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Teenagers get a lot of shit just like I did when I was that age ( in Henry the 8ths time ) and some of it is deserved ( ditto ). However, whereas we use to religeously avoid any music our parents liked, I find lots of kids these days just dont discriminate at all. If it sounds good, they like it. This is refreshing.

I was in a music shop a while ago and bought a Vince Jones album ( Aussie jazz singer ). The nymphette that served me was about 19ish and looked like a top-shelf porn movie star. She immediately shook the CD at me and said " Vince Jones ! Oh this guy is soooooooo cool. That voice. He's sooooo talented. " Yes she was very impressed with my taste and I felt for a few seconds that based purely on that alone, I might get a root. I didn't though.

But the thing is - I am glad that kids these days can accept a Frank Sinatra as a fucking good singer even though he's dead from old age. 30 years ago when I was a teenager it would have been unthinkable.

" What do you think of that ? " ..... " I'm sorry, that's unthinkable ! "

I had a similar sort of experience. Talking to the assistant in a record store about the Finn bros. new album, I jokingly said that although I had been in their home town of Te Awamutu several times I had never done the tourist trail: their house, school etc. (Yes, there is one).
I have she said.

Mart

My kid brother who's more than half my age, loves Metallica's Hero of the day, Enter sandman, etc, and I even got him into watching the Jimmy Page keeling over playing Achille's last stand on my Led Zep Knebworth 79 DVD, and he got me to write out the lyrivs to a certain Pink Floyd song as he loved it so much