Does anyone fancy helping me with my labour playlist?

[SpawnChorus]

So far I have:

So far I have:

Blue Monday-88 4:08 New Order

Dirty Harry 3:44 Gorillaz

Fools Gold 9:55 The Stone Roses

Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon 3:10

Heartbeats 2:40 Jose Gonzalez

I Wanna Be Adored 4:54 The Stone Roses

Kinky Afro 4:00 Happy Mondays

Loaded 7:03 Primal Scream

The Magnificent Seven 5:34 The Clash

Movin` On Up 3:51 Primal Scream

The Passenger 4:44 Iggy Pop

Stand and Deliver 3:35 Adam Ant

Sweet Harmony 5:03 The Beloved

Sweet Jane 3:23 Cowboy Junkies

Where Is My Mind? 3:49 Pixies

World In My Eyes 4:27 Depeche Mode

You Really Got Me 2:14 The Kinks

Guns of Brixton The Clash

Ringfinger Nine Inch Nails

[FrumpyPumpy]

Earlyonemorning I LOVE party hard by AndrewWK, good on the treadmill too.

Sorry not read whole thread but Push IT by Salt n peppa?

[PolkSaladLucie]

I was listening to the radio and "Hallelujah" was playing just as I gave birth - unfortunately it was the sappy x-factor version, but was still rather nice (not that I noticed until my husband pointed it out!). It was Chris Evans' drive time show and his wife had given birth that day, so the show was dedicated to all women who have given birth - and that (by two minutes) included me!

[masonicpixiesreadthedailymail]

my dd was born to sigur ros too. Ds to goldfrapp 'felt mountain' album - the twisted fairground music track

birthday - sugarcubes. Maybe mama too (by the sugarcubes. Not suggesting a drippy spice girls ballad) You could grunt along to bjork. Red alert by basement jaxx. Xanadu by Olivia Newton John - that's quite a euphoric feel good one, innit?

[SolidGoldBrass]

I had great fun making up a mixtape - no bloody Enya or whale music, I had stuff like Queen Adreena and Courtney Love. I wanted to have this (listen to the song, the vid is irrelevant but the only one I ould find) playing as DS' name is Victory John but didn't get around to switching the music on once in really established labour.

[SpawnChorus]

Erk...hoping for another short sweet labour like I had with DS (not the 24 hour hell-marathon I had with DD! ).

Will add some of my dub/reggae. Good idea.

[pieta]

any drum and bass or reggae is quite good for the early stages when you can just roll your hips and rock through the contractions - but then funny DVDs were quite good for that stage too. What I really needed when it got hard was my bracelet with beads from women who had babies already. I held on hard to a different one through each contraction and focussed on that woman and "thought you've done this I can do it too". I also made a playlist - but after 20 or so hours, you don't even notice what's going on in the background.
Good luck

[SpawnChorus]

Have added a few tracks by Royksopp and Madeleine Peyroux, plus Hot in Herrre (Nelly), Flawless (The Ones) and Two People (Jean Jacques Smoothie).

Love loads of the suggestions, but have decided it's all about hip-swingability and NOT meaningful lyrics (or dreadful puns ).

[londonlexi]

a whole ipod full of everything you can think of - i think i went through all 10k songs (feels like it)

[PuzzleRocks]

hijack

Messalina,i guess you hadn't noticed. You might want to delete your eminem post from TR's bereavement thread.

[oneopinionatedmother]

@spawnchorus - what about 'head down' by soundgarden?

'little horn is born' marilyn manson?

more seriously 'teardrop' by massive attack off mezzanine
anything by zero 7

glosoli by sigur ros
'pray' by syntax
john mayall 'goodbye december', 'dream with me', 'me and my children'.
FC kahuna 'Hayling'
Fatboy Slim 'bird of prey'
morcheeba 'trigger hippy' 'down by the sea'

[messalina]

If it's a breech birth, How Beautiful are the Feet, from Handel's Messiah?

[jujubean]

TBH you prob won't care what music is on. My induction was all a bit last minute so DH just went to car and got a CD out of CD changer, he came back with Mika's album. Now "relax, take it eeeeaaasssyyyy" always make me grin and think of being in early labour with DD.

[messalina]

The first cut is the deepest?

[oneopinionatedmother]

@southwestwhippet - what about the harp & lute concerto (Handel)?

or, for a 23-hr labour, you could go for 'the ring cycle' by Wagner

[PurlyQueen]

My only advice is to avoid songs that you love - otherwise they will be forever linked with the pain of labour and you'll never be able to listen to them again.

[discoball]

I was born to make you happy - Britney Spears
The Greatest Love of All - Whitney Houston
Good Times - Chic
Baby Love - Supremes
Porcelain - Moby (beautiful song)!
Sister Sledge - We Are Family
Good luck!

[pucca]

I just had the radio on when my dd was born and she was born to Mad World by Gary Jules lol

[crankytwanky]

I had Erikah Badu "Baduism" on in the pool room. Was so relaxing and chilled, although combined with the entonox I thought I was a teenager on drugs again, and I thought my best mate was there.

DH bought Grandparents a copy as it meant so much to him, we cannot hear it now without getting all dewy-eyed.

I may go for Jose Gonzales next time as well, good suggestion!

[Housemum]

Definitely not Natalie Imbruglia - Torn

[ForgetfulNess]

Massive Attack - anything from Blue Lines.

[PatTheHammer]

Both DD and then, 2 years later, DS born to Anthony and the Johnsons 'I am a bird now'. Just a fluke as took in loads of cds with DD and towards the end DH was a bit distracted so midwife just kept putting it on repeat. DS on the other hand was fast and furious and I just had time to yell 'get the effing music on' before I leapt in the pool and started pushing. DH just grabbed the top CD in the bag and it happened to be the same one

Love all of your play list and love the suggestion of 'sex on fire' . Anything that relaxes you will help and your favourite songs will make it even more special.

[jumbly]

I never got as far as playing any track at all in labour with DS or DD, but in my fantasy pregnancy world Everything Will Be Alright by the Killers would have run on repeat...:-)

[glencoe]

My dh was in charge of putting the playlist together for my second birth, and thought it was most amusing to include Push It by Salt and Pepper. Oh, how I laughed!!

[VeryHungryLennipillar]

DD born to sigur ros

[AmeliaR]

hoppipolla sigur ros - bit more chilled than the rest of your choices, but you might need it. You know...it's the one they use for lots of tv ads