Iron Maiden can now "rock" your little ones to sleep

Travis The Dragon

AFTERGLOW!!!
Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star, the company which creates "beautiful lullaby versions of your favorite artists," has just released "Lullaby Versions Of Iron Maiden" via iTunes. The 12-track set features reworkings of metal classics such as "Run To The Hills", "The Trooper" and "Fear Of The Dark".

In its mission statement, Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star says, "We feel our lullaby line fills a vacant musical niche. There are other lines of pop music lullabies but we decided to take the approach of being high end musically rather than simply doing these as a novelty. After all, just because the music is for a baby it doesn’t have to sound unsophisticated. We feel we owe it to the artists that we are covering to do their music justice and our standard of quality transcends the lullaby genre. In fact, in addition to soothing babies our fans use our music for yoga, massage and sleep therapy or just general relaxation. We like to call them 'lullabies for all ages' and the diversity of use is testament to that."

"Lullaby Versions Of Iron Maiden" track listing:

01. Run To The Hills
02. The Number Of The Beast
03. The Trooper
04. Hallowed Be Thy Name
05. Aces High
06. Fear Of The Dark
07. Wasted Years
08. Can I Play With Madness
09. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
10. Flight Of Icarus
11. 2 Minutes To Midnight
12. Where Eagles Dare
Source: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbe ... mID=165144


Here are audio samples: http://www.amazon.com/Lullaby-Versions- ... -1-catcorr

I must admit that they're actually quite peaceful and relaxing. They actually sound more like new age than lullaby. Also, if you kid doesn't like metal, it could be a way to get them into some Maiden! :D
 
My brother (my best friend, the guy who I shared 8 of my 9 Maiden gigs with) has two baby girls, one at 2 1/2, one at 12 months. I'm sure I'd be a very popular uncle if I bought them that for Christmas.
 
Well, it's hardly epic.. but at least it's better than constantly giving kids Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

If I ever have kids (like a 0.000001% chance) I think I'd just hope they were capable of withstanding regular Maiden CD's being played, and if they can't.. well tough! If I was going to give them child friendly music I'd probably just try play some of the random stuff I heard as a kid like Lily the Pink, Puff the Magic Dragon! etc (Nostalgia <3).
 
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