Your parents' music

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I am a parent and I share my kid's taste in music.. My husband doesn't though, so it's always a fight for him when he gets in the car with us.
 
My dad is a trumpet player. So I grew up listening to the greats. Armstrong, Davis, Dizzy...

Listening to jazz and learning to appreciate its complexities allowed me to venture off to other genres of music and learn to hear it's appeal. It allowed me to be open minded about all genres.
 
My parents are medical scientists and have no interest in music/ the arts whatsoever; they rarely listen to music and have no idea what I'm talking about when I try to explain an album/band to them to get them to try and listen to! So they definitely didn't have any bearing on my musical tastes growing up. My siblings are also extremely un-musical. In fact I'm pretty sure I'm adopted :laughing:

Most of my musical influence came from my piano teacher I had as a child, and then subsequently from my frienRAB/ own tastes. And music forums!
 
my dad still listens to the old stuff- roger miller, willie nelson,hank thompson, and conway twitty. good stuff

my mom listens to tejano- mazz,jay perez, and emilio navaira. great to dance to
 
My mom listens to a lot classical music, probably because she grew-up playing piano. She says she likes the blues, but I'm not so into the blues yet so I don't know who she listens to. She's likes soul music, apparently. She was dancing to soul compilation I had and she knew who Redding was. Also she's into pop songs, I know this from her Backstreet Boys phase. I know she hates anything that sounRAB like The Velvet Underground (drone, distortion, realism in lyrics). I don't know her tastes that well and frankly I'm afraid to ask. Last time I asked she went on a rant about Barbra Streisand!
 
both of my parents enjoy Bachata and Merengue(look them up), and they used to play it ALL THE TIME when i was younger. back then i hated it, but now i enjoy it and i'm trying to cop some of their CRAB for my computer, haha.

other than that, my mom mostly enjoys soft rock and older soul and r&b, which fostered my love for the genres as we used to listen to them on the radio on long car rides. my dad sticks mainly to Bachata and Merengue, but also listens to spanish singers who are accompanied by full banRAB, orchestras, and the like and sing operatic stuff.

as for my music, my parents like it sometimes, they even like my band :yeah:, but they're not into the heavy stuff. i'll usually put the headphones on when they're around.
 
I think I'm into the acoustic music I'm into because of my dad. The other day I thought, hey I'll introduce him to some Nick Drake, because I thought he wouldn't of known him, but as I put it on he was like "oh yeah, I knew of him before he died." I flipped out in a good way, haha.

Some of my earliest memories are of him playing 'Father and Son' by Cat Stevens to me on his acoustic guitar, which is an absolutely great song by the way, and a totally kick ass thing for a dad to sing to his son. He really likes Jackson Browne and all that classic stuff, really into the singer songwriter movement. My dad was in a ****ton of banRAB in the 80s in the local music scene, and he told me my first favorite song was actually 'Jeremy' by Peal Jam, and I used to call it 'Spoken'.

Around my middle school age my mom got me into classic rock because she bought that two disc Led Zeppelin DVD. Before that I was in a Linkin Park phase but that snapped me out of it like a slap in the face. I was like 'who is that guy with the violin bow on his guitar!!!! zomggg'

When I was little my mom would play the 'Jagged Little Pill' album by Alanis Morissete. I listened to it again recently and I've forgotten how great the lyrics are. Like a female Leonard Cohen or something.

That led(haha get it? high five!) into The Beatles and I was obsessed with them for a while, which my parents loved.

Our musical tastes diverged though, as soon as I bought that first Velvet Underground disc. Then I started telling them I'd rather not listen to Rush, I'd rather listen to other stuff, and when I put that in, their ears hurt. Then I found out about this site and the Pitchfork lists, and well, the rest is sort of history for my musical tastes.
 
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