by LCD Soundsystem had to be removed for similar reasons. Katy Perry's Last Friday Night provides a similar geolexical minefield: "Why is there a stranger in her bed? Why is Barbie on the barbecue? How could she forget if she kissed a boy? What's skinny-dipping?".

This morning when she was handing out the invitations before she went into her class I overheard a boy from a year above ask her if he was invited. She gave him a withering look, said "No", turned round and then threw back a smile over her shoulder with the words "But you can still buy a present for me if you like."

She listens to The Beatles and talks about them as though they're still a going concern, which in many ways they still are. As you say it's no different for her to go from them to The Wanted or to Lady Gaga.

is gaining more of a foot-hold on her taste but she's still quite picky and selective rather than just following everyone else. She never got into High School Musical for example which I thought would be a given at her age as her best friend goes nuts for it.

We're meeting up with 3 other families for New Year and I think there'll be a copy of the CD for the adults to enjoy once the kids have gone to bed.

ago this month. Bought in Woolworths in Leatherhead. Paid for with tokens from an old ration book. Because as we all know Woolies accepted them as currency until 1987.

K-Tel? Wasn't that K-9's Pit Bull Terrier cousin from Romford?

my wife muttered something about hiring her out as a mobile DJ to all the Playbarns.

She's stumbled across some of my more "acquired taste" in music while trawling through iTunes. Not sure she's ready for The Pixies and The Fatima Mansions just yet.

I've visions of picking her and friends up from some nightclub in a few years time at 1am and playing Mogwai at full volume.

You know, I liked that song a lot, too. It reminded me of MGMT (which I like) but then my 16 year old son told me to listen to the lyrics. And the song is about a Columbine style killer who brings his gun to school to shoot the other kids. It's odd, I hadn't really listened to the lyrics so I didn't realize what it was about and now the song creeps me out, as it seems to make gun violence seem cool. Or maybe I'm just being an uptight parent.

The lyrics:

Robert's got a quick hand.
He's looking 'round the room, he won't tell you his plan.
He's got a rolled cigarette, hanging out his mouth he's a cowboy kid.
Yeah, he found a six shooter gun.
In his dad's closet with a box of fun things, I don't even know what.
But he's coming for you, yeah, he's coming for you.

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, you'd better run, better run, outrun my gun.
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, you'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet.

she's more of a magpie like her father and tends to flit around music so we rarely get the same music played over and over again. That said at the moment virtually every night she plays Ali & Toumani on her stereo as part of her bedtime routine. However, I doubt I'll ever tire of hearing that album and there is something comforting about walking around on the landing at night as that music drifts from her room. I often just stop and peek in on her room and her little sister's room to see each of them lying quietly on their sides, listening to a folk music wafting round the house that comes from a different place and time.

the way she's paired that one up with The Supremes' Where Did Our Love Go?

As with The Beatles she has no concept - or perhaps isn't bothered - that one track is 4 years old while the other is over 40 years old. If it's got a beat, a tune and a hook it's in.

I've been playing Fluke and Underworld in the car the last few days and I suspect we may have some late entries to the playlist as a result.

Just imagine: a roomful of 8 year old girls "shouting lager, lager, lager, lager"

While not strictly prog (or perhaps it is, I don't know these days) she has often ballet-danced to Xanadu by Rush in all its pomp and glory. She rather enjoys responding to the tempo changes of the track. Her little sister has a pixie outfit and they've both danced and skipped around to The Trees by Rush. Unfortunately every time they do this my wife and I struggle not to burst out laughing as in many respects it is the Bisto family's own homage to This is Spinal Tap's Stonehenge.