A Taste for the Older Tune..
A stereotypical parents job is to be there to look after you, nurture you, and most of the time pay for you. But in my family and most families another job they have taken on is giving us the basis to our music taste from when we were young. From my own experience of lying in the back seat of the car on the way back from numerous tedious journeys with my mum and being forced to listen to Queen over and over again on our ancient cassette player. I can say , after a while of being tortured by this , I began to like it and then found myself suggesting a favourite (Bicycle at the time, god knows why). This blog is to share and possibly get feedback on whether your parents have influenced your music taste or not and how they have made an impact on it. As well as Queen I begun to get into David Bowie , still at only the age of around ten, how very rock and roll, and although I wasn't quite his number one fan as I thought 'Jean Genie' was 'Chinchilla' and bellowed it around up until the age of 15 and when I was finally corrected , I started to actually listen to his music properly showing the influence my mum had playing it around me had.
Even to those whose taste revolves around the latest in the charts and up to date music you are most certain to have a band you like that was influenced by a parent. Its just a fact. I like to think. A criticism of parents sharing music can be to say that they are living in the past and their idea of no present music living up to the pop and rock legendary era they lived in. To us, we are living in our own era of developed pop and rock. This however is a load of rubbish in many ways. Of course new and important music is being created and we are experiencing something of our own that we can share. This does not mean however we can not enjoy music from the past. To this day some of my favourite artists include The Beatles , Fleetwood Mac and The Police, but also I'm a big fan of Mumford and Sons, David Guetta and Example, showing the diversity and blend of different musical cultures. I enjoy music through the eras and I think it is important to experience and indulge yourself in music from what you hear when you are younger to when you are older and this is to give you an opportunity to enjoying the many different genres in the future and to let you share even more music with generations to come. Music from the past is shared just as well in the present and future.
Beau x
Even to those whose taste revolves around the latest in the charts and up to date music you are most certain to have a band you like that was influenced by a parent. Its just a fact. I like to think. A criticism of parents sharing music can be to say that they are living in the past and their idea of no present music living up to the pop and rock legendary era they lived in. To us, we are living in our own era of developed pop and rock. This however is a load of rubbish in many ways. Of course new and important music is being created and we are experiencing something of our own that we can share. This does not mean however we can not enjoy music from the past. To this day some of my favourite artists include The Beatles , Fleetwood Mac and The Police, but also I'm a big fan of Mumford and Sons, David Guetta and Example, showing the diversity and blend of different musical cultures. I enjoy music through the eras and I think it is important to experience and indulge yourself in music from what you hear when you are younger to when you are older and this is to give you an opportunity to enjoying the many different genres in the future and to let you share even more music with generations to come. Music from the past is shared just as well in the present and future.
Beau x
