Music and Family

     For this blog, I asked my dad some questions about his experiences with music. 

My dad is 50 years old and works as a Manager of Analytics at Spectrum. He is a huge nerd and most of what I am interested in stems from what he showed me in some way. For example, I think that my dad showing me Daft Punk made me like electronic music a lot more. Here is a picture of him.

Also, Sam was listening to me make the phone call and he said my dad sounded like a 20-year-old guy, which I never thought about.

    My first question to him was what musical experience was most memorable to him. He told me that going to the Dream Theater concert was particularly memorable. He told me that the album Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory was really cool to him because it was a concept album about the singer discovering his past life, which was very dark. 

    This song, "Strange Deja Vu," tells the story of Nicholas seeing his past life in his dreams and it leads him to want to discover the truth. My dad talked about how he really liked the instrumentalists and I agree that they sound very skilled. The song has a dark feeling, which I think fits the story of the lyrics very well. 

My dad also talked about enjoying seeing Fits and the Tantrums with my mom. He said he liked this because most of the music he listened to my mom didn't like, so he was happy that she enjoyed going to the concert with him.

    

    Personally, I never really listened to this band, but I did recognize the song when I searched for it. I think this song is pretty catchy and sounds good, but it is not my type of music. I definitely have heard this song in my living room, but I did not know either of my parents particularly liked this band.

    My dad said his earliest music memory was with the song "Hot Blooded" by Foreigner. He said that he thought the lyric "check it and see" was "chicken seed" and that he would always sing it that way when he was a kid. He said that it was really funny to my grandparents and they would poke fun at him for it. 

    I mentioned that I used to really like the song "Wild Thing" by The Troggs and my dad recalled that I used to always ask him to play it. I remember it being much heavier as a kid, but it actually doesn't get that intense.

When asked if anything was surprising about his music taste, he said that he doesn't think people would expect him to listen to Metallica or Megadeth. I actually did expect that, but it is probably just because I have known him for 21 years. I told him that I was really surprised when he was listening to Men I Trust because that band seems very "Gen Z" to me and it is also very soft, unlike what I am used to him listening to.

    

    Men I Trust is a band that I listen to often, so I was surprised that my dad liked them too. He said that he likes a lot of alternative music and sometimes likes quieter music, which I did not know. The song "Show Me How" is really good for studying or doing something relaxing. The bass in the song is so groovy and puts me in a good mood.

    I asked my dad his least favorite artists or genres, but he said he never listens to any music that he doesn't like so he could not think of anything. Regarding my music, he said he likes the calmer music I listen to but he does not really care for anything that has screaming in it. He verbally said "Rahhhh" to describe it, which was pretty funny to me. Regarding music that was popular when he was younger, he said that he did not really care for any of the pop music, but he did really like how Pearl Jam and Nirvana were starting to get more popular.

This song kind of became a meme recently, but I think it is genuinely a good song. If I was alive when Pearl Jam were starting up, I would probably listen to them more. I think the band has a unique sound, and I feel the same way about Nirvana. 

    Learning about what my dad thought about music was really interesting and I learned a lot of new stuff about him. Hopefully reading about his thoughts was interesting to all of you.