Since I have so recently been on the subject of music....
Emiko's taste in music, while broad, has taken a precocious turn as she now asks for songs to be skipped while we are in the car by saying, "A different one?". This is probably her finding that she can control a small part of her environment but when she is frustrated with a lack of our response to her pleas for a new song, she cries out "Change it!" from the back seat.
Tonight as I put her down for bed, we sang her two favorite songs before she was comfortable crawling into her crib for the night. Knights of Bostonia and Right Me Up. She then asked for her jazz CD instead of the Rhyme Time Baby CD that she has been listening to at night.
Given this behavior as of late, I decided it was time that Dad made her a CD. After hours of deliberation and culling songs from our collection, I think I finally have the play list. I wanted songs she is familiar with but I also wanted to find a way to open her repertoire up to some new artists as well.
Emiko's taste in music, while broad, has taken a precocious turn as she now asks for songs to be skipped while we are in the car by saying, "A different one?". This is probably her finding that she can control a small part of her environment but when she is frustrated with a lack of our response to her pleas for a new song, she cries out "Change it!" from the back seat.
Tonight as I put her down for bed, we sang her two favorite songs before she was comfortable crawling into her crib for the night. Knights of Bostonia and Right Me Up. She then asked for her jazz CD instead of the Rhyme Time Baby CD that she has been listening to at night.
Given this behavior as of late, I decided it was time that Dad made her a CD. After hours of deliberation and culling songs from our collection, I think I finally have the play list. I wanted songs she is familiar with but I also wanted to find a way to open her repertoire up to some new artists as well.
- Knights of Bostonia - State Radio (go figure)
- Right Me Up - State Radio (if you didn't see that coming...)
- Angel Standing By - Jewel (her third most favorite song though I struggle to sing this one a cappella
- Lullaby (Goodnight, My Angel) - Billy Joel (c'mon, no lullaby collection is complete without this one and she enjoys hearing me sing this one to her on occasion)
- Winslow's Lullaby - The Sweet Remains (YOU, loyal reader, should have seen this coming too. This is Phoebe's song for Emi)
- Goodnight - Linda Ronstadt (I know...this should be the Beatles' version but I somehow don't own that version)
- The Only Living Boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel (a song Hope and I sing for our daughter when we are together to put Emi to bed)
- Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (if you have never heard this, look it up and it will make your day)
- Blackbird - Sarah McLachlan (such a wonderfully peaceful take on a Beatles' classic)
- All the Wild Horses - Ray Lamontagne (about as subtle as Ray can be...)
- Streets of Philadelphia - Bruce Springsteen (another video Emi enjoys)
- La Mer - Kevin Kline
- Scarborough Fair/Canticle - Simon & Garfunkel
- She Says - Ani Difranco (it was difficult to find a song that was quiet enough and not too provocative)
- Yesterday - The Beatles (I struggled between this version and a one solo by McCartney)
- 12:59 Lullaby - Bedouin Soundclash
- Sunset Road - Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
- The Scarlet Tide - Alison Krauss
- Sweet Dreams - Dixie Chicks (the first time I heard this, Hope was singing it and I was convinced that she had written the song herself)
- Baby Mine - Alison Krauss
- Out of the Woods - Nickel Creek
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