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As I sit and go through some of my older blogs I notice that music plays an important role in my daily life.
This is something I have tried to teach my children as well.
Your day goes by so much easier when music is involved. Household chores get done faster when you've got the stereo on your favorite station or cd.
My kids have always listened to music. They both have favorite cds they listen to at night. Ash listens to "Baby Beatles" and Cole, up until last year, listened to "Lullabies for Little Dreamers." Apparently when you're 6 you don't need music to help you fall asleep anymore. :(
Like I said in my recent post about Unconventional Lullabies, my kids have also been exposed to almost every type of music imaginable. From Classical to Country (not my favorite), Grunge, Rap (again, not another one of my favorites), Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Metal, Hair Bands, you name it, we listen to it.
Well, most of it.
We do have restrictions. Considering the urchins are 7 1/2 & 4 1/2 we don't allow them to listen to the hardcore stuff. They'll have to wait a while to hear mommy's Type O Negative cd. Although it was my OWN mother that bought me the cd...also, please note that this cd got 90% of its play around Halloween.
I know I'm just repeating what I said in the lullaby post but I'm drawing a blank on what to blog about and my guest bloggers *ahem - LADIES!!! * haven't been able to come up with anything. So you're stuck with my music stuff. DEAL WITH IT! ;)
So anywhoo, my children have a wide variety of musical tastes.
Pickles favorite song this week is "Hey There Li'l Red Riding Hood" which has always been one of my favorites. Turns out that Brian Haner, a.k.a. "Guitar Guy" with Jeff Dunham, played with Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. I love Brian Haner. He's also the father of Synyster Gates, lead guitarist for Avenged Sevenfold!
Bubba's is Dropkick Murphys "Shipping Up to Boston." I personally REALLY like this one. He also begs to listen to Paul Revere and the Raiders "Kicks" and "Stepping Stone" over and over again.
I was raised listening to the bands of the 60's and 70's My parents have always been into concerts; my dad was lucky enough to see The Who in the 70's, my mom got to see fat Elvis. When I was younger my parents took us to the Brown County Fair. We were watching the bands play when all of a sudden they announced the headliner. I have no idea if my parents knew which band was headlining that night but I wound up seeing REO Speedwagon! When I turned 21 I got to see Alice Cooper. Alice is awesome.
I know my mother-in-law loves music too. She's been buying my kids their own cds since they day they were born. Not too many people can say they've danced with their mother-in-law to Violent Femmes! She also listens to the great folk singers like Neil Young (my husband's favorite) as well as Led Zeppelin.
I was born knowing all of the words to Cheap Trick Live at Budokan. Believe me, I was shocked when one day when I was 15 "Big Eyes" played on the radio and I knew the words. I called my mom and said "Why in the HELL do I know the words to this?!?" She nonchalantly responded with "Oh. I listened to Live at Budokan the entire time I was pregnant with you. You probably know all of The Cars music too...."
Nice one mom.
My best friends and I, mainly Nerma, while agreeing that NKOTB was SO COOL and someday she'll marry Jordan Knight and I'll marry Donny Wahlberg and we'll live in a MANSION TOGETHER!!!!, had very different music tastes. Nerma was into Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, Taylor Dayne, while I was into Poison, GnR, Motley Crue, John COUGAR Mellencamp. Yet as we got older we started to get into the same music again. I'll never forget the summer of Wanda Chrome and STP...
It doesn't hurt that bands like The BoDeans, Annex (this video was filmed at East High in GB), Violent Femmes, Farenheit 420, as well as guitar guru Les Paul all hail from Wisconsin...
4 comments:
All kids should be lucky to be exposed to such awesomeness. Seriously.
I tried to dance to "bullet with your name on it" with my mother in law... :/
The Femmes are awesome, I saw them in concert once. I have seen the Bodeans more times than I can count. Some of my most favorite concerts are Melissa Etheridge, Bill Miller, Waylon and Willie...yes I saw them together and Johnny Cash.
Steve Miller usually does a good show and of course Neil Young's shows are great especially when he is with Crazy Horse.
Trina only likes music that girls sing (with a few exceptions that have a funky beat or a chorus she can memorize). On the flip side, because Trina only likes "girl" songs, Troy only like songs that boys sing (with a few... very few... exceptions for songs that have a funky beat or a chorus he can memorize). But at their age it doesn't really matter because they make up their own lyrics.
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