They Might Be Giants/Music for Parents? for Kids? Both!

Music for Parents isn't always mutually exclusive from the music your kids can enjoy.  My daughter loves it when The Flaming Lips song "This Here Giraffe" plays on the radio, or when Yacht's "Psychic City" blasts out of our speakers.  They Might Be Giants are probably the best example of a band that both kids and parents can enjoy.  They have albums made for children (Here Come the ABC's, Here Come the 1,2,3's, No!, Here Comes Science) which are educational, fun and guaranteed to hold off on the annoyance factor longer than most children's music.
But here is the fun part, go back and listen to some of their older music before they were making songs for kids.  They were always making songs for kids!  I bet if you put the Lincoln album on your kids will love "Ana Ng" or "Shoehorn with Teeth".  Or from the album They Might Be Giants, "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head", "Number Three" and "Don't Let's Start".  From Flood check out "Birdhouse in Your Soul", "Instanbul (not Constantinople)", "Particle Man" and "Whistling in the Dark".
Birdhouse In Your Soul - Live


Make sure you check the blog on Saturday, I'll have a new feature, "just buy these".  I'm going to recommend 5 songs (4 new, 1 less new) and two albums (new, less new) for you to buy.  For the price of a couple cups of coffee a week you can start to rebuild your music collection and get your ears back.  No review, no thinking, just do it.