We decided to start giving little E a bit of listening time while he’s still swimmin’ around without a care in the world. This is what we’ve started him off with today:
- Days Of Future Passed – Moody Blues
- Eldorado – ELO
- True Colours – Split Enz
- The Carl Stalling Project Volume 1: Music From Warner Bros. Cartoons 1936-1958
- Katamari Fortissimo Damacy
- Reckless Nights & Turkish Twilights – Raymond Scott
Hey, he’s gonna be hanging out with the old man listening to this stuff all the time anyway. Might as well get a little bit of pre-programming done. (How his mother feels about listening to this stuff – and keep in mind, my wife (A) is under the impression that I don’t listen to anything that isn’t either instrumental or somehow related to the Beatles, and (B) doesn’t like most of my listening choices anyway – I’ll find out some unspecified future date. Probably quite loudly, I suspect.)
My criteria for this first round was: happy, bouncy stuff with some rhythm. Sure, rapidly changing rhythm, in the case of Stalling, but stuff with a clear rhythm. I’ve got all three volumes of Raymond Scott’s Soothing Sounds For Baby (yes, the ones packaged like a 1950s Gerber ad in a CD case with the subtitle “Your Infant’s Friend In Sound”), but those’ll drive mama crazy faster than the whole Katamari CD.
It’s probably safe to expect a seismic shift in what kind of music gets reviewed in the music section here late this year. 😆 We’ll see how long it takes Evan to figure out that the Enz’s “Nobody Takes Me Seriously” is his daddy’s theme song.
If you’ll excuse me now, I’m gonna go swim around without a care in the world.
Nice selection there. We need all the ELO fans we can get.
Just curious, but what kind of music is your wife interested in?
Sometimes I think the answer is “whatever I’m not listening to.” She listens to some contemporary Christian stuff – Audio Adrenaline, Mercyme, etc. – and some country as well. Anytime I try to pin it down enough get her a CD or something, however, I seem to be way off the mark. 😆