When you do/did have kids..

interesting that you'd made a thread of this, i was just talking about this today with a friend of mine. i like the idea of playing the beatles' later era work to my hopeful one day child. elliott smith's mother did that for him...and well, it worked.

While they were younger I would probably pick something light like The Aquabats, The Beatles, and maybe something like Modest Mouse. But as they got older probably things that would be more risqué and mature like Kanye West, Pavement and probably other great rappers.

But since I'm a good number of years from having kids and my music tastes change a lot it's kind of hard to really choose.

Ranging from Coltrane to Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson to Green Day to Britney Spears to My Chemical Romance.

Probably the Insane Clown Posse. That will ensure them to be well adjusted in society.

Whatever I'm listening to. I listen to a pretty wide range of genre's, even some classical and country. So I expect to hear alot of "What's that Daddy?" from my kids down the road. But it will be whatever I listen to. I'm not going to force any music on my kids though.

My daughter was given an option on all to create her own distinct taste which im sure will change with age as everyones seems to BUT though i might have a distaste for what she listens to now....she loves it and thats what matters

When I was in elementary school, I didn't really have any kind of musical preference. I didn't even really care about music. My dad would always play weird stuff he liked in the car. I still to this day enjoy Cat Stevens, Simon and Garfunkel, and some other random songs like "Lisdoonvarna" and "Highway Men" because of him.

But as far as stuff I'll play for my kids while they sit in the backseat, not caring what is played as long as something is played:

The Ramones
Tegan And Sara
Soul Coughing and Mike Doughty solo stuff
Rasputina
Kimya Dawson
Beck
She And Him

I'll do what my parents did for me and just let them listen to whatever they want. Naturally I was more influnenced by the stuff my dad was listening to like The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, etc so they'd probably get a healthy dose of bands like The Beatles, Rush, Black Sabbath, that kind of thing. If they like it that's bonus, if not I'm not gonna get hung up on it.

am i the only one that didn't/doesn't really hear any music from my parents? except for some billy joel that my dad plays it's pretty much zero. if i got my musical taste from anyone it would be my older brother.