For the brief prog I was exposed to at a young age, I loved most of it. Songs like Elton John's "Funeral For a Friend" and Deep Purple's "Child In Time" remain top songs to this day. Just something about them going beyond the norm intrigued me. Of course, in those days I thought it was rare haha, and that 8 minutes was a very long time for a song.

Supertramp was one of the first for me as well. One of those sort of bands that non-prog fans love without really knowing it's prog. My parents used to play them all the time. I remember acquiring some of my dad's old records a few years ago and being shocked that I knew basically all the lyrics to Breakfast in America, despite it only being played really when I was age 4-6.

My brothers were all teenagers / early twens when I was about 6, 7 year old.

I remember that hen I was 4, I was crazy about See Me Feel Touch Me by The Who.

I remember that when I was 7, Air from Ekseption was my favorite song.

My brothers liked Genesis, Yes, ELP, Procol Harum and I was fascinated by it.

Kids should be proggified more and more! 

My wife said to me several times that I should play my music to my kid daughter too.

Excellent idea, I must say 

She likes Nursery Cryme but doesn't understand it.

When I was only 8  I grew up in the 70s and I heard Bungle in the Jungle and Black Night. I know this cos I used to write down songs off the radio and kept the lists!

 

My younger brothers picked up on a lot of the stuff I had ... like Scorpions (1st 3 albums), AD2, and Mike Oldfield, Vangelis and others.

 

The house we had, was fairly educated when it comes to various cultures ... for example, my sisters had travelled in Europe and they had Aphrodite's Child way before their last album, and even had a Demi Roussos album to their credit ... so by the time I heard 666 and loved it, they thought it was not good, because they had the earlier stuff! They also had other things that were fairly progressive ... like Alan Stivell's opus album that went Red Seal and some other odd things here and there.

 

Children .. younger sister's son became a bass player in many bands until he decided that he was too good a musician and others too lazy around him, and he became a dj in the LA area ... apparently has an album already and a fairly good reputation. He plucked on my bass several times ... a Gibson EB-0 at the time.

 

Other than my younger brother, who is a music fiend like me, pretty much the rest of the family is "music'less" for my tastes and I tend to follow the Shakespeare's dictum on this one ... not trust anyone that has no music inside!

 

Odd stuff ... related to this somewhat. I have always had a "tinker bell" ... that I can use for meditation or other things. One of its best uses, has always been on babies that cry ... because their teeth might be hurting as they pop or such ... I get to calm them down. I have had better luck with them by doing "visuals" than music, however ... and is one of the reasons why I have a lot of fun with kids ... sometimes more so than adults ... or as one child once told her mother ... he plays with us, not give us toys! ... which ended a relationship!

 

Mostly music has been ... an adult's mind game in our house ... and I have written the story about my dad listening to Tomita's version of Debussy and him looking at it as fooling around, just like Walter Carlos had ... and I got ticked and trashed him ... and a week later when I visited, my mom told me that he had listened to the album again and that it was really faithful and very well done as an interpretation, unlike the Walter Carlos album that was less serious music than it was fun. So I have him the next Tomita album ... he was now ... "sunthesized"!

 

And we're talking very early ... and this is not something that we discuss a lot ... but he already had Heinemann,  Stockhausen and many others. He did not have Terry Riley, which I gifted him with as a way to show him that what those two were doing was "colder" and more "mechanical" than what Terry was doing ... which he eventually agreed to. By that time, I already had Beaver and Krause in my collection, btw ... which I got because they were involved in a few films and their music was adapted and adjusted in several things.

 

All in all, for us, the "children" did not take to it as much, because our house had that stupid "intelectual" thing ... and never once thought that a child's opinion was as valuable as ours! For all intents and purposes, because of the "famous dad", the "music" and the "art" was taken out of all children and offsprings ... in some cases as a reaction to the over-bearing situation that says that in every house and country, there is only one God, and the children are not important ... they kiss the legacy's bums!

My son loved Marillion when we saw them a few months ago. He also has a soft spot for Gabriel. He appreciates good music, but is also listening to crap such as that bloody awful Gangnam Style thing. ah well, he is only 11, but I hope he has been infused with enough decent music to really appreciate it as he gets older.

My son is also autistic, so does tend to analyse quite a lot. Again, I see this as being a virtue as he develops into an adult.

A lot of the music you subject children to, also has to do with what you yourself bring into it. Meaning if you jump and dance and bring them into the midst of the beat, they'll most likely get it straight away. If you sit around and wait for them to magically understand what the meaning behind Tales from Topographic Oceans is, you may just be setting yourself up for failure...

Lastly - most kids tend to dig Demon Fuzz:

 

 

Same story. My parents had Crime of The Century, Even In The Quietest Moments and Breakfast in America and they used to play these CD's, especially BIA. I used to check the booklet without even knowing some of the songs and reading the lyrics without even knowing what it means . They also bought Crisis, What Crisis and ...Famous Last Words when I really discovered Supertramp and we went to see Roger Hodgson. Ahhh good times. When there is a world full of One Direction and Rihanna (c**p), I still trust Supertramp for a listen, along with other good pop artists. I really love them.

my wife says the same thing. but my 5 years old  daughter seems to like yes and spocks beard  [ she even dances like crazy with ''Thoughts (Part II) '' ]

Actually before i got into rock and metal, i listened to rap and sh*t like that, i hate most of that now.

Well, atleast my dad listened to some classic stuff like The Beatles and Pink Floyd, but i didn't really like it at first. That's completely changed now.

When I was very young I would have these music knowledge competitions with my dad. It was a lot of fun. He introduced me to Crosby, Stills and Nash. My parents didn't know it, directly. They didn't listen to 'prog' or whatever. My mom listens to more popular stuff now and, looking back, she was interested in hearing new pop music. I never rebelled, but I was deathly afraid of liking anything that wasn't 'rock and roll'. If it was rap, hip-hop, country, or even close, I'd refer to my dad about it all. If he said it was cool, it was cool. I didn't think too much about it when I was 13. Now, when I gained access to the internet, I set off on a journey that has been going ever since. At that time I adored Dream Theater and despised Hank Williams. Now I despise Dream Theater and adore Hank Williams. My musical interests dash from one random thing to the next month by month. I don't know if it was mostly my parents mindsets toward music that pushed me (they never seemed to focus on music or talk about it with anybody), but music was playing constantly, sometimes into the drunken hours of morning. One of my earliest memories is in a dark, small room. It must be around three in the morning and the old stereo on the night stand is playing Nirvana's 'Come As You Are'. Maybe I remember it all wrong. 

Now I'm playing all sorts of things for my son. He's memorized the chorus to Bob Dylan's 'Ballad of a Thin Man'. He likes Savatage and songs off the Anthology of American Folk Music. He's only four, so his development is limited to what I play him. I've no earthly clue what he'll be listening to in ten years. 

Gaw, I do gab on about some inane sh*t, sometimes.

 

 

Heeeeeeey !!! Sexy Lady. Oppan Gangnam Style

That's exactly my reality. Almost every kid in my class loves the music I hate. But Padraic, don't go so mad about that. They will mature and they will be interested in you music someday. Actually, the music video of Gangnam Style is a little guilty pleasure for me. But the music is c**p.

Haha that came across as slightly sinister like treating your kid as an experiment. 

These guys on here with parents who had good musical taste are lucky. There is no way I'm letting my kids experience the rubbish that mine listened to. The 8 year old is into Rush and some space rock and the 6 year old is digging Mozart and Bach. Not a bad start.

 

Since then I started using high hopes to put her to sleep. Now she's a painter and her last painting shows the shadow of a man in a dark-yellow twilight bringing a bell on his shoulder in a country landscape.

 

When I was 4, I've been told, I was used to play Beatles and Animals in the juke-box. It was too early for prog.  

Neither did I. I still listen to, and enjoy, Simon & Garfunkel, John Denver, and classic rock and roll.

Nice to read, I love Arlo Guthrie and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 

Well, Yours is No Disgrace for the scratch.

So there's something wrong with teenagers that like old music, and like it for the music and not the attitude?

24 isn't young, i've seen lots of younger people here, including me, i'm 16.

It's not enough time to listen to everything I would. You have 26 available years more than me.

 

Workout.

You can live 26 more years (unless you have health problems).

In my mid- to late teens, instead of falling asleep to music, I would listen to music instead of going to sleep.  I guess it was a form of rebellion... Maybe.  This was one of the ways in which I discovered Progressive Rock.  My first classic Genesis album was Foxtrot, and I can recall listening to it for the first time, seated on my bedroom floor.  I discovered Porcupine Tree in the same way through In Absentia.  Magical experiences, to be sure.

It's hard loving so much music and having no sustainable source of income.

 

He loves Marillion, Camel and Muse and some Yes and Rush but hates IQ and Genesis (probably because I adore them). He plays Hysteria and Roundabout as well as some Rush tracks like YYZ regularly and flawlessly on his bass and is actually getting his band to cover some prog tracks at gigs.

The Yes Album is better than Fragile anyway.

Don't you think Roundabout would be more fitting? 

Thank you for sharing that!  I have friends with autistic spectrum kids, I love 'em all!  Very neat, creative children, they are a gift for all of us to appreciate.

My 19 daughter is pressing me since days to buy the tickets for ROGER WATERS at the end of July

I have to admit, their name probably contributed to why I first listened to them too. There's something about that idea of a Gentle Giant that I like.

If only I had discovered Gentle Giant earlier.  I was already in my late teens when I picked up my first GG album, Octopus.  I think it was the perfect place to start.  I have since fleshed out my collection chronologically in either direction, back to their debut and up to The Power and the Glory.  Interestingly, of all those albums, my least favorite is In A Glass House, which is their highest rated studio album here on PA.  It seems a bit meandering, less focused than their other efforts.  I do quite like The Power and the Glory, but I think I prefer the first four albums to anything that followed.