The first song you would play (or have played) to your new-born...

MrJoeSoap

Interesting topic I (think) I heard someone talking about on the radio earlier, a little more upbeat than the usual "What song would you like played at your funeral?"

For me it might be the Gary Jules version of Mad World, a nice tune with a touch of contemporary relevance. Otherwise it might be Everybody Here Wants You by Jeff Buckley.

Please no 'Cannibal Corpse' type replies, they just aren't funny! Unless you are actually serious...

I'd love to know what the first song I ever heard was.

tricky D

Baby I Love You performed by The Ramones. Also good for in utero....

NoDayBut2Day

Probably a kid's worship song like "Jesus Loves Me" or something like that.. one of the first songs I ever learned as a child.

twentycentshift

"isn't she lovely" by stevie wonder.

40crush41

My ma used to always sing to me "Never gonna let you go" -so maybe I'd carry on the tradition

I like to sing to my baby cousins "Let there be peace on earth" or the Hail Mary.. then theres "Dreaming Tree" by dmb, its kinda haunting, but they seem to like it
I'm sure there are hundreds, but those seem to be the ones in the running right now! and I have some time to think about it..

Oh, and of course with a dose of Mozart, Bach and the Wiggles!! hehe



at my funeral.. thats kinda down.. but I'd want an uplifting song about living.. something like "pig" or "you never know" from dmb.. both about how we're all gonna die, so we shouldn't worry and enjoy life while we're living. I wouldn't want people crying at my funeral, but instead celebrating the life we've lived together. It seems like a nice thought anyway doesn't it?

mike65

Well its clearly Don't Fear The Reaper by BOC!

It would cetainly not be 'Is'nt She Lovely?' as I'd barf!

Mike.

Beastieboy

Definitely 'All across the Universe' by The Beatles followed something bouncy like 'Get it on' by T.Rex (then something contemporary)

MrJoeSoap wrote:

For me it might be the Gary Jules version of Mad World

...seems a bit depressing, telling a new born what a crap place the world is, it's got to be something possitive and let them decide through experience if the world is ****....

Litcagral

It would have to be the most appropriate i.e. "Happy Birthday" !!!!!!!!!!!

sweety4uall

dont pay the ferryman.

Chong

The FA cup song from a few years back.

"Glory Glory Man Utd".

arbeitsscheuer

Alanis Morrisette - Uninvited:D

John

I'd write and perform something especially for the occasion.

casanova_kid

My Generation by the Who

Crucifix

I'll just continue with the strict regime of classical music I'll have started while it's still in the womb.

OLP

Rise Above by Black Flag

goin'_to_the_PS

Taste's same old story

Repli

oasis - live forever :v:

ctrl-alt-delete

Elbow - Newborn

Nalz

Barbie girl - if he/she can put up with that, they can put up with anything in life!!

Atrocity

DJ Shadow, Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt.

If he doesn't like it, then he's no son of mine

Nimrod's Son

You're Gorgeous by Babybird. I'm a big softie at heart really!

spacecoyote

has to be (for a girl) Prince's "the most beautiful girl in the world"

Heinrich

Riff-Raff by AC/DC. Might be appropriate in later years!:D

Devon

I have a friend who played Pachelbel's Canon (or Kanon) to his baby girl when she was still inside his wife.

I was amazed to see how his baby reacted to it when she was born. She would stop crying INSTANTLY the second he turned it on, almost as if she wanted to listen to her favourite tune.

Remarkable stuff. It's like having a "stop crying" switch. Has to be seen to be believed.

Atrocity

Nimrod's Son wrote:

You're Gorgeous by Babybird. I'm a big softie at heart really!

I love that song so much. Got his best of. He was brilliant. Really cool songs.

TheDoc

Probably be Smiths - how soon is now or Stone roses - i wanna be adored.

Give the child apreciation that real music involves instruments and guitars, not little pretty girls who mime and get billions...

Devon

[DM]-TheDOC- wrote:

Give the child apreciation that real music involves instruments and guitars,

I hope guitars become instruments some day...

Attol

One thing you shouldn't play around your kid is songs that have lyrics you wouldn't want to hear repeated. My dad used to listen to Finnish rock when I was a toddler and he was listening to this song and I was sitting in the back of the car. The chorus went "kahvii ja tupakkaa" which basically means coffee and tobacco. I just started singing along. My dad thought it was hilarious but my mum was just in shock. Same thing when my dad and his friend we're takin me and this girl I've known all my life somewhere and they were listening to this song that went "juodaan viinaa, tullaan viisaimmiksi vain" which means let's drink booze, we'll become wiser and of course these two little toddlers in the back start singing along.

Lemming

Would probably be one of the following if/when:

Schubert: Ave Maria
Myers: Cavatina (theme from the Deer Hunter)
Pachelbel: Canon in D major
Mozart: Fur Elise (Bagatelle in A minor)
Mozart: 'Romance', Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart: Overture to the 'Marriage of Figaro'
Mozart: The magic flute
Telemann: movements III & IV; Viola Concerto in G major
Js. Bach: Cello Suites
Grieg: The Peer Gynt Suite

And of course, Strauss: The Blue Danube waltz for in the womb, echoing 2001: A Space Oddessy

I'm not so sure about Mozart's Molto Allegro from Symphony No.40 because it's a fairly sinister, ableit utterly astounding, piece of music.

I'd wait to start introducing the rock music until the kid was a little older. I'd be making sure he/she (they??) had a musical education that wasn't just limited to listening.

Helmet

Nick Cave - Into My Arms!!!
There is no more reassuring song that let's them know that even if there is no god or gaurdian angels they still got you!!!

kincsem

Ace of Spades by Motorhead

rock on little dude