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What is your music lately?
serious crayons:
I'm 49. I never listen to the radio, rarely go out to clubs anymore, am not really up on current music. When I read the lists of top 10 songs and albums, I've usually heard of only two or three on the list.
But I do like some current bands. The secret is having kids. My 12-year-old son knows more about music than I knew in college. He doesn't like all the same things I do, but in many cases the way I first heard the bands was by looking over his shoulder at music videos or itunes.
ednbarby:
Will isn't old enough yet to be able to recommend bands to me, but he does seem to like the same ones I do. I guess he probably would no matter what I liked, but he really has taken a shine to Green Day and asks to hear specific songs when we're in the car. Sometimes we listen to the radio, and I often have it tuned to a new rock station - that's the only way I find out about new bands like the Arctic Monkeys - I don't watch MTV or any of those anymore (not that they show music videos anymore, anyway). He still seems to like the same stuff I do, even if he doesn't know I like it when we're listening to it.
Even my fuddy-duddy husband likes Green Day's "Warning" CD. I call it a kinder, gentler "American Idiot." There's a common thread that links all those songs together, too - it's kind of their precursor to the ultimate concept rock album.
Katherine, I will most definitely check out those two Soul Asylum CDs. I'd love to hear "Runaway Train" again - they almost never play that on the radio anymore.
serious crayons:
I was at a party last summer -- parents and kids celebrating the end of the youth baseball season -- and the subject of music came up and a woman started castigating me for letting my kids listen to Green Day. I assumed at first she meant the swear words, so I explained that I don't get upset about my kids hearing profanity in music or movies as long as I don't have to hear it coming out of their mouths.
But no! The profanity wasn't even her main concern (though that was a problem, too). She was talking about the politics! She asked how I could let my children listen to music that criticizes our country and our president!! I almost did a spit take with my pinot grigio. I live in a very liberal neighborhood, and that kind of attitude is SO unheard of. Her ex-husband, who happened to be the baseball coach, jumped in and said his own politics were closer to mine, and gave me a high five. It was a very weird moment.
Anyway, Barb, it's amazing how much we've been finding in common lately -- considering you're generally more of a "blue" person and I tend to be more of a "tan" person. (You know what I'm mean by blue and tan, right? ;))
Front-Ranger:
Barb and I will turn you into a Gyllenhaalic yet, Katherine!!
Speaking of heat about politics, you wouldn't believe the heat I caught for taking my kids to a Crosby, Stills Nash & Young concert last summer! Afterwards, I got the CD Living With War by Neil Young and my trumpeter son refuses to listen to it even tho there are a couple of fantastic trumpet solos on it (one is on "Let's Impeach the President")
and only half-off-topic I understand Obama filed his election paperwork, yay!!
Kelda:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 17, 2007, 01:57:40 pm ---Barb and I will turn you into a Gyllenhaalic yet, Katherine!!
Speaking of heat about politics, you wouldn't believe the heat I caught for taking my kids to a Crosby, Stills Nash & Young concert last summer! Afterwards, I got the CD Living With War by Neil Young and my trumpeter son refuses to listen to it even tho there are a couple of fantastic trumpet solos on it (one is on "Let's Impeach the President")
and only half-off-topic I understand Obama filed his election paperwork, yay!!
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Your som is a trumpeter!? Cool! (I play a cornet - which is basically a trumpet)
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