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Blogs > DonnaChang > Journal of Annoying People

The Grass Roots  

DonnaChang 54F
457 posts
12/10/2016 6:49 pm
The Grass Roots
I often wonder if Millennials listen to the music from my years and think of it the same way I feel about the music from my parents years.

I'm listening to some music I downloaded. Specifically, The Grass Roots. This band is from the 60s and my dad had a few cassette tapes, not 8-tracks, yes I said cassette tapes of Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Grass Roots. I used to listen to these on our Panasonic stereo. I was about 5 years old and remember listening to this stuff over and over again. The thing is, my dad was usually on the couch trying to catch a nap. And I'm there playing the stereo. Probably annoyed the shit out of him.

Every time I hear any of the songs from these two groups I think of my dad and how I recognized that this is my first experience with rock and roll. By today's standards these groups are not hard enough to be rock music, but back then they were to me. After all I was only 5 years old.

I listen to way heavier stuff now. Most of them I don't even know their names or the titles to the songs. I usually have to go to the radio station's website to look up the songs they played that I liked in order to have titles so I can download them.

But I wonder what kind of feelings are conjured up for a Millennial when they hear something like The Clash or The Beastie Boys or anything from the 70s and 80s. I still remember the first time I heard Hotel California and thought they were actually talking about a real hotel. Chill out people, I was 8 years old. I even remember the first time I heard Stevie Nicks on the radio<b> singing </font></b>Dreams. I was waiting in the car while my mom was inside the Jamesway store. Yes, in the 70s moms left their in the car all by themselves. My mom always left the keys so I could listen to the radio.

Then I wonder what my nephews, who are 10 and 11, will think of the music I used to listen to when they are my age. Can I see myself in the nursing home asking the CNA to play some Five Finger Death Punch, Volbeat, or even Metallica? Seems so fucked up.

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