# The Young Generation and Their Parents' Music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-young-generation-and-their-parents-music/237365 "2004-03-30T18:50:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-young-generation-and-their-parents-music/237365/1 "2004-03-30T18:50:44Z")
While reading a Slashdot thread on P2P, [this](http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2004-03-29-classic-rock-kids_x.htm) article from yesterday’s USA Today was linked. The article got me thinking. I don’t know if anyone else remembers, but a while back I started a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=149434) asking what all I needed to get to get a good comprehensive rock collection. (Okay, so it was a year and a few months ago. Man, time flies.) Anyway, my music collection has expanded some in the last year and it’s _still_ at least half stuff from the 70s or earlier, depending on how you count it. Just a quick scan through the hard drive (artists here, not really albums) to see what I’ve added since then. Trying to keep it as basically 80s or earlier rock (or at least bands), I’ve added: AC-DC Allman Brothers Bachman-Turner Overdrive Blue Oyster Cult David Bowie Bob Dylan Eagles Earth Wind & Fire Electric Light Orchestra Grand Funk Railroad Guess Who Guns N’ Roses Iron Butterfly Kiss Police Elvis REM ZZ Top So, I think it’s fair to say that I’ve got a fair bit of my parents’ music (not to mention that I’m sure they never listened to some of this stuff.) I guess I’m just wondering if other people around my age (I guess for the purposes of this thread that’d be from about early teens to mid-to-late 20s) find themselves with quite a collection of older music. Oh, and old people, what do you think of your kids taking your music? (I said in a thread earlier this week that I know from experience that the boomers do not like it when you throw “Don’t trust anyone over thirty” back at them, especially when they’re closer to 50.) ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-young-generation-and-their-parents-music/237365/2 "2004-03-30T19:05:13Z")
I fit the age bracket, so let’s see. I’ve got CDs from: The Cure The Clash Depeche Mode The Smiths The Ramons The Sex Pistols The Beatles New Order REM The Doors Johnny Cash Echo and the Bunnymen Plus a few 80s compilation CDs with various artists. This isn’t really my parents music though(with the exception of The Beatles and The Doors). My mom was a disco freak and my dad was a big 60s political music fan, neither of which will ever make an appearance in my CD player. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-young-generation-and-their-parents-music/237365/3 "2004-03-30T19:06:49Z")
:smack: The Ramones Where are those smilies? ---
**Author:** ![divingFaces](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@divingFaces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divingFaces)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-young-generation-and-their-parents-music/237365/4 "2004-03-30T19:11:47Z")
My music collection contains few tracks, let alone albums from earlier than the 80’s. I’m 24 and very much into contemporary electronic music, primarily trance. Really the only “older” music that I have is 80’s dance music. I hear enough of classic rock/pop when I’m forced to hear the radio. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![xvxdarkknightxvx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/34f0e0/32.png) [@xvxdarkknightxvx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xvxdarkknightxvx)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-young-generation-and-their-parents-music/237365/5 "2004-03-30T19:18:38Z")
I stole my mother’s Peter, Paul, and Mary CD. I also have the _Saturday Night Fever_ sountrack, the _Rushmore_ soundtrack (which contains music from the 60s-70s), and _The Royal Tenebaums_ soundtrack (same type of music as _Rushmore_). I’ve also always enjoyed listening to oldies that my dad listens to in the car. These include Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Elvis, the Coles, Supremes, etc. I don’t have any of their CDs, though. My dad took them all with him to the Philippines. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Low\_Key\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@Low\_Key\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Low_Key_1)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-young-generation-and-their-parents-music/237365/6 "2004-03-30T21:14:12Z")
I listen to tons of my dad’s old music. A few of the bands that come to mind \*Eric Burdon and the Animals \*Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band \*Cream \*Blind Faith \*John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers \*Jimi Hendrix \*Leonard Cohen \*A few other Swedish prog rock bands …this is just some off the top of my head. I suppose a comprehensive list would be much much longer. Can you tell that my dad was a hippie? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-young-generation-and-their-parents-music/237365/7 "2004-03-30T21:27:08Z")
Quote from a father-of-the-bride speech I heard once: “You know your daughter’s growing up when you discover her stealing from your record collection” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![akrako1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@akrako1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akrako1)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2004, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-young-generation-and-their-parents-music/237365/8 "2004-03-30T22:17:14Z")
My parents got my and my brother started by telling us to by Rolling Stones, Beatles, Janis, and Doors albums from garage sales. Unfortunately, that was all the assistance they could provide. My parents were basically nerds in the 60’s and didn’t get into anything too risky. The Rolling Stones were a bit too ‘hard’ and ‘dirty’ for my parents, but the Beatles were fine, at least until they started ‘getting weird’. Personnally, I’m all about the ‘getting weird’. Call me a ‘head’ or whatever, it’s fine. Starting with those few classic rock standards I’ve managed to add lots more. Here’s a few: [british] Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd Soft Machine Tomorrow Cream Yardbirds The Creation The Move The Kinks Hawkwind Animals [american] Velvet Underground Fugs Moby Grape Byrds Silver Apples Jefferson Airplane MC5 Stooges 13th Floor Elevators Country Joe [german] - (only until mid 70’s) Can Amon Duul Ashra Temple Kraftwerk Tangerine Dream ---
**Author:** ![Berserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Berserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berserker)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-young-generation-and-their-parents-music/237365/9 "2004-03-31T01:30:52Z")
I’m 17. About 90% of the music in my cd collection is the same music my dad listened to back in the 60’s and 70’s. This includes: Frank Zappa Led Zeppelin The Beatles Pink Floyd Jefferson Airplane Cream Rush The Doors Allman Brothers Black Sabbath The Who Mahavishnu Orchestra Grateful Dead The recent, “non parental” music I listen to is: Medeski Martin and Wood The Flaming Lips Tool Primus Recently my father gave me his old turntable that was just collecting dust in our basement, as well as his entire record collection. I’m in heaven.