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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
she finds nothing odd about that, especially as all modern music is 'crap'.
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Hi David,
My daughter is 21yrs and she says exactly the same thing. She listens to Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Frank Sinatra. Bing Crosby, Dean Martin (for her age, go figure,
she has oodles of those cd's, I am not responsible), Etta James, Santana etc. Even though I've often played Harry Connick Jnr, I think it was more Michael Bubble who introduced her to jazz, and Beyonce did the same in her film based on Etta James life. Her boyfriend, the same. She said to me one day, I will show you how *$#% the music is at the moment and turned on Foxtel to play current hits- sure enough, back to back dance music, with that electronic voice sound - it all sounded the same. Prob. why I haven't gotten much new music myself lately either.
I think many children today are looking for music with a bit of substance, and thank goodness artists come along (such as Bubble & Beyonce as Etta James) to bring back some classic music culture to the young generation.
I don't know how, but I think most children around 20yrs will know many Abba Songs. They just seem to always be there in the background and get a resurgence from time to times with films like Muriel's Wedding, Priscilla Queen of the Dessert etc. I am a huge Abba fan and still have nearly all my memorabilia (minus my cushion and socks- don't know what happened to those.
) Every so many years, I go through and fold out very carefully my mega abba posters just to see them again and make me smile.
You used to be able to buy these books, which was actually a poster that folds out- on the back was lots of pics and on the front a huge print.
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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
Similarly, I was walking through the foyer the other day and some young blokes were sitting around and one was playing music on his laptop - Ziggy and the Spiders. You still see lots of young blokes sporting Led Zep of Black Sabbath T shirts. Yet in the 70's no one of my generation was listening to Benny Goodman or Glen Miller. It's probably due to the availability of music and the fact that these kids grew up listening to their parents music whereas in my day record players and old records just weren't around. I find it nice but still a bit strange.
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My daughter and her boyfriend wear their Jimmy Hendrix t-shirts with pride.
