My dad, who played cornet professionally in the 1930s, loved Louis Armstrong, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and many others from the jazz/swing era. When he got older, he liked Dean Martin, Al Hirt, and the second Chicago album.
My mom loved the Ink Spots and Nat King Cole, but when she got up in her late 60s, she liked the Undertones!
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Originally posted by mark frankenstein: My dad, who played cornet professionally in the 1930s, loved Louis Armstrong, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and many others from the jazz/swing era. When he got older, he liked Dean Martin, Al Hirt, and the second Chicago album.
My mom loved the Ink Spots and Nat King Cole, but when she got up in her late 60s, she liked the Undertones!
Sweet! For the past year I've been getting into Miles Davis and Coltrane. Incredible music. I love jazz. Btw, your dad has good taste in music.
When I was a kid? My dad liked folk groups (The Weavers, Limelighters), especially the more obscure folk groups. He also listened to big band music, Calypso music, and Patsy Cline. He liked any singer with a Patsy Cline-like voice- Linda Ronstadt, kd lang, whoever.
My mom's taste in music in those days were pretty similiar to my dad's, except for also listening to soul music. She likes "soft" rock these days and jazz, too.
My dad listens to mostly singer/songwriter type stuff and old rock music. James Taylor, Neil Young, Kansas, Queen, Led Zepelin, Pink Floyd, Hendrix, The Doors (a lot of his tastes are linked to old school psychedelic rock).
My mom listens to mainly 80s rock and grunge; Foreigner, Nirvana, The Police, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Metallica, Collective Soul, she also listens to most of the older rock my father does except that with abrasive vocals such as Neil Young. On top of that, she gets into newer stuff by the likes of Outkast and Usher.
Well my parents used to and still listen to a lot of different kind of music. There is a ton of Spanish-singing music like Maná, Juan Gabriel, José Alfredo Jiménez and Vicente Fernández. Both of them shared the likes of many different styles including mariachi, ranchera, trios and many others.
As for English music, my dad mainly picked his music and he would play that. My mom says that she used to like Cat Stevens and similar artists. She also likes some country and pop and she loves the Billy Joel album, An Innocent Man.
My dad did influence a lot of what I liked. He liked what he liked a lot and even if he didn’t have a ton of their albums, they were some of his favorites. He loved Talking Heads, The Police, Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers, Supertramp, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd and so many others. He didn’t necessarily have a lot of their albums in his possession but he certainly knew a lot about each band. Some of the stuff that I tend to like (older music) he doesn’t really like—or he does but not as much as I do—like Tom Waits, The Beatles, Bob Dylan—though he still has my copy of Modern Times. He was always more of a Stones’ guy anyway—he loves all of their music, even their weirder stuff like “She’s A Rainbow” (probably one of his top 5 songs of all time.)
When I was very small, my mother liked blues, motown, Sonny & Cher, Joan Baez, the Fifth Dimension, Tommy James, the Righteous Brothers, and some of the Beatles (Rubber Soul, in particular). In the mid- and late-'70's she liked disco and danceable country. For most of the '80's and the early part of the '90's she listened to KVIL, which is (or at least was) Dallas's biggest adult-contemporary station. Now she loves Ruthie Foster and Toby Keith. My father used to like Charlie Pride, Charlie Rich, and Johnny Cash. Some sales-girl who flirted with him at Wal-Mart got him to buy Kiss in about 1977 and he got into hard rock for about the next 15 or 20 years. Now he has a really sophisticated sound system in his pool and computer rooms and he buys most of his records on vinyl at flea markets and puts them in digital format on his computer. He likes Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, John Conlee, Charlie Rich, Boots Randolph, Conway Twitty, Floyd Cramer, and a whole lot of other older C&W-MOR-ish acts from the 1960's and '70's.
My parents have listened to the same stuff since I can remember, which is mostly classic rock. Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, The Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, CCR (My dad thinks Creedence is the best thing ever, it's one of the only remotely accurate opinions he has.) Inexplicably though, mostly my mom, they listen to a decent amount of shitty post-grunge type stuff too. I think they just play whatever rock is on the radio when they drive since that's about the only time they listen to music.
My parents listen to Opera. Mostly italian, mostly all the time. They will occasionally listen to some Broadway, particularly if there is a recent show that they've seen that they really love, or if my daughter is with them. She loves the soundtracks! Briefly, in the sixties, they bought Simon and Garfunkle and Peter,Paul&Mary, but it was just a phase they were going through!
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when i was really young, it was barbara streisand and the carpenters for my mum and my dad didn't really listen to music, but he talked about liking rush and the guess who. for my formative teen years, it was a one-way ticket to nashville and all the new country music my fragile little mind could handle from both of them. i guess if a lunatic killer ever threatens to off me if i can't recite the entirety of the lyrics to come on over, i'll have a better chance of living than most, but that's the only good that can possibly come of this.
It's kind of hard to pin down what my dad listened to. Not that I've tried too hard, but he's somewhat coy about it, or reticent. He listens to mostly classical music now, but he can play a handful of classic rock songs on the guitar. I've heard him talk of Chicago. He's mentioned, uhhh.. the Aqualung guy.. what was his name again? He seems a little reluctant to get into a discussion of The Beatles. I think he may have missed that boat, i doe no. He was probably a Stones man. My mum liked U2 a lot, not so much anymore. She also grew up with a lot Sinatra-y stuff & Ed Ames, that I know of. I completely turned my parents on to The Seeger Sessions last year. I burned them a copy of Get Away From Me and they went bonkers over that. Mum liked Gavin DeGraw for while there before "upgrading" to James Blunt. Her biggest crush though, lately, might be Bruce Springsteen's wife Patti Scialfa. She loves her voice.
My mom loved ABBA and The Carpenters. Thus, I love them as well. My dad's a big fan of most things 50's and 60's as well as a spattering of other things. It's fun to ride in the car with the oldies station on and hear him say about every song, "Oh, this one's really good."
dad listened to new age kitaro and ennio morricone. the latter happens to be one of my favorites.
mom listened to christian music. she bought a single by the monkeys when she was young but that was about it. strawberry jam was in her car cd player the other day. she didn't like it much.
My mom likes the Beatles(duh), Simon & Garfunkel, and believe it or not My Bloody Valentine (Loveless).
My dad's taste in music is horrible. Barry Manilow, Barbara Streisand, Eric Carmen, Barry White, who is decent, Gloria Estafan(sp?), Diane Summers, and the only decent vinly he has O'Jays - Backstabbers.
