Using this as a start: what are your favorite examples of unconscious/unforced dad-or-mom shade about your musical tastes? Just something said immediately or off the cuff. Spill all your secrets!
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Mad Bastard
I want to say, when I was a kid, shortly after we got cable, we were watching MTV (obviously back when they actually played music videos) and something by Aerosmith was playing.
My father, walking through the room said, "Is that Mick Jagger? No, wait, not ugly enough. Can't be him."
My father, walking through the room said, "Is that Mick Jagger? No, wait, not ugly enough. Can't be him."
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He liked Soundgarden and Green Day, but not Nirvana.
I'm grateful to this day, he saved me from myself.
like... I was listening to Nurse With Wound on speakers for months before that
I think the offending article was “vicarious existance is a fucking waste of time”.
i was so dismayed i went to my room and wrote a poem
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Rain Or Shine
Irvine Meadows - June 16, 1984
My mom saw it and was convinced it was a misprint. “I don’t get it, is the name of the band Rain Or Shine?”
Then we were in the car with one of their friends, “Heavy Metal Drummer” came on the radio, and the friend says, “Cool! I love Wilco!”
They managed to tolerate The Fall's Totally Wired without telling me it was just noise, so not sure what it was about Damon Albarn.
Well, she ended up being right.
My mum used to refer to Barry Manilow as Manly Barrimow, which probably inspired that.
There are too many instances to list it was just a constant background thing.
- my mother's standard comment about any pop song with a chorus hook. (My parents weren't into music)
(I love Philip Glass.)
So far we have, perhaps surprisingly, made peace with Poets of the Fall, Saint Motel, and SOME electro swing
When he quit drinking he briefly fell in with a born again crowd, and tried to convince me Metallica was the devil's music.
Dad: "Yeah, who are you going to see?"
Me: "The Smiths."
A few seconds of silence...
Dad: "That stupid cunt with the bush sticking out his arse?"
The track that sent him over the edge was “My Perfect Cousin.”
One day she asked me, with sincere interest, "Dad, why do you like this goblin music so much?"
I mean, she's kind of not wrong, but still...
https://acousticguitar.com/the-circle-unbroken-50-years-of-the-nitty-gritty-dirt-band/#comments
“No. I bought it for Dylan,” I lied.
We don't share music tastes.
we didn't talk about music much
WHAT.
They broadly suggested Smashing Pumpkins weren't so great, which, well...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lFIkik2I_Pc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMbny_Q7m5s&list=OLAK5uy_lhVt31c3HOX-91WDkDgrvs3x5EC51MkWk
There weren't many opportunities to impress silent generation grandparents with Gen X music... And I couldn't bring myself to try to listen to Squirrel Nut Zippers, which might have had a chance...
I had complete freedom to play anything, and I did. Sometimes I went waaay out of his musical comfort zone but he always tuned in, week after week, which was appreciated.
My dad (who was, bless him, usually ok about my music tastes): 'Hey, didn't they just play this bit?'
My uncle won her back with Boris the Spider
I'm cackling breathlessly!!!!
that’s how I found out he was obsessed with exotica records in his early 20s and saw Yma Sumac in concert twice
me: "uhh … Yma Sumac?"
him: "that's her!"
apparently she came to Gainesville, FL, a couple of times in the early '60s … who knew?
"exactly dad exactly"
Expert level troll
"back in the day, when I was a teenager /
before I had status and before I had a pager /
You could find the abstract listening to hip hop /
pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop"
i know i don't. image dragons? i don't think i will...
She's moved on to Taylor and John Coltrane, which is a weird mix but I'll take it.
No context necessary.🙄
🤷♂️ I think that's why my music taste is so out there now, I never listened to them.
'That's a German band called Kraftwerk.'
'Crap work?'
*sighs*
That’s just too on the nose.
My Dad
Once said
The Doors is just
Smashmouth
With drugs
After about the 10th repetition, he turns to me and goes, "What's this song called?"
I kinda get that.
'how much money have you made out of it ?'.
“Cream? More like cream puffs!”
She also said that Stephin Merritt's mother must have not loved him.
If she had said that about the bangin' Cylob mix, I would've fought back harder. 😂
"There" being the giant cabinet of alphabetically ordered CDs that I spent the next 10 years misplacing.
He had no musical taste whatsoever. 😁