{"id":2357,"date":"2008-03-11T11:51:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T11:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/03\/11\/futurebaby-playlist-ab\/"},"modified":"2008-03-11T11:51:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T11:51:28","slug":"futurebaby-playlist-ab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/03\/11\/futurebaby-playlist-ab\/","title":{"rendered":"FutureBaby Playlist: A-B"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Scalzi wrote some time back<\/a>, “one of a parent’s more minor but nevertheless important responsibilities is to make sure his or children grow up with a love of music that doesn’t totally suck.” I was reminded of this the other day while driving around, when “American Pie” came on the radio. I have weirdly distinct memories of listening to this in the car as a small child (young enough to have absolutely no idea what a “levee” was, or why one would drive a Chevy to it), which got me to thinking about music and FutureBaby.<\/p>\n

This, of course, presented a wonderful opportunity for cat-vacuuming, as I went through my music library looking for vaguely kid-appropriate songs. I don’t have any really solid criteria for this, other than that they should be generally happy, bouncy songs with no cuss words or hugely inappropriate themes. Or, possibly, lullabies. This, of course, cuts out large swathes of my music collection, but given that I have well over 10,000 songs on my computer, the resulting list still runs to 240 songs and better than 14 hours.<\/p>\n

It’d be a shame to just waste<\/strong> all that cat-vacuuming, of course, so I’ll post the resulting playlist to the blog in chunks. Here are the songs by artists who, in iTunes’s opinion, begin with the letters A or B.<\/p>\n

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