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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.
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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.
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Parents, music? what? Neither of mine seem to notice music at all. Other than a 'Turn that crap down' spoken much more politely.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My parents haven't intentionally listened to anything that isn't classical in decades.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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/
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If my dad listened to Dungen and Acid Mothers Temple I'd be bragging about it to my kids.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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The only experience I have with Irish Folk is goddamn Flogging Molly. Woe is me.
(...any recommendations?)
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The Chieftans, Lomond, Whisky Priests, Brobdingnagian Bards, Loreena McKennit, Casadh an tSugain, The Clancy Brothers, Lothlorien, Secret Garden and, well, The Pogues.
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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?
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Do you really think he'd tell you if he was? I mean, it seems pretty clear to me either way.
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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!" :)
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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.
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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!!!!
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My Mum likes John Zorn, Tom Waits, Rabih Abou-Khalil and David Thomas. The woman has taste.
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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"
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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).
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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.
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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.
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I used to think Engelbert Humperdink was a band name instead of an actual person.
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Or two people! Well, one person actually of that name, and then another who used the same name many years later.
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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Hey, Brian Wilson is amazing.
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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.
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I used to think Engelbert Humperdink was a band name instead of an actual person.
Perhaps they should have gone with Slut Bunwalla.
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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
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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.
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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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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.
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Dad got me into Sabbath.
Mom got me into classical.
They double-teamed me on the jazz front.
Annoying influential people.
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Hurrr, 'double teamed'.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My dad likes the kinks, my mom likes Neil Young and thus iit's a win either way.
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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.
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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").
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You wouldn't believe how much I don't believe that's possible.
I do like some blues-inspired grunge (like some of the Screaming Trees stuff) but that's about as bluesy as I enjoy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. :(
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^me too. she's addicted to clark gable.
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Hurrr, 'double teamed'.
By his parents, no less.
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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...
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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)
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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 :)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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I've aways thought of "alt-country" as dad music. My dad loves Whiskeytown Wilco, Ryan Adams and Neko Case.
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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.
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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.
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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. (http://www.manilow.com/)
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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.
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his favorite bands of all time are Ed Hall, The Melvins, and Butthole Surfers.
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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."
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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.
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Dudes.
I say things are gay, and then I make out with guys.
It means nothing.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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--
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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 (http://kcsm.org/jazz91.html) webcast.
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Moms who like John Zorn rock!! :)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My stepdad likes Sepultura, Primus, Pantera, and stuff like that.
Huh buh wha?
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Pantera is totally Dad Metal. Those guys were old enough tp be embarassing.
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Well sure, but Supultura and Primus?
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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.
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I never said that, I just can't really see a parental figure enjoying them.
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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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I'm 17 and I listen to almost everything my 44 year old father listens to but almost nothing my mother listens to. My dad and I have gone to Bela Fleck, Chic Corea, Rush, and Dream Theater together.
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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.
You should probably stop listening to them whether or not you have kids.
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Anyway, my dad listens to stuff like Pink Floyd and miscellanious top 40's rock from the 1980's. My mum doesn't listen to music often, but she likes most of my music (except stuff like Aphex Twin, Opeth, etc).
I'm gonna see if I can find the old records that are in the attic.
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I'm 17 and I listen to almost everything my 44 year old father listens to but almost nothing my mother listens to. My dad and I have gone to Bela Fleck, Chic Corea, Rush, and Dream Theater together.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention we're also going to see Roger Waters perform the whole of DSOTM and parts of the Wall. Not sure how good it will be but every music geek should go see it just to say they have.
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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.
You should probably stop listening to them whether or not you have kids.
What're you gonna tell your kids about Akercocke?
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My dad has a bunch of cool records from Hendrix, Dylan, Beatles, Bowie, Stones, Velvet Underground, Zeppelin, etc...but I don't know how much he actually listens to that stuff anymore. Thought I like all those artists, besides Dylan there's nothing I'm really really into. And he didn't get me into him. Plus my dad listens to all kinds of random stuff. Like he bought Radiohead's "Kid A" when it came out because he read a good review, but he barely listened to it and eventually I stole it. And just recently he bought the Pussycat Dolls cd, which completely perplexes me.
My mom listens to like John Mayer and stuff of that nature, I got her into some stuff on the Garden State soundtrack which I bought for her though, she likes Frou Frou, The Shins etc. And she borrowed all my Foo Fighters cds to put in her car, I guess she's pretty into them. The other day she asks me if one of the songs where Dave screams a little bit is called "Screamo" haha.
But pretty much both of my parents will listen to anything I put as long as it's pleasant, they can't take screaming/shouting.
And they'll make dumb jokes, like after I played Thursday dad was all "So that's Thursday, what does Friday sound like?" eyeroll. but I supposed all parents do that.
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As of about five minutes ago my dad is officially hooked on Godsmack. That was almost too easy.
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my mother, as it appears to be the case with many of you, was much less of a influence on my tastes than my dad. I never really enjoyed either of their tastes until I grew into my late teens (and out of my "parents fucking suck because I don't always get what I want" phase), when I began to become interested in jazz and in particular blues, and discovered that much of the music that I was buying, my dad already had, and on mint vinyl to boot. I was jealous. Although I have to say, even above the Coltraine and Miles Davis, Tom Waits was the musician that he "educated" me on that I love most. He's still a constant inhabitor of my stereo.