With Lullaby G’NR and Nine Inch Nails, Your Baby Will Grow Up Metal

October 23rd, 2009

By: Ben

Rockabye Baby is a plucky little web venture that makes instrumental lullaby melodies from your favorite face-melting rock tracks. Rolling Stones? Yep. Guns ‘n Roses? You bet! …Nine Inch Nails? Sure, why not. ”I want to stuff you like an ANIMAL/I want to teethe you from the INSIDE,” “Head like a hole/ Dark as my soul/ I’d rather CRY/ Than eat from my BOWL.” Kids need to know. I want my child’s first memories to be scored to the tunes Trent Reznor thought would match with lyrics about dehumanizing sex and intravenous drug use.

Some other fine lullaby rock includes Green Day (hey, that “Longview” bassline kicks it middle-school-band-percussion-section-style on the glockenspiel) and the Pixies. The lullaby Pixies sound pretty identical to the regular Pixies. Less distortion on the xylophone, maybe. The site also has a poll through which you can vote on your next favorite band to nursery-mix. If we all vote for Slayer, it will come true!