Showing off music to your kids.

[jamie140]

Too true. It's pretty cool to hear my 18 year old daughter listening to early 70's motown, soul, pre-disco etc.

[funkstar]

My parents, my mum especially, has had a huge influence on the music I listen to over the years. There was never the volume of music in the house that you guys seem to have, but music was played a lot.

Now though, I think my brother and myself (me to a greater extent simply due to the volume of music i consume) have a larger influence on my parents now. I constantly recomend music to my mum, and I've lost count of the times my parents have been round to mine and asked what I'm playing becuase it is good.

Passing on my love of music is one of the reasons I would really like kids... Just need to find a good woman and influence first

[tyler_durden]

My son doesn't care for my music at all. A friend of his likes country music, so now my son likes country music. I still hold out hope for him though, he's only 10 years old. Eventually his taste should improve...

TD

[Nonreality]

My son doesn't care for my music at all. A friend of his likes country music, so now my son likes country music. I still hold out hope for him though, he's only 10 years old. Eventually his taste should improve...

TD

His taste won't improve without some nudging. But you have to have some good taste to show him the right stuff. Get him on something cool but catchy at first. I used some Springsteen to start. Both my kids seemed to like him. Don't expect them to enjoy the deeper stuff until they get a good taste of some light quality stuff. Appeal to their senses first and the mind later I think.

[bklaas]

As a kid and young teenager, there is absolutely nothing my parents could have played for me that I would have accepted as "good". It's not a reflection of my parents tastes, or mine, but the relationship between someone growing up and their elders. Part of the fun of getting into music is discovering it "on your own", or at least more so than what your parents try to expose you to.

My biggest musical influence as a young lad was kids I met at summer camp in northern Minnesota. I grew up in central Iowa, where if it wasn't on mainstream FM radio, it didn't exist. At camp, I was exposed to Soft Cell's Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, Devo's New Traditionalists, Depeche Mode - Black Celebration, U2 - War, etc. Nothing my parents, or even my local peers, would have ever clued me in on in the early 1980s.

So, have your kids meet cool kids. The rest will follow.

cheers,
#!/ben

[Nonreality]

As a kid and young teenager, there is absolutely nothing my parents could have played for me that I would have accepted as "good". It's not a reflection of my parents tastes, or mine, but the relationship between someone growing up and their elders. Part of the fun of getting into music is discovering it "on your own", or at least more so than what your parents try to expose you to.

My biggest musical influence as a young lad was kids I met at summer camp in northern Minnesota. I grew up in central Iowa, where if it wasn't on mainstream FM radio, it didn't exist. At camp, I was exposed to Soft Cell's Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret, Devo's New Traditionalists, Depeche Mode - Black Celebration, U2 - War, etc. Nothing my parents, or even my local peers, would have ever clued me in on in the early 1980s.

So, have your kids meet cool kids. The rest will follow.

cheers,
#!/ben

I can agree with that but that it you. My son has actually liked what I have exposed him to. I would guess that it is in the way you do it and what you lay on them. I've given him a lot of the classics and he has taken them well, also a lot of the new stuff that we keep discovering together, not at the same time but at the same time period. It's been fun and he has gotten it.

[studley]

Hey All,
Those of you on last.fm, i have a group called 'Parents Who Still Love Music'. This is exactly the type of thread I was hoping would bloom over there.

Next time you are on last.fm, please stop by. http://www.last.fm/group/Parents+Who+Still+Love+Music

Cheers, David

[Teus de Jong]

One of the good things of a digital collection: my son is a huge fan of Muse (I'm not that exited). Hearing Bellamy play Rachmaninov, it was very easy for him to get to the original. Now he's listening to Rachmaninov's piano concerto also!

Teus

[ModelCitizen]

My seven year old sons two top tunes are:

Queen's Don't Stop Me Now
and
Biosphere's Phantasm.

Phantasm is a very wierd slow psycho-synth track. The main component of the track is a repeated sample from the Kray Twins film of a young Kray twin (of a similar age to my son) intoning "We had a dream last night" followed by both of the twins saying "We had the same dream".

The Kray Twins were imprisoned some decades ago for a string of gruesome London gangland of murders.

:-(

It is a very good track though....
....really.

MC

[Nonreality]

My seven year old sons two top tunes are:

Queens Don't Stop Me Now
and
Biospheres Phantasm.

Phantasm is a very wierd slow psycho-synth track. The main component of the track is a repeated sample from the Kray Twins film of a young Kray twin (of a similar age to my son) intoning "We had a dream last night" followed both of the twins saying "We had the same dream".

The Kray Twins were imprisoned some decades ago for a string of gruesome London gangland of murders.

:-(

It is a very good track though.
Really.

MC

hahaha well if your kids like them, what the hell. Maybe wait to tell them the story.