What music were you into when you were very young (as far back as you can remember)? For those with young children, what are their favorite songs?
Here are some of my three-year-old's favorite "adult" songs:
"Bang a Gong" - T. Rex
"Black and White" - the dB's
"Gone daddy gone" - slightly prefers Violent Femmes to Gnarls Barkley version
"Blue Moon" - the Marcels (goes back to when he was one)
"Blitzkrieg Bop" - Ramones
"Like a Rolling Stone" - Bob Dylan
"Sucked Out" - Superdrag
"Surrender" - Cheap Trick
"Help Me, Rhonda" - Beach Boys
"16 Military Wives" - Decemberists
"Bad Romance" - Lady Gaga
"Brown-Eyed Girl" - Van Morrison
He's also into a lot of the traditional kid favorites, as well as various kids tv themes.
My childhood was weird in that I had popular music influences coming from my dad and uncle, classical and folk coming from my mom, and various other stuff coming from TV or whatever I just happened to stumble upon in the wide world of music. My regular listening included:
Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes (not to my parents' knowledge of course. Hehe found it in my dad's CD collection and thought it was the rawest shit ever)
and a whole bunch of other shit I can't be bothered to remember. For all the dramatic changes in my taste, quite a bit has actually stayed pretty consistent
Oh, and as for me, my parents listened to a lot of aging classic rock artists (e.g., Eric Clapton, Phil Collins), but that didn't interest me so much. The main influence I took from my parents was a love of '50s and '60s pop (mostly my mom). You might say that oldies radio was the seed for my current love of music. I didn't listen to complete albums much when I was a young kid, though.
When I was a kid, there were a few songs I specifically remember singing along to/listening to a lot. My dad listened to a lot of country, so the ones I remember are all country ballads. Specifically "I Still Believe In You" by Vince Gil, "Little Rock" by Colin Raye and "If I Were You", also by Colin Raye.
I also have a lot of fond memories of listening to Motown and 60s bubblegum pop because that's what the local oldies radio station played and that's what my parents listened to. Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, early Beach Boys stuff, Foundations, Diana Ross, all that stuff.
Now my son is 4 and loves to listen to some of my vinyls. These are some of the ones he routinely picks out:
Vague recollections of my dad working out in the garage to Of A Lifetime by Journey and Dream On by Aerosmith. A complete and total obsession with Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne, its like the ultimate kid's song, its so fun. Nursery rhymes are for adults, Ozzy Osbourne is for kids. I remember liking Sugar We're Going Down by Fall Out Boy. It was playing on VH1 or MTV or something. The music video was an important aspect, too. The All-American Rejects too, of course. That's about the extent of it.
Kanye West, Green Day, Blink-182, Pokemon songs, Eminem, The Used, My Chemical Romance, whatever was on Fuse and VH1, Pop, popular Singer/Songwriters, Enya, etc.
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