Rockabye Baby!

Pete 2 min Read

I know you are all super-parents who know everything about parenting already BUT I just wanted to make sure you’ve all heard of a little something on the musical front called Rockabye Baby Music.

From their site:

Rockabye Baby! transforms timeless rock songs into beautiful instrumental lullabies. Guitars and drums are traded for soothing mellotrons, vibraphones and bells, and the volume is turned down from an eleven to a two. Rockabye Baby! is the perfect way to share the music you love with the littlest music fan in your life.

I looked at the site to see how much their collection had grown, and according to my quickly failing memory, I saw: Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Beach Boys, Bob Marley (kinda pointless), Led Zeppelin, Pearl Jam, Coldplay (already baby music, no?), and a lot of others. Go see more at Rockabye Baby!

I remember 4 years ago sitting and rocking my little bean asleep to the albums our friends bought us: The Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, and The Cure. Not only was it a little easier on the brain than nursery songs, it was nice knowing that I was subliminally brainwashing my precious little child into liking the music that I liked so the future car rides wouldn’t be filled with only “THE WHEELS ON THE BUS GO ROUND AND ROUND, ROUND AND ROUND, ROUND AND ROUND”.

Rockabye Baby! The Pixies

AND IT WORKED.

My little bean not only loves Laurie Berkner, Sesame Street songs, and Car ride fun-rip-your-hair-out-repetitive-songs, she also likes The Beatles, They Might Be Giants, Barenaked Ladies Snack Time!, and yippie ki-yay motherf*cker SHE LIKES THE CLASH. The REAL Clash, not lullaby Clash, I’m talking LONDON CALLING and COMBAT ROCK Clash.

Go browse Rockabye Baby albums now

Disclaimer:
Yes those are all affiliate links so I can make .0000001 cent if you buy from Amazon. woot. I also realize this is probably not brainwashing your baby. If you don’t know why that blue feature image at the top is relevant, click here to see why it is.

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6 Comments

Ethan@OPC

April 26, 2011 at 9:23 am

I’ve got two girls at home (2yr old and 3mo old) and a couple months ago, my wife bought me the U2 Rockabye Baby CD. It’s really good and I hope it brainwashes them too!

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- Pete Fazio
  
  April 26, 2011 at 1:35 pm
  
  Sounds like you’ve got yourself a good woman Ethan.
  
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Tracy

April 26, 2011 at 1:28 pm

Someone got us the Pixies, Radiohead and Zeppelin cds when LJ was born. They. are. AWESOME. Although I will say: when she was an insane screamfest during months 1-3, the only thing that really soothed her was my dancing/jumping around the apt HARD to the first Vampire Weekend album right when it came out. And mylicon. and the tightest burrito swaddle of all time.

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- Pete Fazio
  
  April 26, 2011 at 1:32 pm
  
  My girl was soothed by me rocking her tummy down on my arm singing Three Little Birds by Bob Marley. Thanks for reading.
  
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Keith Ransom

July 13, 2011 at 1:21 am

dude….awesome blog.

i too am a huge fan of the Rockabye Baby albums. My son loves the Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins and Pink Floyd ones. I listen to a vinyl a day with him…and its Rock a bye Baby at night.

Keep up the good work!

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- Pete Fazio
  
  July 13, 2011 at 9:35 am
  
  Thanks Keith, spread the word brother.
  
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