The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks...

Played it for my 10-year-old yesterday and he freaked out. In fact, later on, he insisted on listening to it while taking a shower. I put the boom box in the bathroom, away from the shower, by the bathroom door and, while I was folding laundry in the next room, could I hear him rocking out, singing along to whatever he (thought he) could understand. At one point, he even poked his head, out from behind the shower curtain, sporting a shampoo mohawk. He had a huge smile on his face, knowing how ridiculous it all was...
"MY BEAUTFUL SELF-ISH!!!"

Later on, he told me, "Dad, this is now one of my favorite albums, ever!"

I love being a dad.

Here's my mental image of it:




Fuck this and fuck that
Fuck it all and fuck the fucking brat....

But seriously, it is fun to introduce kids to music they've never heard and see their reaction. But usually I'm wrong at predicting the reaction. My 10-year-old son's favorite two things right now are M.I.A. and Iggy Pop's "The Passenger."

When I first heard this album I hated it. I was 13 and didn't think that it sounded "punk" enough, but that was back when I was obsessed with Nirvana and thought that's what punk was supposed to sound like.

would love hear FUCK THIS AND FUCK THAT FUCK IT ALL AND FUCK THE FUCKING BRAT being sung by a 10 year old

fuck stone kind of beat me to it

The language... he hears worse from his mom!
But, he knows not to use that language, and he's a good kid, so it's all good. I just love that he loves music. And, there is plenty that he likes that I don't and vice versa, so it's not just a case of me creating a Mini Me.
He actually asked me to check that disc out of the library for him.