Your parents' favorite bands/films
 

Do you ever like to compare the music or the movies your parents like to yours? Do you ever wonder what they were like when they were teenagers or early twenties? What they were listening to or what bands they went to see in concert?

My mother's favorite movies:

Gone With The Wind
Dr. Zhivago

Dad's favorite movies

2001: A Space Oddessy
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Belle De Jour

Favorite bands:

Mother's: Led Zepplin, Moody Blues

Dad's: Beatles, never really knew my dad's tastes in music as well beyond that. He's pretty picky with music.

Mum's fave band: Lighthouse Family
Dad's fave band: Dr Hook

Mum's fave film: Scent of a Woman
Dad's fave: Zulu

My mom's favorite band is some country bullshit. My mom's favorite movie is 8 MILE.

My dad's favorite.. you know, I have no idea about that prick. But I do remember watching Ghostbusters, Terminator, and Robocop with him a lot when I was a kid. Either way, fuck him.

My mom's favorite music is The Bee Gees, The Platters, Paul Anka, The early Beatles, salsa and Puerto Rican music.
she likes "nice movies " with not too much vulgarity, "decent" movies. In other words, dull shit.

My dad passed away in 1991, and I never got to know what music he liked besides puerto rican revolutionary music.
he loved movies like DeerHunter, Caligula, Bond films, Harvey

My Dad- Beatles, Led Zeppelin, CCR, Jimi Hendrix. All 'Classic Rock' basically.
My Mom- Elton John, Beatles, Eric Clapton, Simon & Garfunkel.

My Mom- Ferris Beueller, Uncle Buck, Napolean Dynamite & anything that has Sydney Portier.
My Dad- War/History Documentaries & anything that has John Wayne.

My Dad turned me onto good music very young. My first real concert was Elton John with my Mom. The music she listened to helped inspire me to want to write lyrics. Both my parents had a ton of vinyl when I was a kid growing up, it kills me that they sold it all before I was old enough to know any better.

my mom dug the beatles and the who.

my dad was all into pink floyd and cat stevens.

i know they both liked zeppelin some, and creedence and all the good pop from those days, elton john, simon/garfunkel etc.

films... my dad was a noir/hitchcock/bogey kinda guy. i don't think my mom had a fave movie...

Dad's music - CCR, Zepplin, Neil Young, Stone Temple Pilots (this is all I know of him anyway, he died when I was 11)

Mom's music - Joan Armatrading, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday

Not too sure on movies, although my mom always had some that she kept hidden when we were kids, like The Lover and stuff like that. She is obsessed with Columbo.

May parent's taste in music is Mexican shiz.

AS far as movies, my mom's into boring movies.
My Dad's taste in movies is better. I know his favorite movie is Tombstone...which is an awesome flick.

^^I'll be your huckleberry.

Interesting thread!

Mom digs old beatles, stuff from the 50s, bob dylan, lots of the 60s classics and etc. & whatever that chick's name is that either played with or dated james taylor. her name escapes me at the moment. oh, and james taylor too.

movies, old romantic stuff and anything with nice christian undertones wheather she realizes it or not.

Dad digs floyd, zepplin, deep purple, lots of 70s prog and synth stuff, some of which is cool, some of which I can't stand cuz it kinda goes against my musical principals like no bullshit 6 minute blues solos. He's a keyboard player so naturally that's the stuff he's prone to.

he likes alot of those cheesey scifi movies and etc. and also loves anything tom clancy. I remember he used to read those books all the time. you can basically tell he was a stoner in the 70s. haha

Carly Simon.

I was kind of named after her, but not really. Karlie. My mom like her name, but I wasn't named in her honor or anything...

Ah, yeah that's it!

Karlie is a pretty name

As a writer I think and feel not only by the sound of words but also the image the letters make...like the beatles song julia....first time I saw that name when I was younger. not a common one in ohio

after hearing that I've been searching for a julia or juliana or something

I feel like I need to either hook up with a chick by that name or if I have a daughter name her that. It just would work with my last name...

I dunno, does that sound crazy or does anyone else ever feel that way about a name...?

My dad swooned over Neil Diamond, and my mom rather pleasantly likes folk music, especially Peter Paul and Mary.

The less said the better about their choices in film...

My dad has a big collection of country / blues / folk stuff, that's mostly what he listens to. He's into some classic rock too, mostly stuff like Lynyrd Skynrd and CCR. He usually digs anything I play for him though, so he's open to new things.

My mother is weird because she has to have everything sound 'nice' or 'jolly', apparently, and always criticises me if I'm listening to Bad Brains, SY, Wu Tang, whatever- then praises me when I'm playing De La Soul, Pavement, Violent Femmes, etc. Generally she listens to shit like Whitesnake and Def Leppard, so I have really no idea of how to decode her taste.

As far as films go, my dad watches a bunch of arthouse stuff as well as more mainstream 'indie' films, Wes Anderson, Coen Bros, Michel Gondry, et al. My mother rarely watches films unless they're in black and white.

Dad:

Movies: Das Boot, The Hunt for Red October, The first Star Wars trilogy

Music: The Rolling Stones, The Dubliners, Tina Turner (I'm not kidding), 60s overall

Mum:

Movies: My fair Lady, 50s and 60s Kitsch

Music: Norah Jones, Cat Stevens, A lot of German and Austrian Kitsch most of you won't know (You should call yourselves lucky for that)

my mother is a classical musician, the sound of violin and music by bach, mozart and others was literally the first thing i ever har, along with her voice...

my dad used to listen to a lot of belgian bands like dEUS and early zita swoon. he played it a lot when i was three or four years old, and this musc still sounds extremely familiar. he likes bruce springsteen, tom waits, nick drake and others, an i got him to like sigur ros.

My Mom a lot of the same stuff as me. Some stuff that she likes more than I do: Jeff Buckley, Kayo Dot.

My Dad just likes oldies, motown, classics, soul, etc. Al Green, CCR, Pink Floyd.

As far as movies, they like to watch TCM a lot. But they like new stuff too. I'd say they generally have good taste in movies.

My parents were not into music
She mostly remembers Eddy Mitchell coming to her little town in the early 60s and teenagers arguing about records by the Beatles, one of them pronouncing the name correctly, the other pronouncing it the French way, thus telling her friend she had it all wrong.
He was into Boby Lapointe, puns galore.

She will talk about Brando and Perkins. Both for their buttocks, in Streetcar and Psycho.
He liked Orson Welles' Trial.

Apart from that, no idea what their fads were when they were circa 20.
Then I was born and I grew old.

They still don't listen to music.

She liked Mulholland Drive.
I'd say he enjoyed L.A.Confidential.
They seem satisfied watching Anthony LaPaglia and his FBI crew.

My mom's taste is beyond lame.
Her favorite movie of all time is a tie between sound of music and grease.
XD She doesn't like any whole albums
but she's super awesome as a mom.

My dad Loves:
Movies: Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Oddessy, Office Space, The Star Wars and Lord of The Rings Trilogies, Saving Private Ryan, and Doctor Strangelove

Music: The Beatles, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Doug Sahm, The Who, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Zappa, Bob Dylan.
and though they aren't his favorites per se he does really enjoy: Dinosaur Jr., Meat Puppets, SOnic YOuth, Iggy Pop and/or The Stooges, and reverend Horton Heat.
All of those courtesy of me

Mum:
*Neil Young (I'm named after him), Bob Dylan, Kate Bush, Carole King.
*Breakfast At Tiffanys, Tootsie, Midnight Cowboy.

Dad:
*Bob Dylan, Beatles.
*Once Upon A Time In The West and America, The Getaway (original obviously).