Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Metallica

1	One / Michael Armstrong 4:36
2	Wherever I May Roam / Michael Armstrong 4:00
3	Enter Sandman / Michael Armstrong 3:55
4	Fade to Black / Michael Armstrong 5:09
5	Nothing Else Matters / Michael Armstrong 4:41
6	Battery / Michael Armstrong 2:45
7	The Unforgiven / Michael Armstrong 4:06
8	Master of Puppets / Michael Armstrong 2:43
9	Welcome Home (Sanitarium) / Michael Armstrong 4:54
10	(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth / Michael Armstrong 3:05
11	...and Justice for All / Michael Armstrong 2:13

Barnes & Noble

Bach and Brahms just might enhance your wee one's intelligence, but today's parents are ready to expand beyond familiar horizons -- which is where Baby Rock Records comes in. The label has lovingly transformed songs by some of today's biggest rock acts into soothing instrumentals, rendered by glockenspiel, vibraphone, mellotron, harp, and bells. Metalhead mommies -- and let's just admit it, dads -- will be especially pleased with Lullaby Renditions of Metallica, which takes the edge off tunes such as "One," "Nothing Else Matters," "Master of Puppets," and "Enter Sandman." You can get them that Marshall stack when the kids turn five.

All Music Guide

Each release in the Rockabye Baby! series takes the best-known songs of a particular artist and places them in a lullaby processor that involves chimes, bells, and vibraphones -- renditions that are slightly more involved than the music that comes out of the average baby mobile. Whether the original versions are heavy and aggressive or light and subdued, these lullaby versions are uniformly appropriate for their purpose. And, in some cases, they even happen to tease out an unlikely amount of melodicism not apparent in the originals. The Metallica volume features versions of "One," "Enter Sandman," "The Unforgiven," "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)," "(Anethesia) Pulling Teeth" (as opposed to "cutting teeth"), and even "Master of Puppets." Andy Kellman