"He owns eleven pairs of sneakers, hasn't worn anything but jeans in a year, and won't shut up about the latest Death Cab For Cutie CD. But he is no kid. He is among the ascendant breed of grown-up w

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my dad had a copy of Led Zeppelin 2 when i was little, but i didn't listen to it until i was older. he never played it. i don't know why he bought it. later, he became a huge southern rock fan.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 7 April 2006 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link

my dad did make me a sly & the family stone fan when i was little though.

That's definitely something to be thankful for.

In other news, my wife's become a big Arctic Monkeys fan since their SNL appearance. Now my 2 year old daugher walks around going "Listen... artic... monkee!" and 5 year old son has taken to randomly shouting "I don't want to hear you KICK ME OUT KICK ME OUT." So Arctic Monkeys may have a shot at a US fanbase in the under-10 demographic.

No $400 haircuts or fasionably distressed jeans in our house, though.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link

you guys let your kids listen to songs with lines like "the band were fuckin' wank"?

― yuengling participle (rotten03), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link

that baby is pretty smart.

Haha, at first I thought the shirt said "never trust a baby", which would be much cooler.

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Friday, 7 April 2006 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link

you guys let your kids listen to songs with lines like "the band were fuckin' wank"?
-- yuengling participle (pton_mwaa...), April 7th, 2006 3:44 PM.

Not intentionally, no. Apparently my wife hasn't discovered that particular f-bomb... the heavy Sheffield accent helps I guess. I must thank you, sir, for saving my family from this insidious overseas threat.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Although both the wife and I are not above drop-the-volume/skip-the-track machinations around the small ones.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link

My dad (1947) played a lot of southern rock (ZZ Top, Allmans, not so much Skynyrd) and yacht-rock/Steely Dan. When I was a little older, I remember coming home from school and he'd be watching Yo MTV Raps or something. Also a big fan of the B-52s and Dee-Lite hits of the late-80s/early-90s.

The only music I can remember my mom (1951) listening to was Phil Collins solo and Enya. She liked those Gregorian Chants CDs, but I don't remember when that phase was.

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Friday, 7 April 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Your dad sounds cool.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 7 April 2006 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Looky, the clue train is rolling in, and it has some messages for Adam Sternbergh and his stunted view of the world, skewed by his idea that a small percentage of affluent, hip, narcissistic, hyperconsumer fashion victims in Manhattan and Brooklyn are somehow representative of Americans, or even humanity.

It does bear noting that the magazine is called New York, not America or Humanity.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 10 April 2006 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link

With GRUPS, you can be anyone you want -- an elf hero fighting for the forces of good, a shadowy femme fatale on a deep-cover mission, a futuristic swashbuckler carving up foes with a force sword in his hand and a beautiful woman by his side . . . or literally anything else!

― smokemon (eman), Monday, 10 April 2006 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link

haha.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 10 April 2006 03:14 (eighteen years ago) link

xx-post - slow applause for Matos

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 10 April 2006 03:53 (eighteen years ago) link

my fucking dad started it, still listening to frank sinatra well into his 40s, like didn't he know that stuff's for teenagers?

― dr x o'skeleton, Monday, 10 April 2006 08:19 (eighteen years ago) link

These are apparently the people who don't want to work for the man and who put Misfits t-shirts on their toddler.

Oh shit, I was just gonna place an order. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 10 April 2006 08:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Did anyone on this board NOT have baby boomer parents who played the Beatles for them from birth?

My parents were born in 1929. My dad played Hank Williams for me from birth. They didn't like the Beatles, except for "Yesterday." Around 1971, whenever I played Emerson Lake & Palmer's debut (faux classical piano) or Savoy Brown's Raw Sienna (w/clumsy bigband horn arrangements) my mom would knock on my bedroom door and ask "what's that you're listening to? do you call that rock?"

how many people were actually listening to Joy Division and Killing Joke in the 80s?

of course. hmmm. maybe I am too old for this place?

― ILM is my midlife crisis (lovebug starski), Monday, 10 April 2006 09:23 (eighteen years ago) link

xx-post - slow applause for Matos
-- joseph cotten (josephcotte...), April 9th, 2006

and here I thought I was actually making a point, albeit an oblique one.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe I am too old for this place?

Nonsense. If anything, we're all too young.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Thanks Ned. I was like, "were they all listening to Raffi then?"

Not only did my parents not like the Beatles I'm sure neither one of them wore a pair of bluejeans in the entire lives. That changed with the baby boomers, where parents and their children started wearing the same clothes as well as listening to the same music. The previous generation dressed like grownups even when they were dressing down. And their parents, my grandparents' generation, forget about it. Old people looked a lot older back in the day, it's hard to explain, just check out a vintage photo of Eisenhower or Harry Truman. That's what my grandafthers looked like.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 10 April 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link

luke's little brainiac daughter totally called him a grup in the last episode of the gilmore girls. and then she explained the star trek reference. and at the end of the show they played angst in my pants by sparks. just thought i'd throw that in there. it may catch on yet!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

four years pass...

god remember when death cab for cutie were a thing? oy. that was the year this country lost its innocence. it only took four years for them to be completely erased from a nation's collective memory. until today. shit, sorry...

― scott seward, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link

I thought you hated the indica & were swearing it off

― honkin' on joey kramer (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 15 November 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link

Oh, man. Gurps is like my Velocity Girl.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, April 6, 2006 3:10 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark

i am dying here

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Monday, 15 November 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link

"I thought you hated the indica & were swearing it off"

i gave it away! i AM listening to Barefoot Jerry sing their 1975 hit "Hero Frodo" right now though.

― scott seward, Monday, 15 November 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link

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