Our boys have always listened to music as they drifted off to sleep. They both started out listening to one of my favorite classical piano mixes. As BigBrother grew and learned how to maneuver his CD player, he started listening to 80’s music at night. What can I say? He’s a cool dude. Whatever they’re listening to, the fact is that they love music. So do I. So does FireDad.

And now we’re all fans of Rockabye Baby.

I had heard of the company from another friend with children approximately the same age as mine. She had been given one of their CDs at the baby shower thrown in her honor. She loved it and eventually her children did as well. What is Rockabye Baby?

You take the music of some of your favorite rock artists, turn it into instrumental lullaby music with bells vibraphones and the like and put it on compilation CDs for you and your child to enjoy. Sounds… interesting? It is. From their About page, they say, “Believe me, making an album that’s gentle enough for sleeping babies but won’t bore Mom and Dad is trickier than it sounds.” Having listened their offerings from U2, Aerosmith and Smashing Pumpkins, I can tell you that I’m sure it was tricky. But the result is lovely. As they hoped, it’s quiet enough for the boys to fall asleep to and it’s not annoying to listen to as an adult. (In fact, I have a few of my favorite selections from each now on my laptop because it’s nice to have quiet music after a very hectic day.) What are my favorite songs on each of the three CDs we received? “With or Without You” by U2, “Sweet Emotion” by Aerosmith and “Tonight, Tonight” by Smashing Pumpkins. They’re just nice songs.

In addition to the CDs we received, Rockabye Baby also offers AC/DC, The Beach Boys, The Beatles (two different compilations), Bjork, Bob Marley, Christmas Rock Classics, Coldplay, The Cure, The Eagles, Green Day, Led Zepplin, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, No Doubt, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, the Ramones, The Rolling Stones, and Tool. A little something for everyone who can’t stand normal lullabies. As a note, in case you were wondering or worried or missed the word instrumental above, there are no lyrics on these CDs. It’s all instrumental. As such, no choice words will be heard by your baby’s little ears. You may be thinking them as you’re rocking her to sleep but they’re not audible on the CD. Now, if you go ahead and sing them out loud and your child’s first word is of the four-letter variety, that’s not my fault or the fault of Rockabye Baby. Try humming along instead of singing.

Don’t believe just me. Rockabye Baby Music has celebrity fans (Kate Hudson, Tori Spelling, Denise Richards) and various awards. Cool. Or hip. Or whatever you’re supposed to say now.

Interested in checking out one of these great sleepytime soundtracks? Good! We’re giving one away! One winner will be able to choose which Rockabye Baby CD they want for their little sleepytime rockers. It will be mailed directly to the winner from the company.

Here’s how to enter.

1. Visit the site and look at the offerings. Come back and leave a comment on this post telling me which CD you would want if you won the giveaway. You may do this once.

2. Tweet the following: Win a rockin lullabye CD with Rockabye Baby & @FireMom: http://bit.ly/p8iFG …You may do this as many times as you so desire.

3. Blog about this giveaway on your public blog. Please come back and leave a link so I can make sure to catch it!

4. Post about this on your Facebook or submit it to Stumble Upon, Digg, del.icio.us or another such engine. Please let me know any pertinent information to find it (or if your Facebook is protected, just don’t lie).

This giveaway will be live until October 19th at noon. I will pull a winner via random.org at some point in time after the giveaway closes that day and contact the winner by email. The winner has 24 hours to respond before I pass it on to the next random winner.

I hope the winner enjoys this music as much as we did/do. I encourage you to pick one up (or download it!) if you don’t win as well. Good tunes for good sleeps!

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This post is part of a week long Media Review and Giveaway Extravaganza here on the blog. Please tune in every day this (work) week for another music or DVD review and to see if we’re giving away another fabulous offering! Tell your friends!

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[Disclosure: We received three complimentary copies to listen to and review. We received no addition compensation in exchange for our review.]