Music and Age. There comes a time, my friends ...

Case · June 14, 2006

I remember waaay back when, watching the Top of the Pops in my early teens, The Sweet and The Chi-Lites and all that lot on and loving all the glitz and glamour in the way kids do.

I recall listening to Rob Jones (no, not that one... ) on Radio Luxembourg MW 208 I think?, under the covers when I should have been asleep - He loved Boney M's "Mary's Boy Child" so much when it had JUST been released he played in twice in a row - on Live Radio... And Radio Lux was SO much cooler than Radio 1 with Mike Reed and the Hairy feckin' cornflake.

Punk passed us by in rural Ireland, but I 'got' it a couple of years later and loved it - The Rats and The Clash and all the others. Plastic Bertrand! Yeah! Before this it was all the prog stuff, Genesis and Yes and all that - then into the Nineties with Oasis and Blur and all that and recently with a whole raft of new and excellent music.

During all this time my parents didn't know who the bloody hell that lot were, and "What's that bloody racket?" - And why are they all dressed like a bunch of "Queens" (or close to that spelling, in any case..). But I'd listen to and look at the charts and I'd know 25 out of the 30 on there)

In the past few years, even my colleagues at work used to ask me what I was listening to, and I'd come out with "Sigur Ros, or Sufjan Stevens or Bloc Party" and they'd go .... "WHO?"

... And I felt good about it.

I knew my music and I loved my music. "I'm NEVER going to be like my parents ... My finger is ALWAYS going to be on the musical pulse. Hell - If I took my finger off the pulse, none of my friends would know what to listen to!"

BUT ....

It's happened.... My kids are listening to stuff and last week I found myself saying ... "What is that God-awful schoite?". It was Sandi Thom. Hey, don't get me wrong. It WAS piss poor wailing. But the problem is ... I should have KNOWN who it was. A couple of years ago I'd have know if it was the SugarbloodtBabes or The darkness. Now, I'm on the slippery slope.

I haven't even used soulseeeek in about two months?

WHY?

WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?

AM I ..... OLD?

Falconhoof · June 14, 2006

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