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“The foetus may be startled by loud music and start kicking you when it hears a certain tune. Or maybe its dancing. This is a good time to play it music, talk to it and see if you get a reaction.” (The Rough Guide to Pregnancy).

Say no more, I am on the case! I’ve had very little to do thus far in the pregnancy other than cooking and cleaning and general slave tasks. Now, however, my first opportunity at a fatherly duty. The musical education of my child! Those of you who know me well will know that I am a music geek. Shortly after we found out Sinead was pregnant, I began to dream of musical interactions with my first born. Most of these ended with me saying something like “Now, Sinead, our baby is NOT listening to that annoying kids’ music. I will not have Baby DVD listening to some crap middle aged woman with a guitar playing “YMCA” or something.” To which Sinead, as with all my rants, smiles bemusedly. This post continued here.

We’re about a month into the Baby DVD antenatal music experiment. Here’s what we’ve come up with so far that the baby seems to respond too:

• “Sweet Thing” - Van Morrison
• “Hallelujah” - Jeff Buckley
• “Wonderwall” - Oasis
• “Blue in Green” - Miles Davis
• “Blackbird” - The Beatles
• “I Walk the Line” - Johnny Cash
• “God Only Knows” - The Beach Boys
• “Georgia On My Mind” - Ray Charles
• “Satisfaction” - The Rolling Stones
• “Losing My Religion” - R.E.M.
• “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” - The Beatles
• “Let It Be” - The Beatles
• “The Galway Girl” - Steve Earle
• “Graceland” - Paul Simon
• “Bittersweet Symphony” - The Verve
• “The Jackal” - Ronnie Jordan
• “She’s A Jar” - Wilco
• “Superstition” - Stevie Wonder
• “When I Was Drinking” - Hem
• “We Walk the Same Line” - Everything But The Girl (This was against my will.)
• “Casimir Pulaski Day” - Sufjan Stevens
• “No Surprises” - Radiohead
• “Teach Your Children” - Crosby, Still, Nash & Young (recommended by Grandpa Vedova)
• “Three Little Birds” - Bob Marley
• “Up the Junction”- Squeeze
• “California Stars” - Billy Bragg & Wilco
• “Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye
• “Float On” - Modest Mouse
• “Zak & Sara” - Ben Folds
• “Sometimes (Lester Piggot)” - James
• “One” - U2
• “Frankly, Mr. Shankly” - The Smiths
• “(Nothing But) Flowers” - Talking Heads
• “Take Five” - The Dave Brubeck Quartet
• “Saturday Sun” - Nick Drake
• “Son of a Preacher Man” - Dusty Springfield
• “Fool in the Rain” - Led Zeppelin
• “There Will Be Another You” - Chet Baker
• “Tangled Up In Blue” - Bob Dylan
• “(don’t go back to) Rockville” - R.E.M.
• “Sister Golden Hair” - America
• “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” - Otis Redding

Here’s another list that I found surfing around and another for slightly older kids (i.e. born). Think I’ll use some of these suggestions as well.