What music did your parents ban you from listening to?

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Call on me by Eric prydz

I wasn't banned from listening to music, but I was banned from watching Monty Python.

None.
Nor smoking
Nor make-up
Nor anything else.

Once or twice I told DS I didn't want to hear ten decibels on the school run and he claimed I was banning him from his music. I claimed I didn't need a noise in the car if I was doing him a favour and driving him to school

Alanis morresette jagged little pill because of the advisory warning! ‼️ I got my friend to put it on a cassette tape

None although my mum preferred i sang along to the smiths wearing headphones when she was out as it was so awful (my singing!) .. i had the hand me down music centre! And worked on the record counter at Woolworths..
She would never have banned anything..and I never would either with my kids .. have had discussions about the rise in misogyny and sexism.. in lyrics but also society with dc though

The Prodigy were “inappropriate” (I can now see her point), but she took particular issue with Nirvana. Apparently they were a gateway drug which would definitely lead to a heroin addiction and death.
I was quiet, academic, spent most of my time reading, and the wildest my evenings ever got was eating a bit too much pizza while watching a movie at a friends house 😂 She assigned a LOT of power to that band!

None, we had a very no rules or boundaries house. In retrospect, I wish I’d been banned from something or other or at least told it wasn’t sensible. No one really cared what random drunk friend I was going off in a car with at 2am. They definitely were not concerned with my musical taste.

I was in my car with my mum once (probably in my early 20s) and put my Disturbed CD on, and she said, “maybe this is why you don’t have a nice boyfriend”. 🤣

None!

I banned Joy Division when riding in the car. Simply because I thought they were dreadful.

In their own rooms DCs could listen to what they liked.

DCs got their own back. I got a Joy Division hoodie for my birthday from them.

Anything that wasn’t classical.

I wasn't allowed to listen to any music at home due to my parents wanting the house to be quiet, so I only listened to music at friends houses/when I was out.

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None, they were un shockable happily. Didn't even flinch when I left Never Mind The Bollocks album cover in the breakfast room

None. My parents didn’t ban any Tv, music or literature/ art. I’m so pleased they didn’t.

apart from the obviously age inappropriate ie the soft porn on ch4 on Friday nights 🤣

I listened to some awful gangster rap in the mid 90s too. So misogynistic. You learn yourself though.

I have friends who sound weirdly boasty that their parents banned ITv like it’s a sign of class 😂and I think it sounds so hyacinth bucket cringy and old.

like Rap in the 90s. A bit of cultural diversity never hurt anyone. What’s wrong with your son knowing what it’s like to grow up in a violent urban area?

also- drill artists can be incredible wordsmiths. Capturing the cultural moment

Boy George and Queen because "queer" and "AIDs" 🙄

My parents took away my Marilyn Manson albums - which peeved me cause I bought all my music with my own money - but they let me keep Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, etc. I think my dad thought I was going to turn into some satanic drug taking teen! As it stands, I’m a 36 year old who’s never been drunk so his fears were unfounded!

Weirdly, they didn’t care about all of the Motley Crue I listened to - which formed a majority of what I loved in my teens - despite the music videos literally with strippers. I guess they weren’t scared I’d turn into a stripper!

None, there was zero censorship in our house.

Me and my best friend were huge Eminem fans. My friend was banned from listening to him so we used to listen round mine. I asked my mum if she was bothered by the lyrics but she said she couldn’t understand what he was saying anyway.

My Mum caught me recording a friend's copy of The Great Rock n Roll Swindle, her interest having been piqued on hearing the strains of Friggin in the Riggin belting through my bedroom door. She was livid and demanded I return it to its owner immediately. I pretended to go out to return it but nipped back and slipped it through my window (we were bungalow dwellers), so was able to finish recording it quietly later.

Good God. My parents are now almost 90, so I grew up in the 1970s listening to the Sex Pistols, the Stranglers and Stiff Little Fingers.

They didn't ban any kind of music. I'm genuinely bewildered by the question. I thought only weirdos in the Bible belt 'banned' their kids from certain music.

Pink Floyd Another Brick In The Wall.

Dad was a teacher so you can probably work out the issue he had with it.

Not sure if this counts but I wasn’t allowed to listen to the Teletubbies Bye-Bye song as a child because I would so desperately want to jump down the hole with them that I’d throw a “mega tantrum” according to my mother.

None
They didn't censor what I listened to or what I read

None. Why did they ban you from listening to Call On Me? I get the video, but why the song?

Even the video is quite tame really.

None but for some,still unexplained reason I wasn’t allowed to watch Grange Hill !
I obviously did though.

None that is weirdly controlling