what music did you find drove your parents particularly insane?

[mopaul]

for me it was cream and frank zappa. oh lord how my parents hated all that. and one poster i had on my wall of zappa and the mothers dressed in women's clothing drove him to rip it down and burn it when i was at work.

[unsavedtrash]

1. Sex Pistols and Judas Priest

:headbang:

[mopaul]

2. oh lord! turn that awful noise down!

anarchy

[unsavedtrash]

3. I spent some of my blurriest years in the 1980s

:smoke:

[Maestro]

4. 80's style glam and hair metal

[bowens43]

5. Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix and the Doors

[vi5]

6. Pretty much the entire concept of me listening to punk rock...

From age 12 until about 15 I was into Metal and strangely enough my parents had no problem with that. My dad took me to Iron Maiden and Dio concerts and actually enjoyed them quite a bit. But when I started drifting to punk my mom in particular had issues with that. She said it was "too negative" and cynical. Duh.

For like a decade after I started listening to punk (which I still do) she would still tell people and refer to my music as heavy metal.

And my dad taking me to see the Ramones was the final nail in the coffin of him taking me to see shows. He couldn't fathom how I could go from liking the music I did which had spectacle, showmanship, and musicianship, to liking 4 guys standing on stage and playing 3 chords and standing perfectly still for 25 minutes.

[demnan]

7. My brother had a Fugs record!

Now those were the good old days!

[SCDem]

8. One song "I wear my sun glasses at night"

My mom absolutely hated that song. She said it was the same words over and over. I think we played it so often just to make her more pissed off. Shameful youth ;)

[Burma Jones]

9. Zappa - Fillmore East

So Rude. Such great Guitar work.

[MrSandman]

10. Skynyrd

[indy_azcat]

11. fugazi, metalica, and

They Might Be Giants - you could tell they were thinking :wtf:

:headbang: :headbang: :yourock: :headbang: :headbang:

[JimmyJazz]

12. The Clash! My mom especially freaked out when I would tell her

I thought they were "hot" :D

She's still in therapy, btw. :o

[Aiptasia]

13. Alvin and the chipmonks at 78 speed

on my kick ass mickey mouse portable turntable. I don't think my parents have been exactly sane since 1974.

[chickenscratching]

14. my parents were especially pissed off with operation ivy

and the murder city devils

[Magrittes Pipe]

17. As well they should have been.

Op Ivy sucks.


Then again, I don't like the neo-ska.

[chickenscratching]

18. hrm

musically they're not that great. but lyrically, i thought they were ok. regardless, i would hesitate to call them neo-ska.

[Magrittes Pipe]

19. I try to avoid hesitation.

It gets in the way of my trademark Sturm und Drang.

[graywarrior]

15. Dylan.

"Who's killing the cat?" my dad would yell up the stairs. He also hated Zappa & Led Zepplin. But Dylan was the most agonizing for my dad.

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Motley Crue, Van Halen, Bon Jovi. Not for Mom. She was cool

with metal, but dad not so much. *g*

[Mike Daniels]

20. Mostly art rock (Yes, Supertramp, Genesis) and post-Romantic era classical

There were some bands/composers from both genres they grew to like but mostly is was "turn that off" or "what the hell is this?"

[ElsewheresDaughter]

21. Rolling Stones

[woo me with science]

22. Julie Andrews

I went through a phase of obsession with musicals. One day Dad burst into my room screaming, "Make it stop! Will you please play some g*d d*mned rock and roll!"

[noonwitch]

23. Foghat and Van Halen (the Diamond Dave version)

My brother had the Foghat album and she despised it. He also shook the house once with Van Halen 2 on his new stereo.

Mom also hates all heavy metal, and has a particular disliking to GNR. Ironically, my 89 year old grandmother likes "November Rain", even if she thinks the band that sings it is "tattoed and scary-looking".

My mom took us to see the Cars in concert at Pine Knob circa 1980. She spent the whole time covering her ears with her hands.

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. Philip Glass! How my mother hated it!

She hated most everything I listened to, but she had a true visceral reaction of hate to Philip Glass.

My dad didn't like my music either, but one day I was listening to Billy the Mountain and he thought it was pretty funny. He really laughed at the "you better get down there for your fucking physical" part.

[youspeakmylanguage]

25. Metallica, Slayer, Sepultura...

I had a troubled (and very loud) adolescence. Now that music just makes my teeth hurt.

[Patiod]

26. Jimmy Buffett of all people

I played "Coconut Telegraph" constantly when it first came out, and they objected to the lyrics from "The Weather is Here, I Wish you Were Beautiful"

Besides she bitches about the mosquitoes
She says "Down there there is nothing to do"
Her goddamn phone never stops ringing
He'll try the service in a day maybe two

They were furious to hear both "goddamn" and "bitches" in their house -- thank God I didn't grow up in the era of Gangsta Rap! They're still appalled at the use of any "curse word"; my SO's most cherished fantasy is to tie them up and make them watch "Deadwood" for 3 hours

[H2O Man]

27. The Ballad of John and Yoko

was mighty unpopular with my parents. Even John Kay singing about "the Pusher" didn't get the reaction of The Ballad of John and Yoko.

[flamingyouth]

28. Dead Kennedys.

They were really offended by the name and didn't exactly love the music.