Music your parents banned
 

My dad banned Korn, Godsmack, Manson, ICP, among a few others... But he didn't have any problem with me listening to Rammstein, Deftones, STP, Ozzy, Metallica...he's so ass-backwards.

Also, my mom had a cow when I first got into Radiohead. ...Radiohead!? What a group to ban from your kid! Christ...

Of course, I listened to all the stuff my dad told me not to. I had a. friends with the cds b. a car with a fully functioning radio and cd player and c. a job and my own money and I took my own road trips to Lincoln and Omaha and d. plenty of places to stash the illegal tunes

What music did your parents ban you from listening to?

My parents absolutely wouldnt let me listen to AC/DC (back between 1982-1986)

I'm a child of the 70s... as a youngin'

Kiss, Meatloaf's Paradise by the dashboard light, billy joel's only the good die young (how dare he say such things about catholic girls :d

other than that - -my parents didn't really care as long as i got my homework done...

(never really thought much about it - but when i was in grammar school (the same time I wasn't allowed to listen to Kiss) my mother went totally ballistic on my english teacher for giving me a failing grade for writing a book report on Judy Blume's Are you there god. it's me margaret...the book was totally unacceptable according to the teacher and the school. music was allowed to be banned... but books being banned -- that meant war...

I can say, my parents never banned me from anything, well except MTV (which I watched when they weren't home). I was the youngest, so my parents had gone through all that, and it didn't work. I have much older siblings, and I'd listen to what ever they did, so my parents never said anything. Untill I started to like rap, they were uneasy about it, but never said no. That was just a phase btw, it passed rather quickly.

My parents fiugred that the music I listened to, was just that, music. They were wise enough to realize that my great grandparents hated my grandparents music, my grandparents hated their music, that they were going to hate my music, and now I hate most of my kids music.
They never once banned me from any particular music, some of it they didn't want played loud enough where they had to listen to it also, but never was any group banned. So I grew up rocking out to AC/DC, KISS, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Icicle Works, Duran Duran, The Thompson Twins, Rush, Metallica, Wasp, Krokus, Helix, etc.
I have also told my kidlets (12 y.o. girl and 10 y.o. boy) basically the same thing...that there are certain types of music that I don't want to hear in my home, they can listen to it, I just don't want to listen to it also, so if they're going to listen to it, they'd be wise to either keep the volume down, or use headphones (they don't know it, but they're learning to respect others also :D ). I won't specifically ban any particular artists or groups.

I was never banned from anything. Nothing was ever banned from our house. This included music, television, movies, books ... basically any form of "art."

I've never understood parents banning something from their kids ... it just makes it that much more desirable and it makes the kid resent the parents.

Same boat. Only I practiced my l33t cryptography skills to break the satellite's password so I could watch MTV while they slept too..

My Mom never once told me not to listen to anything. Actually it was the other way around. I had to make her stop playing Michael Jackon's Thriller. She was driving me nuts.

Same in my household growing up. I remember when I was 9 or so my friend loaned me one of those "Fear Street" books by RL Stine. I was so afraid my mom would catch me with it and take it away. After I finished reading it (horrible piece of tripe, by the way) I asked her what she thought of such a book. She said she didn't care what I read as long as I was reading. The same applied for music, movies, what have you. My parents, unlike some, were always willing to discuss what we'd seen/read/heard, and expected us to be self-regulating. For the most part, it worked.

Shoot, my mom listens to Marilyn Manson...

My folks didn't think much of me listening to rap when I first started (around 85 or 86), but they never kept me from listening to it, just said that they didn't want to listen to it as well. As the years went by they became more accepting to the point that I could actually listen to it in the car with them, JOY! Then, one day my dad told me that he actually enjoyed a song by Bone Thugs In Harmony, which I found weird and cool at the same time.

A few years after that I got into the whole "metal" thing, and it was like starting all over. Thank Christ I moved out shortly after that, because my tastes are constantly evolving and getting heavier. I know if I were a kid/teen listening to the stuff I do now, they'd make me listen to it on headphones exclusively. My 3 year old son loves it though. He got ahold of a pair of my headphones one day and decided he liked what he heard. He's always asking to hear "the scary music" lately. It's strange going from "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" to "Bring Her A Mushroom Cloud", but whatever makes him happy...

Korn and Marilyn Manson are the ones that immediately come to mind.

Fortunately, they both suck.

I grew up in a Fundy Baptist home..so anything that wasn't about the majik man was banned. Of course, I didn't really listen to them so I had a huge stash of tapes and cds among other stashes that they didn't know about. I'd watch MTV when they were gone and blast the stereo while they were gone. I remember leaving my Five Against One cd out in the open one day and my dad made me break it. I just laughed and bought a new one.

my dad hit my black sheep cd with a hammer.

i was crushed.


...engine engine number 9, on the new york transit line... if my train goes off the track, pick it up pick it up pick it up!!!

when I was 12, I liked Vanilaa Ice. My parents bought me the tape, and, lucky for them, he has all of his retarded lyrics printed in the sleeve. I got a 2 hour lecture on how I shouldn't listen to it, and then they handed the tape over to me. I listened to it for a week straight, and realized it was total ass, regardless.

I don't remember my parents ever trying to ban my music.

They'd tell me to 'turn that shit down' a lot, but never banned it.

Not music, but they weren't thrilled with my GnR "skulls on the cross" t-shirt. Nowadays I wouldn't want my kids listening to songs with cursing or explicit lyrics, but you can only do so much.

I used headphones, my parents never had a clue what I listened to.

While I never banned anything explicitly, there were several albums on the "play that while your grandparents are over and I'll snap it in half" list. Gwar and Slayer, come to mind. For the longest time, I had my daughters convinced that rap wouldn't work on dad's stereo because it was too old.

One of my proudest accomplishments as a parent.

Like Guccilvr, I was also raised in a very fundamentalist household. Very. So much so, in fact, that I was not allowed to listen to secular music at all, not even on the radio. I had to go to all those backward-masking seminars and stuff in church. So I missed out on a lot of pop culture growing up.
The music I remember sneaking in and hiding were Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine, and Phil Collins No Jacket Required (come on, don't be a hater! :P). There was another but I don't remember. I recall even having to throw out the soundtrack to ET than my cousin who worked for Columbia Records sent me.

Boy, that sure made me a better person!

hahaha I heard all those "hidden messages" sermons too. The meaning behind band names etc.. that just made me want to listen more.


but Gloria Estefan?? c'mon... I pegged you for a Madonna girl ;)

Same here. My dad's a Sabbath fan, and they knew I was listening to Metallica and Megadeth at 12.

I couldn't listen to 2 Live Crew...but that wasn't an issue since I didn't like them. My parents didn't like MTV either, well my mom didn't anyway. I was a geek anyway, I just listened to what they listened to until I got into high school.

gloria was the hip shakin' conga gal.. come on... :)

I remember seeing a video called "Hell's Bells" at Youth Group that was all about hidden satanic shit and so forth. Just made me want to listen to them more...

I had the opposite problem. My parents used to listen to my music when I lived with them.

Public Enemy, N.W.A., Acid House....

Trust me, 'Sophisticated Bitch' soon loses it's edge after you've heard your mother singing it.

My parents hated it when I watched MTV and would make me change it every time they saw me watching it. When I was around 12 my dad forbid me from buying the Crow soundtrack so I bought it that weekend. That CD introduced me to Pantera, Stone Temple Pilots, Rage against the Machine and alot of other bands.

I was listening to Nirvana and Metallica before that, but he never really said anything. I think it's because he secretly liked them :)

i grew up in a musical family and music is my living now. My parents were pretty open about music and never actually banned me from listening to anything, although they certainly disapproved of some of my musical tastes growing up. I grew up when the Seatle thing was really taking off, they thought that music was far to depressing. They also didn't appreciate the colourful language, or lyrics that were sexually explicit.

But music is like anything with teenagers... tell one you cannot listen to (insert band here) and the Kid will go out of his way to get to listen to it. Now with the internet as big as it is, it's impossible to limit what a child/teen can dig on

I've never had music banned, and my mom now listens to Sublime upon my introduction to it. Gotta love my parents.

Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult & Ozzy Osbourne, which immediately made me go out and buy their albums.

You're parents banned you from listening to certains bands? I find that a bit funny.
Needless to say, my parents never banned me from listening to anything.

the only thing that was banned at my house by the folks was......a t-shirt i had that said.......


"i want a girl who can suck the chrome off of a trailer hitch."



c'mon folks.....it was just a joke.

If it had words, and they weren't praising God, it was not allowed in our household. And half the stuff that was. Amy Grant was too secular.

So, to answer the question directly, everything but classical, jazz instrumental, and the Russian folk songs my mom brought with her from home.

Gilda

Anything with curse words, sexual content, etc. My mom listened to my Eminem CDs while I was in school once, and later gave me a half hour lecture on how he degrades women.

Was not allowed to watch anything on TV besides PBS for the longest time, due to this.

my parents never banned any music... my mom doesnt care for a lot of what i listen to... so she would tell me to close my door and turn it down...

when I was younger my dad and I didnt have very similar tastes for music... i think a lot of that was cuz mine changed pretty often but as i've gotten older i've started really enjoying the older rock he plays a lot and he's gotten to like a lot of the newer stuff I like... now we pretty much like the same music...


and my little brother went thru a rap phase and now he's hard core into greenday... just like i was in middle school... we'll argue all day long about what their best albums are... I say dookie he says american idiot... its funny...

I grew up listening to a lot of the same kind of music my folks liked, so there was no banning. The worst song I had heard up until I was 12 was "Laura" by Billy Joel, when he says, "here I am, feeling like a fucking fool."

Then Appetite For Destruction came out...

My parents banned that one because of the "Explicit Lyrics" sticker on the cover (thank you Tipper Gore). But because they had no idea what they were doing, they had no problem with me buying the 45 rpm of "Welcome To The Jungle" - with "Mr. Brownstone" for the B-side. :D

I wasn't a "push-the-envelope" type of kid, so that was all they had to deal with. My younger brother, though, was into much heavier music (Korn, Slipknot, etc). They tried to ban his music for a while, but soon realized (with my help) that words are just words, and to be honest, they couldn't rely on the advisory stickers on the front to do the parenting anyway.

true that!

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 :p. 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.

parents got rid of mtv on me. Was around the time it first came out and i was just fascinated seeing all those musical artists wandering around alive in person other than on album covers. They never censored what i was listening to though, although they did say is this someone you really want to give your money to? happened a few times in relation to what i was listening to and had posted on my walls.

the first CD's i got taken away was black flags "the first four years" and the crucifucks "our will be done".

they ended up buying me the Black flag album on vinyl 3 months later for christmas.

My long lost sister, I've found you at last! :D

Gilda

My parents weren't super strict, but they also banned MTV. I'm not sure why since there were much worse things I could have (and probably) watched. Also, any rap music was banned. For the sole purpose that my dad just didn't want to hear it, not because he didn't want me to.