What music genre is best suitable for little children?

  On 8/29/2018 at 3:04 AM, Salvatorin said:

you shouldn't bother playing music specifically for children. I grew up surrounded by lots of jazz / brazilian / african / folk music and I loved it, I remember having very imaginative and idiosyncratic stories and feelings that would accompany different songs and styles of music and it was highly entertaining. Kids soak up everything around them. Give em a big variety of sounds and it enriches their life.

 

exactularly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q92QibNpb0A

kids love gooshers:

  On 8/29/2018 at 7:01 AM, ghOsty said:

kids love gooshers:

 

Ah, another classic lol. Pretty sure the orange one is on like 14 pills of e.

  On 8/29/2018 at 6:58 AM, hello spiral said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q92QibNpb0A

 

lol

that's a p fucked up release. I've never made it the whole way through.

I have found that Kraftwerk is something that kids and adults can both enjoy. Elegant, catchy melodies.

 

https://youtu.be/ZtWTUt2RZh0

Edited August 29, 2018 by Parsifal

hell yea. my dad would put on his record of Radioactivity and I would always get kind of sombre and worried during "Radioaktivität" and then once it got to "Airwaves" I would feel very happy and dance around.

 

  On 8/29/2018 at 8:55 AM, Stickfigger said:

 

  On 8/29/2018 at 6:53 AM, usagi said:

 

  On 8/29/2018 at 3:04 AM, Salvatorin said:

you shouldn't bother playing music specifically for children. I grew up surrounded by lots of jazz / brazilian / african / folk music and I loved it, I remember having very imaginative and idiosyncratic stories and feelings that would accompany different songs and styles of music and it was highly entertaining. Kids soak up everything around them. Give em a big variety of sounds and it enriches their life.

 

exactularly.

 

 

Salv your comments imply you remember these things which would indicate you would have been about 4 or 5 or so. I agree with you that by that age i think its all fair game but i think younger than this you may find that there are inherent behavioural responses to different kinds of music/sounds - i could be wrong - maybe my kids are weird.  Also, the genres you've described all seem relatively safe and above board.

 

yeah I'd say most of the music that appealed to me the most around those ages was melodically and harmonically rich, well constructed music, be it pop or jazz or 'world' or instrumental music—my dad had a cd of Penguin Cafe Orchestra's 'Broadcasting from Home' and I remember feeling really happy when this song would come on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMHbTqPm39I 

My mother was an ethnomusicologist and we had all of these compilation cds from all over the place and one of them was called Hemisphere Artists's "Brazil Blue" and I'd listen to it all the time and each track had a different story or dance that I associated with it. Like for this one: 

I always imagined something floating out in space whenever it holds the chord in the first part of the tune, and then imagined a cat dancing once it gets to the rhythmic part. I also remember very much enjoying the background music in the point and click games I got to play when I was a year or so older. Or the soundtracks to cartoons or movies I had on VHS that I would watch over and over again.

 

I didn't listen to Donald Fagen - The Nightfly until I was a teenager, but I had an immediate reaction to the lush arrangements that took me back to that child-like state of enjoyment.

Tibetan throat singing

 

Get them little fuckers hooked up to the vibrations of the universe asap

  On 8/29/2018 at 6:53 AM, usagi said:

 

  On 8/29/2018 at 3:04 AM, Salvatorin said:

you shouldn't bother playing music specifically for children. I grew up surrounded by lots of jazz / brazilian / african / folk music and I loved it, I remember having very imaginative and idiosyncratic stories and feelings that would accompany different songs and styles of music and it was highly entertaining. Kids soak up everything around them. Give em a big variety of sounds and it enriches their life.

 

exactularly.

 

 

Yep - radio in the car during our commute, throw on personal favs on at home. I don't understand people who subject themselves and their kids to children's albums exclusively. My wife and I both had parents who were good about this.Also it's important not to force your taste either, part of the neat thing about kids is seeing what they get into. Like I would have never listened to this on purpose but it came on the radio and my son loved it.

 

 

Also if you push your own favs too hard it comes off like this

 

 

Geez, you guys:

  On 8/29/2018 at 8:55 AM, Stickfigger said:

 

  On 8/29/2018 at 6:53 AM, usagi said:

 

  On 8/29/2018 at 3:04 AM, Salvatorin said:

you shouldn't bother playing music specifically for children. I grew up surrounded by lots of jazz / brazilian / african / folk music and I loved it, I remember having very imaginative and idiosyncratic stories and feelings that would accompany different songs and styles of music and it was highly entertaining. Kids soak up everything around them. Give em a big variety of sounds and it enriches their life.

 

exactularly.

 

 

Also, the genres you've described all seem relatively safe and above board. I would like to think that we could agree that there is some music that is inappropriate for a very small child - like other media is inappropriate? For example, i appreciate RATM as much as the next guy but probaby wouldn't be cool with blasting Killing in the name of because my kid won't understand the context whereby repeatedly yelling  'fuck you i won't do what you tell me' makes sense and is appropriate.

 

When my children are exposed to 'kids' music their reactions are obviously different to if i play them something more abstract. One explanation for this is that they have been exposed to this material before at daycare, on tv, by us etc and this is why they respond the way they do, or it could be that there is something inherent in those songs that pleases them more than something more abstract. Whilst exposing them to new tunes and attempting to shape and nurture their appreciation of music is an important thing, playing them a song whilst in the car that they like is also very important if it means they will shut up and not yell

 

 

Good point.

 

When it comes to what you expose your kids in terms of music or any other media, it does matter quite a bit. I remember as a kid my mom said that music, even though it's not visually graphic, can nonetheless have just as much emotional and mental influence on a person. She talked about this in regards to being a Christian and how to navigate non-religious media and art but it can be applied to anyone. Unlike some of my peers I was allowed to listen to secular music but also cut off from a lot of stuff my friends were exposed to like PG-13 and R films, violent video games and trash tv, and more extreme music. I really appreciate that tactfulness of my parents in that regard, built up an appreciation to music beyond "safe" stuff. My oldest is already quite inquisitive, so ironically I expect to get more and more aware of what music and tv/films are on. Like you said abstract versus more visceral music is a big distinction: I'll play a local black metal radio show on the radio because the lyrics are muffled and the music is more broadly epic sounding but I wouldn't play a Top40 song with the word "stupid" in it. 

 

Part of the reason I don't play kid's music is because my kids get plenty of nursery rhyme, classical, and kid music stuff at daycare. There's a Raffi-esque dude who comes by once a week and they do dance and sing a long stuff a lot. On the weekends it's Disney and animated film soundtracks. I'm pretty picky about what they watch and we only bust out the tablet on 4+ hr long road trips. And other kids influence each other - my little knew about Spiderman and knew the "nah nah nah nah Batman" song from daycare. 

Just curious, is op asking in hopes there’s a “correct” answer? From experience with my kids, they’ll listen to anything I put on, and tell me they like it all. Sing along stuff is easy for them, anything from itsy bitsy spider, to Beatles, but occasionally ill get requests for Donkey Rhubarb.

  On 8/29/2018 at 5:35 PM, frankbooth said:

Just curious, is op asking in hopes there’s a “correct” answer? From experience with my kids, they’ll listen to anything I put on, and tell me they like it all. Sing along stuff is easy for them, anything from itsy bitsy spider, to Beatles, but occasionally ill get requests for Donkey Rhubarb.

Not hoping for a "correct" answer, just curious what thoughts and dumb jokes people have

a mate's nipper is 9 & lives for thrash metal, just got her first guitar & amp too

 

Lord, bestow upon the childrens of the world an enduring love for the full spectrum of mid/late 80's guitar sounds, distortion pedals & power chords

can't go wrong with a bit of early 80s dutch dank ska tunes :)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQgLNpIuZpM

Maybe it's best to play the IDMs to the kids while they are in the wombs so they get born intelligent?

  On 8/29/2018 at 11:16 PM, darreichungsform said:

Maybe it's best to play the IDMs to the kids while they are in the wombs so they get born intelligent?

Or at least they get born able to dance intelligently. I always thought that's what IDM was about.

  On 8/30/2018 at 6:23 AM, yek said:

 

YES My kid would dance whenever I played this one, it's a cute song

the most astonishing music to me as a child was rachmaninoffs piano concertos and beethoven sonatas. i also like bewitched and a bunch of poppy shite. aqua - im a barbie girl. bon jovis greatest hits. pet shop boys. 

The Incredible String Band should be at the top of everyone's list.

 

Children must know about the door behind their mind that holds the greatest treasure.

 

They MUST know that we are the table cloth, but also the table. And also, the fable.

 

If this was taught in schools we wouldn't see the terrible decent in morals and thinking ability that is evident in todays youth. Also table manners... Kids @$#%ing suck at table manners.

may the Fire King's daughter bring water to you, unless you're Jimmy Savile