LOL
I was pretty lucky as a kid, my parents were pretty liberal with music as they were from the generation that thought Frank Sinatra was bad ass music! They listened to all this gawd awful jazz stuff that to this day gives me the hebiejebies.......when I hear Benny Goodman playing his clarinet I want to slit my wrists. This was the music they would turn up loud and argue over as a child it was very scary to me.
They never came down hard on us kids with our choice of music but then I didn't buy albums when I had extra money it went for necessities like shoes or clothes and food. The only album I remember buying as a teenager I still have "As Tears Go By" by the Rolling Stones. I listened to music free on the AM radio! LOL
Fast forward to raising my kids I let them listen to everything and they had their own money as teens and could buy whatever they wanted. I think at one point all of them were in some record club or another and they even signed up our dog who I still to this day get offers from BMG for him to buy music!!!! How they tracked me down as much as I've moved these last 5 years I'll never know! LOL I ought to send the bill to the dog!
I didn't care for some of the music they listened to, but they did teach me to like some stuff that I otherwise would have never listened to there is something to be said for actually sitting down and listening to Narvina, Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Weezer, Green Day, Judas Priest, Blink, Counting Crows, Cake and gosh so many others I can't think of right now........but when you really listen to it it's pretty good music and I love it all (mostly).
I love all kinds of music (except the stuff my parents fought to) from rock and roll to operas I guess it's just being open and willing to actually listen to it. My son and I used to listen and try to pick out the instruments that were being played, it was fun I still listen with a critical ear trying to figure out the different instruments being played in the back ground.
Oh short answer I never had to throw out any music! Yay me!
Edited to add one of my favorite songs when growing up (yeah it ages me totally, lol) is this song from The Animals; Montery:
The people came and listened
Some of them came and played
Others gave flowers away, yes they did
Down in Monterey
Down in Monterey
Young Gods smiled upon the crowd
Their music being born of love
Children danced night and day
Religion was being born
Down in Monterey
The birds and the airplane did fly
Oh, Ravi Shankars music made me cry
The Who exploded into fire and light
Hugh Masakela's music was black as night
The Grateful Dead blew everybodies mind
Jimi Hendrix baby,believe me, set the world on fire, yeah
His Majesty, Prince Jones, smiled as he moved among the crowd
Ten thousand electric guitars were grooving real loud, yeah
You want to find the truth in life
Don't pass music by
and you know I would not lie, no I would not lie,
No, I would not lie
Down in Monterey
Three days of understanding of moving with one another
Even the cops grooved with us
Do you believe me, yeah?
Down in Monterey
I think that maybe I'm dreaming
Monterey
Down in monterey
Did you hear what I said?
The words to this song all these years later mean so much more to me now and I've even met Eric Burden in person since. It's strange to me that what I liked as a kid in music is so much more meaningful to me now as an adult.
