If you could make your kid listen to 1 album, what would it be?

Str8outtaWuhan

My eldest (10yrs old) is not really interested in music and before they get exposed to Kpop,hip/hop/,sugar -pop etc I want to stage a preemptive intervention and get them listening to good music.

So here is my list which I will sit nd listen with her over the next 2 weeks :

Bitches Brew- Miles Davis
The Queen Is Dead -The smiths
Ten - Pearl Jam
London Calling - The clash
At Folsom Prison - J Cash



What album will you /have you sat down to listen with your kid?

StevenToast

Hes 10...let him listen to baby shark and the like...

dan1895

It's amazing how kids absorb music. On the school run a couple of weeks ago I had the Manics album Futurology playing. Later that they my 6 year old was singing Europa Geht Durch Mich.

https://youtu.be/VJNcs5gKZwg

Str8outtaWuhan

StevenToast wrote: »

Hes 10...let him listen to baby shark and the like...

I would be worried about any 10 year old still listening to Baby Shark!

EmmetSpiceland

Kidz Bop Gold.

Gregor Samsa

I had all my kids listening to Laibach, Einstürzende Neubauten, Godflesh, Front 242, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, etc. etc. from a young age.

Complete waste of time.

My dad played nothing but Richard Clayderman and James Galway when I was growing up. As you can see from the above list, it didn't make that much of an impression on me.

Let them discover their own music. My 12 year old is big into Billie Eilish. One of the seven year old twins sings along in phonetic Korean to Blackpink. The other twin had a completely unhealthy obsession with Michael Jackson - so much so that she asked me recently if we could hire a "scientist" to bring him back from the dead, so that she could get his autograph. I said it would probably be cheaper to look on eBay, but she was adamant she wanted one personally written for her from his reanimated corpse.

SnazzyPig

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

JackTC

Kid/Teens will always listen to music that their parents don't like.

There's a reason why Eminem was so huge, and it isn't his talent.

PsychoPete

Metallica - Master of Puppets

Rothko

Philosophy Of The World

Beechwoodspark

My two LOVE astral weeks by van the man - I was listening to it one morning and they latched onto it

Beechwoodspark

SnazzyPig wrote: »

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

The younger one loves supernaut by sabbath. Fantastic high energy rock

rtron

Subjected my kids to PJ Ten all the time in the car.

Sinead Mc1

Bob Dylan - Blood on the tracks

buried

Autechre - Exai / NTS Sessions.

Both times they fell asleep, the ungrateful brats!

Quantum Erasure

Club mix 97 volume 3

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Clubmix-97-Volume-3/release/746632

JupiterKid

Led Zeppelin III.

That or Debut by Bjork.

McGinniesta

Thirty Six Strings by the Redneck Manifesto.

Pure Whopper.

kenmc

My 2 kids, 8 and 6 quite like Lankum, and one or two from Grandaddy. But that's about as close as our musical tastes converge. They're into all sorts of ****e. As soon as I enter the kitchen they know I'm going to regain control of the google home and they start pleading......

barney shamrock

Dark side of the moon should open a musical portal for them.
Hopefully they would step through.

Kids don't want to listen to boring Dad Rock like Pearl Jam and Pink Floyd.

EmmetSpiceland

barney shamrock wrote: »

Dark side of the moon should open a musical portal for them.
Hopefully they would step through.

Sounds very dated now, no? All those “tape effects” and primitive loops didn’t age well. Same with a lot of The Who’s output. Sounds like old 8bit computer game music, at times.

17larsson

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

My two LOVE astral weeks by van the man - I was listening to it one morning and they latched onto it

Now that is a proper answer. Congratulations you have raised perfect kids

Alf Veedersane

Huey Lewis and The News - Sports

Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour.

JackTC

(What's the story?) Morning Glory

Tom Mann Centuria

Bleed American - Jimmy Eat World.

Eggs For Dinner

Rumours

rock chic

my 3 are grown up now 2 of them developed my love of rock music so much so i had to hide my fave cds im still looking for 2 Nirvana ones

Potential-Monke

I'd imagine if I had kids *shudders*, they would be raised to believe that they should listen to whatever music they like. But I did have the nieces and nephews singing "F*cked with an anchor" by Alestorm at one Xmas party. Grandparents were not impressed.

I'd at the very least tell them it's entertainment and to not take it so seriously, especially the lyrics, and try and avoid any love songs or other such, what I like to coin as "Moany bitch music" (all genders included), you know the ones where someone (usually a solo artist with a guitar) is singing some song about how much he loves/misses some bird. Hate that shyte.

Edit: Rumahoy - Time II Party. Just a joy from start to finish!

I was in my Daughters car the other day.....BOB SEGER & SILVER BULLET BAND ( greatest hits) on the Memory sticky thingy..... gotta admit I was chuffed..... that was one of my 'go to' cds when she was little

buried

I've been thinking about this lately and it seems to me that there is literally no rebellious music for older kids or teenagers to get involved with or delve into at all these days. I mean, like real counter culture music and the scenes involved within that music that the authorities literally wanted banned as a social menace like they did in the 90's and every other decade beforehand. There is literally nothing like that now and I feel sorry for the current crop of young people that have no inkling of this kind of mindset. Not even in the covid restrictions did this happen to the current generation of youth, no rebellion, no saying 'f**k you' to the system. What happened like

The One Doctor

Rammstein? SOAD?

Seriously though, don't force your child to sit though your music, that's just dictatorial and... sad. Let them develop their owns taste for stuff.

NewbridgeIR

Str8outtaWuhan wrote: »

My eldest (10yrs old) is not really interested in music and before they get exposed to Kpop,hip/hop/,sugar -pop etc I want to stage a preemptive intervention and get them listening to good music.

So here is my list which I will sit nd listen with her over the next 2 weeks :

Bitches Brew- Miles Davis
The Queen Is Dead -The smiths
Ten - Pearl Jam
London Calling - The clash
At Folsom Prison - J Cash

What album will you /have you sat down to listen with your kid?

I started off by listening to pop music in 1980 and it didn't do me any harm. The guy sitting beside me in school taped K-Tel's Star Traks before we broke up for the summer holidays. I relied on the radio and taping off it for a while - it took me over a year to buy my first record - Human League's The Sound Of The Crowd 12" and it wasn't until the summer of 1982 when I got my first LP, ABC's Lexicon Of Love.

I bought Bitches Brew when I was in college; not sure how I would have reacted to it age 10. Seeing The Smiths live at the age of 14 did send me off on a new path though. Not sure if I agree with London Calling though, IMHO Give 'Em Enough Rope is the ultimate punk album.

The Raging Bile Duct

Str8outtaWuhan wrote: »

What album will you /have you sat down to listen with your kid?

Sitting your kids down to force them to listen to albums while you bore them by explaining why it's such a seminal work sounds like a terrible idea. You're trying to create a human being that has their own tastes, thoughts and ideas not a mini me that regurgitates what you think. Let them listen to what they want to and let them develop their own interests. There's probably going to be a lot they listen that you think is scutter. That's kind of the natural order of things. Other times they'll groove along to whatever you listen to but that's never going to happen if you make it like homework.

Surreptitious

Just the single WAP. Saves them trying to get a sex education in school.

trashcan

You really can’t force these things. You’ll probably be horrified at what he’s listening to by the time he’s sixteen.

Merlin44

Stone Roses The Stone Roses

0ph0rce0

Anything by the late GG Allin.

What a showman.

Feisar

The Battle of Los Angeles

ForestFire

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97
(and my kids)

Wear sunscreen

BeerWolf

Church on Tuesday

Deleted User wrote: »

Kids don't want to listen to boring Dad Rock like Pearl Jam and Pink Floyd.

If they have taste they will.

Dante

I still remember when my aul man played me Stairway to Heaven for the first time back when I was a wee one. He made sure to turn the car sterio up full blast for the solo at the end. It has remained my favourite song ever since!

The Raging Bile Duct

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

If they have taste they will.

Minor Threat or the Dead Kennedys would have got me way more excited than Pearl Jam or Pink Floyd ever would have as a 14 year old. I appreciated them more as I got older - can't say if be a big fan of either still. People get in to different things at different times. There's such much out there to listen to and be inspired by.

buried

Minor Threat are a brilliant band for a young person to listen to. Pure high octane f**K right the f**k off energy

passatman86

When i was 10 nearly every weekend you could be sure that simple minds, inxs, duran duran and the likes would be played turned up to the last. Those tunes kinda stayed with me and although i wasn't mad about them then i can appreciate them now

Surreptitious

Rage Against The Machine when they turn 13 so they can hate 'The Man'.

Surreptitious

I grew up listening to my older siblings 80s tunes and my Dad would have Brendan Shine and the like on. I now have a well versed knowledge of various genres due to going to gigs from a young age. Rave, Rock, Grunge, Country, Metal. I deny nothing and accept everything.

Bobblehats

I don’t know, maybe some Genesis.

Hammond......

Doctor Roast

Discharge - hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing.... Should prepare them for the onslaught ahead of them

DwightSchrute1

I’m a big Beatles fan... tough one... I’d probably have to say “The Best of the Beatles”.