Musical Conversation With Dad

So, Dad was watching Oprah last night and saw a bunch of country musicians on there. Yeah, I know, he does watch Oprah but whatever. I walked in on the very end of it to see Sugarland playing. Honestly, I hate them, and most country music. The only two other people they had on that show last night was Carrie Underwood and Kenny Chesney. They are good, but not my favorite, obviously. That's not what attracts me the most about music. So, Dad and I started to about the music and what not and how it had evolved since the sixties and seventies. Really, what started off the making of rock n' roll was Elvis Presley. That can't be denied, not by a long shot. He started to talk about what kind of options his generation has with music, especially during the eighties and ninties. I was very interested when he started to praise Kurt Cobain for being pretty much a godfather to a new generation of music. Nirvana pretty much greated the grunge genre out of Washington and that was amazing. He also started to talk about there was rap music that pretty much made everyone like him and my mom go to country music. There was a sharp divide in musical interest starting in the 80's because of hair bands, metal, the emergence of rap and so on and so forth. I was so happy to have a conversation like that with my Dad. That is the reason why I love music so much. There are so many good topics regarding it and a different genres. Dad was even talking about how there has only really been one band that had a gimmick and has survived for as long as they have, and that band was KISS. I couldn't deny that, but there have been so few bands that have survived since the 90's. One of those bands was Green Day, and they are still making music. That is awesome.

And also, which is a relief to me, I'm starting to see a decline in rap music since now that time has finally become so repetitive. I'm looking forward to a resurgance of hard rock and metal music like it was when Motley Crue, Guns n' Roses and all of those awesome 80's hair bands had their time and so on. It's going to be a great day when that finally happens. Hopefully it comes at the turn of the decade in 2010.