[Kiki]

Brief post but I want to know what you think about this. I found something strangely heart warming about it.

I was browsing around last fm with nothing to do at that present time. Sometimes I click on the who's listening links for my favorite artists, simply so I can see who is listening to them and if they are songs I really like. One of the people was 13 years old I remember (said on there profile).

The songs they had recently listened was varied (although a little bias towards British music) with songs from such albums as 'Meat Is Murder', 'Different Class', 'Revolver', 'Violent Femmes', Definitely Maybe', 'Everything Must Go' and many others.

It was at that moment that I had a strange feeling. I mean when I first listened to most of those albums they would have been 10 perhaps? And they have grown older and are now enjoying them earlier than I did. Then I thought, what about when I'm 40 and then another 13 year old starts listening to those albums? How long is this going to go on for?

I don't know why but there was something nice about that feeling Does anyone know where I'm coming from?

[RFNAPLES]

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[purple]

not really, you're (as I am) only 20 and kids, do to the great powers of the interwebs now, will be discovering great music if they want to, just, as Naples described, these kids are discovering music a generation or two older than they are. However, I will fell wierd whenever kids 20 years older than I am declaring that LCD Soundsystem or The National or Spoon, etc. were the best bands of a couple decades ago; I inticipate a feeling of getting old and satisfaction whenever that happens

[Wazzup]

I'm 16 now and I've enjoyed Pink Floyd both as background and as serious listening since I was about 13. I generally dislike it when people listen to bad music and even moreso when they're my age. I guess I can't really expect everyone as young as me to start listening to The Velvet Underground or The Brian Jonestown Massacre just because I do, but I still do because all my friends do.

Even so... I don't know but for some reason I have this feeling over possession over a few albums and if someone rushes in saying "Oh my god you should listen to Meddle by Pink Floyd it's amazing" for some reason I feel like 'But that's what I listen to'

But that's probably just me being a little teenage bitch trying to stick out from the crowd...

[Guest]

I went to my first Dylan gig on my tenth birthday, I bought my first albums on my eleventh (only one of which I still listen to - 'The Blueprint' if you must know), first saw the Flaming Lips at 12, and by 14 thought 'Forever Changes', 'The Queen Is Dead' and 'Blonde on Blonde' were the best albums ever made. It's different for everyone. It does warm my heart when I see someone of an early age enjoying good music, but it's understandable that most people's taste in music will be inspired by parents/older siblings/friends, and therefore will be skewed in a certain direction(s). However, that considered, I don't really know where my passion for hip-hop came from - I have a few friends who are also a bit into it, but get most of their knowledge through me, and it certainly isn't from my parents (and I have no older siblings to speak of).

I think it genuinely is a case of; some people just have a very real passion for music. Like any passion, it has to be nurtured from a young age, but after a certain point it is something which you control and decide upon.

It also has to be understood in a wider social context. As purple stated, it is far more likely that one will become more acquainted with music dating back a generation or two, to the bands whom one's favourite bands cite as influences. It is the reason I love Pavement and Weezer, and before them The 'Mats and The Fall and The Only Ones. It is also the reason that in hip-hop I enjoy the likes of Kool G. Rap and Slick Rick. We become enamoured by the music of our time, and those who are more passionately enamoured amongst us will read interviews and search the internet for our favourite artists' influences. It will become a never ending cycle. Most people haven't been alive long enough to remember Odetta or Leadbelly, but still they are forever being discovered by new generations through some strange, beautiful, musical family tree, if you will.

That's the beauty of popular culture, and popular music in particular. It allows generations to be brought together under a banner that cares little for segregationism.

[RFNAPLES]

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[teodor_matz]

British indie is childrens music, nothing strange about children liking it.