do you listen to the music of your parents?

[Idris2002]

Any of you know another of my Da's favourites, a Canadian folksinger called Gordon Lightfoot?

 

[walktome]

When I was a kid I used to think my dad has horrible taste in music. But when I was about 12 I remember sneaking off with one of his Clash CDs. Hahahahaha. So yeah, I listen to a lot of music my dad listens so (Beatles, the Clash, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Hendrix, etc). My mom doesn't really listen to music. She likes Michael Jackson, Abba, and Billy Idol. I guess I listen to that as well. I kind of listen to everything, what can I say?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

No, I'm not into Mantovani.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Any of you know another of my Da's favourites, a Canadian folksinger called Gordon Lightfoot?

Of course.

 

[rubbershoes]

my parents are classical all the way. Wagner for my dad and Schubert, Schumann, Beethoven for my mum.


their tastes haven't rubbed off on me at all

when my daughter is grown up, my old techno records will seem as outdated to her as skiffle does to me

 

[zenie]

Err a bit

Dont know what my Dad liked but my Mum's favourite songs is also one of my top 20

Does that count?

Other then that absolutley not - she hates my 'repetitive beats and lack of melodies'

 

[Bomber]

I'm answering for my Son and the answer is yes! He loves The Stones, The Who, Northern Soul and more recent stuff like Underworld and Faithless. Most of all he has got into Reggae because of me and recently seeing Lee Scratch Perry llive in Liverpool, so now my Dub albums keep going walkies across the landing

 

[May Kasahara]

My dad is a guitarist, so from him it was all Steely Dan, The Beatles, The Eagles, The Police, Cream, Hendrix, also Django Rheinhardt, Oscar Peterson etc....all of which I still listen to and love (apart from the Eagles, my secret shame, I still really enjoy them but just can't bring myself to actually purchase and play their music).

My mum was all about classic soul/funk/pop a la Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Sam Cooke etc., David Boweie, reggae, folk music (we had a rocking collection of lesbian folk tunes including my personal favourites 'The Leaping Lesbians'), and Billie Holiday/Ella Fitzgerald, so a big yes on that front as well.

Stuff my dad loves now that I can't stand: Oasis, Sting (shudder).
Stuff I love that my dad won't admit is real music : anything electronic, anything that involves rapping.

 

[bluestreak]

sometimes i do. when i was a teenager on top of rock and indie i used to listen to stuff like hendrix and the doors and my mum always used to take the piss, saying it was hard to get annoyed with the noise when it was the same stuff she loved at my age. my mum was into the teen beat stuff first, like the monkees, and then got into psychedelia and folk, so i've inherited her records, which is how i discovered stuff like leonard cohen. my dad had a massive music collection and when i still talked to him in my teens i would explore his stuff and got into a lot of stuff that way, like the incredible string band and led zepellin and whatnot. sadly i don't get to play with his records any more. these days mum listens to classical but i havne't got a clue what me dad likes.

 

[Bajie]

Some stuff, I first heard Muddy Waters, BB King and Howling Wolf from my dad and I still like that old blues music today. He can keep the fairground steam powered organ music though, why would anyone want to listen to a CD of that? I can understand the actual physical steam organ thing, but a recording of it? that is up there with CD's of loyalist flute bands in bad music terms.

My mother does not really listen to music, except old calypsoes like Mighty Sparrow and sometimes annoying Trini Soca and Guyanese Chutney. Not really to my taste, though I like some modern Soca.

Then again what will my son think in a few years time? He seems to like it at the moment, though I cant play him all the music I listen to as for example Jedi Mind Tricks may have some hot beats their lyrics are not for tender young ears imho.

 

[Roadkill]

My Dad loves Simon and Garfunkel and my Mum's a big Joni Mitchell fan, so in those instances yes. Apart from that, not really.

 

[kins]

i love status quo........shocking yet true

 

[Iam]

Some of it, yeah.

Not all, though.

I mean, my old man was into Jim Reeves...

 

[Orang Utan]

My parents are and were heavily into opera and classical, my Dad especially.
I have a few bits and pieces but I don't listen much. I avoid the heavier German stuff like the plague.
My parents don't think much of the music I listen to - my Dad says things like 'that sounds like R2D2 falling down a pylon'

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Not really. My Dad is into orchestral classical, my Mum more choral stuff, neither of which really work for me, and a bit of Scottish folk which I can deal with but wouldn't really listen to.

 

[Idris2002]

Of course.

Of course *you* would, I was thinking of the civilians around here.

How's Moosefactory doing these days?

 

[fishfingerer]

My dad is a big Paul Robeson fan, my mother loves Elvis and still watches all his movies no matter how shit. So yeah.

 

[Idris2002]

Btw, folks, thanks for all the replies, I didn't think the thread would take off like this.

Sorry most people don't seem to remember the Johnstons though.

 

[Iam]

Any of you know another of my Da's favourites, a Canadian folksinger called Gordon Lightfoot?

"In the early morning raaaaaaaain."

Yes, my father subjected us to him, too.

 

[Idris2002]

Actually, I quite liked GL, even at the time.

Of course, this was before the Bad Times.

 

[Cloo]

Yeah, I caught Stones, Beatles, Jimi, Zappa, Talking Heads, Billy Joel (when he was good), Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello and Madness off tapes in our family car, I guess!

And classical music in general (from the year dot I've walked into rooms where my dad's listening to some piece and he says 'Guess who this is by?'... and this practise came in very useful at music A-level!)

Mum introduced my dad to rock and he introduced her to classical, basically.

 

[siarc]

no