I think it's just a matter of being more selective.

At least we've got the internet now. When I was young all I had to listen to was one radio show (John Peel) if I wanted to hear new music. Otherwise it was just buy something & take the risk that it would be worth it.

Unrelated: I've just spilt ICE cold water down my back. I swear my heart stopped beating for about 5 seconds.

first to say cool idea for a thread. or at least fun to read. my dad is in heavy metal stuff mostly, but he also introduced me to bands like pink floyd, rush, black sabbath and nirvana. nirvana itself got me out of the doors/60's shit cycle to the higher stage of punk. actually it was very good for me to listen to all my dad's 80's hair metal records. i just listened what i had at home when i was kid, so i was switchin between fucking judas priest and my mom's beatles tapes. the beatles appear to have been huge influence for my mother when she was a teenager, but by far her taste in music starts and ends with kansas' dust in the wind when she is on half bottle of white wine. she asking me to play/sing this song with my crappy acoustic- it was a fucking torture!
when i started to get into so called grunge and punk rock there were these constant conflicts between me and my metalhead father. actually i became very good of a speaker back in these days, so usually he had to admit "circle jerks are a good band" or "kurt cobain can play the guitar" or "manowar is a gay gym team in furs". now i think it was all good to have listened tons of heavy metal, glamorous 70's hair rock dudes or retarded hippie stuff, people (especially older than me) are sometimes shocked I know some godforgotten metal band and shamefully lots of facts about them. also i got some taste in metal music. like, napalm death:)

^^ damn what a huge post.

MANOWAR IS a gay gym team in fur!

hahhahaha!

My mom loves Puerto Rican music, balads, salsa, and merengues. She is a huge early beatles fan. being born in 41, she got to listen to the early beatles and lost interest when they got "psychedelic". she loves The Bee Gees (the whole of the beegees, not just the saturday nigth fever stuff, she loves Neil Diamond (I bought her 12 neil diamon albums on ebay for her birthday once. she freaked out! she also loves Neil Sedaka, the Platters, Paul Anka is her fave. she wa sthe youngest of 9 kids so when she was in her early twenties she listened to her bros and sis' old records from the fifties, frankie avalon and the platters and stuff like that. I remember every saturday morning in puerto rico she would clean the house to the saturday night fever soundtrack.

my dad listened to classical music, puerto rican music, not really any rock at all.

Oh, and no matter what people say, neil diamond writes some killer hooks. ha!

my dad doesn't listen to music. ever.

my mom loves anything brazillian, especially caetano veloso, which is OK by me.

I was thinking about making my dad an SY mix tape. "It's based in swing jazz, Dad." Wonder how he'd react?

I have no problem with my parent's music at all, I actually enjoy most of it (listening to some ol' REM right now).

However, whenever my dad buys or recieves a new cd, he has a habit of playing it over and over and over and over....and over,......and ....over AGAIN until something new comes up. When he got the latest Coldplay disk, it was practically the soundtrack to his summer, played it any chance he got. It got boring fast. However, the Arcade Fire cd I got him for his birthday is the only one I don't mind him playing over again. This behaviour really bugs my mom

I hate it when someone plays just ONE SONG off of an album over and over and over again. I want to crush their foreheads

Well... I have to admit, I do the same thing. I'm obsessive over new stuff I like a lot. But I try not to bug the family about it by doing a lot of headphone listening.

My Mom got me into Miles Davis Bitches Brew era, and gave me a 1st printing of Sgt. Peppers on vinyl in perfect condition that she got as a kid.

Your mom is cool.

My dad listens to a lot of old folk rock kinda stuff, Gordon Lightfoot, Simon and Garfunkel, etc... He's into some classic rock bands from back in the day as well. He likes Zepplin, the Beatles, Cream.

Mom doesn't actively listen to much music anymore. But she used to be into pretty much anything. She's seen everyone from Cher to Prince to Madonna to Neil Diamond live.

My step dad once saw Johnny Cash live. He said it was the most boring show he's ever been to in his life.

anyone who got into sonic youth through their parents is too young.

My mom bought me my first cd ever. It was Led zeppelin

my parents like there share of shit.. bon jovi comes to mind. my mom lieks nirvana though, and sometimes in the car ill slip in Mogwai or GY!BE or something post-rocky and she'll casually ask who it is (code for "this is good") lots of stuff i slip in she doesnt like so much (pavement, AIDS Wolf..)

My mom is a big Bowie and Yes fan. Just old rock like that.

My dad is like pure motown. and Stevie Wonder. and DEAN MARTIN

my dad likes the typical rock stuff from his era: Creem, Zep, Eagles, etc. he's also a huge Grateful Dead fan (which is sort of odd seeing as i doubt he's ever done drugs once). he has some Bela Fleck albums, too. he borrowed Daydream Nation from me once, and he only liked "Total Trash".

my mom likes Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Dixie Chicks, and a bunch of other crap that i don't like.

I forgot to mention my dad's a mowtown and Yes fan (he has 2 dvds of them)

What a strange combination!

My dad was always more of a classic rock guy, he loved like CCR and stuff, and my mom, she likes all kinds of stuff, like she really likes Flaming Lips, Wilco, Sondre Lerche, and stuff like that, and she's a big Joan Armatrading (sp?) fan.

My dad likes mostly classic rock stuff and gets way too excited when he watches that documentry that followed janis joplin jimi hendrix the stones and all these other bands on a train through canada.

My mom has a sort of similar music taste, but is more into what makes her happy? So i make her listen to yo la tengo and my mbv and she's even been known to listen to some sonic youth from time to time. But whenever panty lies comes on when WM is in, she tosses the cd and probably listens to the bob dylan victorias secret promo cd in the car.

my mom loves queen , rem and patti smith, lou reed, and pink floyd % sonic youth!!!

but...

my dad loves only classical music.........................................

Mom likes Leon Redbone.
Dad likes acoustic guitar guys like Leo Kottke and Andreas Martin.
When I was growing up, they were both into the Moody Blues, Electric Prunes, Nilsson, Hendrix, Zeppelin, Joplin, etc.

My dad used to look a lot like Shawn Phillips back then. My mom was a big fan of his too, come to think of it.

Niiiice. The Electric Prunes.....I found one their 45's in a huhe stack my mom had of my aunts (my mom wouldn't listen to this) and would always play it when I was a kid. I think it was for Get Me to the World On Time and it had some song on it that said "Higher! Higher Higher!" or something....I used to think they were saying "Fire! Fire! Fire!" Either way it ruled.

That would be "Get Me To The World On Time."
Great tune.
I love that band. The Swedish Radio sessions from 1968 are incredible!

I have some great video of them doing that song on the old Smothers Brothers show.

Ok, so it was that song.....I couldn't really remember.

My mom's favorite band is Deicide.
My dad's favorite band is Petra.

I like Sonic Youth, Fugazi, My Bloody Valentine, and a bunch of other 80s and 90s "alternative" stuff, plus some recent noise/underground stuff--and all other things post 1977 that know how to rock.

My son and daughter like the Beatles, Dylan, Led Zep, and other "classic rock."

What's wrong with this picture?

Blame what the Baby Boomers did to radio.

My dad loves old jazz in the likes of Chris Barber, Charles Mingus and Dizzie Gillespie

I like my dad

gmku

that's funny! That seems to be the way these things go!

My parents came of age in the 40s....and their music was the Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman type of swing and ballroom dancing stuff. They also like the Hawaiian music of the 50s and 60s...Mitch Miller sing along, Pat Boone crooning schlock....and some of my pop/rock of the 60s. The mellower stuff....but they couldn't stand my acidy rock....The Electric Prunes are a good one my parents hated !!!! I grabbed onto all things psychedelic at an early age....and then the brain damage ensued.....

My parents did like 'goddamn the pusherman' though.....I guess it was the sentiments toward the lyrics.

Hawaiian music is awesome.
I have a lot of Hawaiian 78s; it was extremely popular in the early part of the 20th century.

Pat Boone though...yikes.

I like old Hawaii tunes too...and some of the slack-key kine bud music. Pat Boone.....yea...my parents were hip....hahahahaaaaa...

I was playing Washing Machine for my 18-yr-old son the other day. He said he sorta liked it but he thought it got too noisy and loud. "I don't think you have to make music loud for it to be good," he said. "It should be about the songs."

I couldn't say anything.

Sigh...

my brother is exactly like that. It's what the media is telling them and what they think is "cool"

mom:
various bits of sonic youth (100% and candle, mostly.)
led zeppelin
the doors
crooked rain, crooked rain
belly
the beatles
bits of the smashing pumpkins
lame top 40 crap

she pretends to/tries to be into stuff like the flaming lips and be your own pet because i am. i love my mom. she legitimately likes "pepper" by the butthole surfers, though.

dad:
big country
van halen
mostly '80s hair metal
led zeppelin

OK neil diamond..... which isnt too bad when you consider........
bad country and western
irish country and western which is absolute woeful tripe
cliff richard

but dad does like leadbelly

My mom likes country and christain rock. To of the worst genres music has ever shit out. But I put up with it.

My mom likes neil diamond, classical music, elton john, and whatever else they play on easy listening stations.

My dad likes electronica. Crystal Method, The Prodigy, etc.