<p>No Marvin, no Aretha, and they really don’t give a hoot about Annie Lenox. No Jilly from Philly. Immune to Raphael Saadiq, notwithstanding that their mother played the recent record nonstop for about a year. No Michael, either. Every once in awhile a chink appears in the armor – my daughter liked the Cat Power covers album, my son thought Joss Stone was kinda hot, and they both like a local group called Slo-Mo that has a pretty big dollop of soul in its mix, as well as TV On The Radio. But that’s about as close as they get. They don’t particularly like mainstream hip-hop, so they don’t even get dosed with soul there.</p>
<p>(They make a little exception for Santogold and G-Love, too, based on having gone to school with them. But even there, neither one is really a loyal fan or anything.)</p>
<p>We constantly play "Name this Band’ while listening to the radio in the car. They are actually getting pretty good at picking out 60s and 70s bands. They know to listen to the singer or the guitarist for major clues.</p>
<p>UMDAD, we do that too! But, we use either my or my youngest son’s Ipod. He kills us when it’s his Ipod, we only have a chance using mine, but he’s pretty quick with it too. He can listen to the opening chords and get the answer!!</p>
<p>It’s not only a time killer, it’s become a favorite family past time. I’m going to miss the game when he leaves next year.</p>