TALK ABOUT, MMMM, POP MUSIC!
This blog is written as a contribution to the Music themed Weekly Adoption Shout Out at the Adoption Social website.
"Music was my first love
And it will be my last
Music of the future
And music of the past
To live without my music
Would be impossible to do
For in this world of troubles
My music pulls me through..."
OK, fair enough, it may be a bit of gloriously overblown 70s prog bobbins from the team behind the Alan Parsons Project but the lyrics of this kitsch classic pretty much serve as a manifesto for my life. Sure, it may not be my first love... my lovely wife, my gorgeous little boy, my faith... they sit in pole position. But it is true to say that music gives them a pretty good run for the top spot!. Music has always been incredibly important to me. In my teenage years it was a comfort in hard times, a refuge and an inspiration.
A review of some listenable children’s CDs
This review was first posted on the fabulous blog: The Adoption Social . The Adoption Social is a great place to browse for invaluable information about adoption and fostering, to read other blogs about these issues, to enter discussions into topics which concern many adopters and to just hang out online. It publishes new content every day and is one of the websites I keep coming back to on a regular basis.
Run by two blogging adopters it really is a forum for adopters and by adopter. Check it out and participate in one of their Link Ups... This post is part of a Blog Hop at the Adoption Social (more details at the end to the review...). Anyway, here is the review. Hope you enjoy it and enjoy the music!
Megson – When I Was A Lad… (A Collection Of Children’s Folk Songs).
Jumping Through Hoops – Rockin’ To The Fiddle
Tim Hart And Friends -My Very Favourite Nursery Rhyme Record
Rain For Roots – Big Stories For Little Ones / The Kingdom Of Heaven Is Like This
Music has always been a huge thing for me.
Growing up, all my hobbies and social activities seemed to revolve
around music of one sort or other. So, it’s hardly surprising that one
of many cherished memories of intros with our little boy is a musical
one. On one of our first solo flights (out to do some shopping and then
on to the play park) Thin Lizzy’s Waiting for an Alibi came on
the car stereo. As the twin lead guitars faded out at the end of the
song a tiny voice piped up from the back of the car “More! More!”
accompanied by the sound of two tiny hands clapping enthusiastically.
That’s my boy! Fast forward a couple of years and we have ensured that
music is a central part of our little one’s life. And that includes
listening to music around the home and the car.
So a couple of Christmas presents this year served to illustrate the
variability of the kids’ music that’s available out there. In our
munchkin’s Christmas stocking was a double CD from the Early Learning
Centre called In The Car 2. A bizarre collection of tunes ranging from the expected like Hickory Dickory Dock or Three Blind Mice to rather left field selections like Ghostbusters and Bananas In Pyjamas.
All of these were presented in a resolutely cheesy fashion with a
smattering of out of tune kids from the local stage school singing along
as the icing on the cake. Instrumentation seemed to be courtesy of the
finest Casio keyboard that £19.99 could buy you at your local Argos. “In The Car”? I
was pretty sure that a long journey down the motorway in the company of
this CD would require me to gnaw my own arm off, just to maintain my
own psychological well-being.
So is there a viable alternative? Can you listen to a nursery rhyme
and retain both your rock’n’roll credibility and your sanity? It is at
times like these where one is simply driven to utter the “F” word… Yes, FOLK!
