The Album Your Parents Threw In the Trash
I don't know about you, but I grew up in a time when owning an album with swearing on it was still taboo. It probably still is.
Except, back in my day, albums were liable to be taken and thrown in the garbage. Now what? A parent gets pissed off and makes their child delete songs from their iPod.
I faintly remember sneaking to the back of Target, buying a CD with a Parental Advisory label, and attempting to hide the purchase from my dad. It didn't work.
He forced me to return it.
Is there anything that prevents kids from getting a hold of "bad music" these days? Or has the idea of hiding "bad music" been almost entirely muted?
It's now one click away.
Marilyn Manson's album Antichrist Superstar and it's crazy CD art isn't hidden under your bed's mattress. It's something "Hearted" in Grooveshark. How lame.
Share a story about an album that got thrown away by your parents. Or, talk about how you police what your kids listen to. How do you control it?
Nine inch nails – the downward spiral and Mnistry – psalms 69
Heh those were the days
It never got tossed, but I did have to ask a stranger to buy me Skid Row – “Slave To The Grind” when I was in middle school.
On my 13th birthday, my older sister bought me Marilyn Manson’s “Mechanical Animals” CD.
I took it to school – a Catholic elementary school where I was the only non-Catholic student. I was accused of bringing pornographic, hateful, and blasphemous material to class.
My mom tossed it. But later that night, my older brother introduced me to Napster!
=D
I remember walking into the kitchen of my childhood house one day and my dad was reading through the lyrics of Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine. I think he was particularly interested in the song Terrible Lie. 🙂 I don’t think they made me get rid of it, but they surely expressed their disapproval.
Oh, I also snuck Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals, The Downward Spiral – etc. 😀 and some rap records by artists like Snoop Dogg and Easy E.
When I was a teenager my mom took away all my “devil music” albums (ie: slayer, celtic frost, etc.) That was the 80’s though…big scares about satanic messages in heavy metal music.
Definitely Nine Inch Nails and Manson as well. I also think she wasn’t particularly keen on Napalm Death too, but she couldn’t understand any of the words (and neither could I).
My mom wanted to make me get rid of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ “Pay Attention” back when I was in 9th grade. I copied the CD, just in case, but she never followed through on her threat. The Bosstones are still my favorite band of all time to this day.
I remember getting in big trouble when I bought “Come Clean” by Puddle of Mudd. I think my Mom thought he was just singing “She hates me!”… You should have seen her face when she heard me rocking awayin my room later that day!!! NIN also caused me some hassle, but I love ’em!
I’m from Germany and my parents don’t speak English. That probably helped to not have any of my music thrown away. Yet, I thought it was better to “mask” words that may have been deemed unappropriate for 14 year olds in the lyrics. So I practically censored them from my parents not with a beep, but with oversinging and overwhistling them. The word sex was a very prominent victim to this because it’s the same in English and German. It was fairly easy to do when the word was mentioned only once in a song, such as in “The One” by Elton John or “Criminals” by T-Bone Burnett. “Solar Sex Panel” by Little Village was a bit more difficult.
Since most of the artists’ CDs that I did dig back in the day weren’t available in the shops in the rural aread we lived in, I had to rely on mailorder catalogues for the most part. So before Xmas time, I usually asked my family how many CDs they would like to give me for Xmas as presents and placed the order myself. Upon opening the package, I had to give them the CDs until Xmas actually came round. When “For the Beauty Of Wynona” by Daniel Lanois arrived, nude cover and all, I was lucky to have had the chance to turn around the booklet inside the jewelcase, otherwise the Xmas celebrations might have been a bit different. I did indeed manage to sneak that one in.
However, my parents did not share the taste that I developed for electronic music later on, but by then, I was too old for educational censorship.