what the kids are into

[blissblogger]

Or even what your kids are into, if you have any

exhibit A




"so sweet like a Mellotron"

 

[blissblogger]

whereas the other kid is into this kind of thing



feeble little horse seems like some kind of ultimate indie name, but then another ultimate indie name will be along in a minute

 

[blissblogger]

now this (via the other kid again, the younger one) i really like

 

[blissblogger]

where the two kids's taste converges



and we have intra-family consensus on that one - gorgeous stuff

 

[luka]

your kids should be banned from listening to music imo

 

[thirdform]

ive never been a kid. i was listening to freak fm at age 4. of course, i didn't know what the tunes were, but i didn't have to hunt for it.

 

[thirdform]

did american internet culture ruin london? i think it did by killing off pirate radio. now people in London have kids and are kids, shock horror!

 

[Murphy]

at a grim stage of competition (all boys) for who gets what in the car

eldest via a past relationship is just dipping into Erik B and Rakim, first few Mobb Deep releases

my brothers have been uncle dosing them all with Cabaret Voltaire because they found my eldest lad‘s gf likes The Smiths (complete Morrissey car ban, there are limits)

the most intriguing part is how much they have access to and what they narrow in on, not spoilt for riches, more the sheer range of options and the youngest currently prefers destruction as a form of artistic expression more than anything else

 

[blissblogger]

the most intriguing part is how much they have access to and what they narrow in on, not spoilt for riches, more the sheer range of options and the youngest currently prefers destruction as a form of artistic expression more than anything else

My eldest has done the historical backfilling in the past, but currently seems to be entirely about the current music moment - the latest nano-genre.

The younger kid is much more atemporal - so a playlist will move between some current indie-ish singer-songwriter thing to Nick Drake and back again. Loves a lot of his parents's 1980s type stuff like the Smiths and so forth.

My students have similarly vast listening range and tend to alternate between skimming across many zones and then deep diving into enormous knowledge about a particular artist, could be Les Rallizes Denudes, or Milton Nascimento. Certain figures have crept up to be canonic - Kate Bush, and surprising me, having grown up at a time when no cool person liked the group, Queen.

 

[luka]

its cos they hate music and dont see the point of it

 

[Benny Bunter]

Before I had one I always thought I'd subject my kid to all the music that I like from an early age and brainwash them, but it's a complete waste of time, they just like any old shit really.

 

[luka]

thats why i dont think id want kids, imagine if they turn out thick

 

[wg-]

The young mr greens is a house aficionado at present, big glossy 4x4 piano tunes. Loves all his mum's r&b

I'm quite happy with it at the moment tbh

 

[wg-]

Stuff like this. It's quite nice tbh very upbeat



Edited out the hate

 

[luka]

if i had kids and they liked what simons kids listenied to id disown them

 

[Benny Bunter]

Kids like videos so if you want to brainwash your kid into liking good music you'd have to go out of your way to put them on good videos and I can't really be arsed cos I don't watch them myself, what's the point?

 

[bun-u]

My kid only listens to Corpsey Drill

 

[bun-u]

…but generally a much llighter relationship to music - ‘why would you care THAT much about music?’

 

[luka]

corpsey drill is the only thing that sounds fun like being a kid. who wants to be drippy? i cant get my head around it

 

[Benny Bunter]

I'm hardly gonna put trap dancehall and Bronx drill videos on for my eight year old son am I? Inappropriate age content.