First Pregnancy Soundtrack

Even cats are dangerous? Toxoplasmosis tests every month...

Why are there so many love songs and so few pregnancy songs? It's a challenging and emotional time, right? Perfect for songwriters - but I'm not one, so here's some songs from my small CD collection I've been listening to.

 I hope you enjoy this playlist I made of 'my favourite songs this pregnancy' (my first). Some are love songs, others are ones I heard from a new perspective - a pregnant lady one - and related to at least some of their lyrics. And there's a couple that are just nice to listen / sing to. 

Track list and a few comments follow youtube link to videos:

Song names and artists:

It's a Hard Life - Queen

I did it for love 

No drinks just when you feel you could use one

Kooks - David Bowie

We bought a lot of things to keep you warm and dry & a funny old crib on which the paint won't dry

The Click Song - Miriam Makeba 

(our baby will hopefully be bilingual - but will I be?)

I'll Be Here Every Day - Capetown Lullaby

Today is just like any other day / wouldn't want it any other way / now that I'm with you

Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley and the Whalers

(my husband would sing this to me at 6am when I had to get up in the dark to go to class)

Gonna Be Sick! The Dø

(Feel free to skip this one! Track 6)

Sick as a dog for months - but this one cheered me up!

It's Oh So Quiet - Björk

(Zing! Boom! Not feeling oh so alone with these kicks and stabs)

Cross Oceans - First Aid Kit

(imagining how my life will change... I still want to cross oceans)

Baby Mine - Bette Midler

From your head down to your toes, you're not much, goodness knows

Love Love Love - Tété

(just a lovely little ditty for my itty bitty one)

Not Evident - The Narcoleptic Dancers

Come with me I will tell you a story / where people fight for their territory

Whatever Lola Wants - Della Reese

No regrets!

Nature - The Fourmyula

Talking aloud eases my mind

Gutter Black - Hello Sailor

You in my brain / You in my heart

You're Gonna See a Lot of Me - Lisa Ekdahl

I'll make you love me /  Wait and see

When Life was a Miracle - The No Smoking Orchestra

(Maybe I'll only let people in the delivery suite if they come in a line playing gypsy trumpets)

Good motivation for the new dad to quit smoking!

La Banane - Philippe Katerine

No, I'll never go to the supermarket, rather die. Don't ever want to get dressed, rather die. 

........Just let me eat my banana.

Non Non Non - Camélia Jordana
No, I don't wanna get rid of this beautiful hell / that I'm starting to like / I don't wanna leave my lounge

Singing in My Soul - Tess and Adrian

(it's an acoustic and beautiful duet...sung by a trio)

Sleep - Kimya Dawson

(Even though the baby's not born yet it's still keeping me awake at night)

A New Dialogue - Julia Deans

(Yes, I still want to go out!)

I Want to Break Free - Queen

(I think pregnancy needs some more power ballads)

Soundtrack to Falling in Love - Charlie Winston

('All of me, You've found your way to all of me' - perfect for late pregnancy!)

Here Comes the Sun - Yuna (Beatles cover)

(Finally Spring is coming - and the baby too!)

Natural beauty was one thing I didn't have to give up enjoying

Sleep (instrumental) - Kimya Dawson

(A lovely lullaby from the Juno soundtrack)

When sensitive to smells, good to have some nice things like these Angel's Trumpets

Alice by Tom Waits

It's dreamy weather we're on
You waved your crooked wand
Along an icy pond with a frozen moon
A murder of silhouette crows I saw
And the tears on my face
And the skates on the pond
They spell Alice

I disappear in your name
But you must wait for me
Somewhere across the sea
There's a wreck of a ship
Your hair is like meadow grass on the tide
And the raindrops on my window
And the ice in my drink
Baby all I can think of is Alice

Arithmetic arithmetock
Turn the hands back on the clock
How does the ocean rock the boat?
How did the razor find my throat?
The only strings that hold me here
Are tangled up around the pier

And so a secret kiss
Brings madness with the bliss
And I will think of this
When I'm dead in my grave
Set me adrift and I'm lost over there
And I must be insane
To go skating on your name
And by tracing it twice
I fell through the ice
Of Alice

And so a secret kiss
Brings madness with the bliss
And I will think of this
When I'm dead in my grave
Set me adrift and I'm lost over there
And I must be insane
To go skating on your name
And by tracing it twice
I fell through the ice
Of Alice
There's only Alice

Tété Eleanor Rigby

Paloma Negra

I heard this song on the radio today and remembered how much I love it. A brilliant song featured on one of my favourite soundtracks - 'Frida' (also, watch that movie if you haven't already). x



as sung by Lila Downs

internet song

Life in the age of the internet - it's something else!

Flight of the Conchords Hurt Feelings

Like there's no-one listening

Posting this song is inspired by my wonderfully sing-y flatmate. It's not way of the singing that is wonderful but the fact of the singing. It's the enthusiasm and gleeful disregard for any prior versions of the song.

He was shouting/singing something the other day that I thought I recognised from long ago. Turns out it wasn't at all what he was singing, but he did helpfully remind me of that 'long ago' singer's name, Mika. I'd only heard of him when some tweeny guests were staying at mum's one summer and had his CD on repeat. It's a feelgood summer kinda music. It goes well with a swimming pool and iceblocks.

As I'm supposed to be studying French today, here is the song, 'Grace Kelly' in French.