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Originally Posted by NightengaleShane
Oh, high school kids love Gym Class Heroes! [...] I'm sure you've heard them.
Not that I'm aware of! That's exactly the point, I never developed much of a taste for rock'n'roll (call me a heretic but as far as I'm concerned all popular music post-Sinatra, except for country, IS rock'n'roll, I can get the shades of difference in hip-hop and heavy metal but I couldn't tell you the difference between pop, classic rock, R&B and alternative rock under torture: I do like what I hear of Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen but I don't have any of their albums), I grew up (in the 1960s/70s) listening to my parents' stuff which was show tunes and Sinatra (and Robert Goulet, RIP 10.30.07:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/ar...goulet.html?hp , had no older (or younger) siblings to inoculate me with anything else, didn't hang out much with other kids, I don't have kids of my own, and my personal taste runs to hard-core classical music (full-length symphonies) @ home and Boston/Cincinnati Pops in the car: so my exposure to popular music is very much like looking in through a window from outside and I don't know what "the kids are listening to these days", except we just had a Hannah Montana show here and you couldn't pick up a newspaper without some story about the outrageous ticket prices (hey, if this morphs into a thread about the younger generation's tastes in music it's ok by me)