Artist	Song
Big Star	Watch the Sun Rise
George Harrison	Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let it Roll)
Brian Eno	Golden Hours
Kahil El'Zabar	The Opening
Caetano Veloso	Cucurrucuc· Paloma
Roy Orbison	Dream Baby
Low and Dirty Three	I Hear Goodnight
Stereolab	Baby Lulu
The Rutles	With a Girl Like You
Tall Dwarfs	The Future See
Kate Bush	Room For the Life
Paul McCartney	No Other Baby
Os Mutantes	Baby (1971)
Astrud Gilberto	Berimbau
The Minus 5	The Family Gardener
The Flatlanders	One Day At a Time
Sol Ho'opi'i	Ten Tiny Toes
The Beatles	Cry Baby Cry
Alturas	Mama India
Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Maps (Live)
Elvis Presley	Blue Moon
John Lennon	Oh! My Love
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole	Kaulana Kawaihae
Don McLean	Wonderful Baby

Comment:

This was probably the toughest mix request I've ever done. My dear friend Shannan is due to deliver her first baby later this week, and she requested (months ago!) that I compile something for her to listen to while in labor. I was worried that if I stacked too many "upbeat" songs together, that she'd just end up hating them all, but I didn't want to depress her either. So the trick was to find soothing songs by artists she was mostly familiar with, which had a somewhat upbeat feel, and every few tracks or so, it had to get a little lively to help out with the whole "pushing" thing. I struggled with the track listing for a while, but I think I finally got the perfect ordering. I hope for her sake she won't need to hear it more than once or twice before the baby is born. Thanks to Sport! for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs track.

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