I have some sort of the same story but in reverse.
one of my best friends when i was 15-16 years old, he was a great guitar player and he introduced me to sonic youth, melvins, lydia lunch, and various noise acts.
he move to spain 5 years ago. one year in spain and he became an yngwie malmsteem fan and some sort of shredding virtuoso and listens to power metal and neo-classical all day long. wtf.

Pat Metheney is not so shocking in context. I don't listen to him much, but he's made a sincere contribution to the musical overmind, and I think people pick up on that even if its outside their usual genres.

I did a spell studio programming full time, and worked on a French album for a few months. It was a really cool project in that it brought together a lot of talent, had a reasonable budget from Universal, and the main man was a *huge* Beatles fan. We ended up in Abbey Road doing the strings and some of the other production team were also serious Beatles heads, pulling out DATs of obscure sessions with John giggling on acid in the background etc, so its fair to say the Beatles bar was raised pretty high. Towards the end of the album sessions, our man played a CD of "We All Stand Together" by McCartney/frogs, and in all seriousness announced this as belonging up there with the Beatles at their best.

Also my pal who has an entirely respectable and somewhat huge indie rock collection, drunkenly announced how good Celine Dion was, especially "My Heart Will Go On". Both of these moments were kinda beyond asking the usual WTF do you mean, it was more like a quiet dawning of "Ah, well that changes things around here!"

Marsupialized wrote:

DrAwkward wrote:For some reason, my musically-square parents had a copy of Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison buried amongst their Beatles and Beach Boys "best of" compilations. I couldn't figure out why people who think the Beach Boys' best song is "Surfin' USA" would have a Cash album where he plays a song called "Cocaine Blues" while in a prison.

Fair play to my parents, though, because that was the musical discovery that turned me into a die-hard Cash fan.

It's because 'A boy named Sue' was a huge pop hit, everyone got that record. I found it in my wife's parent's record pile, and as nice and sweet as they are they are not the hippest cats in the land.

Except that's on San Quentin, and they didn't have that one. Maybe they thought they were buying the one with "Sue" on it and fucked up.

DrAwkward wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:

DrAwkward wrote:For some reason, my musically-square parents had a copy of Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison buried amongst their Beatles and Beach Boys "best of" compilations. I couldn't figure out why people who think the Beach Boys' best song is "Surfin' USA" would have a Cash album where he plays a song called "Cocaine Blues" while in a prison.

Fair play to my parents, though, because that was the musical discovery that turned me into a die-hard Cash fan.

It's because 'A boy named Sue' was a huge pop hit, everyone got that record. I found it in my wife's parent's record pile, and as nice and sweet as they are they are not the hippest cats in the land.

Except that's on San Quentin, and they didn't have that one. Maybe they thought they were buying the one with "Sue" on it and fucked up.

Is it? No shit, yeah I am at a loss then. I could have sworn it was on Folsom.

dp

On a larger scale, I can't believe how many people around here who have lived in the city their entire lives listen to this new country "US 99" shit all the time. I've noticed it with all these fucking working-class Republicans at my job, they must have gotten used to it during the summers when they go boating up in Wisconsin. Now it's all they listen to. Goddammit, I would listen to ANY horrible rock band from my 70s childhood or 80s adolescence before Toby Keith or whoever the fuck.

DrAwkward wrote:Except that's on San Quentin, and they didn't have that one. Maybe they thought they were buying the one with "Sue" on it and fucked up.

Maybe they bought Folsom for "Orange Blossom Special".

Marsupialized wrote:

Steve V. wrote:

Red Square wrote:the last time i hung out with my dad (he lives on the exact opposite side of the state from me) was 6 years ago and while he drove me around El Paso all day we listened to Squirrel Nut Zippers...i was really surprised anyone in the world'd be into something like that...

FYP.

If they are the band with that 'Hell' song, I can see where someone would listen to that song. That's a cool song.

'Ghost of Stephen Foster' is a great song.

My best friend's life ambition is to be a housewife. She's from Oklahoma and wears pretty skirts and pearls when she goes to bars and concerts.

She has an unhealthy obsession with genesis p orridge.

She's also a lurker so i won't go into the details of this obsession...

Also, SNZ are tops, always had a soft spot for them

Finding out that my mom liked the Ramones blew my teenaged mind.

Then I realized: hey, now I have someone to go with me to Ramones shows...and I don't have to sneak out to them!