Do you still like/listen to any music your parents exposed to you first? [Archive]

epo

01-24-2009, 11:56 AM

sometimes i will put on some kenny rogers music that my parents listened to when i was a kid. its lame but it is fun.

Wouldn't it be easier to blame you for your bad taste?

Gvac

01-24-2009, 11:56 AM

Mom introduced me to Doo-Wop and 50's music in general, and I still love it to this day. Dad's a big classic country guy - Hank Williams Sr., Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, etc. and I definitely inherited that as well.

I think that's probably why I absolutely flipped for Southern Rock when I was in junior high...it was a marriage of country and rock and that's what I grew up hearing in my house.

Caseyelan

01-24-2009, 12:02 PM

My dad loved Bob Marley, Joe Jackson and Talking Heads... Sooo yes.

I have video of me dancing with my dad, standing on his feet, to Marley's "Pimpers paradise"
which is funny on many levels.

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Contra

01-24-2009, 12:09 PM

A bunch of stuff! Tom Petty and the heartbreakers, Steely Dan, Bon Jovi, old school Michael Jackson and Jackson 5, Huey Lewis and the News, I know there's a lot more but that's what I can think of off the top of my head.

My grandfather got me into the 50's stuff like do wop and Motown.

OGC

01-24-2009, 12:19 PM

Since I am older than most of the posters here (except Gvac), that means my parents were older too. Dad exposed me to bluegrass and old time country music, and mom would play Swing music (Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman etc), and Nat King Cole. I thought it was lame at first but got to like it very quickly. I still listen to it all. It's sort of like musical "comfort food"

Gvac

01-24-2009, 12:23 PM

Since I am older than most of the posters here (except Gvac)

You prick! You'd be surprised at how many of the regulars here are over 40.

My grandparents on my mother's side were music lovers too, and my grandmother was a concert pianist. She turned me onto classical music and Frank Sinatra, while my grandfather got me into swing and big band stuff.

hedges

01-24-2009, 12:26 PM

To this day, I have certain Simon and Garfunkel and Beatles songs memorized, from the age of 6-7, just by sitting by the turntable with the headphones on, and listening and following along with the lyrics sheet.

MacVittie

01-24-2009, 12:32 PM

I'm the same way, it takes me hours to memorize mathematical theorems, yet I'll never forget the lyrics to Beatles and Paul Simon songs. They've been implanted in there since I was 6 on long car rides to Cape Cod.

OGC

01-24-2009, 12:33 PM

You prick! You'd be surprised at how many of the regulars here are over 40.

My grandparents on my mother's side were music lovers too, and my grandmother was a concert pianist. She turned me onto classical music and Frank Sinatra, while my grandfather got me into swing and big band stuff.

You are right about over 40 posters out here. I was surprised to find out how many of us there are when there was an age pole a couple of months ago.

I do enjoy classical music too, but neither of my parents cared for it. I can thank Bugs Bunny and (ugh) Mickey Mouse for that.

hedges

01-24-2009, 12:33 PM

At an early age the only jazz I was exposed to was Big Band like Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman, then later Dave Brubeck.

drjoek

01-24-2009, 12:52 PM

TheMojoPin

01-24-2009, 12:52 PM

My parents by and large have had horrible musical taste, but stuff like the Beatles and the other British Invasion bads and a lot of classic Motown and such I heard first through them. Otherwise it's all Yes and Jethro Tull and Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald and the sort...nightmarish.

TheMojoPin

01-24-2009, 12:53 PM

No

Not a lover of the harpsichord?

spankyfrank

01-24-2009, 12:58 PM

I absolutely still listen to The Beatles, and a bunch of those 60's-70's singer songwriters. Fantastic music it all is.

Tall_James

01-24-2009, 01:01 PM

The Dave Brubeck Quartet, The Ramsey Lewis Trio, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 and The Beatles.

GregoryJoseph

01-24-2009, 01:02 PM

I absolutely still listen to The Beatles, and a bunch of those 60's-70's singer songwriters. Fantastic music it all is.

Yoda?

AngelAmy

01-24-2009, 01:05 PM

We used to listen to Billy Joel on long road trips (like when we drove to upstate new york or to cape cod) and he is still one of my favorites.

beachbum

01-24-2009, 02:46 PM

Beatles,CCR,Blood Sweat and Tears,Grand Funk Railroad,and all of my mom's old 45's from the '50's.I don't listen to this stuff now but it helped to form my love for music.(yes Gvac,I am over 40).My dad taught me how to operate the family stereo,one of those big GE console models when I was 4.I have been playing something in the background ever since.

Don't tell my mom I stole a bunch of her old 45's like Johnny B Goode and Twist and Shout.

DiabloSammich

01-24-2009, 02:51 PM

Two words.

Super.

Tramp.

epo

01-24-2009, 02:52 PM

Two words.

Super.

Tramp.

Loved tramp, didn't care for super.

TooLowBrow

01-24-2009, 02:53 PM

the beach boys

brettmojo

01-24-2009, 02:59 PM

Can't stand country any more. Had to listen to it for my first 13 years or so. Thank god for a chick from San Diego for turning me onto punk rock.

hedges

01-24-2009, 03:08 PM

I think my first rock albums outside my parents sphere of influence was Doors 13 and The Rolling Stones Aftermath. I had friend who was into these bands.

high fly

01-24-2009, 03:18 PM

I would have to say my parents got me into the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel. Also Big Band jazz and some classical.

My parents got me into blues and R&B and I'm still a big fan of both.
I get out to their place 3 or 4 times a year and my father and I often go into Memphis and check out the scene.
In the summer, we'll go by John Handy Park where there are very good performers playing all day...

MC Pee Pants

01-24-2009, 03:41 PM

Aerosmith.
A couple years ago my dad joined some CD club thing and he started getting music I listened to when i was younger. But he decided to start talking about it & blasting it just recently, it terrible. Why is a 55 year old guy listening to the Gorillaz?

razorboy

01-24-2009, 03:49 PM

Dad mostly. Dylan, VU, Bowie, Allman Bros, Albert Collins, Talking Heads, Taste, Van Morrison, Donny Hathaway, Doug Sahm, Steely Dan, Joan Armatrading, The Kinks... actually my list could probably go one for a few pages. I'm not prepared to write it and none of you would want to read it.

hedges

01-24-2009, 05:18 PM

The guitarist in my old band used to say he was rocked in his cradle to The Who's Tommy.

landarch

01-24-2009, 05:50 PM

My parents listened to the most god-awful country music--not even good country music but some sort of early-80's top 40 country music on the rural Mississippi radio station. But, every now and again we'd find a gem in there....Hank Williams Sr., Jim Reeves, Charley Pride. I sing those old Jim Reeves songs to my daughter now. I was in a bar in Manhattan once that was playing that old country music on the jukebox and I was the only one in the group that could sing along. It was a good feeling.

sailor

01-24-2009, 05:51 PM

IWOWedGregBrady

01-24-2009, 06:00 PM

My dad gave me my first introduction to Pink Floyd, they've since become a favorite of mine. Other than that, I mainly associate him with more specific songs I'd hear in the car with him - Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Just a Gigolo, Paradise by the Dashboard Light, Number One (Lena Lovitch), Tom's Diner.

From my mom I got an appreciation for early girl-group pop singles (Leader of the Pack, Remember (Walking in the Sand), etc.

My musical tastes tend towards my dad's.

outlawfrank

01-24-2009, 06:06 PM

Abba

Heather 8

01-25-2009, 12:19 AM

I still listen to a lot of the stuff my dad listened to (mainly southern rock like Skynard & the Allman Brothers). My mom was and still is into pretty wussified soft rock, which I can't be bothered with.

Pestz4Evah

01-25-2009, 12:26 AM

My Dad played a lot of Ry Cooder, Grateful Dead, The Who, Pink Floyd. Mom was into Celine Dion, Michael Bolton, Bette Midler. I side with Dad here.

A.J.

01-25-2009, 12:53 AM

I grew up on my parents' Beach Boys, Beatles and Stones records.

Thankfully, I was not scarred for life by my Mom's Peter, Paul and Mary, John Denver and Barry Manilow albums.

landarch

01-25-2009, 02:45 AM

a mild fondness for john denver and certain country songs, but that's about it. and my dad would often lament that you couldn't get good country on the radio anywhere, so it might not have been your parents' fault.

Good point, and they might have felt the same way about their music. You can't really get good anything on the radio now, so I can draw that parallel. It still sucked.

sailor

01-25-2009, 03:23 AM

Good point, and they might have felt the same way about their music. You can't really get good anything on the radio now, so I can draw that parallel. It still sucked.

it's kinda like if you're an old school metallica fan and want to hear some kill 'em all and ride the lightning, but the radio will only play st anger and death magnetic.

Farmer Dave

01-25-2009, 06:54 AM

Nope, I grew up musicless. I did however spend a hour the other night listening to the Alt Nation channel with my 10 y/o daughter. That was cool.

TheMojoPin

01-25-2009, 06:56 AM

Basically 95% of what I grew up with. (http://www.yachtrock.com/)

Gvac

01-25-2009, 06:58 AM

Nope, I grew up musicless.

Seriously? How? No radio or record player anywhere?

disneyspy

01-25-2009, 07:00 AM

you'd think they
'd at least sing somethin durin one of theur barn raisin partys

grlNIN

01-25-2009, 08:14 AM

My parents were 18 in '69 so they were the prime age for all the great counterculture bands. My mom is a huge, huge, huge Beatles, Clapton and Bruce Springsteen fan and that has most definitely transposed on to me. My dad always listened to Pink Floyd and The Stones he was more into the guitar heavy bands from the '60's and '70's, however i do remember him liking "some NIN songs from the radio.

My mom has been the biggest influence for me because she has a lot of variance in her tastes and always tried to get me to listen to things i otherwise wouldn't have (she bought me Revolver,Abbey Road, Angry Little Pill and the Hootie album for Xmas when i was about 10 and then Mellow Gold on cassette).

There was always music on i the house, whether it was from my older brothers(who were also a big influence on what i was exposed to) or my parents or just watching MTV.

Coach

01-25-2009, 08:35 AM

Dad had a thing for Bond Soundtracks..I still love listening to them...also Peter, Paul, and Mary, and Mitch Miller.
And he used to play The Ballad of The Green Beret's Over and Over and Over...I used to know every word to it.

midwestjeff

01-25-2009, 08:57 AM

Two words.
Super.

Tramp.

I know this is probably a joke because you're such a wisecracker
but my mom told me a couple years ago that I loved Super Tramp when I was a kid.
Right after she said it, I slapped her fucking face.

She also bought my first Dylan CD though, so it's a win/lose thing.

Puggle_kicker

01-25-2009, 09:02 AM

for the longest time my old man used to recommend the dead to me. funny thing is . . . he never really listened to them. and he isnt really the one that introduced them to me . . . that happened later, but now Im a huge deadhead, ie, dirty hippy scum. :bye:

TjM

01-25-2009, 09:08 AM

Sure

My dad was a huge CCR fan and they've become my favorite band. He also got me hooked on the Robert Parker Spenser books

zildjian361

01-25-2009, 09:13 AM

grlNIN

01-25-2009, 09:21 AM

My Dad doesn't even know how to text, i doubt he would crack the high sophistication of the interwebz.

TjM

01-25-2009, 09:39 AM

Oops wrong thread

PapaBear

01-25-2009, 09:38 PM

I don't really listen to much music anymore, and I rarely listened to my father's music on my own before, but I loved it anyway, and loved to listen when he played it. His tastes were mostly things like Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, and the like.

Dirtbag

01-25-2009, 09:42 PM

My parents were never big on music. The only guy I know my mother really liked was Meat Loaf, who I'm pretty indifferent towards. Except in Fight Club. His name is Robert Paulson.

Slumbag

01-25-2009, 09:46 PM

My father grew up in the 60's, yet only listens to classical music. Even when he was a kid. And my mother listens to shit.

So, no.

hedges

01-25-2009, 10:20 PM

My father finally went to his first "rock concert" : Rod Stewart. He's 68. All he could say about the show was how loud it was.

PapaBear

01-25-2009, 10:27 PM

My father finally went to his first "rock concert" : Rod Stewart. He's 68. All he could say about the show was how loud it was.
My mother (now 77) watched a live television concert of Rod Stewart back in the early 80's. He was dancing around in his hot pink skin tight pants singing Hot Legs, and she said "He's SO cute!" It really creeped me out. She also thought J Geils' "Angel is a Centerfold" was "such an adorable song". She's a crazy lady. Just ask Whistlepig!

grlNIN

01-25-2009, 10:36 PM

My mother (now 77) watched a live television concert of Rod Stewart back in the early 80's. He was dancing around in his hot pink skin tight pants singing Hot Legs, and she said "He's SO cute!" It really creeped me out. !

My boyfriend's favorite song when he was little was "Young Turks".

I almost broke up with him right on the spot.

A.J.

01-25-2009, 10:39 PM

My boyfriend's favorite song when he was little was "Young Turks".

So everytime he hears it, he'll be "Forever Young"?

KC2OSO

01-25-2009, 10:41 PM

Ew, Rod Stewart.

hedges

01-25-2009, 10:46 PM

My mom is kind of the opposite of my dad; she's a musician. I took her to see Danny Gatton (guitar virtuoso) at the Birchmere in Alexandria VA in '94, the year he died. She loved it 'cause he was playing all these 50s songs that she recognized. She knew his songlist better than I did. And she appreciated the band even though they were loud.

Badinia

01-26-2009, 03:54 PM

Just the word, "The Who." I saw them with my Dad in 1989, and despite the fact that he crushed my finger in my car door, it was still a pretty great show at Texas Stadium.

Also, Simon and Garfunkel.

My mother's taste is pretty bad, including Neil Sedaka, Michael McDonald, and Neil Diamond. I feel nostalgic about it, but it's not on my Ipod.

Gvac

01-26-2009, 04:00 PM

Ew, Rod Stewart.

Late 60's/early 70's Rod Stewart is amazing. He may have been one of the greatest rock 'n' roll singers of all time.

What a shame everyone remembers him for his later cheese.

Do yourself a favor and grab a Faces Best Of and Gasoline Alley.

Rod was the man.

JerseyRich

01-26-2009, 04:03 PM

The Beatles, Bob Marley, The Jackson 5 and Stevie Wonder.

Other than that, nothing really.

JerseyRich

01-26-2009, 04:04 PM

Late 60's/early 70's Rod Stewart is amazing. He may have been one of the greatest rock 'n' roll singers of all time.

What a shame everyone remembers him for his later cheese.

Do yourself a favor and grab a Faces Best Of and Gasoline Alley.

Rod was the man.

Must we constantly post this video to prove it to you people?!

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razorboy

01-26-2009, 04:05 PM

Late 60's/early 70's Rod Stewart is amazing. He may have been one of the greatest rock 'n' roll singers of all time.

What a shame everyone remembers him for his later cheese.

Do yourself a favor and grab a Faces Best Of and Gasoline Alley.

Rod was the man.

Exactly. One of the most dramatic and quick swings from genius to giant douchebag in modern history.

drjoek

01-26-2009, 04:07 PM

Late 60's/early 70's Rod Stewart is amazing. He may have been one of the greatest rock 'n' roll singers of all time.

What a shame everyone remembers him for his later cheese.

Do yourself a favor and grab a Faces Best Of and Gasoline Alley.

Rod was the man.

QFT. Don't judge Rod on what he has become. The guys gotta pay the bills. Pick up Every picture tells a story. The guy was the goods.

KC2OSO

01-26-2009, 04:37 PM

Late 60's/early 70's Rod Stewart is amazing. He may have been one of the greatest rock 'n' roll singers of all time.

What a shame everyone remembers him for his later cheese.

Do yourself a favor and grab a Faces Best Of and Gasoline Alley.

Rod was the man.
Fair enough. You're right I was thinking later cheese. I have an Amazon gift card that's now spoken for. Thanks. :happy:

WhistlePig

01-26-2009, 07:43 PM

My mother (now 77) watched a live television concert of Rod Stewart back in the early 80's. He was dancing around in his hot pink skin tight pants singing Hot Legs, and she said "He's SO cute!" It really creeped me out. She also thought J Geils' "Angel is a Centerfold" was "such an adorable song". She's a crazy lady. Just ask Whistlepig!

Your ma's a big sweetie! :wub: She never gave me a hard time like the other older women would when I'd come into work with punk hair and torn DRI t-shirts.

hedges

01-26-2009, 09:55 PM

refer to below post.

hedges

01-26-2009, 09:59 PM