My liberal leaning daughter thinks I'm dorky or What's on your MP3 Player

Amazom ^ | 12/07/2008 | Me

[UB355]

I mostly listen to my MP3 player while driving during the work week . My selections are supposed to be mostly calming

My current stuff

2 Christmas albums

Enya

And Winter Came

Manheim Steamroller

Christmas 1984

Enya

Watermark

1 Celtic Women Album

A New Journey

4 Thomas Newman soundtracks

Cinderella Man, Road to Perdition, Horse Whisperer, Shawshank Redemption

1 John Grisham Audio Book The Innocent Man

1 David McCullough Audio Book 1776

Denis Miller Radio Show Podcasts About an hour and three quarter each.

December 4th, December 5th

[fanfan]

That wasn’t very nice.

Many young people start out as liberals, and then gey get mugged by reality, like the rest of us.

We weren’t all born conservatives, you know.

[rochester]

Recent broadcasts from some of the best Christian radio programming available:

Issues, Etc. (www.issuesetc.org)
Albert Mohler Show (www.albertmohler.com)
White Horse Inn (www.whitehorseinn.org)
Renewing Your Mind (www.ligonier.org)

[Smokin' Joe]

What’s an MP3 player?

[autumnraine]

Oh yeah, and when I was 20, I listened to Metallica, Suicidal Tendencies, Megadeth, Guns N Roses, etc...

Now, I couldn’t even imagine other than the occassional nostalgic tune. With age comes stress. With stress comes the weakening of ability to listen to “cool” crap.

[reagan_fanatic]

My kids call it elevator music

Kids today have no idea what real elevator music is.

When I was a kid, my Dad would put on albums with 40's and 50's show tunes, songs by Doris Day, Benny Goodman, Dinah Shore, Bing Crosby and more. On top of that, we had an FM station that played nothing but classical music 24 hours a day. We would get to hear that, too - a lot.

As a rock n roll kid, I absolutely HATED that stuff. That was TRUE elevator music.

[fanfan]

He said it is overly embellished with descriptive narration that could have been left out.
Kind of like the sentence I just wrote. ;-)

Somehow he isn’t finding that to be as offencive in the audio version, although he still comments on it.

I’d recommend trying to listen, especially if you have any kind of long commute. It’s such an important book.

:-)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Gee, I thought the goal was to raise our kids to be conservative - I did it in a very liberal area but if music is more important to you, then go put some ear plugs in and escape from reality for awhile.

[autumnraine]

In my IPOD is Enya (nice choice), every Journey and Queen song ever made, Page & Plant, Sam Cooke...

[dragonblustar]

Fire- Arthur Brown
Pump it- Blacked Eyed Peas
Electric Barberella- Duran Duran
Atom Bomb - Fluke
Canned Heat - Jamiroquai
Stayin Alive- N Trance
Just Antoher Day - Oingo Boingo
Voodoo People - Chemical Brothers
True Nature - Jane’s Addiction
You Know My Name - Chris Cornell
The One - Tracy Bonham

and just for fun....

It’s a sunshine day - The Brady Bunch Kids
A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi

[autumnraine]

Wow, so nice that raising conservatives worked out for you and all.

For some, our children have to wander the land of abyss before waking up.

My father is very liberal, but I’m not. Go figure.

[fanfan]

What’s an MP3 player?

It plays MP3's.

You might also have told him that an MP3 is the thing you put into the MP3 player.

No sense in just explaining half of the answer.

;-)

[Republican Party Reptile]

It is seriously dorky :p, so laid back it’s not even standing up ... :)

[Amelia]

IMO if your daughter is between the ages of 12-30 (not necessarily inclusive) and doesn't think your music selections are dorky, one of you has a problem.

I'd be more worried about the "liberal-leaning" part, unless you think it's a teenage rebellion phase she's going through.

[Question_Assumptions]

My iPod shuffle currently has a broad mix of things including Christian gothic and heavy metal music, Japanese pop music, 70s music (including disco), 80s pop, symphonic heavy metal, The Carpenters, modern stuff, and even some rap. Basically, I like individual examples of all sorts of music.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

It has worked well for me - thanks. Many people have liberal parents, but since we aren’t responsible for raising our parents we don’t have to worry about that do we?

[bmwcyle]

My daugthers are not liberals.

[lefty-lie-spy]

I haven’t picked up any recent Megadeth. I think the last I bought was SF,SG,SW way back when. I’m listening to a lot of death metal these days though (my kids don’t know what to make of it, but they’re still young, so there’s hope they won’t fall into the hip-hop crowd and force me to disown them.)

I’ve been listening to a lot of old stuff I grew up with such as Iron Maiden, King Diamond, Ramones, Motorhead (of course!), Venom, Slayer, Napalm Death, and even the new Metallica, but the older I get, the faster I seem to get, so I’m now listening to a lot of Scandinavian Death- and Thrash Metal, like God Dethroned, Exmortem, Deicide, Entombed, Obituary, Suffocation, and the like.

I also enjoy listening to Johnny Cash, Warren Zevon, Rush, Oysterhead, Hank Williams, Charlie Daniels, Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley, James Brown, Yardbirds, Cream, Led Zepplin, Neil Young, Reverend Horton Heat, and classical music too.

All that other junk that is on radio nowadays - R&B, Hip-hop, and whatever else they call it, can kiss my ass.

I have high hopes that my kids will start enjoying all this with me soon, and look forward to taking them to their first concert and watching them mosh it up with me.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Oh yeah, and when I was 20, I listened to Metallica, Suicidal Tendencies, Megadeth, Guns N Roses, etc... Now, I couldn’t even imagine other than the occassional nostalgic tune. With age comes stress. With stress comes the weakening of ability to listen to “cool” crap.

That's so sad to hear. You can't take the metal out of this conservative. I still go to local shows an average of 4 times of months for my photography business and just to party it up.

[fanfan]

Gee, I thought the goal was to raise our kids to be conservative - I did it in a very liberal area but if music is more important to you, then go put some ear plugs in and escape from reality for awhile.

Ouch. Who urinated in your corn flakes today?

Of course I want my kids to be conservatives, and I try to teach them the value of such understanding. I've been teaching them all their lives, but they have free will, and that includes the free will to make mistakes, and learn from them.

I have a sister who is a Liberal. She's older than me, and that IS very sad.

A kid/teenager who leans left is not sad, as you said... they are still learning.

Your comment '.... how sad.', was obviously meant as a shot, and I think it was rude.

Just throw out the old bowl of cereal, and start again. :-)