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    Posted: March 09 2015 at 23:51
I was sitting in my little local coffee place sipping a double espresso when a kid of maybe seventeen holding a skateboard walked in.   The Who's 'Pinball Wizard' was on the satellite radio and this kid began mouthing the lyrics to this classic piece of vintage rock.   Needless to say I was both surprised and pleased.  

What do we take from this?   Do today's teens have better and wider tastes than we assume?   Will there simply always be a preference for truly timeless music over that which is merely good?   Or does this band just have some inexplicably enduring appeal that outlasts even other deities of rock such as Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, and Hendrix?
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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2015 at 00:26
I think seeing it was The Who, it's just a kid who like Classic Rock. 

I won't go too far on a limb and say that all teens like that timeless music, or more than we think, seeing it already is pretty damn popular. 
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Everybody knows Pinball Wizard.
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My nephew likes classic rock like The Who although he is also a fan of The Foo Fighters who I suppose would be considered 'contemporary'. The Who wrote great songs and that fact will always keep them in the public view one way or the other. Similarly Pink Floyd, Led Zep , Deep Purple etc.
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Points: 10213 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2015 at 03:08
Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

Everybody knows Pinball Wizard.
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Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

Everybody knows Pinball Wizard.

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That's about it, I hear/see young-uns singing/humming along to random old classics often. This, to me, is just run-of-the-mill behaviour - ask them who sings the song, 9 times out of 10 they don't know.......
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Points: 2466 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2015 at 05:36
some do, alot don't; i fall under the former category. so yes i guess (hehe, a rhyme).
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2015 at 05:51
The Who has had a major comeback recently - something the different CSI series are very much responsible for. Similarly, if old school Pretty Things tunes suddenly were used to kickstart a new successful crime series, we would be seeing a lot of teens singing along to bits and pieces from Parachute.
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Points: 16914 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2015 at 06:05
I think they just hear their parents listening to classics and they absorb it.  FM rock radio is still pretty prevalent around here, as well.
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Points: 10213 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2015 at 07:33
Pinball Wizard is one of the most popular songs of 'Classic Rock' in general.
If a boy whistling an obscure song from the third side of Her Majesty the Quad, it would have been cause for alarm LOL
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I think the more apt question would be, does the youngster even know what "pinball" is? Wink
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Points: 20631 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2015 at 10:17
Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

I think the more apt question would be, does the youngster even know what "pinball" is? Wink
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Points: 20616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2015 at 10:41
Free music can hit a wider audience. Or it's his father's favorite album, as was previously alluded to be FinnForest.

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Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

Everybody knows Pinball Wizard.

Yep.
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Everybody knows Video Killed The Radio Star, yet no-one has heard of The Buggles
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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Everybody knows Video Killed The Radio Star, yet no-one has heard of The Buggles
 
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Points: 10213 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2015 at 23:22
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Everybody knows Video Killed The Radio Star, yet no-one has heard of The Buggles
Yet there is a little difference between The Who and The Buggles, I'd say. The Buggles is de facto one-hit wonder ("They are best known for their 1979 debut single...")
The Who is one of the greatest and the most celebrated 'Classic Rock' bands ever, in the same league with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.


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Points: 15926 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2015 at 01:47
^ This is true. I just thought I'd mention this because I hear Radio Star played here, there and everywhere more than songs by The Who.
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Points: 65298 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2015 at 02:03
Originally posted by Svetonio Svetonio wrote:

Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Everybody knows Video Killed The Radio Star, yet no-one has heard of The Buggles
Yet there is a little difference between The Who and The Buggles, I'd say. The Buggles is de facto one-hit wonder ("They are best known for their 1979 debut single...")
The Who is one of the greatest and the most celebrated 'Classic Rock' bands ever, in the same league with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

Yeah but I doubt this kid would've been mouthing 'Hey Jude' or 'Brown Sugar'.   There appears to be something truly eternal in the Who's music that even the Beatles and Stones can't seem to match.   I always assumed it would be Floyd or Zep that would continue to capture teens, but instead it's AC/DC, Sabbath, and The Who.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2015 at 02:51
Probably an Elton John fan.
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