<p>We both like Lady Gaga.</p>
<p>You’re not going to believe my list, so I should explain that I came to parenthood when I was in my forties and we don’t have broadcast television in our house. Here it is:</p>
<p>The Kingston Trio
The Limeliters
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
Tom Lehrer (much revered in our family along with Beyond the Fringe and Monty Python)
The soundtrack from the Les Mis 10th Anniversary concert
The soundtrack from Camelot
The Beatles
Johnny Cash
Joan Baez
Judy Collins
Pete Seeger
The Brothers Four</p>
<p>My daughter claims that I have warped her musical taste</p>
<p>It’s easy listening to music with my boys. Even the 12 year old loves Springsteen and Phil Ochs and the old Beatles (anything before The White Album). The boys have introduced us to Rammstein (German techno rock that’s actually not bad, think the old Dieter and Franz “Sprachen” skits on SNL in the early 90’s). They like classic rock - the Kinks, Moody Blues. My youngest sang Bungle in the Jungle when he was 6 and is learning to play “Me and Julio down by the schoolyard” on the ukulele. None of my boys likes rap, hip hop or anything modern. They scorn my enjoyment of Lady Gaga and Abba and Celine Dion.</p>
<p>My D is harder to listen with. She likes stuff that’s more folky than I like. She listens to Christine Lavin and the like. I have gotten her into Jim Croce, old Bette Midler, Simon and Garfunkle and Pat Benatar. Fortunately, she prefers to sing in the car and will often perform her own original compositions, which to me are better than anything else on the radio.</p>
<p>My son and I both like Wilco, Johnny Cash, Volbeat, Nightwish, Sonata Arctica, Apocalyptica, and the acoustic Foo Fighter album. He listens to more classical music than I do. </p>
<p>A while back someone wanted advice about putting together a list of essential rock and roll music - I think that would be fun - start in the 1950s and listen to at least one song by everyone important. So what if you don’t like all of it.</p>
<p>Old School music in common:</p>
<p>CCR
Supertramp
The Who
Simon & Garfunkel</p>
<p>and especially…</p>
<p>Queen!</p>
<p>Agree with many of the ideas. I’ll add Bon Iver to the list.</p>
<p>Brad Paisley and most current country music seem to transcend generations.</p>
<p>Hubby and I just went to a Brad Paisley concert with my college-age daughter and her boyfriend. (Truth - they rode with us but we split up in the parking lot and didn’t sit together. :p) </p>
<p>Of course, country music seems to be a love-it-or-hate-it type thing, regardless of your generation.</p>
<p>My daughter has also discovered Steve Miller Band, Styx, and she likes Abba more than I do.</p>
<p>S and H are into classic rock. Aerosmith, Led Zepplin.</p>
<p>if you use pandora try typing in “safety dance”. My mom and I love all the selections that come up. For individual “newer music”</p>
<p>for what it’s worth-stevie nicks
pumped up kicks- foster the people
rolling in deep-adele
need you now-lady antebellum
marry me-train
mad world-gary jules
Save me San Francisco-train</p>
<p>mt mom likes these and so do I</p>
<p>I almost forgot, get any “glee” cd’s</p>
<p>I’m not sure if my kids still like Beach Boys, but we had many years of fun in our family listening to their music. </p>
<p>One summer we attended a professional soccer game that did “double header” with a Beach Boys concert (new artists, same tunes). Wow, kids from age 1 to 101 were dancing in the aisle. Many beach balls were dropped unto the seating areas - it seemed that every kid that wanted one got one. Happy memories! </p>
<p>My D has loved Vivaldi, since age 5 when my dad sent a cassette tape called “Mystery of the Ring”, a kid story with Vivaldi and Venice themes/music. It got all of us hooked.</p>
<p>Creedence, Queen, Beach Boys among many others.</p>
<p>Billy Joel (The Stranger album), Rod Stewart, Jimmy Buffet, The Eagles, Maroon 5, Elton John (rocket man), Neil Diamond (esp. Sweet Caroline), The Monkees (Last Train to Clarksville, Daydream Believer), Lady Gaga (heard a few I like).</p>
<p>Rolling Stones, Queen</p>
<p>David Wax Museum. Spectacularly wonderful group. Listen to their concert at Newport [Newport</a> Folk 2011: David Wax Museum, Live In Concert : NPR](<a href=“David Wax Museum: Newport Folk 2011 : NPR”>David Wax Museum: Newport Folk 2011 : NPR).</p>
<p>Ryan Adams, Queen, The Jam, Ted Leo, Tom Waits, Pixies, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Clash, British Sea Power, the New Pornographers, Fleetwood Mac, Smith Westerns, Yo La Tengo.</p>
<p>Last three are great driving music.</p>
<p>D1 & I can listen to the following together:</p>
<p>ABBA (Greatest Hits or Mama Mia soundtrack)
Madonna (early stuff)
Lady Gaga (except Poker Face)
Blondie
some Sheryl Crow
some Pat Benetar
the Who (her recent ‘discovery’)
she tolerates a bit of my Springsteen (I make playlists of every concert I go to!)
Katy Perry
Carole King (Tapestry)</p>
<p>Can’t agree on any music w 14yo son who thinks rap is music.</p>
<p>Jimi Hendrix, Howlin Wolf, Doors, Who, Beatles, Stones, Animals. Still waiting for him to hear Mothers of Invention. And Incredible String Band.</p>
<p>Going through that right now…we’re traveling with The Who, Rolling Stones, Bob Marley, Toots & the Maytails, Modest Mouse, Arcade Fire, Grateful Dead, Steely Dan, String Cheese, Taj, Dave Matthews, Rage Against the Machine, Noah and the Whale, 311, Slightly Stoopid, Mumford & Sons and a few other of the kids favorites with names I can’t remember! Oops forgot Santana Borbelleta and some classic jazz…Coltrane, Sun Ra, Anthony Braxton, Miles Davis, and probably some Monk…got to ed-u-cate these kids when they are car captive.</p>
<p>Being rather superannuated and overeducated, I thought I would rear my children to love classical music and good jazz. They would have none of it, not even my daughter, who trained intensively in ballet. I gave up my lofty goals and on our long drives to their schools in the city I would play tapes and CDs representing my tastes in comedy and popular music, the development of which seems to have stopped in 1966. In a home environment without broadcast television the kids grew up believing that John Steed and Emma Peel were the epitome of cool, that films such as ‘The Lion in Winter’ and ‘Dr Strangelove’ were appropriate viewing, and that reading three books at the same time was normal behaviour. Their friends were amazed at their near-total ignorance of current cultural references. Harry Potter rescued them from irrelevance.</p>
<p>In high school they each became a little more attuned to their generation’s music but remained a bit out of sync with their peers and with each other. My son likes the music from ‘Juno’; my daughter prefers ‘A Very Potter Musical’.</p>
<p>My son moved to England for college and mysteriously developed an interest in classical music and opera. I’ll be interested to see how my daughter’s tastes develop over the next four years at her LAC.</p>
<p>I think we can all agree on the Beatles and Johnny Cash. I wish we could all agree on Mozart, Handel, Miles Davis, and Ella Fitzgerald.</p>
<p>I hand my 2 D’s my ipod and ask them to put music on that they think I would like. I do not want music from “my day” because I’ve heard it for many years. So I get very varied music like Rihanna, The Shins, Sara Bareilles, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, The Postal Service, Modest Mouth,etc., etc.</p>
<p>I never know what to expect. I like some and others not so much It is fun. But we often end up liking the same stuff.</p>
<p>Two weeks ago my H, S (almost 25) and D2 (21) went to a Todd Rudgren concert together and had a blast.</p>