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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I absolutely agree with this. Pop music is a young person's game. I can't stand it when people my age force their opinions on kids.
Getting older should be about becoming comfortable with your own taste, not worrying about those of kids who are no doubt having an absolutely brilliant time, regardless of whether some wide waisted old fart like me thinks what they're listening to is utter poo - which I usually do.
There are two great joys in a person's musical path. The first takes place in your early teens when you develop your first musical obsession, the second comes much later, when you realise that, actually, Dire Strait's first album is a bit of a corker. But if I ever saw a 17 year old bopping along to Sultans of Swing, I'd hang the imaginationless little bore from the nearest willow.
Classic rock is like pyjamas. You need a good few years before realising that, actually, they're great. But you need those years to prove it. Wearing pyjamas before your thirty is, like listening to Dire Straits, a complete betrayal of your youth.
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I expect there's a 40+ year old chap reading this going, "Ah, I remember that. I hope that jumped up little twat doesn't think he's old enough to listen to Chris Rea. That's for people my age".
The thing that makes me uncomfortable (sometimes) is the bands that I like that the kiddies of 16-19 or so also like, and I get a bit too excited and starting gashing on about how if they like x they should listen to [hopelessly obscure]y. You see their eyes glaze over and they're looking around for their mates, but they're not there, so the only option is the toilet, which they've just come from. Next thing you know, they've had to suffer the indignity of me realising that I'm one of those people t'other side of 25 who is, in fact, a bit of a music snob/ bore, no matter how many times I say I like Michael Jackson. Luckily, I don't hang around with kiddies that young too often, if I can help it.