For feeling smug about what a cool, hip, with-it Mum I am?

[CrockoDuck]

15 year old DS has recently gotten very, very heavily into music (as they do). A while ago I told him he could borrow anything he liked from my CD collection, which was met with a rather pitying "yeah, right" kind of look.

Today, he comes home with a list of 10 albums his rock dude mate at school has recommended. I ask what they are and am told "nothing you've ever heard of".

I pick up the list, have a read, walk straight to my CD rack and pick up six of the albums. (Well, one was different album, same group).

HA !!!!!!!

So, AIBU for walking around with a knowing smirk on my face?

(Disclaimer: I do realise that anyone who describes themselves as "cool", "hip" and "with-it" is generally nothing of the kind, and needs to get themselves back to the 80s).

Awesome. That would have made me very, very happy.

I wish I was this cool. Apparently me and my husband are laughably not. So they tell us.

Ha ha!!

So what were they? Would love to see his face

Not at all, happens in this house too ;)

Yeah but you also ruined it with the words 'gotten' and 'rock dude'

DS's mates all copied borrowed my Guns N Roses albums when they were about 16.

DS was most mortified.

I am not cool, my dc are going to cringe at our iPod lists when they are teens, which will be soon. I have abba ffs!

I'd like to be hip but I always seem to hear about bands too late, when they're not cool anymore! Good for you

Was it Blur?!!

what were the cds?? I want to know if i am cool too!!! (I suspect not, but i'd like to be proved wrong!)

Go, on, what was on the list?

Brilliant!

I think you should put the CD on really loud, and then just act all innocent as though you have no idea it was the same album as on his list!

tell us what the CDs were!!

WorraLiberty....Fair comment. But used "Rock dude" as a way of describing how his mate feels about himself - in a bad, plays guitar, gonna be a rock star. You know!

What's wrong with "gotten"?

A teenage boy babysat for us once, and when we found out he was into Vinyl (records, don't be dirty), he had a rifle through DHs late 70's and '80s collection and took several as payment.

Stuff like the Jam, Guns N Roses, Peter Gabriel, Thin Lizzy ...

My grown up son scoffed "who listens to cds' these days?"..whilst shoving 4 of mine in his gym bag

is it very uncool to high five you OP?

and yes, tell us what CD's they were so i know if i am cool or not. (although tbh i think the fact all the music i possess is on CDs rather than on an ipod makes me totally uncool)

Come on, spill. I need to know if my Adam and the Ants records make me deeply cool.

Ooh, I want to know too.

Really cool people listen to Records. Fact.

OK CDs were (nothing THAT amazing).....

Kaiser Chiefs, Nirvana, Radiohead, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Green Day and er.....The Beatles!

Good stuff.

There's nothing wrong with 'gotten' if you're American

I feel old

My Year 11s refused to believe Nirvana were famous...because they hadn't heard of them.

I want to know. Ds1 is also 15 and I went up in his estimation for having a Bob Marley album. I want to know if I have anymore.