Friends and families reactions to your taste in music
 

We've all had friends and families scoff at what we listen to, mainly because of their terrible taste. But it still makes results in lots of funnies.
So what have some of your friends had to say about certain albums/songs/artists you've been listen to?

My most noticeable ones:

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I showed a friend the joys of Loveless, not the whole album, just a few tracks.
He said 'Sometimes' was just NOISE.
And then when I showed him a couple of other tracks, he said that it was worse than a live abortion.

I then showed my nan the wonders of Straight Outta Compton (purely for the lulz):

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I don't think she's a fan of Gangsta Rap. :(

Yes, I know this is a thread that's laughing at how inferior real life people's taste in music is to our oh so elitist much superior tastes. But fuck it.

Back when I first discovered the more Avant-Garde types of music, my mom was appalled by what I was listening to:
Her reaction to Zs: Where's the music? this makes no sense!
Her reaction to Battles: Most of it is instrumental. Why do people like instrumenttal music? it's not catchy or anything
Her reaction to Kayo Dot: It's just screaming!
Her Reaction to Loveless: Where's the music? all i hear is BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

My stepfather's reaction to my music:
When I fist discovered BOC: I hate electronic music, but just as long as it's not dance
When I started listening to Aphex Twin's dancey-er tracks: Eh... Zoe, that sounds a little dancey
When I was listening to Daft Punk: TURN THAT **** OFFF!!!!!!!

My Bio Father's reaction to my taste in music: Hey, you should send me some youtube videos of that. Sounds Awesome. I'm glad that you're not an Ed Hardy Mainstreamer Douchebag!

I had a discussion with my sister and her friend about bass players and we were saying our favourites. I mentioned Jaco Pastorious and she looked him up on youtube. She replied later saying "you must smoke weed or something, that stuff is weird. That'd be good on weed."

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"I hate the singer's voice."

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Mom: "It's too fast. It's not even music."

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Brother: (thought I made the music as a joke) "Come on, nobody's gonna believe that's real."

When people call the music I like "weird" I get very annoyed. It's only "weird" because you don't know anything about it, so why flaunt your position of ignorance?

My brother and dad have almost exactly the same taste in music that I do, so no complaints there, and I share a love for Motown with my mom. When I'm home and playing RATM (which can only be listened to blaring) she immediately shuts it off though.

My GF likes your usual flavour of the day (Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, etc.). I gave up trying to get her to listen to good music almost right away. Tried to convert her to Radiohead starting with Kid A (bad decision, way too weird for her), and thought I'd have more luck with OK Computer. She told me she thought Karma Police was ok but I'm pretty sure that was just to get me to shut up. :laughing:

MBV is really a love 'em or hate 'em type deal. You might have had some luck if you played Soon though. That song is so addictive.

Weird is a good thing Conan.
My friends have a very weird reaction to my music. I think I hav got to the point that they think of my musical taste as some sort of handicap. The other day I tried to howl like a wolf at show rehearsals and a girl in the show asked "Have you heard the song Shewolf?" I then heard my frind whisper to her quickly "Don't go there, he likes unknown stuff".
Don't know how that made me feel.

I'd feel proud. I've got a little bit of a reputation with some friends of mine as having the most out there taste. Feels pretty good to me. Like I'm in on some massive secret they aren't. Snobbishness comments aside, it does take a little restraint sometimes when they obviously don't know what they're talking about in regards to genres and stuff.

I don't even try with family/friends anymore when it comes to music. Apart from my brother who I share an extremely strong friendship with mostly through music, I can't get anyone to understand it.

I think it should but they see it as a bad thing. One friend of mine recently discovered The Pixies and he refuses to discuss them with me. I think I might be an elitist.

My dad said that "Black Bubblegum" by The Dillinger Escape Plan is not music. It's funny because it's not even one of their mathcore songs, it's pretty much just a pop tune.

It's been a very long since I've had that kind of conversation with anyone but I do remember one of my college roommates telling me once when I was listening to Mr. Bungle that "Ma Meeshka Mow Skowz" was just noise.

I've never understood people who say things like that. Whether you like that particular song or not it's pretty hard to deny that "Ma Meeshka Mow Skowz" has rhythm, melody and harmony, all of the requirements for even the strictest definition of music.

Well my parents think that anything described as metal is pagan. They think Hip-hop is for idiots. They absolutely detest punk and pretty much anything that isn't Classical or Sinatra sucks.

Granted, I love Sinatra. But I don't want to listen to that 24/7 like my dad does.

That's weird that they would associate a belief in many gods with a particular style of music.

My Dad: he is a fan of my classic rock taste, he's proud that to Creedence Clearwater Revival. However, whenever he hears me play death metal, he says "The other music you listen to is much better."

Mom: When I play metal, "that music is horrible."

Some of my cousins: they mimic death metal growls in attempt to make fun of the music.

Brother: Some of my music is apparently scary.

My brother enjoys the more accessible music that I listen to, but he doesn't have a very discerning taste, so it doesn't get any deeper than that.

Eh... I have a friend named Forrest who listens to AFI and System of the Down, but when I show him strange music like Throbbing Gristle or The United States of America, he ends up loving it. He especially loves "Black Angels Death Song" from V.U. debut. My little brother hates everything I listen to. He thinks it's either pretentious or just "noisy crap." Of course, he generalizes everything like movies or art. He only listens to mainstream rap, too (which probably explains it). When I showed him "Save Me Save Me" by Xiu Xiu, he just ended up saying the guy can't sing and that it's just a bunch of bleeps(?) and random guitar noises. When he heard a "Prelude to Meditation" by John Cage he just ended up saying it's not music. He especially hates V.U. and said it was all poorly recorded.

I've been meaning to get into Mr. Bungle. Which album would you suggest?

if you don't have a bad relationship with your brother you might rub off on him eventually. Even Jackhammer's son thought his music was crap until he was 15 :)

I played Muse for my stepdad because they used to be my favorite band and they're pretty much the only band I listened to I thought he might like (classic rock-head) and he ended up saying that their songs "are all in the same mode", meaning a musical mode. This made me pretty mad cause he listens to a bunch of grunge and classic rock bands that just rely on the pentatonic scale. I don't talk to him about music anymore.

EDIT: get California first, easiest to get into.

It depends what you're into, each one is very different but all three are good. Disco Volante, the one that song is from, is the most experimental (the song in that youtube video is actually one of the most normal songs on the album). The self-titled album has more of a heavy metal circus music angle. And California is kind of a skewed take on pop (sort of along the lines of Pet Sounds but much, much weirder).

Strict classic rock fans are the worst, you can't tell them anything.

You are completely right. I used to be one, and I was the most close-minded jackass I've ever known (when it comes to music).


Yea, I'm listening to California right now. I can definitely hear a poppish feel to it.

My dad was like that. He reduced all elements of musicality down to the quality of a guitar solo.

My brother can't stand my taste in music, he likes electronic stuff (which I just don't get), he said my folk-punk sounds like aggressive talking, which was amusing and the screamo I enjoy he describes as "pathetic crying", he does like some of my folk though, so that's ok. My parents actually like my taste in music, I'm just careful about what I show them.

As for my friends, I had one high school friend who shared my taste in music and I did a lot of swaps with her, and in college I tend to be the one giving music out to other friends because they are interested in my taste, I actually get a lot of praises about my taste actually...

The only album my parents owned that wasn`t classical music was this one :



Unluckily for them, at my insistence, they were forced to sit through hours of Bob Dylan, but then suddenly one afternoon my Dad asked me about the lyrics of I Pity The Poor Immigrant. It was like he was saying, "This young American upstart with the horrible voice is actually singing something quite interesting."

It was an exceptional father/son moment that I`ll never forget.

My mom hates pretty much any of the free jazz, funk, improvisational, or jam music I listen to - she says it just sounds like they're showing off and don't even care about making "real music".

My sister thinks you have to be on drugs to listen to free form jazz.

My youngest sister (12) loves a handful of Phish songs and some of the hip-hop I listen to. She doesn't understand why I don't love Owl City and Ke$ha, though.

Most of my friends don't like to share music with me as much - they just ask me to burn them CDs of new music and never bring up anything they listen to because they assume I've already heard of it. Which is probably untrue at this point, as I've not had a chance to really listen to anything new for a few months.

Mmmm. I think my parents understand what I like about music, they just don't like sad, heavy music. I do though. I'm not really into happy music most of the time.
I guess my parents don't understand most of my music, they don't dislike it per se.

And my friends, most of my friends share at least 50% of my taste.
My ex-girlfriend shared at least 80%. Which is very, very practical :).

I had one friend get extremely angry with me when I didn't like Brand New's Daisy. That's pretty much it. They don't really care about my music other than that.

What one person said about Dylan's singing was not that it's good, but that it's very convincing and sounds truthful. Can't remember where I heard that, but I have to say that I agree with him or her.

My dad is pretty open. He has tried as long as I can remember to get me to listen to Bob Dylan, The (Early) Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, and the Beatles (he still does, except for the beatles). Knows a lot about rock music before the 90's but still likes maybe 70-80% of what's on the mix CD'S I play in the car.

My mom is pretty unknown to me. I know she at least likes Exit Music (For a Film) by Radiohead and You are Never Alone by Socalled. Might have grown a distaste of Muse.

For my friends it's pretty varied. Nothing really bad about it at all, not that I care what they like in music*.

*total lie

EDIT:
That was the same thing my dad said last year after I showed him the Teignmouth concert recording.

But then I just played KoC again later and he started to get into them. Weird.

Family:

Yeah, my dad is really open.
He LOVES Morrissey's Album "Years of Refusal." I left it in the car one day and he has favourite songs and everything. He and I used to listen to the Dave Matthews Band sometimes. He and I loved Creed when I was really young. He also took me to most of the concerts I've been to, and he loved them.
My mom hates my taste in hip hop but loves my taste in R&B. She would never come to a concert with me, but the Evanescence CD that we had around the house belonged to her, as did the Beyonce CD.
My sister and I have the same taste in pop for the most part (since my taste in pop is that of a 15 year old anyway) but she also likes some of the R&B and such that I listen to. She discovered The Script way before I did, and I really like their music now. My mom took us to a concert of theirs once, we woke up at 3am to go, it was free and in the city.
My whole family and I used to love some of the same artists/groups/bands. Evanescence, Outkast, Beyonce, etc.

My mum uses the typical "turn that **** down, it's not even music" when I listen to pretty much anything, and then she goes in her room and blasts stuff like Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Rihanna etc -_-. One band she's targeted was Yeah Yeah Yeahs, I saw them like 2 years ago and the day of the concert I pretty much listened to them all day and she came in and was like "Is this who you're going to see later?" and I was like "Mhm, they're called Yeah Yeah Yeah's. I can't wait" and she was like "More like No No No's. I could bloody wait" haha. And then I went to Glastonbury the same year and they played and she watched the TV coverage and saw their set and text me saying "That Yeah Yeah Yeahs woman is definitely on something, she's crazy, I mean I'm pretty open minded but this is terrible"

Family wise:

My mother's boyfriend play Bass and he's really into classic rock/Soul and Funk. He is very open to hearing new bands/artists that I play for him and usually wants me to make a mix cd for him every once in awhile to keep him up to date and the new artists that are up and coming with a great sound. He trusts my ears for music. He said I have a producer's ear. I usually break down the sound when talking to him about it and tell him what I would have added or taken out from the beat/instrumentation.

My mother she is more of on the side of easy listening radio station material and she also likes a few pop artists. Moody Blues and Beyonce are two of her favorites.

When it comes to my Friends, they are pretty open to new suggestions in the genres that they listen to. Since I listen to all genres pretty much I'm able to give them recs here and there and they end up liking what I have to offer. Plus they know that I used to be a great online dj and I have an ear for good music. That's the reason why my name is djchameleon, just like a chameleon I'm able to blend into my surroundings and listen to the best music in any genre.

I don't think my family knows what I listen to, with the exception of my two younger sisters. They end up listening to whatever I listen to. We're pretty close in age though, so I can't blame it all on myself.

I've definitely made the mistake of giving my dad songs I've made, which he would proceed to whore out to anything with a pulse, regardless of how I felt about the song. That shit went on for years. I eventually learned not to ever show a parent anything you create unless you're absolutely sure you're fine with it being smeared across the entire universe by people who have absolutely no idea what it actually means, and who are showing people that would never understand to begin with.

As far as friends... depending on the friend, if we have something musical in common, then that person will generally know about that part of my musical taste. Otherwise, it's not something that comes up on a regular basis. It's not like when I was a teenager and my social life was based on music I listened to.

So I guess I don't really have any answer to the original question.
I wonder why I couldn't have just typed that one sentence.
Too late now. The effort is expended.

Family:

My dad listens to radio country(Kenney Chesney, Toby Kieth, Kieth Urban, etc.) exclusively, and I basically have to hide whatever music I'm listening to most of the time, because he makes fun of me for it. Like one time he caught me listening to rap and he called me "Nigger boy" for the rest of the day.

My mom listens to mainly pop radio but doesn't really care what I listen to, and sometimes will sing along to the more accessible songs when we listen to music in the car. She said she kind of likes Arcade Fire and the more accesible songs by Neutral Milk Hotel and Radiohead.

For my friends most of them just listen to whatever's popular at the moment, but recently some of them have started to listen to better stuff. I turned two friends onto Arcade Fire and the Pixies, but that's it. I have another kid who I used to be friends with who liked a lot of 90's Indie stuff and Classic Rock, but hates new music.

And then my best friend who used to like exclusively radio pop now listens to all the Indie I listen to, is starting to get into the Rap I like, but hates the Electronic stuff I like. It's pretty sweet to have someone to show and discuss music with, and who shows you bands back.

Yeesh, your mother is witty.

That's pretty much my situation too. Actually one of the main reasons I post on MB is because my conversations about music with my friends and family are fairly limited and I need some kind of outlet. Even my friends who are into music aren't as into music as I am. Also, strangely enough considering how much loud noisy aggressive type music I like, I have literally no one that I know in real life who listens to anything even remotely in that ballpark. I don't even think my wife has a very clear picture of what kinds of music I listen to since a good 75% of what I listen to is music I would never play around her.

Most kids my age think I listen to all the same stuff they listen to cause I try to talk about bands that they like and not the stuff I know they wouldn't. That being said all tastes in music I have are pretty much represented in some group of friends I have.

I've had many people say to me things like "I don't know how you can enjoy that unless you're stoned" about a variety of different bands. Especially when I lived in student halls - that said, I often was stoned when I lived in halls.

I remember sometime before christmas I was drinking with two of my friends before we went out - they're both girls who love X Factor. This was a Saturday night, and so I had to sit and watch X factor with them ... and before it one of them happened to say something along the lines of "I don't know if I want to watch X Factor with you, you like terrible music". I just smiled and had a significantly large drink of my wine.

In school most people were aware that I liked different stuff but to be honest it never really affected me in a big way, socially. I kept my music taste to myself in school, for the most part - I rarely spoke to anyone about what I liked, although like I say people knew I had "weird" taste. I have a lot of friends now who enjoy similar music to me, but in school I knew of nobody who liked the bands I liked. To be honest, lots of my best friends in school are now into the stuff I like, and tell me they wished they'd listened to it sooner. Again, I just smile condescendingly :)

This (x400).

I might have lost it. Sounds like you handled it well.

My brother was laughing at me for listening to Cap'n Jazz and I Hate Myself :-(