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Song Choices for a 10 year old Boy....... Need Suggestions
My nephew turned 10 today. One of the presents he got was a CD, "American Idiot," by Green Day. Because of explicit lyrics, he's not allowed to listen to at least a few songs from the CD, so it's my job to burn a new CD with all of the "OK" songs on it for him.
While I'm at it, he asked me to put more stuff on the CD, from my MP3 collection, if I could. I'm more than happy to do so, but I don't know what to put on there. He's a 10 year old kid, and I don't want to put a bunch of stuff he's not ready for, and sour him on it. I need your help..... His favorite songs are "All Star" by Smash Mouth, "Blvd. of Broken Dreams," and "Wake me Up When September Ends" from the Green Day CD. My music collection is lop-sided. It's mostly old stuff, Beatles, Beach Boys, Dylan, Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, etc. I don't have a lot of cheesy pop music, but I have some random things from the heydey of Napster over five years ago. One song I'm definitely going to add is "Time of Your Life," another poppy Green Day ballad. I was thinking of some simple stuff from the Beach Boys and the Beatles to round it out, things like; Wouldn't it be Nice Sloop John B When I'm Sixty-Four Yellow Submarine I can't exactly put "The Ballad of John and Yoko" on there, I'm kinda stuck on what to throw on there that's high quality music. I'm not opposed to buying a few songs from Itunes, or in seeking stuff out that's outside my library, if I agree with the suggestion. My wife suggested "Barenaked Ladies" songs like "If I had a Million Dollars" and I think that's perfect. Any help is much appreciated. He's a fairly normal 10 year old boy, likes video games, Harry Potter. He's not completely trendy, he "could" like something that his friends don't like / know about, but it can't be too far out there. And you're off........ |
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Re: Song Choices for a 10 year old Boy....... Need Suggestions
DMB Ants Marching
The John Mayer song about high school Some Kelly Clarkson Just my random thoughts as I stab myself with scissors. |
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Re: Song Choices for a 10 year old Boy....... Need Suggestions
tool - stinkfist
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Re: Song Choices for a 10 year old Boy....... Need Suggestions
Damn I wish I could come up with a clever priest joke right now.
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Re: Song Choices for a 10 year old Boy....... Need Suggestions
Good one with Ants Go Marching. I don't know the other stuff, thanks.
I've got plenty of Dave Matthews stuff to throw on there. |
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Re: Song Choices for a 10 year old Boy....... Need Suggestions
Since I have a ten year old son, I will make a suggestion.
Download the soundtrack to any of the Tony Hawk games. I just loaded up my sons ipod with Tony Hawk underground soundtrack Here is a partial list 1. The Angry Amputees / She Said 2. Assorted Jelly Beans / Rebel Yell 3. Bad Religion / Big Bang 4. Blue Collar Special / Don’t Wait 5. Bracket / 2 Rak 005 6. Dropkick Murphys / Time to Go 7. Flamethrower / I Want It All 8. G.B.H. / Crushem 9. Mike V and the Rats / The Days 10. NOFX / The Separation of Church and Skate 11. Paint It Black / Womb Envy 12. Refused / New Noise 13. Rise Against / Like the Angels 14. Rubber City Rebels / Pierce My Brain 15. Social Distortion / Mommy’s Little Monster 16. Stiff Little Fingers / Suspect Device 17. Strike Anywhere / Refusal 18. Sublime / Seed 19. The Browns American / Werewolf in Calgary 20. The Clash / White Riot 21. The Transplants / California Babylon 22. Alkaline Trio / Armageddon 23.The Addicts / Viva La Revolution 24.The Midnight Evils / Loaded and Lonely |
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Re: Song Choices for a 10 year old Boy....... Need Suggestions
System of a Down - BYOB [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Give him the gift of ADHD
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Re: Song Choices for a 10 year old Boy....... Need Suggestions
No no no, you need to get him into good music from an early age. Beatles is the right way to go, but don't just stick to the airy poppy songs, wack helter skelter on there and Day Tripper, Taxman and Back in The USSR, i used to love those songs when i was about 10 (still love them now). And yeah beach boys songs like Surfin USA, Fun Fun Fun, Good Vibrations etc. Maybe My Generation or Can't Explain by The Who, and something like Baggy Trousers by Madness.
You could also go for some stuff like the Ghostbusters theme tune, he's gotta like ghostbusters. This is the perfect opportunity to mould his mind into the way you want, it'll mean that in years to come you wont have to go on to him about 'that modern crap you listen to'. Because it'll all be good music. |
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Re: Song Choices for a 10 year old Boy....... Need Suggestions
This is kinda the idea, I just don't want to overwhelm him and cause backlash against..... the Beatles or something really good.
I mean, I could throw "Good Charlotte" on there and know he'd like it, but I'm not necessarily interested in cultivating his love for Good Charlotte. This is hard. |
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Re: Song Choices for a 10 year old Boy....... Need Suggestions
Is hip hop out of the question because there are some tracks on the new Common and Kanye CD's that I'd put on there.
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