What music to play for babby?

What did you, or do you intend to, play for your infant/toddler, and why?

right now, she doesn't seem to have much opinion of what i play (5 mo. old)...

i've played everything from john fahey to the beatles to a george cartwright skronky free jazz record to heavy stuff like STNNNG, i dunno...she doesn't seem to get aggravated by noisy stuff...or really react that much to stuff positively either

the only time i honestly felt like she was digging a song was the song "golden years" by david bowie

Toy Dolls

baby heard whatever I was listening to around the house plus a couple of those albums of popular artists (Ramones, Zeppelin, etc.) material re-done with glockenspiels/xylophones, etc. and some Raymond Scott, altho those albums get kinda annoying. Kid is now 3 and demands to listen to the following on a daily basis: the White Stripes, King Khan, the Ramones, Broadcast. altho for awhile there all she wanted to hear was the Chordettes' Lollipop.

she doesn't seem to get aggravated by noisy stuff...or really react that much to stuff positively either

yeah infants are kinda like "pfft sound. whatever"

sylvie mainly likes drum heavy stuff -- like if a song starts with just drums, she stops what she's doing and waves her hands in the air. no particular genre.

my son's 15 months old and for the most part i just play what i was going to listen to anyway, although as he gets older and more aware/curious/etc. i'm sure i'll try to find stuff he likes or responds to.

most of our musical interaction is playing around w/ various instruments i have around the apartment (keyboard, little steel drum, ukelele, some toy isntruments)

But do you have any particular idea/agenda in choosing what music to expose your kid to? Like trying to engender certain sensibilities or create new neural pathways or w/e

some dude's baltimore club babby

THERES SOME TOYS IN THIS HOUSE, IF YOU SEE EM POINT EM OUT
THERES SOME TOYS IN THIS HOUSE, IF YOU SEE EM POINT EM OUT

xxpost yeah i just got out my wife's old keyboard which has one of those voice sampling things (where you record a snippet of your voice and then can play it at different notes), and the kid thinks that's hilarious.

my son's 15 months old and for the most part i just play what i was going to listen to anyway

yeah basically this^ but i guess i'm a herb and am not playing stuff with swear words so not really hip hop

haaa, baby was reallllly enjoying the last big boi album over the weekend, and i felt sort of weird about it.

^^^I think I stopped rocking Too $hort around the house/in the car at around 6 mos old or so lol

haha a couple i know put a video on youtube of their daughter bouncing around to baltimore club when she was a toddler.

I sing to her, whatever good kids songs I can think of: Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Rainbow Connection, the Winnie the Pooh theme, basic lullabies, some Taylor Swift stuff, a couple of the Mountain Goats tunes (she really likes "There Will Be No Divorce"). And I make up shit too; just happy melodies and lyrics about boobley-babbley babies running around the town and stuff. I like singing or humming to her because, you know, that quality bonding time right there. Better than just plugging in her ipod.

laurie anderson - "o superman"

btw this is not a troll, my parents had that record when I was a kid and I fucking loved it. otherworldy stuff.

have any of you done that thing where the baby is as of yet unborn and you put headphones against the mother's stomach so it can listen in the womb? i seem to remember having seen that somewhere but when i thought about doing it this week my next thought was, "that's ridiculous."

Someone bought us a kids toy that has a processed voice very similar to O Superman! I'm not surprised that you liked it.

xp

Not officially for babies though (ages 3-and-up):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xFktwQ7FTk

nightmares

This is what my babby has been enjoying lately (much to my wife's displeasure):

http://www.utechrecords.com/URSK.html

Not technically music, but the hair drier and rain sounds on this are very popular:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002AR4F0W/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B00009TXZL&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0JBZ20TEAM5EG8279206

infant: anything chill. it's hard enough being a new parent without aggravating the babby. you ramp it up for playtime of course, but mostly it was mellow gold

toddler: i tended to play fun, bubblegum pop music of all kinds, lots of new wave, 50s rock'n'roll and current stuff. my daughter gravitated towards songs she liked. now she's six, loves MAYA and the Labyrinth soundtrack.

I sang.

yeah we sing a lot, although we sort of have theme songs for certain events, which she's catching on to -- like we started singing the "bath" song last night and she went running in the other direction.

Not officially for babies though (ages 3-and-up):

http://www.youtube.com/v/2xFktwQ7FTk&fs=1&hl=en

― kkvgz, Tuesday, January 11, 2011 12:59 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark

ha i was playing with these things and they're pretty addictive.

my baby is also too young to care (about 5.5 months) but I like to put on garage rock and jiggle her around. we listen to a lot of the monks, the sonics and "surfin' bird"

Oh yeah: sometimes she gets really into it if I clap my hands or snap my fingers (which sort of goes along with what was said upthread about drum intros. So last night, I sang/clapped "Jack & Diane" to her and she looked elated.