what the kids have to say about indie

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This is a link I ripped off from today's The Morning News. Here are some interviews conducted with kindergarteners and third graders in regard to indie music: http://www.balgavy.com/music/sarah20030805.html

Funny stuff.

― Claire (Claire Miccio), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link

I used to own that same JVC boom box!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

Excellent link, Claire... thanks. It's amazing how dead on the kids could be! I could read pages and pages of this stuff... she's basically doing the same thing that David Greenberger does with Duplex Planet (where he interviews his charges at a nursing home about pop culture and the like), and it's incredible how similar the logic is in a lot of the responses.

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 17:42 (twenty years ago) link

"it hurts my head like a hundred dogs"

best Strokes review ever!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 17:48 (twenty years ago) link

That's great, Claire. I wish I knew how more of the songs went (actually I don't really know *any* of them, but I must know the Strokes one even if not by name). Frances on that is hilarious.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 17:49 (twenty years ago) link

Carlos: No, it's about diapers! Ha hahahahahahaha!
Arelis: (apologetically) Don't even worry about him, Miss Allen, cause he has always been like this since kindergarten and I know because he was in the same kindergarten as me and he was ALWAYS in trouble with the teacher.

Carlos: I am the genius of the world!

it's just like ilm!!!

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 17:50 (twenty years ago) link

Carlos = God.

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

i feel like i might say "hey hey" and i was thinking about a robot.
&

sarah: do you have friends who are girls?
alvin: i don't need no woman to take care of me.
GREBT!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 17:56 (twenty years ago) link

those are great.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 17:58 (twenty years ago) link

Someone should make a regular Elementary School Jukebox feature.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

Haaa...this very well might be the first time I've pretty much nodded in accordance to every thread post.

― Claire (Claire Miccio), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:13 (twenty years ago) link

Sarah Allen is really great and I love her 3rd grade record reviews. Glad to see she and the kids are getting some notariety.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:14 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, this is great!

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

I want more!
I actually did something similar to this about 3 yrs ago, though not with music. I was writing for the student paper and I went and interviewed the kids at the campus daycare about their thoughts on Halloween. Kids are gold.
I learned stuff like: suckers are different from lollipops; lions are stronger than tigers, but tigers are all right too; 30 is a good amount to expect in candy when you go trick or treating.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:08 (twenty years ago) link

i did something similar as well when i showed 'lilya 4ever', 'kids', and 'faces of death' to several 8-year-olds and recorded their responses. mostly it's a lot of sobbing.

― Bruno Beetlejuice (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:16 (twenty years ago) link

you are evil

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:24 (twenty years ago) link

especially when you could have horrified them just as much by showing them, uh, an episode of thirtysomething.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

"what is that, like, france or something?"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:28 (twenty years ago) link

"This music is making me die."

― animal wrangler (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 21:08 (twenty years ago) link

These really are fantastic. I aspire to write like this.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 21:09 (twenty years ago) link

dr c's kids were going to write reviews for freaky trigger but i guess their agent asked for too much or something cz they never did

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 21:12 (twenty years ago) link

I am firing my entire writing staff and hiring these kids (sorry Strongo and Ned)

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 21:20 (twenty years ago) link

Dangit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 21:24 (twenty years ago) link

great article
also,i'd never heard of that duplex planet thing,but it sounds interesting,just did a search and found the website (duplexplanet.com),so i intend to have a read of it
i remember thinking years ago that something like this would be interesting...

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 21:56 (twenty years ago) link

kids love lucksmiths!

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 22:13 (twenty years ago) link

kleenex girl wonder makes me die! mark robinson is a robot! it's true.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 22:14 (twenty years ago) link

yo la tengo don't sing about the booty though

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

dr c's kids were going to write reviews for freaky trigger but i guess their agent asked for too much or something cz they never did

Well, see, I thought the beauty of this was these could be any class of kids.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 22:32 (twenty years ago) link

Glad you enjoyed the reviews! I have a lot more that I've never transcribed and posted. I should get on that!

sarah allen

― sarah allen, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 00:28 (twenty years ago) link

i'd like to see what kids think of Langley Schools Musical Project

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 00:32 (twenty years ago) link

i have a third grade review of langey schools!

i think it was "something tells me i'm into something good"?

i need to find that.

― sarah allen, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 00:36 (twenty years ago) link

My god, it's like Art Linkletter meets spizzazzz

(NOTE: I find the prospect of such a combination horrifying x 1000)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 01:56 (twenty years ago) link

I think FT covers too much "swears music".

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 07:11 (twenty years ago) link

that carlos kid upthread is a hanle y in training.

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 07:23 (twenty years ago) link

Sarah, post third grade reviews of EVERYTHING EVER please!

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 07:27 (twenty years ago) link

there's a book in this. a good one.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 08:54 (twenty years ago) link

yes Sarah, you do God's work.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 14:26 (twenty years ago) link

This is my favorite link ever. Sarah rules. From now on, anything that ever sucks will be said to hurt my head like a hundred dogs.

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 23:20 (twenty years ago) link

Bestest link on earth. Sarah, you are splendid and so are your pupils.

That "a hundred dogs" line is surely gonna enter the ILM lexicon as of now? It's sure as fuckety gonna be my .sig, anyroad.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 23:29 (twenty years ago) link

Also Matos, I assume you aren't going to replace me 'cos I already write like a kindergartener? (har har)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 28 August 2003 00:07 (twenty years ago) link

What everyone else said, more or less.

― Al Andalous (Al Andalous), Thursday, 28 August 2003 00:17 (twenty years ago) link

best Strokes review ever!

Ain't THAT the truth! I celebrate the new generation!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 August 2003 01:28 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, well, when I was a kindergartener I thought Big Bird was real and that babies came from vending machines

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 28 August 2003 01:44 (twenty years ago) link

Nowadays you think babies are real and Big Bird comes from vending machines?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 August 2003 01:53 (twenty years ago) link

Big Bird isn't real?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 28 August 2003 02:08 (twenty years ago) link

The "Big Bird" isn't real, but there are birds like ostriches and emus that are both big and real.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 28 August 2003 02:12 (twenty years ago) link

If that's any comfort.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 28 August 2003 02:12 (twenty years ago) link

Motherfuckers better sing whimsical songs about not understanding the alphabet, then.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 28 August 2003 03:07 (twenty years ago) link

where did the rest of these go? they aren't on the site anymore!

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 28 August 2003 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

I remember reading some article where elementary school kids listened to Guided By Voices, and among other suggestions, thought GBV should change their name to "the Alleycats"

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 17 October 2003 08:01 (twenty years ago) link

three months pass...

What the kids have to say about classic rock

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago) link

"This is rock music but you could play it at a disco."
"Yeah, a dude disco."

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago) link

When exactly does your wee go back up?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago) link

Just beautiful. Science proves that only Nirvana is better than Busted!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

"Who's Annie Key?"

― scott m (mcd), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago) link

sophie is a genius. some of her best insights:

re cream's "sunshine of your love": I don't like it. It's worse than football. My dad watches football all the time and I have to leave the room. My dad went to watch football in Australia.

re nirvana's "smells like teen spirit": It's making me think about doing bad things like putting snowballs down my sister's back.

re the sex pistols' "anarchy in the uk": Can we play musical statues now?

re bob dylan's "like a rolling stone": He sounds like he's just smelled something really bad, like cat poo.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 2 February 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

boxes of oil!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 2 February 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago) link

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