What music did your parents ban you from listening to?

[OneUmberJoker]

Call on me by Eric prydz

I was able to listen and read anything.
I did notice one of my books quietly disappeared one day. I had bought it at a car boot and didn’t really understand it. Looking back it was clearly x rated gay porn but at 10 I had no idea that roots or seeds weren’t about gardens.

That reminds me of the scene in Adrian Mole where his mum dragged him into the punk shop and tried to make him try on a lime-green leopard-print t-shirt.

Eminem!

I was raised as a JW. We had one meeting where the elders played an example of the ‘devil’s music’. It was Earth Wind and Fire Boogey Wonderland. My favourite track at the time! I still love it but can’t help but ‘hear’ the elders. Makes me love it even more because it is forbidden!

Nothing. My dad was a huge Black Sabbath fan and my mum was away with the fairies a lot of the time. I remember Marilyn Manson being controversial because some parents blamed him for school shootings.

None 😃

They didn't...

Yeah my mum wasn’t a big fan of that one either. She was a single parent and felt very strongly about the benefits of education.😁

None. But they really hated my Hooked on Classics album. They had great taste.

It wasn’t banned but the same weekend when my parents heard me listening to Nirvana, I got given a Kylie Minogue record and merch.

It was supposed to be gentle persuasion in another direction but it didn’t work. I’m still a grunge alt girl at heart!

None, although my dad loved taking the piss out of Morrissey. I remember perusing their record collection when I was little and trying to get my head around the fact that Fleetwood Mac had a boy named Lindsey and a girl named Stevie. I have them to thank for my love of Simon and Garfunkel and Queen.

My dad didn’t ban anything. He’s got eclectic taste and thinks you should try everything.

My mum tried to ban Eminem, Black Sabbath and Offspring. Also a lot of the r&b I liked then as it was all very explicit 😂

I also quite liked Placebo as a teen and she had a thing against them because the singer painted his nails. Still confused how that could bother her - she was an Adam Ant/Culture Club fan and all the men she liked wore make up etc

Yes, my dad didn't like it either for the same reasons. Another Brick in the Wall was the first concert I ever went to (not because I liked it but because I was invited). I realized afterwards that I had dropped off during it....