Poll: Inherited music tastes

[ciancon]

There is only one album that i like from my parents' collection:
In Time: The Best Of REM 1988-2003.

 

[Shock and Awe]

I grew up listening to Rock with my dad and country with his dad, so I got a lot of both and still love them. =D

 

[b1u3too]

I listen to pretty much anything, but my dad always had the country playing. He also liked folk though, so while if I hear country I jump from a cliff, I do like to folk.

In Part.

 

[Goody]

When I was young I didn't like any music, because the music that was played everywhere was Pop music (not only was it everywhere outside the house, but my mam liked it and had it on). Then when I was 10 I overheard my dad's music (Metal) and have loved it ever since.

So I think it was a case of nature over nuture.

 

[DustyDrB]

My parents were never big into music, but I was obsessed from a very young age.

My obsession formed my tastes. I'm from a small country town in South carolina. Seclusion is the word that describes my life until I graduated high school in 2005. But I grew up listening to punk, punk, and more punk. I spent much of my time in my teens just researching music to find the best punk, to influential punk, everything. So I grew up on The Clash, Minutemen, Bad Religion, Ted Leo, Ramones, Fugazi, and the like. Maybe I was drawn to it because it was so againt what everyone listened to around there at the time. I was always somewhat ashamed to be Southern born, so...

Then I got into college, and my tastes expanded into folk (which very much has the spirit of punk), noise rock, and some bluegrass and rap (I never expected I would like those last two genres). I still dig and dig to find music. It's a rewarding obsession.

 

[Zaverexus]

I learned to like rock and hate rap/pop/hip hop and all that artificial junk. But I've always enjoyed discovering bands on my own, and lately my tastes have been diverging more from those of my dad (music fanatic)
I think I have always had broader tastes than my dad and especially more than my mom, but we all enjoy a variety. Playing music just tends to expose you to some stuff you wouldn't hear otherwise

 

[emeraldrafael]

So are we INFLUENCED by our parents music choices?

I'm sure subliminally we are. I used to listen to a lot of country cause my mom did. My dad listens to alot of 60-80s rock, so I'll listen to that too.

But while I was growing up and channel/station surfing the tv/radio, I heard Grunge, and then the ninties rock (i.e. Smashing Pumpkins, Gin Bellosums), and then moved into the alt rock of muse. And thats what I listen to now.

So I would say early on, yes, but after I was eight, I made my own music choice and listen to it.

 

[FinalHeart95]

Well what your parents listen to is what you listen to growing up, so it's generally what you develop your tastes around.
For me it's partial. I like older hard rock/metal like my parents, but I'm also huge into prog metal, even some death metal. My parents are frightened by my death metal.

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

Nope. My parents listen to Country and 70s/80s rock, I listen to Metal and newer (as in 90s-present) Rock.

 

[Dango]

Nah, I listen to mostly J-pop and J-rock, while my mom likes 80s pop and my dad likes classic rock and and classical music.

 

[Blemontea]

I cant tell... I listen to Jazz which might have been from my childhood, but right now im listening to Vocaliod music and OCremixs which i dont think were around when i was a kid.

 

[Kae]

Other than Queen I don't really like most of the music my parents like so I guess not.

 

[Astoria]

I was brought up on old school rock and roll (AC/DC, KISS, Guns n Roses ect.) and I still love it today but I also like metal and neither of my parents like it.

 

[skywalkerlion]

My dad loves the Kinks, I love the Kinks. Simple as that. I listen to a lot of classical rock my father likes.

omg the kinks. You're not alone

OT: Yeah, over 3 quarters of my itunes library is classic rock, because of my dad introducing it to me when I was small.

 

[Dags90]

I was exposed to so many different genres growing up it's sort of inevitable that I'd share some musical tastes. I share more musical tastes with my father and sister than my mother.

 

[HigherTomorrow]

My mom used to sing me, "You Are My Sunshine," as a lullaby when I was a baby. While I do tear up whenever I heard the song (which is extremely rare) I wouldn't say it's something I'd put on my iPod.

Meanwhile, my dad's idea of lullabies were "Mother," and "Another Brick in the Wall (Pts. 1-3)," by Pink Floyd, "Big Yellow Taxi," by Joni Mitchell, and numerous songs by Yes!, Peter Gabriel, and Television, all bands and artists I almost worship today.

Also, as I saw a recent poster mentioning his famous father of Blood, Sweat & Tears, I'd just like to mention my father's best friend and my drum teacher, played guitar in the band Winter Hours, an alternative rock group of the early 90's. They opened for R.E.M, and were very popular locally, and still maintain a somewhat small but strong following, despite their age and their lead singer passing away due to drug overdose.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

My mother's copy of Highlander lived in the VCR at our house, she watched it almost every day. This was not a bad thing, as 1) Highlander is AWESOME, and 2) Queen are even more AWESOME. My love of that band was solidified by (of all things) the Mighty Ducks. After that it broadened to Thin Lizzy, Led Zeppelin and Bruce Springsteen.

My grandfather's music helped give me an appreciation for dudes like Frank Sinatra, Bill Haley and the Comets and Simon and Garfunkel.

My music tastes were then further broadened by the friends I made at high school and college; but largely movies.


My family started me on the path, and then I found my own way: and I'd have it no other way.

Here's to you granddad

 

[Kinguendo]

My Dad liked Rock and I like rock, he always played awesome songs when we were driving... Like Savage Garden, Bon Jovi, KISS, etc.