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Music For a Twelve Year Old Brother

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Foot Foot:
Hmm.  The mixed CD has always been my approach in situations like this.
And him not liking BSS is definitely a setback...  Perhaps a different song?
Then again, the best way to go about it is with a good balance of different sounds, since he doesn't have a personal taste yet.

Tapes 'n Tapes - Jakov's Suite, Cowbell, or Insistor would all be interesting choices.
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 Shoreline
The Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
Clor - Love + Pain
Sigur Ros - Meo Bloonasir
Minus the Bear - Women We Haven't Met Yet
Pedro the Lion - Rapture
Unwed Sailor - Firecracker
Mogwai - I Can't Remember
The Format - The First Single

But that's just me.  Hope it works out!

jolijn:
The Terrible Twos

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Skibas_clavicle:
When I you're thirteen, your music needs to be melodic, fun and not too quirky or violently fast. Quirk scares the youngins'.  Or so I recall from being thirteen.  Slow, sappy songs are also pointless because most 13 year olds wouldn't find any of the lyrical content relevant if they bothered listening. Or so I recall from being thirteen. My suggestions:

Metric
Weezer
Rilo Kiley
Beulah
Most Serene Republic
Motion City Soundtrack
Anything associated with Mike Park (<3)
Pavement (MEBBE)
Pixies
Spoon
Of Montreal (Might be a little too gay for a 13 year old but hey, worth a shot!)
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Alkaline Trio

KharBevNor:
Why does everyone want to turn this poor child into a huge faggot? Maybe he does not want to go that road! When I was 12 I listened to music of varying quality that RAWKED, such as Deep Purple, Meatloaf, The Sex Pistols, Thin Lizzy, Led Zeppelin, Stiff Little Fingers, Pink Floyd etc. as well as Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan. Then I moved on to Rammstein and Metallica and the course was set from there.

All I'm saying is, if the kid is latently straight, you're gonna make the kid gay, and if he's latently gay, you are going to make him into liberace. Then again, I like teh cock, so all that rockin' music maybe isn't the way forward on that one.

All silliness aside, if the kids hormones are not now pumping, they soon will be. Give him something with some teeth! Not many teeth, and quite small ones, but some all the same. Remember that to a 12 year old all rock bands sound 10 times heavier and 20 times more awesome than they actually are. You also need something with simple rebellious themes and another with an easy logo so he can doodle something in his exercise books, and at least one song that is actually a really simple innuendo that he won't realise till he's 13 and then get incredibly embarrased.

Felix_:
I think you people should give him a Motorhead album, a Pink Floyd album, a Pavement album, a Velvet Underground album, Megadeth's "Rust In Peace", R.E.M.'s "Document", some Miles Davis, "Badmotorfinger" from Soundgarden, something from the Replacements and probably the Pixes, and then see what happens.

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