Music With Your Offspring

[JoeThePop]

If you’re like me, I am always looking for some common ground with my offspring when it comes to music. I’ve introduced my daughter to some classic rock acts that she enjoys (Queen, Talking Heads, REM, to name a few), and we have some common likes in 80s/Alternative/modern music (Depeche Mode, The Cure, Radiohead, My Chemical Romance, Arctic Monkeys, Måneskin). But sometimes things go off the rails. This is what happens when a couple of college freshman roommates have control of the playlist on the drive home from campus. How about it. Any success with shared music taste with your offspring?

 

[Fran604g]

It's funny. When our 2 boys were young (80s-early90s), they refused to listen to all the 70s music I loved - heavy metal, prog rock, etc., anything except pop or dance. In the early 2000s I still listened to heavy metal and prog, and our youngest daughter loved rockin' out with dad when she was very young (System of a Down Evanescence, Godsmack, Disturbed, etc.).

Years later both my boys really enjoy the old rock I listened to, and Sophia likes pop. What gives? Hahaha, I still listen to much of the same genres I always have.

 

[jblnut]

I've got a son who is way into both making and listening to serious electronic music. Squarepusher was a bridge too far for me.

We meet in the middle with Tom Misch :-)

 

[Thermionics]

My daughter (sophomore in college) has become a serious Bowie-head, which dovetails nicely with my near-lifelong musical obsession with his music. My son (junior in HS) is big into hip-hop, although we have bonded over our mutual enjoyment of Beastie Boys, Run the Jewels, and Lil Yachty's Let's Start Here album.*

*I did take my son to see Black Sabbath on their farewell tour when he was 10 and my daughter to see Taylor Swift during her 1989 tour.

 

[Pat McGinty]

In 2005 I took my daughter to a Dave's True Story concert and she's been a fan since, has spread her affection for them to her pals.

Yesterday afternoon we listened to the 50th Anniversary redo of Dark Side of the Moon, start to finish. Then some Johnny Cash.

I guess we have a music oriented relationship. We always make time, which the wife regards as wasting time.

 

[JoeThePop]

I've got a son who is way into both making and listening to serious electronic music. Squarepusher was a bridge too far for me.

We meet in the middle with Tom Misch :-)

Electronic music has never done it for me. I like to see/hear people playing instruments. Listened to some Squarepusher and it sounded like just that, electronic music. No instruments.

 

[JoeThePop]

My daughter (sophomore in college) has become a serious Bowie-head, which dovetails nicely with my near-lifelong musical obsession with his music. My son (junior in HS) is big into hip-hop, although we have bonded over our mutual enjoyment of Beastie Boys, Run the Jewels, and Lil Yachty's Let's Start Here album.*

*I did take my son to see Black Sabbath on their farewell tour when he was 10 and my daughter to see Taylor Swift during her 1989 tour.

Bowie! Introduced my daughter to Ziggy Stardust. She liked it but I haven’t turned her into a Bowie-head… yet.

My daughter and I have bonded over our mutual like of Gorillaz. Not strictly hip-hop but definitely a good bit of the music.