Best Pandora Stations for Nurseries?

It's a favorite online music source for adults, but how about Pandora in your child's nursery? Some of our favorite Pandora "stations" have come from friend recommendations, so if you've created the Best Playlist Ever for your nursery on Pandora, please share!

For those new to Pandora, the gist is this:
"Tell Pandora a favorite artist, genre or song, and it will start playing a whole string of music chosen based on that favorite. Pandora gives you the name of the every song it plays, along with the artist and album information. You can save your selections too, so you can listen to these 'radio stations' based on your favorites whenever you use Pandora without reloading the info."

And, the site is free to use.

Visit Pandora.com.

Comments (8)

I prefer Jango to Pandora. I'm actually addicted to it!

posted by TheJackson4 on August 5th 2009 at 10:52am
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The last time I used Pandora, you weren't able to stream it from i tunes or any other media players - making it problematic to play it through your stereo system. Has this changed? Otherwise, you'd need to leave a laptop in the nursery.

posted by farleece on August 5th 2009 at 12:01pm
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we just leave an ipod in the nursery instead of a laptop. not sure on the functionality of other systems.

we go with a lot of jack johnson here. even his "louder" songs are mellow enough to work for us.

posted by makakona on August 5th 2009 at 12:46pm
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We put on Elizabeth Mitchell.

posted by vibi on August 5th 2009 at 1:33pm
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I had never heard of Pandora... what a great little free app. I've already started my little nursery playlist (I'll be leaving my laptop in there, anyway.) I really like Dave Matthews Band and Norah Jones, but I would love any other suggestions for 'baby friendly' music. I'm debating whether Steve Miller Band and Led Zeppelin would be too heavy.

Thanks for introducing me to this; should save us lots of time downloading...

posted by jisforgiraffe on August 5th 2009 at 2:59pm
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Here are a few of my favorites from playlists I've created for my son:

Sufjan Stevens (early stuff)
Iron and Wine - (Naked as We Came is a good one)
David Gray (anything from White Ladder)
Alison Krauss
James Taylor (early 70's stuff)
Sigor Ros
Feist
Joanna Newsom - Sprout and the Bean
Norah Jones
Cocteau Twins
Madeleine Peyroux
Zero 7

posted by farleece on August 5th 2009 at 4:06pm
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Ziggy Marley's most recent cd "Family Time" !!!!!

Features songs with artists: Jack Johnson, Paul Simon, Elizabeth Mitchell, Laurie Berkner, and Willie Nelson

Plus, if you download it from itunes, you also get the free music video of the "Family Time" song.

We set Pandora to "Reggae" or just "Bob Marley" and also "Mariachi" for our boys (7 and 3 1/2)

posted by lollipop on August 5th 2009 at 4:38pm
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HEM

Do yourself a huge favor if you've never listened to this enchanting band. Rabbit Songs is a great cd that you will listen to in the nursery, at dinner, late at night, on Sunday afternoons...an absolute must!

...and on Pandora it will link you to other beautiful nursery appropriate artists.

posted by jennyallen on August 6th 2009 at 9:09am
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