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???

Loving the Neil Diamond mentions here... big in our house/car and I still love him now!

Pretty much on a loop: Shitloads of Dire Straits, Fleetwood Mac, Simon and Garfunkel, Paul Simon Gracelands and other solo stuff, Wings, Dolly Parton, Erasure, Simply Red, George Michael ❤️ and Wham!, Sam Cooke, some Genesis, some Johnny Cash and Kenny Rogers. A lot of Classical music on some amazing Classical Gold LPs with illustrations on the back of the great composers all looking a bit stern 😂

My dad has a bit of a penchant for making mix tapes off the radio, so I randomly know a few Billy Ocean songs word for word, likewise I Don’t Wanna Dance by Eddie Grant 😂 and 99 Red Balloons. A load of other one-offs I’ve forgotten and a few terrible ‘Highway Hits’ style soft rock compos, Boston, Free, ZZ Top etc. I loved them all!

Oh and a fair amount of Barbra Streisand!

The stranglers
The kinks
Pink floyd
The who
Rolling Stones
Duran Duran
Talking heads

TRex, Bay City Rollers were the two main ones

@EggyPegg

I'd forgotten about Boney M. We had one record with an album cover that really freaked me out as a child. I was telling DH about it the other day as it somehow came up, and had to google it to show him.

I HATED it!

That’s an amazing LP cover @EggyPegg

I actually love Boney M now I’m older, they’re great songwriters and very original - they have some pretty ‘interesting‘ videos on YouTube so I’m not as shocked by that insane picture as I might once have been! Check out Mr Boney’s hilarious homemade cape jobby in the Rasputin vid 😂 and his mad dancing.

Im a bit older (1978) but: Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Genesis, Alison Moyet, Tracy Chapman, Paul Simon, Tom Petty, Dire Straits, David Bowie, Talking Heads, The Band

Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Free
Cream
Genesis
Bob Dylan
Van Morrison
The Moody Blues
Jimi Hendrix
The Who
Dire Straits
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Kate Bush
U2
Bob Marley
The Zombies
Frank Zappa
Electric Light Orchestra
The Kinks
Love
Bruce Springsteen
David Bowie
10cc
Fleetwood Mac
The Doors
Jefferson Airplane
The Police

I don't think a lot of that is 80s music though... And sorry op, this got quite long and it could have been longer, I'm now mentally going through all my dad's records and he has so many!

My mum liked country music. Also Simon & Garfunkel, Beach Boys, The Kinks, Abba, Elton John, Slade, Bowie & 70s disco.

My dad is much older and has niche interests, so mainly classical music, Irish freedom fighting songs, Ewan Maccoll / Peggy Seeger, stuff like the Threepenny Opera.

Prince & George Michael

Beautiful South too

Born early 80s. My Mum listened to David Bowie, ABBA, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, T-Rex and Bruce Springsteen. Dad was into Queen, Meatloaf, Jean-Michel Jarre, Bruce Springsteen, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Genesis and The Police.

I still love Fleetwood Mac, ABBA, Queen and Bruce.

I messaged my dad to ask him and this was his reply...

A true mish mash Neil Diamond, Elton John, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis and of course the Beatles, as you quite rightly observed Queen but for headphones Kraftwerk and Jarre Autobahn and Oxygene.

Dad - Paul Simon, Cat Stevens and the Beatles
Mum - The Carpenters

Dad also liked Sky, a band who played classical music on electric guitars. They were good IMO.

My sister had her son in 83 and was a young mum. I was much younger and was obsessed with her record collection!
She listened to

Eurythmics
Genesis
Joan Armatrading
Duran Duran
The Human League
David Cassidy
Depeche Mode
Fleetwood Mac
The Alan Parsons Project
The Police
Culture Club

Simon and Garfunkel, Motown, David Bowie, Queen, Abba.

My dad loved The Beatles, ABBA, and classical music, and my mum played stuff like Eddy Grant and Hot Chocolate.

Eurythmics, Queen, Dr Hook Dire Straits and Chris De Burgh

I still listen to Eurythmics and Queen now and I'll never stop. My kids love Queen. (Yay! Parenting win!)

A few more I've thought of...Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Whitney Houston, Peter Gabriel, The Cure, Tears for Fears, Joy Division, The Smith's, Fine Young Cannibals, Simply Red, The Police, Roxette, INXS. Lots of Human League, Dexy's Midnight Runners and Soft Cell too!

Prince - purple rain album
Frankie goes to Hollywood
Rod Stewart
Simply Red
Motown

Bee Gees

It's funny how our kids won't get this as people rarely listen to one album over and over these days

Rock music. Bon Jovi, Blue Oyster Cult etc

Inspired by this thread, I've just told Alexa to play Elton John. It's lovely having it on in the background. So many songs remind me of my childhood.

My dad liked dire straits