So this thread will be a place to post stories about people you may have come across who turned out to really surprise you in their musical enjoyment choices.

Example, I worked for an airline and I was doing overnights. We would basically bring the last few planes in and unload them then clean them. That took an hour, the other 7 were spent sitting around bullshitting and cooking in the breakroom.

One of the ladies I worked with was this 25 or so year old black woman who had what sounded like around 25 wild ass out of control children with 25 different criminal dudes from the way she talked. She'd been in and out of jail, had a gang of fucked up gangbanger tattoos all over her neck and face and shit, tons of gangster stories involving insane amounts of drugs and violence. Looked, talked and acted the part of unstable gangbanger ghetto mom to a tee. I liked her a lot, we got along very well. She was also an ambulence driver as her second job, lots of good stories.

One day we are smoking weed, as we would do quite often during downtimes and she pulls out a DVD and puts it is. 'You gotta check this shit out, this motherfucker is amazing'

Pat Metheny comes out and noodles around on some kind of giant fucked up harp/guitar thing through a bunch of delay pedals for an hour.
She was absolutely transfixed the entire time.
'This shit right here is real shit, this motherfucker is playing from the heart'
I shit you not, she was wiping away tears by the end of it.
She REALLY loved Pat Metheny.

Everything else she would play was regular R&B booty music or gangster rap, but once and awhile when she was in the mood she'd bring a new Pat Metheny DVD in 'Yo, this one's from London. They appreciate his shit over there, not like here' She'd hit play and he comes out and noodles around on some other weird half guitar half whatever instrument for an hour.
Blew my mind. I didn;t have the heart to say anything bad at all about it, I just pretended to think it was awesome as well.

Oh my, your stereotype got denied.

zom-zom wrote:Oh my, your stereotype got denied.

Yeah that was kind of the point of my story there and the point of the whole thread. Kind of the idea, you see. How like, you wouldn't imagine someone to be into something and it turns out they are and you say 'that's weird, I wonder how that happened'

My dad said to me out of the blue one day 'I kind of like that Nine Inch Nails band, they are pretty interesting'

No clue where that came from and it's never come up again.

hahaha, when I got caught with a Nirvana tape, my dad said "well, this is good music, but it's not for kids"

aen wrote:hahaha, when I got caught with a Nirvana tape, my dad said "well, this is good music, but it's not for kids"

That's awesome

the last time i hung out with my dad (he lives on the exact opposite side of the state from me) was 6 years ago and while he drove me around El Paso all day we listened to Squirrel Nut Zippers...i was really surprised he'd be into something like that...

also i've been really thrown by just about every girl i've ever dated and how bad their musical tastes are...

Red Square wrote:the last time i hung out with my dad (he lives on the exact opposite side of the state from me) was 6 years ago and while he drove me around El Paso all day we listened to Squirrel Nut Zippers...i was really surprised anyone in the world'd be into something like that...

FYP.

Steve V. wrote:

Red Square wrote:the last time i hung out with my dad (he lives on the exact opposite side of the state from me) was 6 years ago and while he drove me around El Paso all day we listened to Squirrel Nut Zippers...i was really surprised anyone in the world'd be into something like that...

FYP.

If they are the band with that 'Hell' song, I can see where someone would listen to that song. That's a cool song.

For some reason, my musically-square parents had a copy of Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison buried amongst their Beatles and Beach Boys "best of" compilations. I couldn't figure out why people who think the Beach Boys' best song is "Surfin' USA" would have a Cash album where he plays a song called "Cocaine Blues" while in a prison.

Fair play to my parents, though, because that was the musical discovery that turned me into a die-hard Cash fan.

DrAwkward wrote:For some reason, my musically-square parents had a copy of Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison buried amongst their Beatles and Beach Boys "best of" compilations. I couldn't figure out why people who think the Beach Boys' best song is "Surfin' USA" would have a Cash album where he plays a song called "Cocaine Blues" while in a prison.

Fair play to my parents, though, because that was the musical discovery that turned me into a die-hard Cash fan.

It's because 'A boy named Sue' was a huge pop hit, everyone got that record. I found it in my wife's parent's record pile, and as nice and sweet as they are they are not the hippest cats in the land.