"...the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had."

[thanate]

(see, I said I'd get to it)

All this typing is just starting to make my wrists hurt. Phoey. And I keep thinking that I'll get to the end of November and then I'll be able to do all this other stuff, and then remembering I'm writing to the end of the novel, not the end of the month... Only today, I've written relatively little, and done some room cleaning (so I can eventually have space to fold down the sofa bed so my aunt can sleep on it over thanksgiving) and am working on getting the deer vertebrae out of the bathroom-- but of course they had to be washed first. And made a tarot card. Except that I couldn't finish it, because the ---ing idiots who reinstalled the system on the new hard drive didn't put the whole font set on there. Or Graphic Converter. Or all the pieces so I can open Classic... Presumably I can fix this; I just haven't gotten to it yet. (and didn't know about the font problem before this morning. Phoey on them.)

But-- I really wanted to post the thing I've been thinking about for a while now, about music. lagged_variable started it, actually, with his list of "slightly inappropriate baby songs" for baby E. He has the whole list of songs that are baby-appropriate sound-wise but not in content, and was asking for suggestions.

My first thought (which was totally not the sort of thing he was looking for) was "Whisky Lullaby." (ok, yes, you're probably all going to throw things at me now, but I don't see why one should discriminate against a perfectly good depressing song just because someone labled it "country") Which brings up the playlist that's been kind of forming in the back of my brain since I used to do mix tapes. Because I want a collection of deviant lullabies.

The list so far is kind of short...

Definitely:
Whisky Lullaby (I don't even know any artist names)
Lullaby (the cure)
When You Sleep (barenaked ladies)
Adult Lullaby (mediaeval baebs)
Circle of Steel (gordon lightfoot)

Maybe: (which is to say they seem to fit, somehow, but I couldn't quite say why)
Mad World (gary jules)
Tomorrow, Wendy (concrete blonde)
Sunday Morning, Yellow Sky (october project-- actually, this is just borderline too loud)
--and I'm sure there should be representation from Garbage, and Cruxshadows, and a couple others, but not sure what songs yet...

Anyway, I know there's stuff out there that I've never heard or heard of. Anybody know what it is? :)

Comments

[belfebe.livejournal.com]

Whisky Lullaby is an absolutely beautiful song that I cannot stomach due to being too depressing.

[stanci.livejournal.com]

Doesn't matter who sings it. But Alouette is really not so nice and sweet when you translate it out of the French :)
Whiskey Lullaby is Alison Krouss & Brad Paisley. It's labelled as "country" because they're country singers :)
*cough* Speaking of country & lullabies, have you heard Toby Keith's version of Mockingbird? It goes the opposite way from what you're collecting. The words are the normal ones, just the music & tone is suggestive.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

I just mean to complain about people who write off a while category of music that I think spans a whole lot of different kinds of sound and has some good stuff in it. Not that I wouldn't do the same about, say Hip Hop or Rap or something. :)

I have not heard Mockingbird (possibly in any version? Unless it's the "papa's gonna buy me a mockingbird" song?) Of course, then there's the question of how one finds these things to listen to them...

[heuchera.livejournal.com]

I think "rockabye baby in the tree top" is sufficiently deviant all on its own.

And the good news that I didn't say before, incidentally, is that Erica is expecting a future recipient of said deviant baby songs. I'll be a pseudo-aunt. :)

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Cool! When are they expecting the little one?

I was thinking about searching out where I'd put the proto version of the "Sleep, Baby, Sleep" that I was writing based on the idea of exposing unwanted babies in the ancient world. (as Mr Hedrick put it: this means you're not actually killing your offspring, hence saving you the wrath of the Furies, and if you're lucky a sheepherd will come by and pick it up anyway. "Oh, look, a baby. Should I take it with me? It yells. But maybe I could sell it.") Though I have this vague recollection of you looking at me funny about it, which I don't recall if it was because of the idea or the implementation of it...

Yes, there are a lot of (most?) standard lullabies that are pretty awful-- at very least lamenting that the father ran off and left before getting to meet the little one at all, or else about throwing babies out the window if they don't stop crying and so forth. If people did real & lovely recordings of these things, instead of only kiddie-song tasteless versions, I'd probably include them too. Speaking of which, there's a lovely Custer LaRue song of the former theme that I ought to get onto the list...

[weebaby.livejournal.com]

Mother's Lullaby by Seamus somebody. I think he may be local; he's performed in Old Town Alexandria several times.

Does "Leave Nobody but the Baby" by Alison Krauss from the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack count?