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PostPosted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:11 pm 
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...to a 12-year-old who asks "What song should I put on my play list?"

Here are the parameters

* 12-year-old boy
* likes mostly current hard rock and pop punk
* is willing to try new things musically
* but doesn't care for music that's too experimental
* Has already put songs by Jimi Hendrix and System of a Down on his playlist, as well as some popular pop punk of today.

After I get a few responses, I'll tell you what I recommended.

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Um,

All American Rejects and My Chemical Romance, maybe?

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exploding hearts - "teenage faces"

(only because it's the last song i heard and would fit well in these parameters)


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If he:

Stone Wrote:
* is willing to try new things musically


Why would you want to give him My Chemical Romance and Switchfoot? At least make an effort to turn him onto something decent.


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alongwaltz Wrote:
If he:

Stone Wrote:
* is willing to try new things musically


Why would you want to give him My Chemical Romance and Switchfoot? At least make an effort to turn him onto something decent.


Well, that was my thinking too, and he probably would like that Smoking Popes song, but I recommended:

Sex Pistols - "God Save the Queen"

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Stone Wrote:
alongwaltz Wrote:
If he:

Stone Wrote:
* is willing to try new things musically


Why would you want to give him My Chemical Romance and Switchfoot? At least make an effort to turn him onto something decent.


Well, that was my thinking too, and he probably would like that Smoking Popes song, but I recommended:

Sex Pistols - "God Save the Queen"


Well, in that case, Ramones - 'I Wanna Be Sedated'

I've never met any boy under the age of sixteen who didn't love this song.


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alongwaltz Wrote:
Stone Wrote:
alongwaltz Wrote:
If he:

Stone Wrote:
* is willing to try new things musically


Why would you want to give him My Chemical Romance and Switchfoot? At least make an effort to turn him onto something decent.


Well, that was my thinking too, and he probably would like that Smoking Popes song, but I recommended:

Sex Pistols - "God Save the Queen"


Well, in that case, Ramones - 'I Wanna Be Sedated'

I've never met any boy under the age of sixteen who didn't love this song.


Another good suggestion, but I think he knows that song at least from Guitar Hero.

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If he's 12 I'd recommend he go outside, climb some trees and not come back without scuffed knees.

Alternatively, if that's not to his liking he could always form a 'gang' with his friends called 'The Water Rats', armed with garden trowels from his eldery neighbours garden shed.

He'll have plenty time to mope around his room listening to music as a teenager.

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konstantinl Wrote:
If he's 12 I'd recommend he go outside, climb some trees and not come back without scuffed knees.

Alternatively, if that's not to his liking he could always form a 'gang' with his friends called 'The Water Rats', armed with garden trowels from his eldery neighbours garden shed.

He'll have plenty time to mope around his room listening to music as a teenager.


Skinned knees from climbing trees isn't going to get this middle-schooler prima, unsullied 'tang, though. Being able to serpentinically swivel & serenade the girls with "Rocket Queen" will, though.


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Stone Wrote:
Sex Pistols - "God Save the Queen"


Yeah, get him to listen to some classics.

Buzzcocks - "Everybody's Happy Nowadays"
Wire - "Dot Dash" (very non-experimental and catchy for Wire)
The Stooges - "Search and Destroy"
Ramones - "Blitzkrieg Bop"
Sonic Youth - "Teenage Riot"
The Damned - "Neat, Neat, Neat"
Gang of Four - "I Found that Essence Rare"

Make sure he gets off to a good start.


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konstantinl Wrote:
Alternatively, if that's not to his liking he could always form a 'gang' with his friends called 'The Water Rats', armed with garden trowels from his eldery neighbours garden shed.


Alternately, the Station Road Boys. But I don't remember coming up against no Scotsman in the apple fights. The Old Scot next door got hit by a train, but that weren't our doing.


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Pixies anything really. Tame?

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MiceElf Wrote:
Pixies anything really. Tame?


Who?

Long time, no chat, Mel.

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Pixies anything really. Tame?


Who?

Long time, no chat, Mel.


Who who? Who me? I said Pixies. Dammit Pixies. All 12 year-olds should know the Pixies in this day and age.

Yeah, I've been super busy lately. I'm still drafting a "work" inside my head -- y'know one that you'll pay me a lot for and hang in your office. :)

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