If you were born in the early 1980's;

[lucysmam]

what music did your parents listen to?

I'm working my way through the Eurythmics, The Beatles and Paul Simon atm.

What else might my dad have listened to when I was young???

[SomewhereEast]

1980 here. My mother was a hard partying twenty-something biker in my early childhood (yes I was unplanned ) so it was all Heavy Metal & rock. My first gig was Thin Lizzy when she was six months pregnant - like many young Irish people of her generation, she worshipped Phil Lynott because he was our first big international rockstar and was also astonishingly good looking. I remember Bowie and Led Zep and Queen being played & Freddie Mercury posters on the walls. I used to love flicking through her & my uncle's LP collections & looking at all the weird cover art. My mother, my uncle and their mates were always pulling the piss out of Wham etc because they were Not What Bikers Listened To. Weirdly Michael Jackson was ok though? One of my earliest memories is watching the video for Billy Jean which was very high tech at the time.

[AsMuchUseAsAMarzipanDildo]

Joe Cocker

[SomewhereEast]

Oh and I still have one or two of my mother's school text books from the 70s and they are COVERED in Bay City Rollers graffiti .

[wejammin]

Mum loved Eric Clapton, James Taylor, Paul Simon, Joan Baez, The Bangles, Bob Marley and Motown

Dad loved Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Blondie, The Who

[chuffoff]

Dire Straits

[Gotofriggingsleep]

Mom loved The Sweet and Smokie. My Dad was a fan of Queen and Meatloaf. I remember car journeys listening to Cher, Dire Straits, Status Quo and strangely The Wurzuls...

[Imonlydoingwhatican]

Mum always had on
Simply red
The bangels
Genesis

Sure theyre were others but these stick out

[minipie]

Born 1980 to parents in their 30s

Mum had records by the Stones, Cream, the Who, Fleetwood Mac, Nina Simone, Janis Joplin and various folk bands
Dad had the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, a lot of classical music

I remember listening to a lot of Billy Joel and Queen, I think that’s where their tastes met

[AngelicaElizaAndPeggy]

My dad used to listen to dire straits in his car and my mum would play her Enya tape at dinner parties

Born 1981

[BogRollBOGOF]

Mum: The Beatles, 60s pop, Bread
Dad: Nat King Cole, Crystal Gayle, Chris De Burg,Don McLean

Older Brother listening to Duran Duran, A-ha, moving on to Simple Minds, Stone Roses. By the early 90s he had a poster for a group called Cud.

I have a very broad taste in music with that range in influence!

[PurBal]

Dire Straits and Billy Joel.

[Daisychainsandglitter]

I was born 84. My dad loved Madness and the Jam. My mum liked Pet Shop Boys, Human League, Heaven 17, ABC, Erasure, Eurythmics.

[MotherOfAllZipFiles]

I was born in 85 my mum was into iron maiden, Europe, def leppard.. metal/rock she still is! lol
my dad into the specials, madness, David Bowie, bad manners, 2 tone
im somewhere in between

[Martinisarebetterdirty]

Everley brothers, Roy Orbison, buddy holly, the Beatles, transvision vamp, roxette, Bon jovi, status quo, meatloaf

[LovelyWeekAway]

Born early 80’s
Parents were mid 20’s

Records and LPs I remember being stacked at side of stereo and listening to as a small child :

Deacon blue
Wet wet wet
Whitney Houston
Tracy Chapman
Michael Jackson
Rod Stewart

They were just chart loving parents , dad liked stuff like thin Lizzy and Wings etc but I don’t remember that being played . They probably mostly had the chart stuff on as they mostly played records when they had friends round for drinks . I’d hear it lying in bed.

[Foxinthechickencoop]

Eurythmics, queen, the eagles, Gloria Estefan, Madonna, the Beatles, culture club, The Police, 10CC, Dire Straits, Pet Shop Boys

[Foxinthechickencoop]

Genesis, The Bangles, Roy Orbison, Enya

[beexcellenttoeachother]

Beach boys, Gypsy Kings, Edith Piaf. On repeat. All the time!! Hated it at the time but very fond off the lot of them these days.

[mum2jakie]

Mine liked Phil Collins, Status Quo and Ellie Brookes!

[mum2jakie]

Elkie Brookes!!

[WinterAndRoughWeather]

My dad liked classical music and Frank Sinatra, my mum liked ABBA and the Beatles.

[Abzs]

Radio 2, mainly, is what my mum had on in the kitchen.
On LP I remember Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and Steely Dan. Jasper Carrott and Billy Connolly. Other folky stuff from their pre children nights out at the Black Horse (I think)
On cassette, Paul Simon's Graceland. My dad had things like Nigel Kennedy's Four Seasons and Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio (I still have that, but need a working cassette player) and other classical stuff.

[chipsandpeas]

i was born late 70s mum loved queen, neil diamond and other 70s stuff like abba, some elton john
my dad liked frank sinatra and shirley bassey and a bit of led zepplin

[DuaneBenziesvoice]

My parents both listened to 60s music as it was their era. My dad loved things like Status Quo, Rod Stewart, Queen, ABBA, Neil Diamond as well.
My mum is a massive Elvis fan.

I have sisters who were teenagers in the 80s so I mainly heard Wham, Duran Duran, Adam Ant etc at home.
I was born in 1980.

[BoobsOnTheMoon]

Born 1981

Stepdad was into folk so car journeys were all about Steeleye Span/Maddy Prior, The Waterboys, Christy Moore, all that sort of thing and lots of unknown local bands too

Dad into Bob Marley, Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell etc