Music for Kiddies
As I'm writing this, my son's making meowing noises - he just read the title and thought kiddies was the same as kitties.
It's been a couple of weeks since I've written..more than a month I think. Let's just say, things got busy and I hate writing about bad stuff that's been going on with my life. But right now I've got reason to rejoice - I just discovered that my son and I have the same music taste! Forget the fact that I've been brainwashing him with my own music whenever he's in the car. He's actually telling me what songs he likes and requests for it!
It's a great jump from totally being into singing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star to humming songs by Architecture in Helsinki. Yes - that's the band, his first favorite band (which will be my most memorable favorite band for years to come).
Every so often I burn a CD of different new songs and listen to it in the car. My son usually ignores it and does his own little thing in the car - like telling me the colors on the traffic lights or mention a car, tree or flower we passed by. One time I threw in a CD with a couple of Architecture in Helsinki songs. They're always so fun to listen to and I've sworn off depressing/angry music for the time being lest they bring me thoughts of killing myself - though I'm sure Architecture in Helsinki has a couple of depressing lyrics too (but they make depressing topics oh so light and upbeat!). The song Tiny Paintings came up - I've only been able to hear it once or twice and just threw it in to the mix so I could listen to something new. My son immediately loved it. It was the Tuba and that air releasing tiny piston sound the song had at the beginning. He laughed and laughed and requested it again and again. So I thought, I should burn a copy of the whole Architecture in Helsinki album and listen to it. He kept requesting number 3 (since it was the third track in the album). 'Tiny Paints!' he'd say. I keep telling him it's 'Tiny Paintings', but he still keeps on calling it that. Which reminds me - he's got a lot of his 'own version' words like 'porkymine' for 'porcupine' and 'airpork' for 'airport' (I'm not sure what it is with pork). Anyway, 'Tiny Paints' was his first ever song-that-love-to-hear-that-i'll-keep-playing-it-again-and-again-until-i-get-sick-of-it song which is actually a nice good start for my budding music lover.
Sometimes he'd forget to request the song again after it finished, so the next song, 'Wishbone' would play. As with all albums, the next song that's on the playlist after your favorite song is the one you'd usually like next - which is exactly what happened . Now he's all about playing the song 'Wishbone' everytime I'm with him. Now, I'm hoping he'll get addicted to the song that comes after too - which is my favorite Architecture in Helsinki song of all time ('Maybe You Can Owe Me'). With 'Wishbone' he loves that it begins fast and slows down in the middle of the song and then picks right up again. He actually makes it a game to say 'Wake up!' just before the drums begin to play when the song start to become upbeat again.
At the moment, he's got three AIH songs that he keeps requesting to hear. The third one's Hold Music (the one in my last blog entry). He likes how they're all noisy singing 'Hey-yaya-hey-yaya-hey-yayaya' . As for me I love the fact that at 1:50 minutes into the song, the singer sounds exactly like Bert when he gets all crazy-angry with Ernie. Listen to it, I think it's the part of the song that makes it totally endearing to anyone who gets hooked with it.
Yeah, I get amused easy - but really, it is a great reason to rejoice, now I have my own little 4-year old music buddy. I might give a shot at teaching him how to play drums next. We'll see :) In the meantime, here's a cool clip from AIH's Take-Away show. They asked a couple of people from the street to sing with them and positioned themselves to peer out from the windows of an apartment building to facilitate the whole sing-along bit. Pretty fun stuff.
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I did mention that the Postal Service was my son's favorite band before..but Architecture in Helsinki's his first real favorite band . With 3 favorite songs and counting...he also likes to draw pictures of the singers too. :)
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