It doesn't matter if it is good, It only matters if it rocks.

Monday 10 January, 2005

#It doesn't matter if it is good,
It only matters if it rocks.

Inspired by the exceedingly-funny-even-though-it-shouldn't-have-been School of Rock, towards the end of last year I embarked on a programme of "rock education" with the Bean. We started slowly, listening to Virgin Radio (the nearest thing to a rock station this country can deliver) in the car for instance. Initially I would pronounce on the tracks, Little mate, this rocks!. He would express his pleasure or displeasure with a thumbs up, thumbs down or a half-way waggle. His own taste developed pretty rapidly, not entirely in line with my own I'm pleased to say, and we reached something of milestone last week. Coldplay's Clocks came on. The Bean listened for a couple of minutes before deciding. It's trying to rock, he said, but it's not really rocking. It's kind of middling rock.

Middling rock. Coldplay in a nutshell.

smellygit said He'll be 'stickin it to the man' next [added 10th Jan 2005]

Pete [w] said Try Kerrangggg FM. Being one of those Emap-type stations the playlist is limited but it sure do rock. I think they have some kind of "Golden Hour" thingy in the morning which couldbe handy.

There's a fair bit of posturing though, such as frequent use of the highly dangerous word "crap", and I dunno what your position is on that with the Bean. But they play Maralyn Manson at lunch time, which is kinda odd when you hear it for the first time, especially in an environment where Heart FM is usually on. [added 10th Jan 2005]

Strike me, I didn't know about that. I shall give it a go.

I do try and avoid swearing with the kids, if only because they're such bastard good listeners. "Why did you call that man a stupid git, Daddy?" Obviously, that knocks out a far chunk of the rock canon, but if Tenacious D can come up with a track free of swearing (and general rudeness and smut) it means there's still plenty out there to listen too.

(The track in question is called "Dio" by the way. It's one of the Bean's favourites. We duet it :) ) [added 10th Jan 2005]

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