Teenagers with an interest in punk music?

ThePhanastasio · 04-18-2013, 10:16 PM

I think it's just teenagers in general; not punk teenagers. Anyone older than them just "doesn't understand," because their opinions and struggles are so vastly different, more powerful, and more important than anyone else's.

I have a fourteen year old sister, and a seventeen year old cousin, who occasionally consult me for advice because their parents are so "lame and old and out of the loop," but they seriously doubt me when I say, "Yeah, totally! I remember feeling like that! Basically, you're going to look back on it and realize it wasn't as big a deal as it feels like right now."

And they're like, "Yeah, but this is MUCH MORE INTENSE than anything you've ever experienced. You have no idea."

Same with my sister and music. She's into Mumford & Sons now, and I was like, "What?! I played them in the car and you yelled at me to turn them off, just last year!" And she was like, "I didn't like that SONG."

Then I was like, "Dude, you're playing, 'The Cave,' which is the exact same song I had on that CD..."

I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl · 05-12-2013, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by ThePhanastasio

I think it's just teenagers in general; not punk teenagers. Anyone older than them just "doesn't understand," because their opinions and struggles are so vastly different, more powerful, and more important than anyone else's.

I have a fourteen year old sister, and a seventeen year old cousin, who occasionally consult me for advice because their parents are so "lame and old and out of the loop," but they seriously doubt me when I say, "Yeah, totally! I remember feeling like that! Basically, you're going to look back on it and realize it wasn't as big a deal as it feels like right now."

And they're like, "Yeah, but this is MUCH MORE INTENSE than anything you've ever experienced. You have no idea."

Same with my sister and music. She's into Mumford & Sons now, and I was like, "What?! I played them in the car and you yelled at me to turn them off, just last year!" And she was like, "I didn't like that SONG."

Then I was like, "Dude, you're playing, 'The Cave,' which is the exact same song I had on that CD..."

Hate to gravedig like this, but this thread kinda sparked an interest. First, I hate to throw around that whole "I'm not like that" speech that everyone has heard someone my age say a hundred times before, but I really am not like that. Being a teenager who has a particular love for Crust Punk and old Emotive Hardcore, I can say with some certainty that I would have never heard of acts like From Ashes Rise, Wow, Owls!, Oroku or anything like that without old listeners of the genres to give me recs.

As for my response to this thread, I'm a teen who likes punk music but I don't necessarily consider myself a punk. If anything, I'd be called a prep by any punk. But I love the music.

**Janszoon** · 05-12-2013, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl

Hate to gravedig like this, but this thread kinda sparked an interest. First, I hate to throw around that whole "I'm not like that" speech that everyone has heard someone my age say a hundred times before, but I really am not like that. Being a teenager who has a particular love for Crust Punk and old Emotive Hardcore, I can say with some certainty that I would have never heard of acts like From Ashes Rise, Wow, Owls!, Oroku or anything like that without old listeners of the genres to give me recs.

As for my response to this thread, I'm a teen who likes punk music but I don't necessarily consider myself a punk. If anything, I'd be called a prep by any punk. But I love the music.

It's been a long time since I was a teenager and these are not the kinds of issues that really impact me, but I will say I appreciate hearing teenagers who understand that you don't have to wear a particular uniform to enjoy any particular type of music.

I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl · 05-12-2013, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

It's been a long time since I was a teenager and these are not the kinds of issues that really impact me, but I will say I appreciate hearing teenagers who understand that you don't have to wear a particular uniform to enjoy any particular type of music.

Things like punk music just give me more pleasure than the things most people my age listen to. It's a shame that there's such good music coming out nowadays and people are so absorbed in the billboard 100 thay they turn their noses up to any other types of music.

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ThePhanastasio Killed Laura Palmer Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Ashland, KY Posts: 1,679	I think it's just teenagers in general; not punk teenagers. Anyone older than them just "doesn't understand," because their opinions and struggles are so vastly different, more powerful, and more important than anyone else's. I have a fourteen year old sister, and a seventeen year old cousin, who occasionally consult me for advice because their parents are so "lame and old and out of the loop," but they seriously doubt me when I say, "Yeah, totally! I remember feeling like that! Basically, you're going to look back on it and realize it wasn't as big a deal as it feels like right now." And they're like, "Yeah, but this is MUCH MORE INTENSE than anything you've ever experienced. You have no idea." Same with my sister and music. She's into Mumford & Sons now, and I was like, "What?! I played them in the car and you yelled at me to turn them off, just last year!" And she was like, "I didn't like that SONG." Then I was like, "Dude, you're playing, 'The Cave,' which is the exact same song I had on that CD..." __________________ Phish: Studio Discography Reviewed 100 Albums I Heartily Recommend My last.fm It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken Perhaps they're better left unsung