Has Mom or Dad's Choice of Music Influenced Your Musical Taste?

Question

Who did your parents (or guardian) listen to while you were growing up? Did listening to their music place a subliminal effect on your musical preference?I'm guessing that their taste in music subliminally affected my taste in music somehow and that's not a bad thing......I adopted similar tastes; modernized within my own generation. (If that makes any sense.)

I don't listen to their music! For example by dad's taste for jazz....I think it influence me in an edgy way...such as having an appreciation instrumentally for techno/trance music . GET IT?

Answer 1

Absolutely! My parents were huge jazz fans and often took us kids to see some of jazz's greatest players. My dad loved Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Plus he (my dad) played in his own jazz band.

These days I like just about all kinds of music--as long as it's played well and is lyrically interesting. I'll listen to anything from classical to rock, heavy metal, fusion, funk, folk, etc.

The influence of my parents it that they gave me a deep appreciation of the arts and of artistic talent. For that, I'll be forever in their debt.

Answer 2

No-my parents listened to country music and I still don't like it to this day. I think where you grow up has more influence, I grew up in Cleveland where rock was the music to listen too, had tons of great radio stations,great concerts. I still love rock the best. My brother on the other hand only likes country, so I think some are influenced and others are not.

Answer 3

Ahh music, gotta love it. Yes, my mother influenced my taste in music, she was a young mother. We grew up together, so to speak. Music was a big part of her life, therefore, I had to listen to it. For example, I was probably the ONLY kid in 5th grade who decided to do her report on The Steve Miller Band when told by the teach that it can be about anything. And I got an A+ !

The other day while driving I heard "Drove All Night" by Cyndi Lauper....wow, it was amazing how fast I was transported back to another time in my life. I could physically feel all of the emotions surrounding that time in my life. This started my over active mind to churning. I became a music fan at the tender age of five or so, listening to my Mom's Fleetwood Mac and Def Leppard albums.

If I tried to compile all the songs that hold some sort of special memory for me.....well lets just say that it would be quite a box set. Isn't is amazing and wonderful that we have this art in our lives that basically can define different eras of our lives for us? For instance....I can remember where I was, who was with me and what we were doing on the first night I ever heard NIN. I can remember the day that the Unskinny Bop video premiered. We can't forget the long hours spent lying on the floor of my room crying along with Micheal Stipe to Everybody Hurts. Hell, even The Humpty Dance brings to mind emotions and memories.

Now when I hear music, I can usually go back to when it came out and remember where I was, what age, what was going on, who I was friends with, girlfriend to, on and on. Sometimes I laugh and remember the silly stuff, sometimes I cringe, sometimes I even think to myself "Jerk!". Even more recent songs that came out last summer - I always remember my life then. It's life's way of keeping memories and remembering people who have touched our lives - music. To me at least.

I'm glad that I was exposed to such a wide variety of music at a young age

Answer 4

Yes. They were not very musical when I was growing up, but I found a nice stash of records when I was in High School. They listened to lots of different music before they had kids. They gave me all their old albums to add to my huge collection. My older cousin was a big influence on my musical tastes back in the 1970s.

Answer 5

properly my mum and dad love song they have listened to at a similar time as turning out to be up.... maximum of what they hear to isn't my style (purely the quite a few sturdy gold oldies). I have been given my song style from television, radio, etc.... and that i'm nonetheless not an problem-free joe while it includes song... simply by fact lots of the sought after extraordinary songs at the instant are not my style... even although, my mom likes a number of what we hear to and actual enjoys the 'modern songs', yet dad does not in any respect!

Answer 6

My parents don't and can't decide my music and they don't influence me. I like listening to symphonies or hard rock.They don't like that stuff, so I just hide out in my room with some headphones. Yea, when we're in the car, I'll listen to what they do, but it doesn't matter. I'd take rock or symphony over anything. They know I do, so it can't hurt to listen. My parents like mostly modern day christian music and jazz and oldies. I listen to oldies becauseI came across it by myself. So there you have it.

Answer 7

Yes, i listen to like the beatles and ledzeppelin and the doors, and my dad likes them, as for my mom she likes Johnny Rivers, and i do have one of his songs on my coputer so yeah, i suppose that they both influence me on my music taste.

Answer 8

Although my tastes and my parents didn't always match, their interests broadened my own and undoubtedly gave me some foundation. My father enjoyed big bands and novelties, my mother was more pop and easy listening.

Answer 9

NO. My parents listened to country music (still do) and I can't stand it. Well I like Johnny Cash though. Oh no maybe they did.

Answer 10

No; Mom and Dad's Polish polkas never influenced my musical taste --- thank God.