Let me list some of my favorite bands, but first i’d like to add this disclaimer -
In order to full appreciate this, you have to imagine a 17 year old male in sunglasses, driving around with the windows down and the volume cranked up*, listening to:
(the mix CD i have in the car now contains)
A Flock Of Seagulls
AC/DC
The Bee Gees
Frankie Valli
Duran Duran
Depeche Mode
Huey Lewis And The News
Motley Crue
Van Halen
Falco
Although, this is the stuff my dad played in the car when i was five, so it goes to show…
*Not all the way up. I’m not that much of an asshole.
You think that’s abuse? My mom made me wear an Anderson, Buford, Wakeman & Howe t-shirt. She got it for me at the concert. She made like she’d cry if I didn’t.
You think that’s abuse? My mom made me wear an Anderson, Buford, Wakeman & Howe t-shirt. She got it for me at the concert. She made like she’d cry if I didn’t.
I should bring that up next time she wants to know what turned me queer.
Why didn’t they save some money on lettering and just call themselves “Yes - Chris Squire”?
I say go totally old school and fill your boy’s iPod with:
The Doors
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Jimmy Hendrix
Rush
Yes
AC/DC
Boston
Pink Floyd
The Clash
The Ramones
Bruce Springsteen
Black Sabbath
The Greatfull Dead
and of course
Led Zeppelin
That should be just the right mix of classic rock, metal, punk and prgressive psychadelica to make him realize how much today’s music sucks.
So, of course the older folk (myself included) are gleeful that kids are listening to older music. But kids should be listening to ANYTHING that makes their parents cringe. Why are they listening to Doors (etc.)? It seems like a bizarre sociological phenomenon. Using the proper cliche–“what’s up with that?”
Especially since the Doors suck. No, really. Divorce your taste from your memory for a second and look at the band rationally. No bass player, so that cripples the keyboard player. The drummer was…barely adequate. Over-wrought lyrics from an alcoholic “poet” with delusions of musicianhood. They stink.
Pair them with memory, however, and they are the music of my youth. And I wouldn’t trade my memories, or CDs, for the world.
I wonder what the kids today are remembering while listening to Morrison’s ramblings…?
My 10 year old son loves R.E.M., Queen, They Might Be Giants, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and a bunch of others. Yay! He also recently announced that his new favorite food, after chocolate, was tofu. This replaces broccoli as his top food.
You think that’s abuse? My mother’s favourite artists were Olivia Newton-John, Barry Manilow, Engelbert Humperdinck, Johnny Mathis and Petula Clark. Apparently my favourite song when I was under 3 was Rasputin by Boney M and my brother’s favourite song in toddlerhood was Rhinestone Cowboy by Glen Campbell. Apparently, they were the best songs we’d ever heard. My mother was a monster. It’s ok, intensive therapy is helping me overcome the pain.
At 24, I have a musical taste that drives lesser mortals to insane frustration!
A few of my favourite artists:
FatBoy Slim
The Eagles
Apollo 440
The Bloodhound Gang
Queen
Boney M
Supertramp
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Weird Al Yankovic
Armand Van Helden
Daft Punk
The Prodigy
Deep Swing
ELO
Glenn Miller
In short, my car’s MP3 player is liable to be pumping anything from Where’s Your Head At? to Journey Of The Sorceror, to A Kind Of Magic, to Hooked On Classics, to Da Funk, and beyond…
I’m currently holding at 40 MegaFonzies- according to my Coolometer- when I’m cruising with Oingo Boingo’s classic Weird Science, too. Chicks dig weird tunes.
