Just realized it’s Wednesday night and no one put a challenge up yet. So as we have a few ‘Spillers either expecting or recently blessed, this week’s challenge is A Song For a New ‘Spiller. We don’t have to go the sappy route here, folks.
Just realized it’s Wednesday night and no one put a challenge up yet. So as we have a few ‘Spillers either expecting or recently blessed, this week’s challenge is A Song For a New ‘Spiller. We don’t have to go the sappy route here, folks.
OK, going off in the complete opposite direction from the sappy route, here’s your whole life mapped out ahead of you, courtesy of A House:
(I may want to have another go if I can think of a cheerier offering)
Barbryn -
you can have as many goes as you want, and welcome officially to Mathilda.
That song rocked.
Excellent job Amy. From the very aptly named Learning To Crawl I can think of no song better states how a child can teach you new meanings of love. I used to dance my newborn son around to this. Congrats to the Carpenters & love to all here.
“Welcome to the Human Race”
Fintan!!!! I missed you so much on this week’s topic!!!! Hope all well with you and Di, and you’ll post your new findings here.
Yeah, that title was a nudge towards someone posting this song
Sod it, I’m going ‘emotional’. 20 or so years later, this one still has me blubbing every time:
Me too, and i don’t even have or want kids.
I’ll do sappy, with a marmite song. Hey you with the pretty face! Welcome to the human race – great celebration, Mr Blue Sky’s up there waiting;this is the day he’s waited for …
Well, it always cheers me up.
If we get a new girl spiller then this would be my pick ! ! !
Shonen Knife – Buttercup (I’m A Supergirl)
I need to think about if it was a boy……
Mathilda is a girl, so that shoule work. But Pip Xeo and the yet-to-be Wyngate Jr. are boys. And i need to think of one for Hector.
Oh, and the magnificent Bertie too! (need some updated pictures, folks.)
Ok, here’s one for Bertie.
And i really hope that the magnificent Hector wasn’t named for this -
Gotta love those Powerpuff Girls! The cartoon was actually very clever and like all good ‘children’s’ TV, had a significant amount of material which was aimed at a more adult audience! The theme tune was good too…
Maybe for a boy something on the importance of a good diet and healthy life stlye. . . . . . maybe . . . . some advice from fitness coach Bigga Raiji . . . (I actually think he looks like a little boy even if he is really very big ! ! !)
Here’s a nicer one… We very nearly chose the name Esme for Matilda, partly because of this blessing of a song. May kindness prevail.
Sorry, just realized i have been spelling Matilda’s name wrong.
Not everyone’s favourites (OK, not anyone’s in these parts) but I can forgive Mick Hucknall most of his atrocities (perhaps too strong a word) for his having produced this little gem which got me through many a late night colic attack (daughter’s not mine!)
http://mynewsmag.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=77
I love Mick Hucknall’s voice. I make no apologies for it either.
Thanks amylee – please feel free to remove my erroneous links and comments which relate to my girls’ football team and having nothing whatsoever to do with the ‘Spill. Sorry all…
Toffee –
Did you see this on the Graun?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/21/mick-hucknall-simply-red-voice?INTCMP=SRCH
(ignore the pic with the video, KC wrote this for his daughter)
“Promise you’ll tell her that she’s my favourite girl in all the world.”
That was lovely.
Let’s try that link again…
http://mynewsmag.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=77
Good god – I keep posting the wrong link!!!!!
Ok, i’ll get the sappy one out of the way.
Pretty much my own personal Buffalo Springfield song – I’ve listen to this hundreds & hundreds of times. Works on so many moments in life. Hell he was only 20. Just great.
I vaguely remember being taught this in guitar lessons. But as most of Neil’s songs tend to be around 3 chords, it’s not a huge accomplishment.
Just for the benefit of the slowpoke at the back (me) can we get a quick rundown of who has had/is having what & when please?
What i know -
The Shanes – Pip Xeo
The Barbryns – Mathilda
The Treefrogdemons (grandkid) – Jimmy
The Wyngatecarpenters – boy (pending – due end of month)
The Blimpsters – Hector (dog)
The Abahachis – Bertie (cat)
Feel free to add as applicable.
Cute, cute
Little baby
Little pee pee
Little toes
Don’tcha love the little baby?
Don’t you wanna make him stay up late?
(Well, from memory, I doubt it.)
Ha, was waiting for that one! It almost got pride of place till the White Stripes beat it out.
Seems you passed on the dreaded Dead tune.
I presume you mean the final Brent abomination, amy. I can’t even listen to it.
Up All Night? Bouncing Babies? Let’s go with romance:
Shoey….
Yes?…..
Hooray for New Spillers!
I am going with one of those “I will always be here for you” songs for Pip, Mathilda,O(!), Jimmy, Hector and Bertie which no doubt echo exactly echo the sentiments of their respective Mums, Dads and assorted siblings, Grandmas and Grandpas.
Los Lonely Boys are not the best band in the world, perhaps, but this is a lovely song.
Thanks for remembering baby Jimmy, SpottedRichard – he’s nearly toddler Jimmy now! (And I’ll be seeing him in April.)
Welcome new life everywhere.
From the album “To Our Children’s, Children’s Children” by the Moody Blues”
“Listen, hear the sound
the child awakes.
Wonder all around
the child awakes”.
Alesson for grown ups, perhaps…………
It’s possible that TP is not referring to the small kind of baby here but the song works as a lullaby for all ages.
So sleep tight, baby,
Unfurrow your brow
And know I love you
We’re all right for now
All Right For Now by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Didn’t close the capitals Arrrrgh! Sorry.
We named our 3 year old Eloise, after the song of the same name by The Damned – and she’s always loved it. Probably because its got her name in it and she thinks its ‘her’ song, but its good to hear. Weirdly, for a little ‘un, her current faves (based on what she’s heard at home/in the car) are Its the end of the world as we know it by REM, Cornflake Girl by Tori Amos, Oh Bondage (up yours) by X-ray Spex and her absolute fave, Chicago by Sufjan Stevens (or the All Things Go song as she calls it). Her one year old sister seems to perk up and dance when she hears metal/hard rock/punk – so things could turn out interesting.
If we’re going to get REALLY sappy, i recommend When a Child is Born by Johnny Mathis, for some reason i cannot fathom, i actually find it slightly moving. Sorry.
Samingad- Lullaby
By sheer coincidence this lovely tune comes from Taiwan and if you are quick you can still hear more Taiwanese music a couple of posts down in a wonderful joint effort from Hoshinosakura and my good self ( yes, it is shameless self promotion, got a problem with that ?)
Not sure of the language, Samingad preforms mainly in the indigenous Puyuma language. Whatever, I love her voice.
a pretty obvious one from me I’m afraid:
dond of course. And a headslap too as it never even occurred to me.
Eels – Saturday Morning
it’s saturday morning
who’s gunna play with me?
it’s six in the morning, baby
I’ve got a long long day ahead of me
the parents are sleeping soundly
the neighbors are dead as wood
I’m getting up and coming over
we’ve gotta rock the neighborhood
nothing’s ever gunna happen ’round here
if we don’t make it happen
sleep away the day if you want to
but i got something I’ve got to do…
pip*xeo is now 1 year and 3 months old –
he’s a walking, squarking, bundle of snot this week and would only sleep on my shoulder for three whole nights.. I came to the conclusion that (even if I wanted to) I wouldn’t make a three day festival without sleep any more.
I’d better add this:
Graham Coxon – Bittersweet Bundle of Misery
first two lines work – but then goes into marrying and rubbish stuff..
Now the end is in sight, I’m just tired
Lying awake at night so wired
my mate posted it the other day on facebook and I remember listening to it loads when my (Nearly) 7 year old was little and not sleeping.
Zane’s favourite tune is:
The Flaming Lips – The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
I’m not going to try and explain the video to him though.
There’s a lot of country songs about newborns. Here’s the best – and one that avoids all sentimentality.
(Despite the dated celebrity references in the lyrics, the song has aged remarkably well.)
In their book “What Was The First Rock ‘n’ Roll Record”, Jim Dawson & Steve Propes have gone for the track attached here.
The piano was played by Nat King Cole under the pseudonym “Slim Nadine” and guitarist was Les Paul, calling himself “Paul Lesley”. This was because they were both under contract to other labels at the time. Dawson & Propes were particularly taken with Illinois Jacquet’s sax playing.
It was also an early benefit record, made to help pay the legal fees of Chicano kids arrested in what became known as the “Zoot Suit Riots”. Assembled by Norman Granz, who later founded Verve records, this event at Hollywood’s Philharmonic theatre became an annual occasion.
Well, its good for new Spillers to have a bit of history……….(sorry its a bit long. It was originally, of course, issued on 78s, but they have been welded together by whoever put it on You Tube)
PS. I know some on here will dismiss that post as “Granddad Rock”, but…..what the hell.
Within reason kids, within reason, do anything you wanna do:
I love this one too:
Few i haven’t seen yet before i head off to the grind. Can’t imagine a lovlier welcome than this one – even better is the BBC version a few days after his son was born. You can really hear the emotion in his voice in that one.
Supposedly Van the Man wrote this after the birth of his daughter
Bet you didn’t know this was to Keef’s daughter Angie after her birth. Nope, i didn’t either until i read his book.
Keef wrote this one before his two daughters by Patti were born, but said that this was eerily prescient – T and A are the initials of his daughters – “My little T&A”. Class!
I’m afraid karma demands that someone post Richard & Linda Thompson’s The End Of The Rainbow, written for their own child. Telling it like it still is, for too many people.
Well, we could always got the Louden Wainwright III route too…some rich pickings there.
or
Watch what you do now, watch what you think.
Girls pull faces!
Unnerving to think of China as a grownup…China by Paul Kantner and Grace Slick
Slaves didn’t have daycares of course, so moms would leave their newborn in a shady spot and hope for the best while they went back to picking.
This always seemed like the sort of tune that a very young child would like.
There’s also Run by Kathleen Edwards. It’s on a quite good playlist on CBC Radio 3 here: http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/artists/Kathleen-Edwards for those who want a little Kathleen Edwards sampler.
Here’s another lullaby – and it’s for boys and girls innit?
Late to the party even though I seemed to have helped to prompt. I’m certainly not going down the sappy route but I’ll avoid anything too nasty as well as that wouldn’t seem right. Instead here’s some white boy funk and wry political philosophy from the Gang Of Four
“When I was in my mother’s womb social structures seemed a simple thing”