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Posted about 1 year ago

It's a horrible day outside. The snowfall that started after midnight has turned into a hateful combination of rain and frozen ice. As such, myself, the wife and the little kids are cooped up in our apartment, which is a recipe for blood-splattered disaster. When we could no longer tolerate the shrill punishments of hearing "Dora the Explorer" and "Go, Diego, Go" bleating out of our television like a piercing dog whistle, Peggy (the wife) turned on this insipid children's album (Humpty Who?....seek it out and snap it in half when you find it, and then strike the person who sold it to you in the gums with a hammer). This is almost made Daddy want to sprint for the liquor cabinet to ease the pain, but that's not on the menu.

In any case, when that forty-five minutes of abject, soul-immolating horror ended, I immediately fired up my iTunes and the first song to come blossoming out of the speakers like a vulgarly pulchritudinous sonic flower of feral neo-psychedelia was "Thorn of Crowns" by Echo & the Bunnymen - SALVATION! Being as punchdrunk (or, as my lovely British wife says, "woodsqueer"), as I was, I couldn't stop myself from jumping up and frugging as if the very stability of the space/time continuum depended on it - especially when Ian lets out those "Yea-KICK IT!"s. To my pleasant surprise, both of my kids started dancing along (Charlotte, age 3 and Oliver, age 1), and our living room was transformed into a rocking post-punk disco with less laughable hair

This song rocks, and the world is a better place because of it.

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Alien8n says Makes a change. To get my kids to sleep when they were growing up they had Megadeth instead of lullabies. It seems to have done the trick as they're now 9 and 11 year old Evanescence fans. Unfortunately the eldest has discovered High School Musical and Hannah Montana. Roll on when she's 15 and I can take her to her first rock concert so I can teach her how music is supposed to be played! Hopefully Iron Maiden will still be playing in 3 1/2 years time...

Permalink posted 12/17/2007
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jenny says Don't buy kids music...Raffi embeds subliminal messages about being normal all through "Baby Beluga" and don't even get me started on "Jump Your Jigglies Out." (Like it works anyway...after the song, more jigglies than ever, bet your life on it.) My kid really likes classic rock -- Thin Lizzy, Sabbath, the Who, Hendrix, Queen, Zep -- but he'll listen to the Saints and Radio Birdman if he has to. I heard him singing along to Jay Reatard the other day in the car. I think the stability of the space time continuum does partly depend on decent tunes for young people. Do your bit.

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chucky says Haha...now you know for future reference you can skip the kid stuff and go straight to the good stuff. Just as long as you jump around like a fool the kids will be entertained.

Permalink posted 12/20/2007