My kids would say I hope we don’t meet any of your wierd friends this time… Lol
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My Son has just turned 16 and has almost zero interest in music.
Everyone always presumes he would be music crazy like I am as hes grown up in a House full of records and me playing music a lot, but its just never appealed to him.
I have in recent years I have tried to encourage him into music as he needed another interest other than computer gaming, if he were allowed he would have played game 24 hours a day it was all he cared about, so I really wanted to help him find another interest (a more social one).
In the 2022/23 Football season I took him to a Spurs game, and that was it, he got into football, something he HATED he suddenly loved overnight, Im happy he found something. Maybe one day he will hear the right tunes and that might flick a switch in him and spark an interest in music.
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My fourteen year old daughter loves music and spends lots of time making Spotify playlists - she’s mostly into the higher quality end of Hip Hop / RnB / Soul - Little Simz, Cleo Sol, Tyler The Creator etc. but has recently become obsessed with Eyes Without A Face by Billy Idol so maybe the Balearic gene is kicking in …
Generally she has next to no interest in my record collection or the music I play.
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My six year old boy loves The Chain and hates Don’t Stop Me Now. There is hope.
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Eyes Without A Face, currently the number one bop with our 2 teenage girls and their friends. Tik Tok of course, but hey.
Eldest (14) is into 90s hip hop and “french touch”, youngest (13) more into stuff like The Weekend and Artic Monkeys. Family Spotify works really well for us, everyone makes playlists and it’s a great way to share stuff.
Taking the eldest and 2 of her mates to the Roundhouse in Nov to see Yaeji. Not that they’re huge fans, but she is desperate to go to something vibey, and they love the track Raingurl. I reckon we’ll have fun. Wish Overmono hadn’t been sold out tho! In general I found it difficult to find shows to take them to in London that allow 14+ year-olds onto the dancefloor (seated was a deal breaker for her). Any tips apprecaited!
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Just in time for Christmas?
*should have posted in the ‘mid priced rotary thread’…
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I have cats rather than kids but they are all in
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My daughter on the school run this morning
“Dad why does all your music sound the same? Someone mumbling in a foreign language over some weird beats?”
Still work to be done there…
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My eldest, autism and learning disabilities, see here The Dads Net thread - #51 by ehdublyou
has put me onto this gem
He’s been listening to it on YouTube repeat all day. I think some of my taste must be influencing him
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My son is now 28. He didn’t really have much interest then aged about 16/17 he just sort of fell into it and now has really good taste. He has loads of my records at his room at his mums so he plays with them. His mum also has loads of great records and new jazz and stuff. He likes floaty dubby stuff and some hip hop and soul which is nice… They seem to have much broader taste these days. I think it’s growing up with YouTube. Him and his gf Fleur run a magazine called Arcca and just did a show on worldwide. He also did the sleeve on Emma Jean Thackerays album. So nice to see it when they start to go…
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This album is phenomenal.
This song in particular is in the Lost in Translation OST even though it only appears in the movie in karaoke form in the background as Scarlett Johansson wearing a pink wig lays her head on Bill Murray’s shoulder just before they get into a taxi to the sound of My Bloody Valentine.
I’d have put it on the album too.
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Lovely that. Well balearic, Your boy’s got good taste/
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my boy just posted a pic to his socials of him and his mates at their first uni summer ball.
dj Gregory - Elle as his background
moment! 
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Decorated our 17-year old’s room last weekend. Came home.from work on Thursday to find he’d ‘borrowed’ some of our artwork…
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took miss 14 to Stereo Lab Thursday gone. she was unaware that I had put a bunch of their tunes on her monthly usb reup, so he’s been listenening to them and other stuff for the last decade.
her face when they played tunes from Dots n Loops:sob:
I deffo got glassy eyed seeing her wig out and vibe hard
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