LNL Midnight Mixtape: Sleeping

Midnight Mixtape: Sleeping

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Jo Kendall to look at listener selections (13/08/2025) with Songs that reference sleeping! This is to do with a feature about Conch shells being a rememdy for snoring and helping people to sleep better.

Songs in contention

• Pretenders - I go to sleep
• Natalie Imbruglia - When you're sleeping
• Crystal Gayle - Talking in my sleep
• Faithless - Insomnia
• Everly Brothers - Wake up little Susie
• Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite
• Salad & Terry Hall - Dream a little dream
• Smiths - Asleep
• Empire of the sun - Walking on a dream
• Tight fit - Lion sleeps tonight
• Teardrop explodes - Sleeping gas
• Beatles - I'm only sleeping
• Metallica - Enter sandman
• Seekers - Morningtown Ride
• Roy Orbison - In dreams
• Leonard Cohen - Lullaby
• 5 Eurythmics - Sweet dreams
• Gillan - Sleeping on the job
• Graham Nash - Sleep song
• Keith Whitley - Don't close your eyes
• Simian Mobile Disco - Sleep deprivation
• Suede - Sleeping pills
• Romantics - Talking in your sleep
• Simple Minds - Big Sleep
• Sam Smith - How do you sleep?
• 5th Dimension - (Last night) I didn't get to sleep at all
• Melissa Ehteridge - You can sleep while I drive
• Wham! - Wake me up before you go-go
• Colter Wall - Sleeping on the blacktop
• Jack White - I guess I should go to sleep
• Beck - Sleeping bag
• Robert Wyatt - Heaps of sheeps
• Ray Peterson - Goodnight my love
• Radiohead - Go to sleep
• Rotimi - In my bed
• Alyson Williams - Sleeptalk
• Go West - We close our eyes
• Billy Woods - Sleep
• Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers - Sleeping Dancer Sleep
• Aerosmith - I don't want to miss a thing
• Annie Lennox - Into the west
• REM - I don't sleep I dream
• Mamas & Papas - Dream a little dream of me
• Beastie Boys - No Sleep till Brooklyn
• Boo Radleys - Wake up Boo
• Kate Bush - And dream of sheep
• Matt Bianco - Get out of your lazy bed
• Suzanne Vega - Tired of sleeping
• Charlatans - Can't get out of bed
• XTC - Wake up

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

Thank you for Leigh created a "spotified playlist.

[Side 1]
1. Kate Bush - And dream of sheep
2. Faithless - Insomnia
3. Radiohead - Go to sleep
4. Robert Wyatt - Heaps of sheeps
5. Eurythmics - Sweet dreams
6. Beastie Boys - No Sleep till Brooklyn
[Side 2]
7. Roy Orbison - In dreams
8. Metallica - Enter sandman
9. Everly Brothers - Wake up little Susie
10. Wham! - Wake me up before you go-go
11. Matt Bianco - Get out of your lazy bed
12. Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers - Sleeping Dancer Sleep
Hidden: Seekers - Morningtown Ride

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 5 acts had never been on before, Art Blakey, Robert Wyatt, Roy Orbison, Matt Bianco, Seekers Appearances of those that have been on before:

• 16: Kate Bush (4)
• 10: Faithless (10)
• 7: Metallica (1)
• 4: Beastie Boys (2)
• 3: Wham! (1)
• 2: Eurythmics (0), Everly Brothers
• 1: Faithless (0)