OK, so my mom has been known for having pretty bad taste in music. If it came after 1955, she's not interested normally. Plus, she even hates jazz from that period! :O
So for the past year, when I'm with her in the kitchen on weekends, or when I'm in the car with her and have my Ipod on hand, I've been trying to get her into the "best albums ever". These include:
*Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall
*The Beatles-Revolver, Sgt. Peppers, and Abbey Road (she liked a few tracks here, but most of it annoyed her)
*Tori Amos-Little Earthquakes
*Weezer-The Blue Album
*Metallica-Master of Puppets (probably her least favorite out of all of them)
*Black Sabbath-Paranoid
*Radiohead-OK Computer
*Arcade Fire-Funeral
*Miles Davis-Kind of Blue
We would all say that these albums (at least most of them) would be classics, but my mom ended up hating the vast majority of these. She seems to say that the "perfect" piece of music would be Doris Day's "Everybody Loves a Lover", even though not even one person here has her on their charts!
What do I do, guys? Not just with my mom, but with all the people who hate good music. Does them not liking these classic albums make them any less perfect? Discuss!
How old is your mom, anyway, 80? You probably won't change her taste; the generation divide has always existed with music although it seems pretty extreme in your case. Try Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Patsy Cline, Sam Cooke, or Louis Armstrong. They're of that time period and parents usually think they're great, and so do I (but I'm also older than you are, so I've expanded my taste over the years) The Beatles are always a good bet, but start with their early stuff. My 60-something year old mom loves a lot of their early singles.
Remember though, you can still have a loving relationship with your mom without liking the same music. In fact, you're not supposed to like the same music! The musical generation divide has always been this way between child and parent especially during the teenage years. It's typical and normal.
How old is your mom, anyway, 80? You probably won't change her taste; the generation divide has always existed with music although it seems pretty extreme in your case. Try Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Patsy Cline, Sam Cooke, or Louis Armstrong. They're of that time period and parents usually think they're great, and so do I (but I'm also older than you are, so I've expanded my taste over the years) The Beatles are always a good bet, but start with their early stuff. My 60-something year old mom loves a lot of their early singles.
Remember though, you can still have a loving relationship with your mom without liking the same music. In fact, you're not supposed to like the same music! The musical generation divide has always been this way between child and parent especially during the teenage years. It's typical and normal.
She's 57. And I know that this isn't a big deal. But I (like most of us will admit about themselves) oftentimes get into "music evangelism", just because I want to have other people experience the same "magic" that I have.
On a similar change of pace, what people have you been trying to "convert" in music?
How old is your mom, anyway, 80? You probably won't change her taste; the generation divide has always existed with music although it seems pretty extreme in your case. Try Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Patsy Cline, Sam Cooke, or Louis Armstrong. They're of that time period and parents usually think they're great, and so do I (but I'm also older than you are, so I've expanded my taste over the years) The Beatles are always a good bet, but start with their early stuff. My 60-something year old mom loves a lot of their early singles.
Remember though, you can still have a loving relationship with your mom without liking the same music. In fact, you're not supposed to like the same music! The musical generation divide has always been this way between child and parent especially during the teenage years. It's typical and normal.
She's 57. And I know that this isn't a big deal. But I (like most of us will admit about themselves) oftentimes get into "music evangelism", just because I want to have other people experience the same "magic" that I have.
On a similar change of pace, what people have you been trying to "convert" in music?
I don't think it's a question of converting someone. The best way to introduce someone to "good"music he or she doesn't know about is to look for common ground between you and use that common ground to introduce someone to something new. This requires a semi-deep understanding of musical genres, styles, and musical history.
Sounds like your mom is listening to music of her mom since Day recorded from 1949 to 1967. Your mom was only 12 when Day recorded her last album (which wasn't released until 1994) and only 10 when she recorded and released the preceding album. Perhaps you should try listening to her first. Discover what you have in common before forcing new stuff on her. I am 4 years your mom's senior, I don't have a Doris Day album. Perhaps music just doesn't move her much; there are many people like that.
Remember though, you can still have a loving relationship with your mom without liking the same music. In fact, you're not supposed to like the same music! The musical generation divide has always been this way between child and parent especially during the teenage years. It's typical and normal.
That is the complete opposite for me and my parents, I find that I being brought up in their music, we have basically exactly the same taste, I would play more recent artists that I like, and they would also like them
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