Random musical clash

[jay]

I'm cleaning the kitchen, trying to clear enough working space to cook, and I have iTunes playing random selections in the background. James drags himself up around 10am and begins making breakfast. In the background, "Dancing Queen" by Abba, a song with strong linked memories for me from high school... James winces visibly. "I knew you had marginal tastes, but *this*?", he says. I simply grin. "It's a rite of passage," I said. "When you're sixteen, your parents definitionally must play terminally-uncool music -- when I was sixteen, it was big-band music and Elvis."

Comments

[spicy-turkey.livejournal.com]

As a card-carrying Swede, I must applaud your choice of ABBA over other music as the epitome of good taste. ;-)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(grins)

They seem to just push a few people's buttons... but when I was 16, they sounded like freedom and new things to explore.

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

Big-band music and Elvis have never been uncool.

But "Dancing Queen"? Ewwwwww! Totally not cool.

:-)

(Oh, there's some good ammunition against me, stored right underneath my turntable. I don't think I ought to let you anywhere near it.)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

LOL... actually, later in life I've grown to appreciate some big band music and even Elvis (although preferably the earlier pre-movie stuff). So YKIOK... ;)

[cerulean-me.livejournal.com]

My childhood was a bit off... I suppose having parents only slightly more than 17 years older than me had something to do with it.

When I was 16, my dad was borrowing my Damn Yankees cds, and I was borrowing his Rolling Stones vinyl. Before that, when I was in junior high, I was all about Queen and the Beatles.

FWIW? Dancing Queen is GREAT Thanksgiving music ;-)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I still listen to Queen, but the Beatles... seem just too ancient, usually. I can't explain it, maybe it's a reaction to patgreene's love of them ;-).

[cerulean-me.livejournal.com]

I love the Beatles, but I don't listen to them often... To me they bring up too many childhood memories. My parents used to sing them to us like nursey rhymes.

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

I got worried when, in my adulthood, I began to actually *like* my parents' favorite NYC 'light rock' radio station...

I forgot to listen to Alice's Restaurant today, sigh. There's a tradition of that song being played at noon every Thanksgiving on the classic rock station in NYC, and for many years my grandmother and I would listen to it together on our way to the family gathering. I used to get such a kick out of hearing that little octagenarian lady cracking up over the same funny parts that I liked best. For a while, I used to still listen to it on Thanksgiving after she died - sitting and remembering it as her and my special thing.

Speaking of classic rock, the Big Love theme song ("God Only Knows," by the Beach Boys) was playing on the TV as I typed the above... :-)