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why am i so deeply interested in music?

i've always been fairly jealous of my parents, the fact my dad was born in the sixties and both him and my mum lived through the seventies and eighties made me extremely envious. looking back over pictures, i wish i lived through those times. the music was great, it seems relaxed, the fashion was awesome and it just looks great.
me and my dad were talking about how i love the music that he listened to when he was my age and that he thinks it's cool that i listen to the oldies and that my music taste isn't 'normal' or 'mainstream'. he was a big music fan too when he was a teenager so we often talk about bands and what not. he comes into my room sometimes and laughs at the fact i have blur or the clash booming out my laptop, the clash and the beatles books on my bed, the abbey road poster on my wall and stacks of cd's on my shelves. we hardly ever get on, my mum says it's because we're so alike, but we seem to bond over music the most.
my dad influenced my music taste so much. in the car ride to school when we were little he used to play ac/dc and iron maiden tapes pretty loud, i used to get embarrassed and thought my dad was quite silly and a 'man child' but now i think it's really cool and embrace the fact my dad likes cool music. having ac/dc and iron maiden pumped through my ears for a good five mornings a week meant i grew up listening to the classics and by the time i was ten or so and started listening to music of my own. i was 'rocking' to ac/dc out of choice instead of having to put up with it. without my dad influencing what direction my music taste went in, i honestly think i would be a 'music is just music' type of person and have no proper interest that i'm passionate about. having that music played to me routinely every morning for a good six years made me believe that it was normal to be that interested in the stuff, or normal to constantly sing along trying to achieve that accent that bon scott sang in, or normal to have it playing all the time, normal to insert a tape or cd into every player that i found myself facing and just letting go. when i was little i thought it was something everyone did, i suppose.
now, when we're all old enough to have found our own interests and choose our friends who have common interests, all the things i thought were normal for ten year olds would be normal for us now without a doubt. but ten year old girls should be playing with barbies and wanting to grow up to be a vet or something cute like that, not listening to classic rock with their dad. although i did do both. i wasn't a tomboy growing up or anything like that.
my gran and grandad are to thank for my deep musical interest too. perhaps it's them i need to thank for my interest in the oldies. my deep interest for old music has only started to take shape over the past year or so, sure i had been aware of such names as buddy holly, bob dylan, elvis costello and frank sinatra, who isn't? my grandad frequently plays his cd's in the kitchen and i visit their house often; atleast every wednesday to be exact. so their old party tunes would be on when i walk in the door from school from when i go home and in the car. so again, i was forced to listen to such music, but i liked it. it was easy listening. after hearing bits and pieces of it, i started to develop favourites- marvin gaye and edwin starr for example, and asked who sang the songs when they played and checked them out when i got home. my granparents were big music fans 'in their day' i do believe.
my parents were always going to rock clubs, and when they get the pictures out i'm so jealous. i'm a lot like how my mum was in a sense, very orientated around friends. a lot of her pictures are in parks or fields or places like zoos and sat on bonnets of cars with friends. my dad's pictures seem quite family orientated. he has three brothers so i suppose they were like his best mates in a sense, his pictures with mates are in bars a lot of the time. i told my parents that by looking at the pictures of when they were eighteen - twenty, they seem like the kind of people who would be my best friends. they just laughed and said it was because i'm part of them. which is true i suppose, i'm from them so we would have things in common and best friends have tonnes in common.
i've always wanted to live in an iconic decade like my parents, the sixties, seventies and eighties look like i should have lived then. my dad has always said he feels like he was born two decades to late and he would have fitted right in living in the forties, i feel the same about living in the seventies. me and my dad are so alike in so many ways. me and my parents were talking the other day and i mentioned this whole iconic decade thing and they said that at the time during those decades, they didn't realise how iconic it was or would be, it was just like how we feel now. if you look back over the last century, each decade was iconic for something different. each and every decade is remembered for something. i've lived one complete decade so far and it doesn't seem very iconic to me, but in about thirty years time it could be seen as the most amazing decade yet? i suppose it was a major ten years for new technology, new music and bands- thanks to new technology like myspace, and ofcourse the war. who knows, we could have lived some pretty important years.

i've seen three decades, two centuries and two millenniums and i'm not even twenty years old. that's more than my parents or my granparents have ever had to say.