Kid came in today asking if I'd heard of oasis. I told her I'd seen them at a few festivals, she was shocked. To be fair, kids see me in the supermarket 5 minutes from the school and they look shocked. How is it I exist outside a classroom?

I just had a student (college age) go completely flabbergasted that I'm familiar with the movie The Fifth Element AND that I saw it in the movie theater when I was in college. Another student asked if I knew about the movie The Lost Boys because she had just "discovered" it. My response was, "You're a godd**n sh*it-sucking vampire, Michael! You just wait until Mom finds out!"

The funniest one that happened to me (middle aged white woman) was when a young black man scornfully said to me, "What do you know about rap?" I replied by rapping the entire first verse of "Bring the Noise." His jaw dropped. Whereupon I said, "Yeah, I saw Public Enemy in concert back when you were still in diapers."

I worked with a younger guy (early 20s) and we got to talking about playing music and how he played guitar and I told him I played bass. He asked me if I knew any early Metallica tunes. Thinking he ment Anesthesia or Orion, I confirmed I knew the latter, but not the former. He looked confused and said he hadn't heard of them. He ment Enter Sandman. He didn't know they had 4 earlier studio albums...we were both stunned but for different reasons.

My daughter got hooked on Depeche Mode.

My daughter discovered the Dead Kennedys and was shocked when I took a sweater with the band logo out of my closet...I kept it for over 25 years :-) Now she is the proud owner of a real vintage piece

About 10 years ago I was an older non traditional grad student. A couple of undergrad students were talking about Elvis. When I said I'd seen Elvis live in concert, they stared at me and asked, "Just how old are you?" (Older than most the professors around here! LOL!)

My kids know what music I like because they grew up listening to it. Then they complain that I haven't listened to anything recorded after 1995. (Not entirely true, but not entirely false, either.)

Oh my do I got one for the books... watching VH1 and this amazing brand new release song comes on, the music vid was out of this world, the singer was gorgeous and sounded AMAZING! I ran into the kitchen and my grandmother, Me: "that song that was just on was so awesome!" Grams: "who sung it?" Me: some new female singer that you probably wouldn't know of... CHER!" Grams dying of laughter: "babe, she's older than me!" 😂 Me: "well, she looks a lot younger than you." Grams: "if I had her money, I would too!" Awwwwwwweeeeee '98.

I saw and met Led Zeppelin in '72 when I was 16. My kids tell this story to all of their friends.

Me at 12.....found NIN. Still in love with them, dad was happy about it. He owned every NIN record thus far. My kid, found out about Slipknot 4 years ago at 12 years old..... now we jam out all the time. I'm 36. Slipknot came out when I was 13. ❤

I remember discovering Bill Joel in 1985, and excitedly sharing him with my dad. Dad humored me. It was sweet.

This is a universal truth! My 16 yo granddaughter now listens to Nirvana and Offspring. So much fun, singing along to Genocide at top volume!

1990s, best friend's daughter was about 12 or 13 around the time Wayne's World came out. Daughter and her bestie came home going on and on about this great new song by an amazing new band! You guessed it. Bohemian Rhapsody by "new group" Queen. My best friend pulls out her News of the World album. Cue daughter friend jabbering excitedly and daughter's friend exclaiming "your mom is the coolest mom ever!"

The highlight of visiting my dad in the 70s was digging through his records. Tommy by the Who, soundtracks to Woodstock and American Graffiti, Hot Rocks by the Stones, and the Beatles' red and blue albums. A lot of this stuff was pretty recent at the time, but still, it's hard to put myself in the shoes of a kid who doesn't know that old music is old. On a vaguely related note, I went to see Mike Watt in Brooklyn a few years ago--I've been listening to him since I stumbled onto the Minutemen in 1985--and I looked around thinking wow, why do all these old people have such cool t-shirts? They were my age.

It's up to the older generation to make sure the younger generation get a good musical foundation. I mean without my older sister's friends, I would've been listening to Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli instead of Joy Division, Meatloaf, and Led Zeppelin. And now I'm making sure my younger friends are familiar with Soundgarden, the Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins, etc.

Kids discovering music that doesn't make you want to rip your eats off? This can only be good!

My history teacher at school was an old punk and we'd chat about music loads, he gave me a signed Sex Pistols poster before I left which I still have now, I've watched his old punk band play a few times over the years, he was a great dude, shout out to Mr Hart.

Went through this with a song, in the early 2000s, when my 10-year-old niece heard Landslide playing in a restaurant and excitedly demanded to know who was singing "that great Dixie Chicks song!" Ooph.

This all just makes me feel old af. 😆

My youngest was born to Monkees music. I went to a reunion concert in 1986 when I was 7 months pregnant and the old shows were on the tv when I was in the hospital. She still likes them I think.