So my little girl said something cool while listening to Opeth...
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Nitronium Blood
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Darkhammer
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eh, i've learned that you hate the music you grow up on, and if we give it to the kids now they will like hardcore gangster rap later in life.
Dreadful
When Man& Machine Collide
exactly...my parents told me heavy metal was insanely stupid and evil (even though my dad was into sabbath). for some reason right when i turned 12 i just got a mind of my own.
Wow, this forum has quite a few parents. Impressive, I thought for a while it was just a bunch of confused seventeen yearolds...., but then again it may still be.
NickFBM
Demon of The Fall
Not having kids makes it hard for me to play them Opeth, but I do it the other way around - I introduce it to my parents, lol. My dad now wants to come and see Opeth play, so it's worked.
This is a great thread, nice to make a change from favourite song etc. My cousin (who is my age) has a one year old, but he's not really into Opeth, but I'll do my best slip in a 'peth compilation without him knowing. I have spent all my life listening to music of all sorts, and especially when I was younger, and I haven't started to hate all I used to listen to, but then I never had the rebelious stage I guess.
This is a great thread, nice to make a change from favourite song etc. My cousin (who is my age) has a one year old, but he's not really into Opeth, but I'll do my best slip in a 'peth compilation without him knowing. I have spent all my life listening to music of all sorts, and especially when I was younger, and I haven't started to hate all I used to listen to, but then I never had the rebelious stage I guess.
Kenneth R.
Cináed
oh please. the media's gonna force pop on them anyway, might as well complete the perspective and let them form their own opinions once they've had a taste of it all.Morpha said:
theonecynic
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Nitronium Blood said:You know what that makes your daughter don't you?
Not actually.
On the subject of open-mindedness, I'm not playing just Opeth to my daughter, but all kinds of good music... And although children may start to reject the music their parents listen in their early teens, I believe that if they have a musical taste, they will eventually return to it someday.
Dreadful
When Man& Machine Collide
that may be true annt...first I got into heavy metal at 12 hating everything else my parents listened to. and now I like the beatles, pink floyd, some neil young, the who, a little bit of tom petty, led zeppelin, moody blues, yes
Darkhammer said:
Maybe with some people this happens, who knows. I mainly listened to 80s pop music in my early music years and still love the stuff
. I was all excited recently getting the Billboard 100 for the 80s (yes, yes, I don't admit this much! haha).I'd just like to add that this has been a really cool thread! I myself had no idea there were so many parents here either.
annt said:Not actually.
On the subject of open-mindedness, I'm not playing just Opeth to my daughter, but all kinds of good music... And although children may start to reject the music their parents listen in their early teens, I believe that if they have a musical taste, they will eventually return to it someday.
true. I think the rejection thing may come into play once there's a narrow selection of music to choose from. Variety is the key (multiple genres).
Korlich
So Judah fucked it up
Darkhammer said:
Well, that's completely false. I grew up on practically nothing but Frank Zappa, and I still LOVE his music like crazy.
akaJUNG72
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Hey, I can see everyone's point. But it IS about exposure and how supportive the environment is for music in general. The motivation behind why someone likes any kind of music is paramount. If it expresses your feelings for you or liberates your mind then the connection becomes hard wired. Growing up w/ the great music of the past 4 decades and the roots of these becomes spiritual healing and home for the soul in all its facets: superficial, cheezy, horny, dark, angry, twisted, evil, fun...whatever. The music that STICKS w/ us is that which reflects who we truly are.
Jude
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That's so completely not true. When I was a newborn my dad played 'Magical Mystery Tour' and 'Street Legal' to me, and Bob Dylan and the Beatles are two of my favorite artists ever. My mom always sang Simon and Garfunkel songs and I love them too. I grew up listening to my ex-hippy dad's The Band, Cream, Rolling Stones, Dylan, etc. CDs and I've never stopped loving that stuff.Darkhammer said:
I've just branched out into a lot more music than my dad. He rarely gets into new stuff. I wonder if it will be the same thing with my kids...I'll raise them on Porcupine Tree and Opeth (and of course the classics too) and then when I'm 50 I'll be disgusted at whatever weird music they're listening to.
I would be so overjoyed if I had a kid and they quoted some awesome band to me though.
sweet majestic darkness
The Metal Mama
I grew up on classic rock and still love it every bit. So you can't say that's true with everyone.
My favorite musical monment with my children was when I put in the -War At The Warfields- DVD by Slayer and son (5 then) said "Mom, is that guy angry?" That cracked me up. Tom just has that kind of voice.
My son is 6 now and actually does dig some Opeth songs. His favorite are Masters Apprentices and Ghost Of Perdition. When Ghost of Perdition comes on he asks "Mom, is this the song called "the devil cracks the earthly shake?" Well, he's close on the lyrics anyhow. I think he loves that part in the song. But it is a great part to sing along to. I like and listen to all sorts of music so I don't make my kids listen to metal all the time. And when he goes to his dads he's exposed to rap/hip hop. So we'll what he decides to get into in the long run. He still likes the "kid songs" cd's when I put them in, also.
My favorite musical monment with my children was when I put in the -War At The Warfields- DVD by Slayer and son (5 then) said "Mom, is that guy angry?" That cracked me up. Tom just has that kind of voice.
My son is 6 now and actually does dig some Opeth songs. His favorite are Masters Apprentices and Ghost Of Perdition. When Ghost of Perdition comes on he asks "Mom, is this the song called "the devil cracks the earthly shake?" Well, he's close on the lyrics anyhow. I think he loves that part in the song. But it is a great part to sing along to. I like and listen to all sorts of music so I don't make my kids listen to metal all the time. And when he goes to his dads he's exposed to rap/hip hop. So we'll what he decides to get into in the long run. He still likes the "kid songs" cd's when I put them in, also.
My 5 and a half month old daughter likes opeth but i think it kind of un settles her on the heavy growling parts.. too much noise for her and she starts getting unsettled and over stimulated.. but she listened to lots and lots of opeth while in the womb... damnation always seems to make her calm and quiet.. she'll probably like metal when she's older...
Metal headed parents should unite and create a metal version of Sesame Street... turn ABC's and 123's into extreme-death-metal-opeth-inspired music... The count would be perfect for the role... what do you guys think
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