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Here are a couple of classics from my old man - he liked a bit of Frank and Glen Miller and Scottish Marching band compilations but that was about it:
On the Human League - 'They have a good beat but the singing is rubbish and the words don't make sense.'
On Eric Clapton - 'When is he going to stop singing about his baby? I'm sick of it.'
On The Beatles - 'They were good to start with but when they got onto drugs they went rubbish'
On Dire Straits - 'He 's (Mark Knoplfer) on drugs. They are all on drugs'
What are your reminiscences?
One hot summer day my Mother had guests and says "John go upstairs and play some of the music you usually have on"
My father just thought it was all noise but he liked Nancy Whisky Frieght Train
My Dad used to say 'They all wear big boots & shout'
I moved back with my folks for a few weeks in 2000. I played quite a bit of my music when I was there, and shortly after leaving my mum bought both Leftfield albums - apparently she still loves them - aged 70 next month!
No such luck with me and it continues to this day. ALL the stuff I played was disliked and the sequenced electronic stuff (TeeDee Phaedra onwards) really freaked my mother out. Dad was stuck in Victorian times and had a very narrow view of his world sadly. These days, madame also dislikes almost all I listen to so headphones downstairs, or scuttling upstairs to play my "rubbish" is how i manage. Thank gawd I have two half decent vintage stereo's to enjoy :)
Beechwoods
28-09-2012, 20:58
I remember playing 'Phorward' by The Shamen when I was about 16. It has a repeated lyric going 'Can you pass the acid test...? Can you pass the acid test...?' And my dad said 'Is that all about taking drugs? Don't let your friends hear it because they might not be as understanding as we are'. :lol:
In parts though, my dad's got good taste. He was the one that got me into a lot of the stuff I like now. He had 3 records I played to death: Dark Side Of The Moon, the CBS compilation 'Together' from 1971 and Vertigo's 'Suck It And See' also from 1971. So I was familiar with Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, Soft Machine, Trees, Gentle Giant, Black Sabbath, Kraftwerk, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Atlantis, from a very early age... :whistle:
I once had some BMW 601s on pillar stands and my mother came around and asked me to switch them on because she thought they were some new lamps.
What are your reminiscences?
I only really have one Martin . . . . 'bang bang bang (on the ceiling) . . turn that bloody noise down'
My parents hated my music, all of it. They were never really into music, so I'm not quite sure where my interest came from? The only thing they ever played was 'Swinging Safari' on the Dansette.
Beechwoods
28-09-2012, 21:20
My parents hated my music, all of it. They were never really into music, so I'm not quite sure where my interest came from? The only thing they ever played was 'Swinging Safari' on the Dansette.
My dad had that one as well. I did say his taste was only good in parts! He still has it too, though he sold his turntable a few years ago, a lovely Garrard 301. I wish he'd given it to me, but at the time I wasn't into turntables, just open reel, and I knew he could get £700 for it... and did...
The Grand Wazoo
28-09-2012, 23:07
I've two abiding memories:
Coming home from an Alice Cooper gig in 1983(ish) and walking through the door to find my dad trying not to vomit because there's a BBC2 arts programme on the TV with Alice doing '7 And 7 Is'.
He turns to me and says, in all seriousness: "I feel sorry for you"
I'm in my bedroom doing my maths homework. The CBS records double compilation album 'Fill Your Head With Rock' is on the Garrard SP25 - it's 'Tired of Waiting' by The Flock. My Dad sticks his head round the door and asks if I'm doing OK with my quadratic equations. I say I need a little help with a particular problem. He comes in the door & sits down beside me just as The Flock fades out & this track begins:
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After the lyrics of the chant (at 1'46" on this YT clip) begin to sink in, my old man, a devout Catholic gives me the most withering look I've ever seen in my life, stands up & wobbles downstairs.
I got a 'B-' for my homework!
WOStantonCS100
28-09-2012, 23:09
I'm the apple that didn't fall far from the tree. My dad is the one responsible for getting me into classical, opera, jazz, fusion, funk, folk, classic rock, etc. He is the one who called me into the family room to watch my first Ozzy video. Couple that with my mom's doo wop, r&b and pop and there's not that much left. Perhaps, electronica? But, at the root of it, there's nothing I'm into that they weren't; even bluegrass by way of Chet Atkins and other amazing pickers/guitar players. I'm exceedingly blessed.
The Grand Wazoo
28-09-2012, 23:26
I like to think we've been different with our daughter - she has an extraordinary wide taste in music ranging from Black Sabbath to Bartok & everything in between, plays cello seriously as well as guitar and piano.
However, I realised that there was something wrong one day when she was practising on her strat & both Mrs Wazoo & myself spontaneously and simultaneously yelled up the stairs, "Turn it up!"
Rare Bird
28-09-2012, 23:47
The free NME Flexi Disc of ELP's ''Brain Salad Surgery'' set me orf. I'm almost certain it was from an edition of 'International Musician' mag but i maybe wrang.
The free NME Flexi Disc of ELP's ''Brain Salad Surgery'' set me orf. I'm almost certain it was from an edition of 'International Musician' mag but i maybe wrang.
I think I have mentioned this before, but you still got that flexi fella?
My dad and mum have a pretty varied taste in music. I hold my hands up to say dad influenced me in relation to a good proportion of my current taste in music.
I remember one genre he has never got on with though is Rap or as he likes to describe it, 'missing a C off of the front'.
The good thing is that both of my parents encouraged my interest in music to the point mum once said that I used to dance around in her belly (prior to birth, before anyone says) to no other than Thin Lizzy whilst they had parties with family and friends. Once I was born she would put me in my cot a few doors down (we lived in a bungalow) from where they were playing music at high levels and I would be sound asleep.
The only regret is that I never learnt to play a musical instrument. I had the opportunity to learn to play the keyboard to the point my parents bought me one but I didn't and probably still don't have the attention span required.
Thing Fish
23-07-2013, 00:20
As I mentioned in another post, my Mum once asked me why I always bought so many new albums? as she said - 'don't you have enough music yet'...:lol:
Firebottle
23-07-2013, 06:23
One overriding memory I have of a comment made by my mother when listening to Soft Machine 4:
'it sounds like they are just tuning up like an orchestra before a concert'
:cool:Alan
Gordon Steadman
23-07-2013, 07:09
My parents had a proper radiogram that sat in the 'best room', got polished every sunday and hardly ever got used. They did force me to have piano lessons but 'one did'!!
I was introduced to records by my sister who bought me Up the lazy river by Bobby Darin and the Help LP.
The only comment I remember was by my mother when she heard me listening to 'you've got to hide your love away' by the Beatles. "that's the trouble with people nowadays, no-one is prepared to honour relationships and take the rough with the smooth. I don't know what the world is coming to" or words to that effect.
I can't remember it having a huge affect on me but I do still remember it, so something must have sunk in:lol:
As I mentioned in another post, my Mum once asked me why I always bought so many new albums? as she said - 'don't you have enough music yet'...:lol:
This made me laugh Dave. My mum makes similar comments even now. She recently came over for dinner with my dad and I said something to him about making more room for record storage and her response was 'but surely you have enough records now?!!' :lol:
As for the OP, my dad, who is very much a Big Band Jazz/Swing type music lover would regularly enter my room when I was younger and make a comment along the lines of 'what on earth is this racket?!!' :)
One overriding memory I have of a comment made by my mother when listening to Soft Machine 4:
'it sounds like they are just tuning up like an orchestra before a concert'
:cool:Alan
LOL!! She kind of has a point though, doesn't she?!!
how my parents grew up in the times they did and came out with tastes consisting of
Johnny Matthis
Richard Clayderman
James Last
is beyond me, their idea of a concert is the "Magic of the Musicals"
yet another area we have nothing in common, I swear I was adopted
yet another area we have nothing in common, I swear I was adopted
:lol:
electric beach
23-07-2013, 16:31
I subjected my parents to Alice Cooper. Loud. Such reassuring lyrics as "I love the dead" and "dead babies" must have had them worried but they tolerated it with little comment actually. I remember the bedroom door flying open during the album "Killer" and her stating " that might be getting "Under your Wheels" but it's getting On my Nerves. Enough!
Then the School's Out album was released - and she confiscated the paper panties that served as the inner sleeve!
Personally I thought that would have been seen as a step in the right direction :scratch:
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