Classic 'Mum' musical predictions...

[kyser_soze]

Gem's from my mum, the last word in predicting musical trends...

Hip hop...it's a fad and won't last. (1983)

Madonna...she'll never amount to anything (on first hearing 'Like a Virgin'

Post '87 dance music...just a bunch of bleepy noises...it'll never last (1988...5 years later I took her to Tribal Gathering to do her first pill and she hasn;t looked back since )

What genius predictions have YOUR mothers come out with...

 

[Epona]

Since my mother is mostly into death metal/black metal I haven't heard of a lot of the groups and trends she makes predictions about!

 

[mains]

<said in an Irish accent>

'That sounds like a barrel rolling down the road' - Aphex Twin - Digeridoo (1992)

'At least those lads know how to dress smartly' - The Specials (1980)

 

[Dubversion]

my dad and morrissey:

"what a twerp. why would anybody listen to a man wearing his pyjamas".

at this point, my father was stood shouting at the tv wearing his pyjamas.

 

[Wolfie]

I think I would have liked your dad dub

and I would have seconded your mum's predictions Kyser

my mum didn't really have much interest in music one way or the other, although she did you to listen to Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother while she did the house work - she called it "that cow record"

she was however very good at predicting which of my friends would "turn out gay"

 

[Elpenor]

"Listening to this makes me feel really weird."

No mum, you are really weird

I think it was The Prodigy on the car CD player...

 

[DaveCinzano]

she was however very good at predicting which of my friends would "turn out gay"

surely in 'those days' gay simply meant happy?

my mum hated my industrial & looped tape stuff, it made her want to hurl

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Kenneth Williams was using gay to mean other than full of the joys of spring in the early 1940s. Check out his diaries.

 

[Orang Utan]

My dad: this sounds like a blind man playing cricket in a light house
Other gems: this sounds like C3PO falling down an iron spiral staircase.
I know this one! Is it Thud Thud Thud by The Thumps?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I know this one! Is it Thud Thud Thud by The Thumps?

Great! I'm nicking that one.

 

[poului]

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my dad about Oasis c.1995.

"what a load of bollocks, they're just ripping off the Beatles. They'll be a joke in a few years."


actually....

 

[DaveCinzano]

My dad: this sounds like a blind man playing cricket in a light house

why would a blind man be playing cricket in a lighthouse? alone?! it makes no sense

 

[clandestino]

Great! I'm nicking that one.

and i'm having the other two

 

[belboid]

Dad on techno: what is this, bloody rubber band music?
Rapping: cant they sing then?

 

[baldrick]

mum on techno: "it sounds like a dead body being dragged down the stairs"

thereafter known as "dead body music"

 

[AverageJoe]

Whenever there's any music on TV, my mum looks up and squints - and then says

'is that a girl or a boy'

The first time she did this was Culture Club on Top of The Pops...

And another the other day - I was listening to the Fiddy Cent vs Nine Inch Nails 'In Da Club', when she called in from another room..'Are you watching horseracing?'. i didn't understand until she said that his 'singing' 'style' sounds like a racecourse commentator. Which I quite liked.

And finally - 'Drum and Bass? Sounds like someone dropping cutlery down the stairs'

 

[Wolfie]

he's bumping other people's threads now!!!!!

 

[AverageJoe]

who? me?

 

[belboid]

he's bumping other people's threads now!!!!!

why that dirty little...!!!

that does remind me tho...

 

[fishfingerer]

My mum thought Spinal Tap were real. "They're awful."

That's not a preidction though is it.

 

[Wintermute]

Apart from a mother who thinks her favourite ballad is Enya's "Up The Orinico" and a father who's passionately mistrustful of anything that doesn't involve wearing a chunky pullover and sticking one finger in your ear, my parents have impeccable musical taste and regularly rob all my gabba tapes.

 

[rubbershoes]

to destroy them i hope c

 

[Cloo]

My parents are quite on the ball ... although dad tends to think a lot of electronic stuff sounds like Stockhausen or Holger Czukay.

 

[LJo]

My mum on the Pixies: "What on earth is that man screaming about?"
My mum on the Prodigy: "You can't dance to that! It's too fast!"

Bless.

 

[Sunspots]

(1980?) My mum finally snaps after hearing me play Kraftwerk for the thousandth time:

"-Aaaaarrgghhh!!! It's just so repetitive!!!"

(1981?) My mum hearing me play The Birthday Party:

"-Urrghhh, it just sounds so... HORRIBLE!"

(-Of course, now he's mellowed out, she rather likes Nick Cave... )

 

[DaveCinzano]

he's bumping other people's threads now!!!!!

it's a good one though!

 

[Cloo]

I just remembered a classic from my mum. First showing of the ‘Firestarter’ video on TOTP (the one that caused all the complaints). Mum (observing Keith Flint supposedly scaring kiddies): ‘Who’s that incredibly camp-looking person?’

 

[bluestreak]

my mum on the wildhearts...

"it makes me drive really fast"

my dad on the intro to nirvana's serve the servants:

"that's not really necessary is it?"

my dad halfway through scentless apprentice

"have a heart"

 

[spanglychild]

when I was 13 or 14 I was playing the lemonheads. My mum said "ooh that's nice, I like this music". Killed it for me stone dead. I then quickly moved onto extreme metal

 

[SubZeroCat]

This is the weird thing - my 52 yr old French mother has shown interest in the following from my/my sister's music collection over the years:

-Radiohead
-The Verve
-Boards of Canada
-Four Tet
-Squarepusher
-Eveson (liquid drum n bass)



However she does like weird dancey/trancey music (Euphoria mixes).

I'm sure my dad has said some "hilarious" things about the music I like but I never remember them.