Cause and Effect. It's a simple theory.
I'm so freakin' tired and my head feels like it's going to split open. The little dude decided to interrupt my sleep again last night. He showed up in our room at 3 am and told me "Mommy, get up and move. I want to sleep with Daddy!" "Wouldn't you rather go back to your bed with Mommy?" "Mommy, I said move! I want my bed (he means pillow)." Went into his room, got in his bed, then realized it was soaking wet with urine... Yummy. Had to go wake his ass up to change him, go back in his room and tear off the sheets...You get the picture. A clusterfuck night.
I'm constantly looking for new products, books and cd's that claim to promote little dude's intellectual development. I come from a very musical family, so I started playing cd's in his crib from the time he was born. First, it was lullabies, then we moved on to classical music. Now, little dude's favorite music HAS to have crazy rhythm AND has to be EXTREMELY loud. I swear he was rocking out to Rob Zombie the other day. He does some mean dance moves, including a contortionist-belly dancer-break-dancing move that makes me wet my pants every time.
Heard of the "Mozart Effect"? Supposedly playing classical music to children while they are in the womb and in the first few years, increases their brain activity and stimulates learning. Why only classical music? And if classical music increases intelligence, isn't it likely that some music actually decreases it?
Good Music for Baby:
* Stevie Wonder (give baby some funk or "PHUNK")
* Marvin Gaye (Warning: limit listening to "Sexual Healing", unless you want a sex freak on your hands)
* The Police (Guh..Goo, goo,goo. Guh...Ga,ga,ga)
* Peter Gabriel (poetry)
* The Beatles (happy,happy, joy, joy)
* The Cure and The Smiths (baby needs to know depression as well)
* Bob Marley (chillin', baby)
* Public Enemy (Boyyeee!)
* The Pixies (give baby an insight into mental problems)
Bad Music for Baby:
* Sting (he seems smart, but his music will make you dumb)
* any music by a former or current TV personality
* Dave Matthews Band (man, I hate this fucker)
* Marilyn Manson
* any TV show theme music
* any music that discusses how much jewelry the artist has, how many people the artist has slept with, how much money the artist spends, or how many bullet wounds are on his body.
* any music that comments on 9/11 or the war in Iraq
* any music by someone who has slept with Ben Affleck, has been a Mouseketeer, has been in a widely publicized sex video, or shows her vagina every other day.
* any music made by a professional athlete.
* Black Eyed Peas or any of their individual members
* Bob Dylan (what the fuck is he saying?)
* the White Stripes
* any heavy metal
Am I missing anything?
I'm constantly looking for new products, books and cd's that claim to promote little dude's intellectual development. I come from a very musical family, so I started playing cd's in his crib from the time he was born. First, it was lullabies, then we moved on to classical music. Now, little dude's favorite music HAS to have crazy rhythm AND has to be EXTREMELY loud. I swear he was rocking out to Rob Zombie the other day. He does some mean dance moves, including a contortionist-belly dancer-break-dancing move that makes me wet my pants every time.
Heard of the "Mozart Effect"? Supposedly playing classical music to children while they are in the womb and in the first few years, increases their brain activity and stimulates learning. Why only classical music? And if classical music increases intelligence, isn't it likely that some music actually decreases it?
Good Music for Baby:
* Stevie Wonder (give baby some funk or "PHUNK")
* Marvin Gaye (Warning: limit listening to "Sexual Healing", unless you want a sex freak on your hands)
* The Police (Guh..Goo, goo,goo. Guh...Ga,ga,ga)
* Peter Gabriel (poetry)
* The Beatles (happy,happy, joy, joy)
* The Cure and The Smiths (baby needs to know depression as well)
* Bob Marley (chillin', baby)
* Public Enemy (Boyyeee!)
* The Pixies (give baby an insight into mental problems)
Bad Music for Baby:
* Sting (he seems smart, but his music will make you dumb)
* any music by a former or current TV personality
* Dave Matthews Band (man, I hate this fucker)
* Marilyn Manson
* any TV show theme music
* any music that discusses how much jewelry the artist has, how many people the artist has slept with, how much money the artist spends, or how many bullet wounds are on his body.
* any music that comments on 9/11 or the war in Iraq
* any music by someone who has slept with Ben Affleck, has been a Mouseketeer, has been in a widely publicized sex video, or shows her vagina every other day.
* any music made by a professional athlete.
* Black Eyed Peas or any of their individual members
* Bob Dylan (what the fuck is he saying?)
* the White Stripes
* any heavy metal
Am I missing anything?
posted by Lara at 10:56 AM
9 Comments:
ow... chez moi, la grande, c'est assez simple: Loïse aime la musique à papa... et la petite, Malou, est assez étonnante. à part la musique à papa ses choix sont assez éclectiques. elle a adoré Daysies Of The Galaxy de Eels, particulièrement Flyswatter... et ces crétins de Offspring (un, dos, tres, quatro cinque cinque seis...), mais bon, elle comprend pas les mots. heureusement...
mais elle n'a pas aimé Gentle Giant. je connais aucune femme qui aime Gentle Giant. en fait je connais personne à part moi qui apprécie vraiment Gentle Giant. dommage...
Police, ça marche pasmal, surtout quand c'est moi qui chante "The Bed's Too Big..."
et elles ont les deux complètement flashé avec Blondie...
mais bon... je suppose que les petits mecs c'est pas pareil...
Attends, je l'ecris pour toi.
PUTAIN DE CLAVIER!
Voila.
My son's favorites are Fall Out Boy (Dance,Dance),
Morningwood (nth degree) and when Mommy dances around and sings her made up song "Airplane of Food".
Gentle Giant makes me want to put a drill to my head. Same with Jethro Tull and Dave Matthews Band. Must be the NEVERENDING solos.
Devyn likes Blondie too, he loves when I sing "Heart of Glass" and say the line "soon found out, to be a pain in the ass". Then he says "Mommy's a pain in the ass!"
Moi aussi j'aime la musique a papa.
je te juuure que j'ai appuyé qu'UNE SEULE FOIS sur cette bordel de chiasse de touche de merde de clavier de mes couilles
bon.
je milite pour Gentle Giant... c'est bien plus que des solos sans fins. il n'y en a en fait pas beaucoup, comparé au reste. j'aime pas les solos non plus.
You missed your chance to add: "sauf les solos de mandoline."
Here's some other bands that make me want to jump out of a window:
The Allman Brothers Band
The Blues Travelers
Hootie & the Blowfish
I feel like a music retard sometimes, 'cause I've never listened to ( or accidentally heard):
Led Zeppelin
Cheap Trick
Dire Straits
Grateful Dead
Rolling Stones
Santana
Black Sabbath
Supertramp
The Who
I know...I suck. I just went straight from disco to 80's new wave and missed out on real 70's music.
if as an adult, i now listen to almost all of those you list on bad list (except for the vagina flashing bits), what does that say about my childhood?
and oh, opinion on Pearl Jam/U2/Counting Crows, please, or am i doomed to a useless life already?
oh, just realized... i hope you speak english, too.
Welcome, Treespotter! How did you end up here?
Obviously, I speak English.... I started this blog as a way to keep in touch with my friends in the USA, in Switzerland and my family in Italy.
As far as your taste in music: to each his own. I was a DJ for about 7 years in my younger days (in the late 80's), so my taste in music is largely dictated by what I was spinning back then.
Pearl Jam - saw them in concert with Nirvana and Red Hots in '91 or '92. Unreal. I still get goose bumps thinking of Eddie Vedder singing "Alive", standing high on a speaker on the side of the stage.
U2 - used to play drums in a cover band, did a lot of U2 songs. Saw them in '86(or was it '87?) in Las Cruces, NM. Sat third row. Amazing. I just wish Bono would stop his "Jesus" act and get back to music.
Counting Crows - hmmm....you've got me stumped. Can't seem to wrap my mind around his irritating voice (but I do admit to singing along to "Mr. Jones" in the shower).
Hope this little insight keeps you coming back.
Oh, and by the way, Treespotter, the gentleman leaving posts (xa) is himself in two very successful bands in Switzerland:
Glen of Guinness - great Irish folk, with a twist.
Charlotte Parfois - influenced by every type of music.
Both sites have MP3 downloads, or you can check them out on ITunes.
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