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While everyone at school is listening to Green Day, I'm listening to the Ramones Blitzkrieg Bop, The Trashmen's Surfin' Bird, Rare Earths Get Ready and Funkytown.

I'm 14 and I'm listening to that. Is there something wrong with me?

While everyone at school is listening to Green Day, I'm listening to the Ramones Blitzkrieg Bop, The Trashmen's Surfin' Bird, Rare Earths Get Ready and Funkytown.

I'm 14 and I'm listening to that. Is there something wrong with me?

Nope, it just means you have different tastes in music. I wouldn't say there was anything wrong with you because of your musical tastes, even if you were into morbid death metal or something.

While everyone at school is listening to Green Day, I'm listening to the Ramones Blitzkrieg Bop, The Trashmen's Surfin' Bird, Rare Earths Get Ready and Funkytown.

I'm 14 and I'm listening to that. Is there something wrong with me?

I don't recognise any other those songs or albums or whatever they are, but I would hate to have to only listen to recent music - I wouldn't be able to listen to Black Sabbath and other great things. I'd hate to only listen to old music too.

I'm not much older, and I'm listening to the Beach Boys, the Beatles, Dr. Hook, the Drifters and Mozart/Strauss/Vivaldi etc.

Oh yeah, Beach Boys and Beates are pretty good. My friend Austin called me Beach Boy because I listened to it all the time. Well, that was before he moved to Canada.

Meh, I listen to hip hop really. This new rock is... bleh.

Having said that, it shouldn't really put your mind at ease because I'm pretty sure there is something wrong with me...

While everyone at school is listening to Green Day, I'm listening to the Ramones Blitzkrieg Bop, The Trashmen's Surfin' Bird, Rare Earths Get Ready and Funkytown.

I'm 14 and I'm listening to that. Is there something wrong with me?
I'm in the same boat (expect im 15)

No, you just have good taste in my opinion. Current rock coming out today is crap.

I like it all!

Oooh, Funkytown!

Nope.

I'm 14, n listen to Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, Queen, Led Zeppelin etc. - it just means you're more 'individual' then everyone else.

Besides, I agree; it just means you have good taste. Music these days suck.

The problem isn't what the time period of the music you're listening to is, its what you're listening to from that time period.

16, and some of the best music i've ever heard is many times older than me.

While everyone at school is listening to Green Day, I'm listening to the Ramones Blitzkrieg Bop, The Trashmen's Surfin' Bird, Rare Earths Get Ready and Funkytown.

I'm 14 and I'm listening to that. Is there something wrong with me?

It depends. Are they listening to "Dookie"? Or the new one?

Don't be scared if you differ from your friends. The best way to solve the problem is to turn it to your own advantage.
I'm 17(soon 18) and I'm the only one in my school who likes to listen to all kinds of eurodance hits of the 90's. I also love listening to morbid death metal but that's so common in Finland that I don't listen to it in the public.
I've turned the problem to my own advantage easily: How easy do you think it would be to get a free seat with a safety area of 3 meters in diameter in a bus if you're listening to something like green day or whatever.
That happens ALWAYS when I listen to Captain Jack or some german techno-music with full bass and maximum volume (of course).
You should be proud of your oddity and make it your trademark like I've done. ;)

Don't be worried. Don't be a sheep at school as that's what the government wants :p

you think thats old...
i spent 4 years (2000-2004)attacking germans and lisstening to glenn miller, waiting for americans to arive and liberate france

I like Glenn Miller. No ones heard of him 'cept maybe you, me, and a cat in Cambodia, but yeah.

Your perfectly normal. Some old school music rocks.

*listens to Queen*

I'm famous at school for singing Edwin Starr's War, what is it good for in the middle of art class.

So, I'm 25, and most of the music I'm listening to is older then me (Rare Grooves, Funk etc.). To each his own.

Contemporary "music" is mostly not worth listening to, in my ears, so why should you be crazy because of your opinion about or taste in music.

On the other hand, if I wouldn't get my regular dosis of Acid Jazz or Lounge, I'd miss something.

BTW, if you like The Ramones, you might want to check out Guitar Wolf, but albums can be hard to get, as they're from Japan.

Fran

your asking an Internet forum this!

Your perfectly normal. Some old school music rocks.

*listens to Queen*

Well, I like Queen,Guns 'n' Roses, Nirvana, John Lennon.
and Metallica..i also like Glenn Miller.
I'm 17 and my mates got me interested in Queen..there classics you know..your pefectly normal dude.

I have an actual Ramones vinyl record.

VINYL!

Vinyl... the new Schellack. ;)

Glenn Miller, bah. I prefer benny goodman, or maybe even some actual real jazz instead of that nasty, nasty watered down 'swing' junk. Gimmie Louie Armstrong anyday!

;)

Oh and being 14 and liking the Ramones instead of the latest American Idol pop crap doesn't mean insanity, it means, to me, good taste. heh!

So, I'm 25, and most of the music I'm listening to is older then me (Rare Grooves, Funk etc.). To each his own.

Contemporary "music" is mostly not worth listening to, in my ears, so why should you be crazy because of your opinion about or taste in music.

On the other hand, if I wouldn't get my regular dosis of Acid Jazz or Lounge, I'd miss something.

BTW, if you like The Ramones, you might want to check out Guitar Wolf, but albums can be hard to get, as they're from Japan.

Fran

Or just the english punkband that was inspired by Ramoners like Sex pistols and The Clash that is really good. London Calling album with the clash is really good even if it's not exactly the same as Ramones

Disco sucks... you would know that if you had grown up in the 1970's.

I feel sorry for you, but there are others like you in the world.

I feel sorry for you

Why, exactly?

I'm not really into Punk, I just now some "classics" and accidentally stumbled over Guitar Wolf, as they made the excellent end theme for the mediocre Wild Arms anime. ;)

Although I have been to a big band performance last Sunday, I normally can't listen to Swing or the Jazz standards anymore. They're not aggressive enough and, when you sooner or later discover the wild tracks from the 60ies and 70ies "Dancefloor Jazz" scene, lack innovation. But maybe that's just in my eyes. Standard Jazz has been played to death on culturally high brow radio and in the town where I'm from, and the people there just weren't able to leave the common tracks and expand their horizon.

That's why I never refuse to listen to music I don't know. Hey, sometimes I'm even listening to Death Metal, although I don't like most Metal.

Fran

im 14 and i only broke free of the beatles about a year ago now, maybe less. Its nothing to be ashamed of - we all have our favourite tastes

im 15 and i listen to acdc,thin lizzy,pink floyd and all the classics i think theres something wrong with the other people :confused: am i right

I like Glenn Miller. No ones heard of him 'cept maybe you, me, and a cat in Cambodia, but yeah.

How did you work that one out? I'm sure lots of people have heard of him.

I myself went to a tribute concert of his with a girl I like. We were the only teenagers there. That was great. Everyone else was at least 60. But it was a fantastic night.

[Actually, a few people might not know him, but I'd be surprised at someone who hadn't heard "In the Mood" one way or another...]

17 years old, and an absolute Metallica fanatic, even tho they're ancient. You can't beat the old classics! Zepellin and Sabbath rock too. :)

Poeple ask me who my favorite politicians are...all of them are dead. I can relate to being stuck in the past. Or rather, stuck in the present.

I'm 27 and most of the music i listen to is older than me, such as The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, etc. Queen is my favorite band in the world. Of course, since i was born in 1978, most of their music isn't older than me, but most of their best stuff is...lol.

Good for you. I'm over 30, and although I listened to some of those you mention during the 70s, for me it was a lot of early Who, Stones, Zeppelin, Beatles, Janis, Hendrix, and even older like Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Nothing wrong with you. What's actually wrong is acritically ingesting whatever pap they feed you over TV.

Nope, it just means you have different tastes in music. I wouldn't say there was anything wrong with you because of your musical tastes, even if you were into morbid death metal or something.
Whatever is wrong with death metal?

...what....I'm still listening to Green Day.

Except I listen to their older music as much as American Idiot album. So I guess I'm even more back in time....w00t.

While everyone at school is listening to Green Day, I'm listening to the Ramones Blitzkrieg Bop, The Trashmen's Surfin' Bird, Rare Earths Get Ready and Funkytown.

I'm 14 and I'm listening to that. Is there something wrong with me?

well, this is what i listen to: wagner, loheingrin and die walkure; dvorak, new world overture; holst, jupiter; grieg, peer gynt. no, i don't think your stuck in the past, your somewhere way up in the future there.

How easy do you think it would be to get a free seat with a safety area of 3 meters in diameter in a bus if you're listening to something like green day or whatever.
That happens ALWAYS when I listen to Captain Jack or some german techno-music with full bass and maximum volume (of course).
You should be proud of your oddity and make it your trademark like I've done. ;)

That's not because of your taste in music, it's because you're being freakin' rude.

Ugh, I can't stand people who listen to their music on FULL VOLUME++ on public transport. Have some common courtesy for the people around you, why don't you.

I like Glenn Miller. No ones heard of him 'cept maybe you, me, and a cat in Cambodia, but yeah.

glenn miller is fun music ta play on the euphonium(baritone horn, looks like a tiny tuba)

Ugh, I can't stand people who listen to their music on FULL VOLUME++ on public transport. Have some common courtesy for the people around you, why don't you.

Ach, sure most of them will be deaf by the time they are 21. Headphones and high volume are a recipe for disaster.

Ach, sure most of them will be deaf by the time they are 21. Headphones and high volume are a recipe for disaster.

Heh, good point. It increases bacteria in the ear by some huge factor too... now, if only that was flesh-eating bacteria I could be happy (I'm impatient, you see).

Heh, good point. It increases bacteria in the ear by some huge factor too... now, if only that was flesh-eating bacteria I could be happy (I'm impatient, you see).

As someone who has to use headphones every now and again as part of my job I can tell you I wouldn't be.

As someone who has to use headphones every now and again as part of my job I can tell you I wouldn't be.

Pish, I meant for rude people, not just earphone-users in general. Hell, I have an mp3 player that I need headphones to use so... well, yeah.

Why, exactly?

Well, because, DISCO SUCKS!!! Good god man, can't you read? If you like Disco, then probably not. You probably have a hearing problem as well. It was the worst genre of music ever to come along. That is, until RAP, anyway. It...


just....


makes...

you want to...


DANCE!!!!!



ARGGGGGG

I was surprised at my high school that a bunch of kids had good taste in music rather than rushing out to buy the latest mass-produced pop hits. Like, for some reason, the skater subculture in the area got turned on to Led Zepppelin and Black Sabbath, which was cool since it meant half the school was exploring more music than just recent stuff. That made me happy.

Listen to what you want, not what other people want you to listen to. I got my music taste from my dad - so it's mainy 70s stuff like Emerson Lake & Palmer, Pink Floyd, Bowie, Hawkwind, as well as some of the more interesting modern stuff. Then in the last year or so I've developed a taste for punk, hardcore and ska. Sadly a lot of my friends like hip hop, r&b, dance, modern pop etc...which I despise with a passion. If you're listening to the Ramones that can only be a good thing.

While everyone at school is listening to Green Day, I'm listening to the Ramones Blitzkrieg Bop, The Trashmen's Surfin' Bird, Rare Earths Get Ready and Funkytown.

I'm 14 and I'm listening to that. Is there something wrong with me?

no thats cool... except for funkytown... sorry but i don't like that song in the slightest :)

While everyone at school is listening to Green Day, I'm listening to the Ramones Blitzkrieg Bop, The Trashmen's Surfin' Bird, Rare Earths Get Ready and Funkytown.

I'm 14 and I'm listening to that. Is there something wrong with me?

where i live thats about the right time period we are stuck in the 70's here with the attiudes attached.... trust me,l they are only just comming round to the idear that the world is round! :rolleyes:

Meh, I'm 20 and listen to Queen, Led Zep and Cat Stevens among others from that era. so you're not alone.