Teens Discover Pop's Vinyl Records, Music with Melody

By Eileen Dover  |  Entertainment Reporter

NEWARK — It all unfolded during a rainy afternoon at Pop Pop’s beach house, when 14-year-olds Josh Turner and his friend Aiden Cooper ran out of ways to entertain themselves.

With the weather killing their plans to go to the boardwalk, they asked Josh’s grandfather if they could borrow “those giant black frisbees in the crate.”

Pop reportedly stared at them blankly for several seconds before realizing they were pointing at his vinyl records.

“What the hell are they teaching you in school?” he muttered as he rolled over to the old turntable.

Within minutes, Pop had dusted off the needle and lowered it onto a copy of Innervisions by Stevie Wonder.

The boys froze.

“Dude,” Aiden whispered. “There’s… instruments. And harmonies. And lyrics that don’t sound like someone mumbling in a submarine.”

Next came Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, a stack of Motown singles, and even a well-loved pressing of Abbey Road.

Neighbors reported hearing genuine musical notes coming from the house — and faintly in the distance, the sound of two teenage brains rewiring.

Josh was later heard saying, “Wait… so music didn’t always just go BOOM-tik-tik-BOOM-tik-tik with someone yelling over it?”

Aiden claims the experience has permanently changed him.

“I might actually listen to lyrics now,” he said, visibly shaken. “I didn’t know songs could… go somewhere.”

Pop ended the session by leaning back in his recliner and smiling to himself — finally vindicated after decades of insisting that “they don’t make ’em like they used to.”

The boys had the same reaction: "Thanks, Boomer!"