To play heavy metal to my baby?

[KenLeeeeeee]

It makes him sleep! White noise, lullabies, soothing 'ssshh' noises don't work - even feeding him doesn't make him sleep. But pop a bit of Machine Head or Fear Factory on and he dozes off within moments.

I've stopped telling people IRL about this as I've had a few too many catsbum mouth responses. Am I going to break the baby with heavy metal?

I love this thread. My DD1 was born in 2009 and I always played Motley Crue to her to get her to nod off. With weaning, she was partial to Nirvana, particularly 'Breed', and could sing the 'she said' bits by age 2.6.

She loves The Doors and now, at age 3.8yo, she has a passion for Punk, especially The Ramones.

She loves music, and is the star singer at her Nursery these days. Her teachers have told me what a wonderful singer she is who always joins in.

DD2 is only just 6mo, but she too is soothed by the likes of The Velvet Underground and enjoyed me playin The Jesus and Mary Chain to he whilst making her evening milk.

Don't worry about it. You won't break the baby. You might just help to cultivate a unique, cognitive and absolutely wonderful little person :)

never did mine any harm
and it now means I've got someone to chum me to Download - DH is stuck in prog rock era

They will develop their own tastes in time, my youngest is into jazz
My eldest went through a trance- acid- electronic phase

I say if it works then go for it! We didn't with DS but at 2 he loves going through the songs on our iPhones. One of his favourites is Andrew WK, not quite HM though but still...

I played mainly rock, metal and ska to baby whilst she was in my womb - hoping for kicks to let me know she was on the same page as me and her dad.

What did she kick to? Paloma bloody faith on the radio shakes head in despair

Hell yeah!
Our two have been able to float the horns (make the sign of the beast) since they were about two!

ZZ Top, Queens of the Stone Age, GnR, Motley Crue (or Mockerley Croo as they call them), LA Guns, Hanoi Rocks, Pendulum, Scars on Broadway, Nirvana.

Oddly enough, they both love Pentangle as well......

There are good reasons babies like metal. It's intended to be quite a physically resonating genre so from a music psychology standpoint it's actually beneficial. Mozart's appeal is harmonic rather than rhythmic.

Yy to Rammstein - all the early stuff it's German do you don't need to worry about picking up on language.

Ds is now 8, so I guess it's another 8 years before I can listen to Wu Tan without headphones :(

At least with Hanoi, you don't need to worry about them keeping in tune, Michael Monroe pretty much failed!

Ha ha!
They were immensely rubbish, but for some reason you just can't resist them.

DD(nearly 3) likes Rammstein (wam-sty) and Garbage. She's been singing along to "I think I'm paranoid" for the best part of a year now, apparently it's her song. If we play anything suitably heavy, she will make the sign of the beast and tell us to "Wock On!" Also, on a shopping trip to Ikea a few months, she realised that banging the trolley made a great noise, so she sat there, happily going "clap, clap, bang.... clap, clap, bang..." several repeats later she came out with "We will, we will, WOCK YOU!"

Whatever works is fine,I would say! Babies tend to go for whatever sounds they heard 'in utero'.

Ds is six and I always play metal and rock in the house and he does like it. It's not metal or rock but I was playing "99 problems" by Jay z the other day and ds was singing along "I got loadsa problems but the kids ain't one!"

DS also seems to prefer heavier music

YABU.

For not including Sondheim in your collection. And for not reciting Shakespeare sonnets as a matter of course

To paraphrase other responses . . . your baby, your music

that's awesome Kenleee. early education imo & keep doing it :)

You do realise that by the time he is 15 he'll be listening to Barry Manilow, or some such, just to spite ypu

Yadnbu

Machine head and fear factory are quality bands

Once, when ds1 was a teeny baby, Dh went down to Tesco, Twas a hot summers day, windows down, heavy metal blaring out and pulled into p&c space. He got out of the car and a woman started raring up at him for parking there and not having a child with him, he leaned into the car and pulled out ds1. The woman apologised, then started having a go about listening to that type of music while children are in the car...

Someone has to educate the yoof of today with decent music!

@Marshy Not necessarily ... Still waiting for 14 year old DS1 to cut his hair, give up on Finntroll and Sabatron and start grooving to easy listening instead just to wind up his ( old metalhead ) Dad, but it's not happening yet and his little brother still snoozes off to Metallica ( which is probably not the quite reaction Lars and co had in mind but who cares! )

Not quite the same but my DD loves 'This is not a love song' by PiL - all she asks for is 'song!' Either that or Adam Ant.

Of course not! Better that than some bland shite. That implies it's only marginally better than bland shite, which is not what I meant.

I like Bill Bailey talking about his DS when James Blunt came on the radio: 'Daddy, will you turn this off? It's hurting my brain.'

I think that was the phrase.

Bon Jovi is not heavy metal! It barely qualifies as music.

I will never forget going out on the front at 3am to find (now Ex) DH in his works van with DD who was about 18 months old flat out on the passenger seat. She was snoring her head off, and he was playing Fields of the Neph!

It was his turn to get up with her as she had been poorly and I had done several nights solid as he was at work. I asked what on earth he was doing and he said "I cant sing!" :o

He thought that F o t N was a perfect substitute for lullabies, and he was right! Worked a treat every time after that!

Loving this!

It gets better. My DD, now 3, has for some time demanded 'the woo song' when getting into DP's car. This is, of course 'Werewolves of London' by Warren Zevon. My DP, on discovering she liked this track, bought a collection to keep in his car. The two tracks that follow are not exactly 'child-friendly' and we're wondering how long we can keep listening to them before she starts asking about 'Roland, The Headless Thompson Gunner' and why the man in 'Excitable Boy' digs up a corpse and makes a cage with the bones...