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"my dad's into dubstep"
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:34 pm
by hera
saw this on MTVsticky, very cute.
http://www.lxnews.co.uk/2008/02/my-dad% ... o-dubstep/
I recently had a conversation with my sister who informed me that over the Christmas period she heard my dad and his mate talking highly of a dubstep/garage band called Burial who have subsequently been a big hit on Radio 1 with the track “Archangel”. On more than one occasion as a teenager I remember turning the corner of my street and hearing heavy Dub bass lines reverberating from my house .Now I know what you are thinking, but it isn’t true. Banish the images of some sad old fart forcing his behind into skinny jeans, donning a new era cap and coming out with words like “safe” accompanied by some moronic hand gesture. I have listened to many of my friends’ conversations before on how our parents’ tastes are so “lame” and they were surprised to hear that I wasn’t of the same opinion. I credit much of my own broad musical tastes to listening to my dad’s CD collection as a child. He was in fact the first person to play me drum and bass. The truth of the matter is my dad is passionate about music and stays liberal in his tastes. The moral of this story is that the gap between you and your parents isn’t as wide as you imagine, in some ways they’re probably quite cool. I’m dedicating this column to Edmund Lanchester Proctor, keeping the Penrith Dub scene alive.
on a related note, my mom loves plastician.
Re: "my dad's into dubstep"
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:36 pm
by kidcazual
hera wrote:
Banish the images of some sad old fart forcing his behind into skinny jeans, donning a new era cap and coming out with words like “safe” accompanied by some moronic hand gesture.
sounds a bit like me heheheh
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:38 pm
by saxenhammer
I bet most folks' parents have better taste than their kids...they're not blindly following a genre because its "new" ..They have some perspective on music and can see that dubstep is just another in a long line of electronic music genres.
"donning a new era cap and coming out with words like “safe” accompanied by some moronic hand gesture." LOLZ
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:40 pm
by tru_g
My mum fucking loves the Dubstep
The Reggae influenced tunes at least
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 5:47 pm
by bobsabarker
parents usually don't jump into a new genre simply because it seems adults, once they hit a certain age, just stop listening to new music and only listen to what they know, which is stupid to me, but if you look around, seems true. i've introduced my parents to some bands that i like and they enjoy, but they would never go out of their way to investigate further. dubstep could be what they have loved all long, they just don't know it yet and in most cases, wouldn't give the time needed to investigate the genre further.
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:12 pm
by misk
bobsabarker wrote:parents usually don't jump into a new genre simply because it seems adults, once they hit a certain age, just stop listening to new music and only listen to what they know, which is stupid to me, but if you look around, seems true.
not from what i've seen. its not an age thing. I think its a people thing. Some people do this, others dont. my mom still searches for unique music, yet my dad, is pretty set in his ways. do what you like, i say.
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:17 pm
by bobsabarker
Misk wrote:bobsabarker wrote:parents usually don't jump into a new genre simply because it seems adults, once they hit a certain age, just stop listening to new music and only listen to what they know, which is stupid to me, but if you look around, seems true.
not from what i've seen. its not an age thing. I think its a people thing. Some people do this, others dont. my mom still searches for unique music, yet my dad, is pretty set in his ways. do what you like, i say.
good call man.
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:14 pm
by jimitheexploder
My mum came back from work late the other night and was asking me what dubstep was all about as she had been listenign to it in the Radio on her way home and enjoyed it. She also kept telling me how she liked Flying Lotus...
She rules!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:22 pm
by braiden
my dad played the spoons thats about it
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:23 pm
by saxenhammer
lolz , just noticed "Penrith Dub Scene"
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:33 pm
by grievous_angel
Looking at it the other way round... My boys love Night - they're always singing the bassline to me. Dunno where they heard it, I haven't played it to them!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:41 pm
by emu
*imagining kids running around a play ground with gun fingers going "DO DO DO DO DO DOOO DOOOOO DOOOOOOOOO..."
lol
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:00 pm
by big-c
TRU_G wrote:My dad fucking loves the Dubstep
The Reggae influenced tunes at least
.
Put on a CD in the car after id just bought it - he was goin mad when certain tunes dropped
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:07 pm
by fixation
everyone in my house fuckin hates it, cant see how, maybe the floor of my living room shaking when theyre trying to eat
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:12 pm
by spiderman
ever since i blasted the cotti and doctor tune...
my mum seems to love to tell me every now n then to "caaaaalm doooown, just caaaalm downnn" wen i get a bit carried away.
thats as close to sharing music with my parents i get.
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:13 pm
by RubiconMan
out to the kids playing there parents musik!
had the pleasure of listening to a few martyn tracks with my gran earlier this year, she was feelin it for sure
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:51 pm
by sjr
Makes me wonder... how much age range is there here, anyway? How many people over 30? Over 40? At least one of the latter group...
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:54 pm
by kuma
EMU wrote:*imagining kids running around a play ground with gun fingers going "DO DO DO DO DO DOOO DOOOOO DOOOOOOOOO..."
lol
already spotted when I was in LDN for the DMZ 3 year.
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:15 am
by fooishbar
spiderman wrote:ever since i blasted the cotti and doctor tune...
my mum seems to love to tell me every now n then to "caaaaalm doooown, just caaaalm downnn" wen i get a bit carried away.
thats as close to sharing music with my parents i get.
haha. man, after discovering mca was a buddhist, mum was always taking me to 'take the middle path' (i.e. calm down), because that was what buddhists do. should never have mentioned the beasties to her. still going on about that one, 12 years later.
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:24 am
by little boh peep
My mom likes what I write. She insists she's not biased.
I'm trying to broaden her horizons...