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September 10, 2008 |
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Bedtime Songs
FOUND by Oliver Ward
in Manchester, UK
A friend and I found this on the side of the road on the way back home after a night out. It was pretty scratched and looked like it had endured the rain, but managed to splutter into life when played at home. It has since become a favourite for us both before bed, although I fear it is at the expense of a crying toddler somewhere.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Toddler?
I could use this those nights when I have trouble falling asleep.
Any smart kid between one and three years old has his/her own iPod by now.
I could use a copy of this. Night, can you make us all this playlist?
It's very pretty too!
I tell you, there's nothing like a relaxing home-made CD of sousaphone solo music to put your 'baby' in the mood for a little lovin'!
i'd rather stay awake than listen to that crap
My oldest daughter didn't sleep through the night until she was 6 years old. We have learned that you do whatever you can to get them to sleep. Our youngest has a stack of cd's like this.
Classical or Pink Floyd are my sleep aids!
Hey! These are pretty much exactly the same songs I sang for my daughter when she was a baby! Now she's 20. Oh where has the time gone?
I like the way they alternated the colors on the song titles.
Holly, you're offically awesome. Pink Floyd is my fifth favorite band, and i LOVE it when people mention the bands i like, which isn't super often if i don't go looking for it, 'cause pretty much all my favorite music came from at LEAST twenty years ago.
sorry, i just got rambly there.
What? Nothing from They Might Be Giants?
Hey wait a minute - why are you and your "friend" going to bed at the same time?
@alan - maybe they're siamese friends, hahahaha
Just a shout out for favorite old bands - Nazareth and Foghat.....
@ Holly: Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon.
Ohh..brings back so many memories.
My kids had Cat Stevens to fall asleep to...then they got older and we showed them Harold and Maude and then they were ruined.
Can you burn me a copy? I could use a good nights sleep.
Nazareth and Foghat? you, cagey, are Pretty Fuckin' Awesome (tm). i'm very proud to be probably the only teenage girl in the year 2008 who has actually heard of those bands.
@Lolita: Harold and Maude is awsome! Especially the Cat Stevens music. It was the movie that turned me on to the music.
The (American Apparel) Halter Romper Girl is cracking me up. It looks like she's sitting on a tack.
Ha ha.. we just found a couple of CDs the other day at the Skate park- there is no writing on them, but they're hiphop with lots of swear words and instances of the N word.. (naturally.)
Some kid was flinging them, one by one, out the passenger window of a car as they drove away. (we only picked up two, and only one of them worked in the first player I tried.)
It's funny to imagine the scenario that led this CD to the side of the road.
@CuriousKat: sorry you can't sleep, but maybe someone else can do this list. (Maybe you should give Matthew a call...?)
@Joh(n) and Lolita: Harold and Maude is one of my all time favorite movies! Cult classic. My experience was the opposite in that I already loved Cat Stevens when I first saw the movie.
I had this CD
http://tinyurl.com/55kfd7 when my oldest was a toddler. It was a lifesaver! I'd put it on, and lie down with him. I knew by the time it was over, he'd be asleep. OK, most of the time, so was I, so I never did those things I planned to do after he was asleep. It's a beautiful CD. Laura Nyro! The McGarrigle sisters! *sigh* Sweet times.
Wonder how he'd feel if I put it on now? He's almost 16.
Hey alan goes "pting," my two little ones have a kids album by They Might Be Giants. It's pretty awesome and weird all at the same time.
Snacktime by Barenaked Ladies. (sorry- I like 'em better than They Might Be Giants. Not a lot better, but better.)
Alan and Feminista --
My 5-year-old loves They Might Be Giants -- and not just the kids songs they did in the last few years. She loves "Particle Man" and the super remake of "Istanbul" -- we sing it all the time! It is a song my father used to sing to me when I was little. He loves the cover, too!
all the pretty horses is one of the greatest songs to become mellow with. I mean, it's even on the soundtrack to the Big Lebowski. The mellowest fella' around.
They Might be Giants also does the theme to the Mickey Mouse club as well as other stuff for the Disney Channel.
Feminista - I have the "NO" cd - is that the one you have?
I think all of their music is sort of kid like.
'Birdhouse in Your Soul' - 'Istanbul' - 'Au Contaire' - they're all just wacky fun.
"Red means stop - do not go - NO, NO, NO."
I love the story of the owl and the pussycat. Should see if that song is on youtube.
My son loves They Might Be Giants. My husband sings Particle Man and Birdhouse in your Soul to him just about every night (he's 4, by the way). Then again, my son also loves The Beastie Boys. :)
1. SLAYER: Angel of death
2. N.W.A.: Fuck Tha Police
3. MISFITS: Skulls
I had to divert from my usual creepiness of only reading and laughing at these comments to post my own.
I, too, have fallen into the trap of playing music constantly. Although my children prefer Otis Redding.
That is all.
*singing* "The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas.. A gigantic nuclear furnace..."
My oldest loves Bob Marley. She barely ever sleeps, and when she does, she adamantly denies having slept.
My youngest sleeps with relish and abandon, preferably to AC/DC, turned up terribly loud, being driven very fast, much to my dismay. I mean, I like AC/DC, but I am not a connoisseur of their genre. For those about to Rock, we salute you!!! Fire!
As for TMBG, obviously, they are one of my all time favorites! Mammal and Youth Culture Killed My Dog have to be my top two!
We found a scratched CD in the parking lot of Kmart and it was all in Spanish - but amusing to listen to nonetheless.
When younger, my cousin and I enjoyed Tom T. Hall. Now my younger cousins are addicted.
The song TUSK was playing when I was trying to sleep once (as a kid ) and it scared me. It still scares me a little.
I had to listen to music to fall asleep as a kid. I think I finally stopped when my brother and I stopped sharing a room (at like 6 or 7). I listened to a lot of Paul Simon (not Simon and Garfunkel, mind you. Garfunkel's never floated my boat), Peter Paul and Mary, Los Lobos, and this bizarre version of Aladdin (the Disney one) on tape. All the music I listened to was on tape.
Story about TMBG: I go to a Jewish summer camp and on Friday nights we do Israeli dancing. For whatever reason, Istanbul is one of the songs on the playlist. The dance basically consists of running in a large circle and spinning and only stopping to sing along to "Even old New York was New Amsterdam! Why they changed it I can't say, people just liked it better that way." And off we go again.
If you want to sing out, sing out.
If you want to be free, be free.
There's a million things you know, you know
You can be
shawn colvin singing "all the pretty horses" makes for a damn sweet world.
@ DARCY- RIGHT ON! Led Zep, Rolling Stones, Hendrix, Joplin, Floyd, Sabbath, etc...all the Classic Rock N Roll!
Cat Steven's- Where Do The Children Play? is my all time fave!
Was going to ask Nighty to make a playlist but I see CuriousKat beat me to it...
Thomas Hampson does a sweet 'All the pretty little horses' too.
...yyyyaaawwwwnnnn... nigh-night.
@ darcy in my chair...still doing stuff...
snap :)
all my favourite music is at least twenty years old
but pink floyd are my second favourite band.
ah, making lists, my fourth favourite occupation :)
"All Through the Night," sung by Peter, Paul & Mary, is the best night-night song.
"Moon, moon, moon" by Laurie Berkner is a great one, too. (Although it's made for kids, the harmony can't be beat!)
i really enjoy that song
"all the pretty little horses"
the version by charlotte church.
ALL THE PRETTY LITTLE PONIES! oh goodness. hahahha!
i sing to my daughter when she cant sleep whatever song is stuck in my head.
usually some terrible mix of tom jones or white stripes or norah jones or SOMETHING. just all vocal and soft and sweet even if the song is usually jarring.
it wasn't until i realized my husband could totally hear me through the moniter that i stopped. how embarrassing. :O
vocal experimentations infront of a baby is one thing....but having hubby hear "stronger than yesterday" yikes.
anyways, sweet CD. i'm rambly this morning. oi.