Shared Music

[Ginnie]

Throwing it out.
This is for members who have children.

When I was growing up in the 70's there was a wide gap between what I listened to and what adults listened to.
So, the question is this...
What Band/Performer/Song do you and any of your children like almost equally or dislike almost equally.

Please tell me to stop if you feel I am starting too many sophisticated threads..I'm just thinking all the time.

[lionking]

allow me to answer about me and my father. I certainly like many of the songs he like and that are old [you will not know them bcz they r arabic], however, he doesn't seem to like the new songs that I like. he likes very few of them. so I understand what you mean

[BertL]

Me and my father are both big fans of The Beatles.

... That's about the only thing we have a mutual interest in, I think. Maybe he also likes fanfare music like me (I play trombone in a fanfare), but he never told me.

[gillianren]

I don't know what my daughter listens to. Presumably, it's influenced by her adoptive parents. I can tell you what my mom and I both like, though.

[echnaton]

The difference in musical taste between generations is interesting. My parents grew up listening to big band and jazz. As a kid, that music was completely alien to me. The sounds of the instruments were unfamiliar to young ears raised on late 60’s pop music. I remember my father playing some of his records and telling me how much one of his favorite songs sounded like some song I new from the radio. To me, there was no similarity.

My kids listen to a lot of contemporary country music they here on the radio. It’s their mother’s influence and I don’t have enough pull to over come it. So they listen to a lot of the same music as my wife. They also here songs in movies or from CD’s we play in the car and pick up on some older rock music. One of the funniest moments was when Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” came on the radio, and my older daughter piped up that she new the opening guitar riff. It seems one of her classmates, who was learning the guitar had played it. She got hooked on the song. Really cool. Its one of those things, that if I make a big deal out of a song the kids won’t like it. They need to discover it for themselves. My younger daughter really liked a remake of a David Bowie song in a movie. When I played the Bowie original she liked it even more. Now I hear her singing along to several Bowie songs playing on her MP3 player.

When we make long drives we swap out CDs so I make sure they hear some good rock music along with the bland country pop they seem to like. I don’t push the songs on them; rather I try to share my enjoyment of the music and talk about what makes certain songs special. I hope this gives them some guidance to seek out better music than they hear on the radio and they do occasionally ask me to play some particular songs.

I mostly listen to modern music that falls under the label of “Minimalist.” I am listening to Terry Riley as I right this. Some of it is a bit much for kids to make sense of, but I make sure they hear it around the house. Another thing I do is take each of them to at least one opera each year. We will probably add the ballet to the calendar this year, as dance is more to their taste. Mostly I am to broaden tastes for music and all arts to help them to see that in all aspects of life there is more to good art than what is pushed by commercial vendors. Real enjoyment of any kind of art takes the effort on the consumer’s part to seek out and discover the artists that you really connect with. I am always encouraging them to connect with art.

[Fnord Fred]

I follow my dad's musical tastes pretty closely, come to think of it. A lot of Hendrix, Stones, AC/DC, Sabbath, etc. I also like Jazz (my Grandfather on my mom's side is allegedly a pretty good Jazz player) and Metal (I guess that's just what I grew up with).

[wingerii]

My mother likes a lot of folk-ier music I listen to, like Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Archer Prewitt, and Jose Gonzalez. I bought her Sufjan Stevens' "Songs for Christmas" as a Christmas gift and she loved it.

My dad likes some of my favourite classically-influenced artists, like Rachel's or Max Richter, as well as some of my jazz, like Povo, Five Corners Quintet, and the Brad Mehldau Trio.

[BertL]

I find that a lot of music my father listens to is actually quite good music. It's just a shame he likes to wear headphones and listen to music at a deafening volume. (Our PCs are downstairs - I once heard his music upstairs while he was wearing his headphones!) It's also a shame he likes to "sing" along. It ruins the music. It seriously does.

EDIT: To anyone who has kids: never, and I mean never sing in the presence of your children. It freaks them out.

[furi]

I have completely opposite tastes to my Mum,

I Like Classical, Choral, Punk, Ska, New wave, Death core and prog (Favorites being Siouxsie and the Banshees,Half Man Half Biscuit, Kinks and Tull)

My Mum likes Rap, House, Dance, and all the other modern chart crud.

[rumormill]

bertls said:

Me and my father are both big fans of The Beatles.

... That's about the only thing we have a mutual interest in, I think. Maybe he also likes fanfare music like me (I play trombone in a fanfare), but he never told me.

Then my mate you may be interested in this

It contains very strong and i do mean filthy language but it might give you a chuckle. Do not show it to kids etc.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkl43vcQzXw

There are more and thats not the best but i cant find them.

[Ginnie]

The band that me and my son like equally is probably Radiohead.
I like Marilyn Manson, but he loves it.
There is a lot of music that we both dislike, so I won't get into that.
I grew up in the late 60's and 70's so that's where I'm at: The Beatles, Neil Young, Roxy Music, Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop, The New York Dolls, Genesis (with Peter Gabriel), Bowie, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper............

[wingerii]

Pre- or post-OK Computer Radiohead?

Radiohead will always hold a special place in my heart because they were the first band that inspired me to go out and look beyond the mainstream for interesting music (I actually googled for "bands like Radiohead" five or six years ago, and every snowballed from there ). Kid A and OK Computer will always be two of my favourite albums.

Hmm, I think I'll start an album thread like the Top 10 Movies thread when I get a chance.

[Ginnie]

I have to say that I like Pablo Honey, the Bends and OK Computer better than Kid A and afterward.