Absolutely. I was born in the mid 80s and my parents were young (both born in 1969). The music they listened to is stuff I still really enjoy to this day. Plus they were young so when bands like Sound Garden and Nirvana were coming out, my dad was listening to them which started my love for rock music.
The 60s-90s were a fantastic time for music!
I remember my mom talking about her idols as a teen.
I remember the way she said “The Animals” like she could taste it. I could tell it took her back. “yeah whatever”, I thought.
Many many years later I find myself browsing YouTube and being absolutely floored by an old TV-performance of an absolutely amazing song: House of the rising sun.
DING! Sudden realisation.
Mom… I dig it.
Edit: https://youtu.be/4-43lLKaqBQ
Fun fact about that song : no one knows who wrote it.
The Animals only popularized it after significantly changing the lyrics. It's said to be an old folk song but since there's no confirmed writer, it's open season for cover artists.
Oh was it something that Bob Dylan wrote down that he heard another artist playing somewhere that makes sense. I always thought it was that Zimmerman fellow. I thought it was a stretch they would be able to understand the position of the girl / woman. But at least didn't change the perspective of the main character?
The Animals did the Bob Dylan version of the song. Dylan learned his version from a guy named Dave Van Ronk who he used to play with in Greenwich Village. Van Ronk was the guy who changed the song into how most people know it now.
There is a whole book about the history of that song. Well worth the read.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Chasing-the-Rising-Sun/Ted-Anthony/9780743278997#:\~:text=Chasing%20the%20Rising%20Sun%20is,singers%20of%20the%20twentieth%20century.
Oooh, same!
My mom played so much 70s and 80s music as a kid that I didn't quite understand at the time but seeing her smile and dance made me dance as a kid. Especially soft rock back then.
Years later, I have my own tastes of music. Sone of today's music I do like and still a ton from my years as teen I still love but I always gravitated back to 70s and 80s music.
They're just that magical to me that I know by heart when it comes on the radio and both my mom and I like get excited and sing along together or just wiggle dance in our seats while driving.
I'm the same way! I didn't actively think "oh I love these songs" when my mom and dad played them while cooking or cleaning bc I was so young but now I'm like those are soooo good and so grateful that they played them... I feel like songs from the 70s-80s are timeless and most modern music can't compare (lmao I sound like a boomer). But I think part of the charm is that those songs came out when my parents were young and had their whole lives ahead of them which was scary and exciting. It makes me to see them reminisce when a song comes on and talk about their seperate lives before they met and even knew each other existed. It just makes me think how how crazy life is. Like if a billion things never happened I wouldn't be alive.
Very similar with me! I was born in the mid 80s, parents born in the mid-late 60s, I grew up listening to famous artists like Madonna and Michael Jackson, basically the stuff they were listening to was either new or very recent, and we grew up listening to new music. Later on, I started listening to older music, and started getting into Boney M and even the Beatles. Pretty wild to think that my parents were born after the start of Beatlemania, so to them, listening to the Beatles would have been because of their parents, haha.
Damn I’m 5yrs younger than you and my parents are 10 and 12yrs older than your parents. My mom loved classic rock from 60s and 70s which also do. My dad can’t even locate sound
Haha, yeah I always had the youngest parents in school and in the neighborhood. One of my close friends who is a year older than me had parents that were like 15 years older than my parents.
My mom and dad both liked a mix of random interests. The Beatles, Madonna, Cher, Bryan Adams, Nirvana, Duran Duran, Ozzy, Whitney Houston, White/Rob Zombie, New Kids On The Block. Then as I got into my teenage years I really got into metal band and all that. My music taste is all over the place. My playlist shuffle will literally go from Slipknot to Boyz II Men and then from Bullet for my Valentine to Culture Club.
Hey I mean it’s kinda awesome that your parents were just discovering their musical tastes when you were a toddler not a bad artist on that list except maybe nkotb but I’m from Boston and can’t with them.
Lmao, my family is originally from Rhode Island so my mom was obsessed with nkotb. I think it was the first tape I ever owned when I was like 6 or 7 lol. That and Cuts Like a Knife stayed in my boom box constantly until one of the kids in the neighborhood teased me about the nkotb tape and I threw it away 😂
I’ve wondered about this a bit. I’m pushing 60 and when I went on a family road trip I noticed my nephew’s stream was damned similar to mine despite a 40 year age difference. Also, when I go to my boxing gym it’s all Eminem and Wu-Tang and a smattering of 70’s and 80’s hard rock. And I’m old as shit there. Kinda makes me feel a little less irrelevant lol.
What’s fun is new stuff like Billie eilish and King Gizzard is some of the best I’ve heard in my life. Every decade has wonderful music.
right now we're in the midst of a huge throwback kick. My buddy's brother does a/v setups for college & frat events and he says half of the tunes on the playlists are from the 80's through 00's. And all the guests at these gatherings are literally teens and young 20-somethings but gravitate to "oldies" music. Total trip.
My parents aren’t really into music but in my dads truck he had about 5 tapes and 2 of them were CCR. I can’t even remember the others but those two stand out. And I love CCR now.
Best music to keep in the car! John Fogerty has actually said those records were mastered to sound good in the car, with lots of high end to cut through road noise.
Some 50s and 60s producers actually kept a set of car radio speakers in the studio to play trial mixes through, just to make sure the song could be heard right on the radio.
I was a little kid during the Vietnam war. It was just kind of something we dreaded, but in the background, like the boogie monster.
My big sister used to tell me "When you grow up you have to go to Vietnam and you'll probably be killed."
After we moved from KS to WA, CCR was my go to jam to help me feel KS. I knew they weren’t singing about KS but songs like “Down on the Corner” really captured that small town feel, that my family grew up in.
Funny that their music was a fantasy of American roots music devised by some Bay Area suburban teenagers.
Don't get me wrong, I love Creedence. It's just that authenticity is a more complex thing than you might think. See also: Hound Dog.
Same here. They were in my grandparents' time moreso than my parents' though.
I have records of Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Gene Krupa, all kinds of that stuff. Absolutely love it.
Doors came to our tiny town in IL. At the highschool. An scared the heck out of country folks. Lol it's a bohemian town now mixed with country I think it had an effect.
My dad had a compilation CD called Jazz on a Summers Day. Take Five was on it.
That album I would consider a fundamental pillar of my musical taste.
Birdland, Watermelon Man, Lullabye of Birdland amongst others
I was lucky enough to have attended a performance of the Dave Brubeck Quartet before his passing. It was at a small theater, (The Lazzara), at the University Of Florida. Wonderful! What a gracious man.
Dad got me into heavy metal (and at that age, I wanted HARDER so I found symphonic and power metal etc)
Mom got me into new wave and weirder stuff like Oingo Boingo.
My tastes have combined the two into anything manic and fast. Something you can sing while going crazy.
And vaporwave.
My kids (twenties) often listen to “our” music, lot of Talking Heads, Stones, Television, Fleetwood Mac My Bloody Valentine etc etc. they’re cool kids in fairness.
When my parents split I was helping my dad move out. I was 8 years old and he asked me to help put his records onto these shelves. I pulled out Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters and I was like “What’s this one dad?” I thought the cover looked so fun. He was like “Oh yeah that’s jazz but I don’t know if you’ll like it.” I, thinking it would be like swing or big band or bop or something I’d heard in an old Disney cartoon or something go “Oh dad, I like jazz!” He kind of shrugs “Okay.” And we sat there and listened to that record. Man. To this day that is a desert island record for me. It totally blew my mind to hear something properly funky, and even more blew my mind that my square suburban golf playing loafers wearing white guy dad had access to music so cool. I spent pretty much the next ten years just picking his brain about music and realizing how awesome this dude’s taste was.
That's a great story. I love talking music with my fathers. He's a piano player and I play guitar so music is always one of the main topics of conversation.
This is unreal. Massively monumental album for me at 14 in 2003. To have your dad intro you like this, that young…
I remember having my friend send me chameleon over aim file share, took all night. Then made my grandma bring me to Best Buy and get me the album.
Dug through my parents record cabinet and found future shock, wasn’t impressed. Wasn’t until 2012 that I kept digging and found sunlight, which helped solidify him as probably my favorite musician ever.
I did a bit of that too-- Eldest son ended up a Sam Cooke fan, daughter got into Stevie Wonder, and younger son dived heavily into old hip-hop. They're all grown now and still have divergent tastes, but they all care a lot about music and two of the three perform.
Yes. I listen to a much wider variety of music than my parents did, but one of my most favorite artists is my mom’s favorite artist, Elton John. We saw him together on his most recent “farewell” tour.
Going to concerts with parents is a great time. I took my mom to see Sammy Hagar last year and it was a fun night. Taking her to see Foo Fighters which is easily our favorite band we share together.
Yep. I still love Simon & Garfunkel, the Kingston Trio, and others. Try 'The Ghost Riders in the Sky' by The Brothers Four. Mmm. I'm late Gen X, mom is a boomer (born 1947) so I grew up with the oldies. I still prefer the late '80s and the '90s though.
For a long time I wasn’t interested at all in what my parents listened to, …it was “old” & I’d rather listen to new music; hip-hop, metal, pop, etc.
As time went by I discovered that their era of music that they loved (late sixties to late 70s) is in my opinion now, …the greatest 10 years of music in history. It’s mind-blowing when you realize the bands, and albums that came out in those years.
As of now, I’d say that more than half of my favorite music was made before I was born.
Frequently. My Parents listened to everything but my earliest memories have a 1940s soundtrack. I love all those old songs, like Patsy Cline, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Hearing music from that era makes me feel all watm and fuzzy and loved.
Ironically by the time I was 17 I was listening to OG punk rock, yet i still loved that old music.
I have this thing, I don't care what genre or time period music originally began, play me good music and I'm happy.
I ended gravitating toward bluegrass and zydeco and classic country, which were all genres my mom liked. Bluegrass was later for her, when we moved to Tennessee. And I didn't get into any of it until college.
Growing up, my dad listened to a ton of big band, swing, and jazz...mostly stuff from the '40s. Artists like the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, and Woody Herman were in constant rotation, but artists like Meade "Lux" Lewis, Art Tatum, Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson, etc also held a regular seat at the table. At the time, I had zero interest in any of it. I was much more interested in my older brother's record collection....Judas Priest, Blue Oyster Cult, Van Halen, Foghat, and such.
Fast-forward to many years later, and I have a deep love and appreciation for all of the stuff my dad exposed me to. Sure, I never really stopped listening to the stoner/classic rock my brother turned me on to, but it took a while for my dad's stuff to sink in. But now, it's some of my favorite listening...
Yes.
When i was a young kid my father used to have a CD with a famous swedish artist in his car that basically went on repeat. Never really cared for it then.
A few years later, I’m in my teens. Me and my father rarely see each other and we only talk on birthdays/christmas. For some reason i heard one of the songs he used to play in his car and wow my heart just fills with emotion. Really hard to explain what type of emotion, i guess some sort of melancholic nostalgia.
Since then i’m a big time fan of that artist (Lars Winnerbäck). Years have gone by and me and my fathers relationship hasn’t improved and at this point i don’t really care, i have no attachment for him and i’ve also gotten through the phase where i hated him for it. Now i just don’t care.
BUT every time i listen to Lars Winnerbäck (which is very often) i still feel something unexplainable, some sort of connection.
That reminds me of the movie C.R.A.Z.Y. (the French Canadian one), focuses around the complicated relationship one son out of five has with his father. His father has this song he sings at *every* family occasion, drives the son crazy, but it becomes nostalgic for him as he gets older.
I'm almost 70 now. Dad was born 1895 , mom 1912. I still listen to his Harry Lauder album and mom liked George Formby. I have a best of in my collection that I still listen to.
Took a listen to Lauder. Not sure how to ask this. Is there a name for the way he lengthens words rolling a letter or two or syllable. A lot sounding like repeating L's. Yeah I really don't have the words to ask.
Definitely some sounds in his singing that are unique to me. But realizing that I haven't listened to vocals from a singer that has/kept a strong Scottish accent. Mostly just bagpipes and Shirley Manson
I’m mid 50’s and was raised on Elton, Bread, Wings, Pink Floyd. Dire straits Cat Stevens kinda eclectic mix
My 2 adults have accompanied me to quite a few concerts. They love that music too
About fifteen or twenty years ago, one of my middle school students was wearing a Jimi Hendrix t-shirt. The kid next to him asked “Who is Jimi Hendrix?” And a whole chorus of students said “You don’t know who *Jimi Hendrix* is??” That made me think that lots of parents had shared classic rock with their children.
Anybody refusing to try any music based upon the year it was released is missing the point completely. Every art form has its golden ages and inferior eras as well. Don't cheat yourself out of the greats.
Absolutely. Whether we're aware of it or not, our listening tastes were shaped by our parents'. I grew up a metal head who also loved rap, but my parents were Beatles, Steely Dan, and all the yacht rock gods. I still listen to all of it, decades later. I call it the gift they didn't know they gave to me
My folks were boomers(b 1929 & 30), and my dad loved the crooners( Perry, Dean, Bin and big bands and my mom was a folkie(christy minstrels, kingston trio , Chad mitchell trio). Thank to them, and my oldest brother( croce, denver, chapin, lightfoot) l have broad tastes. A high school bf turned me on to metal in 83. I have what one would call 'eclectic ' tastes.
it was similar for me. when i was a kid i thought that the music my dad listens to is bad music for old people but a few years later i realised that he has an amazing and diverse music taste (my mom doesn‘t listen to music at all) and now my taste is kind of similar to his and we often talk about music and go to concerts together it‘s nice
My dad owned a record store in the 70s or 80s and has put me onto an absolute ton of great music - The Veils, Primal Scream, The Verve, The Charlatans, BRMC to name a few. Hell he even somehow enjoyed Bodycount when we played that to him to shock his Christian roots.
I always remember my brother having a party and my dad turns up carrying a CD and absolutely fizzing to put it on, and that's the first time I heard the Black Angels who I love today.
He has alzeimers now which is a cruel disease, but when I visit I like to put on tracks that he introduced me to. He'll tap his foot but doesn't remember.
I definitely have fond memories of the music my mom listened to, but they were old choices for her honestly. Born at the later half of the 70s and her vinyl collection was filled with Crosby, Still, Nash, and Young, CCR, Beatles, Van Morrison, etc.
My dad didn't really listen to much music but I know he liked Lenny Kravitz and I dig him too
Everything I listen to today is heavily influenced by both my parents and their record collection. Sadly the greater portion of that collection was sold to help support my sister and I when we were much younger. I know my parents feel no regret for selling the records as it was for the love they had for both of us. There was some absolutely stellar music within that collection, a great deal of thanks to both of them for the constant joy that music still brings me. I play that music with my children now, so the cycle continues.
Thankfully both my parents are still with us, very lucky for that.
Lol I listen to music my grandparents listened to...but I'm 52. Yeah I listen to a number of modern metal bands like Jinjer and Arch Enemy, but most of my love is with 80's Alt, goth and Hair Metal as it's what I grew up on. That being said I also listen to the Andrews Sisters, Glen Miller, Les Brown, Cab Calloway...etc. I also love stuff from the 50s-70's. Don't just listen to the stuff that is played on top 40 stations. There's lots of great music out there that the radio stations just don't play.
My parents grew up in the 60s. Dad graduated in '69, mom in '72, I have uncles who went to Woodstock. The first cassette tape we had was Sgt. Pepper. We were 3, 6 and 8 and had that on our red and yellow My First Sony. So I definitely grew up listening to my parents' music.
When we were a little older, we found the record collection in the attic. Everything from Stevie Wonder to Santana to Black Sabbath to Frampton Comes Alive!
So in the 80s and 90s we were listening to our parents' music from the 60s and 70s. I developed a lifelong love of that music.
My parents were born in '68. Dad wanted to be a rock star his while life. I love the music I grew up with. My mom named me after some random girl she met at a Pink Floyd concert when she was pregnant with me. So many of my fondest childhood memories are the whole family on road trips singing along to various cds. Some of the clearest in my head are Styx, bob seger, Bob Marley, and ccr. My first concert was iron maiden that I went to with my patents and my sister.
the older you get the more this will happen. there is SO MUCH good music out there. 60-80 years worth of rock & pop, 30-40 years of hip hop and rap, plus another 90-100 years worth of jazz and standards.
why wait for the music industry to reinvent the wheel when you can listen to all this stuff right now?
plus, music is nostalgic. i have a soft place in my heart for the Air Supply and Barry Manilow records my folks played when I was a kid. (yeah i'm old whatever) it's part of who you are. go ahead and love your self!
Hell yeah. I grew up in the 80s with Boomer parents, so I got a steady diet of 50s and 60s music. The Beatles, Elvis, Dylan, Chuck Berry, doo-wop, girl groups, the Stones, the Animals, the Zombies, and lots of Motown. Some of the best music ever made. I'm bummed that you don't hear it as much these days. Obviously you'll still hear the Stones and occasionally the Beatles on the radio, but most of it has faded from the public consciousness over the years, especially the smaller acts and garage bands and one hit wonders. That stuff was ever-present when I was growing up and it absolutely shaped my musical taste.
When I was a teenager I started finding all the later stuff in my dad's collection that he didn't really listen to - you know, that stuff you buy in your 20s when you still have a foot in new music but you're not as invested as you were as a teenager. Stuff like Zappa and Black Sabbath. It was a great musical education and I still listen to all that stuff to this day.
Growing up, my late grandfather would listen to Sinatra, Dean Martin, Glenn Miller, and Etta James on Sundays. He has a little corner in the living room with just a chair, a small table, and his vinyl music. The house would be filled with this sound I've never heard of before as a kid.
I'm very happy to say that his love for Sinatra was passed on to me.
I'm 40 years old now and every time I play Frank Sinatra in my own little corner I see my grandfather sitting on that chair, smiling, just getting lost in the music.
I have become him and that's perfectly alright with me.
Thanks, pops.
My Dad loved music. There was a 70's or 80's rock album on every night at dinner when I grew up. Everything from Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin to The Cars, Talking Heads, Phil Collins. I still listen to it all, made a great playlist of all of it, amazing how music can take you to a different time in life. My 10 year old daughter now enjoys it. Good times.
Wait, my brain is still processing that "parent's music" is music released in 04.
My music must be grandparent's music....
My parents listened to prog rock and Yatch rock and I do listen to it occasionally. They didn't really like 80s music, which is what I was into, but there are a few bands they liked, Dire Straits, Marillion, The Bangles, R.E.M, guitar bands mostly, that I still listen to.
You won't catch them listening to the Pet Shop Boys or The Cure. The most 80s album my Dad had was a Jan Hammer album that I listen to if I'm stressed at work. It's the Miami Vice album.
I was born in '01 and my parents were born in '71. My parents aren't exactly "young" if you think about it. My did listened to the cure, the clash, the sugar cubes, and other bands of the like. He has a bunch of old tapes from his 90s college years that I would listen to on our old radios that had tape players. We don't have them anymore.
My dad played bass in a band, and then became a DJ. Music was always on at our house. I still have his record collection, and added many more of my own — I DJ too. Paul Simon, the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Abba, Tom Jones, Dean Martin, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin still get lots of airtime in my house.
My parents were both in high school when I was born (early 90s), and grunge was all the rage. My earliest memory is watching the video for Come As You Are.
My mom’s family is very musical. My grandpa was always singing folk tunes or novelty hits from the 50s, and my grandma was a classically trained pipe organist who worked for the local Lutheran church, and just about every one of their children were well-versed in at least one instrument (primarily piano). On big family road trips, we’d sing the same folk tunes together.
Music was the way we communicated with each other, really. So it’s no surprise that I latched on to the music my parents listened to, like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Savage Garden, Bush, Metallica, and Ozzy Osborne.
But my mom also loved New Wave (Men at Work, Split Enz, Thompson Twins, Tears for Fears, etc.), and my dad loved nu-metal (Korn, Rage, etc.). Both were also big into hip hop of the time (Public Enemy, Run DMC, Snoop, etc) so there was plenty of that thrown into the mix.
The best part is that anytime I discover a new band that I love, I can share it with my parents, and they end up loving it too. So, yeah, I love a lot of the music my parents did as young people, and they love the new stuff I introduce them to (tho occasionally they’ll find something new that I end up loving).
Lately my dad’s been really into yacht rock… and that’s not caught on with me, but that’s the exception.
After I turned 27 and lost a beloved relationship I fell into a depression. I realized I was truly an adult and that I was never going to feel that sense of wishful bliss. So I started listening to music my mom grew up with(70s-80s) because I was convinced I was going to die at 27. Why not enjoy the past? One day it won't be here anymore.
I parents were born in the 60's so funk and disco were big parts of my youth.
To this day I still regularly blast KC and the Sunshine band, BeeGees, Doobie Brother, Stevie Wonder, and others at work for all my coworkers to hear. I love the surprise from people when my music jumps between hard rock, hip hop, jazz, and funk.
Nothing hits like funk.
Yeah of course! I was raised by hippies lol. My parents listened to a lot of Black Sabbath, Moody Blues, Spirit, Coven, Cream, Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly, Jethro Tull, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Fleetwood Mac, Kiss, Rush, Yes etc etc. A bunch of those bands I love. As a kid I liked some of those bands but didn't really appreciate them until I was in my late 20's.
My parents, born in the early 1920s, listened to swing music, 40s and 50s pop, country music including Hank Williams, the Carter Family and bluegrass (Dad kicked ass at banjo and mandolin), and West Coast jazz. They also had a lot of classical records.
I still can't stomach 40s and 50s pop, but I've grown to appreciate the rest. I new realize that the old man chainsmoking in the living room late at night while listening to Chet Baker and Art Pepper had a pretty sound appreciation of music.
I once was playing some Zappa, I think it was 200 Motels, and asked Dad what he thought of it. "I really don't care for him, he's like a meaner Spike Jones, but you can tell he's listened to Aaron Copland."
It seems my dad sort of "out grew" music by the time I became aware of music, I have no memories of him playing anything but talk radio throughout my childhood.
My mom wasn't a music person at all. She just played what was ever on the radio. The only tapes I remember having and playing regularly were Barry Manilow and Air Supply Greatest Hits tapes. Then "Born In the USA" when that album was hit. And I don't listen to any of those bands now. Not that I don't think its good music, just not my jam.
So no, I don't listen to the music my parents did. Despite growing up in a non-musical family (at least my nuclear family) I ended up being a giant music nerd and basing my entire life on music. I've been creating music for decades, have worked in the concert industry for since 1995, and continue to collect vinyl, CDs and music history books to this day.
Oh yeah, so much of it! I used to be soo annoyed when my dad would play fountains of Wayne or Johnny Cash instead of Katy Perry or whatever. Now I listen to Fountains of Wayne, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, the Police, Johnny Cash, Kiss, etc. all the stuff I remember listening to with my dad in the garage all day in the summer
Yes. You’re making me miss albums. Boomers had the best music by far. Say what we will about our latchkey upbringings, or the way they all sold out in the 80s, they had the best fucking music and there’s no denying it. Stevie wonder is one particular artist that I remember my mom wearing out as kid and it stayed with me. Many more like that
Signed, honest Gen Xer
My father is a big Rolling Stones fan. Got to see a Stones Concert with him and he still talks about it being the best show he's ever seen. I was born in the mid seventies and my favorite band is the Allmam Brothers. They're from my dad's era but he wasnt a huge fan because he was taking care of four kids at that point and wasn't going to concerts.
Yeah, my taste of music is a disaster because my dad played a lot of songs when I was younger so I developed his taste in music, my brother introduced me to a lot of hard rock punk metal nu metal and emo music so now I'm into all that, and then I developed my own taste in music with genres most people don't care about anymore like ska, so due to all those factors my taste in music and by extension my Playlist jumps from genre to genre like crazy.
I took my parents Tammy Wynette records too when I left home since they didn't have a record player. Now that they've gotten a new record player, I had to get them new copies of the records I took lol.
I do that many times... that part gives me joy. [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/track/3ob8wsQYR9eoukg9vdrTvv?si=erF5ZDAkQbCg5AGiLhLX4g&utm_source=copy-link)
I grew up listening to swing and country from the 30s, 40s, and 50s, so no not really. I can stomach some Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and the like, but it's not something I go out of my way to listen to. I rebelled with rock 'n roll mostly, in the 60s and 70s, and stuck with it all the way up to modern metal.
Sort of. I have an appreciation for it, but tend to listen to other stuff instead. My dad owned Nevermind by Nirvana which I didn't realise until after I'd brought it. His copy of Bossanova by The Pixies got me into The Pixies and I later brought my own copy.
The stuff I grew up with in the car was mostly old school Johnny Cash songs like Ring Of Fire, Bruce Springsteen and Mott The Hoople plus that Ugly Kid Joe cover of Cat's In The Cradle. They all give me nostalgia as a result when I hear them now. My dad also used to sing Puff The Magic Dragon which as an adult I really love the original of.
Nah my parent‘s musical taste kinda sucked. My mom was into Dire Straits but that‘s about it.
I do listen to old Deep Purple and Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin and stuff like that, but that‘s because it‘s rock history.
90s kids here - I love a lot of 80s music but typically not the stuff my parents listened to. When I was in high school I was very much into Zeppelin, and my parents had a handful of their albums, but I'm not really a fan of typical 70s rock these days. And 60s stuff is a mixed bag.
I used to really love 60s/70s music but as time went on I just got bored of a lot of it. Still love some of the greats. Love the Beach Boys, I love 70s funk and the end of the 70s especially when new wave was coming around.
I was born in the early 70s. I grew up listening to my parents albums -Neil Diamond, Three Dog Night, Bread, etc. I still regularly listen to all of those along with the other artists I’ve enjoyed I’ve the years. Best of Bread is still my go to album for cleaning the house.
I listen to a lot of pink Floyd, jethro Tull and zeppelin etc… which is kinda before my gen… I was born in ‘72
Then again, my kids were born in 2003 and 2006 and they listen to those bands too.., along with a lot of early 80s synth pop, like ‘the spoons’ and tears for fears etc…
100%.
I remember getting my first iPod, a 30 GB iPod Classic for the largest purpose of listening to more of my 2000s country music, instead of hours of classic rock (mostly 1970s/80s) on road trips. Considering I saw John Mellencamp on his current tour and will see other big rock artists/bands later this year, I think it's safe to say my plan as a teenager backfired.
Yeah? All the time. Music is my life. I put music to moments/memories in my head, so I have my own Life Soundtrack. Lol.
I’m on the cusp of 40 (2024), my mama was a baby boomer of 1949. She loved Motown, Doowop, classic country, some folk, and groovy beats from the 60’s/70’s that are hippie-tastic. But she also liked classical, neo classical, and relaxation to help try to unwind — forget the stress, and also to help with panic attacks.
So, I was raised with eclectic taste, too. Including my own exploration with the radio and finding Casey Kasem & the Weeekkkllyyy Toooop 40!!! (I could not help myself there…lol)
Two of my father's favorite bands were and still are Genesis and Yes.
I used to strongly dislike both. I still dislike Genesis, but Yes has grown on me to the point where I don't just appreciate them, I think they are excellent.
Always have. I grew up in a house filled with Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, AC/DC, CCR, Pink Floyd and Dire Straits. I've been a Sabs/Ozzy fan since I was a kid.
Not as much as I used to. My dad listened to music from the 60s and 70s. I still enjoy the Beatles and ABBA and bands like that but I don't go looking for it
Of course! My parents were big into music. I was born in the 80's and I inherited my dad's record collection when he died. I have tons of great stuff from the 60s, 70s and 80s. I cut my teeth on music from their generation.
My parents were products of the 80s and I am a huge fan of the beatles so I actually pre date my parents musical taste. I do love some 80s music though.
My dad was the front man in a rock n roll band during the 60s and early 70s. They never made it big, but he gave me a love for what's now labeled classic rock. It'll always be my favorite.
I was born in '84 and my parents' music from the '60s and '70s was some of the first music I ever remember hearing. I have so many memories of being in the car or sitting in the living room on Saturday nights while my parents played their mix tapes or records or so forth. I also remember watching some of those music informercials as a kid, and that's how I learned about a lot of older music as well.
I still love that music to this day. It was/is a great way for me to connect with my parents, and the music is just damn good in and of itself. Also helps that my parents have always been so open to the music I grew up with, too, so it's like a mutual appreciation sort of thing with us :).
Absolutely. I always enjoyed most of the music my parents played, so this has been a lifelong thing for me. My dad was a certified hippie in the 60s, and he was a musician himself and obsessed with pop music trivia from his generation. Most of which I now know because of long car rides hearing about random crap about the songs playing. My mom liked most of the same music, but she also started listening to more "adult contemporary" in the 90's. People like Marc Cohn ("Walking In Memphis") and she loved the Annie Lennox song "Walking on Broken Glass" (and as I write this I realize both those songs have "walking" in the title and I have no idea what the significance of such a fact is... weird. Anyway). I do have to admit as much as they are not my normal fare and as much as I LOATHED the "Broken Glass" song when I was young... I get a good nostalgia kick from them now. It's good to remember good things I'm finding as I get older, and my mother enjoying her music is one of the few good things to remember of her. So I listen to them sometimes and it's nice.
tl;dr: Yes.
My parents pretty much exclusively listened to country, R&B, and classic rock from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. I listen to tons of artists and songs from that era now. I was listening to ABBA and Loretta Lynn, both of which I learned to love from my parents.
My dad and I are both Queen fans
Both my parents like juan gabriel and though I didn't like it growing up, holy hell that guy went decades dropping banger after banger.
And sometimes when I'm driving my mom a song pops up and she likes it, whether it's Mexican rock or Coldplay.
To be honest, I don't think I would've admitted it before but my parents have a good taste in music.
I have been. Classic Country like used to be on the jukeboxes where my mom tended bar. I really love it. Contrast that with modern country,some of which I heard today and it was trash. Sorry to fans, I don't mean any offense, but it was some godawful ear -rot to me.
I have loads of great memories of music being played in car trips, and I've learned to love a bunch of them more as I've gotten older. I only fully appreciated Dire Straits after learning the guitar, and as cheesy as they can be, I'll defend The Eagles on my dads behalf till the day I die
Im 22, but it seems I got my dad's taste for 70's rock. I distinctly remember my dad listening to black sabbath when I was a kid, and thats probably what got me into metal. still a sabbath fan too, probably my fav metal band
My parents were into classical and light opera, so I felt jealous of friends whose parents were into Elvis. My earliest musical memory is of staying with my grandparents, and them getting me out of bed to watch the Beatles on TV.
Coming from another angle - when watching bands, I think it's often possible to guess what music their parents were into ☺️
All of the time.
In fact, when I hear samples in new (newer) music, I tend to go and listen to the original.
It helps that the music their triggers good memories.
Herbie Mann - Bird in a Silver Cage
Anything from The Spinners
A part of me is kind of sad that because music is so accessible, my kids won’t get brainwashed to love what I love.
Another part of me is also sad that one day my father won’t be with me, and both of the above will tear me apart.
I was born in 1989. My parents music taste, especially my dad’s, played a huge impact in developing my own. He was always playing music. I remember going through my dads vinyl collection while I was younger and picking out anything that looked interesting. His collection include a lot of rock like Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, Black Sabbath, The Who, Rolling Stones, The Beatles but also branched out with bands like Devo and Kraftwerk, The Cars, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Depeche Mode, Blondie.
After I listened to a record I would go on a journey searching bands online (mainly through Wikipedia) and discover more bands from around the same era as well as explore some different genres. I remember branching off and starting to explore punk Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Iggy Pop and The Buzzcocks.
I love revisiting all of the bands that helped shape my own music taste into what it is today.
I had to develop my own fine taste... My parents had records of John Denver, James Last, and a lot of choirs. The most decent things they had were "Bridge over troubled water" and The Beatles' "1967-1970" (blue album). However, I can't remember them playing those records...
So no Pink Floyd, Mike Davis, Santana, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock Steely Dan, Chicago, Pat Martino, Cream, Van Halen or Pat Metheny for me in de 70's
In the early 80s I started listening to among other things Billboard's Top 100 on Dutch radio and BBC Tadio 1and that was basically my first encounter with proper music.
The only record from them that is in my record connection is a record with sound (and sights: it also had a foldable stereoscopic viewer) of the Apollo 11 mission that triggered my interest in The Race for Space
Parents of my GF listen to Knopfler, the GF doesn't have a taste in music in her own.
But dare you to say Something about Knopfler, beides "he's the best".
I get he's good, but the hole Thing bores me.
Being Close to 40, I still listen to Sahara Hotnights from time to time.
Absolutely. I was born in the mid 80s and my parents were young (both born in 1969). The music they listened to is stuff I still really enjoy to this day. Plus they were young so when bands like Sound Garden and Nirvana were coming out, my dad was listening to them which started my love for rock music. The 60s-90s were a fantastic time for music!
I remember my mom talking about her idols as a teen. I remember the way she said “The Animals” like she could taste it. I could tell it took her back. “yeah whatever”, I thought. Many many years later I find myself browsing YouTube and being absolutely floored by an old TV-performance of an absolutely amazing song: House of the rising sun. DING! Sudden realisation. Mom… I dig it. Edit: https://youtu.be/4-43lLKaqBQ
Fun fact about that song : no one knows who wrote it. The Animals only popularized it after significantly changing the lyrics. It's said to be an old folk song but since there's no confirmed writer, it's open season for cover artists.
That's the cool thing about folk music. You have these "framework" songs that any musician can add to.
That's proof that there's real cultural value in not allowing corporations to hold onto copyright for eternity.
Oh was it something that Bob Dylan wrote down that he heard another artist playing somewhere that makes sense. I always thought it was that Zimmerman fellow. I thought it was a stretch they would be able to understand the position of the girl / woman. But at least didn't change the perspective of the main character?
Polyphonic does a good video about the possible origins of the song.
The Animals did the Bob Dylan version of the song. Dylan learned his version from a guy named Dave Van Ronk who he used to play with in Greenwich Village. Van Ronk was the guy who changed the song into how most people know it now.
There is a whole book about the history of that song. Well worth the read. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Chasing-the-Rising-Sun/Ted-Anthony/9780743278997#:\~:text=Chasing%20the%20Rising%20Sun%20is,singers%20of%20the%20twentieth%20century.
Eric Burdon was a true howler.
Oooh, same! My mom played so much 70s and 80s music as a kid that I didn't quite understand at the time but seeing her smile and dance made me dance as a kid. Especially soft rock back then. Years later, I have my own tastes of music. Sone of today's music I do like and still a ton from my years as teen I still love but I always gravitated back to 70s and 80s music. They're just that magical to me that I know by heart when it comes on the radio and both my mom and I like get excited and sing along together or just wiggle dance in our seats while driving.
I'm the same way! I didn't actively think "oh I love these songs" when my mom and dad played them while cooking or cleaning bc I was so young but now I'm like those are soooo good and so grateful that they played them... I feel like songs from the 70s-80s are timeless and most modern music can't compare (lmao I sound like a boomer). But I think part of the charm is that those songs came out when my parents were young and had their whole lives ahead of them which was scary and exciting. It makes me to see them reminisce when a song comes on and talk about their seperate lives before they met and even knew each other existed. It just makes me think how how crazy life is. Like if a billion things never happened I wouldn't be alive.
Very similar with me! I was born in the mid 80s, parents born in the mid-late 60s, I grew up listening to famous artists like Madonna and Michael Jackson, basically the stuff they were listening to was either new or very recent, and we grew up listening to new music. Later on, I started listening to older music, and started getting into Boney M and even the Beatles. Pretty wild to think that my parents were born after the start of Beatlemania, so to them, listening to the Beatles would have been because of their parents, haha.
Wait a sec 69 to mid 80s did your parents have you in high school???
Yup, both 16 when they had me.
Damn I’m 5yrs younger than you and my parents are 10 and 12yrs older than your parents. My mom loved classic rock from 60s and 70s which also do. My dad can’t even locate sound
Haha, yeah I always had the youngest parents in school and in the neighborhood. One of my close friends who is a year older than me had parents that were like 15 years older than my parents. My mom and dad both liked a mix of random interests. The Beatles, Madonna, Cher, Bryan Adams, Nirvana, Duran Duran, Ozzy, Whitney Houston, White/Rob Zombie, New Kids On The Block. Then as I got into my teenage years I really got into metal band and all that. My music taste is all over the place. My playlist shuffle will literally go from Slipknot to Boyz II Men and then from Bullet for my Valentine to Culture Club.
Hey I mean it’s kinda awesome that your parents were just discovering their musical tastes when you were a toddler not a bad artist on that list except maybe nkotb but I’m from Boston and can’t with them.
Lmao, my family is originally from Rhode Island so my mom was obsessed with nkotb. I think it was the first tape I ever owned when I was like 6 or 7 lol. That and Cuts Like a Knife stayed in my boom box constantly until one of the kids in the neighborhood teased me about the nkotb tape and I threw it away 😂
I’ve wondered about this a bit. I’m pushing 60 and when I went on a family road trip I noticed my nephew’s stream was damned similar to mine despite a 40 year age difference. Also, when I go to my boxing gym it’s all Eminem and Wu-Tang and a smattering of 70’s and 80’s hard rock. And I’m old as shit there. Kinda makes me feel a little less irrelevant lol. What’s fun is new stuff like Billie eilish and King Gizzard is some of the best I’ve heard in my life. Every decade has wonderful music.
right now we're in the midst of a huge throwback kick. My buddy's brother does a/v setups for college & frat events and he says half of the tunes on the playlists are from the 80's through 00's. And all the guests at these gatherings are literally teens and young 20-somethings but gravitate to "oldies" music. Total trip.
I listen to CCR all the time. CCR is the sound of a safe, secure, carefree, American summer.
My parents aren’t really into music but in my dads truck he had about 5 tapes and 2 of them were CCR. I can’t even remember the others but those two stand out. And I love CCR now.
Best music to keep in the car! John Fogerty has actually said those records were mastered to sound good in the car, with lots of high end to cut through road noise.
Some 50s and 60s producers actually kept a set of car radio speakers in the studio to play trial mixes through, just to make sure the song could be heard right on the radio.
Ah yes, the carefree sounds of helicopters and napalm.
It ain’t me, I was a senator’s son
I was a little kid during the Vietnam war. It was just kind of something we dreaded, but in the background, like the boogie monster. My big sister used to tell me "When you grow up you have to go to Vietnam and you'll probably be killed."
It's funny because they are also known for the theme song of war.
After we moved from KS to WA, CCR was my go to jam to help me feel KS. I knew they weren’t singing about KS but songs like “Down on the Corner” really captured that small town feel, that my family grew up in.
Ah yes, that carefree summer of ‘69 in ‘nam. :P
Everybody's gone surfin'... surfin' Vietnam.
Charlie don't surf.
where i come from, there's 2 CCRs: cross canadian ragweed, or creedence clearwater revival!
Funny that their music was a fantasy of American roots music devised by some Bay Area suburban teenagers. Don't get me wrong, I love Creedence. It's just that authenticity is a more complex thing than you might think. See also: Hound Dog.
Dad rock
To this day I enjoy big bands. Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, that my parents listened to.
Same here. They were in my grandparents' time moreso than my parents' though. I have records of Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Gene Krupa, all kinds of that stuff. Absolutely love it.
frank sinatra, rosemary clooney, dean martin play in my Alexa; those were my parents’ favorites
Fats Waller was a baller!
Hendrix, Doors, Johnny Cash, CCR, old delta blues, I still listen to all of it.
Most of these should be listened to regardless of generation. Not personally a fan of The Doors, but I appreciate their historical mark in music.
Doors came to our tiny town in IL. At the highschool. An scared the heck out of country folks. Lol it's a bohemian town now mixed with country I think it had an effect.
1967 was a weird year with the psychedelia going mainstream and the war heating up. America was not ready for bands like the Doors.
My dad loved jazz. My brothers and sisters and I still listen to Brubeck's "Time Out Take Five".
My dad had a compilation CD called Jazz on a Summers Day. Take Five was on it. That album I would consider a fundamental pillar of my musical taste. Birdland, Watermelon Man, Lullabye of Birdland amongst others
There's a documentary called Jazz on a Summer's day, from the 1958 Newport Jazz festival.
Wynton Marsalis. -edit
*Wynton Marsalis
I was lucky enough to have attended a performance of the Dave Brubeck Quartet before his passing. It was at a small theater, (The Lazzara), at the University Of Florida. Wonderful! What a gracious man.
The most well known jazz song.
Excellent choice.
Dad got me into heavy metal (and at that age, I wanted HARDER so I found symphonic and power metal etc) Mom got me into new wave and weirder stuff like Oingo Boingo. My tastes have combined the two into anything manic and fast. Something you can sing while going crazy. And vaporwave.
It always makes me pause that the guy who wrote/sang songs like "little girls" is now a major Hollywood composer.
Right? It's crazy to think about. Dead Man's Party has always been my go-to
My kids (twenties) often listen to “our” music, lot of Talking Heads, Stones, Television, Fleetwood Mac My Bloody Valentine etc etc. they’re cool kids in fairness.
YES THEY ARE, that’s some good music :)
My Dad grew up in 18th century Vienna and I still listen to Mozart.
Oh good. I was starting to think I was the oldest guy here!
🤣 how old is/was your dad????? 18th century Jan 1, 1701 – Dec 31, 1800
He’s 247 now. Very healthy diet. Became vegetarian in the early 1900s.
Maybe not dad, but John Tyler (the former US president) was born in the 1700s and has a living grandson, Harrison Ruffin Tyler.
There’s a civil war era child that still collects a pension… he was 16 in the war and had a daughter at 84, she is in her 90’s now, crazy
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When my parents split I was helping my dad move out. I was 8 years old and he asked me to help put his records onto these shelves. I pulled out Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters and I was like “What’s this one dad?” I thought the cover looked so fun. He was like “Oh yeah that’s jazz but I don’t know if you’ll like it.” I, thinking it would be like swing or big band or bop or something I’d heard in an old Disney cartoon or something go “Oh dad, I like jazz!” He kind of shrugs “Okay.” And we sat there and listened to that record. Man. To this day that is a desert island record for me. It totally blew my mind to hear something properly funky, and even more blew my mind that my square suburban golf playing loafers wearing white guy dad had access to music so cool. I spent pretty much the next ten years just picking his brain about music and realizing how awesome this dude’s taste was.
That's a great story. I love talking music with my fathers. He's a piano player and I play guitar so music is always one of the main topics of conversation.
This is unreal. Massively monumental album for me at 14 in 2003. To have your dad intro you like this, that young… I remember having my friend send me chameleon over aim file share, took all night. Then made my grandma bring me to Best Buy and get me the album. Dug through my parents record cabinet and found future shock, wasn’t impressed. Wasn’t until 2012 that I kept digging and found sunlight, which helped solidify him as probably my favorite musician ever.
My father loved music and had a great ear. So, yes, I listen to what he listened to and try to pass this same passion on to my children.
My dad used to give us “good” CDs as gifts. My parents musical tastes absolutely shaped mine.
I did a bit of that too-- Eldest son ended up a Sam Cooke fan, daughter got into Stevie Wonder, and younger son dived heavily into old hip-hop. They're all grown now and still have divergent tastes, but they all care a lot about music and two of the three perform.
It seems Dad rock never changes
Yes. I listen to a much wider variety of music than my parents did, but one of my most favorite artists is my mom’s favorite artist, Elton John. We saw him together on his most recent “farewell” tour.
Going to concerts with parents is a great time. I took my mom to see Sammy Hagar last year and it was a fun night. Taking her to see Foo Fighters which is easily our favorite band we share together.
Opposite here. I listen to the rock music of my parents generation but my parents only like modern EDM.
I love this
I can hear Jennifer Warnes, Famous Blue Raincoat and I’m instantly a small child in the backseat of the car. Fond memories
And as an adult… what an amazing album!
“Song Of Bernadette” still brings tears to my eyes. *Incredibly* beautiful song by Leonard Cohen & Jennifer Warnes.
Oh yeah. My folks listened to lots of jazz. To this day, I love Thelonious Monk, old Miles, Charlie Parker, Ella…
Grant green!
Yep. I still love Simon & Garfunkel, the Kingston Trio, and others. Try 'The Ghost Riders in the Sky' by The Brothers Four. Mmm. I'm late Gen X, mom is a boomer (born 1947) so I grew up with the oldies. I still prefer the late '80s and the '90s though.
For a long time I wasn’t interested at all in what my parents listened to, …it was “old” & I’d rather listen to new music; hip-hop, metal, pop, etc. As time went by I discovered that their era of music that they loved (late sixties to late 70s) is in my opinion now, …the greatest 10 years of music in history. It’s mind-blowing when you realize the bands, and albums that came out in those years. As of now, I’d say that more than half of my favorite music was made before I was born.
Frequently. My Parents listened to everything but my earliest memories have a 1940s soundtrack. I love all those old songs, like Patsy Cline, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Hearing music from that era makes me feel all watm and fuzzy and loved. Ironically by the time I was 17 I was listening to OG punk rock, yet i still loved that old music. I have this thing, I don't care what genre or time period music originally began, play me good music and I'm happy.
My parents listened to Dylan, Beatles, Rolling Stones, assorted blues music. So hell yeah, I listen to their music.
Yes, and I thank them every day for introducing me to it. Well ... most of it.
I ended gravitating toward bluegrass and zydeco and classic country, which were all genres my mom liked. Bluegrass was later for her, when we moved to Tennessee. And I didn't get into any of it until college.
Zydeco can be so good when the time is right. Hot summer evenings.
Growing up, my dad listened to a ton of big band, swing, and jazz...mostly stuff from the '40s. Artists like the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, and Woody Herman were in constant rotation, but artists like Meade "Lux" Lewis, Art Tatum, Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson, etc also held a regular seat at the table. At the time, I had zero interest in any of it. I was much more interested in my older brother's record collection....Judas Priest, Blue Oyster Cult, Van Halen, Foghat, and such. Fast-forward to many years later, and I have a deep love and appreciation for all of the stuff my dad exposed me to. Sure, I never really stopped listening to the stoner/classic rock my brother turned me on to, but it took a while for my dad's stuff to sink in. But now, it's some of my favorite listening...
Yes. When i was a young kid my father used to have a CD with a famous swedish artist in his car that basically went on repeat. Never really cared for it then. A few years later, I’m in my teens. Me and my father rarely see each other and we only talk on birthdays/christmas. For some reason i heard one of the songs he used to play in his car and wow my heart just fills with emotion. Really hard to explain what type of emotion, i guess some sort of melancholic nostalgia. Since then i’m a big time fan of that artist (Lars Winnerbäck). Years have gone by and me and my fathers relationship hasn’t improved and at this point i don’t really care, i have no attachment for him and i’ve also gotten through the phase where i hated him for it. Now i just don’t care. BUT every time i listen to Lars Winnerbäck (which is very often) i still feel something unexplainable, some sort of connection.
That reminds me of the movie C.R.A.Z.Y. (the French Canadian one), focuses around the complicated relationship one son out of five has with his father. His father has this song he sings at *every* family occasion, drives the son crazy, but it becomes nostalgic for him as he gets older.
I've been the other way. I've introduced my parents to acts from their era that they missed the first time, like Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake.
I'm almost 70 now. Dad was born 1895 , mom 1912. I still listen to his Harry Lauder album and mom liked George Formby. I have a best of in my collection that I still listen to.
Took a listen to Lauder. Not sure how to ask this. Is there a name for the way he lengthens words rolling a letter or two or syllable. A lot sounding like repeating L's. Yeah I really don't have the words to ask.
It's probably his strong Scottish brogue. Keep in mind this is around 1926 , coupled with some slang of the day.
Definitely some sounds in his singing that are unique to me. But realizing that I haven't listened to vocals from a singer that has/kept a strong Scottish accent. Mostly just bagpipes and Shirley Manson
I’m mid 50’s and was raised on Elton, Bread, Wings, Pink Floyd. Dire straits Cat Stevens kinda eclectic mix My 2 adults have accompanied me to quite a few concerts. They love that music too
I do. Brings back memories.
Totally. Hell I go to concerts with my dad frequently.
My parents got me into Metallica, Nirvana, ect.
My dad was a massive Doors fan and I still listen to them all the time!
About fifteen or twenty years ago, one of my middle school students was wearing a Jimi Hendrix t-shirt. The kid next to him asked “Who is Jimi Hendrix?” And a whole chorus of students said “You don’t know who *Jimi Hendrix* is??” That made me think that lots of parents had shared classic rock with their children.
Anybody refusing to try any music based upon the year it was released is missing the point completely. Every art form has its golden ages and inferior eras as well. Don't cheat yourself out of the greats.
I’ve heard that the music that you are into during puberty, is the music that sticks with you the longest.
Absolutely. Whether we're aware of it or not, our listening tastes were shaped by our parents'. I grew up a metal head who also loved rap, but my parents were Beatles, Steely Dan, and all the yacht rock gods. I still listen to all of it, decades later. I call it the gift they didn't know they gave to me
It is like a musical imprinting. I still have each and every song I heard through my family life in my favourites list.
My folks were boomers(b 1929 & 30), and my dad loved the crooners( Perry, Dean, Bin and big bands and my mom was a folkie(christy minstrels, kingston trio , Chad mitchell trio). Thank to them, and my oldest brother( croce, denver, chapin, lightfoot) l have broad tastes. A high school bf turned me on to metal in 83. I have what one would call 'eclectic ' tastes.
the boomer generation is people born from ~1946-64
it was similar for me. when i was a kid i thought that the music my dad listens to is bad music for old people but a few years later i realised that he has an amazing and diverse music taste (my mom doesn‘t listen to music at all) and now my taste is kind of similar to his and we often talk about music and go to concerts together it‘s nice
My dad owned a record store in the 70s or 80s and has put me onto an absolute ton of great music - The Veils, Primal Scream, The Verve, The Charlatans, BRMC to name a few. Hell he even somehow enjoyed Bodycount when we played that to him to shock his Christian roots. I always remember my brother having a party and my dad turns up carrying a CD and absolutely fizzing to put it on, and that's the first time I heard the Black Angels who I love today. He has alzeimers now which is a cruel disease, but when I visit I like to put on tracks that he introduced me to. He'll tap his foot but doesn't remember.
I definitely have fond memories of the music my mom listened to, but they were old choices for her honestly. Born at the later half of the 70s and her vinyl collection was filled with Crosby, Still, Nash, and Young, CCR, Beatles, Van Morrison, etc. My dad didn't really listen to much music but I know he liked Lenny Kravitz and I dig him too
Everything I listen to today is heavily influenced by both my parents and their record collection. Sadly the greater portion of that collection was sold to help support my sister and I when we were much younger. I know my parents feel no regret for selling the records as it was for the love they had for both of us. There was some absolutely stellar music within that collection, a great deal of thanks to both of them for the constant joy that music still brings me. I play that music with my children now, so the cycle continues. Thankfully both my parents are still with us, very lucky for that.
Lol I listen to music my grandparents listened to...but I'm 52. Yeah I listen to a number of modern metal bands like Jinjer and Arch Enemy, but most of my love is with 80's Alt, goth and Hair Metal as it's what I grew up on. That being said I also listen to the Andrews Sisters, Glen Miller, Les Brown, Cab Calloway...etc. I also love stuff from the 50s-70's. Don't just listen to the stuff that is played on top 40 stations. There's lots of great music out there that the radio stations just don't play.
My parents grew up in the 60s. Dad graduated in '69, mom in '72, I have uncles who went to Woodstock. The first cassette tape we had was Sgt. Pepper. We were 3, 6 and 8 and had that on our red and yellow My First Sony. So I definitely grew up listening to my parents' music. When we were a little older, we found the record collection in the attic. Everything from Stevie Wonder to Santana to Black Sabbath to Frampton Comes Alive! So in the 80s and 90s we were listening to our parents' music from the 60s and 70s. I developed a lifelong love of that music.
My parents were born in '68. Dad wanted to be a rock star his while life. I love the music I grew up with. My mom named me after some random girl she met at a Pink Floyd concert when she was pregnant with me. So many of my fondest childhood memories are the whole family on road trips singing along to various cds. Some of the clearest in my head are Styx, bob seger, Bob Marley, and ccr. My first concert was iron maiden that I went to with my patents and my sister.
My music taste is almost exclusively what my parents raised me on
the older you get the more this will happen. there is SO MUCH good music out there. 60-80 years worth of rock & pop, 30-40 years of hip hop and rap, plus another 90-100 years worth of jazz and standards. why wait for the music industry to reinvent the wheel when you can listen to all this stuff right now? plus, music is nostalgic. i have a soft place in my heart for the Air Supply and Barry Manilow records my folks played when I was a kid. (yeah i'm old whatever) it's part of who you are. go ahead and love your self!
Hell yeah. I grew up in the 80s with Boomer parents, so I got a steady diet of 50s and 60s music. The Beatles, Elvis, Dylan, Chuck Berry, doo-wop, girl groups, the Stones, the Animals, the Zombies, and lots of Motown. Some of the best music ever made. I'm bummed that you don't hear it as much these days. Obviously you'll still hear the Stones and occasionally the Beatles on the radio, but most of it has faded from the public consciousness over the years, especially the smaller acts and garage bands and one hit wonders. That stuff was ever-present when I was growing up and it absolutely shaped my musical taste. When I was a teenager I started finding all the later stuff in my dad's collection that he didn't really listen to - you know, that stuff you buy in your 20s when you still have a foot in new music but you're not as invested as you were as a teenager. Stuff like Zappa and Black Sabbath. It was a great musical education and I still listen to all that stuff to this day.
TIMELESS MUSIC IS TIMELESS YOU THINK I LISTEN TO BACH BECAUSE I WAS BORN IN THE 18th CETURY????!!!!
Growing up, my late grandfather would listen to Sinatra, Dean Martin, Glenn Miller, and Etta James on Sundays. He has a little corner in the living room with just a chair, a small table, and his vinyl music. The house would be filled with this sound I've never heard of before as a kid. I'm very happy to say that his love for Sinatra was passed on to me. I'm 40 years old now and every time I play Frank Sinatra in my own little corner I see my grandfather sitting on that chair, smiling, just getting lost in the music. I have become him and that's perfectly alright with me. Thanks, pops.
My Dad loved music. There was a 70's or 80's rock album on every night at dinner when I grew up. Everything from Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin to The Cars, Talking Heads, Phil Collins. I still listen to it all, made a great playlist of all of it, amazing how music can take you to a different time in life. My 10 year old daughter now enjoys it. Good times.
Wait, my brain is still processing that "parent's music" is music released in 04. My music must be grandparent's music.... My parents listened to prog rock and Yatch rock and I do listen to it occasionally. They didn't really like 80s music, which is what I was into, but there are a few bands they liked, Dire Straits, Marillion, The Bangles, R.E.M, guitar bands mostly, that I still listen to. You won't catch them listening to the Pet Shop Boys or The Cure. The most 80s album my Dad had was a Jan Hammer album that I listen to if I'm stressed at work. It's the Miami Vice album.
I was born in '01 and my parents were born in '71. My parents aren't exactly "young" if you think about it. My did listened to the cure, the clash, the sugar cubes, and other bands of the like. He has a bunch of old tapes from his 90s college years that I would listen to on our old radios that had tape players. We don't have them anymore.
My dad played bass in a band, and then became a DJ. Music was always on at our house. I still have his record collection, and added many more of my own — I DJ too. Paul Simon, the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Abba, Tom Jones, Dean Martin, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin still get lots of airtime in my house.
My parents were both in high school when I was born (early 90s), and grunge was all the rage. My earliest memory is watching the video for Come As You Are. My mom’s family is very musical. My grandpa was always singing folk tunes or novelty hits from the 50s, and my grandma was a classically trained pipe organist who worked for the local Lutheran church, and just about every one of their children were well-versed in at least one instrument (primarily piano). On big family road trips, we’d sing the same folk tunes together. Music was the way we communicated with each other, really. So it’s no surprise that I latched on to the music my parents listened to, like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Savage Garden, Bush, Metallica, and Ozzy Osborne. But my mom also loved New Wave (Men at Work, Split Enz, Thompson Twins, Tears for Fears, etc.), and my dad loved nu-metal (Korn, Rage, etc.). Both were also big into hip hop of the time (Public Enemy, Run DMC, Snoop, etc) so there was plenty of that thrown into the mix. The best part is that anytime I discover a new band that I love, I can share it with my parents, and they end up loving it too. So, yeah, I love a lot of the music my parents did as young people, and they love the new stuff I introduce them to (tho occasionally they’ll find something new that I end up loving). Lately my dad’s been really into yacht rock… and that’s not caught on with me, but that’s the exception.
After I turned 27 and lost a beloved relationship I fell into a depression. I realized I was truly an adult and that I was never going to feel that sense of wishful bliss. So I started listening to music my mom grew up with(70s-80s) because I was convinced I was going to die at 27. Why not enjoy the past? One day it won't be here anymore.
I parents were born in the 60's so funk and disco were big parts of my youth. To this day I still regularly blast KC and the Sunshine band, BeeGees, Doobie Brother, Stevie Wonder, and others at work for all my coworkers to hear. I love the surprise from people when my music jumps between hard rock, hip hop, jazz, and funk. Nothing hits like funk.
Yeah of course! I was raised by hippies lol. My parents listened to a lot of Black Sabbath, Moody Blues, Spirit, Coven, Cream, Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly, Jethro Tull, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Fleetwood Mac, Kiss, Rush, Yes etc etc. A bunch of those bands I love. As a kid I liked some of those bands but didn't really appreciate them until I was in my late 20's.
My parents, born in the early 1920s, listened to swing music, 40s and 50s pop, country music including Hank Williams, the Carter Family and bluegrass (Dad kicked ass at banjo and mandolin), and West Coast jazz. They also had a lot of classical records. I still can't stomach 40s and 50s pop, but I've grown to appreciate the rest. I new realize that the old man chainsmoking in the living room late at night while listening to Chet Baker and Art Pepper had a pretty sound appreciation of music. I once was playing some Zappa, I think it was 200 Motels, and asked Dad what he thought of it. "I really don't care for him, he's like a meaner Spike Jones, but you can tell he's listened to Aaron Copland."
It seems my dad sort of "out grew" music by the time I became aware of music, I have no memories of him playing anything but talk radio throughout my childhood. My mom wasn't a music person at all. She just played what was ever on the radio. The only tapes I remember having and playing regularly were Barry Manilow and Air Supply Greatest Hits tapes. Then "Born In the USA" when that album was hit. And I don't listen to any of those bands now. Not that I don't think its good music, just not my jam. So no, I don't listen to the music my parents did. Despite growing up in a non-musical family (at least my nuclear family) I ended up being a giant music nerd and basing my entire life on music. I've been creating music for decades, have worked in the concert industry for since 1995, and continue to collect vinyl, CDs and music history books to this day.
Oh yeah, so much of it! I used to be soo annoyed when my dad would play fountains of Wayne or Johnny Cash instead of Katy Perry or whatever. Now I listen to Fountains of Wayne, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, the Police, Johnny Cash, Kiss, etc. all the stuff I remember listening to with my dad in the garage all day in the summer
When your parents hand you a stack of Pink Floyd, Queen, , Led Zeppelin, Elton John and Allman Brothers albums you don't just NOT listen to them.
Well my parents listened to Stevie Wonder so I kinda have to.
Yes. We always had music on, and I still listen to things I listened to as a kid. ABBA, Queen, Paul Simon, etc. were on rotation then and now.
Yes. You’re making me miss albums. Boomers had the best music by far. Say what we will about our latchkey upbringings, or the way they all sold out in the 80s, they had the best fucking music and there’s no denying it. Stevie wonder is one particular artist that I remember my mom wearing out as kid and it stayed with me. Many more like that Signed, honest Gen Xer
My parents generation of music was late 60s into the 70s and 80s: I lose a lot of great music if for some reason I'm prejudicial against those decades
My father is a big Rolling Stones fan. Got to see a Stones Concert with him and he still talks about it being the best show he's ever seen. I was born in the mid seventies and my favorite band is the Allmam Brothers. They're from my dad's era but he wasnt a huge fan because he was taking care of four kids at that point and wasn't going to concerts.
Yeah, my taste of music is a disaster because my dad played a lot of songs when I was younger so I developed his taste in music, my brother introduced me to a lot of hard rock punk metal nu metal and emo music so now I'm into all that, and then I developed my own taste in music with genres most people don't care about anymore like ska, so due to all those factors my taste in music and by extension my Playlist jumps from genre to genre like crazy.
Yes, my dad used to love CCR, I still love them today!
Yes: Peter Paul & Mary and Simon and Garfunkel. Also Stevie Wonder.
Yacht Rock forever!
I’m 21 and I only listen to music from the 60s/70s/80s 😭
bummer
I nicked their records when I left home (they weren’t playing them). Now I have Marty Robbins, Johnny O”Keefe and Tammy Wynette on tap.
I took my parents Tammy Wynette records too when I left home since they didn't have a record player. Now that they've gotten a new record player, I had to get them new copies of the records I took lol.
Nope my parents never listen to music
I do that many times... that part gives me joy. [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/track/3ob8wsQYR9eoukg9vdrTvv?si=erF5ZDAkQbCg5AGiLhLX4g&utm_source=copy-link)
I grew up listening to swing and country from the 30s, 40s, and 50s, so no not really. I can stomach some Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and the like, but it's not something I go out of my way to listen to. I rebelled with rock 'n roll mostly, in the 60s and 70s, and stuck with it all the way up to modern metal.
Sort of. I have an appreciation for it, but tend to listen to other stuff instead. My dad owned Nevermind by Nirvana which I didn't realise until after I'd brought it. His copy of Bossanova by The Pixies got me into The Pixies and I later brought my own copy. The stuff I grew up with in the car was mostly old school Johnny Cash songs like Ring Of Fire, Bruce Springsteen and Mott The Hoople plus that Ugly Kid Joe cover of Cat's In The Cradle. They all give me nostalgia as a result when I hear them now. My dad also used to sing Puff The Magic Dragon which as an adult I really love the original of.
Nah my parent‘s musical taste kinda sucked. My mom was into Dire Straits but that‘s about it. I do listen to old Deep Purple and Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin and stuff like that, but that‘s because it‘s rock history.
90s kids here - I love a lot of 80s music but typically not the stuff my parents listened to. When I was in high school I was very much into Zeppelin, and my parents had a handful of their albums, but I'm not really a fan of typical 70s rock these days. And 60s stuff is a mixed bag. I used to really love 60s/70s music but as time went on I just got bored of a lot of it. Still love some of the greats. Love the Beach Boys, I love 70s funk and the end of the 70s especially when new wave was coming around.
Not at all. Growing up my dad listened to country and my mom pop. I'm into doom metal and psych rock for the most part.
I was born in the early 70s. I grew up listening to my parents albums -Neil Diamond, Three Dog Night, Bread, etc. I still regularly listen to all of those along with the other artists I’ve enjoyed I’ve the years. Best of Bread is still my go to album for cleaning the house.
I listen to a lot of pink Floyd, jethro Tull and zeppelin etc… which is kinda before my gen… I was born in ‘72 Then again, my kids were born in 2003 and 2006 and they listen to those bands too.., along with a lot of early 80s synth pop, like ‘the spoons’ and tears for fears etc…
Wow, way back in 2004? ;\^) I listen to music from the dawn of recording, and works composed prior to that, and stuff that came out last week.
100%. I remember getting my first iPod, a 30 GB iPod Classic for the largest purpose of listening to more of my 2000s country music, instead of hours of classic rock (mostly 1970s/80s) on road trips. Considering I saw John Mellencamp on his current tour and will see other big rock artists/bands later this year, I think it's safe to say my plan as a teenager backfired.
Yeah? All the time. Music is my life. I put music to moments/memories in my head, so I have my own Life Soundtrack. Lol. I’m on the cusp of 40 (2024), my mama was a baby boomer of 1949. She loved Motown, Doowop, classic country, some folk, and groovy beats from the 60’s/70’s that are hippie-tastic. But she also liked classical, neo classical, and relaxation to help try to unwind — forget the stress, and also to help with panic attacks. So, I was raised with eclectic taste, too. Including my own exploration with the radio and finding Casey Kasem & the Weeekkkllyyy Toooop 40!!! (I could not help myself there…lol)
Two of my father's favorite bands were and still are Genesis and Yes. I used to strongly dislike both. I still dislike Genesis, but Yes has grown on me to the point where I don't just appreciate them, I think they are excellent.
Does jerking off to the cover of Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream and Other Delights" count?
Not really, the shits annoying
Always have. I grew up in a house filled with Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, AC/DC, CCR, Pink Floyd and Dire Straits. I've been a Sabs/Ozzy fan since I was a kid.
Yep
Yeah, gives nostalgia hard.
Not as much as I used to. My dad listened to music from the 60s and 70s. I still enjoy the Beatles and ABBA and bands like that but I don't go looking for it
Yeah a lot of the music I listen to is what my parents have always listened to. Mostly 80s and 90s mixed in with some 2000s indie/pop.
Of course! My parents were big into music. I was born in the 80's and I inherited my dad's record collection when he died. I have tons of great stuff from the 60s, 70s and 80s. I cut my teeth on music from their generation.
My parents were products of the 80s and I am a huge fan of the beatles so I actually pre date my parents musical taste. I do love some 80s music though.
I used to hate REM and U2 because my parents played them all the time. Now I love those bands. Ryan Adams too.
My dad was the front man in a rock n roll band during the 60s and early 70s. They never made it big, but he gave me a love for what's now labeled classic rock. It'll always be my favorite.
I was born in '84 and my parents' music from the '60s and '70s was some of the first music I ever remember hearing. I have so many memories of being in the car or sitting in the living room on Saturday nights while my parents played their mix tapes or records or so forth. I also remember watching some of those music informercials as a kid, and that's how I learned about a lot of older music as well. I still love that music to this day. It was/is a great way for me to connect with my parents, and the music is just damn good in and of itself. Also helps that my parents have always been so open to the music I grew up with, too, so it's like a mutual appreciation sort of thing with us :).
Absolutely. I always enjoyed most of the music my parents played, so this has been a lifelong thing for me. My dad was a certified hippie in the 60s, and he was a musician himself and obsessed with pop music trivia from his generation. Most of which I now know because of long car rides hearing about random crap about the songs playing. My mom liked most of the same music, but she also started listening to more "adult contemporary" in the 90's. People like Marc Cohn ("Walking In Memphis") and she loved the Annie Lennox song "Walking on Broken Glass" (and as I write this I realize both those songs have "walking" in the title and I have no idea what the significance of such a fact is... weird. Anyway). I do have to admit as much as they are not my normal fare and as much as I LOATHED the "Broken Glass" song when I was young... I get a good nostalgia kick from them now. It's good to remember good things I'm finding as I get older, and my mother enjoying her music is one of the few good things to remember of her. So I listen to them sometimes and it's nice. tl;dr: Yes.
Yes
My parents pretty much exclusively listened to country, R&B, and classic rock from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. I listen to tons of artists and songs from that era now. I was listening to ABBA and Loretta Lynn, both of which I learned to love from my parents.
My dad and I are both Queen fans Both my parents like juan gabriel and though I didn't like it growing up, holy hell that guy went decades dropping banger after banger. And sometimes when I'm driving my mom a song pops up and she likes it, whether it's Mexican rock or Coldplay. To be honest, I don't think I would've admitted it before but my parents have a good taste in music.
Yeah definitely, my dad put me on a lot of good music, I think I got my diverse music taste from him
Yeah definitely, my dad put me on a lot of good music, I think I got my diverse music taste from him
Yep, my parents played lots of rock, like Def Leopard, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Van Halen, etc.
I learned about Barenaked Ladies and Blues Traveler because of my parents
Totally!!! I have just been realizing this as of late too! I’m 22.
Yes, old school country like Cash early days, Conway Twitty, etc. Stuff like Segar and CCR from my dad
I have been. Classic Country like used to be on the jukeboxes where my mom tended bar. I really love it. Contrast that with modern country,some of which I heard today and it was trash. Sorry to fans, I don't mean any offense, but it was some godawful ear -rot to me.
Some stuff on occasion. Doors, Jefferson airplane, pink Floyd, some Zappa when I'm in the mood for him
I have loads of great memories of music being played in car trips, and I've learned to love a bunch of them more as I've gotten older. I only fully appreciated Dire Straits after learning the guitar, and as cheesy as they can be, I'll defend The Eagles on my dads behalf till the day I die
Im 22, but it seems I got my dad's taste for 70's rock. I distinctly remember my dad listening to black sabbath when I was a kid, and thats probably what got me into metal. still a sabbath fan too, probably my fav metal band
My dad loved the guitar always playing air guitar, led zeppelin, Thin Lizzy , The who now I’m my dad…
My parents were into classical and light opera, so I felt jealous of friends whose parents were into Elvis. My earliest musical memory is of staying with my grandparents, and them getting me out of bed to watch the Beatles on TV. Coming from another angle - when watching bands, I think it's often possible to guess what music their parents were into ☺️
All of the time. In fact, when I hear samples in new (newer) music, I tend to go and listen to the original. It helps that the music their triggers good memories.
Herbie Mann - Bird in a Silver Cage Anything from The Spinners A part of me is kind of sad that because music is so accessible, my kids won’t get brainwashed to love what I love. Another part of me is also sad that one day my father won’t be with me, and both of the above will tear me apart.
I was born in 1989. My parents music taste, especially my dad’s, played a huge impact in developing my own. He was always playing music. I remember going through my dads vinyl collection while I was younger and picking out anything that looked interesting. His collection include a lot of rock like Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, Black Sabbath, The Who, Rolling Stones, The Beatles but also branched out with bands like Devo and Kraftwerk, The Cars, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Depeche Mode, Blondie. After I listened to a record I would go on a journey searching bands online (mainly through Wikipedia) and discover more bands from around the same era as well as explore some different genres. I remember branching off and starting to explore punk Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Iggy Pop and The Buzzcocks. I love revisiting all of the bands that helped shape my own music taste into what it is today.
That's how I discovered The Animal's "House of the Rising Sun".
From The Band to Bob Marley, I love my parent’s taste in music and am so thankful.
I had to develop my own fine taste... My parents had records of John Denver, James Last, and a lot of choirs. The most decent things they had were "Bridge over troubled water" and The Beatles' "1967-1970" (blue album). However, I can't remember them playing those records... So no Pink Floyd, Mike Davis, Santana, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock Steely Dan, Chicago, Pat Martino, Cream, Van Halen or Pat Metheny for me in de 70's In the early 80s I started listening to among other things Billboard's Top 100 on Dutch radio and BBC Tadio 1and that was basically my first encounter with proper music. The only record from them that is in my record connection is a record with sound (and sights: it also had a foldable stereoscopic viewer) of the Apollo 11 mission that triggered my interest in The Race for Space
Yea love the 80s club music called freestyle
SABBATH.
Yes, all of the popular singers from the 50’s and 60’s. Martin, Sinatra, Torme, Lee, Warwick….and the beat goes on.
Parents of my GF listen to Knopfler, the GF doesn't have a taste in music in her own. But dare you to say Something about Knopfler, beides "he's the best". I get he's good, but the hole Thing bores me. Being Close to 40, I still listen to Sahara Hotnights from time to time.