Having kids is cool

[PopTodd]

I was listening to John Cale - Paris, 1919 this weekend. And, all weekend after that, both of my kids were walking around singing to themselves:

"You're a ghost la la la la..."

 

And were asking me questions about the song.

My oldest also informed me: "Dad, I want that song on my iPod."

 

 

And, it was not an intentional exposure, I was just listening to the album whilst folding laundry, when they heard the song and poked their heads in... the song having piqued their interest.

[rareair]

i was singing along with don't worry, be happy (involuntary reaction) in kroger yesterday.

 

my 4 year old daughter looks up, kind of confused, and explains that she was happy every day.

[Vacant Horizon]

was in the local indie record store with my 2.8 year old. he had his snack to keep him occupied while i browsed. music was playing of course and as we walked past one of the clerks my son says, "Dad, they're playing Feist. I like her, but i also like 'eil 'oung." That last one is 'neil young'...so the clerk heard and we all thought he was such a badass! too damn cute!

[lamradio]

I'm incredibly happy that both of my kids (3 and 4) LOVE Wilco and the Beatles. They are the only two bands they listen to. They are always asking me to play "Remember my mother" (You Are My Face) and "Hey Jude". I just hope they keep their great musical taste.

[Artifice]

My son is 21 months old. The Beijing Olympics commercial, featuring Imagine as the soundtrack, came on... he sat in my lap and started humming along, and then sang the dreamer line. It occurred to me that I'd never played any Beatles for him.

 

I got plumb misty-eyed, I gotta tellya.

[PopTodd]

They are all too young to have had their tastes warped by the sewage line.

Pure good taste.

Nice.

[lamradio]

They are all too young to have had their tastes warped by the sewage line.

Pure good taste.

Nice.

 

Exactly.. well said. I remember being warped for a short period in my pre-teen years, but I was quickly brought back to my senses when I heard this new band called Nirvana. Even though I can hardly listen to Nirvana anymore, they really were the band that got me into rock music.

[Mr. Kinsley]

I put Neil Diamond in the minivan CD player the other day and discovered that my 2.5 year old twins love Sweet Caroline. When it gets to the part where he sings "Sweeeet Caaar- oooo- liiine" and then the horns go "bah bah baaaah!" the kids sing the bah bah bah part. They now request the bah bah bah song.

 

Their 2 other favorites are Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. "Play Ba Deeelan!" "More Cash!"

[quarter23cd]

This weekend at a neighborhood block-party type thing, my one year old was dancing her butt off to the 60s/70s cover band that was playing. She was probably the only person dancing at the entire party, as boring suburban adults gathered together in groups to talk about boring things like new carpet while they sized up the quality of each other's lawn.

 

When the band took a break to hit the BBQ line, she made a beeline over to where they had been playing and I had to keep pulling her away from touching all the instruments. She totally wanted to rock!

 

Cutest. Damn. Thing. Ever.

[Boots]

My one year old can't get enough of..... the free credit report .com song. He'll come in from another room when the commercial comes on and just stare at the tv. Nothing will break his concentration when it's on

 

I've got work to do

 

 

[yermom]

My three year old and I were in the truck and I had Portishead on. She said, "Mom, I don't really like scary music, but this okay."

[dagwave]

My five year old daughter likes to sing along to "Highly Suspicious". She cracks up over the peanut butter pudding surprise part, and I think even she understands the song is a bit of a lark. She's also recently been digging "Dragonfly Pie" by S. Malkmus and the Jicks. Must be a pudding and pie sort of thing going on.

 

On another note, my friend recently said he saw his 18 year old son giggling, screaming, and laughing hysterically to "Inna Gadda Da Vida" while dancing naked around the pool at his 50th surprise birthday party. Ahhh, kids......

[IATTBYB]

On another note, my friend recently said he saw his 18 year old son giggling, screaming, and laughing hysterically to "Inna Gadda Da Vida" while dancing naked around the pool at his 50th surprise birthday party. Ahhh, kids......

I'm confused, who was dancing naked, the giggling 18 y.o son laughing at Iron Butterfly, or the 50 y.o birthday boy? In either case, it's a disturbing mental image.

[ponch1028]

No joke, for the past 8-9 months, my 5-year-old daughter makes me (i.e., wailing if I decline) sing Apartment Story by the National using her Bob and Larry Beanie Babies (of the Veggie Tales) using their voices. It started out as a duet, and eventually has morphed into Bob the Tomato singing the lyrics wrong, Larry the Cucumber correcting him, and Bob pummeling him to a bloody pulp for doing so. No joke, for the past 8-9 months.

 

I AM SO SICK OF BOB AND LARRY (and yet I still find myself singing Apartment Story in regular voice at least daily).

 

Before that craze, she had me singing Kathleen by Josh Ritter, and whenever the line "drive you back home Kathleen" was sung, she made me add her name (not substitute but add).

 

The hardest one has been Walken, because I once sang it and ad-libbed a line that Jeff probably did in one of his live shows that I had listened to recently, and she won't accept any other version other than the ad-libbed version, which I don't remember!! (but includes the word "sad" which I never guess correctly where or how "sad" was used). I don't sing that one anymore, because it always results in her arguing with me.

 

My 2-year-old has me sing Don't Know Why by the Essex Green and White Winter Hymnal by the Fleet Foxes. Singing to her is much less work.

[Oil Can Boyd]

My one year old can't get enough of..... the free credit report .com song. He'll come in from another room when the commercial comes on and just stare at the tv. Nothing will break his concentration when it's on

Both of my kids (age 9 and 13) sing that song incessantly.

It's like crack ...

[jimmyjimmy]

No joke, for the past 8-9 months, my 5-year-old daughter makes me (i.e., wailing if I decline) sing Apartment Story by the National using her Bob and Larry Beanie Babies (of the Veggie Tales) using their voices. It started out as a duet, and eventually has morphed into Bob the Tomato singing the lyrics wrong, Larry the Cucumber correcting him, and Bob pummeling him to a bloody pulp for doing so. No joke, for the past 8-9 months.

 

I AM SO SICK OF BOB AND LARRY (and yet I still find myself singing Apartment Story in regular voice at least daily).

 

Before that craze, she had me singing Kathleen by Josh Ritter, and whenever the line "drive you back home Kathleen" was sung, she made me add her name (not substitute but add).

 

The hardest one has been Walken, because I once sang it and ad-libbed a line that Jeff probably did in one of his live shows that I had listened to recently, and she won't accept any other version other than the ad-libbed version, which I don't remember!! (but includes the word "sad" which I never guess correctly where or how "sad" was used). I don't sing that one anymore, because it always results in her arguing with me.

 

My 2-year-old has me sing Don't Know Why by the Essex Green and White Winter Hymnal by the Fleet Foxes. Singing to her is much less work.

 

This post is kinda magical and exhausting all at once.