Topic: Parents=Cool/Ghey (Read 32851 times)

McTaggart · « **Reply #50 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 19:00 »

Yeah, but if your dad listens to blues you'd have a bunch of blues records right? That'd be awesome.

But BB wins the thread.

Soidanae · « **Reply #51 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 19:03 »

Dad got me into Sabbath.
Mom got me into classical.

They double-teamed me on the jazz front.

Annoying influential people.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #52 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 19:15 »

Hurrr, 'double teamed'.

Synchronicity · « **Reply #53 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 20:44 »

Quote from: McTaggart

Yeah, but if your dad listens to blues you'd have a bunch of blues records right? That'd be awesome.

But I hate blues.

McTaggart · « **Reply #54 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 21:00 »

You wouldn't believe how much I don't believe that's possible.

Also: digging around trying to find a record to test the record player with I stubled across Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. I am honestly surprised and impressed by my parents on this one. Except, you know for the 30 years worth of dust it was under.

Shaft · « **Reply #55 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 21:20 »

No, I hate blues too. Come on lads, 3 chords?

YEAH WATEVER, "BLUES CAN USE MORE THAN 3 CHORDS YADDA YADDA", WELL I DON'T LIKE IT SO I'M GOING TO SAY IT'S BORING AND ONLY USES 3 CHORDS.

El Opium · « **Reply #56 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 22:56 »

My dad likes the kinks, my mom likes Neil Young and thus iit's a win either way.

McTaggart · « **Reply #57 on:** 27 Apr 2006, 23:00 »

Oh come on, it's like the dinosaur comics of music. Who cares if it's only the words that change, it's still fucking great.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #58 on:** 28 Apr 2006, 07:27 »

Quote from: McTaggart

You wouldn't believe how much I don't believe that's possible.

I know I may forfeit my victory of the thread, but I'm not a huge fan of blues. However, this stems from playing about three or four blues tunes every time I play a gig with my band. They're easy, but they offer limited choices for solos, even when they're in six, rather than four ("All Blues" and "Footprints").

Synchronicity · « **Reply #59 on:** 28 Apr 2006, 15:04 »

Quote from: McTaggart

You wouldn't believe how much I don't believe that's possible.
Quote

I do like some blues-inspired grunge (like some of the Screaming Trees stuff) but that's about as bluesy as I enjoy.

Thrillho · « **Reply #60 on:** 28 Apr 2006, 15:15 »

Quote from: Bastardous Bassist

Quote from: McTaggart
You wouldn't believe how much I don't believe that's possible.

I know I may forfeit my victory of the thread, but I'm not a huge fan of blues. However, this stems from playing about three or four blues tunes every time I play a gig with my band. They're easy, but they offer limited choices for solos, even when they're in six, rather than four ("All Blues" and "Footprints").

I've got to admit; I fucking love Bob Dylan, but like, 25% of every one of his albums is a blues song. Genius to listen to; boring as fuck to play.

BillyxRansom · « **Reply #61 on:** 30 Apr 2006, 15:53 »

with each passing day, my mom influences me to NEVER LISTEN TO BAD MUSIC. because unfortunately, it's ALL she listens to.

she listens to country (the new "country").... and van halen. not "from country to van halen" no, that's IT. nothing else. it makes me want to push her off a cliff.

Injektilo · « **Reply #62 on:** 30 Apr 2006, 16:40 »

My dad got me into Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and Warren Zevon. My mom fostered a healthy respect for Bob Marley. They're both big Jimmy Buffet fans which would normally make me want to strangle them, but that has always meant free margaritas for me with some frequency. They're also gigantic Gypsy Kings fans. Bleh.

My mom claims to like Iron & Wine, but they can't stand my music for the most part.

Lines · « **Reply #63 on:** 30 Apr 2006, 17:07 »

my mom listens to 60's music mostly, esecially the beatles, who are amazing. but she like barbara streisand as well, but i can forgive her for that.

Melodic · « **Reply #64 on:** 30 Apr 2006, 17:11 »

My mum stole all my Death Cab/Postal Service albums once she heard "From Such Great Heights". She loves Ben Gibbard more than I do.

Lines · « **Reply #65 on:** 30 Apr 2006, 17:45 »

^me too. she's addicted to clark gable.

Thrillho · « **Reply #66 on:** 01 May 2006, 08:54 »

Quote from: Storm Rider

Hurrr, 'double teamed'.

By his parents, no less.

FreshJive787 · « **Reply #67 on:** 01 May 2006, 21:17 »

my dad listens to alot of awesome music like zeppelin, the doors and alot of other classic rock and suck, its pretty impressive. he also likes the halo soundtrack.... hmm...

soak · « **Reply #68 on:** 06 May 2006, 08:24 »

My music taste has nothing to do woth my parents whatsoever.

My Dad's two favourite albums are Frankie Goes to Hollywood and The Best of the Pet Shop Boys. My mum will listen to anything non-metal (she seemed to enjoy God Spped You Black Emperor), but if she selects the music its usually Roberta Flack or Billie Holiday (she likes to think shes into Jazz, it apparently goes well with Red wine)

amok · « **Reply #69 on:** 06 May 2006, 09:00 »

My dad brought me up on a diet of Dire Straits, The Doors and Dylan, and for this I thank him.

I actually had to get him into Led Zeppelin though, which is pretty fuckin' disgraceful

Stifled Dreams · « **Reply #70 on:** 06 May 2006, 09:15 »

Quote from: Mikendher

I've had more influence on them (iron & wine, the shins, belle & sebastian)

This happened to me, too. I burn my parents CDs of the softer stuff and then they play it all the time and I get sick of it and I get mad and I don't burn them CDs until they threaten me and then the cycle repeats.

My dad started me off listening to music. The only thing I really listen to anymore that started with him is Toots and the Maytals. He always is asking me if I've heard of [mediocre 'indie' band]. It's actually sort of funny.

Rather Confused · « **Reply #71 on:** 06 May 2006, 15:04 »

Dad gave me Meatloaf, Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Pink Floyd.
Mum gave me alot of good reasons to go out and find good music myself.

Once when I was REALLY little, like talking but no idea how the world worked sort of little. Dad played Pink Floyd's The Wall movie with me sitting next to him, scared the shit out of me and I couldn't sleep for a week or so.

Oli · « **Reply #72 on:** 06 May 2006, 16:53 »

My dad gave me all the pogues and shane macgowan and the popes albums.

He mostly listens to stuff like Black Sabbath, Queen, The Beatles, and stuff like that. He used to be really into heavy metal and glam rock but then as he's aged his taste has calmed down (as in he listens to John Lennon much more now than he did)

My mum listens to the radio mostly but has a thing for coldplay and oftens tells me she quite likes cds I put on in the car. Usually Jets To Brazil, The Postal Service, and Sigur Rós.

She thinks that God Speed are crazy and doesn't understand why I listen to them.

penpen17 · « **Reply #73 on:** 07 May 2006, 20:15 »

My mom mostly listens to classical, but also likes the Grateful Dead and Simon and Garfunkel. I also have her to thank for my love of Ella Fitzgerald (seriously, the best singer EVER. hands down.)

My dad listens to AWFUL folk. and I mean awful.

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #74 on:** 07 May 2006, 21:41 »

My dad, as many loves that classic rock.
THE BEATLES
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Random blues
Random Latino music

However, my dad loves some stuff I play. For example, I've got my dad loving The Dandy Warhols, Metric, Franz Ferdinand, Wilco's AM album, etc. I was listening to Ryan Adams yesterday, he ate it up!

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #75 on:** 08 May 2006, 09:06 »

I've aways thought of "alt-country" as dad music. My dad loves Whiskeytown Wilco, Ryan Adams and Neko Case.

AceGun · « **Reply #76 on:** 08 May 2006, 09:12 »

My dad gave me The Kinks, so he wins, but I have introduced him to a few artists (Nellie McKay, The Good Life, Jenny Lewis). Other than that he just listens to Barenaked Ladies.

Merkava · « **Reply #77 on:** 08 May 2006, 13:10 »

My dad is a big classic rock fan, which is where I got a lot of my musical influence, but also really likes some newer bands. He really likes the Dismemberment Plan, Franz Ferdinand, the Black Keys, and Modest Mouse, but we really differ on what we like about music. He likes riffs and tightness. I like that too but I branch out a bit more.

thermodynamics · « **Reply #78 on:** 08 May 2006, 22:27 »

my dad only listens to bluegrass music. he plays in bluegrass bands, so i guess that's what he focuses on. growing up, i'd go downstairs and see people practicing for their next show in my living room. so i'd sit and watch for a while.

i know how to play the guitar, bass, banjo and mandolin because of my dad.

um, my mom loves barry manilow.

timehat · « **Reply #79 on:** 08 May 2006, 23:58 »

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.

Your dad rules, obviously.

My parents and I totally can't relate when it comes to music. I mean, I can tolerate some of the stuff they listen to, but none of it really strikes my fancy. Before I ever got into Genesis, though, my mom said that "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" was a great album, which I eventually found to be true. I really can't imagine her listening to it though. In fact, there have been times when I've listened to it around her, and she didn't seem to notice, so maybe she only has impressions of what she thought of the music and not the music itself.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #80 on:** 09 May 2006, 00:02 »

his favorite bands of all time are Ed Hall, The Melvins, and Butthole Surfers.

Kid Modernist · « **Reply #81 on:** 09 May 2006, 02:04 »

Am I the first one to say that spelling it "Ghey" is worse than just saying it's gay?

"Hey guys I know it's offensive to call people gay perjoratively but I want to so I'm just going to change the spelling and then it's cool right?"

I mean, I'll own up to calling things gay occaisionally, but at least I don't wrap it up in some wimpy stuff like "ghey."

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #82 on:** 09 May 2006, 12:25 »

I thought I mentioned that in my post, but apparently I didn't.
Anyway, I disagree, calling something "ghey" pejoratively is not more offensive than calling it "gay". It does however make the poster look not like a homophobic fuck, but as an idiotic homophobic fuck.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #83 on:** 09 May 2006, 12:48 »

Dudes.

I say things are gay, and then I make out with guys.

It means nothing.

Kid Modernist · « **Reply #84 on:** 10 May 2006, 02:47 »

Quote from: E. Spaceman

I thought I mentioned that in my post, but apparently I didn't.
Anyway, I disagree, calling something "ghey" pejoratively is not more offensive than calling it "gay". It does however make the poster look not like a homophobic fuck, but as an idiotic homophobic fuck.

My stance that it is worse comes from the inherent admission that it is a bad thing to say by bothering to change the spelling. You know what I mean?

The extra letter · « **Reply #85 on:** 10 May 2006, 03:13 »

The only thing my dad listens to is Joe Cocker and Elvis.

My mum got me into The Who, David Bowie, Pink Floyd and last but definitely not least, Leonard Cohen.

She likes some of the CDs I force her to listen to occasionally in the car. Stuff like Dead Can Dance and Ween.

A few months ago I found out she was a really big Iron Maiden fan, too.

dancarter · « **Reply #86 on:** 10 May 2006, 04:36 »

Ugh.

My dad has a huge record collection from the late 60's through most of the 70's. stuff ranges from Sgt. Pepper's(I've never really been fond of The Beatles, just don't get them) to stuff like John Denver, The Bee Gees (back when they were kinda not disco), Gordon Lightfoot and Nana Mouskouri...stuff like that. He likes other things also, like that pop-country thing, and Alabama.

My mom is a whole other game. She likes Tina Turner, classic 50's and 60's r&r(most stuff aside from Elvis), and current stuff like Roch Voisine and Jeff Healy.

I've managed to sneak some likings of stuff like Bowie and Tom Waits into their maws, as well as bands like Depeche Mode, which my mom really enjoys. It's kind of weird listening to her sing Master and Servant.

Makeout_Hobo · « **Reply #87 on:** 10 May 2006, 10:56 »

My dad got me into
The Clash
Leonard Cohen
Bob Dylan
Reggae
Paul Simon.

My godfather got me into
The eels
Wilco
Ryan Adams
The Ramones

Basically, I owe my entire music taste to those two men, because my dads stuff got me into more classic things, and my godfather got me into indie.

alyosha · « **Reply #88 on:** 10 May 2006, 12:00 »

My parents raised me on 50's and 60's rock 'n' roll. When I was older, I discovered classic rock, and stole most of my parents' Beatlesa, CSN(Y), and THe Band records. My father taught me to love Bob Dylan, my Mother introduced me to The Beatles (She was one of those screaming fans at Yankee Stadium in '64). My older brother introduced me to Led Zeppelin.

I didn't really start to appreciate any of it until I was a teenager, but this music defines me as a person--

Bunnyman · « **Reply #89 on:** 10 May 2006, 14:29 »

Lessee...

My Dad's not really a *music* guy per se. He does listen to the Beach Boys sometimes in the car in lieu of AM news radio, and has been known to purchase a ZZ Top or Dire Straits album now and again.
He did really like Amon Tobin's "Permutation," so I got him a copy of that. He also does occasionally listen to my burned copy of the Chemical Brothers' "Dig Your Own Hole."

My Mom, on the other hand, listens to boatloads of Jazz. Mostly the stuff from the 1920s to the 1960s, or more recent music in a similar style. She listens the hell out of the KCSM webcast.

Nick Cave's Havalina · « **Reply #90 on:** 10 May 2006, 18:10 »

Moms who like John Zorn rock!!

eternie · « **Reply #91 on:** 10 May 2006, 22:33 »

My mum likes pop stuff. Will Young is her baby, and she also listens to Savage Garden. As I give her the albums, it's obivous that I do enjoy them too, and she's to blame for my poppier side. (I really will listen to anything though. I don't just say that as a cop out.)

My Dad likes, well, most of what I like. I have a large amount of his collection ripped. Beatles, Pink Floyd, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, The Zutons, British Sea Power, Santana...

He doesn't like a lot of the indie I listen to though. He walks past saying 'what's that crap?'. And he has this thing for Modest Mouse, really can't understand why I listen to them.

My parents are cool.

Shaft · « **Reply #92 on:** 10 May 2006, 23:28 »

Quote

I thought I mentioned that in my post, but apparently I didn't.
Anyway, I disagree, calling something "ghey" pejoratively is not more offensive than calling it "gay". It does however make the poster look not like a homophobic fuck, but as an idiotic homophobic fuck.

I'm gay.

CHEESEGOD · « **Reply #93 on:** 11 May 2006, 00:53 »

My mom likes Talking Heads, The Ramones, The Clash, Frank Zappa, old Greenday, old punk.

My stepdad likes Sepultura, Primus, Pantera, and stuff like that.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #94 on:** 11 May 2006, 15:39 »

Quote from: CHEESEGOD

My stepdad likes Sepultura, Primus, Pantera, and stuff like that.

Huh buh wha?

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #95 on:** 11 May 2006, 15:50 »

Pantera is totally Dad Metal. Those guys were old enough tp be embarassing.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #96 on:** 11 May 2006, 16:28 »

Well sure, but Supultura and Primus?

KharBevNor · « **Reply #97 on:** 11 May 2006, 17:44 »

Both have been round for over 20 years, it's not only not inconcievable, but exceedingly likely, that people in other generations might have heard about them.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #98 on:** 11 May 2006, 17:59 »

I never said that, I just can't really see a parental figure enjoying them.

Aneurhythmia · « **Reply #99 on:** 11 May 2006, 18:01 »

Quote from: Storm Rider

I never said that, I just can't really see a parental figure enjoying them.

If I ever have kids, I'm not gonna stop listening to Anal Cunt.

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Synchronicity

El Opium

Synchronicity

Injektilo

soak

Stifled Dreams

Rather Confused

penpen17

AceGun

Merkava

thermodynamics

timehat

Kid Modernist

Kid Modernist

Makeout_Hobo

alyosha

Bunnyman

Nick Cave's Havalina

eternie

CHEESEGOD