oilydwarf wrote:
I have three kids from 19 to 29 and all through their upbringing (from when they were born) I purposely played everything and anything to them, a rich variety rather than just what I like (although what I like is actually a rich variety).

I have forced nothing on them and let them make their own choices. The important thing for me was to open their ears to variety and so they decide what they like - or not. Its been interesting, one currently loves their warehouse drum and base and another old school rap and the oldest listens to everything - like me. But they all have a great grounding in styles and they all dip into all kinds of musical history - often using YouTube.

The common denominator between them is they listen to no modern mass overproduced 'chart' twaddle at all. . . and this extends to most of their friends too.

So my job is done, they bring music to me now and ask if I have heard this or that and we dip into each others digital music archives, new and old.

nothing gets better than this!

reminds me of sitting back between a pair of Bose 901s....

oilydwarf wrote:
Two suggestions:

First, have it on as background noise in a central part of the house. They'll pick up bits and pieces. My kids love the shallow pop that they hear on the radio, but I watched with amazement the other day as my younger daughter strolled through the kitchen singing "Wish You Were Here."

Second: Challenge them to listen to a song and then have them compare it to what they are hearing on the radio today. I was in the car with one of the daughters recently when "Brass In Pocket" came on the radio. I asked her to compare the desperate emotion in Chrissie Hynde's voice to the AutoTuned music she hears today. She got it.

We as "old people" are never going to win the battle. All we can do is hope the next generation can discover deeper, richer, more rewarding music on their own.

Best wishes.

Boy_Wonder wrote:
Trouble for the youth of today is sorting out the sh**e from the good stuff, there's just so much mediocre tat that gets pedalled to distract them. I've tried with my two children but they are lured away by the nonsense that their friends listen to. Am working on them subliminally, playing them RP whilst they sleep!! Any suggestions from other parents welcomed!

TerryS wrote:

Right, now I have to turn off Radio Paradise and go listen to the whole 'album'...

Proof that music combats Alzheimer's: I remember in whose bed I first heard this track when it was a new release.

Bill you magnificent bastard! As the crescendo to a sting of magnificent songs, you lay this one on us. This is why I'm happy to make you my every-day D-J. Shine on all you crazy's out there.

If ever a group could hope to capture the quantum nature of being, if ever one could paint a portrait of such an enigma as Syd, this'd be IT!

Mind you.... there's still some around... hope it's washable!!

It's worn well... but I doubt it would have the same effect on my son, who's the same age (ish) now as I was when this came out. I know it's all been said before but with the massive amounts of media that the current generation are exposed to from a huge variety of sources, I just don't think that they make the same connections to music, films, books, whatever, that we did way back then - no sitting in bedrooms listening to this on headphones when meant to be studying!

nice introductiion to Jazz!

Goosebumps!

Lazarus wrote:
Way too long since I've seen any Shakespeare.

One of my fave Floyd songs...

Lazarus, are you collecting new names?

Limpopoking wrote:
One person's Godlike is another's Sucko-Barfo, even for 'classics'. A statement of the bleedin' obvious which, sadly, has to be made time and again on these boards. They've as much right to be on RP as Floyd fans, and indeed I congratulate them on their iconoclasm, even as a Floyd fan myself.

Wow. Just posting on Facebook that PFs Dark Side of the Moon album turned 40 this year and that their very first song "Arnold Layne" was released 46 years ago today. Then Bill plays this one as I was posting.
Deja Vu....

DanO-1 wrote:
Begs the question... what on gods grey earth are they doing on RP??????????

Wow!!!! I consider myself hugely privileged to have grown up with this.

Thank you for this. Reading the lyrics reminds me of the fragility of Being. As well as the brilliance of those who can so express it so tenderly, so honestly, in their musicality-and their appreciation of Syd. These authors of this embrace our humanity-and were good enuough to share it.

ambrebalte wrote:
Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun. Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the cross fire of childhood and stardom,
Blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger,
You legend, you martyr, and shine! You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Treatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
Rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter,
You piper, you prisoner, and shine! Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Pile on many more layers and i'll be joining you there.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph,
And sail on the steel breeze.
Come on you boy child, you winner and loser,
Come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine!

Epic Floyd!! Brilliant!! Shine on Syd, you remain a crazy, brilliant, shining diamond in the rough among a sea of ordinary rocks...now taking your proper spot shining among the stars above, illuminating the heavens for all eternity!