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June 17, 2005
Kids, be healed of your milquetoast pop tastes!
I don't know how I missed this review of being an old fogey watching the current music scene by Terry Scott Taylor written last year, but I did. And I'm glad that I'm not the only dad who feels this way towards his kids, even if TST has more than a few years on me:
I often kid my daughter by asking her how it feels to have a Dad hipper than most of her friends. I'm being facetious when I ask this, because she and her friends are admirably eclectic in their musical tastes and like a lot of real good stuff. The point is, I'm into Flaming Lips and Queens of the Stone age, bands most Pop fans would think weren't very cute, find completely loud and obnoxious, and who sing vocals you can't even understand. It's sort like my grandparent's reaction to the Rolling Stones when they first appeared on the scene, or modern musical tastes becoming the equivalent of the Johnny Bravo episode of the Brady bunch.
Trouble is, were not talking here about elderly people who thought Perry Como got a tad wild when he recorded "Hot Diggity Dog Diggity, Boom What You Do to Me", We are speaking of 17 and 18 year old girls who absolutely swoon at the mere mention of the names Celine Dion and Justin Guarini. Something's really wrong when our supposed rebellious teens dig middle of the road muzak Popsters, while their doddering old parents are having visions of confining them to their rooms for a 24/7 intervention employing hand and feet restraints, old Sex Pistols and Ramones records, and enough stereo wattage to cause them to immerge a normal teenager, exorcised of the demons of Clay Aiken and Ruben Studdard.
I'm still trying to deal with being the parent of a child who owns a "Kidz Bop" record.
Of course, when I was a kid kicking it, I didn't have the punk rock going - that was about the point when Billy Idol was saying in the papers "punk rock might not be dead, but it sure smells funny." If I was putting in front of my kids the kind of music I was wigged out over as a kid, I'd have them listening to Def Leppard and Loverboy.
So that might explain part of the problem. It wasn't until I got into R.E.M. and the Smithereens and started discovering what was known at the time as "college rock" that I started becoming hip.
As hip as I have ever been, anyway.
By the way, Terry Taylor (and his band, Daniel Amos, or DA, or Dä, or the Swirling Eddies) is another one that, if you don't know him, you really should.
(Completely tangential point after the jump.)
Is it worthwhile to edit quotes that I take from other people's websites? TST is a notoriously bad speller (what can you say about him, other than that one of his best known songs is called "Breath Deep"?), so having the misspelling "immerge" is in-character for the quote, but I'm kind of freakish about making sure the spelling is right particularly when the error is grating...but then it's not a direct quote from the site, it's my edited quote...any takes?
Posted by Chuck at June 17, 2005 07:59 AM
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when quoting, you can fix something by putting the correct spelling in brackets- so you could put [emerge] in the place and everyone reading would know that you altered it, but you aren't changing the meaning
Posted by: Celestia at June 17, 2005 11:26 AM
ew.
I hate it when journalist-types do that.
I suppose you're right, but I would dearly love another suggestion.
Posted by: Dr Chuck Pearson at June 17, 2005 12:05 PM
why do you hate it? just out of curiousity
i don't know any other suggestions? i just know that way b/c of research papers and seeing it in newspapers/magazines
Posted by: Celestia at June 17, 2005 12:27 PM