Monday, August 6, 2012

my family's musical story in a venn diagram




when i lived at home, my mother would, on occasion, sneak into my room and...uh..."edit" my collection of music cassettes if she saw anything she judged to be inappropriate. meanwhile, she offended my teenage music sensibilities by listening to musicals, pretty much exlusively. she was particularly fond of michael ballam and i can sing from memory any song he ever sang on broadway.

i close my eyes, drew back the curtain
to see for certain, what I thought I knew
far far away, someone was weeping
but the world was sleeping
any dream will do

awesome. or not.

my mother and i had but one musical taste overlap. the beatles. especially the beatles on vinyl.

now, the circle of life is completing itself as elder daughter and elder son develop their musical [it is so hard to type this word] taste. they delight in torturing me with their music. they reset the stations in my car. they add the katy perry station to my pandora. they can't get enough of nicki minaj. maroon 5. one direction.

the only music we both like is the new passion pit album. so now i am biding my time, waiting for their musical tastes to mature. do you think i'll have to wait long? did you like the same music as your parents?

12 comments:

  1. I think it was Michael Crawford. But we do love Michael Ballam also.

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    1. you are such an awesome nerd, dad! i get it from you.

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  2. Have you listened to Hot Chip? I'd say they slot into the Passion Pit overlap. There are some great remixes of both floating around. Hypem.com is your friend for cool stuff like that - Aryl

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    1. i have, but i remember not loving them. i will give them another listen though.

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  3. I grew up listening ot my parents music up until the grudge phase hit me around 7th grade. They listened to pretty great music though- Bob Marley, motown, Beatles. So we had some over lapping taste but they HATED my music in high school/middle school. Passionately.

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    1. i loved motown in high school--my mom, not so much.

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  4. happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, joy, joy, joy.

    certainly any dream will do wasn't as mind-etching as that.

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    1. i would pay good money to find a copy of that album. it's definitely stuck in my head all the time!

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  5. i'm with anna. but now i'm going to have any dream will do stuck in my head all day.

    i need some new music...

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    1. excellent, because now i do too. i have a new music post coming up, and if you're on spotify, i have some new stuff there too.

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  6. My mom was and still is, firmly planted in the oldies but goodies generation. I can sing most Beach Boys, Beatles, etc song to this day. My dad on the other hand loved to embarrass me with his Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers music blaring when he picked me up from school. For a girl in the Valley in the 80's, this was torture! Neither of them could stand my love of New Wave, Depeche Mode, Erasure, OMD, The Cure. I like to think I'm more enlightened than they were, but I'm sure my kids roll their eyes behind my back.

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  7. I love all music. So I liked what my parents listened to but they NEVER liked what I would listen to (unless of course it was their music)

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