Gifts For Cool Babies and Their Parents: Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Sixties Melody!

I've found a few fab rock 'n' roll gifts for the baby whose parents who are 180° from the pink and blue, butterflies and bunnies, "oh, how adorable" kind of parents. Without doubt, these are fun to give and even more fun to get!

We'll start with Rockabye Baby music. Don't let the word rockabye fool you. These are definitely not your grandma's lullabies, but they are lullabies using music by Jimi Hendrix, Blondie, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Queen, AC/DC, Green Day, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Cure, Johnny Cash, Motley Crue, The Beatles, Grateful Dead, Eagles, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Metallica, U2, Nine Inch Nails and more! The most popular tunes from these legendary rock bands are played in traditional lullaby fashion-more like a music box-so they lull baby to sleep sweetly and gently, but Mom and Dad can sing along and groove to their favorites. If you've never heard Led Zeppelin's Dazed and Confused in a lullaby format, you're really missing something!

Next up, radical one-piece! Turn on the new arrival to tribute togs - one-piece and t-shirts that broadcast the names of bands and artists whose music will live forever. You can find one-piece with many of the same rockers who have allowed their music to be "lullabized," and more, including Bob Marley, Guns n' Roses, Wu Tang Clan, Aerosmith and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. For many parents who cherish the soundtrack of their lives, these delightfully decadent duds are better suited for their baby than coordinated outfits featuring happy bears with bows on their heads and fluffy ducks in diapers.

Rub-a-dub-dub! Rock out in the tub! How? With musical, squirty tub toys! Fun, floating instruments include a guitar, drums, a keyboard and a sax. Since it may be a while before a newborn enjoys the kind of tub time that lends itself to squirty toys, you can get those tiny hands used to holding an axe with a guitar-shaped plush toy. There's even a plush guitar in the shape of a flying vee-but baby really has to be extra-cool to handle it.

Take some time to surf the Net for baby gifts that honor the true giants of rock 'n' roll and give baby a stylish edge. You'll find rock-star pacifiers, baby hats, bibs, socks and feeding sets. There are even rock 'n' roll diaper bags for mom, so you can get an AC/DC diaper bag for Mom and an AC/DC one-piece, along with the AC/DC lullaby CD, for baby, who's "gonna rock 'n roll all night, and potty every day!"

Good night, ladies and gentlemen! Thank you for reading this article! Baby has left the building!

Susan Hawkins is a writer for Too Cute Baby Gifts where you can shop for baby boy gifts and many other unique baby gifts.