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"Young Folks" on the Young Brains

"Young Folks" on the Young Brains The kids I babysit for have some hardcore music tastes. They are three and seven and when we drive around they prefer listening to a new alternative rock radio station in my town that plays Puddle of Mudd and Nirvana. Their favorites are songs that vaguely mention suicide or self-mutilation or the devil. They head bang, a lot. They like Sonic Youth and the Eagles of Death Metal. But what they like the very best, like everyone else in the world it seems-because this song is the musical equivalent of crack-cocaine-is Peter Bjorn and John's "Young [...]