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12-05-2011, 04:08 PM
|  | Impersonal Confuser. | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fresno, CA | | | Songs About Parenthood.
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Well, a couple of out TB brethren are going to be parents!
Awesome!
In light of this, while at work, I started to think of good songs about that subject. There are some obvious ones, but the one I really really like is from Split Enz circa 1983, written by Neil Finn about the joys and fears of the prospect of becoming a first-time father. Our Day.
Sorry about the "Audiosurf crap in there. My time is limited and I can't find a clean version.
Finn also wrote one of the greatest love songs ever put to paper. Message To My Girl
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12-05-2011, 04:12 PM
| | | | Not necessarily the most positive song about family, but I instantly thought of "On Any Other Day" by the Police.
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12-05-2011, 04:13 PM
| | | | Harry Chapin - Cats in the Cradle
Cledus T Judd - Where's Your Mommy
Only ones I can think of. |
12-05-2011, 04:13 PM
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It is about parenthood... really... I think. |
12-05-2011, 04:17 PM
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12-05-2011, 04:19 PM
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12-06-2011, 09:58 AM
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12-06-2011, 10:09 AM
| | | | Song For my Father - Horace Silver
Pappa Was a Rolling Stone - Temptations
My Father's Eyes - Clapton
Pappa Don't Take No Mess - James Brown
Wind Beneath my Wings
Sadie - Spinners |
12-06-2011, 10:17 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | My wife and I just had twins, so I'll play ...
Cat's in the Cradle was the first song that came to mind. Isn't She Lovely - Stevie Wonder No Thugs in Our House - XTC Up the Junction - Squeeze The Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics
The last one is perhaps not so much about parenthood as it is about a child's relationship with a parent, but I figure it's close enough.
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12-06-2011, 10:19 AM
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12-07-2011, 01:37 AM
| | Impersonal Confuser. | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fresno, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Febs  My wife and I just had twins, so I'll play ...
Cat's in the Cradle was the first song that came to mind. Isn't She Lovely - Stevie Wonder No Thugs in Our House - XTC Up the Junction - Squeeze The Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics
The last one is perhaps not so much about parenthood as it is about a child's relationship with a parent, but I figure it's close enough. | Oh... Great call on "Up The Junction".... Loves me Squeeze!!!!!!
[and XTC too]
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12-07-2011, 07:57 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: New Hampshire | | | Lots of Loudon Wainwright III's stuff
The Shaggs - Who Are Parents |
12-07-2011, 08:12 AM
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12-07-2011, 08:25 AM
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12-07-2011, 08:47 AM
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12-07-2011, 09:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Kolkata (Calcutta), India | | Sting's All Four Seasons: he wrote it about one of his daughters. Not exactly about the joy of parenthood, but about a child's moodiness.
"With her smile as sweet as a warm wind in summer
She's got me flying like a bird in a bright June sky
And then just when she thinks that I've got her number
Brings me down to the ground with her wintry eye
That's my baby
She can be all four seasons in one day..."
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