Your powers are weak, old man

I've been writting this in my head for a while, and Rol's recent Embarrassing Dad Songs theme gave me the kick I needed to turn that mental draft into an actual post. Here goes.

From a very early age, I tried to introduce good music to Amusements Minor. And by "good", of course I mean music I considered worthy. Music makes memories, doesn't it, and I have loads thanks to this covert musical indoctrination: dancing around the room to The Cardigans, laughing at (and impersonating) James Brown's vocal yelps, playing and replaying Blur's woo-hoos over and over, car-karaoke to Queen, dissecting Pixies lyrics, and so many more. And even now, as his taste in music takes on its own shape, I'm proud that he both loves, and is an avid listener to, music across a broad range of genres and vintages. Job done, right?

Of course, to loosely paraphrase Darth, now I'm the learner and Amusements Minor is the master. By which I mean he is regularly discovering new music (mostly through Spotify) and coming to me with either "Have you heard this?" or, better still, "I think you might like this..."

Here's a recent example, Tale of Two by Monkey Business, a band I knew nothing about but was inspired to find out. They're a seven-piece from Prague, centred around multi-instrumentalist and producer Roman Holý. They're big in Czechia, apparently, and have scooped up loads in the Anděl awards (the Czech equivalent to the Brits), year on year. None of which I would have known if not for the boy and his musical Weltanschauung.

As for the song... well, he was right - I do like it.