Music that drove your parents mad

Winny_Pooh

Other side of the coin here. What did you play that annoyed the crap out of them?

My dad is a big music fan so I never had much grief and he made a point of not complaining about my tastes but there were some things that it was obvious were not popular:

Tori Amos - I went through a 5 year phase with her stuff, blasting it in the car's player and at home All The Time. It was even less welcome on the later albums LOL so I was asked more than once to turn it down. 

NIN - the downward spiral & live / Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals - understandably this just came across as ugly noise to dad who was a Zep fan, fair enough. Mom's criticism was less polite hahaha, it was definitely not as friendly as the Rocky Horrow Show soundtrack.

boogieman

Surely it's a parents' job to hate their children's musical taste?  

My dad basically detested every record I owned, but he had a special hatred for King Crimson. I remember him trying to help me set up my first proper stereo: I didn't want his help and played USA over and over again just to annoy him. 

My mum didn't mind Led Zep but didn't like much else I owned. 

rolls1392

My mother (witch) hated everything rock in the 70's.
She reckoned it yobbo music.
Only liked music by dead people ie.classical

Ravenous

I wasn't a big fan, but my Brother played Adam and the Ants a lot in the early '80s.

Drove my old man crazy. "Prince Charming" and songs like that.  He really hated it...!

MagicPigDetective

I remember my mother studying a Slayer CD cover and lyrics, worried it would turn me into a satanist! 

Dominic

My father thought anything other than Bing Crosby was " a terrible loud noise....not music " and Val Doonican was a bit too modern !
My Grandmother found me watching my hero on TV when I was aged 10 -Mr Roy Wood in Wizard complete with hair,beard and Make-up.
She ran from the room screaming " He's watching some kind of Wild Man on television "to my mother.

boogieman

Dominic said:

My father thought anything other than Bing Crosby was " a terrible loud noise....not music " and Val Doonican was a bit too modern !
My Grandmother found me watching my hero on TV when I was aged 10 -Mr Roy Wood in Wizard complete with hair,beard and Make-up.
She ran from the room screaming " He's watching some kind of Wild Man on television "to my mother.

Lol, sounds familiar.  I remember my mum moaning about that "Jimi Henrix fella" (sic)  being "the Wild Man of Borneo" and the Rolling Stones being "dirty scruffy yobbos". They were still in their smart early 60s phase at the time. 

mike_l

Dad used to hate anything I'd listen too (Ie Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Guns'n'roses etc) and wold ask me to "turn it down" everytime I put it on. I had the same thing when playing/practising guitar as "it's not a proper instrument".

He's come round now, actively encourages my guitar playing and has said about Queensryche "Who's that, they're quite good"

Funkfingers

Winny_Pooh said:

My dad is a big music fan so I never had much grief and he made a point of not complaining about my tastes but there were some things that it was obvious were not popular.

Same here, pretty much.

My first exposure to a wide variety of music was from my father's record collection. He used the Critics' Choice 200 Top Albums (compiled by Paul Gambaccini) book as the basis for making purchase decisions. Even today, we still concur on a good deal of things.

The divergence probably started when I got into Discipline-era King Crimson. I was trying to figure out how to make Adrian Belew stunt guitar noises. Playing sections of specific songs over and over. If fact, the more I studied it, the more I tried to take it apart, the more I broke it down, it remained consistent. It can't have been much fun to overhear it.

Dominic

boogieman said:

Dominic said:

My father thought anything other than Bing Crosby was " a terrible loud noise....not music " and Val Doonican was a bit too modern !
My Grandmother found me watching my hero on TV when I was aged 10 -Mr Roy Wood in Wizard complete with hair,beard and Make-up.
She ran from the room screaming " He's watching some kind of Wild Man on television "to my mother.

Lol, sounds familiar.  I remember my mum moaning about that "Jimi Henrix fella" (sic)  being "the Wild Man of Borneo" and the Rolling Stones being "dirty scruffy yobbos". They were still in their smart early 60s phase at the time. 

My mum was always going on about "the wild man of Borneo " ......every time I didn't brush my hair as a kid
I think the said Borneo resident must have been some kind of cartoon figure from the 1930s /1940s
Having been to Brunei and Sarawak I was actually quite disappointed not to have made his aquaintance !

Nitefly

I seem to recall that the "Wild Man of Borneo" used to be an exhibit in a show on the promenade at Blackpool in the 40's and 50's.  

Electro_Ham

NWA: Straight Outta Compton

jamiexsilver

My mum hated pretty much anything I played, but the album that she actually banned me from listening to when she was in the house was 'Strap It On' by Helmet, she really hated that one with a passion. 

Dominic

Nitefly said:

I seem to recall that the "Wild Man of Borneo" used to be an exhibit in a show on the promenade at Blackpool in the 40's and 50's.  

Aha .......so there's the source 

joeyowen

buckethead scared the crap out of my mother

HAL9000

What did I play that my parents hated? Ah yes, my guitar.

littlegreenman

Nothing. My old Mum's taste in music pretty much knew no bounds. She would happily slip from Prokofiev to the Pistols, Kate Bush to Black Sabbath, and loved nothing more than driving along to Killing In The Name Of at full blast singing along to the chorus at the top of her lungs in traffic!

There was much musical education at our house, both ways around

axisus

My parents were never bothered by music. My sister would drive me up the wall though, she would buy a single then play it continuously all day. Aaaarrrggghhhh!!! My mum liked my Queen records, and I remember my dad liking shine on you crazy diamond. 

EricTheWeary

I don't remember anything in particular. However, for anybody who doesn't remember me telling this story before:

I had a friend called James whose family where quite posh people a bit down on their luck. They loved music and his older brother was an accomplished classical pianist who did well in the BBC Young Musician of the year competition. They used to listen to any new purchases as a family. I think James realised he was thought of by us as a bit of a posh git and was trying to fit in with the rest of us and bought a Motörhead album. So, yes,his family decided to listen to it with him. They got as far as the track Vibrator and decided that was the end of the family tradition. 

scrumhalf

My father was a violinist before I was born and hated pop/rock music.

I'll never forget his face when ELO's version of Roll Over Beethoven was on Top Of The Pops. The intro is from Beethoven's 5th. He put his nwespaper down when he heard it, only to pick it up again in disgust after the intro ened and the song started.

He had a point, ELO's version was a pile of poo.

octatonic

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and The Birthday Party made my parents think I was into heroin.