Ten Groups My Son Likes That Make Me Happy I Reproduced
 

This is a complete vanity thread, so if you either hate that type of thing, or me, you want to get out while you can...

1. Sonic Youth (yeah, duh, but what if he didn't??? As it is, it's the first group whose name he actually said.)
2. Black Sabbath (I only speak of the Ozzy days, I didn't teach him to make the demon horns with his fist, but somehow he knows...)
3. Explosions in the Sky
4. Sepultura
5. Led Zeppelin (really only Led Zeppelin I, the rest he hasn't been particularly exposed to)
6. The Damned
7. Cocteau Twins
8. Herbie Hancock (this would rank higher, except I achieved burn out on Perfect Machine because he loves it so much and expects me to dance to it every damn time...)
9. The Kinks
10. The Ventures



Rather an old photo, but I love the Cobain across the drums pose...

smart kid!

If I knew Lennon likes The Kinks, I would have asked Ray Davies for an autograph the other day when he played an impromptu gig by Waterloo Bridge, and sent it to you.

Thats awesome, and you've nailed pretty much the reason I'll ever have kids.

I am seriously jealous. Ray is one of my all time idols for decent human beingness. Lennon is still at the stage where he'd probably eat the autograph though. But that doesn't stop him from rocking out when the music comes on.

you're a good dad, dead air.

My wife and mom think so, so it must be true. Though I haven't let on to my mom about the Sabbath...

Holy shit that kid will end up having good taste in music. I firmly believe music can often depend on what you're raised on, and so far you're raising your son on some good stuff.

Nice job.

~Jeremy~

hey, my mom introduced me to black sabbath!!

my pops started my love for music, not to mention violent movies and dirty magazines and whatever else he could sneak me while my mother wasnt around...

but, it was driving with my dad when i was young that kicked off my love for music. he didndt play me raffi, he played led zeppelin, van morrison, the stones, and hendrix. as i got older, he got me into blues and jazz, i heard "kind of blue" when i was 7, i was pretty much destined to be an obessor.

having cool parents has its downside though. my parents are one hundred percent liberal "live and let live" types, though they aren't hippys by any means. when i got caught smokin weed for the first time, i thought id get scolded but it ended up with my parets telling me about thier first pot experiences and that if i was going to do it i should do it around the house. when i started refusing to wear anything that wasn't ripped, my mom said, "self expression is important." when i would blast "angel of death" at full volume in my room at night, i would merely see my mom's head pop in to tell me to turn it down, and that she liked the guitar sounds. it was literally IMPOSSIBLE to rebel. untill i became addicted to oxycontin and alcohol, i guess that shocked them a bit.

Haha. Perfect Machine is such a perfect album for a kid to get into I imagine. Nice one!

Yes, but your mom is probably only a few years older than me...

and yeah, i totally agree with the better music youre raied on the better taste youll have, only because the fact that you have less catching up to do. say, if i just figured out who black flag and scratch acid are now, it would take a loooooong time for me to get to venom p. stinger and braimbombs, you dig?

Oh, if he likes the Kinks, you should get him the Kinks Piture Book boxset. It's got 8 fucking discs, every version of every kinks song imaginable. Along with the Ayler adOn the Corner boxsets, this is all I listened to last Winter.

He has natural inclinations to some other stuff I didn't list too. We were in a restaurant that was playing this cool old school reggae from the '60s and he totally started rocking to it. He's pretty obsessively beat driven. Loves drum n bass shit too. A lot of stuff I listen to for him that I like, but he loves. The stuff I listed is just he stuff we both love (though I could easily have put Dead Moon in place of the Ventures, but wanted some variety).

awww!

man, I would've liked parents like those...

dead air...how old is yr kids?
my youngest is 4 and he supports tottenham and loves motorsport....yay!

my elsest is 8 and she likes the white stripes and erm....westlife...so yknow.... there is time.....

Lennon is 14 months old. I have a daughter who was adopted by another family in an open adoption who I get to visit too, she's 11 now. Of course that's a different story and I'm not a "parent" there.

You play Sepultura to your kid?