Oh the joy! When my daughter first asked me to play the Beatles! After months of listening to Sesame Street and wheels on the bus, it was so great to rock out to Revolver with my kids. She likes Amos Lee and Dixie Chicks too but it got me thinking, what's the best Kid friendly grown up music? and even the best grown up friendly kid music ( I have to admit I somtimes get a little tearyeyed when Kermit sings "ThisFrog")?
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We listen to alot of phish and grateful dead. Ds loves it. we also do alot of bluegrass and jazz. David Grisman and Jerry Garcia have a great CD called Not For Kids Only . It's real good. Folk/bluegrass type songs, fun for kids.
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We love Rusted Root, per Meeshi's suggestion. Buckwheat Zydeco has a kids album that is great -- Choo Choo Boogaloo. Enya or basically any Celtic ethereal sound. Andean flutes and drums.
I do not listen to other adult music with them. The topics are things I am not ready to discuss, or at least not in passing in the car which is the only place we listen to music.
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We listen to alot of Grateful Dead, The Band with daddy and then Jerry Lee Lewis, Van Morrison, and Dean Martin with me. The only exception is with my nephew and his Lazy Town cd.
We listen to Pete Seeger, and we love him! He has made singing a part of our lives, as the natural inclination seems to be to sing along, and then keep right on singing. He inspires us to make our own music instead of leaving it to the "professionals".
I also listen to Lyle Lovett, the Breeders (Last Splash, not Pod), The Beatles, Woody Guthrie, Cab Calloway, and so on. We really do not listen to much kid music with the exception of Little White Duck
How about Joni Mitchell, Arlo Guthrie, CSN, DMB, any Putumayo, BNL...classical, folk, funk, African, Andean, Celtic, Didgeriedoo, banjo, Krishna Das, The Chieftans, flutes, Jai Uttal, Bob Marley, Cheech (hysterical and actaully a kid CD, My Name is Cheech and I am the Schoolbus Driver), Zen, steel drums, Zulu, Native American, Mediterranean, Irish (yes, Riverdance), David Byrn, Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, drumming, fiddle...and we LOVE good kid music the kids check out their own from the library. Global lullabies are nice, Music to be Born To by Jimi Heart, Dan Zanes.
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Our girls love Paul Simon, Bob Marley, Rusted Root, all of the Putumayo discs, Dave Matthews, The Dead, David Grisman, all sorts of music from different countries... We have Sirius radio now and they listen to Jam-on, Coffee House, Spectrum, they love the Latin stations and even listen to techno, New Age, stuff like that.
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There's very little I don't listen to around dd. Our favorite, though, is indie pop and dancey rock: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Talking Heads, Cat Power, PJ Harvey, White Stripes, The Sounds... we love to rock out together.
Kid Music I love: They Might Be Giants' album, NO!
ETA, speaking of Kermit, we both love The Muppet Movie soundtrack.
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My kiddos like Peter, Paul and Mary, Moxy Fruvous, The Neilds, Rocky Mountain Stage (I think its called-on NPR), Bluegrass in general, James Taylor and Laurie Berkner. We listen to quite a bit of classical too (gotta love public radio)
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David Grisman and Jerry Garcia have a great CD called Not For Kids Only . It's real good. Folk/bluegrass type songs, fun for kids.
This is our absolute favorite family CD. All the cd's Jerry has done with David Grisman are amazing
We listen to alot of bluegrass and folk too. My son loves Pete Seeger, Phill Rosenthall, Bill Staines, and Woody Gutherie.
Also we have love the Grateful Dead, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Black Crows, Railroad Earth, Yonder Mountain String Band....Lots...we have music on all the time.
Mine is particularly fond of Mettalica and Rage Against the Machine. His faves on the airways.
oh I'm glad you said that first. My DD hates folky type music! She loves the ramones, screaching weasel & the Bostones plus a couple of songs from my friends old band Oblivion. She also likes all 50's rock n roll. I get the feeling that she's going to be a rockabilly girl when she gets older.
We also listen to a lot of Bhangra & the rough quide series, esp anything with heavy drumming.
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