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A couple of weeks ago my kid and I were talking about music he was listening to on the radio and online, and we listened to a few takes together online and they sounded pretty good so we went to buy some CDs.

I have been needing some new music to listen to at work. Most times I am not at one place all the time, but for the past few weeks am on a huge deadline and at my computer all the time just cranking out reports and graphics....and the radio music at work in the area where I am consists of Air Supply and the like. Other stations are not an option. I'm not sure exactly why, but it revolves around a part time person that is either the nicest person in the world or the devil incarnate with pics of the boss with a goat...either way, the radio station isn't going to change.

So, when trying to be creative and meet a deadline and hooked to my computer to do that, I have the option of listening to Air Supply and digging my eyeballs out with a Taco Bell spork....or putting on the headphones and getting into my own world.

So lately, I'm listening to the music that I bought for my kid and borrow from him when he is nice enough to loan, and it's good. Very good. We got the newest Bowling for Soup "A Hangover you Don't Deserve", and I just crack up at the lyrics and like the tinge of early rock harmony. Green Day's newest "American Idiot" is another favorite (I came home from work tonight about 9 and my hubbie was listening to that), along with an older Green Day CD that I can't remember the title of. And we got the latest U2, which I think is really amusing that my kid loves it so much, since he was about 5 years before coming into existence the first time I decided I liked U2.

Fun stuff to find new music through the kid and also good that he shares so well with others. We taught him that :)

Buy your poor kid some Slayer already. If he's still listening to that Green Day shite when he gets to middle school, they'll beat him up.

Rack you for taking an interest in the music that your kids are consuming.

My kids have a tendency to pick up on the music that I like and listen to, not the other way around. Of course, our tastes are similar. I was trippin hard when my 9 yr old handed me a mix CD he burned (or had his friend burn for him, actually). He's got everything on there from System of a Down to U2 to The Beastie Boys to Green Day to The Killers to Mozart. He chose every song on there, which is pretty amazing to me. Even had some Hendrix as well. I think they both have their own likes and dislikes with today's music, but they get a bit of exposure to some of yesterday's finest hits through me.

Kinda cool actually.

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:Buy your poor kid some Slayer already. If he's still listening to that Green Day shite when he gets to middle school, they'll beat him up.

Her kid knows Kung Fu. He'll be fine.

my boy is only two and a lhalf , but hes down with outkast and bob seger and superchunk. and wiggles too, btw.

bbqjones wrote:my boy is only two and a lhalf , but hes down with outkast and bob seger and superchunk. and wiggles too, btw.

Junior 'Freak is around that age, she likes to "Do The Monkey". (oo-oo-aa-aa!) :D

I recently borrowed one of my kids CD's. Damien Rice. Check it out!

Ang wrote:Bowling for Soup
Green Day

I really hope your kid isn't older than 13.

bbqjones wrote:my boy is only two and a lhalf , but hes down with outkast and bob seger and superchunk. and wiggles too, btw.

rack little q telling his babysitter "I'm playing with my truck, but I'm not playing with my truck for you
SLACK MOTHERFUCKER!"

William,

Not sure why you said you hope my kid isn't older than 13...he will be 13 in a couple of months. I was a bit concerned about some of the lyrics, but he is such a straight arrow that the profanity in the lyrics really don't phase him at all, just likes the songs anyway. He is musically inclined and plays the sax and piano, so he just gets into the way the music and lyrics are all put together.

and Mike...the kids in middle school are listening to this, so I think he's pretty safe for now. He is a pretty mild mannered kid in a kind of tough school and already got people to back off on him earlier in the year by punching a kid who said he was gay for being a good student.

I want Roofer's kid's listening list to download!

Very fun stuff to share music with the kids as several of you have mentioned (and will check out the suggestions), glad our kid shares it with us and hopes he keeps that up as he grows into older stuff.

Ang wrote:Not sure why you said you hope my kid isn't older than 13...he will be 13 in a couple of months. I was a bit concerned about some of the lyrics, but he is such a straight arrow that the profanity in the lyrics really don't phase him at all, just likes the songs anyway. He is musically inclined and plays the sax and piano, so he just gets into the way the music and lyrics are all put together.

Ang,

I'm pretty sure that he is recomending that your kid get some heavier music in the collection. Like the kind of shit that will have you wondering why they took God out of the schools.

:wink:

rack superchunk, dammit.

rack the parents.

when i was kid we used to listen to sly and family stone, otis, and ray charles opening gifts on christmas.

james brown.

that's what i grew up on. i damn near thankful for it every day. i knew about Stand! and everyday people , fafafafa.....when i was 4.

white boy and all.

When I was a kid, I'd spin the Beatles discs, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, and Paul Butterfield.

March on along...do it as time goes by

B,

I know that the heavier music will come as our kid grows up. I just hope he continues to have fun playing music and listening to music, because I think that the joy of music is an essential slice of life.

As to your comment about music and God in the schools, I'm not a person who will be around promoting God in the public schools, because I think religious instruction should come from the home...but I AM a person who thinks that if a kid continually disrupts class, the teacher should have the power to get the kid out of the class to be able to continue teaching the kids in the class that are trying to learn. But that discussion is for another thread in a forum more relevant to that particular subject.

For now, our kid is loving music that he plays and listens to, and continues to just explore things...he picks out songs on the piano that he knows on the sax and just expounds, plays with the sounds, gets his own musical thing going. Very fun stuff to hear because it's his own thing, and that's how it should be.

For some reason, Ang, I just can't imagine you listening to Bowling for Soup and Green Day! :)

He will/should go through a hard rock phase and probably start listening to bands like Audioslave, Puddle of Mudd, System of a Down and Trapt. But props for letting him pick out his own music tastes. Wish I could say the same when I was just entering my teen years.

Hope and pray that he doesn't get hooked on new Metallica. Anything after "The Black Album" shouldn't even be counted as music by Metallica. Or music for that matter.

Ang wrote:B,

I know that the heavier music will come as our kid grows up. I just hope he continues to have fun playing music and listening to music, because I think that the joy of music is an essential slice of life.

As to your comment about music and God in the schools, I'm not a person who will be around promoting God in the public schools, because I think religious instruction should come from the home...but I AM a person who thinks that if a kid continually disrupts class, the teacher should have the power to get the kid out of the class to be able to continue teaching the kids in the class that are trying to learn. But that discussion is for another thread in a forum more relevant to that particular subject.

Geez Ang, I was just kidding. ;)

For now, our kid is loving music that he plays and listens to, and continues to just explore things...he picks out songs on the piano that he knows on the sax and just expounds, plays with the sounds, gets his own musical thing going. Very fun stuff to hear because it's his own thing, and that's how it should be.

I can't help but think of my in-laws. Both in-laws are former music teachers heavily versed in classical music and in their early 60s. These are the kinds of people who watch the NY Philharmonic on PBS and point out members of the orchestra that they have played with. On the other hand, my brother in law has been playing in thrash bands since he was 15 and is now 23. It used to crack me up when he would have band practice over at his parents house in the basement. But they dealt with it. Though my father in law never tires of telling his son to "get a melody for once". Now my brother in law makes some decent side money recording and producing other bands in his home studio. Money that he likely would have never been making if his parents had been all hard line with him. Sounds like you're willing to travel the same path of allowing your son to simply express himself.

B,

Forgive the rant...it has been an issue in our house about how much the classrooms are out of control in the school, so I went with it.

But you are right, we always encourage and support music in our house, in any form it happens. :)