FileFront Forums - A little more mainstream (but still old)

Okay, you've called me out. My father was/is an audiophile, and i grew up surrounded by music. Billy Joel, however, really felt like he was part of our family. We were living in New York, and he was singing from a New York perspective. I thought he could have been our neighbor. My dad had an 8 track player, and those new-fangled cassettes, but it was the LP that ate up his collection. We would actually sit around our piano and sing songs by the Beatles and Billy Joel (ah...family life).

But when he played "Only the Good Die Young", we let him handle that one by himslef. My dad on the piano doing a Billy Joel uptempo song was...well...and interesting sight.

Later, in my teens, my taste got decidedly rougher (acne will do that to you) and I spent nearly a decade listening to punk and underground metal. In fact if the radio played it, I didn't want to hear it. That's about the only thing carried over from my teens, as I've gotten more into jazz and mpre avant-garde stuff (Stereolab has been a staple lately, and Bjork as well). If the radio plays it, chances are very good that I don't want to hear it.

You never do lose what you grew up with though. Got no problems with Billy Joel; yeah he's old, and his music never really was talking to me after all. But I'll be 33 at the end of this year, so that makes me old too I guess, certainly by this forum's standards. I was listening to old Jethro Tull earlier, and I am listening to Slayer's "Hell Awaits" now. Before I go out this evening, I will probably toss in some good ol' Miles Davis....

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