Right after Bellabean was born, a friend of mine, Karen, posted a question on her facebook page: "What music should my son be listening to? What music should he know?" I have pulled the EMERGENCY STATION SWITCH over and over with the boys in recent months, because something raunchy but completely attractive (great rhythm/drums/beat & catchy) came on the radio. Of course, the boys protest loudly... Blue-Eyed Boy came home singing Ke$ha the other day, and it nearly made my head explode. Bellabean and the boys will know current music because that's what's on their friends' iPods (who am I kidding: iTouch and iPhones) but they must know great music too. I was so lucky to grow up with a Dad with a badass collection of great music who had it playing constantly. The minute CDs came onto the scene he had a CD player and replaced all of his records with CDs. The minute he bought a car with a tape player, he spent hours copying all of those CDs onto Maxell tapes to play in the car, and that is how I learned about CSN(&Y), The Beatles, Buffalo Springfield, Bob Marley, Melanie, Shuggie Otis, Janis, Grace Slick, CCR, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Blood, Sweat, and Tears, The Byrds, Rush, Jethro Tull, Joni, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin, all sorts of Psychedelic Rockers, Hendrix, The Moody Blues, Neil Young, Santana, Clapton... the list could go on for ages.
I am grateful for the exposure to Great music. While Bellabean and were I getting to know each other and learning to nurse together, Karen's facebook question inspired me to make a playlist of my own. Rather than it taking days (months!) to copy tapes, it took about a three days of post-nursing-sleeping-on-mama's-tummy-time to click and drag songs from my 12,000+ iTunes songlist into a playlist called "Feeding Bella". The playlist "Feeding Bella" has served to accompany her nursings, of course, but also hopefully start to feed her musical soul as my Dad did for me.
So... here's the list! Eclectic, for sure, but truly a joy for me to put together and share with Bellabean, BEB, and LB. Many of the songs have stories or memories for me, which I can't wait to bore them with in time. Some are guilty pleasures (that I am a bit embarrassed to post!). Some are musical necessity. There is a classical playlist in the works, but you will notice this one is absent of any strictly-classical music. We always play this list on shuffle whether on walks, nursings, snugglings, or in the car, though I do usually select the song to start. Enjoy!
ADELE Rolling In the Deep
Anna Nalick Breathe
Backstreet Boys The Call
Bear Naked Ladies and Sarah McLaughlin God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman
The Beatles Norwegian Wood
The Beatles Penny Lane
Beatles The Inner Light
Beatles Lady Madonna
Beatles Hey Jude
The Beatles Got To Get You Into My Life
The Beatles Beatles - Yellow Submarine
Béla Fleck & The Flecktones Hurricane Camille
Béla Fleck & The Flecktones The Sinister Minister
Béla Fleck & The Flecktones Stomping Grounds
Béla Fleck & The Flecktones Sojourn Of Arjuna
Béla Fleck & The Flecktones Trane To Conamarra
Beyonce Crazy In Love
Beyonce Naughty Girl
Beyonce Baby Boy
Beyoncé Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)
Big & Rich Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy
Bill Chase Get It On
Billy Joel Piano Man
Blackstreet No Diggity
Blood, Sweat & Tears Spinning Wheel
Brazilian Music Magalehna
Britney Spears Toxic
Buddy Rich Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Buddy Rich Birdland
Buddy Rich Big Band Dancing Men
Buffalo Springfield For What It's Worth
Chanticleer Dúlamán
Chanticleer Wondrous Love
Charlie Daniel's Band The Devil Went Down To Georgia
Chicago Make Me Smile
Chicago Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
Chicago Saturday In the Park (Remastered Version)
Crosby, Stills & Nash Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Crosby, Stills & Nash Marrakesh Express
Crosby, Stills & Nash Blackbird
Crosby, Stills & Nash Teach Your Children Well
Dave Matthews Band The Dreaming Tree
Dave Matthews Band Shake Me Like a Monkey
Dave Matthews Band Seven
Dave Matthews Band You and Me
Dave Matthews Band Grey Street
Dave Matthews Band Grace Is Gone
Dave Matthews Band Bartender
Dave Matthews Band Two Step
Dave Matthews Band Crash Into Me
Dave Matthews Band Drive In Drive Out
Dave Matthews Band Lie in Our Graves
Dave Matthews Band Sister
Dave Matthews Band Eh Hee
Dave Matthews Band When The World Ends
Dave Matthews Band Grey Street
Dave Matthews Band Grace Is Gone
Dave Matthews Band Bartender
Dave Matthews Band Granny (Live)
Dave Matthews Band I'll Back You Up
Dave Matthews Band Gravedigger
Dave Matthews Band Gravedigger (acoustic)
Dave Matthews Band Joyride
Dave Matthews Band Satellite
Dave Matthews Band Dancing Nancies
Dave Matthews Band Ants Marching
Dave Matthews Band Jimi Thing
Divinyls I Touch Myself
Earth Wind & Fire Serpentine Fire
Elton John Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeing
Emerson, Lake & Palmer Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression Part 2)
Eric Clapton Layla
Eric Clapton Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Footloose Holding Out For A Hero
Frank Sinatra Fly Me to the Moon
Frank Sinatra The Way You Look Tonight
Fugees Killing Me Softly With His Song
Garth Brooks Friends in Low Places
Goldfinger Superman
Guster Demons
Guster Barrel of a Gun
Imogen Heap Hide and Seek
India Arie Video
Indigo Girls Joking
Indigo Girls Least Complicated
Indigo Girls Ghost
Indigo Girls Galileo
Indigo Girls Land Of Canaan
Indigo Girls Closer To Fine
Jack Johnson Upside Down
James Taylor Something in the Way She Moves
James Taylor Sweet Baby James
James Taylor Fire and Rain
Jason Mraz Geek In the Pink
Jason Mraz Lucky (feat. Colbie Caillat)
Jefferson Airplane Somebody to Love
Jethro Tull Bourée
Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick
Jimmy Eat World Pain
John Mayer Daughters
Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown No Air
Journey Lights
Journey Don't Stop Believin'
Justin Timberlake LoveStoned/I Think She Knows Interlude
Justin Timberlake Senorita
Justin Timberlake Feat. T.I. & Timbaland My Love
KT Tunstall Black Horse & The Cherry Tree (Radio Version)
Lauryn Hill To Zion
Les McCann and Eddie Harris Compared to What
Maroon 5 Harder To Breathe
Maynard Ferguson Caravan
Melanie Lay Down
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones The Impression That I Get
Mr. Big To Be With You
No Doubt Sunday Morning
Paul Simon You Can Call Me Al
Pearl Jam Who You Are
Peter Gabriel Solsbury Hill
Peter Gabriel In Your Eyes
Phish Bouncing Around The Room
Queen Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen Fat Bottomed Girls
Queen Bicycle Race
Queen Somebody to Love
R.E.M. Shiny Happy People
Rascal Flatts This Everyday Love
Red Hot Chili Peppers Otherside
Reel Big Fish Take On Me
Reel Big Fish Sellout
Reel Big Fish Beer
Reel Big Fish 241
Rent Movie Soundtrack Seasons of Love
Rent Movie Soundtrack Santa Fe
Rent Movie Soundtrack I'll Cover You
Rush Roll The Bones
Rusted Root Send Me on My Way
Rusted Root Drum Trip
Rusted Root Ecstasy
Sara Bareilles Love Song
Sean Johnson and The Wild Lotus Band Calling Ganesha (Invocation)
Sean Johnson and The Wild Lotus Band Jai Hanuman (Faith)
Shania Twain Man! I Feel Like A Woman
Shania Twain Any Man of Mine
Shuggie Otis Strawberry Letter 23
Simon & Garfunkel A Hazy Shade Of Winter
Simon & Garfunkel Mrs. Robinson
Simon & Garfunkel Cecilia
Spring Heeled Jack Rufus Shakeedoo
Stevie Wonder Superstition
Stevie Wonder Part-Time Lover
Tonic If You Could Only See
Tori Amos Winter
Tower Of Power What Is Hip?
Travis Tritt It's a Great Day to Be Alive
U2 Gloria
U2 MLK
Van Morrison Moondance
Vanessa Mae Happy Valley
Wicked Defying Gravity
4 Non Blondes What's Up?
So, what's on your list?
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