Hey, what made your parents' hair stand on end?
My dad couldn't stand Joni Mitchell, he found her off key and wavering.
Now this is a music teacher and a guy who's very open but Joni Mitchell just drove him up a wall!
"Help me, I think I'm fallin...." on that last note, he'd be gritting his teeth.

And my friends' mom broke a Led Zeppelin record over her knee and pulled the old "not in my house!"

I never tried the Hendrix records on my parents, just played them in my room.

showing my age here, but lets just say my membership card number was less than 100 for the Rolling Stones Any one else remember "Come On") and if that wasn't bad enough I lost interest in them when Bob Dylan came along (and still a fan - fantastic performance at the NEC)

I listened to the blues alot when I was a kid growing up in Chicago.Mom couldn't understand what I saw in "that negro music".Then I got hooked on British blues,Mayhall Long John Baldry,Elton Dean,etc.She couldn't stand that either.
In the late 80's I was doing a tour with BB King and Bobby Blue Bland.We played in Chicago and I invited mom to the show.She came hesitatingly and in spite of herself she enjoyed the music.Time will change a persons views!

Growing up, my dad and I liked the same music. We both went to see Alice Cooper and Judas Priest once. The one band that I loved that dad hated are the Ramones. He hates punk music, I love it. He also doesn't understand how I can listen to Marilyn Manson. We do differ a bit, but for the most part, there are no arguments about what to listen to when dad visits.

IndieQueen,
I can't understand how you listen to Marilyn Manson either, but to each his/her own. I shouldn't talk because I like Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit, Metallica, etc. I grew up with KISS, Aerosmith, Nazareth and Boston in the 70's. My parents hated it all.

John Mayall is cool, my kids love him, not sure why.
It's raw, it's strong.
Funny because in France as the music world is so much smaller, the French singers are all on TV and so even older people listen to younger artists. My husband's eighty year old aunt knew about the younger artists and yet you'd never guess!
I found the Italian seniors were all really up on the modern artists from their own countries!

Our kids' hair stand on end when they hear certain nerdy songs. But they occasionally lapse as last night when I heard my son singing "until her daddy takes the T bird away"

MTSTECH1, I can't quite explain why I like his music, it gives voice to things I can't quite express the same way. When I've had a hard day I can put on Anti-Christ Superstar and unwind a bit. I don't believe or agree with every word he says, I just like loud, raw, hard music sometimes.

I told my dad once, explain Pink Floyd to me and I'll explain Manson to you. I'm not into Floyd, never have been. We both drew a blank pretty quick and let it drop.
Manson is one of many artists that I play only in my walkman and not in the car when my daughter can hear.

Now you can really have a laugh. My parents REALLY hated Billy Joel. I had the Piano Man record, my dad heard me play a song called "Captain jack" and he thought Billy Joel was the anti-christ. Of course now, they do not mind him so much but at that time, it was a big deal. They also hated me listening to Styx. All pretty innocent by today's standards.

OK ok, I've never understood the Billy Joel thing! You guys have got me confessing things here!
It's the clown stuff that I can't stand either who's the one who does the clown?

Dad cannot stand the Lemon Pledge commercial they used to have as the original song "Lemon Tree" was so beautiful and he'd go ballastic when he heard it! Harry Belafonte did it I think.

See, I would never have inflicted anything like Styx on them. I just thought Joni Mitchell wasn't that offensive.

My mum was going up to London for the day and asked me what I would like her to bring....I said a record.
She arrived home and said,
"I just chose the one I thouught was the most dreadful noise , and I bought it . I knew you would like it."
Like it? I LOVED it. What was it?
"Bee Bop a Lula "Gene Vincent.

bruyere,
Lemon Tree was done by Trini Lopez and later by Peter Paul and Mary.

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i personally don't have a problem with her, but my mom can't stand Faith Hill...she calls her a grossly over rated b****...amongst other things...

and she also had a problem with 'Cookie Cookie Cookie starts with C' when i was a child...

(that song, she says, is the reason headphones were invented )

Thanks to Bill who has confirmed that the version of the song was pretty, but do you remember the commercial with some wonder woman polishing her furniture? My dad just hated it. She looked like a Stepford wife or something.

Faith Hill, if she's the one I think she is, well without using the terms your mother used there, I have on occasion gone on a tirade about some of the younger singers who just sing about getting a zit or their boyfriend leaving them and then they lie naked on the floor? It's not the lyrics that bother me, it's the voice.
I might be thinking of Morissette! And I guess I think that they sound like they owe a great deal to Joni Mitchell and I understand my dad! Ooops this should be in the other thread, huh?

Ren I can just imagine! Gene Vincent...whoa, she had you pegged!

Cookie spelled with a C? I love the Muppets so I didn't mind. Barney was a little hard to take, but hearing the kiddo sing it "i wuv you you wuv me..." was enough to melt only the coldest heart.

My mom was pretty cool and pretty much with the times right up until we lost her a couple of years ago at the the age of 81 but cool only went so far when (wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom trutti frutti oh rutti started out on the record player all cool was gone to the bedroom with you right now bam and take the record player with you!

Faith Hill the country singer... ..i think she's got a great voice...mom not so much...

she doesn't like her, but hearing her 7 year old(wow, long time ago) singing AC/DC didn't bother her so much...

parents...don't think we'll ever understand them...

"Christian Death? Are you a satanist?" This was my mom's reaction when she saw a Christian Death cd. Not to mention "Cradle of Filth" and their videos! At least The Cure sound quite romantic, but that's because she doesn't speak English and doesn't know what "i wish you were dead" means. I guess she would prefer me to like B. Spears etc. MOM JUST FORGET IT!

My parents don't really like any of the stuff I listen to. The obvious exceptions being stuff like the Kinks and the Beatles, which were fairly easy for my parents to deal with. When we get to stuff like the Violent Femmes, Tool, Soundgarden, The Velvet Underground and the like, they tend to get a little edgy. There are some cds I will never play in my parents' presence (most of the above included!). My sister actually got blasted for having a Culture Club poster up in her room (in the 80's, obviously). But apart from that, we all try to be cool about that kind of thing....

Interesting enough, my dad likes Kenny Loggins and Mike + the Mechanics. Dan Fogelberg is a bit "depressing" for him. Styx is still a little wild for him but he said that they don't bother him that much. He and I now have a mutual love of jazz that brings us very closely together. We talk Dave Brubeck a lot.

We'd have to have a music that makes your children's hair stand on end thread but I don't know if it is warranted.
This morning I was listening to the radio and this silly Ghetto Superstar song comes on. My daughter says, "Mom, your song is on." "Oh, I can't figure out why I like that one, it's not the words!"
She can't figure out why I would like it, but it's musically an interesting piece with a little voice and a big voice. Something about it makes me laugh.

Oh, the usual. My Dad in particular has become a bit of a stick in the mud over the past 20 years and can't listen to anything vaguely House music or Techno orientated. Rap music is enough to give him an aneurysm. My Mum's a little more liberal and doesn't often object to any music unless it's just a load of old c**p, which is just as it should be don't you think?

My poor mother was the self-appointed guardian of morals for 4 daughters-my brothers she didn't seem to fret about as much. Since our ages were spread out (the oldest was grown when the youngest was born), she had a lot of fodder to sift, I guess. My oldest sister says Mama thought Elvis would be the Ruination of young girls everywhere. In my case, she could not absolutely stand Kiss. They really set her off. Maybe it was the makeup??

My one grandmother, the retired schoolteacher, used to lament the fact that my mother and my sisters didn't get a group together to sing like the Lennon sisters on Lawrence Welk.
(I actually like the big band sound and participated in several groups but the Welk show?)

I imagine she knew who Elvis was, but I'm not sure if she approved of him around the house, probably not!

Although my Mum's not into really heavy stuff we are kinda reversed in our taste. She likes rock acts and casn't see the appeal of the warbling women I like (mariah, Celine, Whitney, Toni Braxton, Faith Hill, Tina Arena etc.)I guess the music I like is more typically 'Mum's music'!!! Bruyere-you're def. not thinking of the Faith Hill... she's best described as a kind of Celine Dion of Country! I appreciate that sounds horrible to some people!
See ya! littleowl.

Sorry LittleOwl I mixed up her name with someone else...does Faith do little chapel? That's pretty. Could be Shania whom I find really warm and wonderful too.

I'll get the one I mean the next time I'm in the car.