Eighties Rock and My Daughter

[fairfarmhand]

Awhile back my daughter and I were talking about music. I was showing her BonJovi, Journey, and Aerosmith.

 

She liked the sound, especially of the BonJovi, but then she saw the videos and was just :mellow: :mellow: :mellow:

 

Especially about the Aerosmith.

 

Her comment was "Why did anyone ever think THAT was cool?"

 

And I just laughed.

 

Guess it's a generation gap. I can't wait till her kids say the same thing about her teen music.

[Janeway]

What about Queen? Has she listened to Queen? My son is all about Queen. 

[Janeway]

I think I will go play those other bands you mentioned for my son now, LOL. We can get an 80's rock listening group together..call it music appreciation.

[Janeway]

Did you see the new Star Trek movie? The funniest line was when they played heavy metal and someone asked "is that classical music?" LOL ha ha ha ha..I guess by the 24th century, or 23rd, whenever that took place, all 20th century music would be classical.

[scrapbookbuzz]

I like 80s music. I do NOT like music videos. And I was in high school in the 80s.

[Guest]

Agreed - I love eighties pop and rock, even being from a younger generation, but the videos are painfully bad. However I see the nonsense being paraded around pop culture these days and feel the same. For every well done music video there are five hideous clunkers. And some are straight up pornographic in a way that makes gyrating against a car hood look pedestrian.

[Dmmetler]

My DD is a major fan of Weird Al, and finds his 80's videos crazy. She found it even crazier when I showed her the ones that his videos were spoofing :).

[MercyA]

Did you see the new Star Trek movie? The funniest line was when they played heavy metal and someone asked "is that classical music?" LOL ha ha ha ha..I guess by the 24th century, or 23rd, whenever that took place, all 20th century music would be classical.

 

It was actually the Beastie Boys. Loved that scene!  :laugh:

Edited September 10, 2016 by MercyA

[Greta]

My daughter LOVES 70's and 80's music!  (Big surprise to me - I never expected she would like my generation's music, but she strongly prefers it over her own generation's music!)  But she agrees with your dd about the videos.  And the hair.  :lol:

[Junie]

Last year, ds16 and I studied the 20th century, decade by decade.  We generally only listen to sacred music, but I wanted him to be exposed to a little bit of music from each decade.  For the 80s, I found a video of "We are the World".  It had everybody in it.  Lots of hair and lots of screaming into a microphone.   :lol:

[fairfarmhand]

.  And the hair.   :lol:

 

 

We call it "Fry Guy" Hair.

 

And if you don't know what that means, you're not as old as me.

[Bluegoat]

I find that pretty much any music video, if yyou mute it, is hilarious.

 

The old ones can be funny, but I find a lot of the modern ones really pretentious.  And lewd.

[MooCow]

It was actually Beastie Boys. Loved that scene! :laugh:

Beastie Boys are classic ;)

[ChocolateReignRemix]

Why was it cool?

Because it was.  It just was.  :coolgleamA:

[Lady Florida.]

My son loves 70s and 80s rock. He's never bothered with videos, he just likes the music, He says it's much more fun to play that music on a guitar than the music of his generation.

[ChocolateReignRemix]

Now for a really bad video, YouTube "Apache" by the Tommy Seebach Band.  It captures the 70s at its finest.

 

Or as DH put it, "that video was made for about $4,000...most of which was spent on cocaine."

[magic]

My son will be 20 next month and is a huge 80s rock fan.  He has been systematically turning his younger siblings towards his taste in music.  Last year, his music appreciation professor was shocked that he could identify so many songs.  He also looks for the obscure little bands of the 70s and 80s.

[Guest]

 

The old ones can be funny, but I find a lot of the modern ones really pretentious.  And lewd.

 

They can be now for sure, but wow- the sexism of the 80's is mind blowing for me to look back at. It's a wonder to me that any of us growing up then had any self esteem left by the end of the decade. Now is just different somehow. At least for Pop music videos I've seen lately (which granted isn't many)...I am completely out of the know on rap or anything else.  If the women now become sex objects they're doing it to themselves rather than being props in a mens' video, you know? I know there's all sorts of debate about why they would now make themselves objects, but I just can't compare Miley Cyrus shenanigans to the Cherry Pie girl or the chick doing cartwheels on car hoods or any of the other just outright  just "I can't believe this crap aired 24/7 on MTV" type of videos. There were very few women artists on the top of the charts by the end of the 80's. It was such a boy club- at least how I remember it. Except for Madonna. But she's her own whole ball of wax. 

 

 

Anyway, heere's looking at you Warrant, Motley Crue, Poison.......I partly think that's why so many of us fled to Grunge with arms wide open. No mini skirts, lycra tops, stripper heels, etc. as a requirement!

[Guest]

I still can't listen to Surrealistic Pillow without thinking about my daughter. She played that album incessantly when she was a teen.

 

 

[happi duck]

Riding in the car a few months back I mentioned the band Ratt as an example of not standing the test of time...

 

During that same car trip a Ratt song came on the radio!!

 

I stand corrected.

[Greta]

We call it "Fry Guy" Hair.

 

And if you don't know what that means, you're not as old as me.

Then I guess we're the same(ish) age. :D

[Baseball mom]

My dc don't watch videos but love 80's music, especially 80's hair bands

[eternalsummer]

It goes the other way too, I think.  DH and I are millennials and we like dubstep; I've played it for my mom and she is just never impressed.  then I found this video and I understood:

 

[Carrie12345]

Tsk, tsk, tsk!

 

My 18yo is very much into 70's and 80's music, but not always the same direction as my own taste.  He's big on Rush, Queen, some Aerosmith... I finally got him into GnR and Metallica. It's definitely all about the music for him, not the style.  Which is fine, because even I don't forgive Axl for the spandex shorts!

 

My 14yo only listens to Japanese music, which drives me nuts, but my 13yo has discovered Green Day!

[Carrie12345]

I think I will go play those other bands you mentioned for my son now, LOL. We can get an 80's rock listening group together..call it music appreciation.

 

One of my "winning the lottery dreams" is to have private boxes for the concerts of all of our favorite bands as they come through, and drag all of our kids to them, fulfilling our Arts requirement!

[Lizzie in Ma]

My kids love 70's and 80's music!  I am a huge hair band fan. ;) 

[MercyA]

It goes the other way too, I think.  DH and I are millennials and we like dubstep; I've played it for my mom and she is just never impressed.  then I found this video and I understood

 

:smilielol5:  :smilielol5:  :smilielol5:

 

Have you tried Lindsey Stirling? Even my formerly Amish mother-in-law likes her. 

 

And here's a fun dubstep parody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RBpdOLOSyY

Edited September 10, 2016 by MercyA

[Spryte]

Ds made his ringtone Depeche Mode World in my Eyes and no one in his class recognized DM or The Police. :o A friend said they were playing 80s music on the "oldies station." I feel old.

 

DH and I met after a Depeche Mode concert.   :leaving:

[Shellydon]

My 14 yo DD loves 80s rock.

[kewb]

Some days I wonder if my supermarket is playing really great music or if I am just that old.

 

My son loves the classics: Queen, The Who, The Beatles, Bon Jovi, Def Leopard, Meatloaf, Kansas, Boston, etc.

 

I failed my daughter. She is a bubblegum pop lover.

[Lady Florida.]

It goes the other way too, I think.  DH and I are millennials and we like dubstep; I've played it for my mom and she is just never impressed.  then I found this video and I understood:

 

 

:lol:  :lol:  That video nailed it!

 

Ds (19) went through a dubstep phase, but he no longer listens to it. He actually likes a lot of music - current pop, alternative rock, classic rock, The Beatles and a few other 60s groups, classical, and sometimes country. His preferred music leans toward current alternative rock and classic rock. 

 

He plays guitar and we got him a banjo for his birthday (last week). He has an acoustic guitar and an electric, and now wants a classical acoustic. I think there was a thread long ago where we posted that the first string instrument you get is a gateway instrument. That certainly rings true in our house. :D

[wintermom]

Some days I wonder if my supermarket is playing really great music or if I am just that old.

 

 

 

Every time I shop at IKEA I'm back in the 80s pop/rock world. I sometimes want to request ABBA. ;)

Edited September 10, 2016 by wintermom

[Guest]

Every time I shop at IKEA I'm back in the 80s pop/rock world. I sometime want to request ABBA. ;)

 

Can you hear the drums Fernando? 

 

Ha! Now I'm going to be humming that to myself all day. Must be something in the air. ;) 

[Greta]

Ds made his ringtone Depeche Mode World in my Eyes and no one in his class recognized DM or The Police. :o A friend said they were playing 80s music on the "oldies station." I feel old.

 

 

Depeche Mode has been my favorite band for, well, basically most of my life!  I fell in love with them in my early high school years.  They were my refuge during my college years:  music's Dark Age (90's grunge - yuck!).  And they have continued to make some really excellent albums well into the 2000's as well, though they certainly don't get the radio play that they used to.  (And if being honest I am forced to admit that their most recent album wasn't the best.)

 

Yeah, it is a really strange feeling when your generation's music becomes the "oldies"!   :blink:

[wintermom]

Can you hear the drums Fernando? 

 

Ha! Now I'm going to be humming that to myself all day. Must be something in the air. ;)

 

Dancing Queen might result in some odd behaviour from shoppers and staff.  :laugh:  It could be a big improvement in the Returns area, though. 

Edited September 10, 2016 by wintermom

[MEmama]

Dancing Queen might result in some odd behaviour from shoppers and staff. :laugh: It could be a big improvement in the Returns area, though.

It came on at the grocery store recently and I didn't even pretend to not dance and sing (quietly) along. :)

 

I came of age in the 80's. I make no apologies.

[Guest]

They were my refuge during my college years:  music's Dark Age (90's grunge - yuck!).  

 

Blasphemy!!!! 

[Jen500]

Blasphemy!!!! 

So many of my favorite bands came out in the 90's! I'm glad some of them are still around.

Tool, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Cranberries, Smashing Pumpkins, Alice in Chains, STP, Weezer, on and on....

[ChocolateReignRemix]

Dancing Queen might result in some odd behaviour from shoppers and staff.  :laugh:  It could be a big improvement in the Returns area, though. 

 

We still have an ABBA 8-track hanging around somewhere.

[goldberry]

DD adores 80s music.  She has naturally curly hair and often said she wishes she born in the 80s because her hair would have been desirable then. I have a picture of me with a "spiral" perm from the 80s that I paid a ton of money for and broke off all my hair.

[Greta]

Blasphemy!!!! 

 

 

So many of my favorite bands came out in the 90's! I'm glad some of them are still around.

Tool, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Cranberries, Smashing Pumpkins, Alice in Chains, STP, Weezer, on and on....

 

 

 

I know that for those of you who came of age in the 90's that's your music, and so naturally you love it.  Because you don't know any better, bless your hearts.  

 

:lol:  I'm just messing with you -- and showing my age!  My husband says that every generation despises the musical style that becomes popular right after "their own" music.  He's older, so for him, that means hating disco.  I love disco!  That's the music of my early childhood, so to me it sounds happy and innocent and fun, just like childhood is supposed to be.  

[Dmmetler]

It goes the other way too, I think. DH and I are millennials and we like dubstep; I've played it for my mom and she is just never impressed. then I found this video and I understood:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QodrSfsboFk

One of the teens in DD's class last semester introduced her to Dubstep and SoundCloud. I'd say that video is exactly what it sounds like to me!

[Lady Florida.]

I was sitting in Starbucks at City Walk (near Universal Orlando) one time and heard a muzak style version of When Doves Cry. I think it actually made the doves cry.  :crying:

 

 

You know you're old when your music becomes elevator/phone hold music.

Edited September 10, 2016 by Lady Florida.

[Greta]

I was sitting in Starbucks at City Walk (near Universal Orlando) one time and heard a muzak style version of When Doves Cry. I think it actually made the doves cry.  :crying:

 

 

You know you're old when your music becomes elevator/phone hold music.

 

 

Nnnooooooo!  I think that would make me cry too!

[TranquilMind]

They can be now for sure, but wow- the sexism of the 80's is mind blowing for me to look back at. It's a wonder to me that any of us growing up then had any self esteem left by the end of the decade. Now is just different somehow. At least for Pop music videos I've seen lately (which granted isn't many)...I am completely out of the know on rap or anything else.  If the women now become sex objects they're doing it to themselves rather than being props in a mens' video, you know? I know there's all sorts of debate about why they would now make themselves objects, but I just can't compare Miley Cyrus shenanigans to the Cherry Pie girl or the chick doing cartwheels on car hoods or any of the other just outright  just "I can't believe this crap aired 24/7 on MTV" type of videos. There were very few women artists on the top of the charts by the end of the 80's. It was such a boy club- at least how I remember it. Except for Madonna. But she's her own whole ball of wax. 

 

 

Anyway, heere's looking at you Warrant, Motley Crue, Poison.......I partly think that's why so many of us fled to Grunge with arms wide open. No mini skirts, lycra tops, stripper heels, etc. as a requirement!

 

Hey, there was Joan Jett.  She was awesome.  Met her in a bathroom one time in a restaurant in which I worked.  She was intimidating.

Heart, Ann and Nancy Wilson (they also stayed in the hotel in which I worked in those days). 

 

Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie, in Fleetwood Mac

 

Pat Benetar

 

Chrissie Hyndes. 

 

Annie Lennox

 

They were there and were not objects.

[TranquilMind]

We still have an ABBA 8-track hanging around somewhere.

 

A friend once got into my vehicle and saw the ABBA tape lying there.  She turned to me and said, "How old ARE you?"

[Reefgazer]

I was in college in the 80s and I actually hate 80s music, but I really like 60s and early 70s music. I was born too late!

[RootAnn]

My kids think Twisted Sister videos are hilarious. They also listen to my Styx Greatest Hits CD on repeat.

Eldest loves DH's metal music, but she also requests my non-metal 80s & 90s stuff. When Men Without Hats Safety Dance comes on at the grocery store, I admit to skipping through the aisles a bit. How can you not dance to that song?  :lol:

[Guest]

Hey, there was Joan Jett.  She was awesome.  Met her in a bathroom one time in a restaurant in which I worked.  She was intimidating.

Heart, Ann and Nancy Wilson (they also stayed in the hotel in which I worked in those days). 

 

Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie, in Fleetwood Mac

 

Pat Benetar

 

Chrissie Hyndes. 

 

Annie Lennox

 

They were there and were not objects.

 

She still is awesome! I love Joan Jett and listen to her still;  all the time actually. And yes, you're right on all of the other women, but they didn't get the airplay and especially the video play at the end of the decade that the guys did. Pat Benetar's videos faded out I would guess by around 1986, and I don't remember Annie Lennox really getting video play outside of the Eurythmics until the 90's- they were bigger in the early 80's. I think the early 80's were women heavy, then the boy club took over and stayed until the 90's came. At least that's my heavily MTV influenced memory. 

 

ETA: And for the record TranquilMind your new photo is completely throwing me off today!! I keep having to double take who it is! 

Edited September 10, 2016 by texasmom33

[kewb]

I was sitting in Starbucks at City Walk (near Universal Orlando) one time and heard a muzak style version of When Doves Cry. I think it actually made the doves cry.  :crying:

 

 

You know you're old when your music becomes elevator/phone hold music.

 

That is a traumatizing moment.  Although I was more traumatized when the music of my youth started showing up in car commercials.  Holy Moly, when did I become a target audience for upscale cars. Between that and the American girl historical era doll "Julie, from the 70's"   Add the muzak on top and I want to curl into a fetal position.  Which I can do, thanks to my daily yoga.