>Of course, I had to explain to my neice what vinyl
>albums were, so I guess it just goes in cycles.
I like to go to thrift stores and flea markets to just wander around and
browse. At the last one my eight-year-old daughter picked up a 45 and
wanted to know if the program on it would work in the CD drive in ye olde
home computer.
In a similar note, my 17-year-old niece was telling me how cool some of
the modern music is, and how antiquated ("it sucks") the music of her
mother's generation is (ie, the stuff I listen/listened to). To prove
her point, she switched the radio in Miss Molly the '79 Midget (LBC
content) to a station that was playing 'Hair of the Dog.' I think the
group was Guns 'n Roses.
*****
NIECE: See, this is cool!
ME: <Laughing>
NIECE: Oh, I bet you think that I think it's cool because they keep
singing "SOB."
ME: <Laughing Harder>
NIECE: You can't just listen to the music -- you have have listen to the
message!
ME: <Valiantly Trying To Stop Laughing>
NIECE: That's the problem with adults -- they forget that music is
supposed to have a message. This one means [some nonsense about
challenging authority and standing up for your individual rights].
ME: <Chuckling> No kidding? And the music of today is better than that
that us old folks used to listen to?
NIECE: Well, yeah! You guys never had anything like this.
ME: <Chuckling> Honey, that song was put out by a group called Nazareth
back when your mama was in high school....
<Still chuckling, and just to be mean, I stuck in my Big Band tape and
took her for a thirty minute drive listening to "In the Mood" and other
classics.>
*****
Later she admitted that well, maybe, some of the older stuff was pretty
cool, like Billy Idol's "Mony, Mony." I didn't have the heart to tell
her that that song was a remake, too....
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