Music - what do your kids listen to?

[SereneHome]

I don't think there is enough music in our home.  I want to change that.  We have done things, but I want to increase the quantity (time) and increase the variety of things.

 

I would love to hear what is playing in your homes and how often/how much time do you have music on.

 

 

[Momofeat]

My kids listen to soundtracks from Doctor Who, Star Wars, the Avengers, etc. 

 

Dd (16) loves songs from musicals.

 

We also listen to contemporary Christian music. The kids like radio stations that play "harder?" groups like Reliant K, while I like stuff that's a little easier to follow. They have to put up with my music while we exercise every morning, but after that they can listen to their own music on their devices. Every now and then I make them listen to country music in the car--especially if they're fighting. ;-)

 

Oh, I just noticed the ages of your kids. I highly recommend "Themes to Remember" (http://www.singnlearn.com/Item/themes1) if you would like to expose them to classical music. My kids loved those CDs. I remember when I was pregnant with my middle dd, I took naps while oldest dd looked at the book and listened to the CD. Sweet memories!

Edited April 15, 2016 by Momofeat

[Eagle]

We listen to Beethoven's Wig, Song School Latin, a ton of Canadian music (both children's music and fiddle tunes) and classical music. We listen to music every day while we eat breakfast and get ready for school, during "recess" breaks, and in the car.

[SereneHome]

Excellent suggestions.  Please please keep them coming!!

 

My kids really like Beethoven's wig.  And they do recognize it when they hear the "real" version on the radio.

[Rachel]

My kids listen to Klove in their rooms. I'm not sure if they like it or if that's just the channel they can get.

 

They listen to the Classics for Kids program on Fridays, they all really love classical music.

 

My daughter's favorite song is Fight Song by Rachel Platten.

 

We can play Pandora on our tv. Sometimes they listen to worship music, sometimes my Adele station, sometimes classical guitar. They have a Disney station and a toddler radio too (I thumbs down the songs I find annoying). I like country but I don't play it for my kids.

[Bluegoat]

We don't actually listen to a lot of recorded music.  I don't really do well with background music while I am doing other things, I actually like to be able to sit and listen.

 

My kids will listen to the radio in their room, they tend to listen to pop music on it.  The choice for radio now that there isn't much classical on the CBC is pop, rock, country (but not the good kind), and easy listening.

 

We do listen to music quite a lot in the car, but only fun music, not serious music.  For serious music we go to concerts and hear it at church, although we do have recordings too.  They hear more folk/traditional stuff at pubs or musical relatives homes'.

 

[LindaOz]

The Piano Guys are extremely popular here...

[ExcitedMama]

http://smile.amazon.com/Classical-Kids-Collection/dp/B00000212C?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage

 

DS didn't like any of the classic music I played as part of MP K Enrichment until I bought him the Classical kids CDs. They have a story between the music which keeps him engaged. He's not the best about going to sleep so since he was little we put on an audio story for him to listen to as he falls asleep. He gets to choose which one and these have stayed in heavy rotation now. He knows great facts about the composers and about the music. Way more than I do! Maybe even DH too and he can actually play music.

 

Throughout the day I am asking our Echo to play music when I'm cooking and cleaning which the kids enjoy but I play what I like which is usually modern country. DH likes a lot more variety and now DS asks it to play him different genres which is fun. He might ask for jazz, grunge or big band music. DD hasn't gotten it to listen to her requests but she keeps trying to ge it to play Let it Go for her because we do have some Disney CDs in the car from a road trip to Disney a couple of years ago.

[Donna]

My kids are very eclectic with their music listening. They play and listen to a lot of Irish traditional music. Dd also listens to classical music she likes or is learning and recently developed a love for gypsy jazz, possibly thanks to learning Ziguenerweisen, and has been listening to Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt recordings. She also listens to pop and rock music and some other styles of fiddle music. My boys listen to anything and everything.

[TrixieB]

When my kids were your kids' ages, they spent hours listening to the "Classical Kids" CDs (Beethoven Lives Upstairs, Vivaldi's Ring of Mystery, etc.).  One kid absolutely LOVED Song of the Unicorn.

 

Car music: some of the Smithsonian Folkways albums, "Not for Kids Only" (Jerry Garcia & David Grisman), Ed McCurdy, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, "More Songs to Grow On" (Alan Mills).

 

ETA: We also had lots of Wee Sing CDs that we listened to in the car.

Edited April 16, 2016 by TrixieB

[purduemeche]

Up to our kids?  Kidz Bop.  Ugh.

 

Up to us?  Find any list of the Top 100 best classical pieces of all time, etc., and we play that as much as possible.  YouTube has some great concert videos of all these pieces.  Any of the Leonard Bernstein recordings for kids are fantastic (Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Peter and the Wolf, etc.).

[Seeking Squirrels]

If it was up to them: Chipmunks Christmas album year round. After my NO MORE CHIPMUNKS:

Classical Kids, Geography Songs, Signing Time, or whatever I have on my phone at the time. Usually it's a mix of John Barrowman, Michael Jackson, Shelley Segal, Doctor Who soundtracks, Red, Tartanic, Wicked Tinkers, and LotR soundtracks. Barrowman, Segal, and Wicked Tinkers have been my favorites lately.

[Tsuga]

If it was up to them: Chipmunks Christmas album year round. After my NO MORE CHIPMUNKS:

 

 

Wait. Are you somehow related to my uncle? I thought he was an only child. He played it until my ever-patient, ever-loving, seen-not-heard grandma asked him to turn it off.

 

Anyway.

 

My kids listen to whatever they want. No hate in this house. In the car it's classical, classic rock, or alternative rock, or folk.

[MrsWeasley]

Well, recordings of Suzuki songs, of course! As soon as we get up, we start playing their Suzuki music. Other music goes on mostly in the car and before bed. My six year old really loves David Garrett, Lindsey Stirling, 2Cellos, and The Piano Guys. My nine year old likes the Nields (kids' albums) and Dan Zanes. My two year old really likes Raffi, the Star Wars soundtrack, and Justin Roberts. I put on quite a bit of Itzak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Moona Luna, Lucky Diez, Renee and Jeremy, Rachel Carson Pine, Dar Williams, They Might Be Giants, the soundtrack for Oh Brother Where Art Thou, and Elizabeth Mitchell.

[nobeatenpath]

Everything and anything - for example last week my son was watching MetOpera HD recordings of the Ring Cycle so there was some of that going on. But he has also been listening to the Beastie Boys, Florence and the Machine, and lots of David Bowie. Our household has an eclectic music collection, which he just takes from as he wants.

 

Then again this is a kid who had a 'thing' for Rime of the Ancient Mariner (as in the Iron Maiden version) for about a year when he was 8, so I don't know how representative he is of things.

[SereneHome]

This is soooo fun to read!

[Mama Geek]

Dd likes instrumental classical, contemporary christian, a little old country, kids music, stuff from VBS

[wintermom]

Classical Kids CDs have been very popular. Suzuki CDs and other RCM recordings of violin songs. Classical guitar CDs I can find. Contemporary Christian music. Geography Songs. Music from the family operas or musicals they are currently involved in (e.g., Pirates of Penzance, The Magic Flute, Aristocats, Spamalot) Music on their computer games - somehow they LOVE the repetitiveness of the simple tunes.  :confused1:  

 

Most of the music is linked to their own playing or singing, or the stuff we do for church.  I tried to get them interested in pop stuff (old and new) and they weren't all that keen. They thought the theme of romance or the lyrics boring. They got tired of Stevie Wonder so fast as he mostly sang about love. They are right, too, and I never picked up on this before.  :laugh:

 

They like their music from band as well. It's typical band stuff; a mix of old popular tunes, some movie theme songs and some Christian pop. I guess they prefer this to the original recordings with lyrics. ;)

Edited April 16, 2016 by wintermom

[MeaganS]

Um, mostly what Dh and I listen to. They like Adele, Josh Groban, and the New Pornographers (who they think are called the new photographers) the most, but they listen to some church music, movie soundtracks, classical, and educational (timeline song, skip counting songs, etc.). They also listen to a lot of rock because of dh, to whom modern music is incredibly important, and enjoy things like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Daft Punk, Fleetwood Mack, the Civil Wars, the Format, etc.

 

So, fairly eclectic I guess. Oh, and the mandatory Disney music. 😀

[ScoutTN]

Lately mine like folk music and music I grew up on. Peter, Paul and Mary, Carole King, James Taylor, John Denver, Joni Mitchell, Pete Seeger and the like. Dd like Bluegrass and Ds is more of a rocker. ;)

 

We listen to Fernando Ortega a lot because he is Dh's favorite.

 

We listen to classical and choral music a good bit.

 

Most played CDs in my house and car recently: Highroad ( bluegrass/gospel band), soundtrack to The Force Awakens, Jamie Grace (popular Christian ), Keith and Kristyn Getty, Best of Peter, Paul and Mary.

[SkateLeft]

Right now, the Hamilton soundtrack seems like it's on a continuous loop with my boys.

 

My oldest turned them on to it when she was home for a couple of days last month, and they've been listening to it almost non-stop. Otherwise, they listen to a lot of Phish, and a pretty eclectic mix of old (Gene Autry, Skeeter Davis, Louis Jordan, the Ink Spots) and newer stuff. My youngest tends to listen to the same things his siblings listen to, since he emulates them a lot.

 

[Janeway]

Unfortunately, 14 yr old found his dad's old CDs and plays those constantly. It did not bother me at first, until he went deeper and deeper in to it and is getting in to music I cannot stand. And he wants an electric guitar to bang on. I have said no. If he can learn to read music and show me he can, I will consider the guitar, but otherwise, no. He has passed on this. Now, I have told him headphones. It feels as if once the harder stuff happens, the kids do not want to go back to calmer or more classic or other styles of music. He is not even interested in Jazz, nothing. Normally, we listen to symphony music. 

 

My husband and I are very different people. I grew up in a very conservative home that was calm and such. I do not like loud or head banger music. I would like the children to listen to classic, jazz, symphony, etc. Then, when they are teens, they can pick up the more modern stuff on their own. However, my husband will listen to loud music that sounds like people screaming while in the car with them. So they are constantly exposed to it. It bothers me.

[Peaceful Isle]

My girls love Disney music, movie sound tracks, and Christian. We don't do classical here. No one likes it, well, except my dh.

[Mom22ns]

We don't actually listen to a lot of recorded music.  I don't really do well with background music while I am doing other things, I actually like to be able to sit and listen.

 

This. I can't think if there is music playing. My kids chose their own music when they wanted to listen and used headphones. Dd listens to Christian rap and pop. Ds listens to J-Pop and some hard rock stuff. I usually have the radio on in the car and that was about the only time we shared music in our family (past preschool stuff). Both my kids did play multiple instruments and got exposure to a variety of musical styles, it just doesn't play in the house all the time.

[hellen]

Hamilton this week. It's brilliant. As I was writing this, my 5 year old ran in the room and asked, "What's your name, man?" The few bad words go over her head.

 

The zooglobble blog has a lot of good kid's music recommendations. My five year old listens to kid music the most. She likes Lisa Loeb, Caspar Babypants, Okee Dokee Brothers, Justin Roberts, and Red Yarn among others.

[lllll]

nm

Edited April 20, 2016 by _ ?^..

[calihil]

Mostly Christian stuff. Catechism songs, Seeds Family Worship, worship songs. And classical music of whatever artist we are studying at the time.