It's Friday, I'm in Love....

In high school, I was completely, but completely, smitten with Robert Smith. And pretty much all things Brit-pop. I even went through a phase in which I loved Erasure. Morrissey still holds a spot in my heart. So when I found this CD from Rockabye Baby, I almost wept with joy. (Okay, I didn't weep -- but I was very, very happy.) The quirky jangles of the guitar in the original Cure tunes may be slightly less than soothing -- but transform them into lullabies and I fail to see how you can go wrong. I've a picture in my mind of playing this for my child in utero, and then, come her high school years, the little one suddenly has a mysterious affinity for the Cure. If the nouveau-British invasion isn't your thing, Rockabye also offers similar CDs, featuring lullaby versions of Coldplay, Radiohead and, for the industrial fans out there, Tool.