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[vicarz]

Some songs fill me with so much emotion I, to this day, have a hard time understanding how other people could not feel the way I do when I hear them. "How can you not love this!?" I have a bunch of cool-parent-friends, freaks and club rats who didn't die, had kids, and raise them lovingly with a balance of guidance and freedom. Many of them love it when the kids enjoy wacky shit like skinny puppy, but I'm curious how that musical taste pans out over time. I loved my parents music, but it was hippie shit - sure Janice Joplin and the Beatles symbolized rebellion once, and I never stopped loving the Beatles, but I could argue there wasn't, or it was really really hard to get, alternative music in my parent's day. So, is it cool when a child likes alternative rebellious music from 50 years ago?

I note that my love of 80s music isn't from the 80s - in the 80s I was trying to be cool, and masculine (HOW DID THAT GO!?) so I rejected all the faggy shit that makes my heart flutter today. It wasn't until the 90s, mostly mid and late 90s, that I admitted I loved and found all the weird shit that I love today. People think it was my music, but it was old when I first heard it in most cases.

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[jadeejf.livejournal.com]

I feel that way about some songs, too :-) It's fascinating how variant peoples' musical tastes are and what speaks to which people.

I grew up listening to a lot of oldies - pre-hippy shit, really, and some of that still makes me happy, but you're right, there wasn't much rebellion there for a while. In any case, I think any kid who has their own solid, definite preference for any specific music is pretty cool :-)

[djpsyche.livejournal.com]

I've often wondered how I managed to not notice all of the great music from the 80s when I was living in the 80s. The reasons are as follows:

1. In the 80s, the radio played the good songs but also the absolute shite -- Paula Abdul, Steve Winwood anyone? -- while today, 80s clubs only play the good stuff, giving the false impression that all 80s pop music was awesome.

2. I spent most of the 80s in a small town, completely unaware of the existence of alternative music. All I knew was what was on the radio. It wasn't until I was 17 until I was exposed to Jane's Addiction, The Cure, etc. My "alternative" music was, guess what, The Beatles, Janis Joplin etc, which I discovered through the unlikely source of The Monkees (MTV ran their episodes for a while in the mid 80s).

3. I was a teenager in the 80s. And being a teenager sucked.

It does seem strange to me, seeing kids in clubs dancing to music recorded before they were even born. It would have been as if 60s music clubs were popular back in our day -- which they weren't. I suppose The Beatles on the whole were never as danceable as Soft Cell.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Holy shit you totally described my exposure too - but we've always had a lot of commonality. Yes on all points, and thanks for sharing that - anything that makes me feel less alien. Or less alone in being alien.

[frontdoorangel.livejournal.com]

My son listens to Finnish heavy metal and I'm not sure where or why that happened.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Yeah but that's pretty awesome.
Maybe he was up late and saw dethklok? ;P
(I just put the dethklok dethalbum back into heavy car rotation)

[frontdoorangel.livejournal.com]

I have no idea where he came up with it. I'm sure he probably mentioned it but, he has a way of telling me fifty things in one sentence so I'm left picking at what he said and desperately trying to organize it in order of importance. I do know that he has his sister listening to it as well and she's only 8. But, like me, she will listen to just about anything. She was in love with Prince for the longest time which was a pretty adorable phase. She has her own laptop, courtesy of her youngest aunt who chucked it in favor of a mac, so she's got all the internet has to offer in terms of music which is limitless.

[frontdoorangel.livejournal.com]

Oh and after double checking with him I was informed that it is "Finnish Folk Metal". His favorite band is Korpiklanni.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msIOVjf6PBk&list=ALNb4maWNoT6QYsbJgz5c1N0t-7dbntuo1&feature=share

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Well, goofy sure but at least it's different. At least it's not insane clown posse?

[frontdoorangel.livejournal.com]

Oh dear lord, yeah, at least he's not a juggalo. He'd absolutely hate ICP if he even knew what it was which I'm pretty sure he doesn't.