Said every parent ever about the music popular with their kids… 
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My great-grandfather still insists that the music world went to hell in a handcart when those mop tops from Liverpool became popular. 
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My current favorite country lyrics: “longneck, ice cold beer never broke my heart.” Trudat.
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I am not a parent but rather a freshman who, playing classical piano my entire life, enjoys Mahler’s 10th Symphony more than YMW Melly and Uzi Vert. 
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Oh. I like this thread. 
Like movies, impossible to pick one - or even one hundred.But… I’ll play.
Autumn Leaves - Paul Desmond/Chat Baker
Love me or leave me - Nina Simone
My Funny Valentine - Sting
Non, Je ne regrette rien - E.Piaf
I don’t want to miss a thing - Aerosmith
City of Blinding lights - U2
The Ghost in you - The Psychedelic Furs
Can’t take my eyes off you - Frankie Valli & the four seasons
My one and only love - Sting
Pictures of you - The Cure
White winter hymnal - Fleet Foxes
In your eyes - Peter Gabriel
When the stars go blue - The Corrs
When all’s well - EBTG
…and the list goes on and on and on… 
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Gosh… I have heard of almost none of these. Except for U2. And Aerosmith. Several people on this thread have mentioned the Psychedelic Furs. Are they really popular? I have not heard of them before.
More so in the UK, but they were popular in the US during their heyday. Keep in mind that parents’ playlists will almost always differ from those of their kids.
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You’ve probably heard their music, but didn’t know it. If you’ve ever heard “Pretty in Pink,” that’s the Psychedelic Furs. They were in a long line of post punk/New Wave bands in the late 70s, early 80s, like Modern English, The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen… D20 and friends have watched all the John Hughe’s films from the 80’s, so she’s familiar with some of the new wave bands. She’s definitely an 70/80’s rocker though. We have a lot of the same songs on our playlists; she just has some broadway, PATD, IDs and MCR songs thrown in. She and her roommates did music trivia with us this week, and she correctly answered “Barracuda” by Heart; we considered it a parenting win.
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We’re in the minority then. Two of my kids have taken my playlist as their base and added some more that they then give to me (like Hamilton or Josh Groban songs - he has an awesome voice). The third rarely listens to any music.
As Tigerwife said, they were pretty popular back then. We got to see them in 2019 when they came to FL…I was like wow…can’t believe I am that old…lol…your parents might have heard of many of these 80’s bands. Our younger son loves 80’s stuff, music in particular (he’s been coached…lol) and is good with names, so often times we are the ones asking “who sings that?” I’m like…“who needs shazam?” 
We have a very eclectic taste when it comes to music, thus the mix. S and I used to listen to 80’s music during car ride home in MS…they always played “time after time” and we’d sing along…ahh…then last year, we watched “Where’d you go, Bernadette?” and I was literally in tears 
(there’s a scene where she and her daughter are singing “tat”). Now he’s going to college. 
Go to YT. You may end up liking some of those.
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Oh, gosh, I’m all over the place. I’m bad at pop…have hardly paid attention since Talking Heads. It’s a shock to realize how long ago that was, because I keep forgetting I’m not twenty nine 
I’m old enough to remember the night those “mop heads” burst on the US scene on the Ed Sullivan show and to note my parents’ derision. (I thought my mom and dad were so old but they were only in their thirties). You’re right, @skieurope, there was a “before” and “after” generational divide. I had to hide my proclivities from my parents but crooners from Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Simon & Garfunkel, Carole King and especially James Taylor (before it became elevator music) were my coming-of age favorites (Fire and Rain can still draw a tear, if I’m being honest).
The eighties were my Peace Corps and world-rambling years. I was rarely in the US and when I was, in DC with other footloose friends who’d were chasing overseas NGO contracts. So any/all world music with traditional roots, Cuban and Brazilian jazz, West African pop (King Sunny Ade’ and his African Beats) were added to the list. Then old classics Sonny Terry (Black Night Road), Ella Fitzgerald. A stew of New Orleans and southern Blues/jazz/Zydeco and fun blends soon followed. New Orleans Klezmer Allstars anyone? Radiators (Bucket of Fish). I was mesmerized by an instrumental album called “A Meeting By the River” by Ry Cooder and V.M. Byatt that melded Blues with traditional Indian Tabla.
Then the kid-raising years. Suzuki Violin, Irish Fiddling tunes and New Direction, lol.
Right now having fun listening to old Eastern European vocal harmonies/instruments and smaltzy romantic pop from Istanbul, thanks in good part to Netflix and the Turkish films/series I discovered there 
I’ve always love renaissance and baroque.
But otherwise? Maybe my single favorite piece of music is Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.
ooh. Moonlight Sonata…nice pick. I would suggest some others if I may. Beethoven’s no 17 (tempest) is great and so is his Appassionata Sonata. Also listen to Beethoven’s 5th Concerto (The Emperor). And I will always suggest, Mahler’s 10th or 5th symphony…perfection.
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So, now that we are on the topic of 80’s/70’s, anybody like Journey. I don’t know if this is in the same genre as some of these bands but their songs are still great. Africa by TOTO is also nice but not as nice as Faithfully
We’re huge Journey fans in our house; Separate Ways (w/the hand motions) and Don’t Stop Believin’ are family favorites to belt out in the car.
Don’t Stop Believin’ is a good song as well. I personally like Faithfully just for the intro… Very heartwarming song dedicated to his wife…and then they broke up 
My song choices depict my moods of course. Just to name a few.
A drop in the ocean by ron pope
Falling slowly by kris allen
Blame by bastille
Umbrella by rihanna
Grow as we go by ben platt
A few more of our family favorites are “American Pie,” “Piano Man,” and “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim;” they’re on everyone’s playlists. There are just certain songs you can’t help but sing out loud.
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Piano man is very good. The song itself is not difficult to play but the lyrics are genius
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I agree with the Moonlight Sonata. All three movements! I played that for contests in high school. 
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I had never heard of Mt. Joy before. And I’m a huge Indie rock fan. Can’t get “Julia” off my head now. Thank you!
And ‘Tiny Dancer’…love, love, love!
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