Do you listen to "age appropriate" music? - Page 5

[2xy]

We listen to everything. Metal, modern rock, electronic music, disco, some rap, oldies, big-band, bluegrass, alternative, Weird Al and Flight of the Conchords. I can appreciate classical music and opera, but I don't really enjoy them unless it's a concert. I do not like contemporary country, and don't care for jazz.

When you guys mention "kids CDs, " are you talking about stuff like Kidz Bop? I agree that I would never buy that stuff. But I did buy music for children when they were little....compilations of songs like Old MacDonald, Oat-Peas-Beans-and-Barley-Grow, Mrs. Murphy's Chowder, the Erie Canal Song, etc. I still love nursery music.

[scrapadoozer]

Current Top 40 music kinda makes my ears bleed. DD gets a chance to listen to it when she is in my friend's cars though. She likes a little of it, but prefers what we listen to at home. My taste runs towards post punk and some indie music. "The Engine Driver" by The Decemberists, Joe Jackson's "Is She Really Going Out With Him" & "Your Hands (Together)" by The New Pornographers are some of her favorites at the moment.

[Alyantavid]

Originally Posted by velochic

My 8 dd year old came home from school just yesterday and said, "Mommy, the girls were saying at recess that A(a friend) has 'Beaver Fever'. Is that a disease you get from beavers?" I had to turn around so she didn't see my reaction. It was too, too hilarious!

Originally Posted by MadiMamacita

haha! i feel her pain! I had no idea until he was on SNL with Tina Fey. The only time I heard one of his songs I thought "Who is this chick singing? she has a pretty voice"

Dh and I were in the car one day and he ended up on some top 40ish channel. It took me forever to figure out that it was Justin Bieber and not some little girl singing.

[MichaelsSahm]

Originally Posted by MadiMamacita

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[BugMacGee]

I haven't read all the replies but my girls have always listened to whatever I do. Mostly pop/ Alternative stuff.

I have edited a bit because my oldest Dd used the word "bitch" after hearing in in a Katy Perry song.

Lately we've beenlistening to a lot of movie scores and classical. No naughty words to be found there!

[raksmama]

SuburbanHippie:< I was anti-music for the last year and only listened to AM talk radio because I hate Lady Gaga that much. This is why. There's lots of Lady Gaga videos/songs on that website. I encourage people to read up on the subject.>

Originally Posted by limabean

That video is Madonna's "Like a Prayer" all over again. That website you linked takes it way too seriously.

I disagree. I think the Madonna video was more of a stand against racism and the double standards to church takes about it.

I have mixed feelings about Lady Gaga. I find her music very catchy and can't get her tunes out of my head, but her videos give me the creeps.
I hated both the Alejandro and Telephone videos but liked the songs.

I don't have to worry about my son (12) because he hates Lady Gaga. He does like a lot of Rap music where the words are very vulgar, but when they get to middle school you can no longer control what they listen to, so I would never even try to.

[journeymom]

Originally Posted by CrazyCatLady

, and think the Beetles are boring.

[ grumble grumble kids these days ] It's Beatles. Beatles.

[journeymom]

Originally Posted by CatsCradle

Interesting question. I'm elderly (47) and I listen to a wide variety of music, including pop, alternative, classical, world, etc. I even watch "That Metal Show" with my DH on Saturday nights (although neither of us are metal heads!) My first date with DH was at a Greatful Dead show in D.C., and I'm a huge fan of The Cure (saw them on their first American tour). I dig Laurie Anderson and I love Kings of Leon and Flaming Lips. I admit, DD and I dance to Gaga in our pajamas. I guess if I hear something that I like, I'll listen and enjoy. I grew up playing classical piano. I loved music from a very early age and I still love music. Music, for me, incompasses many things. Music of my youth has a sentimenal element for me, but I don't feel stuck in my youth.

One of my observations, however, are that many people of my parents' generation (they are in their 70s now) generally gravitate to oldie goldie music. My dad came of age in the era of Nat King Cole. There was a huge cultural divide between my parents' generation and the subsequent kids of the late 50s and early 60s. It seems like human culture was sliced in two right at that point. My mom and dad cannot relate to anything post 50s...unless it is of the Karen Carpenter type music (which tends to be fairly tame and pleasant). For as long as they both shall live, they'll never understand rock and roll (as we know it now) and they have only negative feelings about rap. For me, current pop music or even alternative music is just a progression of what I've always enjoyed or known. There is no cultural jump for me to listen to present music or to appreciate it. If that makes sense.

Yes to all of this. My dad is 87 and my mom would be 80.

[TulsiLeaf]

Originally Posted by Alyantavid

Ugh. Me either.

I had to laugh the other day at a bday party. All the girls were talking about Justin Bieber and my 8 year old looks at me and says "What's Justin Bieber?"

My 5 year old calls his Justin Beaver. She heard him at her cousins bday party, before that she didn't know who he was(we don't allow her to listen to that crap)

[Thalia the Muse]

I listen to anything, and it's totally unpredictable what DD will like. I have a lot of Bollywood, alt rock old and new, '60s rock, vocal jazz, classical, and some random stuff like '30s orchestras because I have a friend who loves that stuff and she got me interested.

DD HATES Neko Case, loves the Stones and the Beatles, is meh about most Bollywood (but likes the movies, go figure), and is surprisingly fond of the '30s stuff. And she adores They Might Be Giants because, come on, who doesn't love They Might Be Giants. She also likes old pop, we learned when she played "Just Dance" -- she has an MP3 player with some Blondie, Spice Girls, B-52s, ABBA, Bangles, and "Surfin' Bird."

[butterfly1976]

I listen to anything and everything. The age thing isn't an issue with me. I can listen to Pasty Cline, Michael Jackson, Marilyn Manson, Shania Twain, Mozart, 50 Cent and everything else in between. If I like it, I like it. (smiles)

I've exposed my kids to different types of music as well. Some they like, and some they just roll their eyes on. LOL

[Catubodua]

i listen to whatever i want to, although mostly my son is exposed to the many podcasts i enjoy rather than music.

however, a friend gave me a lullaby cd that has songs from many cultures and i LOVE it! the first song on it is from Benin and the woman has an amazing voice. so, even though she's singing "sleep baby, peaceful sleep" it's still just a plain ole' good song.

[Theoretica]

Originally Posted by MadiMamacita

I'm 27.
I will listen to top 40, but I am still mourning the loss of early 90s music. I won't listen to country on the radio
I also like music from the 60s and 70s. not so much the 80s.
I feel like real music died in the 90s. possibly with Kurt Cobain.
I consider rap and top 40 "guilty pleasure" music in that i listen to it for entertainment sake, but I don't respect it as music putting on my flameproof suit for all you crazy gaga fans..

I think I love you!!!!

[MadiMamacita]

[beanma]

I hate most Top 40 and think it's mostly auto-tuned dreck! So, no, I don't listen to that and would rather not be subjected to it. Actually, I don't listen to commercial radio at all (only NPR and college stations and the occasional internet radio station). I do listen to current music, though, as well as older music. DH is a huge music fan and we have a huge MP3 collection (I really have no idea how many individual songs, 50,000? 500,000?) along with many CDs, LPs, singles, cassettes, and maybe even a few mini-discs still floating around. Don't think we had any 8-tracks, though. Did inherit a reel-to-reel, though!

We have some really, really good kids/family music. There is some really good stuff out there. It's not all syrupy schmaltz. One of my new kids' music faves is Lunch Money. I would much, much rather listen to that than Lady Gaga or Justin Beiber. Save me!

I agree with CatsCradle (great name for this thread, btw, also the name of an internationally known live music venue, ala CBGB or the 9:30 Club, in my neck of the woods) that the real "parents listen to oldies" split came with the advent rock-n-roll in the 50s or the psychedeilic movement/british invasion of the 60s. I think I would put the divide more in the 60s.

My mom is in her 80s and really doesn't listen to music at all, but occasionally she will enjoy some classical music, possibly some innocuous "new age" piano or classical guitar like George Winston's Chritsmas album, or church music. She doesn't even listen to big band music which would be the music of her era. She might appreciate it in a movie or something, though.

My MIL is in her early 70s and is much more likely to listen to something with an electric guitar.

If there was any good Top 40 music I would listen to it!! Actually, I will listen to Arcade Fire and their latest album was no 1 on the Billboard charts. Not sure any singles made the Billboard Top 100, though.

Hey, looking through the Top 100 I did find one song I like, but , no, I won't let my kids listen to "F**K You" by Cee-Lo Green. Good song, though!

[kkfum]

Originally Posted by Catubodua

however, a friend gave me a lullaby cd that has songs from many cultures and i LOVE it!

Sounds wonderful...I've been looking for some different lullaby music for DD's bedtime...what CD is it?

[Catubodua]

Originally Posted by kkfum

Sounds wonderful...I've been looking for some different lullaby music for DD's bedtime...what CD is it?

it's called "Dreamland: World Lullabies & Soothing Songs"

it's older, from 2003, but I know it's available on Amazon.