Baby's First Lullabies Music

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When I think of a lullaby CD, I think of nice, relaxing music that you can have on in the background while you rock your child to sleep for the night. Am I wrong here?

So, when we popped this CD in tonight (without ever listening to the CD - our mistake), the first two songs were incredibly soothing, soft and great to calm down our 4-month old.

Then we hit #3 - Hush A Bye Baby. Our child woke up and thought it was playtime. The song was an upbeat (and not terribly great) rendition of the old classic. YUCK! The volume was set higher than the other songs, and added to the playtime feel.

The next two songs are fine (Fur Elise and Schubert's Serenade in D Minor), but then, once again, we hit a peppy tune (another annoying vocal piece), Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Then comes the strangest piece of music on the CD - Autumn from The Four Seasons. I don't know who thought it would be a good idea to put this haunting song on a child's lullaby CD, but it is just plain creepy. A lot of harpsichord at the beginning and everything in minor tones. This should be on a Halloween CD, rather than this lullaby CD.

My notes could go on, but really, the makers of this CD either didn't intent for it to be a lullaby CD at the end of the day, or they wanted to raise thousands of schitzophrenic babies.

Either way, skip this CD and go for another more soothing one.