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.

my mom never banned music, but when she saw the cover for L7's "Hungry For Stink" album she wondered out loud if she should:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov...52586e75w4.jpg

I was lucky in that my parents never banned anything from my sister or myself. I guess the fact that I liked their music and the music my sister and I grew up liking our parents listened to themselves (most of the time).

My dad himself listened to the Rolling Stones, Simon and Garfunkel, Blue Oyster Cult, Sabbath and late 60's - early 70's psychadelic rock and he was heavily into listening to music. In fact he would sing to the radio and when he would mess up he'd laugh with us and say "dammit, the band changed the lyrics again."

My mom just listened to whatever anyone else had, she didn't really get into music much when we were kids (she had probably had her fill after her and dad took me to Woodstock, I can only imagine how much fun having a 2 yr. old to care for there was).

I truly consider myself lucky as my parents were extremely liberal and non judgemental over us kids and what we wanted to read, listen to, or watch.

Our friends on the other hand..... that's where the judgemental views and censorships came into play. But that's a different thread.

Of all the stuff I ever listened to -- the only song my parents EVER objected to was the song "Short People" by Randy Newman ("Short people got/No reason to live...). They heard it on my radio, and asked me never to play it in front of them again.

They completely missed the satire, and God only knows why that song (and that song only) ever caught their attention. They just didn't think the lyrics were "nice".

I was listening to KISS and stuff like that all the time in the 70's. They just tuned it out, I guess.

My parents have never banned ANYTHING from me. Although if a sex scene came on in an R movie when we were kids, he'd flip the channel for a minute or two and we'd laugh about it.

I guess I am a lot older than most of the posters here. I grew up in the 50's and 60's when Rock & Roll started to take over pop music. My parents never banned any music but thought the new rock singers/groups were just a bunch of noise. The car radio was tuned into Perry Como, Tony Bennett and Jay P Morgan, etc.. and not Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc...

About the time that they accepted that rock was here to stay along came the British invasion with the Beatles, Stones, etc.. Before too long they gave up and the radio was tuned into the top 40 rock stations.

Nothing was banned, per se, in the house by my father, but he always complained that the 'modern' music largely was undeserved of the label. He didn't like it and vocally stated, yet, never actively stopped us from listening. He would punish us from our music but that was more of an overall part of the discipline process because we were all music fans. Something was always playing.

When I was a preschooler, my mom hid the record album of Sousa marches, because I used to play it over and over and march around the house. Other than that, nothing.

You are a strange, strange fellow redlemon. This explains a lot. :lol:

My parents weren't around a lot when I was younger so nothing really ever got banned because they weren't there to enforce it. The only thing I can remember was my mom throwing away Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic because it had the word sex in the title. However, like any other good hard-working girl, I went out, bought another copy, and found a good hiding spot.

Also, when I was younger I wasn't allowed to sing the cuss words in songs so we made up our own words to insert in. That was fun.

I also remember my grandmother throwing a fit and refusing to let me buy a Dr. Dre Chronic t-shirt...of course that was after my aunt had to tell her that it was not a palm on the front of the shirt, but a marijuana leaf. :lol:

I never had anything banned, fortunately for me. My first CD, however, was Nevermind, and I only had a discman and a set of headphones on which to listen. I think I was 10 or 11 when I got it. My parents have laughed incessantly at me since then, because, apparently, I would sing along very loud while I listened, but didn't know that I was doing it, because, you know, I had headphones on.

The song I belted most enthusiastically was "In Bloom." The lyrics to the chorus are:
And he's the one who likes
All our pretty songs and he
Likes to sing along and he
Likes to shoot his gun but he
Don't know what it means
He don't know what it means (2x)
And I say aahh

My rendition was something along the lines of:

And he's nah none who likes
Ball lah pretty songs andee
Like to lah lah laaaaah andee
likes to shoootis gun buddy
done know what it means

I imagine they wanted to ban it after months of hearing that.

my parents banned all things rap.

but what happened at the oscars kinda turned things around.

Anything with excessive cussing... i.e. Eminem.

I hated the ban at the time, but now I kind of agree. Who needs excessive cussing anyway? Eh, maybe I've picked up too much after my parents.

Lol! And I said I never would! :-P

I have never had any form of music banned, nor have I banned any form of music. Although, as my parents before me, I most certainly have voiced my displeasure over several choices. Such is the way of the world. I should imagine that Franz Joseph Haydn's mother pounded on his door, shouting "Turn that shit down!"

My parents really didnt want me listening to nasty/gangsta rap, back when 2 live Crew and NWA were popular. That was fine with me, cause I never cared for rap anyways. They would only allow me to play metal in my room, or upstairs when they were not home. They didnt want to here a bunch of screaming :rolleyes:

That was fine too, my parents and I both like country so that was played upstairs when they were home.

I had no music banned. My parents were not cool by any stretch of the imagination, but they were smart enough to realize how stupid "banning" something would be.

I remember listening to a Justin Wilson comedy album with my father once, and it was loaded with "damn" and "hell" unlike anything I'd ever heard before. He laughed along with all the jokes, and then told me it was okay for me to listen to it and laugh, but he'd better not ever catch me using words like that. I understood the dichotomy at once, and my folks never had a problem with me being an ass about my music in front of them. They, in turn, were never an ass in return about my music.

Mum never really moderated us in that fashion. We were typically left to our own devices, which forced me to figure out other ways to rebel. I always felt a bit left out that when I put on some AC/DC or Metallica or Kraftwerk or what have you, I wasn't able to defy authority with it like the other kids.

She did have a bit of trouble justifying buying Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's debut album for my sister, although that only lasted until she heard it and discovered that it wasn't 'evil rap' or anything of the sort.

Also,

Seconded.

When I was younger, my dad's method of banning consisted of calling anything he didn't like "crap." That was enough to keep me from listening to it... for a few years anyway.

I put mom onto a lot of her music.

when i was in like 6th grade "alice in chains" for their heroin references, i guess
and "madball" for their pissing on their father's grave references

Prodigy, rap.

My mom pretty much put the ixnay on MTV until I was in high school. The only music allowed to play above background music in the common areas was pretty much the playlist of "Dalila". I didn't really mind until I started going to concerts with friends and experiencing other music. After I went to my first rock concert (LIVE), I got my own minisystem to listen to the Alt. station. Since then my taste have become eclectic to say the least.

When I was a youngin' I had to have my parents buy me any of my music. My mom wouldn't buy me a Butthole Surfers CD just because of their name.

The only album that was destroyed while I was growing up was one of my sister's. Morris Day and the Time, but I can't remember which one. It was soon after Prince's Purple Rain came out. Anyway, there was some song on the flip side that included a lot of "sex sounds".

To give you an idea of how my parents went about things, the album wasn't broken in pieces and thrown away but my father cut multiple gouges on each side (rendering the LP useless) and put it back in the dust cover and back with the rest of my sister's albums and there it sat until my sister found it a few days later.

I'm 36 now and I still don't understand the thinking behind it. Why not just confront my sister and tell her the album was gone? [shrug]

I was living on my own when anything worth banning by my parents started getting play time. (Late '60's) I really don't think they would have banned anything other than playing it too loudly. However, there were many times that I wished I could ban Lawrence Welk. :eek:

My mother raised me on George Carlin albums. No joke.

lmfao! I've never heard of them. I love it.:) :lol:

my parents have split points of view about the music i listen to. my dad used to forbid me from listening to metallica. that was about 8 years ago. now, i just got back from ozzfest, and needless to say, he was not a fan of that little adventure, but my mom doesn't care, she thinks of my music as an act of defining my personality. i think my dad just associates everything that he didn't grow up with as being related to sex drugs and alcohol

My parents would have banned rap if I liked it, but I don't so it didn't matter.

My mother did not want me to listen to KISS because she believed that KISS stood for "Kids In Satan's Service". Gotta love that woman!

My parents never banned any music from me, but they seemed suspicious a few times when I got CDs where the price tag was partially or completely covering up the parental advisory. Even if they did try to ban music, it wouldn't have mattered anyway, because I could have just gotten it from my friends.

In the 80's, my mother made us change the radio station if the song "Maneater" by Hall & Oates was playing. The lyrics could be perceived as suggesting oral sex, I suppose, but there were certainly worse songs out there at that time.

I remember that my mother also made me turn the radio off when "Shock the Monkey" was playing once because she thought they were singing "Suck the Mountains" instead. When I convinced her that the lyrics were actually "Shock the Monkey", she never banned anything suggestive again. :)

my parents weren't really around my scene. They had their own tunes to listen to, and didn't really care what I listened to. Playing in a swing band back in the day helped to blur the generational lines, but my mom was a rock'n'roller (a la Happy Days) and a Beatles freak too.

My dad would retreat into his Wagnerian symphonies for respite, but he also sang in an Ink Spots ( http://inkspots.ca/ ) cover group called the Pink Spots as well as the church choir.

I do recall freaking out my mom once as a teenager, by jacking up the stereo system with Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love, at the scream. But other than that, no reaction.

As for myself, my kids are self regulating. After a brief, but embarrasing foray into boy bands and the Spice Girls, they have settled down, and are now staunch supporters of classic rock, new rock and its variations (punk, thrash, ballads) and are developing a taste for blues work.

They are the ones that have put their feet down, and refuse hip hop (anything even though i try to engage them into the pre gangsta sensibilities of root reggae, ska, rap etc) .

If it comes down to a ban, the only thing that I have objected to was purchasing a Cradle of Filth album for my 16 yr old as it had misogynist lyrics.

We never had anything banned...but if they didn't like it they wouldn't buy it for us. If we could pay for it ourselves, that was okay. As long as they didn't have to listen to it. I was pretty tame in my listening (country, mostly Reba McEntire), but my brother pushed the boundaries and it ended up my Dad started liking some of the stuff. My parents were/are both music lovers. Always something going in the car radio.....

i might be willing to pay to hear that lol


my parents never really told me not to listen to something, they told me to turn it down or off when they were watching the news or something, but never really said it's not an acceptable form of entertainment

My parents didn't give a crap what i lstened to unless I played it to loud...But then again my mom likes Audioslave and Alice In Chains and my dad listins to AC/DC

When I really got into music I was spending countless hours in my room, door locked, drawing and playing guitar so I was able to sneak a lot of music by them by hiding the cover art (at one time I actually redrew the cover art of Sublime's self titled album, trying to incorporate the parental advisory into the flowers) and turning it off whenever they pounded on the door to ask what I was listening to.

The only album to be confiscated was a cassette single of Bang and Blame by REM, and my parents begged to buy back Greenday's Dookie at cover price just so I wouldn't listen to such "filthy" music. At least that was my mom and stepdad. My stepdad at one time actually gave me a two hour lecture after hearing some Eminem I accidentally left in my stereo of my truck (I was giving him a ride to pick up his car and turned off the cd before he could hear anything, he forced me to put it back on so he could see what I was "hiding").

Eventually my parents decided that because I had earrings, listened to Sublime and H20 that I was a drug-using misfit that was beyond saving (little did they know I was straightedge back then).

We were also banned from watching MTV at that point, weren't allowed to rent R rated movies (I had to wait until I could drive to the Blockbuster in the next town, rent the films with my own ID and then hide the movies), couldn't say "suck" or the "F" word (fart). Now days, they've relaxed quite a bit, judging from my 13 year old sister's music collection.

My dad on the other hand sometimes banned TV or music because he thought it was dumb. Case in point, he had no problem with MTV, but he didn't like me watching Beavis and Butthead because he thought it was "stupid as hell". :)

My mom lectured me on MTV to the point that I assumed they shows hardcore porn, and wondered why I never saw those shows when she was out of the house and I turned it on. For the most part, my dad didn't care and my mom banned whatever the news told her was evil. Marilyn Manson was unacceptable (not that I really liked his stuff anyway,) and after three kids killed someone "because Slayer told them to prove their loyalty to the band at a concert by going home and killing someone," that went, too.

The same trend applied to games. Doom was forbidden because it made the Columbine kids shoot up their school, but Quake and Unreal were fine.

My mother never banned any music. She didn't mind Zeppeling, Sabbath, The Police, Prince, The Door, Dylan, Bowie ... list goes on. In fact, out of everything, the only artist she commented on was Lou Reed. She didn't even know who he was, but whenever he came on she would make a comment about it being the worst thing she ever heard.

anything that was Rap or Hip Hop, I guess they didn't want me learning about the bitches and hoes... but now... thats all I really listen to because it's the only thing thats new to me. Rock got old because I've listened to pretty much everything and anything new that comes out is basically the same, except for a few exceptions.

I bow to your parents

I didnt get any music banned...I wasnt allowed loud music on at home and I moved out young,long before I began to understand music.the only thing i remember listnening to a lot inmy parents vicinity was Bon Jovi and Nirvana

Fun thread! A friend and I were just talking about this today.

My parents had plenty of their own problems, so they largely ignored this aspect of our lives. Until... one day my mother (a very catholic woman... sometimes) decided that I was going to hell for my terrible influence on my younger sister directly relating to my choice in music. The following albums were confiscated (and subsequently destroyed) on fateful afternoon upon returning home from a laborious day in ninth grade:

UB40 - Labour of Love....The song Red, Red Wine insinuated that I had a desire to become an alcoholic and a sinner.

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell.... Self explanitory.

Rancid - my entire collection of albums and Ep's. Though, in 1995 it wasn't that many. "Punk rock music does not belong in any childs head"

Nirvana - All of my albums. And my "RIP CURT" T-shirt (give me a break. I was in ninth grade). My mother reasoned that he was a drug addict who killed himself and listening to his music could cause this to happen to me as well.

Hole - Live Through This. Drugs, sex, and affiliation to Curt Cobain were enough to kill this one for me.

I drew the line at Smashing Pumpkins. They were my favorite band on earth. I threw a complete, 3 year old child style temper tantrum (kicking, screaming, crying and a threat to run away included) when she attempted to toss my fas growing collection of albums, eps, singles, and imports (remember when you had to have the single and the import and the import from somewhere else, even though it was the same song?). She relented if I promised to get rid of my SP "Just Say Maybe" t-shirt. I did. It was a small price....

This all happened in one day. It hasn't happened since... not to my younger sister, either. At one point or another I have happened to re-acquire all the albums I lost... and then probably got rid of them again. Except for the Smashing Pumpkins of course. It's probably the most complete collection of anything I've ever owned in my life.... though I haven't listened to a single album in years.

My musical taste has largely diversified since then, and my mother and I (shudder) actually enjoy a lot of the same things. She's definately come a long way, but still hates about 70% of everything I listen to.

music i got banned from
 

When i was younger i was into like Slayer pantera megadeth when i was 7-8 years old and mom was all like blah blah blah satan so i never lisen to that ever since hahahaha oh well

When I lived with my aunt, she would let me listen to any kind of music that had an electric guitar and sounded "rock" like! Then I bought "The Punisher" Soundtrack. I backslid from then onto satans music till today!!

Xerxys: Nickleback isn't Satan music :lol:

my parents were hardcore religious. They didn't want me listening to anything except "christian" music. I had stashes of tapes and cd's hidden all over the place to get my fix. As I got older they just realized I was going to do and be what I want no matter what they said and it relaxed a bit. That being said, "Jesus Saves" by Slayer isn't the best thing to blast in a christian household ;)

none. never. ridiculous. unheard of.
I love my parents.

banned music ?!? WTF is with that ? no banned music ever.

Lessee, um, my mom threw away every AC/DC record my dad ever owned o_O

But during my childhood I pretty much just listened to Weird Al and old rock and metal, so she didn't mind... until I took home a Rob Zombie album. But then I got rid of it because it gave me nightmares. Now I like it.

Gwar anyone?

ha, I saw gwar live a couple of times....never saw much point in buying their albums, though.
I was all growed up by the time they came along, but even if i weren't my mother would have gotten the joke.

The first concert I went to was a 92 cent concert from KGON FM 92.3 in Portland. I asked my parents if I could go, 50 miles north, with some friends to see the show. My mom asked "what bands will be playing?" When I told her "AC/DC and Cheap Trick" they both said 'No, no way in hell." So I spent the night at a "friends house" At the time I'd never heard of AC/DC but they put on a good on a good show. I thought Cheap Trick sounded better on my 8-track.

Same here. The first album I ever bought was Danzig's Thrall — Demonsweatlive. To this day, I still love that cover art. /fantasy geek

The only thing I can remember that would remotely resemble "banning" was that my father absolutely hated the sound of Tragically Hip's Gord Downie's voice. That in itself was worth being into the music. It was a kind of fathersbane. It was a bit of a struggle to allow it being played in the car.

I love mine too.

My mom likes all kinds of music, provided it has a good beat. I remember listening to a lot of Prince as a kid--she loves Prince. And when I was in middle school she bought a Marilyn Manson CD.

My folks just aren't the censoring kind.

My parents didn't ban any music, comics, or stand-up comedy, no matter the theme or age level. However, they did ban me from seeing Fritz the Cat, A Clockwork Orange, and Blue Velvet - all of which I ran out and rented the moment I turned 18, and all of which (except Clockwork Orange) were disappointing.

My parents banned nothing, they may not have liked it, but they never banned me from it.

My parents didn't ban any of my music.

Same for my husband.

I would think it would be easier today with the internet, MP3's, etc.

We had to buy our records and we couldn't hide what we did. Yes, vinyl records are all we had. Oh yeah, the failed experiment of 8 tracks. And cassettes.

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As long as I kept my door shut & the volume down (headphones weirded me out, still do), I could listen to just about anything that I wanted to.

My mom wouldn't let me go to quite a few shows in high school because she didn't want me seeing "death bands" that had people kill themselves on stage, which she read on the internet by searching amazon for reviews of a band, which I don't believe was a death metal band either. This policy went into effect after I saw Deicide, Hate Eternal, Mortician. and other bands, and I soon figured out a way around it by telling her I was going to something local most of the time so she couldn't look it up. To this day she complains when she sees me wear a shirt that says Judas Priest, Sodom, etc.
Additionally, any music that mass media claimed to be evil was banned, even though Slayer is the only one that I actually listened to.

Not really "banned," but my folks didn't like me listening to rap/hip-hop with dirty words or implied meanings in them. I still listened to it :D