Thatababy by Paul Trap for September 25, 2011
Transcript:
Music box: Here we are now, entertain us! Dad: Gah! You're playing Nirvana to the baby?! Mom: ? Dad: His ears aren't ready for that! Please look at my chart! Dad: First we lay the foundation with a heavy rotation of Chuck Berry...then we hook him with harmony with from the beach! Next we hop across the pond to embrace the Beatles before roughing up the edges with the garage rock of the kinks, scratching the dark underbelly of the stones, and turning it up to eleven with the arena rock bombast of the who! We're now in position to scale mount zeppelin! At the summit we go back to basics with the Ramones, get ornery with Johnny Rotten and the boys and fight the good fight with the clash!! Now we set the table for grunge with the pixies, and then, and only then, is the boy aurally adjusted for some Nirvana! Mom: There's nothing there from the '80s. Dad: Didn't you hear? The '80s were expunged from the musical record. https://licensing.andrewsmcmeel.coThatababy: No Dexys?
Speaking as a child of the 80s, what’s WRONG with 80s music, might I ask?!