ten minutes to myself

make your own kind of music

Madeline's latest playlist:

1. If I Had $1,000,000 - Barenaked Ladies
2. The Littlest Birds - Be Good Tanyas
3. Faraway Cookies - Sandra Boynton
4. Don't Make Me Sing Along - Al Simmons
5. Mahna Mahna - Cake
6. The Last Saskatchewan Pirate - Captain Tractor
7. Chicken Soup with Rice - Carole King
8. Tickle Cove Pond - Great Big Sea
9. I've Got to Be Clean - Guster
10. (The Banana Boat Song) Day-O - Harry Belafonte
11. The Unicorn - The Irish Rovers
12. Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
13. Upside Down - Jack Johnson
14. He Mele No Lilo - Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus & Mark Keali'l Ho'omalu
15. Be Like a Duck - Sandra Boynton
16. When I'm Up I Can't Get Down - Oysterband
17. Bicycle Race - Queen
18. The Rainbow Connection - Sarah McLachlan
19. The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Nylons
20. At the Zoo - Simon & Garfunkel
21. The Hockey Song - Stompin' Tom Connors
22. Fishin' Blues - Taj Mahal

A few months ago, I signed Madeline and myself up for a mix CD swap with some of the other parents in one of the online communities I'm a member of (btw, thank you, Alexandra!). So far, I've received three CDs and sent off my batch, and we're a now a pretty groovin' household :)

The structure of the swap is fairly straightforward: two people sign up to send out a mix CD to all other participants for six months (this means everyone makes eleven CDs and sends out eleven CDs when it's their month). Our theme was family-friendly music, but it wasn't restricted to songs recorded specifically for children. I had a day or so of stress when it was my month for the swap and discovered that I had to burn elevens discs yet iTunes really wanted to limit me to seven, but I eventually figured out how to work around that.  I filled my discs with the music in the list above - songs from Canadian recording artists, performers whom we've seen at the Edmonton Folk Fest, and then, a few songs that were just fun or favourites of Madeline's. In return, we have dozens of great songs to listen to that neither of us had heard before, and there are still eight more discs to come ...

Everyone with a kid should do this, really :)

Madeline's Playlist, May 25

1. The Rainbow Connection - Sarah McLachlan, For the Kids
2. Faraway Cookies - Caitlin McEwan, Philadelphia Chickens
3. Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds, Mr. Tambourine Man
4. Philadelphia Chickens - The Bacon Brothers, Philadelphia Chickens
5. Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long - Al Simmons, The Celery Stalks at Midnight
6. Be Like a Duck - Keith Boynton, Philadelphia Chickens
7. The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Nylons, The Nylons
8. One Love - Bob Marley, Gold: Bob Marley and the Wailers
9. I've Got to Be Clean - Guster, For the Kids
10. Chicken Soup with Rice - Carole King, Really Rosie
11. Fishin' Blues - Taj Mahal, Best of Taj Mahal
12. Vegetation Migration/Celery Stalks at Midnight - Al Simmons, The Celery Stalks at Midnight
13. Alligators All Around - Carole King, Really Rosie
14. (The Banana Boat Song) Day-o - Harry Belafonte, Harry Belafonte: All-Time Greatest Hits

Next time I revise Madeline's playlist, I'm hoping to add some Beatles tunes ...