Starbody

Well, certainly the number of posts has diminished. We (the royal we, that is) haven’t even managed to make the usually punctual Ubiquitous Posts. There are loads of excellent excuses, the best one being that we are working on a new site. Yes, you may sigh and ask, “Weren’t you doing that last year?” You’re sharp as a tack, you.

Ahem.

For those with babes, it’s nice to see that there are people out there making interesting music just for you. They Might Be Giants offer Bed! Bed! Bed!, a collection of songs (accompanied by a nicely illustrated book) that are recorded in a specific order to wind things down as the record progresses. I suppose the idea is that by the time the last song plays, your little darlings will be happily asleep. Now, I’ve witnessed some of your children firsthand and am doubtful. There’s also the very upcoming (that was a grammatical compromise) release from Eenie Meenie Records titled Dimension Mix. It’s a tribute to the music of Bruce Haack and Esther Nelson. If you aren’t familiar (and I certainly wasn’t), the duo formed Dimension 5 in 1963 to put out children’s records with a goal of combining unique unusually imaginative, sometimes robotic, and slightly insane (but in a good way) music and lyrics.

If that’s too overwhelming, how about a Louis book from metaphrog complete with a CD full of music from Hey + Múm? Check out the animation on the website, it’s almost like spacerok lite for babies.

Now, my friend’s baby was quite partial to The Hidden Cameras and while it’s easy to see why some of their bouncy chorus tunes might appeal to kids, um … you might want to limit it to kids that can’t speak or comprehend words yet. Tee-hee.

We now conclude with our regular programming.