Topic: Parents=Cool/Ghey (Read 32703 times)

Shaft · « **on:** 27 Apr 2006, 04:13 »

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Following on from a theme in another thread, what music do your parents listen to? Do you think they have any influence on what you listen to? Do you have any influence on what you listen to? IS THE MOON REALLY MADE OUT OF CHEESE?

My dad thinks Squarepusher's jazzy stuff is the shit. He also likes Hundred Reasons and Biffy Clyro. I am glad I was born, otherwise he would still be listening to Garth Brooks.

Miss Flashheart · « **Reply #1 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 04:53 »

My dad listens to 60's stuff like The Kinks, The Who, The Beatles, etc. My mom listens to UB40 *shudders*. But they both like classical music and Queen. My dad's taste in music has influenced me a lot more than my mom's, which has near enough done stuff all to my taste.

McTaggart · « **Reply #2 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 05:00 »

Parents, music? what? Neither of mine seem to notice music at all. Other than a 'Turn that crap down' spoken much more politely.

nancygirl · « **Reply #3 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 07:03 »

I think my parents have been big influences on my musical taste. I grew up hearing stuff like U2, Robert Cray, John Lee Hooker, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Dire Straits, Santana, Patsy Cline etc etc and so now I really enjoy listening to them and anything that really sounds like them.
I think my big brother helped a little also introducing me to NIN, Strapping Young Lad and Skinny Puppy and so on.

Praeserpium Machinarum · « **Reply #4 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 08:25 »

My father: Rolling Stones with the odd Queen. He is not really a music buff.

My mother: Carole King, Enya and Loreena McKennitt etc. She likes Eric Clapton, she has Pilgrim and that is that I think. Our whole family is seeing a open air show with him this summer. And of course Beatles, we have the Help! vinyl somewhere. Assorted Motown and oldies pop, Mamas and Papas and so on.

Bizarrely enough they both like Coheed and Cambria, because Welcome Home was used in an TV commercial about Womens Handball World Cup.
After inquiring the bandname from my little brother(who also likes them), he got Good Apollo and so on and so forth as christmas gift.

I can safely say they haven't had much influence on me except that I also like Queen, Loreena McKennitt and Lisa Ekdahl(swedish singer-songwriter).
My brothers have been more influential. But nowadays I only really know one person who listens to remotely the same as me, namely my little brother.
But he has that whole hardcore/metalcore/emo thing going which I just don't like with the exception of a few selected bands.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #5 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 08:40 »

The awesomeness of my parents taste in music can best be summed up by what I remember of the track-list of one of the mix-tapes that we had in the car throughout my childhood:

Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Bob Dylan - Masters of War
John Otway and Wild Willy Barret - Really Free
The Beatles - I Am The Walrus
Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peekaboo
The Cure - Killing an Arab
Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet
Simon and Garfunkel - The Boxer
Pink Floyd - Money
Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
Genesis - Dancing With the Moonlit Knight
MacWilliams David - The Days of Pearly Spencer
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

Knowing my mum, there was probably some Meat Loaf on there as well.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #6 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 08:43 »

My parents haven't intentionally listened to anything that isn't classical in decades.

casull · « **Reply #7 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 08:44 »

Nifty thread.

My dad doesn't listen to anything newer than 1900, and not much newer than 1600.

My mom will listen to "pretty" music, without much discrimination. Aside from liking a lot of the obvious classics (the beatles, jethro tull, etc), she will happily listen to a lot of my music as long as it is pleasant to listen to- Nightwish yes, blood brothers no, for example.

Luke C · « **Reply #8 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 09:04 »

My Mum and Dad listen to a lot of rubbish (especially my mum) but they both like Zepellin and such which is awesome.

I look through our household LP collection and drool:
Led Zepelling I,II,III and IV
Santana
Sex Pistols
Dark Side of the Moon
Black Sabbath
Bob Marley
etc.

Misereatur · « **Reply #9 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 09:05 »

My parents dont really listen to music. My dad listens to South African native music (He's South African) and some Queen. My mom listens to whatever is on the radio on her way to work.

Quote from: Luke C

I look through our household LP collection and drool:
Led Zepelling I,II,III and IV
Santana
Sex Pistols
Dark Side of the Moon
Black Sabbath
Bob Marley
etc.

I envy you. I took my parent's old record collection to a bunch of second hand music stores and NON of the stores wanted to buy anything.

My parent's reaction when I told them that I wanted to study music in high school was "SAY WHAT?! YOU ARE GOING TO LEARN MATH LIKE THE REST OF THE MINDLESS YOUTH IN YOUR CLASS".
It took me all summer, but I got what I wanted.

negative creep · « **Reply #10 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 09:12 »

why is it so hard to spell "zeppelin"?

my parents don't listen to music i guess. i took my father's best of harry belafonte cd and it's been in my room for over 5 years now and he hasn't even missed it.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #11 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 09:19 »

My parents have great taste in music, especially my dad. He's wholly responsible for my love of contemporary concert music. He loves the 20th century stuff, and it took a while of him trying to get me to like Stravinsky for me to actually like it (hell, I played his Three Pieces for Unaccompanied Clarinet and I didn't like his stuff). My mom listens to classic rock and stuff. Neither of my parents particularly like jazz, so I'm not sure how that happened.

Velly · « **Reply #12 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 09:27 »

Quote from: Luke C

My Mum and Dad listen to a lot of rubbish (especially my mum) but they both like Zepellin and such which is awesome.

I look through our household LP collection and drool:
Led Zepelling I,II,III and IV
Santana
Sex Pistols
Dark Side of the Moon
Black Sabbath
Bob Marley
etc.

That is weird. My parents moved their LP collection over and it's so full of weird and wacky stuff. Unfortnatly we don't actually have a record player/

Alegis · « **Reply #13 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 09:32 »

They don't listen a lot to music I believe, well not to recent releases.

But I love oldies music anyways; rolling stones, Bob Dylan ...

Although I loathe the typical RnB crap my mother attempts to play before I pull out the plug.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #14 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 09:35 »

Quote from: KharBevNor

The awesomeness of my parents taste in music can best be summed up by what I remember of the track-list of one of the mix-tapes that we had in the car throughout my childhood:

Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Bob Dylan - Masters of War
John Otway and Wild Willy Barret - Really Free
The Beatles - I Am The Walrus
Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peekaboo
The Cure - Killing an Arab
Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet
Simon and Garfunkel - The Boxer
Pink Floyd - Money
Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
Genesis - Dancing With the Moonlit Knight
MacWilliams David - The Days of Pearly Spencer
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

Knowing my mum, there was probably some Meat Loaf on there as well.

That's very similar to my dad's taste. His taste is mostly UK 60s music(includng more blues than I find necessary), ,folk and British Punk and New Wave. He's got all the Dead Can Dance albums, and is a huge Siouxsie freak. Thanks to him I like classical and modern concert music too, oh and bossa nova. I'm rather proud of him.

Thrillho · « **Reply #15 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 09:37 »

My dad rammed the Beatles down my throat from an early age. I'm glad for that.

We had about five cassettes we'd always listen to in the car on holiday journeys.

Queen - Made In Heaven
Eurythmics - The Best Of?
Supergrass - I Should Coco
Seal I
Blur - Parklife

My mum has good taste; my dad likes a whole load of random 60s and 70s band no-one knows any more.

And I don't just mean as in 'they aren't cool, no one knows them.' I mean NO-ONE KNOW THEM.

But he equally likes The Who and Dylan and The Beatles and stuff.

pat101 · « **Reply #16 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 09:40 »

There are a few artists my dad always played around the house when I was growing up.

Leonard Cohen
Bob Dylan
The Rolling Stones
Jimmy Buffet
Rod Stewart
Meatloaf
Neil Young

and a few more that I can't remeber, my mom was more into

Elton John
Classical, lots of Mozart
some female singer/songwriters

I've gotten my parents into a few artist including Sufjan Stevens, The White Stripes, M. Ward, Postal Service. Overall we get along fairly well musically.

jcknbl · « **Reply #17 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 09:49 »

My Dad is awesome. He listens to Hank Williams, tons of Dylan, Clapton, Taj Mahal, fucking Thievery Corporation and Sufjan Stevens. Its funny cause I didn't listent to much music with him until recently, we just sort of discovered we have similar taste.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #18 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 11:23 »

I'm pretty sure my dad's musical tastes beats all yours for wierdness. recent shit he's been listening to is Dungen, Acid Mother's Temple, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and a few others I can't recall.

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #19 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 11:37 »

My parents have pretty varied music tastes, up to and including reggea, blues, soul, rap, hip-hop, rock and metal.

Basically they pick up any single they heard on tv and really liked.

Didn't really shape me, because I didn't even know what kind of music my parents liked until a while ago when we got digital television and they keep watching classic music channels.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #20 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 11:47 »

If my dad listened to Dungen and Acid Mothers Temple I'd be bragging about it to my kids.

Houdinimachine · « **Reply #21 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 11:51 »

My parents made me listen to a lot of oldies as a kid, but mostly Motown. To this day, I think that's why I just can't STAND Diana Ross.

But, I did get a healthy love for the Beatles, CCR, and Jefferson Airplane out of them though. Plus, I love a lot of the Turtles singles and pretty much any bubblegum pop from that era.

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #22 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 11:55 »

Quote from: TrueNeutral

Didn't really shape me, because I didn't even know what kind of music my parents liked until a while ago when we got digital television and they keep watching classic music channels.

Hm, something occured to me when I re-read my own post.

Why does every period only have songs that sounds exactly the same as the other songs in that period? I mean, why didn't they shake it up? Release different things? I don't want to get an hour of the same synth pop song over and over again but just done by different people.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #23 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 12:00 »

Quote from: Trollstormur

I'm pretty sure my dad's musical tastes beats all yours for wierdness. recent shit he's been listening to is Dungen, Acid Mother's Temple, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and a few others I can't recall.

I don't know. My dad loved his Christmas present, which included Steve Reich's New York Counterpoint for Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and Tape, as well as Howard Sandroff's Tephillah, for clarinet and electronics. And then I was all proud when you bring back a CD with a bunch of Varese, only find out he already has a bunch on vinyl. My dad is so easy to buy presents for. I just think about what concert music I'd like to get, and buy that. One of these days I might get him something too experimental for him. I will definitely record that year, because it will be a momentous one.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #24 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 12:12 »

I'd suggest some Cornelius Cardew (just because the old coves related to me) but he was mainly a performer: very little of his stuff is actually recorded, at least that I can find. Mainly because it was always stuff like 9 scores representing different schools of composition being played at once over two nights, or pieces for prepared piano and transistor radio. I think his most famous piece is probably Treatise, the very nature of which means it can never sound the same twice.

Mikendher · « **Reply #25 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 12:27 »

My mom likes:

The Beatles
Belle & Sebastian
Iron & Wine
Simon & Garfunkel
The Shins
and all sorts of spanish music

My dad likes:

irish music (folk generally)
The Beatles
Joni Mitchell
Cat Stevens
Iron & Wine
Simon & Garfunkel
and random other things like enya

They both influenced me somewhat, although I would say that I've had more influence on them (iron & wine, the shins, belle & sebastian)

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #26 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 12:32 »

The only experience I have with Irish Folk is goddamn Flogging Molly. Woe is me.

(...any recommendations?)

KharBevNor · « **Reply #27 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 12:43 »

The Chieftans, Lomond, Whisky Priests, Brobdingnagian Bards, Loreena McKennit, Casadh an tSugain, The Clancy Brothers, Lothlorien, Secret Garden and, well, The Pogues.

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #28 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 12:47 »

Khar, I have to ask you this. Don't take offense, I don't mean this in a bad way.

Khar, are you a robot?

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #29 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 12:51 »

Do you really think he'd tell you if he was? I mean, it seems pretty clear to me either way.

Praeserpium Machinarum · « **Reply #30 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 12:55 »

Loreena McKennitt's album Book of Secrets is really good, I just wish my mother's cd didn't have scratching, the first track is basically unlistenable.
Also it has the Highwayman! which is an awesome poem as a song, I especially love the part where she goes "tlot tlot!"

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #31 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 12:57 »

I am currently listening to Loreena McKennit's 'The Mummers' Dance' which my friend sent me over MSN.

I need to get more of this.

spgphil · « **Reply #32 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 12:58 »

My dad while i was growing up was into fairly easy listening stuff. Lately he's gotten into his classic rock/prog rock stuff. He's started collecting every piece of Pink Floyd artwork there is. He also likes to mix in random modern stuff, like the time coming back from an A's game he had the Kaiser Chiefs on.

My mum, when she actually listens to music (rare) likes easy listening and Tony Bennet.

all that said, I have no idea how the music my parents listen to influenced my musical taste. I don't like prog rock and deplore that classic rock radio crap. My stepdad on the other hand is big Beatles fan, so maybe there lies the answer.

AAAAUUUGGGHHHH!!!!

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #33 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 13:08 »

My Mum likes John Zorn, Tom Waits, Rabih Abou-Khalil and David Thomas. The woman has taste.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #34 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 13:22 »

Quote from: Trollstormur

I'm pretty sure my dad's musical tastes beats all yours for wierdness. recent shit he's been listening to is Dungen, Acid Mother's Temple, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and a few others I can't recall.

I like how this thread can evolve into "my father's dick is bigger than your father's"

My dad certainly doesn't like Acid Mothers Temple, but he is quite in love with bands like Spectrum, Experimental Audio Reasearch, Autechre and many other experimental electronic music.

One of the most bizarre moments was browsing the S section at my hluse (he orders his CDs alphabetically) looking for The Smiths and finding Spacemen 3's "Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs to"

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #35 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 13:39 »

I love it too. But I think I like Performance better (I seem to be the only one) for it's vbersion of Walking With Jesus. I like Jason Pierce better though (too much scorn from my dad).

Misereatur · « **Reply #36 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 13:41 »

Quote from: Bastardous Bassist

I don't know. My dad loved his Christmas present, which included Steve Reich's New York Counterpoint for Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and Tape.

Holy crap. Your father is awsome.
I'd love to get that for my birthday.

karl gambolputty... · « **Reply #37 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 13:52 »

My mother loves Abba, my dad doesn't really listen to music, and my step-dad... oh my step-dad. His favorite singer is Englebert Humperdink. I'm so ashamed.

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #38 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 13:57 »

I used to think Engelbert Humperdink was a band name instead of an actual person.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #39 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 14:04 »

Or two people! Well, one person actually of that name, and then another who used the same name many years later.

Quote from: Misereatur

Holy crap. Your father is awsome.
I'd love to get that for my birthday.

Yeah, it'd be sweet. The problem is, he's not really familiar with new music, he just likes it, so he can't really reciprocate unless I've discussed that composer with him already. He needs to make friends who are into experimental concert music, so he can get me into some more of that stuff. Have any of your parents gotten you guys into newer and hipper music than you've already been listening to?

Misereatur · « **Reply #40 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 14:39 »

Dude, my mom still thinks I'm 14 and that I listen to Metallica.
My dad called me a few day ago to tell me he can get me tickets to a "Black Easy Peed" concert. It would have been funny if he had'nt call me at 8 am.

karl gambolputty... · « **Reply #41 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 14:49 »

Quote from: TrueNeutral

I used to think Engelbert Humperdink was a band name instead of an actual person.

I assure you it is one man. One horrible, horrible man.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #42 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 14:57 »

Quote from: Misereatur

My dad called me a few day ago to tell me he can get me tickets to a "Black Easy Peed" concert. It would have been funny if he had'nt call me at 8 am.

LOL

Storm Rider · « **Reply #43 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 15:08 »

My mom has terrible taste in music, but my dad listens to more or less the highlights of classic rock (Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, the Who, the Rolling Stones, etc). He likes the Beach Boys too, but I forgive him for that.

Houdinimachine · « **Reply #44 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 15:13 »

Hey, Brian Wilson is amazing.

butmyrobotloves · « **Reply #45 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 17:47 »

My dad's totally stuck in the 80s, with his old REM and Oingo Boingo, it's cute. The two of us have music-swapping nights and listen to the Pogues and the Cure, and I let him burn all of my CDs. He really likes The Decemberists and The Arcade Fire. I think it's the most adorable thing ever.

When my mom and I go on road trips, we listen to Billy Joel and soundtracks from different musicals, or John McCutcheon, James Taylor, John Denver. She can sing along to my favorites from when I lived back at home, like Weezer and Rilo Kiley and Ben Kweller, but it sounds like she's singing folk songs to little kids no matter what. I can't tease her though, because I make everything sound like opera.

My parents are pretty tolerant of my taste in music, although neither of them let me play Joanna Newsom when I'm around them. My dad says she sounds like a midget riding a pony.

Valrus · « **Reply #46 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 17:47 »

Quote from: TrueNeutral

I used to think Engelbert Humperdink was a band name instead of an actual person.

Perhaps they should have gone with Slut Bunwalla.

Shaft · « **Reply #47 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 17:49 »

Quote

Misereatur wrote:
My dad called me a few day ago to tell me he can get me tickets to a "Black Easy Peed" concert. It would have been funny if he had'nt call me at 8 am.

LOL

Second'd :D

Synchronicity · « **Reply #48 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 18:42 »

My dad listens to blues pretty much exclusively. When I try to play something for him (no matter what) he tells me it sucks and to take it out of the CD player right then because it's hurting his ears (even with really quite, calm music.) And he sings along with his music but he can't sing at all. It's awful.

My mom doesn't really listen to music but occasionally she'll listen to classical flute music or celtic music. I've had slightly better sucess with my mom when it comes to having her listen to my music only because she doesn't yell at me to take it out of the CD player. She said that Pearl Jam, The Shins, The Postal Service, Snow Patrol, etc, were "pretty good but she prefered silence."

My parent's vinyl collection from the 70's and 80's includes two rock albums. It's a sad world.

Panbombadil · « **Reply #49 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 18:58 »

My dad likes nothing more than blasing a German Schlager. Needless to say this did not rub off on me. He used to like Zepellin and Pink Floyd, but he says he's grown out of that. Shame, shame dad.

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