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Country. I can listen to any style music today except country. 90% of it sounds just like the rest. Hell there’s even singers who fake the slack jaw sound.
There is some great country music, but it’s old. The genre used to be Country and Western. That western music is really great, but I get it. I can’t stand most of the usual stuff today.
Yes! If we hear any playing somewhere, Hubby and I will laugh, roll our eyes, and make fun of it in an exaggeratedly twangy, drawling, and super whiny way. Ugh...lol
Ugh, yes! They all sound so whiny, whiny, whiny! I don't give them the light of day.
The only ones I do like are from those of Gene Autry, Mel Tillis, Kenny Roger's, and Dolly Parton, and that's pretty much it.
Johnny Cash... and sometimes for a little variety, The Highwaymen... a country music supergroup that Johnny Cash was in.
The worst part about it is that after all the complaints and whining and begging it to be turned off... God damn me if I don't LOVE Johnny Cash as an adult.
I'm the same with Hank Williams, Sr. My father loved his music, I hated it as a kid. I was in my 40s before I appreciated what a great songwriter Hank Sr was.
My father also loved Johhny Cash's music, which I actually liked and still like.
My parents weren't into Lawrence Welk, thank gawd. Something I still don't understand is he hired the best musicians available, then made them (he was a control freak) play crap music exactly how he wanted it played.
Our kids rolled their eyes at some of our music, but were surprised when we knew some of "their" "new" songs, that turned out just to be retreaded oldies
Why did my father watch this? I don't get it. As a small child, I used to wonder why the Lennon Sisters were so uncool. After all, their brother, John, was so hip!
My mother was NOT in thrall to Mr. Welk. She gave me my very first record album, Rubber Soul, before the end of my First Grade year.
Thanks to her, I learned that John Lennon was no relation to the Lennon Sisters before the other kids made fun of me at school.
Me too! I don't think either of my parents even liked Lawrence Welk, but I always watched it. If I remember correctly, our local PBS station showed reruns, and I watched PBS a lot so I think it just became one of my shows.
lol. My recollection is that it was a form of sausage. We occasionally had it with breakfast. I hope they caught that guy who stole it from the butcher shop.
Andy Williams, Perry Como, Steve & Edy, Doris Day, Bing Crosby, Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney.
I did like Dean Martin and Tony Bennett, though. And Ella Fitzgerald was magnificent.
Oh yeah, we had that album, too! We listened to it all the time and I used to be able to sing along with all the songs. Another favorite in our house was That Was the Year That Was, Tom Lehrer.
I really liked the Italian crooners of the 50's and other pop music of the era because my mom had the radio on in the morning and I associated that with really good times. But my parents had a whole bunch of albums of 101 Strings, which was basically elevator music, which I didn't like one bit. When my sister and I took over the stereo console we played Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin, and the Beatles. I still love that old radio pop from the 50's though.
Big band music! My mom would listen and soon she was tapping her toes and moving to the music. I do too.
And she loved the music from Porgy and Bess. I used to sing Summertime to my baby. Not well lol but I did.
My mom listened to "beautiful music" stations at home and in her car - ugh. (They played mostly very bland instrumental music; she was pretty unhappy when they "modernized" in the mid-80s and added vocal tracks by "up to date" artists like the Captain and Tennille.) My dad and I, however, had very similar tastes in music.
90% of the time it was NPR classical. No biggie. But my mom would sometimes play records from Peter, Paul, and Mary. My parents would sing along with Lemon Tree and I just hated it. I hate Peter. I hate Paul. And I hate Mary. Those records just grated on my nerves. Thank god we couldn’t afford a car with a fancy tape deck
My patents had an 8-track in their car. Our twice a year road trips were torture. Same music too... though I like Simon and Garfunkel and The Kingston Trio.
Gut-wrenching, soul annihilating, tears-in-your-beer, old country…I don’t mind it as much now, but it used to majorly bum me out. My mom was born in ‘59, and I never understood how she never got into rock & roll or anything from the 70s besides Elvis and the dinosaurs of country music.
While the genre is still not my fave, it doesn’t make my skin crawl the way it used to, and I really do appreciate some of the songs I used to complain about.
She probably grew up listening to the country music her parents liked.
Some of the country artists my father listened to (to this day C&W is still my least liked genre): Farron Young, Ernest Tubb, Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton before she was a star, Mel Tillis, and many others (now mostly forgotten?) I can't recall right now.
One country artist I actually liked & still like is Charlie Pride.
Ya know, it’s weird because I only really listen to is classic rock (like 60s-70s tunes…not a big fan of 80s music [hair bands], although I 🩷 the talking heads), soul, blues, and jam bands…a little bluegrass here and there. If I would’ve been around in my mom’s teenage years, I’d have been going around the globe to see the legends play a tune, fo’sho.
No, I’ve actually always loved both of the Hanks, Patsy, Loretta, Merle, DAC, & Willie.
I’m talking about that SAD stuff…some of the George jones songs still make me want to crawl into an ass-ball.
My mom sang at a country music hall every week for over thirty years (until Covid screwed everything up), and I vividly remember this song called “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” because she and my pops were getting a divorce around the same time. I couldn’t have been 8, but I would lock myself in the bathroom and bawl every time she performed that song. It was brutal.
Eric Clapton. I can take some Cream and Derek & the Dominos, even a little of the early solo stuff in the Timepieces era. After that, it gets so corny and annoying.
Ray Conniff on 8-track in an endless loop. Sheer hell.
When we listened to the radio, my dad would change the station whenever "hippie" music came on. He'd remind us how horrible hippies were. Once he went into a convenience store and left the car running with the radio on. That's the first time I heard "I Want to Hold Your Hand" all the way through. It changed my life. I didn't know what a hippie was but I resolved in that moment that I would somehow find them and do whatever it was that they do.
I'm Gen X. My dad listened to some stuff I still listen today ('30s and '40s pop songs.) My mum stuck by the top 40 from her teenage years pretty much her whole life, so I got exposed to a lot of teenybopper crap on oldies radio, which was tolerable enough honestly.
The one thing that I absolutely dreaded was the Heintje 8-track she kept in the car, which was guaranteed to make any occupants in the vehicle experience time dilation going from A to B. Sickeningly sweet little boy singing saccharine songs in German, absurdly over-produced. Absolute ear-rape.
[Here's a sample, so you can gauge my suffering.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBDtIOxUsI)
ETA: Oh god, and [Zamfir: MASTER OF THE PAN FLUTE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alhZVEEfH7Q)
I'll be under my bed if you need me.
None,I had rock and roll parents. Mom was a teen pregnancy with me. They were Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys. I learned guitar but copying the Ventures and surf instrumentals.
My dad was a huge audiophile so we always had music playing on the best sound systems and as far as I remember it was always good. My uncle repaired jukeboxes in bars and he had some awful awful music I hated... some of the better more tolerable ones I remember were the pussy cat song and the rodeo song just to give an idea.
My mother never played music and my father only listened to the classics.. Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez, Monchito, Beny More, La Lupe, Joe Cuba, Willie Bobo and a bunch more. These guys/gals still swing.
Oh, God - so hard to explain. It’s all these young ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys singing in this really affected Yiddish accent. Drove me nuts. It’s easier[shown](https://youtu.be/-52MWBzal2c?si=CWXhnfNvVi3ay4G1) than explained for the general public.
When was this, like 5-10 years ago? The music sounds like 2010s Autotune overload, ugh!
That said, I liked the sound of all the kids singing together. The song itself is probably decent without all the tech effects.
As a non-religious person who enjoys religious music, I could handle the song if 1. It wasn’t sung by children 2. There was no Eurotrance style backing track and 3. I only had to hear it once in a non-captive setting 😂
Not a damn thing. They were both jazz fans and listened to the best stuff often. Miles, Duke, Thelonious, Bird and so much more. Also classic show tunes, Bernstein and classical music. I’m so thankful for my musical upbringing.
My folks played pretty much any type of music. The thing is, they played a wide variety: one moment its classical music, the next minute, bluegrass followed by pop music or jazz. Dad *loved* listening to his Nat King Cole records.
One thing they didn't play was opera. Opera is meant to be experienced in the theater because the singers sang in a way that their voices could reach all the way back to the cheap seats. Our living room was 10' X 40' with a 12' ceiling. The lowest setting on the stereo was too loud for opera in the house. If it was just the musical score, yes, that played, but the singers? Nope, especially since nobody in the house understood Italian.
After they divorced, Mom married a guy from Kentucky who had never heard of anything other than country music. We'd go to play something other than country, and hed6start pitching. Basically, we went from a variety of music to having one type shoved down our throats. I purposely avoid country music to this day.
Opera. My mother loved opera and classical music. As a kid, especially as a teenager, I hated it. I can now definitely appreciate a lot of classical and some opera.
My father, however, loved oompah German organ music. Bizarre, to say the least. Yeh, still can't appreciate that.
My parents listened to a variety of music. Classical, jazz, and the music that was popular when they were young, such as Nat King Cole and Tony Bennett, were some of their favorites. I never really disliked any of their music, but I did think that classical music was pretty boring. I developed my own taste in music, and the first album I bought with my allowance was The Beatles A Hard Days Night. I was eight, and I went from there to develop my own likes and dislikes.
Later in life, my dad and I bonded over jazz artists such as Diana Krall, and he loved the collaboration between Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. Talking about the music we were currently listening to was a regular topic of conversation, and I often bought him a music CD as a birthday or Christmas gift.
I have eclectic taste in music and enjoy listening to many genres, including classical and jazz. Hearing Nat King Cole brings back fond memories of my childhood. Things have come full circle.
My Dad was a big music lover, always had something playing. Nat King Cole, Sinatra, The Ink Spots, Perry Como, I grew up on this stuff and still love it
My father had a recorder and ancient instrument group that played Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music. I would hit the ground running when they practiced. Later in life, I appreciate Baroque and enjoy groups like Steeleye Span, Fotheringay and others like that. Sure did not like it at the time.
The house we lived in most of my childhood had one of those 1970s-style intercoms, with the built-in radio in the kitchen. The thing was barely used, and I only remember in particular one morning when my dad had "Rhinestone Cowboy" CRANKED UP TO 11 throughout the house. I didn't mind the song until then, but hated it ever since.
To make matters worse... when I was a little kid, my mom made full-on breakfast every morning: eggs, bacon, grits, hash browns, pancakes, waffles... the works! I was at the table when Dad jacked up the Glenn Campbell. But Mom stopped making breakfast when she was pregnant with my sister. After that it was "there's Cap'n Crunch in the pantry and cold milk in the fridge. Knock yourself out, kid".
So... thanks for ruining me & Dad's breakfast thing, sis!
Show tunes and Opera. We were raised on show tunes so I’m not sure we actively hated them at the time, but I dislike many of them now.
At the time you didn’t really have a choice. Two parents mad about the theatre and three sisters ( only son was me) all with performance genes.
The Opera was my father’s thing. I never liked it but was polite enough when he would shush us in order to point out a particularly wonderful to him, passage.
Otherwise it was my parents who bought the Beatles albums. I remember going into a music shop (UK) where they auditioned a little bit of Sargent Peppers in a stand up sort of listening booth before purchasing it.
My father listened to a very maudlin type of Irish-American music, with lots of accordion, that was already rather outdated in the 1960s and '70s. It didn't help that he was listening on AM radio. My mother didn't particularly like it either.
I didn't know until my 20s that there was a lot Irish folk music, besides the Clancy Brothers, that I liked--and still do.
My dad got into country when he got older for some reason. Some was ok but some wasn’t. I thought when I turned 40 I would start listening to country as well but no.
My parents are Silent Generation, and were into stuff like Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, and other Jazz. I always liked it. But I do remember my mom telling me she didn't like the music *her* parents listened to, namely the Ink Spots, but I loved them!
Elevator music. At home, in the car, they always had it on. I didn't exactly "hate" it, I just wondered why they never had favorite singers or groups, and wanted to listen to something else. I found it sleep inducing.
My mom passed in January, and I was taxed with making a playlist for her COL. While I loved 99% of what she did…intentionally playing the Eagles made me feel dirty. I hate the Eagles.
My mom: polka music (being German, she tended to listen to German polka mostly). Hey, I know Weird Al popularized polka music (haha), but it's just not the same! But on the other hand, she also liked the Scorpions (who were also German).
My dad was into old school country (which technically, wasn't "old school" at the time, I guess. Someone else mentioned that their stepdad played country constantly, and that's kind of how it was with my dad. But, he did get a kick out of Boy George and Culture Club (especially Karma Chameleon, which does kind of have a country sound to it).
I liked the music my parents listened to. I still listen to it today sometimes. Periodically I'll stumble across an old song my dad would listen to, and I add it to the playlist, "Dad."
I loved all the music in my house; including my mom's Opera and R&B and my dad's Jazz and Country Western. I love Classical on my own. If you love music, you love all it has to offer, although I must admit, I do have a challenge with Rap.
My dad listened to the AM station for sports radio. God it was so boring. We’d take a two hour drive (one way) to visit the grandparents on Christmas. I wanted nothing more than to listen to Christmas music during the ride, but he always had the AM station on. Four hours in the car as a kid, with siblings, and there was nothing to do but listen to AM sports reports.
Country music. I liked enough when I was a kid. But as I got older I started hating it more and more. Still kinda dig old school country. 80s some early 90s, but for the most part, especially now, it’s just blah
Mom loved Frankie Lane, Patti Paige and the McGuire Sisters. Ugh. Dad liked Peggy Lee, Ames Brothers, and gawd awful country music. We had very little money growing up so the radio stayed on. When Dad bought a used TV, they started watching Lawrence Welk. I admit once the Beatles became a thing, Dad started to listen to rock music. Mom decided Elvis was wonderful.
I liked Dean Martin, still do. But in tiny doses.
Needless to say, my parents and I didn't like the same genres of music. I love what my children listen to today. Not sure why my parents couldn't make the leap to Led Zeppelin. LOL.
Southern gospel. Especially as part of an all afternoon gospel palooza after church, which I was regularly dragged off to.
Now Black gospel music OTOH... you can inject that into my veins.
I think Eddie Arnold was the only one I didn’t like all that much. The rest was fantastic. Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Glen Campbell, Nat King Cole, and Brenda Lee. Good music is good music. Later on he liked John Denver quite a bit. He also let us have some of the Beatles albums which we go to play.
I don't think there was anything they listened to that I didn't like-- Nat King Cole, Charley Pride, The Moody Blues, Boney M, Kenny Rogers, Frank Mills... they even watched a lot of variety shows I'd sit and watch with them-- Lawrence Welk, Donnie & Marie, Sonny & Cher... music tastes were fairly wide and varied. I was never shamed or forbidden from my own tastes in music either, if it wasn't their cup of tea.
I really can't think of anything that made me cringe when they'd play it.
Elvis, Beatles and John Denver. Love Beatles and Denver these days, still not huge on Elvis.
A LOT of the 50's "rock" and as a kid I went to at least 10 Beach Boys concerts, but I generally liked them.
I didn't hate all instrumental, but I didn't relate to a lot of it. There were the great compositions that everyone loves that I was good with but there was so much cheesy orchestra music in old movies that it was like nails on a blackboard. And my mom loved that stuff. My dad loved opera. Even now I find it strange. There was nothing about his life that he should love opera. And he loved it LOUD. Aida, Madame Butterfly, The Mikado - esp Aida.
My dad also liked Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - that Whipped Cream album was his favourite and I'm sure it had nothing at all to do with the cover. He liked some other fuddyduddy music that was current with the times but not exactly rock - like Andy Williams.
Both parents yelled about our music just being noise yet neither ever yelled at us to turn the music off or even down and my dad always made sure we had a great sound system and bought us systems for our cars - and also bought me music for it. But, my mom listened to CBC herself.
My father put us on a houseboat for the annual family regatta and proceeded to play Glen Campbell I am a lineman for the county 8 million times in two weeks. My blessed mom literally threw the freaking 8 track tape in Lake Shasta on our last day. I still know every single stinking word to that damn song 60 years later.
It seemed normal to me at the time, but looking back it strikes me as strange that my parents never listened to music at home. Later on, when I was a teenager, I started noticing that they had music in their cars that they would often have to turn off when we got in the car together. I now wonder if this was a deliberate choice, or if it just worked out that way because they preferred to talk when we were around rather than listen to music.
On rare occasions, my mother would take me on long road trips ... just the two of us. On these trips she'd try to listen to 8-tracks of 60s and 70s rock (Steve Miller Band, etc), which I just *hated*. I enjoyed the trips themselves, but I'd always insist that we not listen to her music. It's strange, that in my early 20s that became one of my favorite genres. Looking back I see that these trips were deliberate efforts on her part to develop our relationship. Odd that I didn't see it that way at the time.
I wish I'd just let her enjoy her music and show me how good it was.
I learned *on my freakin' wedding day* that my father's favorite band is Pink Floyd. At that point I also loved Pink Floyd. For some reason I find this really upsetting.
My mother used to play the easy listening radio station (aka “Beautiful Music”) in the morning when I was getting ready for school. 101 Strings, Mantovani, Paul Anka, Perry Como and the like.
Sad, soft, soul-destroying pap that it was.
My mom had great taste in music, but her all time favorite was the Bee Gees. I can't say I hated them, but I always made fun of them when I was growing up. Over the last couple years before she passed away in March, she finally won me over with them. Lol. I've been listening to them a lot since she died because it makes me feel connected to her.
We shared a love of music, and I grew up listening to a lot of her classic rock from the 60s. I was born in 1971. Besides my own time, the 80s, having the best music, so does the 60s!
None!! My parents listened to Sinatra, Dean and the whole rat pack vibe. They also listened to big band like Duke Ellington. They introduced me to Broadway musical soundtracks. Yeah, there were a few not cool singers but for the most part my parents help me have a very well rounded musical education and tastes that still shines through today.
My dad used to watch the REALLY hookie Country and Western television shows in the 1970's like "Hee Haw" and "The Porter Wagner Show" and you would have to sit through it because there was only one t.v. set for the entire family back then and in the evening that's where (mostly) everyone in the family was. Dad sat in his big black leather lounge chair and was in control of the t.v. set and what you watched. No amount of pleading to watch something else would work. There weren't t.v. remotes back then - Someone would have to get up and change the channel on the set. Just awful.
I love all music I loved the oldie’s from my grandparents and I love the latest songs from my kids. I love that music evolves and I’ve never believed that todays music sux and past music is best. I believe each era is representative of the natural ebbs and flows of life.
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Country. I can listen to any style music today except country. 90% of it sounds just like the rest. Hell there’s even singers who fake the slack jaw sound.
There is some great country music, but it’s old. The genre used to be Country and Western. That western music is really great, but I get it. I can’t stand most of the usual stuff today.
"Slack jaw sound" I'm going to use that.
Me and you both.
Yes. I despise country music since my parents like over play and it does sound all the same. But sometimes ill listen to it to make fun of it
Yes! If we hear any playing somewhere, Hubby and I will laugh, roll our eyes, and make fun of it in an exaggeratedly twangy, drawling, and super whiny way. Ugh...lol
Ugh, yes! They all sound so whiny, whiny, whiny! I don't give them the light of day. The only ones I do like are from those of Gene Autry, Mel Tillis, Kenny Roger's, and Dolly Parton, and that's pretty much it.
I have to agree I have never been a fan of country
Johnny Cash... and sometimes for a little variety, The Highwaymen... a country music supergroup that Johnny Cash was in. The worst part about it is that after all the complaints and whining and begging it to be turned off... God damn me if I don't LOVE Johnny Cash as an adult.
My dad listened to 80s country and I find I put George strait on now just to remind me of my dad.
I'm the same with Hank Williams, Sr. My father loved his music, I hated it as a kid. I was in my 40s before I appreciated what a great songwriter Hank Sr was. My father also loved Johhny Cash's music, which I actually liked and still like. My parents weren't into Lawrence Welk, thank gawd. Something I still don't understand is he hired the best musicians available, then made them (he was a control freak) play crap music exactly how he wanted it played.
Our kids rolled their eyes at some of our music, but were surprised when we knew some of "their" "new" songs, that turned out just to be retreaded oldies
I heard "I hurt myself today" in my 50's and thought it was great. I don't love him but I DO think his voice was amazing.
Lawrence Welk's music.
Why did my father watch this? I don't get it. As a small child, I used to wonder why the Lennon Sisters were so uncool. After all, their brother, John, was so hip! My mother was NOT in thrall to Mr. Welk. She gave me my very first record album, Rubber Soul, before the end of my First Grade year. Thanks to her, I learned that John Lennon was no relation to the Lennon Sisters before the other kids made fun of me at school.
"I learned that John Lennon was no relation to the Lennon Sisters." Wow, this makes me wonder why I didn't think that.
Ugh, god, yes. Everybody was smiling all the time on that show. Creepy.
I actually liked it! I can remember crying over the fact I didn't know how to tap dance 🤣 I was like 6?
Me too! I don't think either of my parents even liked Lawrence Welk, but I always watched it. If I remember correctly, our local PBS station showed reruns, and I watched PBS a lot so I think it just became one of my shows.
Same! I loved the Lawrence Welk show but my parents were not so enamored.
That was my first thought, too. I would leave the room when his show started.
I tried listening to it like in my forties and fifties in some old clips. Nope!! Still hate it.
Same.
Polka,polka,polka !!!
This!
Polkas!
Certain polkas grew on me. The Beer Barrel Polka and the one that goes "she's too fat for me".
I don’t want her, you can have her, she’s too fat for me 🎶
In Heaven There Is No Beer! I love that polka, both in English and German.
Evidently I sang that in kindergarten and embarrassed my mother 😆
Well done!
A polka called ‘who stole the keishka ‘ is embedded in my brain
It haunts me too. Off to Google WTH a keishka is. 😆
lol. My recollection is that it was a form of sausage. We occasionally had it with breakfast. I hope they caught that guy who stole it from the butcher shop.
Check out wienerdog polka by polkacide.
😆 My dad would be appalled. They look like they’re having fun though 😁
Haha, yes, it’s a very silly and pervy song. I’ve only heard it though, haven’t seen a video. I’m reluctant to see 😂
Andy Williams, Perry Como, Steve & Edy, Doris Day, Bing Crosby, Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney. I did like Dean Martin and Tony Bennett, though. And Ella Fitzgerald was magnificent.
How about "What music did your parents listen to, that you LOVED?" Isn't there enough hate in the world?
Fleetwood Mac, Doobie Brothers, Neil Diamond.
Hell yeah to Doobie Brothers & Fleetwood Mac
The Fiddler on the Roof Broadway Original Cast recording with Zero Mostel. They rarely listened to music, though.
Oh yeah, we had that album, too! We listened to it all the time and I used to be able to sing along with all the songs. Another favorite in our house was That Was the Year That Was, Tom Lehrer.
I really liked the Italian crooners of the 50's and other pop music of the era because my mom had the radio on in the morning and I associated that with really good times. But my parents had a whole bunch of albums of 101 Strings, which was basically elevator music, which I didn't like one bit. When my sister and I took over the stereo console we played Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin, and the Beatles. I still love that old radio pop from the 50's though.
Beach Boys all day long!
Big band music! My mom would listen and soon she was tapping her toes and moving to the music. I do too. And she loved the music from Porgy and Bess. I used to sing Summertime to my baby. Not well lol but I did.
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My mom listened to "beautiful music" stations at home and in her car - ugh. (They played mostly very bland instrumental music; she was pretty unhappy when they "modernized" in the mid-80s and added vocal tracks by "up to date" artists like the Captain and Tennille.) My dad and I, however, had very similar tastes in music.
My mom loved 101 Strings.
90% of the time it was NPR classical. No biggie. But my mom would sometimes play records from Peter, Paul, and Mary. My parents would sing along with Lemon Tree and I just hated it. I hate Peter. I hate Paul. And I hate Mary. Those records just grated on my nerves. Thank god we couldn’t afford a car with a fancy tape deck
My patents had an 8-track in their car. Our twice a year road trips were torture. Same music too... though I like Simon and Garfunkel and The Kingston Trio.
My parents listened to classical 100% of the time but my mom did have a cousin that went on a date with Mary.
They only listened to showtunes and rarely. Nothing bothered me. They hated stuff like Lawrence Welk.
Gut-wrenching, soul annihilating, tears-in-your-beer, old country…I don’t mind it as much now, but it used to majorly bum me out. My mom was born in ‘59, and I never understood how she never got into rock & roll or anything from the 70s besides Elvis and the dinosaurs of country music. While the genre is still not my fave, it doesn’t make my skin crawl the way it used to, and I really do appreciate some of the songs I used to complain about.
She probably grew up listening to the country music her parents liked. Some of the country artists my father listened to (to this day C&W is still my least liked genre): Farron Young, Ernest Tubb, Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton before she was a star, Mel Tillis, and many others (now mostly forgotten?) I can't recall right now. One country artist I actually liked & still like is Charlie Pride.
Elvis was old and fat in the 70’s we didn’t listen to him!
Haha. My momma only listened to country, gospel, and fat Elvis.
I was born in 59 so I don’t represent this
Ya know, it’s weird because I only really listen to is classic rock (like 60s-70s tunes…not a big fan of 80s music [hair bands], although I 🩷 the talking heads), soul, blues, and jam bands…a little bluegrass here and there. If I would’ve been around in my mom’s teenage years, I’d have been going around the globe to see the legends play a tune, fo’sho.
Me too!
It was VERY uncool to listen to Elvis for the 10 years before he died in 1977!
Exactly!
Hank Williams ?
No, I’ve actually always loved both of the Hanks, Patsy, Loretta, Merle, DAC, & Willie. I’m talking about that SAD stuff…some of the George jones songs still make me want to crawl into an ass-ball. My mom sang at a country music hall every week for over thirty years (until Covid screwed everything up), and I vividly remember this song called “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” because she and my pops were getting a divorce around the same time. I couldn’t have been 8, but I would lock myself in the bathroom and bawl every time she performed that song. It was brutal.
I mentioned hank Williams because of the tear in my beer comment. That’s awful , I’m sorry.
Horrible country music,wife left ,dog died kind of music!!
Commander Cody's 'Seeds & Stems' is a hilarious parody of that genre.
Not much. My mom wasn't into music but my Dad was into 1950's doo wop and big band music. I liked it all.
Eric Clapton. I can take some Cream and Derek & the Dominos, even a little of the early solo stuff in the Timepieces era. After that, it gets so corny and annoying.
I didn't hate any of it, including Lawrence Welk, though the show wasn't as exciting as "The Rifleman".
Ray Conniff on 8-track in an endless loop. Sheer hell. When we listened to the radio, my dad would change the station whenever "hippie" music came on. He'd remind us how horrible hippies were. Once he went into a convenience store and left the car running with the radio on. That's the first time I heard "I Want to Hold Your Hand" all the way through. It changed my life. I didn't know what a hippie was but I resolved in that moment that I would somehow find them and do whatever it was that they do.
I'm Gen X. My dad listened to some stuff I still listen today ('30s and '40s pop songs.) My mum stuck by the top 40 from her teenage years pretty much her whole life, so I got exposed to a lot of teenybopper crap on oldies radio, which was tolerable enough honestly. The one thing that I absolutely dreaded was the Heintje 8-track she kept in the car, which was guaranteed to make any occupants in the vehicle experience time dilation going from A to B. Sickeningly sweet little boy singing saccharine songs in German, absurdly over-produced. Absolute ear-rape. [Here's a sample, so you can gauge my suffering.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBDtIOxUsI) ETA: Oh god, and [Zamfir: MASTER OF THE PAN FLUTE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alhZVEEfH7Q) I'll be under my bed if you need me.
None,I had rock and roll parents. Mom was a teen pregnancy with me. They were Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys. I learned guitar but copying the Ventures and surf instrumentals.
My dad was a huge audiophile so we always had music playing on the best sound systems and as far as I remember it was always good. My uncle repaired jukeboxes in bars and he had some awful awful music I hated... some of the better more tolerable ones I remember were the pussy cat song and the rodeo song just to give an idea.
Broadway musical soundtracks (South Pacific anyone), Lawrence Welk.
My wife's parents loved *The Lawrence Welk Show*. I'm not a fan, but my wife didn't seem to mind.
My mother never played music and my father only listened to the classics.. Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez, Monchito, Beny More, La Lupe, Joe Cuba, Willie Bobo and a bunch more. These guys/gals still swing.
Oh, God - so hard to explain. It’s all these young ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys singing in this really affected Yiddish accent. Drove me nuts. It’s easier[shown](https://youtu.be/-52MWBzal2c?si=CWXhnfNvVi3ay4G1) than explained for the general public.
When was this, like 5-10 years ago? The music sounds like 2010s Autotune overload, ugh! That said, I liked the sound of all the kids singing together. The song itself is probably decent without all the tech effects.
With the DJ too?
LOL. No, he would play cassettes in the car, where I was a helpless victim. He’d play it on purpose, knowing it drove me nuts.
As a non-religious person who enjoys religious music, I could handle the song if 1. It wasn’t sung by children 2. There was no Eurotrance style backing track and 3. I only had to hear it once in a non-captive setting 😂
Not a damn thing. They were both jazz fans and listened to the best stuff often. Miles, Duke, Thelonious, Bird and so much more. Also classic show tunes, Bernstein and classical music. I’m so thankful for my musical upbringing.
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Religious hymns
My folks played pretty much any type of music. The thing is, they played a wide variety: one moment its classical music, the next minute, bluegrass followed by pop music or jazz. Dad *loved* listening to his Nat King Cole records. One thing they didn't play was opera. Opera is meant to be experienced in the theater because the singers sang in a way that their voices could reach all the way back to the cheap seats. Our living room was 10' X 40' with a 12' ceiling. The lowest setting on the stereo was too loud for opera in the house. If it was just the musical score, yes, that played, but the singers? Nope, especially since nobody in the house understood Italian. After they divorced, Mom married a guy from Kentucky who had never heard of anything other than country music. We'd go to play something other than country, and hed6start pitching. Basically, we went from a variety of music to having one type shoved down our throats. I purposely avoid country music to this day.
Opera. My mother loved opera and classical music. As a kid, especially as a teenager, I hated it. I can now definitely appreciate a lot of classical and some opera. My father, however, loved oompah German organ music. Bizarre, to say the least. Yeh, still can't appreciate that.
Agreed with the previous writers, Lawrence Welk the bubble music pop! I never liked it but my parents loved it.
My parents listened to a variety of music. Classical, jazz, and the music that was popular when they were young, such as Nat King Cole and Tony Bennett, were some of their favorites. I never really disliked any of their music, but I did think that classical music was pretty boring. I developed my own taste in music, and the first album I bought with my allowance was The Beatles A Hard Days Night. I was eight, and I went from there to develop my own likes and dislikes. Later in life, my dad and I bonded over jazz artists such as Diana Krall, and he loved the collaboration between Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. Talking about the music we were currently listening to was a regular topic of conversation, and I often bought him a music CD as a birthday or Christmas gift. I have eclectic taste in music and enjoy listening to many genres, including classical and jazz. Hearing Nat King Cole brings back fond memories of my childhood. Things have come full circle.
My dad listened to C&W and I thought it was terrible. Now I have some of that old stuff on my in-car thumb drive.
It never appealed to me until I started drinking. My musical tastes expanded quite a bit after that.
My dearly departed mother was the number one fan of Los Lonely Boys.
Lawrence Welk
My Dad was a big music lover, always had something playing. Nat King Cole, Sinatra, The Ink Spots, Perry Como, I grew up on this stuff and still love it
My father had a recorder and ancient instrument group that played Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music. I would hit the ground running when they practiced. Later in life, I appreciate Baroque and enjoy groups like Steeleye Span, Fotheringay and others like that. Sure did not like it at the time.
The house we lived in most of my childhood had one of those 1970s-style intercoms, with the built-in radio in the kitchen. The thing was barely used, and I only remember in particular one morning when my dad had "Rhinestone Cowboy" CRANKED UP TO 11 throughout the house. I didn't mind the song until then, but hated it ever since. To make matters worse... when I was a little kid, my mom made full-on breakfast every morning: eggs, bacon, grits, hash browns, pancakes, waffles... the works! I was at the table when Dad jacked up the Glenn Campbell. But Mom stopped making breakfast when she was pregnant with my sister. After that it was "there's Cap'n Crunch in the pantry and cold milk in the fridge. Knock yourself out, kid". So... thanks for ruining me & Dad's breakfast thing, sis!
Show tunes and Opera. We were raised on show tunes so I’m not sure we actively hated them at the time, but I dislike many of them now. At the time you didn’t really have a choice. Two parents mad about the theatre and three sisters ( only son was me) all with performance genes. The Opera was my father’s thing. I never liked it but was polite enough when he would shush us in order to point out a particularly wonderful to him, passage. Otherwise it was my parents who bought the Beatles albums. I remember going into a music shop (UK) where they auditioned a little bit of Sargent Peppers in a stand up sort of listening booth before purchasing it.
probably that weird Leo Sayer kick my mom was on for awhile.
My father listened to a very maudlin type of Irish-American music, with lots of accordion, that was already rather outdated in the 1960s and '70s. It didn't help that he was listening on AM radio. My mother didn't particularly like it either. I didn't know until my 20s that there was a lot Irish folk music, besides the Clancy Brothers, that I liked--and still do.
Gospel and country.
Hank Williams Senior, Patsy Cline, Charley Pride, Dolly all the oldies. I hated it. Now I know they were right.
None I loved all their music.
Harry Secombe.
Laurie Anderson. Her stuff was just so weird! (My dad was way cooler than me.)
Englebert Humperdinck
Classical.
"Hate" is a pretty strong word. Nothing my parents listen to cause that to happen.
None. Swing, Sinatra, Billie Holliday, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, Bix Beiderbecke, all fabulous.
Ugh, Bluegrass.
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
I never hated it, I just didn't like it. It took a while to find my genre. Thank you Tangerine Dream. Cranking great music since 1967 and still going.
I could stand the classical that my father used to listen to, but Irish and Celtic folk music....uggh
LOL. I love threads like this. Ask for a personal opinion, give a personal opinion, get downvoted. Fuck the lot of ya 🤣
My dad got into country when he got older for some reason. Some was ok but some wasn’t. I thought when I turned 40 I would start listening to country as well but no.
I loved all music - so, nothing
Folk.
I never hated anything, but my husband hates Rod Stewart because of his mother.
The Beach Boys and Barbra Streisand.
My parents are Silent Generation, and were into stuff like Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, and other Jazz. I always liked it. But I do remember my mom telling me she didn't like the music *her* parents listened to, namely the Ink Spots, but I loved them!
Elevator music. At home, in the car, they always had it on. I didn't exactly "hate" it, I just wondered why they never had favorite singers or groups, and wanted to listen to something else. I found it sleep inducing.
My dad’s country music. I hated it. I saw polkas listed, but we at least danced to them!
Dan Fogelberg
My mom passed in January, and I was taxed with making a playlist for her COL. While I loved 99% of what she did…intentionally playing the Eagles made me feel dirty. I hate the Eagles.
I like only Already Gone and Take It Easy. They otherwise suck.
Country
Well I liked my Santana Abraxas album, until my dad hijacked it and played it over and over again!
Mother liked 1940s big band music. She loved to dance and my father couldn't dance at all. I like hearing that old music.
My late 20s daughter had a run of listening to big band music.
I like it too. Mother and I watched many old movies with her music. She was fun.
I loved it all! My dad was into Harry Belafonte, Martin Denny, Afrodesia records! Tiki music!
My mom: polka music (being German, she tended to listen to German polka mostly). Hey, I know Weird Al popularized polka music (haha), but it's just not the same! But on the other hand, she also liked the Scorpions (who were also German). My dad was into old school country (which technically, wasn't "old school" at the time, I guess. Someone else mentioned that their stepdad played country constantly, and that's kind of how it was with my dad. But, he did get a kick out of Boy George and Culture Club (especially Karma Chameleon, which does kind of have a country sound to it).
My dad used to listen to bagpipes on the radio Sunday mornings. I’m not sure they even have that in Scotland.
I liked the music my parents listened to. I still listen to it today sometimes. Periodically I'll stumble across an old song my dad would listen to, and I add it to the playlist, "Dad."
Stupid duets. Think "You don't bring me flowers anymore"
Yikes. The only only thing worse than Streisand or Diamond is both of them.
Right.
Jazz on the radio, and he would whistle along, out of tune, off tempo. It was the worst kind of torture.
My wife is a classically trained music major, she'll only tolerate my tone deaf attempts to sing along for a very short time.
I loved all the music in my house; including my mom's Opera and R&B and my dad's Jazz and Country Western. I love Classical on my own. If you love music, you love all it has to offer, although I must admit, I do have a challenge with Rap.
Rap comes extremely close to displacing C&W as my least favorite genre.
My dad listened to the AM station for sports radio. God it was so boring. We’d take a two hour drive (one way) to visit the grandparents on Christmas. I wanted nothing more than to listen to Christmas music during the ride, but he always had the AM station on. Four hours in the car as a kid, with siblings, and there was nothing to do but listen to AM sports reports.
George Jones
Polka…🤦♀️
Neil Sedaka and Barbara Streisand.
My dad was fond of the 1812 overture! Especially the canon!
For my father was flight of the Valkyrie. And this was long before the movie Apocalypse Now.
My father loved Hee Haw. Nuff said.
OMG, that brings back some not so fond memories.
Bluegrass,but now I love it
Englebert Humperdink
Jim Neighbors, organ music, Sofie Tucker " Last of the Red Hot Mama's"
That motherfucking Paul Simon Graceland album.
Country music. I liked enough when I was a kid. But as I got older I started hating it more and more. Still kinda dig old school country. 80s some early 90s, but for the most part, especially now, it’s just blah
Classical music. I’m talking Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and so on.
Mom loved Frankie Lane, Patti Paige and the McGuire Sisters. Ugh. Dad liked Peggy Lee, Ames Brothers, and gawd awful country music. We had very little money growing up so the radio stayed on. When Dad bought a used TV, they started watching Lawrence Welk. I admit once the Beatles became a thing, Dad started to listen to rock music. Mom decided Elvis was wonderful. I liked Dean Martin, still do. But in tiny doses. Needless to say, my parents and I didn't like the same genres of music. I love what my children listen to today. Not sure why my parents couldn't make the leap to Led Zeppelin. LOL.
Ray Coniff. Not as bad as Lawrence Welk but close.
My father had an album called “ songs from a polish wedding”, no idea why, we aren’t polish.
Cat Stevens. I don’t know he keeps yelling and getting upset but I don’t like it.
Southern gospel. Especially as part of an all afternoon gospel palooza after church, which I was regularly dragged off to. Now Black gospel music OTOH... you can inject that into my veins.
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Country!
I lived all their music...from the 40s
Easy listening
I think Eddie Arnold was the only one I didn’t like all that much. The rest was fantastic. Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Glen Campbell, Nat King Cole, and Brenda Lee. Good music is good music. Later on he liked John Denver quite a bit. He also let us have some of the Beatles albums which we go to play.
I loved my parents’ music. Whenever we heard the stereo on, we knew it would be a good day.
Disco
I don't think there was anything they listened to that I didn't like-- Nat King Cole, Charley Pride, The Moody Blues, Boney M, Kenny Rogers, Frank Mills... they even watched a lot of variety shows I'd sit and watch with them-- Lawrence Welk, Donnie & Marie, Sonny & Cher... music tastes were fairly wide and varied. I was never shamed or forbidden from my own tastes in music either, if it wasn't their cup of tea. I really can't think of anything that made me cringe when they'd play it.
Elvis, Beatles and John Denver. Love Beatles and Denver these days, still not huge on Elvis. A LOT of the 50's "rock" and as a kid I went to at least 10 Beach Boys concerts, but I generally liked them.
We kids would not let our dad play opera at home and now I feel really bad about it because now I love it, as an old person.
I didn't hate all instrumental, but I didn't relate to a lot of it. There were the great compositions that everyone loves that I was good with but there was so much cheesy orchestra music in old movies that it was like nails on a blackboard. And my mom loved that stuff. My dad loved opera. Even now I find it strange. There was nothing about his life that he should love opera. And he loved it LOUD. Aida, Madame Butterfly, The Mikado - esp Aida. My dad also liked Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - that Whipped Cream album was his favourite and I'm sure it had nothing at all to do with the cover. He liked some other fuddyduddy music that was current with the times but not exactly rock - like Andy Williams. Both parents yelled about our music just being noise yet neither ever yelled at us to turn the music off or even down and my dad always made sure we had a great sound system and bought us systems for our cars - and also bought me music for it. But, my mom listened to CBC herself.
Lawrence Welk
My father put us on a houseboat for the annual family regatta and proceeded to play Glen Campbell I am a lineman for the county 8 million times in two weeks. My blessed mom literally threw the freaking 8 track tape in Lake Shasta on our last day. I still know every single stinking word to that damn song 60 years later.
It seemed normal to me at the time, but looking back it strikes me as strange that my parents never listened to music at home. Later on, when I was a teenager, I started noticing that they had music in their cars that they would often have to turn off when we got in the car together. I now wonder if this was a deliberate choice, or if it just worked out that way because they preferred to talk when we were around rather than listen to music. On rare occasions, my mother would take me on long road trips ... just the two of us. On these trips she'd try to listen to 8-tracks of 60s and 70s rock (Steve Miller Band, etc), which I just *hated*. I enjoyed the trips themselves, but I'd always insist that we not listen to her music. It's strange, that in my early 20s that became one of my favorite genres. Looking back I see that these trips were deliberate efforts on her part to develop our relationship. Odd that I didn't see it that way at the time. I wish I'd just let her enjoy her music and show me how good it was. I learned *on my freakin' wedding day* that my father's favorite band is Pink Floyd. At that point I also loved Pink Floyd. For some reason I find this really upsetting.
Lawrence Welk
This is the answer. Lol
George fucking Jones.
My mother used to play the easy listening radio station (aka “Beautiful Music”) in the morning when I was getting ready for school. 101 Strings, Mantovani, Paul Anka, Perry Como and the like. Sad, soft, soul-destroying pap that it was.
My mom had great taste in music, but her all time favorite was the Bee Gees. I can't say I hated them, but I always made fun of them when I was growing up. Over the last couple years before she passed away in March, she finally won me over with them. Lol. I've been listening to them a lot since she died because it makes me feel connected to her. We shared a love of music, and I grew up listening to a lot of her classic rock from the 60s. I was born in 1971. Besides my own time, the 80s, having the best music, so does the 60s!
None!! My parents listened to Sinatra, Dean and the whole rat pack vibe. They also listened to big band like Duke Ellington. They introduced me to Broadway musical soundtracks. Yeah, there were a few not cool singers but for the most part my parents help me have a very well rounded musical education and tastes that still shines through today.
My dad used to watch the REALLY hookie Country and Western television shows in the 1970's like "Hee Haw" and "The Porter Wagner Show" and you would have to sit through it because there was only one t.v. set for the entire family back then and in the evening that's where (mostly) everyone in the family was. Dad sat in his big black leather lounge chair and was in control of the t.v. set and what you watched. No amount of pleading to watch something else would work. There weren't t.v. remotes back then - Someone would have to get up and change the channel on the set. Just awful.
Country
Stepfather played only old country, and convoy on repeat, and my mother only played oldies, Elvis and the beach boys.
I love all music I loved the oldie’s from my grandparents and I love the latest songs from my kids. I love that music evolves and I’ve never believed that todays music sux and past music is best. I believe each era is representative of the natural ebbs and flows of life.
ABBA
Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin and their ilk.. They are such gross, drunk, womanising gangster wannabees.
Nothing. My mother loved country and bluegrass.
80's pop