Child's Plays

When you have children, you quickly learn how to negotiate daily vegetable consumption, calm irrational fears of harmless arachnids, and burn kid-cool alt-music CDs to spare yourself the incessant replays of Kelly Clarkson, Crazy Frog, and Daniel Powter’s @$%&#! “Bad Day.”

The following tunes have met with the gleeful approval of my 7- and 9-year-old (pictured above). Just as importantly, they’ve been sanctioned by the exceedingly stringent Parental Ratings Board (my wife).

If you have kids – or come in close contact with them for extended periods – I highly recommend the downloads below for those times when you’re confronted with the suggestion, “Let’s play Kelly Clarkson – again!”

[MP3] Apples in Stereo – Ruby
[MP3] Apples in Stereo – Go
[MP3] Bedouin Soundclash – When the Night Feels My Song
[MP3] Blur – Song 2
[MP3] Johnny Cash – Ring of Fire
[MP3] The Clash – Hitsville UK
[MP3] English Beat – Ranking Full Stop
[MP3] The Essex Green – Don’t Know Why (You Stay)
[MP3] The Flaming Lips – She Don’t Use Jelly
[MP3] The Pipettes – Pull Shapes
[MP3] The Pipettes – Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me
[MP3] R.E.M. – It’s the End of the World as We Know It
[MP3] Smoke Like a Fish – Just Another
[MP3] Vapors – Turning Japanese

(More Child’s Plays to follow at future dates.)