Pitchfork

It's only two months until December... just in time for the Rockabye Baby series to wrap up a nifty little package full of meta with their Lullabye Renditions of Christmas Rock Classics CD. Featuring soothing, toddler-friendly takes on such otherwise-punishing holiday classics as Death Cab's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" and Sufjan's "Hey Guys! It's Christmas Time!" (from that big box o' Suffy Xmas jams) and tracks by the Killers, the Smashing Pumpkins, the Ramones, and more, the disc collects 13 tracks sure to beam visions of sugarplum fairies directly down to your tiny tot come Tannenbaum time.

(And here I thought every Sufjan song was the lullaby rendition of itself!)

The disc is out now on Baby Rock Records, the folks who brought you Lullaby Renditions of Radiohead, Björk, Pixies, Queens of the Stone Age, et al. Prediction: A race of superadvanced, supercool humanoids to take over the planet in about 15 years.

Lullaby (not performed by original artists):

01 Sufjan Stevens: "Hey Guys! It's Christmas Time"
02 The Pretenders: "2000 Miles
03 Death Cab for Cutie: "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"
04 The Ramones: "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)"
05 Band Aid: "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
06 John Lennon: "Happy Xmas (The War is Over)"
07 Smashing Pumpkins: "Christmastime"
08 No Doubt: "Oi to the World"
09 The Waitresses: "Christmas Wrapping"
10 The Killers: "Great Big Sled"
11 The Kinks: "Father Christmas"
12 blink-182: "I Won't Be Home for Christmas"
13 Pearl Jam: "Some Day at Christmas"