What music your kids listen?
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My son (9) listens Michael Jackson, Jackson 5 and reggae.
My daughter (7) likes Madonna.
My daughter (7) likes Madonna.
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He really liked Sly and The Family Stone a few months ago, too.
Me to my 13 yr old cousin: So, what bands are you in to these days?
My cousin: Kings of Leon, the Black Keys???
Me: Oh, cool! So tell me more about this Airsoft thing you're in to
First thing she does in the morning is come out to the living room and point at the turntable. She gets kind of mad when a song is over or I forget to flip a record. I think I actually listen to more music around the house since she was born because we don't watch TV when she is awake. We pretty much have something on all the time and when she likes something she lets us know.
Older daughter - Girl Talk & Radiohead
My girls (6 and 4) have proven powerless in the face of pop radio as well. Katy Perry is little girl crack. On the other hand, the 6 year old also loves loud guitar music and I am just beginning to show her the basics of how to hold a guitar and pick notes. There is hope...
My son (almost 9) got really into the soundtrack for the Tony Hawk Pro Skater video games. I've been enjoying exposing him to more punk and hard rock stuff based on his faves. Little kids love the Adicts!
#2 son (2) : Steely Dan singalongs with his old pop and me humming the hook to this:
My brother's girl (16) : (She's gonna be trouble...)
cool. how old is she?
lol 22
well, that makes more sense now
i thought she was an 8 year old or something, but she's actually older than me...
Her sister, now 7 1/2 was very different at that age. She certainly liked car journey's with fairly loud music and one of her favourite "soundtracks" from the ago of 4 or so onwards was Phil Asher's Alt Boogie Mix tape, especially the B-Side:
The track at the top of her "wants list" was Tom Tom Club ??? Wordy Rappinghood.
Unfortunately, I forgot the tape in the car when I sold it in 2010. She was really disappointed. I promised her to find it again, but no chance.
So, I said "I'll record a compilation of your favourite tracks for your Birthday" and over a period of a few months last year she would come to me when music was playing in the car or in the house and would say "Shortlist!" or "Birthday CD!". It was a really fun process narrowing it down. On her Birthday last August, not only her, but all her little party guests ended up with this compilation in their party bags:
Ku Kertien by Chorale Jouga Julien
Mah Na Mah Na by Sesame Street
La Felicita by Franco Godi
Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens by Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Rag Mop by Lionel Hampton
Trouble In My Way by Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens
Ife's Soca Mix (Rockit / Dollar Wine / Follow The Leader) by Merchant / Colin Lucas / Nigell & Marvin
La Zenaida by Armando Hernadez
Tourbillon (Serre-Moi Fort Si Tu M'aimes) by Soha
Em'ma by Tour?? Kunda
Alyo by Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
The Clapping Song by Shirley Ellis
(Oh No Not) The Beast Day by Marsha Hunt's 22
You Can't Hide From Yourself (Dimitri from Paris Super Disco Blend) by Teddy Pendergrass
Wordy Rappinghood by Tom Tom Club
I've made it a policy not to try and influence her music tastes because I guess the inevitable resistance and backlash would be far worse than what I have to put up with now. She does seem genuinely interested in what I'm playing sometimes, and now and again she likes to have a go hitting the pads of the MPC, so I'm expecting her taste to start maturing into something a bit more individual soon enough.
#2: Tinie Tempah, ersatz pop-hop du jour, occasional foray into Zounds, Ramones and The Jam. Donald Byrd's 'Lansanas Priestess' was once a big favourite, now gets the gas face.
#3: Died, bless him
#4: That damn fool Move Like Jagger thing, and especially fond of Whispers 'Its A Love Thing'
#5: A Halloween comp w/ Monster Mash et al, but otherwise music-agnostic
#6: Iggle Piggle's Theme from Teh Night Garden
:WMIC:
#3
Condolences.
Making a mug well up.
My daughter (now 14) listens to some hit radio stations.