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Posted - 01/16/2005 : 15:11:30
That's it, how does your family react to your music?
I had big problems with my parents when I was living with them, they just couldn't stand or understand my musical taste! Now it's my kids...not that big problems, but they don't enjoy some of it!
How about you?
Purify the colors, purify my mind,
and spread the ashes of the colors
over this heart of mine!
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| offerw |
Posted - 01/18/2005 : 20:44:06
When I was a little kid in the 70's my sisters used to play ABBA, BeeGees, Elton John and Fleetwood Mac all the time. My dad listened to Sinatra, easy jazz and horrible German music.
At first my family didn't mind the music I was into, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Eurythmics etc. Then I got into Midnight Oil, The Clash, Lou Reed and my obsession with music exploded. My parents started worrying about their teenage son and the "bad influence" this kind of music could have on me. I just kept on listening and they kept on worrying.
It seems like my sisters' kids like the music I listen to.
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| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 01/18/2005 : 19:53:14
Psychedelic Blues band... that sounds so wild. Cool!  |
| KimStanleyRobinson |
Posted - 01/18/2005 : 16:54:36
My dad was/is a musician...but had odd tastes.
He liked the Beatles, Ray Charles and knew alot of old rock and roll.
I remember him mentioning Chicago once and I remember he owned a "Wild Cherry" (Play That Funky Music" 8-track...as well as John Denver...but I never really could pin him down to really being a fan of anything for some reason.
These days he is immersed in blues - blows harp, wears a black beret and goes to blues festivals.
I turned him on to JJ Cale a while back and he ends up talking about it every time I see him.
Ha hated my tastes mostly - i think...the metal and hard stuff for sure..."they sound like they're in pain...that makes me nervous..." which is of course what I liked about it.
He respects me now.
I play in a psychedelic blues band...though I'm not really a blues fan. |
| Newo |
Posted - 01/18/2005 : 03:13:52
Nearly everyone on my mother´s side is a music teacher so were wonderful about musictastes, though when I was 13 my mother didn´t care very much for A To The Motherfucking K Homeboy from Cypress Hill. My brother had a pretty repulsive album called Bacdafucup from Onyx which didn´t go down too well either.
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| WolfManMikeLonely |
Posted - 01/17/2005 : 20:18:47
My dad got me into John Prine when I was little, which I'll always be happy about. My mom got me into the blues. They never really were much into buying records or really committing to bands or genres but they never really held any music tastes I might have had in a bad light. They do tend to always have odd little reactions to stuff though while not bad they're just sort of perplexing, my mom said she didn't like Elliott Smith because he sounds too much like the Partridge Family.
"Hey fuck you if you don't like it."
-Johnny Thunders
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| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 01/17/2005 : 18:10:50
quote:
Originally posted by kathryn
I had to come back and post this, I hope you don't mind, Rita. Every time I see this image, I see proof of survival.
 I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank
Off Topic...Oooh I miss this album!! I found an origianal at a Libray sale in high school for like 50 cents!!!!... my x stole it with pretty much all of my other records!!! I was thinking about this the other day...looking him up and trying to get them back but then decided it wasn't worth it!
My husband and I have very similar tastes in music wich is nice. He told me about 97X (WOXY). It's fun because normally my music memory goes further back... and he gets me into newer bands. For example he was the one that told me about the strokes.  |
| kathryn |
Posted - 01/17/2005 : 16:00:32
Coldie, I would never advocate matricide, but yours is
a special case, worthy of an exemption.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank |
| ObfuscateByWill |
Posted - 01/17/2005 : 13:35:04
One of my pals is from Barbados.
She likes old country/western. That's about it.
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My parents never really had any issues with my music.
Dad hated the Violent Femmes, though.
 Take a bite of the chocolate coffin. |
| Coldheartofstone |
Posted - 01/17/2005 : 13:20:14
The only CD my mother owns is the Clay Aiken single... enough said.
The rest of my family are pretty tradtional Barbadians so all they listen to is Calypso and steel pan stuff. I remember one Christmas I tried playing some John Lennon and they all kept saying "No wonder she's depressed." Uh huh. The only one in my family who gets my taste, even shares a lot of it with my is my cousin Marc... He lives in Montreal...one cool cat.
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta |
| Surfer Rosa |
Posted - 01/17/2005 : 13:10:49
My Mom has appalling taste in music, but she's the one who first got me into music and has thankfully always encouraged individuality, so though she's never been a fan of anything I listen to, she's always put up with it. My Dad got me into guitar based rock and there's tonnes of stuff from the seventies that will always be close to my heart - probably because they remind me of him. My brother and sister both find my taste in music amusing and my husband is probably the first man I've ever had a relationship with who I didn't get together with over a shared taste in music. It was only after years of my unrelenting trying that he gave Pixies a second chance and he does have the good taste to rate seeing them at Brixton as one of the highlights of his year last year. Though having said that he does find much of what I listen to "bloody noise". |
| kathryn |
Posted - 01/17/2005 : 11:43:38
Jean Michel Jarre and Mike Oldfield? Whore, that is so me 1981!
I loved those guys. Tubular Bells would freak out my housemates
in college, you know, the music from the Exorcist. Fun stuff, if you ask me,
but they'd get all creeped out.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 01/17/2005 : 09:49:09
My dad is the nearest to my musical taste but I guess that is because he was in bands in the 60's and so brought me up on some great music (Beatles, Pink Floyd). I guess he introduced me to guitar based music but it was still not my main music of choice until one faitful night in Ibiza (THE dance music based holiday resort in the world). Funny how thing work out that way sometimes.
A lot of what I listen to he would think crap though now. I guess that works the other way too.
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| ramona |
Posted - 01/17/2005 : 07:16:14
My parents were always very tolerant of whatever music I was listening to. They wanted to know what it was and who was singing this (especially my dad). I also think the reason I rabidly LOVE music comes from my parents. My mom always loved the Beatles and Bruce Springsteen and went to a lot of concerts, and my dad always sang songs with me and took me to see musicals, etc.
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| vilainde |
Posted - 01/17/2005 : 02:16:09
I never really had problems with my parents when I lived with them. Actually they're both teachers and liked to name-drop some of the bands I listened to in from of their students to look cool ("so you play the guitar? Know the Smashing Pumpkins?").
Now I live with my wife and generally she tolerates what I listen to. The only thing she hates is hip-hop and some of the harder techno music. I think my musical tastes have mellowed since we're together. Not that it's a bad thing.
Denis
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| whoreatthedoor |
Posted - 01/17/2005 : 01:32:09
My father liked classical, Jean Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Mike Oldfield and stuff like this.
My mother is into Dylan, Beatles, Cohen, Serrat, Llach...
My older sister tastes are crap.
They don't like Frank or Pixies, but I don't care.
The violet, the lily and the pink but those I refused all three |
| klikger |
Posted - 01/17/2005 : 01:20:14
As for now though, I've been introducing him to the stuff which I listen to that I know he'll like. So far, he and my mom are into Sufjan Stevens, a little bit of Radiohead, and they love Brian Wilson's SMILE. They also share some of my other tastes like The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, etc. I doubt that they'd like the Pixies or Catholics, though unfortunately. |
| klikger |
Posted - 01/17/2005 : 01:16:12
How strange. I just had a conversation with my parents about this today. They didn't really like the music I listened to growing up, and my father name-dropped Nirvana as being influential in my anti-social behavior growing up. I tried explaining my view that most people choose to listen to music that they feel a connection with rather than the music causing them to act in a certain way, but he wasn't interested in hearing it. I love my dad, but some things never change. |
| n/a |
Posted - 01/17/2005 : 00:39:02
Kathryn, how I LOVE that album! I have almost all of Bowie's in vynil, but that one's my favourite, how can that be?
I also remember listening to the Violent femmes almost in secret...
And this one, I had to hide it!
Purify the colors, purify my mind,
and spread the ashes of the colors
over this heart of mine!
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| Superabounder |
Posted - 01/16/2005 : 21:42:09
My parents were much older (I kind of came along as a bit of a surprise). They were totally into classical but my mom was a huge Frank fan. Sinatra that is. The one time I actually put in the yellow cd in her car, I remember her distinctly telling me that FB couldn't sing. Oh well. Sinatra probably couldn't play a guitar, so there. |
| BLT |
Posted - 01/16/2005 : 20:46:33
I recall my sister becoming extremely irritated when I blasted Full Circle by Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit and Holger Czukay.
Apparently she couldn't dig the awesome dub groove.
Her loss.
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| floop |
Posted - 01/16/2005 : 19:43:15
"The Crucifux" are always a parent pleaser too
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
| floop |
Posted - 01/16/2005 : 19:22:41
my parents never liked my music growing up. but then, i don't really blame them, since i was listening to bands like The Dead Kennedy's ..
i remember my dad getting particularly pissed on one occasion when he picked up my Sonic Youth EVOL cassette. not the most savory cover art i guess..
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
| kathryn |
Posted - 01/16/2005 : 18:53:12
I had to come back and post this, I hope you don't mind, Rita. Every time I see this image, I see proof of survival.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank |
| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 01/16/2005 : 18:45:07
Actually, my mom always had the tunes on when I was young. Probably why I'm so into music. She listened to decent stuff too. Was really into Elvis. I remember the stuff on the radio she had on from when I was three and four years old. Three Dog Night, Van Morrison, Jefferson Airplane etc. She was pretty damn cool when she was young. Nuts, but cool. She sure loved them doobies. Not the brothers the other stuff. I recently went back to one of her favorite hangouts she used to talk about when I was a kid. Sweetwater Cafe in Mill Valley Ca. Jefferson Statrship were playing there that night too.
Later my walkman (and lots of sleeping) was always a great way to escape all the stress when we were dealing with all of the hassles of having a mentally ill mom.
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| kathryn |
Posted - 01/16/2005 : 18:24:00
My dad is nuts, too, violent as well. When I was in 5th grade and Ziggy Stardust came out, I had a poster of Bowie all done up like
Ziggy and my father literally tore my bedroom up and shredded the poster and, as usual, beat the crap out of me. I guess he had "issues" with gender-bending men. Or something.
Now that I am a grown-up and am lucky enough to live with normal,
kind people, my husband the music snob likes and respects Frank, our kid likes Frank a lot and requests some of his songs. But no one
truly understands or adores Frank as much as I do.
I won't go into any other music because Frank's is the only one
that I truly cannot live without.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank |
| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 01/16/2005 : 18:20:06
Well, my mom is nuts so... I could probably fart through a Kazoo and she'd start dancing and clapping along.
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| Broken Face |
Posted - 01/16/2005 : 15:17:46
when i lived w/ my parents we shared some music (mainly older stuff, beatles, kinks, stones, who), and i turned them on to some things i dug (i turned my dad on to some jazz that i like, as his jazz tastes are stuck in the 50s and my mom likes singer/songwriter stuff). but in general they don't like my favorites from the 70s onward. and they REALLY don't get the pixies
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