When I was a kid I used to put punk and metal on 78 speed so it would sound like The Chipmunks.
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My older stepdaughter appreciates Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. I wonder where she got that from (much to my ex-wife's chagrin)?
This explains why there were kids in my college classes wearing Ramones t-shirts, but didn't know who any of the members of the band were
Sames goes for Misfits Ts.
Do covers are clean version?
Or its the same lyrics ?
Well I think it's not that bad but lol in parenting eyes lol kids will be too happy to act like Ramones if lyrics are same .
many of my t-shirt collection is currently from target - they are cheap, soft fabric and have cool stuff on them.
i would never wear a ramones, misfits or other band i didn't care for's t-shirt.....and i know who they are.
i would fear a line of questions that follow.
and i've seen it in person. i laugh when the shirt wearer gets upset.....why would you wear a band t-shirt you know nothing about? you didn't think anyone would comment? that's what your generation does 24/7!!!
i would never wear a ramones, misfits or other band i didn't care for's t-shirt.....and i know who they are.
i would fear a line of questions that follow.
and i've seen it in person. i laugh when the shirt wearer gets upset.....why would you wear a band t-shirt you know nothing about? you didn't think anyone would comment? that's what your generation does 24/7!!!
I was listening to Slayer when I was a kid. And I still do as a 'grown up'.
I love Lou Reed's comments about Ramones when Danny Fields played a tape for him, “Without a doubt the most fantastic thing you’ve ever played me bar none. I mean, it makes everybody look so —- and wimpy, Patti Smith and me included,” he said. “Everybody else looks like they’re really old-fashioned. That’s rock ‘n’ roll. They really hit where it hurts. They are everything everybody worried about — every parent would freeze in their tracks if they heard this stuff.” You can look it up, bunch of links to it. I still listen to Ramones.
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" Hey Mommy, I like these songs. What else do they sing about ?"
" Oh, you know dear, male hookers, drug addicted girls, sniffing glue, Nazis. That sort of thing."
".....oh."
Do you own this gem?
Devo said they figured since it was only a matter of time before somebody did elevator music versions of some of their hits, they might as well get ahead of the curve and do their own. And also get the money for it.
You just gotta love those guys! Are they not mensch?
Don't forget to tell your kids that Somebody put something in my drink is about Bill Cosby.
Seriously, whenever we have a gathering of their peers at my house, it's all can can to to stop myself from drop kicking the little boys into next week. Seems like they're ALL little a holes.I feel like if I had been such a little jerk my father would have taken me out and tried again with one that wasn't broken.
Good on you to have kids over, TF,I predict boys over with your girls will stop in a couple years . Boy traffic will pick up later but that's another chapter. Anyway when they behave like that , engage them positively and very firmly , you still may not get the behavior you want . But still , you will be among the first adult men who provide boundaries for them outside of teachers and their family, and they need it , now more than ever, and they likely don't get anywhere near enough boundaries at home. My kids are older teenagers , I've volunteered regularly at their schools since kindergarten and also through Boy Scouts etc. In my experience kid behavior has indeed worsened in the past decade , for all the reasons you can find, all of them together. But being the adult who says "no" but engages positively does them all sorts of good, and will earn their respect . Think you may be seeing any of those boys in five years ? ten ? you'll want their cooperation ~then~ . It'll be well worth your time now , and they need to know how to behave. But who knows ? maybe you'll get to like them eventually .
I saw Ramones tees on the rack at The Wal-Marts, for like 8 bucks.This explains why there were kids in my college classes wearing Ramones t-shirts, but didn't know who any of the members of the band were
Sames goes for Misfits Ts.
Considering that Mark Mothersbaugh has done countless soundtracks for kid's shows and movies, AND starred in pretty much every episode of Yo Gabba Gabba, it's not really a stretch.
My 15-year-old son, whose music interest has seemed sort of vague up until recently, has Spotify on his new smartphone, and came into the kitchen the other night while I was making dinner and said "Hey Dad, check this out." He did something on his phone and this sort of "nu-soul" tune started playing, and I recognized the singer but couldn't place him at first. Then it hit me and I said, "Hey, is that Raphael Saadiq?" He looked at his phone and said, "Hey, yeah, it is."
A couple things occur to me from this: 1) Big-ass surprise-your-teenager hipness points for old Dad, come on, give it up...(disclaimer: I only knew who Raphael Saadiq was because someone gave me a NPR compilation of new soul artists recently, but I dug Saadiq's tune on that disc, a song called "100 yard dash.")
2) My son heard something he liked in the tune and played it for me, and Saadiq does not fall under the "cheez whiz pop music for people with undeveloped music interests," which might bode well for the boy.
3) My son heard something he liked in the tune and played it for me, and did not know who the artist was because he hadn't bothered to look into that. This seems consistent with things I've heard about kidzz these days consuming music song-by-song, not album-by-album, as more of an "in the moment" affair rather than being "into" a particular band and/or album.
I don't think I have the leverage to influence him to get deeper into the band or artist, and I'm not sure I want to anyway...he can come to terms with music in his environment, his way. But I guess I'm encouraged that something appealed to him that seemed to be the product of real musicians playing real instruments, with no apparent sequencers or autotune going on. No "Millenial Whoop" junk in the vocal, no forced breathiness/squeakiness/voice breaking fake emotive devices, etc.
A couple things occur to me from this: 1) Big-ass surprise-your-teenager hipness points for old Dad, come on, give it up...(disclaimer: I only knew who Raphael Saadiq was because someone gave me a NPR compilation of new soul artists recently, but I dug Saadiq's tune on that disc, a song called "100 yard dash.")
2) My son heard something he liked in the tune and played it for me, and Saadiq does not fall under the "cheez whiz pop music for people with undeveloped music interests," which might bode well for the boy.
3) My son heard something he liked in the tune and played it for me, and did not know who the artist was because he hadn't bothered to look into that. This seems consistent with things I've heard about kidzz these days consuming music song-by-song, not album-by-album, as more of an "in the moment" affair rather than being "into" a particular band and/or album.
I don't think I have the leverage to influence him to get deeper into the band or artist, and I'm not sure I want to anyway...he can come to terms with music in his environment, his way. But I guess I'm encouraged that something appealed to him that seemed to be the product of real musicians playing real instruments, with no apparent sequencers or autotune going on. No "Millenial Whoop" junk in the vocal, no forced breathiness/squeakiness/voice breaking fake emotive devices, etc.
