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

[pasturesnew]

The Sweetest Thing : U2 but be warned that this includes the lyric "you can sew it up, but you still see the tear"

[bebejones]

push it - salt n pepa
stand & deliver - adam ant

[bebejones]

oops sorry missed adam ant on your playlist!! Was on my iPod when I had DD!!

[kazkiss]

my babies (twins) were born to daydream believer! It was an emergency c section by coincidently it is one of my favourite songs!

[NBelle]

You got the love - The source featuring Candi Staton.

Your choices are really good so far, I'm a big Stone Roses fan and will have them on when i finally get to give birth (on the IVF waiting list) Sally Cinnamon is my favourite

Good luck

[BosomForAPillow]

Your Song - Elton John. ("How wonderful life is, now you're in the world...")

[SpawnChorus]

Oh some great suggestions! Special commendations to push it - salt n pepa and You got the love

[EyelinerOfTheTiger]

I have heard of Andrew WK!

DS was born to 'Band of Horses' which I doubt anyone has heard of but there is a bit in the first track where the sound is slowed down and distorted. During that bit I was in transition and thought I was going insane and probably dying as the music wasn't working properly. I'd advise against anything that does that, was quite a worrying experience!

That said I had a great birth with DS and I love listening to that album now.

Good luck!

[Fraochsmum]

I hadn't really thought of this, but it is such a great idea! Loving some of the suggestions, think I'd better start getting it ready now - I'm not due till January but I'm a bit of a technophobe!

[poguemahone]

I had the same mix CD on a loop throughout labour (too busy to even ask for any of the other CDs) and now those songs are very special to me.

There Goes the Fear (Doves) was brilliant for making me feel positive

[bethylou]

Hi, with you on the ABs for Group B strep. We had 'Don't stop me now' while I was in labour which I love, and can't listen to it now without smiling. Also randomly managed to give birth in my Nike 'Just do it' t-shirt!! Admittedly, the labour took a good 14 hours so maybe it was a bit misleading but I got there in the end. Still can't stand the 'birth shirt' my husband was wearing though - I only gave it to him as a birthday present the week before and now I'm intending to dye it in the washing 'by mistake'!!

[Gingerbics]

I tried to do a playlist to and my husband made really unhelpful suggestions such as...
Torn by Nathalie Umbruglia
Love will tear us apart
..... bad i know but couldn't help chuckling

[deadflesh]

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

[justbeenforapromenade]

Fat bottom girls - Queen

[justbeenforapromenade]

I had a C-section in the end and remember the track that was playing as they sliced me open (not my choice...just on the radio).She's the One...by Robbie Williams, which was actually very touchingly apt, as baby was a girl, which we'd been secretly wanting, but had been convinced we were having a boy. Our dreams had come true!!

[spiderlight]

Mine was Enya - Long long journey. I still get broody even thinking about it!

Another possibility is that Pink song - I'm coming out, so you'd better get this party started

[YummyorSlummy]

Um, would Sex On Fire be wildly inappropriate?!

[bebejones]

Guns n Roses - Sweet Child of Mine

[WhereTheWildThingsWere]

Lololol @ Sex on Fire.

I spent ages putting together music for my second labour, five minutes of listening to it and I was screaming 'will someone turn that fucking shit off, I am trying to concentrate' .

[bebejones]

For Your Babies - Simply Red

[linz76]

Good choices Spawn Chorus! Midwives completely slagged off my choices, and they switched it off! Instead of my ds being born to The bends by Radiohead (best album ever by the way) it was The Best of Lionel bleeding Ritchie(birth partner's choice).

Can I recommend: yeah yeah by LCD Soundsystem
I am the resurrection by The Stone Roses
Paranoid Android by Radiohead
Friend had Come into my world by Kylie playing when her son was born. Prob not your style Spawn Chorus but quite sweet nonetheless. And don't let the midwives bully you into switching your tunes off!

[TeaandCake]

Bloody hell Spawn I LOVE your list and am now totally inspired to create a playlist for labour (due in 12 days)!

Must suggest This Is The One by The Stone Roses, best intro ever!

[Southwestwhippet]

Am I the only person wanting classical music?

I want Bach Brandenburgs, some of the late Beethoven string quartets, Mahler 1, Dvojak 9, Mendelssohn Octet, Vivaldi flute concertos and Boccherini and Haydn 'cello concertos. Although I am quite taken with the idea of throwing some Smiths and Blondie into the mix as well

DISCLAIMER - did a music degree, grew up only listening to classical music, not really into pop music, not being a pretentious snob.