HELP! - being driven slowly mad by nursery rhymes CD

[bessie26]

subject says it all really - DD (2) is loving having her nursery rhymes playing all the time, but I wake up in the morning & they are still going round my head - can anyone suggest an alternative which she will still love dancing around to, but which won't drive me insane?

Perhaps something like this? this

DS loves the Blues Brothers - very danceable

www.amazon.co.uk/Sing---Longs-Lullabies-Curious-George/dp/B001KEK6X6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1295132256&sr=8-2

Or, you could live the hell, the utter, utter hell, of Alvin and the Chipmunks (The Squeakquel) CD every day for three months...

I like to cater for my DD's taste but, really, it's appalling. Thank heavens we're onto The Princess and the Frog at the moment which is actually quite good (oh how my standards have fallen).

We had several years of nursery rhyme CDs - only improved the situation by buying another one, to provide a small amount of variety. Ds1 knew all 50 nursery rhymes in order on one CD and all 30 on the other: you could test him (eg "what's number 37?" or "what number is "The Grand Old Duke of York?"). Even more annoying, he liked to sing all of the songs, in order, even the ones I HATED, when the CD wasn't playing. He would pretend he was a CD player, but one on which the stop button and skip a track button had broken. He would apologise politely and say he couldn't get the CD player to fastforward, so I would just have to listen to all of them... then calmly continue singing. The nursery rhymes would follow us around the shops, too, and into the bank. Many people commented on my amazing singing ds1...

at what's to come

i'm with you. My 19 month old now demands that I turn the radio off and put on the wheels on the bus. The wipers go swish swish swish... the people stand up and down... And i go slightly mad..

All day long.....

oh how ive been there. I made the big mistake when both dc were small of putting on nursery cd's in the car. What a mistake every journey we would have to have them on(i even found I had them on when they werent in the car) I browsed amazon and bought vaious cd's that didnt have the same nursery rhymes on and we moved to childrens songs instead of nursery rhymes. If you search amazon for childrens cds youll get loads of different ones.
tHIS IS WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE
www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Childrens-Songs-Various-Artists/dp/B00076SJA0/ref=sr_1_38?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1295271763&sr=1-38

www.amazon.co.uk/Mickeys-Top-40-Disney-Songs/dp/tracks/B000BMPQQA/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1

DD is 6 now so im finally weening her on to girlie pop cd's instead. At last that way I now just have to put up with girls aloud and saturdays.

I have managed to get DS (3) onto music like Abba and The Beatles (stuff like yellow submarine) and he likes one of DH's Elvis CD's. They all grate after a bit but less so than nursery rhymes

My car, my petrol, my driving, my music. All those who wish to differ can walk!

Thank-you so much for your suggestions & support in this difficult time
DD used to love dancing around to whatever was on R6 (once she stopped playing with her dolls house to bounce around to The Who ), but now just demands nursery rhymes all the time (I blame nursery!) kbaby I will make sure the nursery rhymes stay in the kitchen & don't move to the car!

'Colours are Brighter' is a great CD for kids with a mix of pop songs with kiddie friendly lyrics and some kids songs

Also my 2 love the Putamyo CDs - world music with kid-friendly themes. 'World Playground' and 'Animal Playground' are their favourites

My kids love Disney soundtracks. 50's music ( NANs fAult). S club 7!!!! We usually say Yr songs on way home. ours on way there if it's a longish journey but they are older so respond to bargaining.

We have Alphabet Zoo by Ralph McTell, wiith songs called things like Albert the Albatross and Nigel the Nightingale. It's comedy genius.

We also have an album called Lullaby by the girl singer from Zero 7, which includes things like Sing a Song of Sixpence, Little Bo Peep and Baa Baa Black Sheep, but done in this groovy, blissed-out sort of way. We listen to it before bed and it's lovely (though DS doesn't have much choice, only being 16 weeks).

If you have a local library nearby you could see if they have a selection of children's cds. They should be free to get out on loan so you can then try them out for free & rotate them, as we do (surprisingly only have had one or two scratched so badly they skip). The Wiggles cds are not too bad as they use proper instruments for the music & not too cringe-worthy words most of the time. Through the library I discovered that ancient indie band They Might Be Giants have a range of kids cds out now (presumably as they have had loads of kids) about numbers, letters, etc with original songs which sound indie-ish in style so almost like grown up music!

Wait til they get into their teens!!!!! Bloody Tinchy Stryder, JLS etc All played at ear bleeding volume !!

We bought a new car and told DD it doesn't have a CD player.

Now she likes Groove Armada from the radio instead of Humpty Cunting Dumpty.

Get lots more to vary it - charity shops are great for this. Then you can filter out the most annoying and give back to another charity shop!

But sometimes the cd player in our house 'has gone wrong'/ 'batteries are all finished', and only daddy can fix it when he gets home from work...

And songs never work in our car! But funny enough story cd's work just fine...

Mama Mia
Who let the dogs out
Had a bad day....

Songs like this changed my life [bgrin]

Nursery rhyme CDs are generally awful. I bought a few, discovered just how awful they were and threw them way . The children seemed just as happy with the music we chose to listen too, and it's only now (dd is 10) that anything that hasn't been preselected by us gets played. Even Miles Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers are better than most nursery rhymes IMO.

I think that children just like things with good rhythm and catchy lyrics. dd seemed happy with Blur, whilst ds was very partial to Iggy Pop it doesn't seem to have done them any harm...