Do you like the music your kids listen to?

My son is 10 and here is his favorites

Favorite Song=Fast as a Shark by Accept

Favorite Groups
1. ELO
2. Babymetal
3. Iron Maiden

I approve of all these

Yes, my son listens to great music...Louis Prima, John Lee Hooker, The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, The Stooges, The Ramones, Nirvana...Basically Swing, Jazz, Blues, Classic Rock, Punk, Grunge, and 60's-90's Alternative. He's plays guitar in an original music band that ranges from Punk, Pop Punk, Grunge to Alt Rock. The prior bands he was in played covers in Jazz, R&B and Classic Rock.

eta: He has better taste in music than I do

Yes. My daughter actually filled in some gaps for me when I was stuck on an era or actually not interested that much in music. E.g. Talking heads, widespread panic. We are 40 years apart and listen to a lot of the same stuff. She likes stuff I got tired of. Be.g. Tull

I think we all owe it to ourselves to make sure our own children understand what good music is. That said, the parents of kids 15-30 years old should be fricking ashamed of themselves.

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Yes, my son listens to great music...Louis Prima, John Lee Hooker, The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, The Stooges, The Ramones, Nirvana...Basically Swing, Jazz, Blues, Classic Rock, Punk, Grunge, and 60's-90's Alternative. He's plays guitar in an original music band that ranges from Punk, Pop Punk, Grunge to Alt Rock. The prior bands he was in played covers in Jazz, R&B and Classic Rock. eta: He has better taste in music than I do

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Wait...we have the same son? (except my son plays piano).

My son isn't really into music. He likes some of what I listen to, but I couldn't even tell you who his favorite artists are. He has started asking me more about bands I listen to, and asking to listen to records so maybe the light is coming on for him.

My daughter listens to pop crap mostly. I do like Taylor Swift okay, but the rest is pretty bad. She does like The Shins and Neko Case, two of my favorites so that's cool.

My older daughter (15) plays guitar and bass. She's currently on a Metallica kick. She was excited the other day to find Master of Puppets for sale on vinyl. Her recent interest in Metallica has reignited mine as well.

The two bands she plays in is a mixed bag of stuff. They play everything from Green Day to Foo Fighters to Pink Floyd to Metallica. She's also been listening to a lot of Guns N' Roses and Led Zeppelin lately too.

My youngest daughter (12) listens to all the crappy pop stuff. About the only thing I can handle from that is the older Taylor Swift stuff. The rest of it is nails on a chalkboard to me.

My 18 year old daughter is a huge Skynyrd and Hank Jr fan. She makes her old man proud!

Hes 6 and listens to what I do mostly. He absolutely loves 21 pilots and I can handle them most days.

One of mine plays drums, and he's been in a variety of cover bands as part of the program he's in, so he likes:
White Stripes, Chris Cornell/Soundgarden, Motown, Michael Jackson, Prince, Blink 182, and a wide variety of other stuff he's drummed to.

My other son likes the same, but he's also really into rap. I'm also into rap, though, so it's fine. I just don't like some of the stuff his friends listen to, but he kind of prides himself on being into "real" hip hop, so some of his buddies might be listening to XXX of 69, he's listening to Vince Staples, Kendrick, Saba, etc... as well.

They're both also really into the stuff their mom and I both listen to when we're together like Wilco, Avett Brothers, Band of Horses, Gregory Alan Isakov, John Prine, etc..

Neither of them care for mainstream/pop music.