# What did you think of your parent's music? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 19, 2013, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-think-of-your-parents-music/674237 "2013-11-19T05:11:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-think-of-your-parents-music/674237/61 "2013-11-22T20:19:54Z")
To answer the OP, I guess my mom’s music was what was on “oldies” stations at the time, i.e. the tail end of doo wop, old rock n roll, motown, and early Beatles. I still dislike the popular songs of that genre (even the early Beatles), due to severe overplay, but I’ve found that if there’s a station that plays a mix of old r+b and early rock n roll, it’s okay to listen to once in awhile as long as I hear fresh songs. My dad always likes a bit of the new music: my dad and my brother (and also my much younger sister but that doesn’t count) have liked more modern pop than I have since the mid 90s. But when I was growing up, when he wasn’t listening to the hits of the day (late 70s - mid 80s,) he was listening to soft rock from the early 70s. A genre which I actually _do_ like some of the hits from, and also appreciate a lot of new-to-me entries when I hear them. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-think-of-your-parents-music/674237/62 "2013-11-22T20:25:24Z")
My musical taste is pretty darn eclectic, and it definitely covers a lot of my parents’ (Simon with and without Garfunkel, Bowie, Springsteen, Fairport Convention) generation and some of my grandparents’ (Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Desi Arnaz). Though TBH, while I appreciate the music of my grandparents’ generation, my grandparents themselves had horrible taste in music. Lots of Ray Conniff and Engelbert Humperdink. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-think-of-your-parents-music/674237/63 "2013-11-22T23:15:27Z")
> [@brettster55](#): > > I’m not sure our generation has timeless songs being made right now but then again, I bet kids in the 60’s and 70’s thought the same, maybe not? “Rock me, Amadeus!” said the old Austro-Hungarian. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-think-of-your-parents-music/674237/64 "2013-11-23T00:10:28Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > “Rock me, Amadeus!” said the old Austro-Hungarian. “Rock me, I’m a Danish” said White Lion. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-think-of-your-parents-music/674237/65 "2013-11-23T00:17:12Z")
My mother listened mostly to Stax and Motown and Creedence. Music of the gods, in other words, I still prefer it to almost anything new. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-think-of-your-parents-music/674237/66 "2013-11-23T02:26:10Z")
I lived with my mother. She liked Elvis, Johnny Cash, and for a while Waylon Jennings. Those were all OK. I also went through her old albums, and found and listened to albums by Buffalo Springfield, The Band, Creedence Clearwater Revival and the soundtrack from the Broadway musical version of Hair. I don’t recall her ever listening to them, probably before I would have remembered. She had maybe a foot of record albums, so there are others I don’t recall. Probably some Motown, as we lived in Detroit in the 60s and early 70s. ETA: I know we also had some Jackson 5, at least until we left them in the back of the car, and they got warped. Which reminds me, we had the Jackson 5 and the Stevie Wonder Christmas albums, both of which I’ve re-bought. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-think-of-your-parents-music/674237.md?page=3)