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Does anyone fancy helping me with my labour playlist?

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SpawnChorus · 29/08/2009 13:48

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

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SpawnChorus · 01/09/2009 11:47

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 ).

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pieta · 01/09/2009 15:33

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

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SpawnChorus · 01/09/2009 15:39

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.

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SolidGoldBrass · 01/09/2009 17:37

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.

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masonicpixiesreadthedailymail · 01/09/2009 17:52

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?

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PolkSaladLucie · 02/09/2009 11:05

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!

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FrumpyPumpy · 02/09/2009 15:53

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

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

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