Other Ears

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Does anyone else get that thing where they play a record they like to someone, actually physically with someone there in the room, and there's a silence while it plays, maybe a look of mild scepticism on the other person's face, and during the silence you find yourself listening with their ears and suddenly everything that MIGHT be lame or weak or crappy about the music is REALLY OBVIOUS to you?

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[fathands.livejournal.com]

Variant on the above is playing music to ones parents.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

YES this always happened to me in the car tape player. I particularly remember with burning agony Carter USM's "After The Watershed" coming on and my Mum taking umbrage at the "silly cow" chorus - "I'm disappointed you listen to such sexist music" etc. SQUIRM ARGH.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

WITH the car tape player.

[fathands.livejournal.com]

I would get really tantrummy/ sulky if I didn't get to play my choice of tape on the tape player, even though doing so meant the other ears (parent version) effect. I would sit there in silent defiance, feeling incredibly uncomfortable but utterly committed to listening to my choice for as long as possible. I was very manipulative in terms of getting my own way wrt music. I am still a bit like this actually, only I sulk inside when I don't get my way, rather than stomping about.

the two stages of carter-related mentalism

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i. 1xnon-low opinnion in 1st place
ii. believin for 0.0000000000000000000000000001xmicrosecond that yr PARENTS will share it

Re: the two stages of carter-related mentalism

[fathands.livejournal.com]

Teenagers are evangelical about music though. I genuinely believed that the world needed to be converted to wonders of the Spin Doctors.

I was wrong.

Re: the two stages of carter-related mentalism

[koganbot]

But little miss can't be wrong.

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[fathands.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!

Re: the two stages of carter-related mentalism

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I don't think the parent trap other-ears is about "wow I hope you will like this awesome music!" (so stage ii is not quite as mental as that). It's more that when you the sulky adolescent get your way and put your tape on your parent suddenly changes from "person driving the car who I can totally ignore" to "person WITH EARS oh no!! who is driving the car so I cannot escape from"

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

OK yes I admit that this was not always true - I did honestly think they might like The Smiths. :(

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[nicolars.livejournal.com]

I thought my mom would too! But I was wrong. :(

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I got VERY irate once when Dad switched off Dawn Penn in favour of 'travel news' about the A40.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Didn't Dawn Penn release an entire album based around travel news about the A40?

[friedslice.livejournal.com]

"No no nooooo-ooh / Two-mile tailback at High Wycooombe..."

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Full marks for artistic endeavour in finding a location that fits the syllable structure of the song, but I think you'll find that High Wycombe is on the M40. You could try "Ickenham" instead, or "Hillingdon" perhaps.

[friedslice.livejournal.com]

Dude, the A40 goes right through the middle of HW!

Clearly White City would've been less controversial.

No no no

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The event in question actually took place on the Hanger Lane gyratory system. If only it had been gyrating to the smooth reggae sounds of Dawn Penn.

Re: No no no

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

I live around the corner from there, and once I heard Dawn Penn booming out of a car window when I was coming back from the shops. So perhaps another child in another car tried the same thing, and got away with it?

Maybe I was time travelling and didn't realise.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

Shows how lame my knowledge is of roads that I regularly drive and towns I regularly drive through. I thought the A40 ended just after Hillingdon when it became the M40, and then started again when you come off the motorway at J8 (Oxford). I guess that's illogical really, but I had no idea it carried on along the same route as the motorway. Which road through the middle of High Wycombe is it?

[fathands.livejournal.com]

My mother would claim she needed to 'concentrate' on the 'traffic'.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah concentrate on HITLER more like

[fathands.livejournal.com]

You mean 'HITLER'.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Knitler.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

How could you say that, even think that, HOW?

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

My (unaware metaller/fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber) mum asked me for a mixtape of 'modern music which is not the new Meatloaf album or the stuff [happy hardcore] your brother likes' for her car. It was very much as you describe, except she now likes Taking Back Sunday. ('what have I done?!' etc.)