Exactly.
Hey, my son and daughter (12 & 16) are some of those ragamuffins. And FWIW - they had a healthy dose of early punk, particularly Ramones, when they were still in car booster seats. And they loved it. I have a pic of me & my son at 3 dressed as a Ramones for halloween, I was dressed as Joey. We had it going on, including a "Gabba Gabba Hey!" sign.
As soon as my daughter started to get into music and got an iPod, in addition to the typical stuff a kid of about 9 would have been listening to, she also had Ramones, Clash, Replacements, Police, Led Zeppelin, Rainbow, Aerosmith (Rocks and older), Judas Priest, Prince, James Brown, Graham Parker, White Stripes, and many others. And she actually listened to them, they weren't there just because they were "dads tunes". My son followed in her footsteps.
I raised 'em right.
That said, MCR is her favorite band. She turned me on to MCR by way of asking me to teach her the bass line to a song of theirs. She actually gave me a list of a few. I hit You Tube to investigate and learn them so I could teach her, and frankly, I think they are (were) fantastic. I had remembered the name from years ago, but wasn't really listening to much music when they came up (it was a weird period in my life, the early 2000s). Wish I had been plugged into them as I would have loved to have seen them on the Black Parade Tour - It might be lost on a lot of us older folks, but I think that is an outstanding album, the guitar players work really well together, with different but complimentary styles, the drummer is fantastic, and Gerard Way is an outstanding frontman. I'll just say, go to YouTube and search The Black Parade is Dead - Full Show, and watch the concert. I think it is an excellent show, but maybe that's just me. Is it reminiscent of The Wall, Welcome to My Nightmare, Ziggy Stardust and some others? Yeah, but hell, everything has been done by now, right?? I still like it. If you look closely at my current profile pic, that's my daughters MCR shirt I borrowed from her and wore for the third set of a gig. My drummer saw me in it and said "My Chemical Romance.......***?" I said "F*** off, I think they are great".
I have since taken her to see Frank Iero, one of their two guitar players, at shows of his with his new band. Small, 200/300 SRO gigs. He plays some good stuff, gives it his all, and really delivers for the kids, and is a very friendly, genuine, and humble guy (we met him at a meet and greet after one of the shows).
FWIW I chaperoned a FOB show for her and her friends a couple of years ago - not my bag but those guys put on a good show, and frankly as a parent, I very much liked the "hold on to your dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't...." message they passed on, rather than the "eff everything and everyone" or "sex, drugs and R&R" messages we tended to get when we were coming up (I'm 50). Paramore was another band on the bill that night (I think they are far better than FOB), and they had a similar message for the kids, which I think is great.
I guess I'm just saying, it's easy for "us" to sit back and say it was better when we were coming up, but I think every generation tends to think that. And frankly, bands these days have big shoes to fill. A lot of awesome stuff has come before them, ya know?
Anyway - fanboy rant over.
BTW - Both my kids got a healthy dose of Motorhead over the past week or so. Know what I love most about Lemmy? What he said at every show "We are Motorhead, and we play rock and roll". How great is that? No labels, categories, what have you, just Rock and Roll! I like to point that out to them.
Just out now, a Finnish milk advert with our Lemmy in it!
