Last weekend I finally made another mix CD.

Music Such as Charmeth Sleep

1. They Might Be Giants - Bed Bed Bed from No!
   
2. Black Lab - Keep Myself Awake from Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Album
   
3. Richard Thompson - I Can't Wake Up to Save My Life from Mirror Blue
   
4. Michelle Shocked - Sleep Keeps Me Awake from Captain Swing
   
5. Brenda Kahn - Sleepwalking from Epiphany in Brooklyn
   
6. The Beatles - I'm So Tired from The Beatles (a.k.a. The White Album
   
7. Suzanne Vega - Tired of Sleeping from Days of Open Hand
   
8. The Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping from Revolver
   
9. Shonen Knife - Dolly from Happy Hour
   
10. Suzanne Vega - Book of Dreams from Days of Open Hand
    
11. Richard Thompson - You Dream Too Much from Rumor & Sigh
    
12. Richard Thompson - I Still Dream from Amnesia
    
13. The Beatles - Golden Slumbers from Abbey Road
    
14. Talking Heads - Dream Operator from True Stories
    
15. Talking Heads - City of Dreams from True Stories
    
16. Roy Orbison - In Dreams from The Very Best of Roy Orbison
    
17. The Cox Family - I Am Weary (Let Me Rest) from the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack
    
18. Cowboy Junkies - Dreaming My Dreams With You from The Trinity Session
    
19. Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, & Gillian Welch - Didn't Leave Nobody But the Baby from the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack
    
20. Phranc - Lullaby from Milkman
    
21. Suzanne Vega, Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz, Syd Straw - Medley Two: Stay Awake/Little Wooden Head/Blue Shadows on the Trail from Stay Awake
    

This is the latest in my series of mixes that use tarot cards as the cover (not that I've created a cover for this one yet). The card for this mix is The Moon. I'd put up a picture, but I don't have any place to host the image. (I'll steal an image from somebody who has put it up on the web, but I won't steal bandwidth from them.)

I like the irony of the first song ostensibly being about getting ready for bed, but it has such a driving beat that you could not fall asleep to it. Meanwhile the final song contains a lullaby with lyrics all about not going to sleep.

The title is from A Midsummer Night's Dream. The most famous Shakespeare quote featuring the words "sleep" and "dream" is, of course, about something else entirely.