DawnM Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Oh the horrors! Yesterday I had 1st Wave radio on in the car and The Cure came on. My oldest (19) listened for a while and then I realized he was staring at me. "What?" I asked "Really Mom? You used to listen to this?" "Of course! Isn't it great" I laugh "Mom, you know, right now I am just embarrassed for your entire generation!" HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just for that, dear son, I will be singing along, at full volume, ALL the way home! 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEmama Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Ha! My son just leaves the room. :( 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted February 15, 2017 Author Share Posted February 15, 2017 Ha! My son just leaves the room. :( OH! But we were in THE CAR!!!!!!!!!!! :lol: 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegoat Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Given the wins at the Grammy's the other day, I don't think The Cure is that embarrasing. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted February 15, 2017 Author Share Posted February 15, 2017 Given the wins at the Grammy's the other day, I don't think The Cure is that embarrasing. :lol: :lol: :lol: I didn't watch much, but I happened to tune is as some Rapper was "giving all the praise to the Lord" for his success. I looked up his songs and the lyrics were :crying: , um, not sure the Lord wants to be brought into THAT! Yikes! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spryte Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 (edited) You have to start them young. :) My 13 yr old will listen. And sing along. It's possible he's just humoring me though... Edited February 15, 2017 by Spryte 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEmama Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 OH! But we were in THE CAR!!!!!!!!!!! :lol: Smart move. Whenever I've tried that, he just turns it off. Or talks louder. It's been a lifelong battle. I'm ashamed to say in 14 years I have yet to impart my musical wisdom. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 LOL I just cringe when they call it oldies. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 How is it embarassing?! It's pure sonic genius. Now this rap and hip hop nonsense... :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie in VA Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 (edited) I always tell my children, "In the 80's we had terrible fashions and awful hairstyles, but we had great music!!! (One hit wonders included.) My xhilsewn children have put my 80's tunes on their iPods. Uh-huh. Told ya, kids. One day I was dropping off dd somewhere and I heard some hard rock song from the 80's on the radio. That's not my favorite genre, but it was a great song. She was asking me something and I said, "Hold on, this song is almost over." I sang along and/or played air guitar to it. DD waited till it was over, then looked at me and said, "I never stop being amazed at what music you like." :lol: ETA a correction. I struck through the error. LOL at that whopper typo! Get on the wrong keys much? Edited February 15, 2017 by Angie in VA 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bettyandbob Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 LOL I just cringe when they call it oldies. I bracing for when they start inducting people younger than me in the rock and roll Hall of Fame. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 (edited) You went wrong somewhere. My kids love the 80's. Okay,that is not a true statement. When they were little they loved it. My ds is more of a classic rock guy-The Who, The Kinks, Boston, Kansas, Foreigner, etc. Dd is more of a bubblegum fan. I still remember their horror when I was able to sing every word to this great band they found. Blister in the Sun. Edited February 15, 2017 by kewb 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liza Q Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 My kids all love Howard Jones Radio and New Order Radio on Pandora. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 I am so lucky. Even though I only listened to classical music with the kids and they had no idea I'd ever listened to anything else, when my first dd started being interested in more 'modern' music, her tastes are very close to mine (and yes, the Cure was one of my favorite bands). She also likes Pink Floyd, David Bowie and Elton John, which were mostly even before my time. She also likes lots of newer stuff, mostly Scandinavian alt-rock (post-rock?), which apparently I like too. Lately she's been listening to a bunch of Mexican bands, which are really good too. I often wonder if it was because I never let on what I liked that allowed her to like similar stuff... ? Oh, and she then transferred her taste to her two sisters. :D I tell her that her reward for having 'good taste' (imho) in music is that I happily accompanied her to concerts when she was 15-17. If she'd liked Bieber, I would have said NO. :lol: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted February 15, 2017 Author Share Posted February 15, 2017 Oh, I have gone wrong in MANY areas as a parent, MANY, but they have listened to 80s music since they were babies. It is on THEM now. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 I think I need to crank out some 80's music before it is too late. I loved the music and the hair and the clothes. Not the yuppies. DH hates and despises 80's music, except for the Femmes we share a love of the Femmes. So, it is up to me to play 80's music. Much of what I really liked back then, though, isn't appropriate for little girl ears. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Much of what I really liked back then, though, isn't appropriate for little girl ears. LOL. I think this is exactly the reason they didn't hear any of 'my' music till they were teens themselves. :lol: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted February 15, 2017 Author Share Posted February 15, 2017 I think I need to crank out some 80's music before it is too late. I loved the music and the hair and the clothes. Not the yuppies. DH hates and despises 80's music, except for the Femmes we share a love of the Femmes. So, it is up to me to play 80's music. Much of what I really liked back then, though, isn't appropriate for little girl ears. Really? My kids especially like the song about Cherry Pie. They love eating pie, so they love this song KIDDING! I AM KIDDING!!!!!! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Is it my imagination, or is the top-40's nicely tame? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieB Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Sorry, can't help you. My teen is a huge Duran Duran fan :D Plenty of my 80's wave is on the kid's iPod. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypatia. Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Mine will sing along with the Violent Femmes. My work here is done. :lol: 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopmom Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 The Cure is still the BEST, clearly, you're in the right. Friday, I'm in love got me through college :) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptor_dad Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Everything we listen to here is either folk, post-punk, or alt-country. DS10 *really* likes classic Midnight Oil. New Model Army's "The Charge" is completely classical right... DS would also be *really* into some Scandinavian death metal symphonic stuff but we haven't gone there yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Sorry, can't help you. My teen is a huge Duran Duran fan :D Plenty of my 80's wave is on the kid's iPod. Duran Duran was my favorite.... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Given the wins at the Grammy's the other day, I don't think The Cure is that embarrasing. True. Though time has not been kind to Robert Smith. I haven't made any attempt to interest my girls in 80s music; I remember only too well my parents' determination that I would come to love 60s folk-rock. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie in VA Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 (edited) My children know not to talk during I Melt with You. Obsessing Editing to add: Love the Flock of Seagulls hairstyle on someone who was not actually in Flock of Seagulls. (Oh, what joy I Ran So Far Away and Space Age Love Story bring me!) Interesting that the couple caused a bit of a stir at that time. Really? In the 80's? SMH. Edited February 15, 2017 by Angie in VA 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 (edited) Now that I am thinking about it dh and ds do laugh at poor morrissey memes. My teens roll their eyes at me when I sing and dance to safety dance. To be fair, it doesn't matter what I am singing and dancing too but their seems an extra roll to men without hats. Edited February 15, 2017 by kewb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewellsmommy Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 (edited) Most of my old stuff was alt rock/grunge from the 90's (a little 80s here and there). I didn't get into music, myself, til I was 12 and that was 1992 so... Anyway, dd really likes most of it. We spent hours one night looking up my old songs and looking up some of what she had discovered. I started listening to AFI (which was her favorite) and she started listening to Avril Lavigne, Goo Goo dolls, Soul Asylum, The Cranberries. She wasn't too keen on Pearl Jam and she did laugh at my favorite Weezer song "Undone: the Sweater Song." The funniest thing is that I have all this Christian music on my mp3 player mixed with AFI and My Chemical Romance. I looove Welcome to the Black Parade (which dd introduced me to). :lol: ETA: Dh covered some of the 80s music. She does like Pink Floyd and he played some Metallica for her. Edited February 15, 2017 by jewellsmommy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink and Green Mom Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Oh the horrors! Yesterday I had 1st Wave radio on in the car and The Cure came on. My oldest (19) listened for a while and then I realized he was staring at me. "What?" I asked "Really Mom? You used to listen to this?" "Of course! Isn't it great" I laugh "Mom, you know, right now I am just embarrassed for your entire generation!" HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just for that, dear son, I will be singing along, at full volume, ALL the way home! LOL. My children cannot STAND 1st Wave, which is my usual station. I have fixed them - I've started singing disco on the 70s channel and "soft 70s rock" on The Bridge. ("the sailor said 'Brandy, you're a fine girl. What a good wife you would be...'.") 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink and Green Mom Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 My children know not to talk during I Melt with You. :lol: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamakelly Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 My 15 year old is obsessed with 80's music, lol!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 I'd been shocked at how 80's the music video for Friday Night was. Had that been intentional? One problem is that my lighter little-girl appropriate stuff is on Album, still at my parent's house. Completely forgotten until this moment. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbel Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 My kids like 80's music, almost always have. No big deal. I think it's pretty popular in general right now, at least where we live. We listen to the radio (like, old fashioned broadcast radio) in the car and sometimes at home. When they were little, they heard what I picked. I'm a button-pusher so they'd hear lots of different stuff. And some they grew to like. And here in PA, right next to New Jersey, we can't drive 10 minutes with the radio on without hearing Bon Jovi.* They also like more current stuff, and have exposed me to lots of new music that I might not have discovered if they weren't around. Win-win. I must say, I'm sad that they never developed a love for Van Morrison, but you can't have everything. *I know that's not alternative, but it is 80s, or at least started there. :-) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liza Q Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Just heard Friday I'm in Love on Pandora :hurray: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spryte Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 We are listening to Music for the Masses now, thanks to a rabbit trail this thread created for us... :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 My kids like 80's music but I have managed to raise a kid who doesn't like the Beatles. :confused1: I mean EVERYONE likes at least some of the Beatles' music. People might disagree about which songs they like and dislike but how can my DD like NONE of them???? Sacrilege! :lol: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted February 16, 2017 Author Share Posted February 16, 2017 LOL. My children cannot STAND 1st Wave, which is my usual station. I have fixed them - I've started singing disco on the 70s channel and "soft 70s rock" on The Bridge. ("the sailor said 'Brandy, you're a fine girl. What a good wife you would be...'.") Friday night it was late, I was walking you home, we got down to the gate, and I dreaming' of a night, would it turn out right? See, now I am thinking of 70's tunes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebcoola Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 My kids like lots of music from many decades but they absolutely hate "Peaches" by the the presidents of the united states I can bring them to tears by playing the hit song of my 7th grade life. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamaraby Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 LOL I just cringe when they call it oldies. I was in the car today and listening to the radio. They were playing 80s music on the oldies station. :glare: As in, the station that used to play music solely from the 50s and the 60s and sometimes from the 70s. Never from the 80s. It was not special programming either. Apparently they play it all the time. Somewhere between when I last listened to the station and today the 80s became oldies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 My kids like 80's music. They like 70's music. They like 60's music too. I don't think they like very much of 90's music. They like music from now too depending on what it is. Mostly electronic music. Like we all like Daft Punk. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieB Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Everything we listen to here is either folk, post-punk, or alt-country. DS10 *really* likes classic Midnight Oil. New Model Army's "The Charge" is completely classical right... DS would also be *really* into some Scandinavian death metal symphonic stuff but we haven't gone there yet. My kid wants to know if your DS10 also likes REM? 'Cause at 10, my kid liked Midnight Oil and REM :thumbup1: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieB Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Teen, when told about this thread: "I'm sure there is plenty of embarrassing 80's music, but The Cure is not part of that." :thumbup: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 how cruel and evil of you. don't you know torture is against the geneva convention? ;) I've forced so many things down my kids throats. 1776, the mikado, the RING CYCLE . . . now, they turn around and "mom you have to watch ___". ok, the credits are rolling - can I leave now? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EndOfOrdinary Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 My son requested ACDC at an open air concert the city puts on every year in the summer. Most of the kids did not know who he was talking about, but the band thought it was fabulous. He played some air guitar and a rather dramatic drum solo. My parenting responsibilities are complete! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted February 16, 2017 Author Share Posted February 16, 2017 Teen, when told about this thread: "I'm sure there is plenty of embarrassing 80's music, but The Cure is not part of that." :thumbup: IKR? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegoat Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 True. Though time has not been kind to Robert Smith. I haven't made any attempt to interest my girls in 80s music; I remember only too well my parents' determination that I would come to love 60s folk-rock. I do love a lot of 60's folk rock. My musical taste actually overlap quite a lot with my parents, though they never tried to influence me. My kids don't like everything I like, but they are generally ok with it and we do share some favorites. My dd12 does listen to a lot of terrible pop music, but when i remember what I listened to at 12, I don't worry too much. Dd9 loves 80's girl singers though - Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett, Pat Benatar, Kate Bush. I have no idea where that came from, as they aren't things I listen to, though I like them when they are on the radio. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzie in Ma Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 That is hilarious. We had kind of my own brand of Western Civ around here. We did a whole semester with 80's music because I wanted our group's production of Much Ado About Nothing to be kind of a homage to John Hughes films. We had a blast! Especially fun at a great thrift store for 80's costuming too. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umsami Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 I have indoctrinated my kids. They like 80s music, although none are into Adam and the Ants like I was. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink and Green Mom Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Friday night it was late, I was walking you home, we got down to the gate, and I dreaming' of a night, would it turn out right? See, now I am thinking of 70's tunes. That's another one they roll their eyes at. My personal fave from that era is "Baker Street." They do draw the line at The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I know PMS is approaching when I get teary eyed when that song comes on... :leaving: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted February 16, 2017 Author Share Posted February 16, 2017 That's another one they roll their eyes at. My personal fave from that era is "Baker Street." They do draw the line at The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I know PMS is approaching when I get teary eyed when that song comes on... :leaving: I had to look those up, but now that I see the lyrics I have heard them. I just didn't know the song titles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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