forever young

[astrid]

We've had our thread on the old days from the children of the 50's and 60's,

Why is it that when i find myself headbanging in the car to KISS, INXS or
Cold chisel I find my kids banging along with me.
Why aren't they going "err mum, like we did when Perry Como arrived on the Myer Quadrophonc.

They pinch my Billy Idol, Paul Kelly and Oils and they're teenagers ( well one of them)
When i play Iggy Pop too loud, The neighbours twenty somthings ask me what it is and think its Kool, or the Associates.

When am I going to be allowed to be a gently sneered upon Grandma!
Its a bit scary ( in a smug sort of way)

Astrid

[watson]

Just play some Alien Ant Farm and that'll freak 'em out!!

[ss_11000]

umm.

hmm

maybe cos the 80's were awesome music wise. my fave music comes from the 80's/90's. i dislike most of the crap in the top 40's nowadays.


billy idol. kiss, midnite oil etc. i'll listen to it anytime.

[ss_11000]

Just play some Alien Ant Farm and that'll freak 'em out!!

smooth criminal cover by them is pretty good. dont know of any other songs, why are they freaky ( its not more michael jackson covers is it? )

[watson]

No Stirlo.mate ....not Michael covers.......the freak out for the kids would be the jump from the 80's to the 2000's by Astrid.....my grandys freak out if I play Silverchair.

[ss_11000]

i freak out if i hear new silverchair stuff. they went soft.

tommorrow ... the year 2000 etc are great

[astrid]

So what the hells going on stirlo?
I sometimes think that we've stolen your youth.
How can you rebel agaist your parents generation ( as all kids should)
when we've done the mohawk, dressed up in plastic bags, shot up anything to experiment (well some of us) put safty pins anywhere you can think of and pushed mainstream opinion to the edge.

most of us outgrew the extreme, but when i sssee a couple of young goths or punks I think "ho hum been there, done that"

How does your generation cope, I would really like to know because I have two kids who are going to have to "show their parents" and I hope it wont be by either doing anti social (violent or criminal) stuff or becoming shadows.

Astrid

[astrid]

I admit I dont like a lot of noughties stuff, but some rap is good and there some others i enjoy Whats that scaninavian girl?
but techno makes me vomit (as did disco)
My partner spends most saterdays at the Espi.

We're forever young

Astrid

[Calm]

The heading of this thread "Forever Young" was the song sung at the funeral of the 6 Mildura youths that were killed by the car a couple of years ago. Every time i hear it that is what it reminds me of.

Great song but sad memories.

As far as music goes with 4 girls 16 to 24 listen to what they like and it reduces the arguments a lot.

[astrid]

So calm,
keep calm, do they listen to 80's stuff?
This thread wasnt supposed to be confined to music, but what gen x remembers about their teens and early twenties,
I'm a 59er so on the boomers/gen x cusp which i find interesting as i have no boomer values at all.
I remember being one of the first generation to move out from home at 18 because we wanted freedom and independance,
Being able to choose to have sex without the consiquences of babies.
Getting a job and being fully self supporting at 18.
Rent on a one bed flat at $25 per week and earning $ 100,
doing our own washing at the laundromat and the dumb and obvious pick up lines and tactics you guys used. like pretending to be helpless.
all that lovely stuff of being young and in charge of our own lives.
Selling all our stuff to spend 3 months in Europe,
We would have to have been the luckiest generation alive.

Astrid

[ss_11000]

So what the hells going on stirlo?

How does your generation cope,
Astrid

i suppose nearly everything has been done. we just have new technologies. people just get on msn, go shopping, go to the beach, watch tv and bitch about others. emo, goth, punk, gangster and all that craps been done before so were just copycats.

but techno makes me vomit (as did disco)

i hate techno with a passion. it just annoys me.

[Calm]

So calm,
keep calm, do they listen to 80's stuff?
This thread wasnt supposed to be confined to music, but what gen x remembers about their teens and early twenties,
I'm a 59er so on the boomers/gen x cusp which i find interesting as i have no boomer values at all.
I remember being one of the first generation to move out from home at 18 because we wanted freedom and independance,
Being able to choose to have sex without the consiquences of babies.
Getting a job and being fully self supporting at 18.
Rent on a one bed flat at $25 per week and earning $ 100,
doing our own washing at the laundromat and the dumb and obvious pick up lines and tactics you guys used. like pretending to be helpless.
all that lovely stuff of being young and in charge of our own lives.
Selling all our stuff to spend 3 months in Europe,
We would have to have been the luckiest generation alive.

Astrid

Astrid
i agree there was a lot of good music then but i find todays music is as good. What my daughters listen to is very similar. You didnt mention Mark Holden, the Bee Gees, or any of the screaming black americans singers, so we had as much crap then as there is today. Good Charlotte, Alien Ant Farm, Avril Lavegne, Sandy Thom, Offspring, Youth Group are all good music.

I was born in 56, started work in 72 as a motor mechanic apprentice earned $27 a week the second year it went to $42, it cost $2 to fill up the Mini Cooper "S" with a weekly petrol bill of about $3.50, drove it at 80 MPH everywhere and rode my Honda 750-4 at 160 kmh a couple of years later.

Yep they were good times but apart from the problems of personal safety the kids now have it a lot better. We didnt have all the sport oportunities like region, state and national hockey, that Stirlo has or Basketball like my daughters had, we played local footy or tennis or cricket.

We organised everything during the day we didnt ring up on a mobile and tell everyone where we were.

I left home at 18 not to be independant but because as one of 6 kids my parents couldnt afford to keep me so off i went to help out.

NO the kids of the 30's & 40's think they had it good, we thought we had it good but i think the current kids have a lot of advantages that we didnt have. Music there is good and sh#& in all generations.

[astrid]

I have to disagree on some of your points.
I dont think kids have it at all easy now.
Their parents may have money to buy them stuff, but if they want to move out and grow its pretty impossible to afford rent and other essentials except in a location thats no fun.
I rented a HOUSE in Elwood on a barmaids wage, other occupants were students with part time jobs. OK it was a bit basic but not grotty,
We went out 2-3 thimes per week and bought food from Praran market late saterday when they practically gave it away.
Cost of living is much higher now.

Astrid

[Gra]

How does your generation cope, I would really like to know because I have two kids who are going to have to "show their parents" and I hope it wont be by either doing anti social (violent or criminal) stuff or becoming shadows.

Astrid

They become computer nerds or accountants

[Shedgirl]

My kids, all under 9, are AC/DC fans. Didn't get it from me, but it is hysterical driving along with them all in the back of the car yelling "T-N-T...Oi! OI!"