Originally Posted by raeanna74

My parents banned anything that wasn't dated prior to 1960, wasn't classical or wasn't Conservative Christian. Even contemporary Christian was 'outlawed.

My brother and I were always hunting for recordings of groups that didn't "pass" but that has very mild instramental pieces. We'd try to get Mom to listen, turn the bass off on our players, and not tell her who it was. We'd be all thrilled that we managed to pass off an instramental portion of a Metallica tape or Macross song. Even though we were never allowed to listen. Thank goodness for headphones. I had this tape player/radio that when I had the radio on, the tape would still turn even though it wasn't actually playing through. I'd turn on the radio on a station I wanted to listen to, start the tape player rolling and if Mom would ask what I was listening to I would pop the tape out and say "This". I'd keep a classical tape or preaching tape in there. I still had to keep the volume low until Mom was older and her hearing started to go cause if she heard a beat she'd take the tape for a while. I learned to reset the radio in the car just before I got home. Stuff like that to avoid the inevitable lecture. My brother and I began to make bets on how long the current lectures would last. We'd hold out our fingers on our jeans with a number of how much we wanted to bet. She never knew. I made a bunch of cash that way . One time she lectured at us for 6 hours. With one phone call in between. She made us follow her while she fixed supper even.

My parents were nuts.