Did you used to hate your parents' music...

[sgt.null]

Yep - that's the one Sarge. Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong!



Wrong.

try this one for sheer awfulness

[peter]

Oh I dunno Sarge - Doesn't it sorta.....[gulp]....get ya there [pats chest over heart].

[michaelm]

Yep - that's the one Sarge. Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong!



Wrong.

try this one for sheer awfulness

To me the most offensive thing about that was the commercial played before the song played - it was for software that can be used to play guitar using a few keyboard notes without having to learn to play the guitar.

[michaelm]

[Does anyone remember a song called 'No-Charge' where a kid asks his mom for payment after he weeds the garden or something and then she proceeds to heap a guilt trip on him of epic and life shattering proportions. Man that song is just plain WRONG! ]

this song?

I remember that too. At the time I didn't pay any attention.

Nice sentiment, horrible execution.

[Cord Hurn]

My parents listened to Dean Martin, Trini Lopez, and Herb Alpert. I never really hated any of that, but I've never bothered to buy any albums by any of them, either.

[michaelm]

Dean Martin I like, although I often wish the sound system would break in Italian restaurants every time I heard Amore played over and over...

[StevieG]

I definitely worked my way backwards in time with my musical taste when I was growing up. My parents weren't into any of the 40s, 50s or 60s that I expected - Dad listened to Verdi, Puccini, Vivaldi, as well as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Chopin etc. Some of it was awesome (I remember particularly liking the Carmen Suite opera by Bizet, oh and Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni - Godfather eat your heart out!), but I do remember thinking most of it was boring, until later.

As far as 'modern' music goes, they weren't into that much at all. I think I started with an Aussie band, the Angels, and then went through Pink Floyd in a big way, AC/DC, the Beatles, Elvis, Queen, Eagles and then whatever my brothers would bring home. I didn't get into it in a really big way until the 90s when I kept up with most 90s releases and then went backwards through the 80s, 70s and 60s. I didn't go much further back than that. From the mid 2000s onwards, I haven't kept up with new releases that much, except for the style of music I'm looking for.

[sgt.null]

Dean Martin I like, although I often wish the sound system would break in Italian restaurants every time I heard Amore played over and over...

for you then

and of course this classic Italian ditty

[michaelm]

and of course this classic Italian ditty

Interestingly that stopped one of the biggest selling singles of that year in the UK from getting to number one. Vienna by Ultravox sat at the number 2 position for weeks while it was hopped over by some John Lennon songs after he was murdered, then by this.

Poor bastards wrote a great song that no matter how many copies it sold just could not make it to the top of the charts.

[sgt.null]

Vienna by Ultravox

[Vraith]

Vienna by Ultravox

I've always had a soft spot for them, the fairly early work. [the guy who would half a decade later become my brother-in-law was a huge fan...introduced me to them, and maybe to King Crimson, too?? ]
Don't know their 90's stuff, and think I heard they did something in the last few years, but I haven't tracked it down.

More topical...I hated most of the music my parents liked.
Eventually, I grew to like some of the stuff my dad liked [really early country, and a bit of Johnny Cash].
My mom had/has terrible taste. I think the only thing I like that she liked was some Simon and Garfunkel.

[sgt.null]

my dad watched Hee-Haw and the Lawrence Welk show.

I have come to appreciate both.