Two local radio stations are doing Mother’s Day requests/dedications this weekend. Call in during the week & they’ll play your request along with your dedication on Sunday. For this to work, the offspring needs to listen to the station regularly to know about it. For your mom to hear it, she’d need to listen to the station, possibly all day on Sunday as you probably won’t know when/if they’re going to play your dedication. Therefore, this only really works if you like the same music as your mom (or parents, assuming they do it for Father’s Day). Or your children who are old enough to call in for you.
Do you?
Fuck no. One of my dad’s favorite artists is Roy Orbison. Roy Orbison. One of my mom’s favorites is Michael Bolton. !? :eek: Suffice to say we have very different ideas of what constitutes good music.
I listen to the same music as my kids. My parents listen to Celtic Women and folk music from the 60s and 70s. If Lawrence Welk was still on, they would watch it.
More similar to my parents than my kids. My mom and dad was big into Jazz and Broadway show tunes, which I also like. They also both liked the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel. They didn’t like Elvis too much.
My son is more into heavy metal type stuff which I really don’t like. He also likes classical more than I do. But then we both hate Disco 
Dad and I had very varied tastes in music but the only place we really overlapped was folk in general. Don’t care what ethnic or regional area we’re talking about, we both liked it all.
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I listen to more of my parent’s music then they listened to mine.
My father was born in 1938, so the music of his youth was rock-a-billy and doo wop. He believed pop music died the minute the Beatles landed at JFK. His music was always on in the background when I was a kid, so I’ve grown up appreciating a lot of it.
Mom was much more rounded in her musical tastes. She even liked some of the stuff my brothers and I listened to in the 80s. Now, I’m more of a hard rock guy, and she doesn’t listen to any of that.
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No. Not just no, but hell no. My dad was into rock and roll at one point, this is clear from his record collection. But by the time I came along it was all farm music, all the time.
I hate farm music. I’ve hated it since I learned to clap time. To me “country music” is an oxymoron. I hate the music, I hate the musicianship (there are exceptions that I acknowledge*, but I still won’t listen to it), I hate the pseudofolksy image it paints, I hate how it’s so, so dull.
I keep my ears open. I’ll listen to Bjork or Keith Jarrett or Frank Zappa or Al DiMeola or Charles Mingus or Rush (especially Rush), but I’ve heard all the Dolly and Porter that’s necessary, and should I ever happen to hear “Friends in Low Places” again it’ll be too soon.
For reference, I’ll be 45 in two hours.
*Leo Kottke and Roy Clark come to mind first.
My mom was never particularly big into music. Growing up, she owned maybe five albums including Bonnie Tyler’s Faster Than the Speed of Night, Air Supply’s Greatest Hits and Dan Fogelberg’s The Innocent Age. I suppose I enjoy “Total Eclipse of the Heart” as much as anyone who was young in the 80s, can ironically smirk at “Making Love Out of Nothing At All” and still remember the lyrics to “Run for the Roses”.
My son listens to EDM and other “weird stuff” but then tells me that he spent an afternoon listening to Elton John, Paul Simon or Billy Joel. He has various forms of choir throughout high school so maybe he has wider appreciation for accomplished singers. Or maybe I just broke his brain playing my dad music in the car.
He was also a kid/teen during the big boom of music games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero. I assume a lot of kids from those years are well acquainted with a lot of the hits from my youth in video game form.
My whole family can agree on classic rock. We listened to it a lot growing up. My dad and I always listened to oldies together while doing projects.
Now mom listens to the Christian rock station and dad listens to right wing radio and I listen to my iPhone or NPR, so there’s no chance we’d all be listening to the same station these days.
But if we were all in the car together no one would complain about classic rock.
My nieces aren’t old enough to have music tastes yet. My brother makes them listen to Rush and Zappa in the car.
I don’t listen to the same stuff my mother listens to. She was never really into music anyway and if she is listening to the radio it will be something political or religious.
My son and I listen to a lot of the same stuff. The radio in the truck is almost always tuned to Ozzy’s Boneyard, something we both like.
As a kid, I loved show tunes, just like my parents, but that diverged by the time I was in high school. My music tastes diverged from everyone by college and my favorites were never massively popular.
My daughter tends to like music of the same era I grew up in – and show tunes.
Both my parents and I listen mainly to classical music, but this is misleading. We actually listen to very different repertoires.
Basically, they are into big Classico-Romantic orchestral works. Symphonies and concertos written between 1750-1900. That’s it, more or less. I’m always stunned by the number of minor piano concertos they have on their shelves for instance. They’d much rather listen to a lesser work by a minor Romantic composer than dip their toes in Baroque music or, God forbid, contemporary classical.
As far as I’m concerned, my musical “centre of gravity” is more 1800-1950 but also a bit of Baroque (Bach, Purcell, Vivaldi, Rameau) as well as some contemporary composers (Ligeti, Dutilleux, Lutoslawski, Dusapin). Plus, while I do listen to symphonies and concertos regularly, solo piano and chamber music are perhaps more essential to me (they don’t care much for these genres). I also listen to vocal music occasionally (they hate it).
There is no doubt that their listening habits informed mine, but I explored very different directions.
My daughters are into horribly vapid pop. As they should at their age :D.
I won’t choose their music when I’m listening by myself but I don’t mind listening to the music my kids like (Twenty One Pilots, Panic at the Disco, pop music). My son listens to some of the music I listened to when I was around his age (teens), like the Beastie Boys and AC/DC. He doesn’t like when I play music that I listened to in college or later, though I expect as he gets older he’ll start to appreciate it more. We all like pop so we can just put on a Top 40 station in the car to avoid arguments about what music we should listen to.
Some of it I do.
Back when I was in charge of the tapes in the car (each person could choose the same amount to go into The Box, we took turns choosing one), Dad almost jumped out of his seat the first time I selected one of the tapes he had put into The Box. I pointed out, “hey, I liked Irma Vila when I was little, and I’m not as little but I still like her; I just also like other stuff”. In general, my tastes do include the stuff my parents listened to but as a small amount of the total track list.
And one day when it was his turn, Dad did ask for Queen. Allrighty!
My parents and I live a thousand miles apart, so there’s no chance we’d be listening to the same radio station anyway. Streaming music options aren’t really a thing for them, though my mom does stream WGBH or WBUR Boston NPR stations occasionally.
My dad thinks all good music was fifties and early sixties, pre-Beatles. And country. Old country. So, no.
My stepmother listens to generic inoffensive very very very light pop. It’s so inoffensive that it drives me crazy.
My mom and I have a tiny bit of overlap. I’m not a classical music fan, but we both enjoy jazz. She listens to both a Jimmy Buffet and a Steely Dan CD that I accidentally left there, and she bought a Grateful Dead CD after hearing mine (when she was in her 60s).
I listen to a lot of old New Wave/Punk/Goth, plus alternative rock generally.
I have very similar tastes to my mom: We both like folk, especially Irish folk. I probably listen to more classical than she does, and she probably listens to more hippie music than I do, but neither dislikes the other.
I don’t have any kids, but I do have a couple of nieces and a nephew. I’m not sure what they listen to. At least some of it is pop country, which I despise, which they get from their parents, and some is current pop singers, which I’m ambivalent to.
Roy Orbison is fucking brilliant. You are welcome to not like him, but putting him next to Michael Bolton with equal derision makes no sense at all.
I have significant overlaps with my parents. They don’t like rock, but we all love American Songbook, small combo jazz, swing jazz, zydeco, folk and the blues. Lots of stuff.
I introduced my kids to music and the concept of listening with open ears to all music. I introduced each of them to their favorite artists: TV on the Radio for him; Etta James for her. The level of overlap is 80%+ with each of them.
Parents: Hell no. My parents are into - I don’t even know, probably mostly Soul-type stuff - Motown and Stax, that kind of thing. Carrying over, for my Mom, into 80s stuff like Lionel Ritchie and early solo Michael Jackson. Not really my scene, I can appreciate that it’s good without liking it at all.
Kids: there’s a very slight overlap, I like Taylor Swift and so does my Elder daughter, but that’s about as far as it goes. I have no interest in Bruno Mars or One Direction or any of the other crap she listens to. She has so far refused to listen to a whole Swans song all the way through.
In the 50s, when I was a kid, Yes.
In the 80s, when I was raising kids, Yes.