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[Ent]

Did your parents ever object to any of your music choices when you were younger? Did you ever have to explain or defend any album you bought? Did your parents ever forbid you from having any albums or take them away? ---- Me: When I was a younger my parents didn't like a lot of the heavy metal music I listened to. They never told me I couldn't have it or couldn't listen to anything though.

[r.i.p.]

I was 16 and left my copy of Blood Sugar Sex Magic, my first CD ever, in the minivan player, after one of my first solo drives ever. My parents got in, fired up the Ford, and "Sir Psycho Sexy" was blaring. They were not impressed, and somewhat worried about me. I was embarrassed as hell. I think that might have been the last time I listened to that song.

[6ome 9irl]

No, amazingly.

And my family is conservative. But we have this diverging (from conservative) belief in art. If it's for art's sake, need not be censored.

[red]

The only time my parents had any objections is when it came to listening to the radio when we were all in the car. We always had to listen to the oldies.

[vurt]

My parents objected to all music that was 'secular' (i.e. not explicitly Christian). I did a lot of musical sneaking around when I was young, but it wasn't until I was well into my teenage years that I actively began getting a lot of new stuff. I can remember buying Nirvana, dubbing it into a blank tape and labeling at as some douchebag soft-metal Christian horror. Rock'n'fuckin'roll.

[Rob Gordon]

Yes.

[Meldrick Lewis]

My parents were older than most of my friends' parents, were extremely fundamentalist and thought syncopated beats came from the devil. So, yes.

[vamos]

I came home from a weeklong electronic music camp a few years ago and started blasting Lightning Bolt on my family's huge ass speakers. Braindead from all the marijuana, didn't really realize what I was doing. All my friends thought I had turned retarded, what with my newfound obsession with noise rock, and my parents told me that what I was listening to was shit.

[Culle]

Yup, when I borrowed a Marilyn Manson cd from one of my friend my mother went crazy and said something like "This cd doesn't belong in this house, he calls himself the anti-christ! It's insane! Marilyn Manson cd's are banished from this house, young man!" So I didn't listen to cd for a week, but after that when I started again she didn't care anymore.

[James D]

I remember bringing home Significant Other by Limp Bizkit and my mum saw the parental advisory sticker on the front. She insisted on listening to the whole thing. I told her she just didn't understand my style of music (lol) and she pretty much left me be.

[britkid]

various little things over the years, but i think the funniest when my mom objected to belle and fucking sebastian because of the line "she was into s&m and bible studies..." i laughed.

[richard]

I remember bringing home Significant Other by Limp Bizkit and my mum saw the parental advisory sticker on the front. She insisted on listening to the whole thing. I told her she just didn't understand my style of music (lol) and she pretty much left me be.

Wow.. Deja Vu. I remember forcing my parents into a record store in Manhattan and immediately picking up Significant Other. I had persuade my father (not an easy task) that the parental advisory sticker meant absolutely nothing serious. After about 20 minutes of bitching.. I got my way.

[wakingrufus]

My parents think 99% of the music i listen to is terrible, but the only time they ever actively tried to stop me from listening to anything was when i was in 7th-ish grade and they confiscated my sublime cassette, and later the CD version i purchased after they took the tape. my dad snapped the cd in half. the funny part is a few weeks later i saw the tape in my dads car. he said "yeah so what? i like it. its for adults, not for kids."

[6ome 9irl]

Nothing really shocks my dad musically. But when he would hear something out of his realm he'd feel compelled to ask what it was. It was more of a, "Ut oh, I might be out of touch, better get the low down," rather than, 'What is that garbage?"

[sKinnY]

i think my dad really didn't like me listening to house music much when i was in high school.

[MuteSuperstar]

I once posted that my 62-year old mom likes the song "Death Is This Communion" by High on Fire. So no on her. Dad's a John Conlee fan, FFS--though he did claim to like an MMJ song in the car a while back. But if I played High On Fire for him he might need more heart surgery. My gay uncle has taken a disturbing turn from his roots as a DJ during AOR's heyday to pretty much only listening to modern country. I've tried to get him to at least give Ryan Adams a shot, but no go. My half-sister is a regular churchgoer so she'd probably be appalled at a lot of my stuff....but I don't see her often enough for it to be an issue. Her tastes tend toward Counting Crows and other middle-management rock (not that there's always something wrong with that--I probably like "Over My Head (Cable Car) and "Drops of Jupiter" more than she does).

[avec]

Never in my family. But I did get a why do you listen to so much Dylan speech by my dad once in high school.

My best friend in grade school was forbidden to listen to metal, "satan's music" as his parents called it. Somehow he had a copy of GnR's Lies, and his mom dubbed it onto a cassette and bleeped out the swears.

Also my friends dad smashed all of his Pansy Division cd's!

[the one that cut you]

My mother confronted me about my 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off' EP one day. The lyrics were printed on the back and she'd had a read when I was at school. She was particularly not amused by 'Religious Vomit' and 'Moral Majority'. That said, she didn't make me throw them out (like my neighbor's mom did when he borrowed my copy of 'Blizzard of Oz'). She did, however, start bringing these 'rock music is the devil's work' pamphlets home from church for me. Man I wish I still had those things... they were hilarious. There were probably about 200 artists total in them, with a paragraph or two on each about their devil worshiping tendencies. One of the best was the Pat Benetar one, where the best they could come up with was, "She wears tight pants when she performs, causing the teenage boys that attend her concerts to have masturbatory fantasies". Indeed...

[red]

various little things over the years, but i think the funniest when my mom objected to belle and fucking sebastian because of the line "she was into s&m and bible studies..." i laughed.

I made a cd for my mom once and I was with her when the Jens Lekman lyrics "porn and gonorrhea.." came across her speakers. She liked the song, but if I was still a kid I'm sure her reaction would have been different.

[BGwaves]

my dad didnt like the misfits 'mommy, can i go out and kill tonight?' he didnt ban it, but urged that i not listen to it. however, a person he worked with, who he admired as a 'hip youngster' said i wasn't dysfunctional because the misfits were like a cartoon, likening them to something my dad could relate to... schlocky 50's horror movies.