘Sleepers, but Now I Keep Myself Papped,” informs us. In the 1990s it was probably slept badly for other reasons. Before the video for “Insomnia”, an advertising clip for a pillow runs on YouTube to help with sleep apnea.
In “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” by the Beastie Boys, the reason for the fragility of bed rest is also in a hedonistic lifestyle – specifically: popular popular musicians – on tour. A song that is extremely unsuitable as sleep aid.
In 1966, John Lennon still sang his ability to fall asleep anywhere in the Beatles song “I’m ONLY SLEEPING”. I once played in a band, the drummer of which was also blessed with this gift: until shortly before the start of the performance, he could lie in the backstage area like a dictated dictator, even though polona sessions took place around him.
As early as 1968, Lennon was over with the deep relaxation: In “I’m so tired”, which he wrote in an Indian retreat for transcendental meditation, we experience a man who could go up the walls at night: “I’m so tied, my mind is on the blink.” The reason for Lennon’s boom was probably not least the absence of Yoko Onos. We learn: Transcendental meditation is also not a solution, Yoko Ono may already.
In 1990 “I can’t sleep” was published by the short -lived band The La’s, a lace song that knows nothing new to our topic. “I’m so mad-i can’t sleep tonight,” sings La’s-head Lee Mavers. Perhaps the lack of text is also due to the fact that songs about insomnia are written in most cases of sleepless.
“Insomnia” from the band Megadeath from 1999 also feeds this impression: “Insomni-Omni-Omni-Omnia-My Swollen Bloodshot Eyes.” Another song that is only partially suitable as a sedation itself.
A piece that has a proven tool on the subject is “I need some sleep” by Mark Everett’s band Eels: “I need some sleep/ you can’t on like this/ i tried country sheep/ but there’s one I always miss.”
King Crimson’s song says: “I Fall Into the Sleepless Sea/ With A Swell of Panic and Pain/ My Veins Aching for the distant Reef/ In The Crush of Emotional Waves.”
The best song on the subject wrote Peter light, which reveals the suffering in “sleepless” as an almost cosmic experience. This is how comfort sounds.
Striking: Songs about insomnia usually have very boring titles. Maybe this is the solution: if the sandman is waiting for you next time, I will simply mumble the titles of sleepless songs:
“” Insomnia “.
“Sleepless”.
“I’m so tied”.
Again “Insomnia”.
“I can’t sleep”.
“I need some –