How Did Your Music Influence Your Kids

Posted by: Mike-B on 17 June 2017

Yesterday I was shown a twitterfacesphere thread started by my daughter discussing a playlist suitable for me at the Fathers Day barbecue that I am not supposed to know about.  It went on to eloquently extol my excellent & dodgy music preferences & how its influenced her in the past & carried through to today.  (wow that was a mix of honour & humble)     Enough to say Pink Floyd, Hendrix, Telemann  & Chopin have stuck somewhat more than has the jazz genre. 

Anyhow,  back to the question:   Did your music preferences influence your kids music preferences.

Posted on: 17 June 2017 by joerand

My son shares many of the same classic rock interests as me and I have to assume this resulted from the music I played while he was growing up. Not so much for my daughter who has gravitated towards the modern country genre. Still, there were several bands everyone always agreed on for travelling music in the car on family vacations; Beatles, Tom Petty, Green Day, Sheryl Crow, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blink-182, No Doubt, and Cake.

On the other hand, my son's interest in grunge helped awaken me to just how good the top bands in that genre were. I'm a big Nirvana fan because of his influence on me.

My kids have been enthusiastic enough about my music interests to attend Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Rush, Sheryl Crow, and John Mellencamp concerts with me.

Although I have an amount of classical music from Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and others from the Romantic period, I never really played it for my kids. I think classical is a genre that an individual needs to discover and appreciate in their own time and space. I hope my kids will find that room at some point in their lives. To each their own.

Posted on: 18 June 2017 by Nick Lees

Sadly I seem to have had an inverse effect on them. Elder daughter adored Mariah Carey (ugh) and younger various types of indie, though her summer working in Ibiza brought back some ace dance stuff e.g. Walking With Elephants, which give the transmission-liners a good work out.

Posted on: 18 June 2017 by GraemeH

How Did Your Music Influence Your Kids?

Not in the slightest. Our Mary, Mungo & Midge are their own people.

G

Posted on: 19 June 2017 by nickpeacock

Well, I think I influenced them in believing that music should be a constant, that bands are worth getting excited about, that buying music is great and that going to gigs is beyond exciting.

For this, apart from a shared belief that The Beatles are awesome, they have repaid me with a fanatical fondness at the moment for k-pop... (Which just goes to prove that each younger generation needs a musical language/code which their parents don't really get.)