Guess who's feeling unmotivated? This guy! Sometimes, though, it's fun to channel an apathetic mood into something productive. A soundtrack to lazy, as it were. The key here is to ignore what the song is actually about (listening requires motivation), choosing instead to base its inclusion off the title alone. Have a look at the list below (which I'm capping at 15, since any more than that would be too much work), click where applicable to hear the track and feel free to post your favorite lethargic lyrics, tired tunes, melodies of malaise and sleepy song choices in the comments. (Alliteration is lazy). Depending how motivated I get, I might just add them to the list.
PS - I'm so lazy I didn't even come up with this idea. Shout out to Rachael.
1. The Dismemberment Plan - "Do the Standing Still"
2. School of Seven Bells - "Half Alseep"
3. Gram Parsons - "We'll Sweep Out the Ashes in the Morning"
4. Eddy Current Suppression Ring - "I Don't Wanna Play No More"
5. Big Business - "Cold Lunch"
6. M. Ward - "Who May Be Lazy"
7. Jimi Hendrix - "Wait Until Tomorrow"
8. Bloc Party - "One Month Off"
9. Adron - "Never Leave My Room Again"
10. The Beatles - "I'm So Tired"
11. Animal Collective - "No More Runnin'"
12. Brian Eno - "On Some Faraway Beach"
13. The Black and Whites - "Don't Wanna Go"
14. Neil Young - "A Man Needs a Maid"
15. The Hold Steady - "Chillout Tent"
Time for a nap!
Lazy reader picks:
1. Explosions in the Sky - "With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept"
2. Bright Eyes - "A Song to Pass the Time"
3. Something Corporate - "I Woke Up in a Car"
4. Shwayze - "Lazy Days"
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Dull Life"
6. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Someday, I Suppose"
7. The Beatles - "I'm Only Sleeping"
8. Otis Redding - "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay"
9. The Postal Service - "Sleeping In"
10. Deep Purple - "Lazy"
11. The Kinks - "Sunny Afternoon"
12. Belle and Sebastian - "We are the Sleepheads"


With tired eyes, tired minds, tired souls we slept -Explosions in the sky
A song to pass the time -Bright Eyes
I woke up in a Car -Something corporate
Lazy Days -Shwayze
Dull life -yeah yeah yeahs
You missed the greatest procrastination song ever: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' "Someday, I Suppose." Absolutely no effort to squeeze it into the category necessary.
How come "I'm only sleeping" is not on this list????
Oh come on....
Otis Redding "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" is the ultimate song about doing nothing.
Sittin' in the mornin' sun / I'll be sittin' when the evenin' come
Watching the ships roll in / And then I watch 'em roll away again, yeah
Wilco's "Hate it Here" is the complete polar opposite.
Postal Service- 'Sleeping In'
Aren't the words "Postal Server" and "Sleeping In" redundant when combine into a single sentence?
Deep Purple's "Lazy" didn't get a mention, even in the comments? Great riff, even when expending no energy to appreciate it. . .
Should have included the Kink's "Sunny Afternoon".
"We Are the Sleepyheads," Belle and Sebastian;