Reggae's thump, thump, thump.

 

I let her Wagner go.

I worked in a supermarket in the early 2000's which recently had a music system added. It will play a mixture of current hits and some going back to the 80's.  Some sour faced older (in her late 60's i'd guess) woman came up to me and sternly said:

 

"What is this noise!?"

 

I wasn't sure what she was on about so i hazard a guess and politely replied: "What? The music?"

 

"THIS. IS. NOT. MUSIC!!" she screamed at me and then walked off in a huff.

 

I just stood there.... then had a little dance to 'Jump' by Girls Aloud.

As a teenager when I was into Trance my parents told me it was "just a load of noise" and "you used to do that on your Casio keyboard when you were 5" 

I must admit, I like to understand the words. Hate that rap stuff mind.....goes off to get Zimmer frame!

Ah yes! Do we turn into our parents?

Sometimes I see the vocal as an added instrument so I don't need to always get the words if I like tune 

My dad loved Ella, Satchmo and the Duke stuff. Mum was middle of tut road. Both were also churchy type choir fans. We all sang together in the car. I can't remember any conflict, really.

 

My aunt was an art teacher and asked her pupils to paint a piece of music. Friggin in the Riggin didn't go down too well. 

My father was only interested in classical music. He had no time for any modern music. The only group he ever considered as having any musical talent at all was The Beatles. He did watch Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio on television when it was first performed in 1991. That was the first time McCartney had done any classical music and my father thought it was quite tuneful but had no merit as serious classical music.

 

My father was a pianist and when he was young he had hopes of becoming a concert pianist but he never did.

 

Apart from "turn it down now!" there were no complaints from my Mum. She loved it all, especially The Beatles.  

 

She taught us the songs of her day ( she was a nice wee singer) and we taught her ours. Wonderful times and memories.  

 

 

 

 

"Long haired layabouts" was a phrase often heard from my Dad.

And mine  What he said about Rod Stewart i cannot repeat here ! Shirley Bassey was the love of his life, much to my mums dismay, she couldnt stand her !

My dad had quite a wide musical taste ... Everything from classical to jazz ... And he really liked Elvis My mum liked 40s dance music, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby ... And Songs of Praise

My father in law always used to say 'they get their money for nothing those blokes'    He was made up when Dire Straits turned his moaning into a song.

There's not really an age/generation gap between me and my Saga's.

Grew up listening to Beatles, Beach Boys and my dad is still a big fan of Motown.

I suppose because they were the younger siblings in their families it's the reason why we had Johnny Ray, loads of Doo Wop stuff and a smattering of Bill Haley etc to listen to as well.  My Mum's oldest brother was a big rock 'n roll fan.

 

Mum's got her head screwed on even now - she can't stand Abba.

Smart woman.

Our house was normally......TURN THAT RACKET DOWN!   But it was more my brothers than me. I'm a good ten years younger  

There's a strong possibility that my folks listen to music that is more contemporary than the music that i listen to.

I still remember a particular faux pas when I played a Gong album, without researching a track named "I am your pussy!" otherwise I suspect that the Pothead Pixie material was over their heads.

Think the same goes for me and mine.

I can't be bothered to listen to most of the new stuff; I'm listening to Ella and me dad's yakking on about Adele

 ! Did that with "Poet for Sale" 

My dad is really in to modern jazz and latin. I've been going to concerts (and snuck in to Ronnie Scott's) since I was 10. There was a bit of a bad run when the first couple of jazz greats I saw live died a few weeks after I'd seen them (sorry Miles, Art Blakey and Tito Puente).

Bet you saw Ronnie too.

He was a good friend of my grandpa.

We must never meet.

 

Even through coincidence.

Are you planning to see Jedward at all? 

Dubstep would finally give the 'it's just noise' types a bit of vindication.