what did your parents think of your music growing up?

[TurdBerglar]

where they very upset with it? did they aggressively try to stop you from listening to it? I've heard some really strange stories of friends' parents completely forbidding certain types of music/bands.

my parents are products of the 60's/70's. typical rebellious stoners. a lot of the rolling stones, led zeppelin, and neil young being played constantly growing up. their musical influence has been massive for me. the grunge era struck right around the time when I became the age of noticing my own music. I remember my dad appreciating how grunge was a return to raw and gritty rock and that "faggot hair metal shit" was done with. i have distinct memory of watching mtv and nirvana was playing live at some massive concert. my dad was just looking on while i was sat on the floor. he liked them. he was all like... wow, real guitars and distortion. both my parents like like the bboys which i found shocking. my mom especially liked the jazzy shit they did. they didn't really like the metal that i was into. tool and ratm didn't really do it for them. but the whole "fuck you im not gonna do what you tell me bit" in killing in the name of always made my dad laugh.

when it came to rap though they were a little apprehensive. i remember a digital underground tape that i got as a gift from someone went missing one day. i was really young. of course they had no clue where it went. i don't think my mom liked the "safe side" and "sex side" of the tape(sex side and safe side was printed on the tape rather than a and b side) and the subject matter.

for current music I've introduced them to, the black keys they adore. everything else with that retro feel they love as well. they tell their friends and siblings about these bands and it makes me feel really proud. i have a lot of respect for my parents taste in music.

[DeeJayZap]

my mam generally doesn't like to listen to any music i have with emotion because it's "too depressing". my dad kinda takes the piss out of me for being into prog-rock and some metal stuff. but they have never tried to stop me from listening to a certain kind of music, always letting me explore the many possibilities! my dad's introduced me to some crazy shit.

[Bob]

i remember one time i had enter the 36 chambers in my car and my mom had to move my car out of the driveway or something and this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UQ-kqoK_w0) started from the beginning

whoops

[Dorothy Wood]

My mom didn't really approve of any of it. She wouldn't even let me buy a megadeth tshirt in her presence when I was 31 years old. She doesn't understand why I like "dark" things, ha. Once when I was 18 or 19, she had to sit down and confront me about my Rammstein cd, because of the cover art.

I learned a lot about classic rock from my Mom's 2nd husband, but other than that I just watched MTV constantly from 1989-1999. When my mom wasn't home, that is.

I hide a lot about who I am and what I like to this day. Kinda sad, but probably pretty normal?

[Randetica]

my mum hated and hates falco and hip hop while i dont care too much about her rolling stones/beatles/70s crap, we have a few bands in common though

[TurdBerglar]

I hide a lot about who I am and what I like to this day. Kinda sad, but probably pretty normal?

I use to hide everything about me. or at least be very hesitant to reveal anything. people seem to get weirded out if you do/think anything remotely different. I use to be self conscious of my weirdness and the way I think about things. I was never too sure what was weird about me but everyone else did. I just thought people did what they did because they liked it and that's all that I was doing. now if someone has something to say about the weird shit i do I use it as an excuse to be a complete dick to them. it's fun being an asshole and people seem to respect you for it.

[TimDoolan]

where they very upset with it? did they aggressively try to stop you from listening to it? I've heard some really strange stories of friends' parents completely forbidding certain types of music/bands.

my parents are products of the 60's/70's. typical rebellious stoners. a lot of the rolling stones, led zeppelin, and neil young being played constantly growing up. their musical influence has been massive for me. the grunge era struck right around the time when I became the age of noticing my own music. I remember my dad appreciating how grunge was a return to raw and gritty rock and that "faggot hair metal shit" was done with. i have distinct memory of watching mtv and nirvana was playing live at some massive concert. my dad was just looking on while i was sat on the floor. he liked them. he was all like... wow, real guitars and distortion. both my parents like like the bboys which i found shocking. my mom especially liked the jazzy shit they did. they didn't really like the metal that i was into. tool and ratm didn't really do it for them. but the whole "fuck you im not gonna do what you tell me bit" in killing in the name of always made my dad laugh.

when it came to rap though they were a little apprehensive. i remember a digital underground tape that i got as a gift from someone went missing one day. i was really young. of course they had no clue where it went. i don't think my mom liked the "safe side" and "sex side" of the tape(sex side and safe side was printed on the tape rather than a and b side) and the subject matter.

for current music I've introduced them to, the black keys they adore. everything else with that retro feel they love as well. they tell their friends and siblings about these bands and it makes me feel really proud. i have a lot of respect for my parents taste in music.

My mom busted in and said what's that noise but besides that they were fairly tolerant of my music. I remember fondly of 1994, my dad dancing doing his best to sing along to Ready to Die's big poppa and the Macarena

[Dorothy Wood]

I use to hide everything about me. or at least be very hesitant to reveal anything. people seem to get weirded out if you do/think anything remotely different. I use to be self conscious of my weirdness and the way I think about things. I was never too sure what was weird about me but everyone else did. I just thought people did what they did because they liked it and that's all that I was doing. now if someone has something to say about the weird shit i do I use it as an excuse to be a complete dick to them. it's fun being an asshole and people seem to respect you for it.

I mostly meant hiding stuff from my mom, but I get what you're saying. I was dubbed "weird" at a very early age and just kinda leaned into it. Luckily being "weird" in junior high and high school was kind of admired because it was the 90s and "alternative" was in style and all. So when I thought it would be neat to wear oversize pants and a suit vest from the 70s to school, I was considered cool. Basically cool enough to overshadow my shyness and avoid ass-kicking, but not cool enough to actually get me friends.

But, punks and weirdos always gave me the benefit of the doubt and that's why those are the people I always ended up hanging out with. My general awareness of all types of music always gave/gives me cred. As did my willingness to admit my ignorance when I didn't/don't know about a certain band, and my loyalty to bands I like without shame. It was really uncool to like Led Zeppelin in the punk crowd I hung around with in college, but I really like Led Zeppelin, so I experienced a few arguments...some of which ended up in me getting laid. So basically, honesty is the best policy. ;)

[Documad]

My parents were way older than me. They both loved music and knew it was important to me so even when I liked things that weren't their taste, they were tolerant. They let me blast my music from the basement and almost never said anything, even at night. It helped that dad had a hearing aid. My dad would sometimes ask questions and be too interested in my bands. I didn't want him to like the same things so I gave him the cold shoulder. But he once bought me an adult magazine because there was supposed to be an exclusive in depth interview with a musician I admired. Dad was pretty cool for an old guy.

But dad wouldn't let me pick the radio station in the car or anything -- he wasn't a saint. :p

[cosmo105]

one time when i was a teenager i brought my little boombox into the bathroom and Intergalactic was on the radio while i was taking a shower. i heard my mom yell from the room outside, "ugh, what's that NOISE?" i thought, no way is this actually happening.

[kaiser soze]

wow - my parents were pretty cool about my music

even the usual suspects like Fishbone, RATM, Ministry didn't really stir up any complaints

and they weren't liberal by any stretch of the imagination

[TOY]

The only thing my mom got kinda huffy about was the South Park soundtrack I asked to have one year for Christmas. She still bought it, though. I remember playing the horny song in the car (it was a cassette, so to skip was impossible) and I was more mortified to see that she was laughing and singing along.

She never really cared for bis. Always liked Gorillaz "Tomorrow Comes Today" :p

[cj hood]

My mom bought me Licensed to Ill...

[Micodin]

My mom bought me Licensed to Ill...

Yeah, my mom bought me EPMD's Strictly Business on cassette for Christmas. It was my favorite gift that holiday. I'm pretty sure I had all the lyrics memorized before I went to bed.

[MissCrafty]

I don't think they liked it lol. . I grew up listening to rap in the 80's first. I remember one time when I was 12 my dad didn't want to get me the Diabolical Biz Markie tape because he thought the album cover and word "diabolical" is Satanic. My dad just really hated rap in general.

Another time I played Nirvana to my stepmom and she just totally hated on it like "oh that's the guy who shot himself,that's not good."

And my mom likes Led Zeppelin IV but she doesn't like Led Zeppelin II.

[Waus]

I hide a lot about who I am and what I like to this day. Kinda sad, but probably pretty normal?

I get this. There's whole branches of personhood that I don't open up to people about unless it feels comfortable.

Example: Turns out this guy at my Seminary (I know, churchy as fuck) who's got a reputation for being super conservative is [edit: secretly] into rap. We spent the morning before an exam discussing Dre's influence on everything post-Chronic, death of Tupac, whether Eazy E was retarded or genius etc.