Yr Musical Relationship with Yr Parents?
 

what is yr musical relationship with yr parents?

Do they understand yr musical tastes? Do they tolerate it? Do they enjoy it? Do you share musical tastes and collection with yr parents?

With my pops we have the opposite relationship. Most people my age get introduced to bad as 1970s music from their parents, but with me, I am the one trapped in the 1970s from Hendrix to Sabbath, the Dead to Jacob Miller..
He is the one who introduces me to contemporary and new bands, since I was like 10 years old! We have a natural similarity in tastes, though he listens to a lot of shit I think is crap, and he thinks I am caught up in reggae and jam band music..

BUT, we always meet half-way. Recently it was the Dead Weather. I never heard of them until he sent me the disk. They are my favorite new band.. He sends me discs every couple of months and it is my only outlet into contemporary or new music.. too me all these bands you people talk about is a foreign language, babel, gibberish!

with my mom, I don't even know what she likes.. The last band she was seriously into was Bon Jovi and before that it was Journey.. I grew up on Journey.. she is one of those listen to the top40 radio and never knew who anybody is kinda of people.

how about yr parents?

my mum's the bassist in my sludge band Matricide.

"Stunningly dynamic, the album shifted seamlessly from blues-laden, heavy progressive patterns to powerful sledgehammer riffing. Superbly crafted doom-tinged heavy rock.."

I'd say I'm probably closer to my mom than my dad musically. I don't even know if she listens to them anymore, but my mom enjoys Simon & Garfunkel and The Beatles on a ridiculously casual level. She also likes some showtunes, Barry Manilow, Elton John, and a few others, but she doesn't listen to music too seriously. My dad was into a lot of Jewish music. He mentioned to me once that he liked the Stones and (I think) Pete Seeger when he was younger. He also used to listen to the "oldies" station in the car, most of which he knew a great deal of. That's about all I know.

I never bothered exposing my parents to anything I listen to. They always seemed preoccupied with more important things. I don't think they'd enjoy it much anyway. They never seemed to mind what I was listening to either past the age of twelve.

my dad has been called a sociopath in the past. he only listens to frank sinatra and barry manilow. recently some world music because his new girlfriend has got him all into travel.

my mom likes familiar music. it comforts her. sometimes we have similar tastes - i appreciate her janis joplin, beatles, fleetwood mac and jazz records. but we tend disagree more often than not. she hates anything that is at all dissonant. the only thing i've introduced her to that she likes is lucinda williams.

my dad is a trumpetist in the Lahti Symphony Orchestra here in Finland, and while he doesn't actually love all the music I listen, we still have some common interests. i mean, some stuff that I remember him recommending to me include Anthony Braxton (mostly the records with Kenny Wheeler), Miles (especially Bitches Brew), Jan Garbarek, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Tower of Power etc.
some of those, + lots of others, i really do like.

my mom really doesn't listen to music, but she plays piano and flute. and that's fine with me.

my parents only listen to shit music while i only listen to quality music.

My Dad's first concert was RATT.

my parents are south american. my dad used to be a singer in a band back when he was young, and met up with my mom. they played typical salsa/jazz-type music. my mom took guitar lessons when she was 13, but never was any more musical than that. she likes some songs of today but not much.

they seem to KNOW OF my taste in music but don't understand it at all

My dad saw Husker du live in the zen arcade erea. He saw pixies in the doolittle erea....and saw earlier motorhead.

Easy choice.

my mum would try have you to believe that the slightest of dissonance in a song is musically shit and my dad listens to genesis in his car, but I'm sure some common grounds exist.

my parents think that music is bad so didnt let me listen to any (im not even joking) they thought kurt cobain would make me kill myself

my parents are generation X, my mom has pretty similar taste to me albeit not nearly as adventurous.

my dad listened to punk rock as a youth but he's a businessman now. he likes the blues and some rock like thin lizzy and ac/dc. as do i.

we're on the same page pretty much. i got a lot of my LP collection from them.

hahaha. whoa. My mom thought the same thing!

hahaha my mom is the whole reason i ever heard nirvana.

I still Live with my mom and she's blasting dust in the wind as I type

the only thing to do now is kill yourself.

can we swap mums please i think i deserve a change

no! i love my momma and you should love yours whether she likes nirvana or not!

My Dad got into the BLUES. So, I will always be grateful. When I say blues, I mean.. Robert Johnson, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Son House, Muddy Waters, Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Etta James ect. ect.

My momma is an 80s kid. and she likes these kinds od bands, G n R, Motley Crue, Ratt, Posion, Van Halen
and some other stuff Led Zeppelin, early Beastie Boys
So, she did at least get me into the first Beastie Boys album

reasons i refuse to:
* she's an avid birdwatcher
* she allowed my dad to be a morris dancer and even sewed the bells on his friggin costume
* she made me eat vegetable sausages
* she once grounded me for a year cos i ran away and tried to sleep under a bridge
* she called me a selfish bitch

having said that now yes i do love her but thats cos she lives in another country and i dont have to speak to her anymore, yay!

This sounds pretty cool to me. You must be quite young. I've been out drinking with some Morris men, and they're generally incredibly hardy drinkers. I'm also a bit concerned that you're presumably English (Morris is definitely an English phenomenon) but are using the word 'frigging', which is clearly a sign of spending too much time with American culture.

Our Muh tends to listen to country or Irish, both of which I like. Our Da tends to listen to a lot of AM rock type stuff, some of which I like (Carpenters, Meatloaf) some of which leaves me very cold (Beatles, Colplay). Generally I appreciate that both of them have had much less time to care about the latest hip underground band putting out limited editions on purple 7", what with having raised a family and all.

I hated my mom a long time ago. It's part of growing. If I could take it all back I would. I wish I could speak to my mom. The only time I dream of her she will not speak. Maybe you should listen up to what she's tryin to tell you. Maybe she acts like this cause she loves you.

my dad used to be cool.

however, I stopped talking to them about music 25 years ago; shortly after they became convinced that I was holding black masses in my bedroom while listening to the fucking smiths.

there were so many other bands they could have chosen for me to hold my black mass to, but the smiths? really?

these days, I just laugh when my dad tries to get me into Delerium. the conversation usually ends with me berating him for listening to such crap and explaining that Delerium were much fucking better when they were called FRONTLINE FUCKING ASSEMBLY.

My dad got me into the Electric Prunes.
I'd say I am eternally grateful.
I got him into Sandy Bull and Andreas Martin.
He's cool.
My parents both come the the festival I organize every year, and stay for the entire three days, all day at each one. I really am amazed at their interest. I'm fortunate.

[quote=floatingslowly]my dad used to be cool.

however, I stopped talking to them about music 25 years ago; shortly after they became convinced that I was holding black masses in my bedroom while listening to the fucking smiths.

there were so many other bands they could have chosen for me to hold my black mass to, but the smiths? really?

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hA ! My mom was convinced I was into witch craft when I was 13 bause of my Heavy Metal facination. I was'nt allowed to wear crystals. She was just raised as a devout Catholic and witch craft is really frightening to catholics for some reason.

its not as cool as u think, there was no hard drinking involved best illustrated perhaps by the fact that my dad drinks non-alcoholic beer.

im 23 now but i was about 7 at the time so hard drinking then for me neways, and i apologise profusely for using the word 'frigging' i am now very ashamed of myself.

yeh i know she loves me and alls forgotten, i was never really mad at her anyway more my dad, i also found out it really doesnt help to talk to them about anything but at least its out my system, kind of

I have a goat-head pentagram on my guitar. My parents think it looks "cool."

Don't let it fester. Life's too short.

The last time my parents had a comment on my music was wen I was playing pocahaunted and my mother came into my room and said it sounded quit nice.

So don't be like Uncle Fester?




...

I'll get my coat...

very true, i also need an off switch for my head, its most annoying

My dad's into this techno dj stuff and even turns the tables at a few gigs. It's embarrassing.

My mom's in this sort of Animal Collective-inspired experimental-pop band with about 20 other people. She doesn't really play an instrument but makes some sounds on the trumpet and she warbles singing a bit. I can get into her stuff a little easier.

I tried to play them some old swing jazz records, Benny Goodman and all that, since that's more from their generation, but they made these pukey faces and called me an asshole.

I guess you could say our musical relationship isn't all that good right now.

Um dude, you are pretty friggin lucky to have a mom who enjoys Animal Collective.

He's taking the piss y'divvie.

My dad was just arrested for holding an ounce of crystal! Man, he has gotten out of control. He says he needs it for his "artistic vision."

My mom just came home with purple hair and wearing jackboots. She's pretty hot looking, I have to admit. Our relationship may improve.

I agree with yr parents... I have watched a lot of mexican grandmothers crying tears of the Rosary for their precious mejo in eyelinner ;)

gmku, that sounds exactly like MY pops.. dude, are you my brother?

We all like Bob Marley.

Other than that, my mom likes one Leftover Crack song.

My dad likes Apeman by the Kinks.