s/o what music

[sonrisa]

1) what music will your kids know that none of their peers will? 

2) what did you hear as a kid that no one else knew because your parents loved it?

3) What song / musical piece have many of the people here never heard (or never really noticed) that they really should listen to at least once? (include a link

[nellgirl]

1) My 4.5 year old LOVES Bang Bang by Nancy Sinatra.

2) I knew weird Canadian music like Roger Whittaker and Rita MacNeil as a kid because my dad listened to it. We’re Canadian, but even here, as a kid, no one knew it.

[sandandsea]

1. EDM. Dh loves the stuff and it’s worn off on ds1. He’s known several EDM songs since preschool and is the coolest 3rd grader at school.

2. None? My dad listened to old country songs and my mom listened to the soft rock love songs. My mom did teach me Bohemian Rhapsody though.

3. I love musicals and think the Come From Away soundtrack is worth a listen even if musicals aren’t your thing. It’s touching and a moving remembrance of how crazy everything was in the wake of 9/11 and how people came together to support each other.

[aprilsails]

1. Musical numbers and also narrating your every action with song to your own tune. DH belts out songs from musicals all the time. DD has taken it up during this 6 month period of excessive togetherness. I feel for her teachers this year.

2. Tubular Bells. My Dad had an album of theirs and I was weirdly obsessed with it as a fairly young kid. I used it for two of my figure skating solos as I was older as well. I’ve always preferred rock music because of my Dad.

3. There are so many amazing Tragically Hip songs that no one knows about, but I will enter Bobcaygeon:
youtu.be/o6QDjDPRF5c
It’s about a cop in love with either a gay man (What the writer says it was about) or an aboriginal woman (as presented in the video) who contemplates his love life while policing a race riot. It is played regularly on Canadian rock and alt-rock radio since 2000 and is beloved by this country. It’s a slow one, but I love it so.

[Alps79]

1. My kids are obsessed with musicals/show tunes. It's basically the only pandora station they listen to.
2. none really, lol my parents loved Yanni
3. "Merry Christmas From the Family' by Robert Earl Keen. I also love "Ireland" by Garth Brooks.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37xPiRz1sg

[brandy0331]

1. Patsy Cline (her music is my jam). He is also my little drummer, so he knows a lot of 60s rock. Steve Miller Band, CCR.

2. My mom is a big Motown fan, which I was shocked to realize that my friend group back then wasn’t really exposed to. I still love me some Smokey Robinson music and think of her whenever I hear it.

3. Nose to the Grindstone by Tyler Childers. I discovered his music when watching an episode of an Anthony Bourdain show episode about Appalachia. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_QzcrflqDCg

[penelope]

1) My kids know every song from the 50's by heart. They spent a lot of time with my parents when they were little and it's all my dad listens too (Going to the Chapel, Polka Dot Bikini, type 50's music). My oldest took the History of Rock and Roll last year in his second year in college and he said he laughed through the first couple of weeks because no one else had ever heard any of it and he could probably sing it in his sleep.

2) Patsy Cline. My mom loved her music and my friends had no clue who she was.

[fivechickens]

1. There isn’t any music that they listen to/know that NONE of their friends wouldn’t know. Maybe Our Lady Peace...I guess. They know a lot of Dave Matthews Band.

2. I saw all the following in concerts as a child. Paul Anka, Englebert Humberdink, Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow. Other than Neil Diamond, I don’t think my friends family listened go the rest.

3. I don’t know

[meganew]

1. My kids first show was Pissed Jeans, and he listens to a lot of death and thrash metal with my H. He’s really into Power Trip right now. Vivienne loves the B-52s and has their poster above her bed! Lol

2. Glenn Miller. My grandfather listened to him constantly and I saw the biography about 90 million times.

3. I’m not sure! I can’t imagine there’s something I’ve listened to that no one else here has.