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Post by gushingblood on Dec 12, 2008 13:00:13 GMT -5
What bands did your parents/siblings get you into.
My list is pretty basic, mainly the "classic" bands.
My sisters contribution is redundant since all she listens to is dance and chart music.
Dad: From all the cassettes in his car
Oasis - Always had the first 2 albums in his car
The Jam - They were his band
The Specials - He's seen them 6 times live
The Pogues - He's Irish...
Rolling Stones - Every Dad's favourite band
Madness - Greatest Hits was always on rotation
Bruce Springsteen - I remember the time he sat me down and made me listen to Dancing In The Dark
Beach Boys - Always singing Sloop John B.
Nirvana - Always playing Unplugged
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - He loves Hey Joe
REM - He made me stop and listen to them
Mum: Mainly from all the vinyl she gave me
Blondie - That's what Mum's are for
David Bowie - Big fan
The Doors - Yeah!
The Beatles - She gave me "With The Beatles" + "Rubber Soul" and she had written their names all on the sleeve.
Pink Floyd - I dig the Syd Barrett albums because they are great fun, but to her disappointment I hate their other albums and find them really pretentious, yes, even Dark Side Of the Moon - Let's record an orgasm, how innovative are we...
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Post by bryan on Dec 12, 2008 13:10:17 GMT -5
A lot of stuff that I later realized was terrible. All that is forgiven though for the introduction to fleetwood mac and bob dylan.
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Post by gushingblood on Dec 12, 2008 13:13:49 GMT -5
Ah yes, Dad got me into Dylan as well. Mum tried with Mac, but I havn't given them a proper try yet.
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Post by Gotti on Dec 12, 2008 13:14:39 GMT -5
my parents didn't really get me into anything but then they are considerably older than yours by the sounds of it (I'm probably closer to your Parents age than I am to yours ) - my Dad was never a big music fan, and my Mum's only semi-credible records are by Elvis, Simon and Garfunkel and The Everley brothers - these days she likes stuff like Take That and Westlife. My older sister wasnt much of a musical inspiration either, she was very into chart fodder of the 80's
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Post by 212margarita on Dec 12, 2008 13:23:12 GMT -5
My mom got me into the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Traveling Wilburys, Eric Clapton and Roy Orbison my dad has possibly the worst taste in music ever he really only listens to Christmas Music. Although they are both responsible for my love of Neil Diamond
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Post by gushingblood on Dec 12, 2008 13:25:45 GMT -5
I love the box of both of their vinyl my parents gave me, some of it I chucked (Bananarama, the Police) Here it is (well most of it): Average White Band - Person To Person The Beat - Wha'ppen The Beatles - Rubber Soul The Beatles - With the Beatles Beethoven - 5th Beethoven - 6th Blondie - Parallel Lines Blondie - Eat to the Beat David Bowie - Let's Dance David Bowie - Changes One Dire Straits - Money For Nothing The Doors - The Very Best Of... Duran Duran - Rio  The Jam - In the City John Lee Hooker - House of the Blues Lynyd Skynyrd - Nuthin' Fancy Madness - One Step Beyond Pavarotti - The Essential Pink Floyd - Piper/Saucerful of Secrets Pretenders - S/t Rolling Stones - Rolled Gold Rush - The World's A Stage Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska Specials - S/t The Who - Who Are You VA - The Ultimate Blues Collection Best Christmas Present ever. |
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Post by Jersey on Dec 12, 2008 13:27:27 GMT -5
Great topic.
Mine were the classics- Mom took me to see The Who at Giants Stadium in eighty-something; Dad always had Harry Chapin on (who I still love to this day)
Of course Springsteen. But there's an additive in the water in New Jersey that makes everyone who was born between Hackensack and Cape May have an affinity for that guy.
And Alice's Restaurant. Who was that? It was like a Christmas/Thanksgiving tradition. We'd listen to the entire nine hours of it every year.
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Post by 212margarita on Dec 12, 2008 13:27:33 GMT -5
I love the box of both of their vinyl my parents gave me, some of it I chucked (Bananarama, the Police) Here it is (well most of it): Average White Band - Person To Person The Beat - Wha'ppen The Beatles - Rubber Soul The Beatles - With the Beatles Beethoven - 5th Beethoven - 6th Blondie - Parallel Lines Blondie - Eat to the Beat David Bowie - Let's Dance David Bowie - Changes One Dire Straits - Money For Nothing The Doors - The Very Best Of... Duran Duran - Rio The Jam - In the City John Lee Hooker - House of the Blues Lynyd Skynyrd - Nuthin' Fancy Madness - One Step Beyond Pavarotti - The Essential Pink Floyd - Piper/Saucerful of Secrets Pretenders - S/t Rolling Stones - Rolled Gold Rush - The World's A Stage Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska Specials - S/t The Who - Who Are You VA - The Ultimate Blues Collection Best Christmas Present ever. are your parents looking to adopt a 27 year old man-child? |
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Post by Mahoney on Dec 12, 2008 13:32:03 GMT -5
my parents were both born in the mid 60's. so i got into alot of the 90's grundge era stuff because of them. but other than that most of what i listen to, i got into on my own.
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Post by Mahoney on Dec 12, 2008 13:32:47 GMT -5
but my dad introduced me to quadrophenia, which is easily in my top 3 of all time.
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Post by 212margarita on Dec 12, 2008 13:35:51 GMT -5
My Dad's Top 3 artists ever are probably
Barry Manilow
Air Supply
The Four Tops
i really had to fend for myself.
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Post by stevedave on Dec 12, 2008 13:46:30 GMT -5
Cash, The Stones and funnily enough, Meatloaf & Billy Joel
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Post by Matt Jones on Dec 12, 2008 14:22:30 GMT -5
My dad got me into Billy Joel and Aerosmith at a young age.
My mom has terrible taste. She had Jimmy Buffet's greatest hits tape in her car for 2 years straight. Kill me please.
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Post by Mahoney on Dec 12, 2008 14:27:16 GMT -5
What bands did your parents/siblings get you into. Rolling Stones - Every Dad's favourite band can't speak for all Dads but that's my Dad's pick. and maybe a subject for another topic, but my Dad loves THS now b/c of me. my Mom hates em, and if i'm home and put em on she usually sings way out of tune and growling "if she says we partiieed", sometimes i want to slap her, just kidding  ...hey THS: slapped mother, maybe next album. |
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Post by gushingblood on Dec 12, 2008 14:32:37 GMT -5
Slapped Mother...it needs to happen.
My Dad like the Hold Steady, but doesn't love them.
He loves Constructive Summer though. He hates the narrating songs - Hornets, Payne, Cattle
Mum really doesn't care for them. She only listens to Modest Mouse and Jeff Buckley right now, which is fine by me.
For birthdays and sometimes Christmas I always make a mix CD for their car as an additional prezzie.
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Post by lilhan on Dec 12, 2008 15:21:30 GMT -5
dad: everything i love from the heart including neil young, bruce springsteen, tom petty & the heartbreakers, the stones, the beatles blah blah.
mum doesnt DO rock music as such. she loveloveloves pink floyd and elvis costello.
so do i.
dad loves the national, the hold steady, elbow, the gaslight anthem.
;D hero.
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Post by victorias on Dec 12, 2008 16:02:09 GMT -5
My mom cried when Elvis died. Enough said.
My dad, on the other hand, doesn't really listen to music. But, if you wanted to know the third tier character on say Chuck or anything on the Sci-Fi channel, he's your man.
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Post by WhiskeyDaisy on Dec 12, 2008 16:03:24 GMT -5
Mom: Phoebe Snow
Dad: Pink Floyd
XO
WD
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Post by gushingblood on Dec 12, 2008 16:09:33 GMT -5
My mom cried when Elvis died. Enough said. My dad, on the other hand, doesn't really listen to music. But, if you wanted to know the third tier character on say Chuck or anything on the Sci-Fi channel, he's your man. As in Chuck Bartowski? I ¢¾ Chuck Bartowski It is the most underrated show on TV. Adam Baldwin goes total badass on it. |
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Post by ekennedy on Dec 12, 2008 16:21:35 GMT -5
all introduced to me by my parents:
Dylan
Stones
Beatles
Bruce
Clapton
David Bowie
Talking Heads
Dire Straits
Velvet Underground/Lou Reed
Black 47
Dandy Warhols
Billy Idol
Cranberries
REM
Elvis Costello
Lucinda Williams
Eurythmics
and my father was the first person I knew to own Doggy Style (i thought the album cover was some sick way he was trying to sneak porn into the house....)
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Post by laurenjean on Dec 12, 2008 16:34:57 GMT -5
My dad sang Greatful Dead, Van Morrison and Springsteen to us all the time when we were kids. My mom isn't as into music, but she did drive with the Purple Rain tape in the car forever when I was younger, but she skipped "Darling Nikki."
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Post by Juda5cow on Dec 12, 2008 17:26:21 GMT -5
From my dad it was Dylan, The Stones and Pink Floyd.
He sadly passed away this year and was a music lover til the bitter end, always into new stuff at the ripe old age of 74.
And he was also a Hold Steady fan - I had the honour of passing on his copies of BAGIA, Sep Sun and Stay Postive to a deserving cause.
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Post by victorias on Dec 12, 2008 19:03:41 GMT -5
My mom cried when Elvis died. Enough said. My dad, on the other hand, doesn't really listen to music. But, if you wanted to know the third tier character on say Chuck or anything on the Sci-Fi channel, he's your man. As in Chuck Bartowski? I ¢¾ Chuck Bartowski It is the most underrated show on TV. Adam Baldwin goes total badass on it. Yep, that one. |
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Post by gushingblood on Dec 12, 2008 19:12:28 GMT -5
As in Chuck Bartowski? I ¢¾ Chuck Bartowski It is the most underrated show on TV. Adam Baldwin goes total badass on it. Yep, that one. I like Lester. Sadly the second season isn't out here yet, and the first season was on a channel that no one watches. I have seen the first 5 episodes of season 2 on the Internet, but I can't find the rest  |
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Post by heidivandernice, nice on Dec 12, 2008 19:25:43 GMT -5
my mom doesn't do pop culture. she bought led zeppelin III when she was a teenager, hated it, and gave it to her little brother. of course, she did go on to become a classical organist/music teacher/flutist, so i guess that makes sense. my dad listened to peter paul & mary, simon & garfunkel, theater organ music, broadway soundtracks, and ABBA. yes, he's straight. probably the most lasting effect my parents have had on me, music-wise, is my dad's love for a prairie home companion (bluegrass/folk feels good to me), and my mom's only musical love: classical. i mean, i work here ( www.presser.com) and here ( www.carlfischer.com). my parents didn't introduce me to the genres i would grow to love, but they did introduce me to music fanaticism itself. |
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...hey THS: slapped mother, maybe next album.
