floydfanatic111 Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 My most famous example of this is Queen. I liked a bunch of their songs(Crazy Little Thing, We Are the Champions, Killer Queen, We Will Rock You, Another One Bites the Dust, Princes of the Universe, One Vision) as a 7 to 10 year old kid but my mother detested Freddie Mercury for being bisexual so therefore Queen was barred from my household until my parents divorced and I went to live with my father. In the late 1980s Queen albums were not available in the US so obtaining them was impossible. Then my fourth oldest sister one day came home with a compilation of Queen songs from the long-out of print Elektra version of Greatest Hits in December of 1990 and I loved each track so I asked her to borrow the complete album and I became a Queen fan and made a copy and wore the thing out. My father had no problem buying me Queen albums and the first Queen album I got legitimately was A Night at the Opera on CD in March of 1992. Since then, I have become a Queen connoiseur in the same way I love Pink Floyd and Rush. Like those bands, Queen changed its sound with each album and was a shame Freddie Mercury died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyBlaze Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 No band was ever barred while I was growing up. If my parents thought an album cover was risque or such they would just say, "What is that?!Oh my god. Crazy" and shake their heads, but that's all. I believe it was their way of saying that it was strange but not truly harmful. The music itself never bothered them either. Just the volume itself. When I bought the ASOH video back in the late 80's I showed mom Neil's solo. She said (again), "Oh my god" but it was followed by, "he's so good . What kind of music is this?" Gotta love mom . I always did appreciate mom & dad allowing us some freedom with musical choices. I'm sure it had alot to do with them both loving music and singing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonraker Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 I dont remember ever being told I cannot listen to any kind of music. My parents were pretty relaxed about that kinda thing (father was a student at Berkeley in the late 60's), and gave me the benefit of the doubt that I wouldnt get into terrible music. It worked I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tick Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 well when i was 14 my broke into my room and said IS THAT GLEN MILLER ORCHESTRA YOUR LISTENING TO ! WHY DONT YOU BE A NORMAL KID AND PUT ON SOME KISS ! i said sorry mom , and i never looked back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pratt Boy Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 During my IRON MAIDEN days, my mom gave me grief. Probably because I played it all the time and really, really loud. She didn't like the album covers with "Eddie". Also around 1979, I bought a Richard Pryor album and my mom confiscated it. I searched and found it and hid it myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thestand Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 My parent's couldn't care less about what I listen to. If anything, I bar myself from THEIR music. A lot of bad hair bands and today's rap. Bleck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My_Shrimp_Cot Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 QUOTE (floydfanatic111 @ Feb 3 2006, 01:07 AM) My most famous example of this is Queen. I liked a bunch of their songs(Crazy Little Thing, We Are the Champions, Killer Queen, We Will Rock You, Another One Bites the Dust, Princes of the Universe, One Vision) as a 7 to 10 year old kid but my mother detested Freddie Mercury for being bisexual so therefore Queen was barred from my household until my parents divorced and I went to live with my father. In the late 1980s Queen albums were not available in the US so obtaining them was impossible. Then my fourth oldest sister one day came home with a compilation of Queen songs from the long-out of print Elektra version of Greatest Hits in December of 1990 and I loved each track so I asked her to borrow the complete album and I became a Queen fan and made a copy and wore the thing out. My father had no problem buying me Queen albums and the first Queen album I got legitimately was A Night at the Opera on CD in March of 1992. Since then, I have become a Queen connoiseur in the same way I love Pink Floyd and Rush. Like those bands, Queen changed its sound with each album and was a shame Freddie Mercury died. Queen records were everywhere in the late '80s, no? did I miss something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustard Death Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 I just don't ever play music my parent's wouldn't like while I'm around them. But I really don't think I listen to anything they would outright "ban" me from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floydfanatic111 Posted February 3, 2006 Author Share Posted February 3, 2006 QUOTE (My_Shrimp_Cot @ Feb 3 2006, 02:34 PM) QUOTE (floydfanatic111 @ Feb 3 2006, 01:07 AM) My most famous example of this is Queen. I liked a bunch of their songs(Crazy Little Thing, We Are the Champions, Killer Queen, We Will Rock You, Another One Bites the Dust, Princes of the Universe, One Vision) as a 7 to 10 year old kid but my mother detested Freddie Mercury for being bisexual so therefore Queen was barred from my household until my parents divorced and I went to live with my father. In the late 1980s Queen albums were not available in the US so obtaining them was impossible. Then my fourth oldest sister one day came home with a compilation of Queen songs from the long-out of print Elektra version of Greatest Hits in December of 1990 and I loved each track so I asked her to borrow the complete album and I became a Queen fan and made a copy and wore the thing out. My father had no problem buying me Queen albums and the first Queen album I got legitimately was A Night at the Opera on CD in March of 1992. Since then, I have become a Queen connoiseur in the same way I love Pink Floyd and Rush. Like those bands, Queen changed its sound with each album and was a shame Freddie Mercury died. Queen records were everywhere in the late '80s, no? did I miss something? Queen's albums on Elektra were out of print in the late 1980s and were only available by import and they were lots of money for imported copies on cassette or CD. The Capitol albums were only available until Hollywood Records re-released Queen's albums in 1991 and I wanted to start with A Night at the Opera but each time I went to store they were out and wasn't until March of 1992 that more copies of ANATO hit stores probably cos of Waynes World and my father naturally bought the ANATO album and subsequently every Queen album. My father didn't care what I listened to but my mother detested Queen for reasons I can't think of and she assumed all of Queen were gay cos of Freddie which we know is hogwash. My mom was a rocker but more into Sabbath, Zep, Skynyrd, Cream, Janis Joplin, PF and so forth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
progrush2112 Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 My mom hated Van Halen cause they sang about 'runnin' with the devil.' But that didn't keep me from listening to Eddie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchetaxe&saw Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 I remember not being allowed to listen to my brother's copy of Never mind The Bollocks. I also remember being scolded for listening to my brother's copy of Never Mind The Bollocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tull Fan Too Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 I can't remember being barred from listening to any music when I was growing up- but that's probably because I was listening to my parent's music anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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