What band/artist do your parents torment you with?

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"Mum, we're trying to eat dinner. We don't want to know that Leonard Cohen has seen the future, and it is murder."

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, my parents did manage to turn me into The Beatles. However, all those Norwegian language early 70s policically radical accoustic-oriented "folk" singer-songwriters that they were into at the time have never quite impressed me (despite me sharing a lot of their political views anyway...)
:-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I WAS NAMED AFTER AN ELVIS COSTELLO SONG, THANKS FUXORS.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Its not so much the Good Charlotte I hate its mom in her Fendi track jacket

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

the lighthouse family. they play leonard cohen too, but so do i.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I must remember to thank my mom for not playing much music around me. But the Christmas Carol CDs were murder around the holiday season.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

My dad also has this Joe Cocker live album... which is pish.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish my mom and dad had turned me into the Beatles. They nearly turned me into the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, it was awful.

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

THE EAGLES OH GOD NO

― David Allen, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Ally, if you were a boy would that have named you Oliver?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Norah Jones

― milton, Tuesday, 8 April 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

melanie

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

hot tuna

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

It's probably my dad's fault I like Pink Floyd. I attempted to enact a "revenge" of sorts by making a mix CD for him filled with Funkadelic and Massive Attack.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

(of course by "fault" I mean "credit" and by "revenge" I mean "thanks" so I probably have not really gotten the point of this thread. Besides, he likes Nirvana too, which I find both confounding and fascinating.)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Come to think of it, none of my folks (stepdad included) have favorite bands or musicians I'm particularly ashamed of. My god, I have been deprived of the important adolescent experience of hating your parents' music! This explains everything!

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't think of any of my parents' music that I actively hate, really, if only because my pet hates aren't their kind of music anyway. So hey.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Parents who have actually heard of the Eagles, Joe Cocker, Elvis Costello, Leonard Cohen ... pah. You're all amateurs :)

Except for my father's intermittent interest in evangelical worship music/the Christian-tastic-est of the Christian rock, my parents have listened to nothing more recent than the Kingston Trio, who they only liked because of that song about Charlie on the T (Mom and Dad met at MIT). The only time the radio was ever played in the house was at Christmas, to hear Christmas hymns and the occasional Bing Crosby song.

I was nearly a teenager before I realized there were radio stations that played the same music as the jukeboxes at the arcade, only for free.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Btw. can you imagine something more traumatizing than a 15 year-old rebellious skater type returning home in the evening and finding his dad sitting in the living room digging his Korn and Limp Bizkit records? :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Things of my dad's I like:
Gordon Lightfoot, Jim Croce, Boston, Journey, Chicago with Peter Cetera, Orpheus, Serge Mendes, Dave Brubeck.

THings I do not like:
Basia, Taylor Dayne, Matchbox 20, Manheim fucking Steamroller, Manhattan Transfer, Traffic, Eric Clapton, Chicago without Peter Cetera.

― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

In reference to Geir's observation, mommy's all right, daddy's all right, they just seem a little weird.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 April 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Hot Tuna is great!

― Adam A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Melanie's great!

― Arthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Tejano
Tejano
Tejano

BLECH. All of you are SPOILED, I tell you, SPOILED. None of you have had the misfortune of riding in a vehicle while one of your parents listened to Mazz, Intocable, Selena, La Tropa F, Gary Hobbs, Jennifer Pena, Stephanie Lynn, Ram Herrera, Emilio Navaira -- *shudder*.

How about those English-language folks? Mom likes Celine Dion and all of that sticky love song dreck, but after thinking about the horror that is Tejano, I'd rather listen to Celine, thank you very much.

Thank God those days of riding with my parents are long gone. I can listen to whatever the heck I want to listen to!

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Kenny fucking Rogers

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Sinead Luhan, Sarah McLachlan, Eva Cassidy (who isn't terrible, I guess.), Janis Joplin, lots of country when I was younger.. but she seems to have grown out of that phase.

My dad torments me with sports talk radio.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

My dad is probably why I'm as into music as I am. It was one of the few things we could talk about calmly when I was an adolescent. I got lots of jazz, blues and some singer-songwriterly stuff from him (john prine, john hiatt).
But lately, he's been getting into some real dull-ass stuff. Like harpsichord stuff, bizarre, yet dull. Like a lot of quasi-classical stuff.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)

when my dad discovered that he liked U2, right around the time rattle and hum had come out.

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 05:39 (twenty-two years ago)

My parents used to play Blondie a lot and when I was very, very little I would stare at Debbie on the record covers, openly, and touch myself. No one ever stopped me from doing this.
Debbie Harry was my first major crush and is probably why I have a "thing" for older blondes to this day.

stuff my dad likes: Traveling Wilburys, Ozzy, Eagles and Disco.
stuff my mom likes: awful, awful shit - Andrea Bocelli, Michael Bolton, doo-wop.

praise jesus for Uncle George, who lived with us, who hipped me to VU, Neil, Squeeze, Burrito Bros, etc.

My dad did, however, convince me to quit soccer and gave me ten dollars to buy some singles on the way home from a particularly inept practice. I bought Mr Mister, Starship, Howard Jones, etc. My first records.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)

wait, you losers all live with your parents?

me too.

― brian badword (badwords), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

jesus christ no. I been outta there since i was 16. but then, i find those fuckers entirely impossible to live with, so if you got a good thing going (with the whole no-rent, free food thing) stick it out, my friend, stick it out. I still get most of my mail there (they live 20 minutes away) because they have a proper mailbox and packages delivered to my house (i live in a development) get "lost."

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 06:01 (twenty-two years ago)

About one third of my taste in music is culled directly from my father's record collection.

These days he listens to horrible old-fart WBGO ballad-jazz, though.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

My mother has gone from liking decent music to tormenting me with Celine Dion. She even tried to get the Dj at my wedding to play a Celine Dion song. Nope.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

My mom listens to those atrocious Mannheim Steamroller albums around Christmas time, but other than that, my parents have fab taste in music.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

my dad has a million different bands playing in his head at one time.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was living at home, my dad's James Last records used to get mildly on my nerves on the rare occasions when he played them - but nothing like as much as my constant Bauhaus, Buzzcocks, Clash, Damned, Fall, Joy Division, Killing Joke, Magazine, Ramones, Wire and XTC records used to get on his.

Nowadays my partner's daughters Steps CD's get mildly on my nerves on the rare occasion when she plays them - but nothing like as much as my constant Bauhaus, Buzzcocks, Can, Captain Beefheart, Nick Cave, Clash, Ornette Coleman, Damned, Miles Davis, Fall, Faust, Flaming Lips, Joy Division, Killing Joke, Magazine, Charles Mingus, Minutemen, Pere Ubu, Pixies, Ramones, Wire, XTC, Tom Waits and Frank Zappa CD's get on hers.

That'll teach 'em, the lightweights.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"my dad has a million different bands playing in his head at one time.
-- Chris V."

Hang on.... Chris, does the "V" stand for "Vliet" or possibly "Van Vliet"? Is you dad's name Don???

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Nothing now, since I live across the country. When I was young, though, I have vivid memories of my mom singing along to Kenny Rogers in the car. It turned me off to country for years...at least until I got to college and found the good stuff myself.

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I think parents are getting hipper these days, though. My mother-in-law has actually been to shows with her kids! The generation gap is not what it used to be.

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I went to a Metallica concert with my parents when I was 13. It wasn't THAT humiliating.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I went to ZZ Top with my dad when I was 12, he screamed out "wheres the girls with the legs" every five minutes.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

bing crosby and Xmas cassetes annoy me.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

My mom likes Jimmy Buffett. He must have about 9,000 songs.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i usta swear my mom had all these cool lp's, but i went back and it was all janis ian and shit

her 45 collection is impeachable tho. that's gonna make me a rich motherfucker one day

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

My mother was a huge Neil Diamond fan which unfortunately I developed a weak spot for. When The Jazz Singer came out she went to see that movie like 30 days in a row.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

my stepfather enjoys beegees, celine deon, backstreet boys, nsync, and anything else horrible you could think of. hes so closet homosexual. oh, i rmember one time he was driving me somewhere and was playing the beegees and proceeded to turn it down so he could SING over it. and then he said "feel free to sing along."

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

My parents listened/listen to, almost exclusively, classical music. I grew up with a great knowledge of classical but knew almost nothing of pop/rock until I was in grade school. I do remember a brief period of time where they were into Nana Mouskeri (sp?) though, and that was pretty bad.

― Davlo (Davlo), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

My mom once waited in a car while me and my little sister were at an REM show at Hersheypark. It was insanely nice of her and I don't know how she did it (if I ever have kids at least once I'm gonna do them the same favor).

She did walk around after awhile and said from where she was standing outside the stadium she could see Michael Stipe and occasionally "some guy with a guitar who would ruuuuun across the stage and ruuuun back". With the hand gesture that goes with the word "ruuuuun" it's my favorite description of Peter Buck ever.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Debbie Harry was my first major crush

me too. and Stevie Nicks. Which is why i don't quite understand why I never seem to be attracted to blondes these days

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 9 April 2003 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

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