Another way to make everyone feel old.

[Shawn]

Following up on the thread about kids reviewing older video games, here's a story about kids reviewing classic rock.

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excerpt:

The Who: Substitute (1966)

What the grown-ups say: "Substitute is an ironic comment on the gulf between image and reality, set to one of Pete's trickiest little riffs, all driven along by a ringing open D string. A bona fide pop classic." (www.thewho.net)

What the kids say:

Holly It sounds like when your wee goes back up.

Beth Is this the Beatles?

Gabrielle It's too rough and horrible.

Holly It's a good tune but the singing is not good.

Ben This is brilliant.

Beth Ugh. I was born with Plasticine in my mouth?

Benjamin He's getting things stuck in his mouth and he can't chew.

Ben And he's been arrested by a substitute.

Attention span: 40 seconds.

Better than Busted? "No way!"

In the end, I think it's only Nirvana that they stay interested in for the entire song.

[Kooperman]

I was playing a Who album as grandkids Damon, age 6, and DJ, age 10, walked in the room. The song Happy Jack was playing, and they literally gagged at how stupid and childish it was. They teased me all day about it. Flash forward a couple of years....Hummers become the desired vehicle for the younger crowd...they do a TV commercial, and choose music they think will match their vehicle's appeal and the tone of the commercial. That music is Happy Jack, by the Who. The same kids now love the song and want a copy. Such is life....what goes around comes around, as long as Madison Avenue has anything to do with it.

[MikeHunt]

I guess that the wouldn't like... Boris the Spider ...either