Kids Rock Songs

Kid-friendly rock and pop are bigger than ever these days, and youthful joy beams like candy-coated sunshine from these tracks by kid-rocking kings and queens both old and new. The Madonna of the tweener set, Miley Cyrus starts thing off in her Hannah Montana mode with a perky pop punch and that first-crush feeling on "If We Were a Movie" and amps things up a little more under her own name with the breathless list-making of the revved-up rocker "7 Things." And in case you were wondering, old dudes can kid-rock too — check out the Shrek-tested snap-crackle-pop of Counting Crows' "Accidentally in Love" for proof.

Big kids meet little ones in Next Steps.

Get that giddy rush of recognition from the songs that chirped out at you from the radio and TV as a kid, and get in on the next wave of tomorrow's nostalgia today. The seesaw-hopping, rope-jumping playground-funk of the Jackson 5's "ABC" will give you that warm-and-fuzzy, remember-when vibe. Tomorrow's adults will feel the same way about Smash Mouth's gutsy update of the Monkees smash "I'm a Believer." And the perfect pop hooks that planted your childhood soundtrack in your brain live on in 21st-century teen-pop, too — tap into the sugar shot of high harmonies and guitar crunch that powers the Click Five's "Just the Girl" to find out for sure.

Find some old-school fun in Deep Cuts.

Ready for some kid-rockin' cuts from back in the day? These are the tracks that electrified after-school soda shops with a happy hum, turning every jukebox spin into a finger-poppin', three-minute vacation. If you've got the moves to match the grooves, make way for Bobby Day, whose boppin' R&B strut "Rockin' Robin" would turn into a hit a second time for a teenage Michael Jackson. Grow some Halloween happy feet with Bobby "Boris" Pickett's spooky novelty smash "Monster Mash." But if your tummy's growling, remember that Dee Dee Sharp's girl-group-era gem "Mashed Potato Time" is about mashing it up on the dance floor, not in the kitchen.

There's a little kid-rocker in all of us, just waiting to jump up and spin around like a wild whirling dervish. Those merry melodies that made us move when we were music-loving moppets can still work their timeless magic, from the Beach Boys' summer-starter "Fun, Fun, Fun" to the Archies' ticket to bubblegum-pop paradise "Sugar, Sugar." And the kids of today? Well, they can get the same kind of kick from the hottest young pop princes, the Jonas Brothers, without waiting until the "Year 3000," or they can pick up on blonde-bombshell sister act Aly & A.J's emotions-in-motion science lesson "Chemicals React." Some kids — of all ages — have all the luck…