What music do your parents/siblings like?
 

We are all open about what music we like, so why don't we learn about what our families like as well? Lol, that's basically why I made this thread, I find it interesting.

Bonus Question(s): Do you like the music your families listen to and do they like the music you listen to?

My mom's music is a bit of a hit or miss thing, and hard to explain. Her music catalogue encompasses music from the 60s to today, but really mainly specific artists/genres. She likes some classic rock such as The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and The Who. Moving into the 70s, she likes some disco (ABBA, Donna Summer), she's really into 80s pop and soft rock as well (REO Speedwagon, Supertramp, Madonna, Michael Jackson, 80s has beens/one-hit wonders). In the 90s, it was mainly adult contemporary/pop/soft-rock artists (Sarah MacLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Celine Dion), moving into pop an R&B in the 2000s (Enrique Iglesias, Maroon 5, Lady Gaga, Shakira, Nelly).

She also has a soft spot for Latin music as well.

My dad listens to mainly Croatian folk and pop/rock music.

My 14 year old sister likes tweeny pop rock/pop punk bands like NeverShoutNever, Marianas Trench, Plain White Ts, A Rocket To The Moon, Panic! At The Disco, Paradise Fears).

Everyone in my family hates my music...they all think it's weird... :(
My mom's more classic rock oriented side was where my musical preferences blossomed, though.

So what DO you like?

My dad likes grungy stuff, some country, and Carlos Santana. He doesn't really listen to music, but he appreciates virtuoso guitarists.

My mom likes soul, r&b, adult contemporary, some southern rock, some classic rock, the Beatles.

One brother likes terrible radio hip hop, and older metal stuff. The other likes anything with a great bassist in it. Aside from that, jazz fusion, thrash metal, classic rock.

You're gonna laugh when you hear this, but my mom, my uncle, his wife and I were all sitting around the TV looking up music videos of old artists they knew from the 80s (well, they did and I just watched). So I asked for a turn and I put on Bone Machine by the Pixies and my mom complained that it was too weird... :P

I think I already told you what music I liked. Didn't you post in my introduction thread? I think I also found out about Clutch from you.

My mom really doesn't like the music I like...other than the few bands we have in common. I think it's because she has not heard of many of the bands that I listen to.

My whole family all listens to the same range, pretty much- classic rock, blues, and classical. When I was a teenager I did get a little more into grunge, though, and that's my favorite genre to actually play.

My dad likes everything from Rod Stewart and The Eagles to Graham Nash, Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, and The Allman Brothers. My mom is partial to mainly Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, and Carly Simon. My one brother likes pretty much whatever is on the radio, the other one likes Rock (Foo Fighters and Seether and whatever else), and my sister shares a lot of similarities with me (especially EDM). I tend to send her music I listen to. She mainly likes soft/pretty stuff, so she's not crazy about any of the metal or aggressive genres.

My mom's musical taste is pretty to-the-point in my eyes. Her favorites are Rod Stewart, Elton John, Journey, Queen, Bryan Adams, Nirvana, and stuff like that. She's also a fan of pretty much any contemporary music which might top the charts. She digs a lot of Pitbull, fun., and stuff like that, with a soft spot for Waylon Jennings, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, George Jones, and that sort of country, in addition to anything CeeLo Green has ever touched.

My dad is bizarre. He seems most to enjoy AC/DC, Blondie, Cher, Waylon Jennings, The BeeGees, Eminem, 2Pac, Bone Thugs, and various and sundry other artists.

My 21-year-old sister most loves Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, MxPx, The Spill Canvas, and a lot of pop acts.

My 14-year-old sister most loves One Direction, Nicki Minaj, Pitbull, Green Day, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Cee-Lo, and other radio pop.

My grandmother mostly likes The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, The Who, The Ramones, The Clash, Queen, Simon & Garfunkel, and that sort of thing, with a strange fascination with Lady Gaga.

My tastes are probably more closely aligned with my grandmother's, but there's still not a whole lot of overlap.

Dad: Miles Davis, CCR, T. Rex, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Temptations, Mott The Hoople, The Cure,The Doors, Otis Redding, David Bowie, Bob Dylan,The Delfonics,Marvin Gaye,Lee Perry,Nirvana etc. (A large variety of music)

Mom: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkle, The Eagles, The Monkees, Elton John, The Animals, Fleetwood Mac, The Temptations,CCR,T.rex, Rolling Stones,The Marvelletes,The Ronetters, The Mamas & Papas, etc. (Mostly radio **** and stuff my dad showed her lol)

Brother: Ice Cube, Too Short, E-40,Billie Holiday, Michael Jackson & Jackson 5

Sister: I have no clue...

You fortunate soul. You've a father with pretty fantastic musical taste.

Your mother's not to shabby either.

My mom likes a lot of pop country (her favorite band's Rascal Flatts), Celine Dion and Josh Groban. All that I know about my dad's taste in music is that he liked a lot of country songs from the 1940s. My brother (who might be the only person in my family that doesn't mind my music collection) doesn't listen to anything that isn't labeled as "classic rock" or if it's not a popular metal band from the 70s and 80s. His favorite artists are AC/DC, Motorhead, Boston and Metallica.

my dad likes rock in roll from the 70's and 80's some of the bands i like and ...what ever is on our local rock radio station


...My mom likes Rod strewed Yani alot of the same rock my dad likes and umm RNB pop stuff

My sister likes RAP RNB POP Hip hop and more like world pop music

Oops. Forgot, sorry!

Dang, dude. Your parents have great musical tastes. And even if you don't agree with all of it, at least they obviously enjoy music. My parents are uncaring at best and force me to turn mine off at worst. It's really hard to play music around them because there's so little they actually like.

What kind of music does "Rod strewed Yani" play?

My mother's got an obnoxious taste for Christian gospel-y stuff though she has retained some amount of taste as evident in her love for 60s pop. Dad's a metalhead, loves rock as well. My young sister's a great kid; she's into the Beatles and basically anything else I went through at her age (she loves 80s pip for some reason, and a lot of German music) - we used to sing to Sparks in the car back in the day. It'd get her pumped for her day at school. I guess I'm related to some pretty decent humans.

My mom:


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My families music taste in a nutshell. My mom doesn't really like music at all, my dad did really like ****ty radio country, not sure about now. I like my brother's taste in hip hop and dubstep for the most part, but he still really likes **** like Tech N9ne, Lil Wayne, Drake, and doesn't really listen to anything other than rap and dubstep.

How should i know ...??????

thank you :) he's a total music nerd ..(i got it from him)
my mother just grew up in a great time but she likes mostly what she knows from my dad and the radio lol

:) wow really? well most parents are like that for some reason lol
the music i like is the same music my parents used to listen to when it first came out.. whenever i listen to it now they say "turn that **** up"
Especially when i play the beatles because my mother would always play the beatles for me as a bby when i was inside her stomach.. so the beatles connect with us on a whole different level.
now with my father we always like 2 discover new music ..he's really into jimi hendrix,david bowie and the kinks as well so when i put their music on his ipod i put all their **** that way he discovers gems and albums that he over looked decades ago (thanks to technology he finds them again/ comes across them..)
and he shows me stuff i never heard of and eventually grow to love...it's an awesome experience for the both of us.

Hmm. Let's see:
My dad is a music fiend.
He's into classic rock like Metallica, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Rush, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, The Who, CCR, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, The Eagles, ELO, Janis Joplin, Journey; Soul like Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Jackson 5/ the Jacksons/ Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, The O'Jays; Funk like Prince, James Brown, Earth, Wind & Fire, Kool & The Gang... and Christian/ Gospel music like Keith Green, Casting Crowns and NewWorldSon. And a lot more...
Basically, if it's up to his standards quality wise, he likes it. But he tends not to stray outside the mainstream. He thinks my taste is interesting, but weird. lol.

My mom likes a lot of R&B and especially vocal jazz. She is/was into stuff like En Vogue, Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul; and also vocal jazz like Norah Jones, Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, and others. When I was growing up, she loved Adult Contemporary music, especially Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow, The Goo Goo Dolls, The Barenaked Ladies etc. and singer-songwriters like Sinead O'Connor and Suzanne Vega, as well as Amy Grant.
My mom really loves music, but isn't as opinionated as the rest of the family. She listens for therapy, mostly to the jazz station, but gets tired out of music easily.

My 17 year old sister likes mostly Christian music, singer-songwriter, "teen" music and R&B singers. She's into Katharine McPhee (since before Smash), Jully Black, Stacie Orrico, Eva Avila, Rachael Lampa, Aly & AJ, Selena Gomez, Brooke Fraser, Rebecca St. James, and Elizabeth & the Catapult.
She's a singer. We get along really well, and while I don't like everything she does, we can listen to each others' music easily, and have a mutual appreciation. She's a loyal listener, so she dedicates her attention to specific artists and follows their personal journeys.

My 12 year old brother likes most of the Funk and Soul my dad likes, especially Al Green, Stevie Wonder and James Brown. He's into the popular names of today, like Hedley, LMFAO, Bruno Mars, Cee Lo Green, Eminem, Usher, K'naan..., and Christian stuff like GRITS, Switchfoot, and TobyMac.
I don't like most of what he likes, but hey, everyone has their own taste.

My 10 year old sister is still undecided.

As of years ago...
My father likes 50's and 60's rock 'n' roll.
I've never seen my mother show much interest in listening to music.
One brother likes upbeat 80's pop, hair metal, rap, probably not adult contemporary.
Another brother likes metal.

My brother is a classical musician, so he listens to a lot of that. He would probably correct me on this, but at one point or another I think he pointed out Mussorgsky, Bach, and... who's the guy who taught Elgar who wrote pretty bizarre music in comparison? Anyways, that guy. He also listens to the current wave of American symphonic music. He's also a lifelong Dream Theater fan, and listens to far-ends of the prog metal spectrum, all the way from DT down to Messhuggah. Also into the Roots and other underground hip-hop. Truly though, he's one of the few people that can truly say he likes all types of music. A paragraph can't do it justice. However, he can be pretty hipster and anti-4/4 about it, though, which ticks off every one else.

My sister listens to bands like Coheed and Cambria, Nightwish, and 3, as well as a lot of Rise Against-ish pop-punk. She's also a giant Primus fan.

My mother likes, really anything with a folky flavor or any rock that she can dance to. She's a giant World Party and Traffic fan, and even listens to some lighter metal/hard rock (f.e. Black Sabbath, Guns 'N Roses).

My father likes, primarily stuff like The Cure, Talking Heads, and English Beat, as well as 70s jam-rock like the Almond Brothers.

Then there's me. I listen to 90s hip-hop, a small amount of metal, a lot of stuff on the line between rock and metal, which I think I got from my Mom, a decent amount of dubstep and other EDM, and, as a guitarist, a lot of guitar-oriented stuff. (I basically converted my entire family to Bucketheadism.)

My mom's favorite group was the Beatles. She was a teenager in San Francisco in the 60s, and that was the big thing.

Other groups she played a lot growing up were Queen, Led Zeppelin, George Thorogood, Steely Dan, Metallica, The Eagles, Dave Matthews Band.

Pretty great place for me to start if I don't say so myself.

Nice. I wonder what it would be like to live with a hardcore intellectual music fan. Don't know whether it would be more enlightening or annoying. Probably a bit of both!

My dad is an avid bluegrass/old-school country fan. He's also into a lot of the rock from the 50's, 60's, and 70's. My mother is a bit more varied... she likes country, some old rock, a little jazz, and one time I caught her listening to Coolio's 'Gangsta's Paradise'.

My parents were/are super eclectic and always encouraged me to listen to music. Dad liked country and bluegrass and The Beach Boys and mom liked show tunes, Martin Denny, The Beatles, and anything Latin or Exotic. In those days, everybody did a Latin album...

They even bought me a crappy little stereo when I was 5 so I would leave theirs alone. Of course, I immediately started stealing their records. To this day I still have some crazy favorites like Jim Kweskin's Jug Band and the Broadway soundtrack to Man of La Mancha because of their influence. The 60's were a very eclectic time for music.

sounds like you have the best of both worlds :)