August 24, 200619 yr Ok..so its like thundering and raining hard nd shit...when I clicked on Politik...I then continued to surf the web..when finally it comes on...i think i peed myself..that was creepy as fuck.. :( Nontheless its a cute idea! :D
August 25, 200619 yr Author Baby Rock Records Offers Lullaby Renditions Of Coldplay, Radiohead And Others Baby Rock Records Offers Lullaby Renditions Of Coldplay, Radiohead And Others Parents who are bored with using traditional lullabies to try and get their little ones to sleep may find solace in a series of albums on the way from Baby Rock Records. The Lullaby Renditions series launches on August 29 with three albums featuring the music of Coldplay, Radiohead and Metallica adapted into soothing songs suitable for an infant's nursery. "Your favourite band's music changes your life, and most fans listen to their favourites over and over, so this is a fun way to keep listening with an interesting new twist while passing an appreciation on to their little ones," says Valerie Aiello, the executive producer of the series. All of the albums were arranged and performed by Michael Armstrong, using glockenspiel, vibraphone, mellotron and other instruments. He took care to customize each song to reflect the mood, composition and spirit of the artist. "Lullaby Renditions of Coldplay is very elaborate and lush, whereas Lullaby Renditions of Pink Floyd is very tranquil and gentle," explains Aiello. September 19 will bring albums featuring music from Floyd and Tool, while collections from The Cure and The Beach Boys will follow on October 10. You can fill trick-or-treaters' bags with Led Zeppelin and Nirvana lullabies when those discs arrive on October 31. If you're still hung over from New Year's on January 2, listening to The Pixies and Queens Of The Stone Age editions with your baby might help ease your pain. The last albums scheduled, at the moment, will feature music from Bjork and No Doubt and come out on January 23. http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2006/08/2407.cfm
August 31, 200619 yr Author Enter sandman, bring Coldplay with you "If the Seven Dwarfs had a band, what would it sound like?" That's the question Michael Armstrong asked when arranging lullaby renditions of Metallica, Radiohead, Coldplay and other artists for "Rockabye Baby!" The three bands are part of a CD series that rolled out earlier this week, featuring songs recorded with glockenspiel, harp, vibraphone and other infant-friendly instruments rather than the usual guitars, drums and vocals. "Your favorite band's music changes your life, and most fans listen to their favorites over and over, so this is a fun way to keep listening with an interesting new twist while passing an appreciation on to their little ones," said Valerie Aiello, executive producer of the series for Silver Lake-based Baby Rock Records. So far, nine albums have been recorded, each culling an artist's greatest hits and giving them a serene, crib-appropriate makeover. Tool, Pink Floyd, the Beach Boys, the Cure, Led Zeppelin and Nirvana are also scheduled for release before the end of the year. Smashing Pumpkins, No Doubt, the Pixies and Björk are scheduled for 2007. That's good news for rocker parents, many of whom have attempted to play punk, rock and heavy metal for their wee ones only to be met with whines before ultimately giving in to Elmo sing-alongs and cheesy rock versions of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." "Rockabye Baby!" is the brainchild of Aiello, who, like most of the employees at Baby Rock, is younger than 35 and doesn't have kids. The idea, she said, came from listening to last year's Queens of the Stone Age album, "Lullabies to Paralyze." "When [that record] came out, I was a super huge fan, and I just thought it could be a funny, cool thing if we redid the entire record in lullaby versions," said Aiello, 28. Not surprisingly, Queens of the Stone Age is also on the docket, part of a list of "bands we chose that really have fans," Aiello said. "They write songs that matter. Backstreet Boys sold a lot of records, but we chose rock bands that have heart and write cool songs." Aiello anticipates that many of the Baby Rock CDs will also be purchased by fans who don't have kids but "pick it up for fun," so the CDs will be available not only in the kids' music section but also in the main bins for the artists. It's not only the concept that will draw them in but also the artwork. Each cover takes the aesthetic of the band and turns it on its head. The cover for the Metallica album, for example, is all black, except for a teddy bear with a lightning bolt on its belly. The Coldplay cover is a take on the one used for the band's album "X&Y," only the colored blocks have been reshaped, again, into a bear. Flip over the cover and there's the usual song list, but the rest of the liner notes are laid out as a sort of baby book/cut-out game. One page offers blank lines to fill in the "rock star's name," "birthday to be celebrated by future fans," "first influential rock song" and "first time to play air guitar/air drums," among other things. The rest is stars, blocks and other shapes, along with instructions on how to turn them into a nursery-perfect mobile. Aiello created the art, in addition to being the executive producer for the albums. She chose Armstrong to arrange and perform the music, she said, because the musicians she originally hired didn't seem to get it. "It sounded like Renaissance music or meditation music," she said. "The only instruction [Armstrong] had was what I told him: to make it sound like gnomes in a tree if they had a band and they played Radiohead songs." http://www.calendarlive.com/family/cl-wk-kids31aug31,0,3322512.story?coll=cl-home-more-channels
August 31, 200619 yr Author Rock n roll babies It perhaps isn't the kind of music that most mums and dads would have in mind to soothe their baby to sleep at night. But the latest trend to hit the US is using lullaby versions of some of rock's greatest anthems to send your little one off to dream world at the end of the day. Music released by company Baby Rock Records sees Metallica hits lose the loud lyrics, screaming guitars and pounding drums and replaces them with glockenspiels, chimes and other lighter sounds. "People keep saying that hard rock doesn't seem like a logical fit for lullabies, but we just never thought it would be weird," said Valerie Aiello, executive producer of the series, according to the Washington Post. "We just thought it would sound really nice and maybe a little bit cheeky." Further bands the company has covered and converted into lullabies include Coldplay and Radiohead, with Nirvana, the Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins and Queens of the Stone Age all planned to join the collection. It is not known whether Coldplay's Chris Martin will be playing the CDs to the new addition to his own family, Moses, who was born in April this year. http://www.bounty.com/News.aspx?Article=17561214
August 31, 200619 yr Author The cradle will rock Have a new baby? Check out the songs of James Hetfield and crew on Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Metallica. The comedy album of the year arrived in stores this week, but don't bother looking for it alongside the Larry the Cable Guy and Dane Cook releases. Instead, the CD will be filed under both "Metallica" and "children's music" — and therein lies the punch line. Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Metallica isn't really a comedy recording. But the concept is pretty hilarious: Take 11 songs by a heavy-metal band whose rage-filled music has been a soundtrack for disaffected and alienated young people for nearly 25 years, and turn them into gentle, lulling instrumentals for babies. Behold the dulcet tones of Metallica, my sweet little cherub-rockers! Out are the roaring guitars, pummeling drums and howling lyrics such as "pounding out aggression/ turns into obsession/ cannot kill the battery/ cannot kill the family." In: glockenspiel, Mellotron, vibraphone and chimes. If you listen closely enough, you might even hear the people behind the Rockabye Baby series laughing. They're totally in on the joke, which they plan on repeating often: Albums of lullabyzed Radiohead and Coldplay songs are also out this week — never mind that some of Coldplay's originals are already soporific. And many more will follow — from Tool and Pink Floyd, both due next month, to Nirvana, the Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins and Queens of the Stone Age. "I'm laughing the whole time; it's all tongue-in-cheek," says Michael Armstrong, who is producing and performing the albums — a process that involves extracting the lyrics and musical teeth from the songs. Says Valerie Aiello, executive producer of the series: "People keep saying that hard rock doesn't seem like a logical fit for lullabies, but we just never thought it would be weird. We just thought it would sound really nice and maybe a little bit cheeky." The idea came in part from Queens of the Stone Age's 2005 album Lullabies to Paralyze, which really has nothing to do with lullabies. (It's dark, sludgy hard rock with titles including Everybody Knows That You're Insane.) The idea soon led to the birth of a series whose concept seems wildly incongruous until you consider that even some lullaby standards have dark sides. Surely you recall that in Rock-a-Bye Baby the wind blows, the cradle rocks, the bough breaks, and then down comes baby, cradle and all. Eek! Musically, though, Rock-a-Bye Baby has nothing on Rockabye Baby!, whose tunes could well scare the kids right out of their onesies. The recordings tend to sound like a first draft by Philip Glass or the theme to American Beauty 2 (if not a more Muzaky Tubular Bells), but when the songs veer into the dark world of minor chords, the result can be downright creepy. Take the Tool album that's coming out next month: Aiello notes that some people think it sounds like the score to The Omen. Perhaps Metallica's James Hetfield was on to something when, in the original, pre-instrumental version of Enter Sandman, he advised: "Sleep with one eye open/ gripping your pillow tight." "It was tough to make some of these bands not sound scary," says Armstrong, who, like Aiello, has no children. "And I guess I secretly wanted them to be scary. They got toned down a lot through editing, but it's really hard to remove the sentiment of the music. The tone is in the notes and the chords. Like Tool, you can transcribe it and play it a million different ways, but it still feels kind of heavy and brooding and mean." http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/entertainment/4150197.html
September 4, 200619 yr In my Place was cute, and Yellow was good, but didn't sound much like Yellow to start with. That CD is a great idea, but I agree Politik was kinda...weird!
September 4, 200619 yr I'm curious.. i don't think they will release it in Holland.. So can anyone upload a song maybe ?
September 5, 200619 yr Okay this is SOOOO random but I had to put this in! My little sister made it, and I looked at the fridge one day and I was like 'THAT LOOKS LIKE THE BEAR ON THE COVER OF THAT BABY CD!' So I wanted to show you guys! :P She kinda put the iron on it for TOO long...the beads were melting...haha but still I thought it was cute! *Sorry its sideways, I couldn't move it! :rolleyes:
September 5, 200619 yr Okay this is SOOOO random but I had to put this in! My little sister made it, and I looked at the fridge one day and I was like 'THAT LOOKS LIKE THE BEAR ON THE COVER OF THAT BABY CD!' So I wanted to show you guys! :P She kinda put the iron on it for TOO long...the beads were melting...haha but still I thought it was cute! *Sorry its sideways, I couldn't move it! :rolleyes: aawwww.... so cute!! :) It does look like the bear on the cover. :cool:
September 5, 200619 yr I used to make them in school..:) If you turn it upside down, it looks like a bunny! :lol:
September 5, 200619 yr ^^ so true :lol: nice bunnar :nice: it's a new animal, mix of a bunny and a bear :cool3: God..i'm so smart
September 5, 200619 yr ^^ so true :lol: nice bunnar :nice: it's a new animal, mix of a bunny and a bear :cool3: God..i'm so smart That's GENIUS! :D
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