Music to have babies by!

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I know a few of us on ILM are having children in the upcoming months. This is my wife's and my second and for the first we listened to the Irresistable Force flying high for most of the labor to kind of take the edge off.
This time my wife and I did a 60min cd of water sounds, birds and sine waves to dull the pain. We are also thinking of Stars of the Lid and that last Chris Watson Weather Report. Any more ideas?

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"return of the durutti column"

mahogany "dream of a modern day"

anything by aarktica

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf300/f316/f31658fpurw.jpg

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Both of our births featured the lovely soundtrack of beeping medical instruments, doctors rushing hurriedly down corridors, nurses whispering nervously, and me going "Everything's going to be okay" alternately with "What the fuck is happening?!?!?!"

So don't go with that. Best post-natal music: Sam Cooke.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDSUB040403152046542946&sql=A6bkxu3qhanxk

But I'm hardly a reliable source of knowledge when it comes to this.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything by Another Bad Creation

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)

how about pounding by doves? :)

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Babies making babies is what we used to get into this situation in the first place!

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 06:13 (twenty-two years ago)

definitely NOT "this woman's work"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 06:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I think anyone suggesting that has never seen childbirth before. :)

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Howie B - Music for Babies

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I think "Neroli" by Brian Eno was conceived ('scuse pun) with this in mind - however it is so fuckin' dreary that I imagine any child born to this would prefer to be back in the womb.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Dawn made me make lots of cassettes up with Robbie, Cirque de soleil, and Ash 1977 ready. Come the time, medical situation took over and we forgot about it. In retrospect, did not really want Amber to be born to the sound of "Let me entertain you"..

Second time around, Alice was born after 20 minutes of full labour starting. (Sister Ray might have just fitted in OK)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

at both of the occasions i was lucky to be present at .. music was the last thing on our collective minds. one of the few times in my life that music has been completely supersceded by Real Life. though once the Little Person(s) arrived safe and sound my thoughts were quickly refocussed onto 'Which track will i play to celebrate this new life first" (TPE - Chemicrazy for one of them fact fans !).

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Legend has it some UK delivery rooms used to (still do?) play Eno's "Discreet Music." But I imagine when my wife gives birth she'd prefer something peppy, like Kirsty MacColl.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

On our way back from the hospital, Amber's first "music in the car" experience was that "Acid Brass" CD, Willams Fairey brass band does 808 state / guy called gerald / KLF etcet...

As a friend remarked, "Oh nooo, I've been born to Northern People...!!!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Muskrat Love is perfect for any occasion.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001YCI.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― autovac (autovac), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

We had no soundtrack when my son was born (wouldna noticed it anyway, probably), but this thread makes me think of my cousin, who still resides in the Southern state of my birth. When her first little girl was born, I am told, she watched monster truck races all night long on a giant screen TV inadvertantly situated on the wall behind the doctor's "catcher" position.

― Lee G (Lee G), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

this threads responses give me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Thanks everyone.

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The wife and I went to a "birthing class" this past weekend, actually, and the instructor mentioned music in the delivery room. In our case, we're already feeling a bit stressed out about the whole thing (we're being induced a couple of weeks early due to cholestasis...it's a long story), that music in the delivery room just isn't on our menu at the moment.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Freedom Chants from the Roof of the World

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd700/d757/d7576768cxw.jpg

When i stop this disc after the second selection and allow no other music to be played -- even an hour after the fact later, i can still hear the resonating of these chants. Good stuff.

...and also important, don't forget to try and deal with the lighting. Think about somebody pulling-up the shades on you on a sunny, i'd rather sleep in, type of morning. Hell, that kind of eye-ball shock can make a grown man cry.

Whale songs might fit into your aqua-dynamic, maybe you could mix them under your water sounds.

Just stay clear of the Cheech and Chong records.

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Slug Bait (live at the ICA) by Throbbing Gristle

― Born-Again Pubescent Undercover Pocket Nihilist Crochet Ninja (mjt), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

dribbling darts 'stuck inside the birth canal'

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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