To wish my DC liked older/different styles of music

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Lighthearted thread

I honestly feel my parents pain now I am a parent. Does anyone else?

My DD’s are 14 and 16. Both LOVE boy bands and DD16 loves rap/hip hop. Although we don’t play instruments we are a very music orientated family - it’s always on in one or multiple rooms or the car, they discuss it all the time and I listen to their tastes (and even like a lot of them). We like going to concerts etc etc. So don’t get me wrong I am not dismissing their tastes although I really don’t ‘get’ modern hip hop, it’s all merging into the same sound

BUT I can’t get them past 2000 musically (with the exception of Michael Jackson).

So when it comes to my turn to choose a song and I want to put on something I love - anything Prince, Fleetwood Mac, Queen, soul, Motown, classical, rock or basically anything that isn’t Pop Music from the last decade (even 80’s or 90’s rap and hip hop) they are completely intolerant and don’t see the appeal, turning into Kevin the Teenager. Not even for moving lyrics or awesome guitar riffs. I secretly harbour fantasies of one hearing one of them playing Aretha or Fleetwood in their room and having a musical epiphany.

One of them said they liked Blur Song 2 earlier and I felt like it was a real change in direction

I recall my parents listening to ELO and BeeGees and me thinking oh god what crap... and now I love it!

What age were you when you started broadening your musical tastes?

I grew up listening to the stuff that my mum and dad liked, plus chart music. Now my DC love all of it and I take them to see loads of bands. I woke up at 4am one morning to hear DS 10 playing Stairway on his guitar.
I should have got up and throttled him but I was absolutely overjoyed to hear it!
DS2 cried buckets when DB died.

I would say that you enjoy music across many genres and generations as a whole as you age, but wondered when it happened to other people!

Started about 13/14 when I got into Acid house and Indy which my mum and step dad hated, yet now some of the vinyls I have are considered classics and ground breaking for their genre and worth far more than the £5/10 I paid for them and are now played on mainstream radio as modern classics.

It is a lighthearted thread, but it is also a bit gatekeeping, which I am guilty of doing.

They’re teenagers, they like the opposite of you, on purpose... or at least it akways seems that way to me...

I pretty much listen to the same things as your DC, mine listen to 90’s britpop and classic rock, one plays bass and likes bands with good bass lines - I can’t even tell when a bass is playing...

I can't listen to Fleetwood Mac without thinking of the Reyolds Girls

I used to feel like a young mum I was born in 1980 and my eldest is 16 and they used to think I was young and cool for knowing all the words to Destiny’s Child songs but suddenly I have become old and listen to Old People Music and have a hairy chin

My 23 year old wants to see FM in concert. Also Stevie Nicks song is in School of Rock which is on in West end

Yes. The dreaded Reynolds Girls

Argh my ears!

It’s better than some of the crap DD’s listen to though 😂

fm tickets are £132 each at present

I know, so wanted to go and even on the Tuesday at Wembley- daylight robbery

Let’s go anyway

I was into a lot of the Britpop bands in my early teens, and then got into some of the bands that had influenced them. Then I started playing the guitar and listened to a lot of classic rock.

My kids are too young to have much of a say in what music we listen to. My toddler was dancing around to Oasis earlier and my 5 yr old loves The Beatles Yellow Submarine album (All Together Now is his favourite). I played him The Eagles’ Tequila Sunrise on my guitar yesterday and he enjoyed it, usually he’s telling me not to sing! I will be a massive embarrassment when they’re teenagers, I’m sure!

Oh really. Stop moaning. DS1 likes really loud thumpy garage shit. Even teens hate it.

I love garage! I’m an all in person

I have 3 teens. Oldest is 17. I guess I'm quite lucky as they all have fairly broad musical tastes, however I have always 'inflicted' my music on them, and in the car we have always taken turns with CD choice. They all like some modern stuff but also like older music too. Eldest recently 'discovered' 10CC and Fleetwood Mac. They've always been into Queen, Billy Joel, all sorts of stuff from the 70s/80s. Where they moan at me is that I also really like classical music, so they have to listen to that too. But when in the car, they all know that as I am driving, I have the final say. If they moan about other peoples choices (too much), they forfeit their own. If they all moan too much they just get permanent Radio 3, so taking turns and not complaining almost always wins out :)

I quite enjoy the music my 14 year old listens too. She's into bands like fall out boy, Panic! at the Disco, Greenday and MCR.

She also likes bands which have been heavily influenced by the above such as set if off, get scared, water parks and IDKHow. One of her new favorites is Yungblud which remind me a lot of early artic monkeys.

I actually enjoy her music and I'm proud she doesn't follow the crowd by listening to bands or artists that are more mainstream.

Has it ever been cool to like Fleetwood Mac?

My mother was always disgusted that I wasn't 'normal' because I detested almost all 80s music, preferring Renaissance, Baroque, Swing, Rockabilly, Rock, Ska and Punk. I teach music now and, whilst I would quite happily never hear a single bar of Grime, Trap Beats or Drill ever again and wish Adele, Christina Aguilera and Whitney Houston had never seen the inside of a recording studio nothing but the best, the point is that I am not the target demographic for the music the vast majority of today's kids know and like.

Which is perfectly normal as is my love for ear filters for the remainder of the lessons after I've taught them the chord progression.

I console myself with the thought that most will start broadening their tastes once they get to about 17, especially if they meet somebody they fancy who listens to more than what's top on YouTube.

It is, however, extremely cool to like Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. As I've been told by 15/16 year olds. Especially as I can teach them how to play things like Green Manalishi, Oh Well and Man of the World.

Has it ever been cool to like Fleetwood Mac?

Tusk has always been cool. A double album released at the same time as London Calling, and cut from similar cloth (maverick producer, lots of drugs, lots of Talking Heads and Sex Pistols influences). I was lent a copy at the time it was released and was completely sold, and I must have listened to it a thousand times.

pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21924-tusk/

If you have a chance, listen to Camper Van Beethoven's track-by-track remake, and to the Smashing Pumpkins' not-track-by-track-remake ("Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" is to Tusk as "Exile in Guyville" is to "Exile on Mainstreet").

And on the outtakes odds-and-ends reissue, there's an astounding version of "Brown Eyes" with Peter Green (who appears uncredited in the fade-out of the released version, although it helps to have heard this version in order to spot it not being Buckingham). He turned up in the studio, much like Syd Barratt during the "Wish You Were Here" sessions, but unlike Syd wanted to play. And he could play.

I remember when I was younger the only music we listened to in the car was my parents. I was never allowed any of my music to be played at all as they hated it. It meant I grew up listening to mowtown, queen, the stranglers and the Beatles. I used to moan about this all the time when I was your DCs age but from the age of about 18 I finally admitted I liked it and listened to it myself amongst the music from my generation too.

If they like hiphop have you tried to get them to listen to more old school hiphop? If they realise the older stuff in a genre they like is good maybe it will get them interested in other stuff too.

Also I saw Fleetwood Mac a couple of years ago and they were fantastic, well worth the money.

Rumours is a classic successful album and The Chain is amazing and Tusk - what's not to like.

Son wanted Rumours to play guitar rifts but dd had "borrowed it" grrr.

Forcibly make them listen to Tony Blackburn's "Sounds of the Sixties" on Radio 2, between 6.00am and 8.00am on Saturday. You will all HATE it! But you may both, eventually learn something.

Fleetwood Mac are really popular with all the early 20s kids I know. They're definitely having a moment. Keep hearing them on the telly on adverts and indents too, which suggests the hipsters are rediscovering them.

Idents