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Brahms Hath Murdered Sleep! Lullabies for the Insomniac

Artist Song
Lullaby League  Welcome to Munchkinland 
Richard & Linda Thompson  The End of the Rainbow 
Eurythmics  Angel 
Melissa Etheridge  A Truthful Lullaby 
The Medieval Babes  Adult Lullaby 
The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band  Electric Lullaby 
Robin Williams  Swee'pea's Lullaby 
Sinead O'Connor  A Lullaby for Cain 
Slim Whitman  Swiss Lullaby 
The Canadian Brass  Tuba Lullaby 
Bing Crosby  An Irish Lullaby 
The Pogues  Lullaby of London 
Cilla Black  Liverpool Lullaby 
Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye  Lullaby in Ragtime 
The Andrew Sisters  Lullaby of Broadway 
The Woody Herman Orchestra  Lullaby of Birdland 
Keb Mo  Lullaby Baby Blues 
Chris Whitley  Scrapyard Lullaby 
Neko Case and Her Boyfriends  Furnace Room Lullaby 
Emmylou Harris  Hobo's Lullaby 
E. Harris, A. Krauss and G. Welch  Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby 
The Dixie Chicks and James Taylor  Sweet Baby James 
Tom Waits  Lullaby 
Leonard Cohen  Hunter's Lullaby 
Gentle Giant  An Inmate's Lullaby 
They Might Be Giants  Lullaby to Nightmares 
Hugh Montenegro  Lullaby from 'Rosemary's Baby' 
PDQ Bach  Lullaby and Goodnight 

Comment:

*** Not Intended for Children or the Unduly Sentimental ***
The original idea was to examine the genre of the Disturbing Lullaby.
Well, our research indicates that they're all pretty disturbing in one way or another. Either they're mawkishly sweet and disturbing or they're starkly realistic in a Grimm's Fairytales/Mother Goose sort of way and disturbing.

And why? A night spent with a colicky baby is not something for artists, agnostics or other triflers to be playing at. By morning, you will be seeing the world for what it truly is and will be singing that truth in strange, strange tongues.
Which doesn't mean it won't make for good listening, afterwards. But it won't be child's play by a long chalk.

Let those colicky babies grow up with hope and ideals -- play them some Springsteen or like that.

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PhilipF
Date: 5/31/2003
Great mix.
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Mo Twang!
Date: 6/2/2003
This looks great! I'd love to hear it ... but not at bedtime.
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Dom1
Date: 11/3/2003
Damn fine!