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Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Radiohead
Participated by Rockabye Baby!
Studio : Baby Rock Records
by Baby Rock Records
Release Date : 2006-08-29
Publisher : Baby Rock Records
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN : 0027297960329
UPC : 027297960329
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 23 reviews)
List Price : $16.98
Our Price : $10.00
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Rockabye Baby! transforms timeless rock songs into beautiful instrumental lullabies. The delicate sounds of the glockenspiel, vibraphone, and other instruments will lull your little one into a sweet slumber. These versions of Radiohead are sophisticated enough for people of all ages, but sweet enough to introduce your child to rock’s smartest band. Their album Kid A imagines the scope and power of music created by a newborn child. What will your baby dream about while drifting off to these serene interpretations of Radiohead’s best-loved songs? |
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Ok for babies but not for Radiohead fans |
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I purchased this album bc i heard a snippet of the "paranoid android" cover on NPR one afternoon. That's really the only track on this album i can stomach, and i consider myself to be one of the most serious Radiohead fans around. I also happen to be a musician, and I can tell you that the guy who arranged and performed the songs on this album did a pretty lame job. The recording is dull and flat-sounding. It may have turned out better if they'd had several musicians perform and record together, rather than just one dude recording each track and subsequently layering them. The album sounds pretty, but that's because almost anything sounds pretty when it's arranged for vibraphone or glockenspiel. This album is not disgustingly bad by any means--it's tolerable, and if i had a baby i might play the album for the child "just because." |
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Daughter is a Radiohead fan for life now |
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As a huge Radiohead fan, I got this for my daughter when she was born. As an infant, it calmed her down everytime. Sometimes I wonder if the reviewers who wrote "why not play the real thing?" ever had an infant with colic. This is great for bedtime and of course the real thing is great for daytime. My daughter still asks for "baby Radiohead" at bedtime and requests original Radiohead in the car. If you are looking for a lullaby album that is not completely annoying, this is the one to get! |
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pretty cool |
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At first I cringed when I heard that someone messed around with Radiohead's music and turned it into a cheap MIDI sounding knock-off. I was wrong. The songs on the album are actually transposed very well for the vibraphone, marimba etc... Makes a great album to put on for some cool background music to relax with. I don't have any kids, but I already know I'm going to have a hard time adapting to all the cheesy music if I do. This is perfect for introducing young people to something a whole lot cooler than they are used to. Anyways, its definitely worth checking out if you are a fan of Radiohead. If you are fan of Radiohead and have young children, I would highly recommend it :) |
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AWESOME -- Sounds more like gamelan than a lullabye.... |
When I stumbled across this on iTunes I chuckled. I LOATHE crappily-produced rehashings of popular (or classical, for that matter) music. But when I gave this CD a listen, I was absolutely astonished by how GOOD it is from the perspective of a composer, a percussionist, AND a Radiohead fan.
Now, first let me say I listened to the other albums by this group, and they are nowhere NEAR as good as this. In fact, they're pretty bad in my opinion. But the arrangements on this record are absolutely brilliant from the way they are arranged to the ways they are performed and produced. I was expecting to hear a MIDI-rendered music box-sounding thing tinkering away, but was amazed to hear a full percussion ensemble using marimbas, vibraphones, glockenspiels, gongs and cymbals, claves and shakers, as well as few well-placed guitars, rhodes, and piano. But the primary thing you will hear in these recordings is a masterfully-orchestrated full percussion ensemble.
The website gives no information whatsoever as to how many people are in this group and exactly what instruments they are using, but I have been in a college percussion ensemble for going on 6 years now, and have written several percussion ensemble original works as well as arrangements, and let me say that this is DAMN WELL DONE. My first thought listening to this was that it sounds more like a Balinese gamelan ensemble than a lullaby. Indeed, I think they are really selling themselves short with the marketing ploy of this being "lullaby" music. This album is chock-full of arrangements I would love to listen to and to perform... hell, I wish they'd release the sheet music so I could bring it to our university percussion ensemble!
In particular, "2+2=5" and "Everything In It's Right Place" are extremely well done. Both in their own idiom as percussion music and in their surprisingly accurate adherence to Radiohead's original music, these are brilliantly arranged pieces.
Well worth a listen. Don't be fooled by the way this is marketed; it is masterfully done. |
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Get your kids the real thing |
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I love the idea of introducing little ones to grand music from a grand band, and the song choices on this album are perfect, but not only are these instrumentals lame and boring, but they very much remind true Radiohead fans how good the real thing would be for kids and even babies. Songs such as "Subterranean Homesick Alien" and "No Surprises" are PERFECT lullabies in their original Radiohead form, so how about parents wising up and playing Radiohead for their kids rather than children's junk, with this album being included in the "children's junk" category. |
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