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Music For a Twelve Year Old Brother
Scytale:
When I was 13 I thought The Offsprings "Smash" was the shit...
A while after that a friend lent me "Throwing Copper" by Live and a cassete of various Smashing Pumpkins songs. Thats when I really started paying attention to what I was listening too.
I didn't get into metal till I was 15 and I was lent an Iron Maiden Cd (Powerslave).
I don't know if you'll have much luck with you're brother. My sister who is two years younger then me never liked any of the stuff I was in to, with the exception of The Smashing Pumpkins, nowadays she's basically listens to Silverchair exclusively :|...
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 21 Oct 2006, 20:48 ---Remember that to a 12 year old all rock bands sound 10 times heavier and 20 times more awesome than they actually are.
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Meaning The New Pornographers, then, is a good call.
strawberry_gashes:
Johnny C, you know Mclusky? They are awesome!
P.S. I am not really recommending then for your sib, though... although I did love them in 7th grade!
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: strawberry_gashes on 22 Oct 2006, 14:25 ---Johnny C, you know Mclusky?? They are awesome!
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You knowing them in Grade 7 is awesomer. A lot of folk on this forum are Mclusky fans. Sadly I think there are maybe nine or ten Mclusky fans where I live and I am not making that statistic up.
Getting the kid into dissonant music is good, but frankly I wouldn't foist a lot of over-canonized, radio-friendly classic rock like Floyd, Zeppelin or the like on the kid unless you want him to turn into One Of Those Teenagers who wears ugly-ass classic rock hoodies and plays Paul Reed Smith guitars exclusively unless he can find a really nice Fender and grows long hair that he doesn't bother washing or combing and is always really awkward in a lot of social situations and graduates high school having developed a penchant for only two things, i.e. nodding one's head to groovy music while stoned and getting stoned. The other reason is that those bands are all really well known. I mean, yes they are good gateway bands because they're on the radio and all, but there are a lot better and equally accessible bands that he isn't going to run into on a near-daily basis for the rest of his life.
Here:
--- Quote from: 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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First one no, second one no, third one yes, fourth one yes, fifth one no, six one yes, seventh one yes, eighth one no, last two yes. I said no to those because he is bound to run into those bands anyways and I mean he is bound to investigate them. I went through a Floyd phase, a Megadeth phase, and a Classic Metal phase. I said no to Soundgarden because I hate Soundgarden and wouldn't wish anything Chris Cornell's ever done on my worst enemy.
See how this should work? Stuff that's really good but he isn't familiar with. Diverse stuff. This is how you do it, folks.
KharBevNor:
Sir.
Did you just seriously suggest NOT going out your way to get a kid into Motorhead?
:o
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