What did the older generation thought of the youth’s music in the late 60s and 70s?

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What did the older generation, who came up from an earlier time like the 40s and 50s, think in the 70s was the era of the youth at the time of music with stars like Michael Jackson, Aretha, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye in the 70s and 80s? Did they like the music that was for young people in the 70s or didn’t like it?

Lliam · Accepted Answer

My dad was a WWII vet and hated anything new. He even thought the early Beatles were long haired hippies.
My mom was cool and warmed to the music my sister and I listened to.
She took my sister and I to see A Hard Day's Night and told my sister, "When the movie starts, we're going to scream, alright?" LOL
My friends thought she was the cool mom. She even stood in line at the box office a few times to get us tickets for bands like Black Sabbath and Aerosmith.

My maternal grandfather was kind of an audiophile and introduced me to bands like The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, the Mama and the Papas, and other pop music with great vocals. He wasn't into "black" music but liked Nat King Cole, "Little" Stevie Wonder, The Drifters and a few back artists.
But he hated the rock music I started listening to when I was 14 or 15. Stuff like The Doors, Steppenwolf, Cream, Hendrix, Jethro Tull, etc. It was profane and noisy.

I got introduced to Motown and other black musicians through the radio.

The first concert I ever attended was Stevie Wonder opening for Sly and the Family Stone at the Los Angeles Forum in 1970 when I was 16.

FunkyMonkee · Accepted Answer

They hated any music from the later `50's onwards and, to them, it was just noise.
Dad's mom was even worse. If she was in the living room and I was playing records in the dining room and then got up to get something in the kitchen for a few seconds, when I got back, she was about to pull the plug of my player out of the wall! Dad would stop her saying, "Mom, he's listening to that!" She would say, "He's NOT listening to it, he's in the next room!'"
However, by the late `80's, they kinda liked some of the stuff I grew up with. Suddenly, what we listened to as kids (The Beatles, etc.) and especially some of the `70's music (Engelfart Humperstink, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Barry Manilow, etc.) was loved by them, at least mom.

Nikki1989 · Accepted Answer

Aretha, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye had their moments, but Jackson was always just a puppet. Sure you can like his songs all you want but how much of it came from his vision, almost nothing.

exitseven · Answer

My father was a WW2 vet and he liked the Kingston Trio, Marty robbins and I found early Bob Dylan and Joan Baez albums in with records.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

Marvin Gaye, Jackson 5, Prince

DrPepper12 · Answer

electronic noise  filled with depravity. Ya know, the usual what one generation thinks of the recent

AngryCarl · Answer

My parents only listened to classical music. I can't speak for normal people, but I assume they treated anything new and radical with disdain and suspicion.

Iron_Man · Answer

I don’t think they like it too much that kind of music

OtterMan68 · Answer

They thought it was loud

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