Music appropriate for a 10-year old girl?!

This thread isn't nearly as sexy as that "what song(s) do you like to get busy to" thread (Closer!), but it would help me with a gift for my niece. I bought her an iPod Shuffle and wanted to download some fun tunes. What are kids listening to these days? Her Mom listens to country, her Dad to classic rock, and her aunts' tastes are all over the place. I'd like to stay clear of the Y's (Britney, Hillary, Lindsay, etc.) and introduce her to music from all genres - any decade.

Any tunes that bring back fond memories for you from when you were a kid? Puff the Magic Dragon and Georgie Girl do it for me. I have some Putamayo and Tom Paxton CDs I can lift from. Maybe even some Motown. Belle & Sebastian and The Guillemots have some catchy tunes that I think she'd like. She likes to watch American Idol with her Mom, but I want to expand her horizons beyond Clay Aiken and Taylor Hicks. ;-)

Thanks for any ideas!

My kids aren't quite that old, but they like Jack Johnson.

Thanks - that's one more to the list. I don't quite "get" Jack Johnson, but I'll dig around for something.

She's great.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=A6P9YMmZkz0

from my 9 yr old that the "High School Musical" soundtrack is popular. The "Curious George" one gets a lot of play around here too. I'm not sure what else she is listening to.

Thanks.

(she's 12) and it was one that she asked for.

Pretty much any soundtrack to a movie they like is a sure bet.
My kids LOVE the soundtrack to Chicken Little and the Shaggy Dog.

High School Musical is very popular.

RL

I need to get out more (or sumthin'). Thanks!

Annoying as hell to adults, kids love them.

RL

redone for rugrats thing, Retro?

I think kids should hear the real thing. But what do I know - we played Capt. Beefheart and Robyn Hitchcock and Tuvan throat singing tunes for our kid. But he does love the Beatles.

I play them good original tunes...

They love Fountains of Wayne, Beatles, Damien Rice, Imogen Heap, et.al.

RL

that guy is a superb pop tunesmith!

I just don't get why everything has to be watered down. Of course all my music fanatic cronies have been playing their kids the widest variety of music - Meridith Monk, Coltrane, weird Balkan tunes, Anonymous 4,Handel, African drumming, what have you, pretty much out of the gate.

Frank Zappa's "Have I Offended Someone"
:evilgrin:

(or not) he's the classic rock fan in the family.

Ashley Tisdale, Vanessa Hudgens, Aly & AJ, Hilary Duff, High School Musical, etc.

This is a huge hit in that age group.

Also, as mentioned above, Hannah Montana, Cheetah Girls, Radio Disney Party Jams, etc.

She'll probably think you are shopping for CDs for her :evilgrin:

She still would have no idea you got her an iPod

not for her to tell me she wants skanky Britney's latest CD. She gets enough current pop culture from other sources - I'm trying to broaden her horizons.

D'oh.

Thought you wanted to know what 10 y.o girls like to listen to... :shrug:

I'd download some songs from Itunes and give her a mixed CD.

Cyndi Lauper, Pink, ABBA, Carol King, etc. mixed with Disney Channel songs (if she likes that sort of thing)

then when I have more time burn a CD just for fun. Those first four suggestions are good, but I'll probably stay away from Disney. She gets enough Disney from other sources.

I believe that girl is actually the real-life daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus. My daughter likes her.

Wait, that's what _I_ listen to. Carry on.

to something with Dave Matthews. I can dig through some CDs and see what I come up with. She'll be 11 in March - close enough.

:shrug:

http://www.amazon.com/Not-Kids-Only-Jerry-Garcia/dp/B000003913/sr=8-1/qid=1166721416/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-4884243-1195306?ie=UTF8&s=music

Pete Seeger
http://www.amazon.com/Birds-Beasts-Bugs-Fishes-Little/dp/B000001DO5/sr=1-4/qid=1166721469/ref=sr_1_4/102-4884243-1195306?ie=UTF8&s=music

Another Pete
http://www.amazon.com/American-Folk-Activity-Songs-Children/dp/B00003OP49/ref=pd_sim_m_3/102-4884243-1195306

(hence the Tom Paxton reference above) -- I'll check these out. Thanks much!

Its a CD of Disney songs done by artists like Tom Waits, Sun Ra, and Bonnie Raitt
Pink Elephants on Parade by Sun Ra is fantastic

expose all kids to the funkiest, most wonderfully obscure stuff possible. All kids should know about Sun Ra!

:thumbsup:

but I do now!

he sat in my buddy's lap when they paraded around during one song. He was certainly unique.

My son was probably that age when he wore out the tape of The Golden Age of Wireless.
REM was another of his gateway bands.

at the Capital Centre in the early '80s. And a cassette of The Golden Age of Wireless.

Doesn't look like I'll make Christmas with all of these interesting suggestions, but her birthday's in March!

I was at the first show they had there(Allman Brothers) and went to see it blown up. The explosion released the residue from a thousand joints, or so it seemed.

because I wasn't old enough to serve beer. Maybe you saw me. ;-)

I did have the munchies a lot in those days.

and, as an added bonus, piss off her parents!





good starts.

for good measure?

and heroin on such short notice

I started to inquire about this Power I should be fighting.

good music, seminal music, is important.

that's one thing my little sister asked for from santa.

and other cartoon classics.

they're cute little songs about girl-empowerment. She loves 'em.

:hi: