Dad's a music teacher, he can take just about anything but Joni Mitchell.

My mother used to freak whenever she heard Simon and Garfunkle's "Cecilia". She was a real prude and the lyrics were just too much for her "... making love in the afternoon with Cecilia up in my bedroom, making love, I got up to wash my face, when I come back to bed, someone's taken my place ..." She was quite worried about the effect it would have on impressionable little me!

My mother used to like all the 60s stuff, but my father was/is a Black Sabbath fan. I chose the latter, thankfully

My one girlfriend was an "ethomusicologist" type, she'd play these Chinese chants in her room...her mother was driven batty by it...
But the Led Zep, I remember her mother coming in and breaking that over her knee!

Joni MItchell bugged my dad because of the disonance..."Help me I think I'm falling in love again.."
THough, he likes Asian music after his "stay" thanks to Uncle Sam there, he still can't hack certain voices.
So is it no wonder that Alanis does it for me?

Alright MG, I'm going to play that as I really love that song!
And the kids are around, I can drive them crazy!

Oh yeah, my mother said she was playing Cat Stevens the other day and how lovely he was in his youth...
I looked it up on the net...whoa..he was attractive, wasn't he?
My parents liked all the folkies, maybe even Dylan, I can also cite Dean Martin, mom said he smoked and drank too much!

Bruyere, I am a huge Cat Stevens fan. Yes, he was very attractive and still is, I think. I watched a documentary on his life recently. A very interesting man.

My parents weren't really into music. Mostly they liked classical so they really enjoyed my Deep Purple, Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin albums etc. NOT!

If your parents like the music of your day, do you have to go retro to shock them?

SG what would you have had to listen to?

The Dead Kennedys...

....drove my usually very tolerant mother insane. She said the loud, fast music made her want to punch someone. Also, The Smiths, for different reasons. I still remember her shouting over Morrissey's tremendously lamenting and self-loathing lyrics: "Why doesn't he just put himself out of his misery?".

She borrowed my Squeeze albums though. Coming home from school to find her belting out 'Tempted by the Fruit of Another' was enough to put me off the band for a while. Sorry mom.....

My mum went to London for the day and promised to bring me an EP (if you know what that is you are OLD)
She returned saying, "I listened and found the one I loathed the most . I knew you would like it"
I really did!!
The record?
Gene Vincent "Be bop a Lula."

I guess I must be OLD because I remember EPs. But I never had 8-tracks or 78s, so I guess I am not THAT old!

Maynooth had 8-tracks. He must be REALLY OLD!

Hold on, MG you and I are astro twins, so I can't remember EPs, are they the thick records?

8 track cassettes? Those were enormous.

EP stands for extended play, I think. They looked like singles but you got two songs on each side instead of only one.

8 tracks were not that popular here in Australia. I only ever knew one person who had them.

8-tracks? Hah! They were for the rich. I can remember when we all got excited because my parents bought a car that actually had a RADIO in it!
As for my parents dislikes, my step-father was a muso (well, drummer, anyway), so he was at least tolerant of most types of music. Mum was a Country & Western fan, so she had to be tolerant as well! I do remember one time, though, when I talked them into taking me to the drive-in to see Joe Cocker's 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen' movie. It was probably the title that got them in, with the promise of something Noel Coward-ish. However, by the time the first hour or so had gone, they were really regretting the whole thing.

The only music that probably drove my parents up the wall was me playing my recorder and chord organ for hours on end -yikes!

My mother absolutely hated CCR's (If you don't know what CCR is you've really missed out) "Travellin' Band". She always asked, "WHY does he have to scream like that!".

Yes, MG is right, I had several 8 track players at different times. I had 78s and even had a 4 track player but only managed to find a couple of tapes for that.

cheers
Maynooth

My dad found a solution to his dislike for some of our music, he told us how to wire the house, so we could play the record player in the living room on speakers in our rooms...therefore, I took the wires underneath the house, scared of the black widows but I did it for the sake of music, learned to use the soldering iron myself mind you...and hooked up some speakers in my room...it was wonderful!
Most of the people on his side of the family are real musicians and can't work without music playing, so we once did a roofing job for my grandmother and my uncle just wired speakers all over the roof for us! It was cool.
So dad was pretty cool about that.

My dad made me choose the clarinet as a band instrument, as I wanted to play oboe...then I went and learned the others as I went along...but the oboe is probably about the biggest challenge as a musician...it's really nasal. Yet the folks never made a fuss. The siblings did though.

As for me, whenever I listen to the Metallica black album, they are going crazy! (Well, not my parents but my aunt and uncle... about the same thing)

My parents really objected when they came home and found that the plaster had fallen off the ceiling,making it look as if the family home had survived a minor earthquake, when really it was only me and a few mates Rocking and Rolling!
Your past will find you out!

I listened to pretty much the same music as my father, so nothing, really. But my mother got a little tired of the Bob Dylan from both of us.

My parents were not thrilled with my misguided and unfortunate New Kids on the Block phase.

I think I've posted this before somewhere else. My parents were extraordinarily conservative. Dad was a big band jazz fan and mom listened to Wagnerian opera. Therefore, they thought Billy Joel was the anti-christ when I first listened to the "Piano Man" LP (Okay. I'm that old). They were quite mortified when I started listening to Styx and Fleetwood Mac. Yes. I realize this is Geritol compared to now and even then, but it made a statement !!! By high school I started listening to jazz and my paernts were not quite so shocked. However, I must admit my dad got a little more "hip" in his old age. He is really into the Santana "SUpernatural" CD and now likes Norah Jones.

My mom hates Stevie Nicks or Fleetwood Mac (thankfully my step-dad does) or Shania Twain, she says that Stevie is too nasal (which is true but its a cool nasal sound) and Shania is to common sounding...isn't that a good thing though?

My mum hates Oasis which made it even funnier to turn it up loudly! Dad hates anything that has semi/naked people in it/too many piercings/tattoos etc - he doesn't like much modern stuff!

Anything my mom considers "hollering and screaming" drives her up the wall. My dad was the same way. But mom is warming up to the Beatles so that's a good sign!