What music did your parent(s) listen to when you were a child?

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Mine listened to a lot of soul, R&B, reggae and Motown. Also ELO.

What music did yours listen to?

Bob Dylan, The Beatles, a bit of Motown.

Mum - Carpenters, Cliff Richard, Doris Day, Wet Wet Wet, Eurythmics, ABBA.

Dad - Queen, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Roxette, UB40, 10CC, Phil Collins/Genesis, Vivaldi!

A real mixed bunch really!

The Platters , Andy Williams, Tom Jones, Glen Campbell , Englebert Humperdinck, Neil Sedaka, The Carpenters, Barry Manolo, The three Degrees , Burt Bacharach, Gene Pitney , Des O'Connor , Daniel O'Donnel and Val Doonican . Both of my parents liked these artists .

My parents agreed on the Beatles, the Monkees (my dad's favourite), Paul McCartney, Dusty Springfield, Franki Valli, and Cilla 😆

My dad had broader taste though and also liked dad rock like Dire Straits as well as Heff Beck, the Faces, the Kinks etc. And plenty of Motown. Also some synth stuff.

My dad was horrified at some of the Stock Aitken and Waterman crap we liked as kids. He was obviously correct. He was interested in the Britpop era although constantly pointed out how many bands borrowed from the 60s.

Dad: Jerry Lee Lewis (At top volume. Once the speakers -over 2' high jumped off the shelf with the volume )
Beetles
Queen
Beach Boys

Mum: Paul Simon a bit
Beach Boys a bit
Classical mostly

My parents very very rarely had music on my mother finds it noisy and over stimulating! If anything, classical or Xmas carols a couple of times a year

Same as my parents plus Jimmy Shand & his band, Scottish pipes & drums and Kenneth McKellar.

Very little, but if they did it would have been mainly classical. My mum did like the Seekers though. We never had pop music in the house until I got a transistor radio for my 13th birthday

Usually they listened to Radio 4 most of the day.

Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald for my Dad . My mother didn’t often listen to music but I remember her set of Beethoven symphonies and Katherine Ferrier singing.

Everything from Mussorgsky to Meat Loaf pretty much.

Blondie, Queen, The Beatles, Rod Stewart. Can't remember what else probably loads more artists but they're the ones that stick out! Mainly 60's, 70's, 80's, their younger era!

Motown. Played on Dads 8 track tapes.
From as far back as I can remember Dad played Motown in the car. He also loved Billy Paul,
Frank Sinatra & Andy Williams.
Mum loved Gladys Knight. She liked Queen too & more of the modern stuff than Dad.

Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Matt Munro, Dean Martin. My Mum also loved musicals and they both listened to a lot of choral music. We had a huge record player!
They mainly listened to local radio or radio 4 but I was introduced to Terry Wogan at my Aunties house opposite and that started a lifelong love of Radio 2 which has been tested to its limits lately.

I grew up on a musical diet of Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Van Morrison and James Taylor.

I recall some Barry White in there too, Olivia Newton John and maybe some Demis Roussos!

A whole range of stuff…
my dad was mad into Mod music, madness, bob marley, Eminem (who I’m a massive fan of) pink Floyd, oasis, Michael Jackson, queen I was like the only kid at 10 that was allowed to listen to Eminem 🤪
my mum liked similar plus, Luther vandross, the carpenters, fleetwood mac, Whitney Houston, Phil Collins pretty eclectic tbh . Which is probably why I’m not one genre orientated …

we are very much a 70’s/80’s/90’s household. DS17 is obsessed with 80’s music/

My mum was just too cool - she was still discovering new bands and watching jools Holland looking for new listens right up to when she died last year at nearly 80.

Dad was and is into classical and very loud bebop jazz. He would make me listen to it as a kid 😬

Cher
Queen
Genesis

Depressing to read that I must be a similar age to the parents of most of the posters on here 😐

My mum didn't like noise but my dad was a huge Elvis fan and loved Mozart, Beethoven and Pavarotti.

Stevie Wonder
The Beatles
The Who
Elvis Costello
Level 42
Dire Straits
The Jam
The Specials
The Colourfield
My ddad was born in the 1930s and just made it to 2001. Was very cool.
My mum never listened to a note of music!

Three degrees,The Stylistics,Hot blood,Stevie Wonder,America, The carpenters,The Supremes, Earth, Wind & Fire, Simon and Garfunkel, Bee Gees

When three degrees came to Japan, my mum met them on meet&greet. She still tells me that she didn't want to wash her hand for a while after shaking hand with them.

Only classical music.

The things I remember listening to in the car were Simon and Garfunkel, The Bee Gees, John Denver and lots of musicals (Phantom, Les Mis, Miss Saigon, Aspects of Love).

Mum(s) - Dusty Springfield, Grace Jones, Annie Lennox, Foreigner, Billy Holiday.
80s lesbians 😄
later KD Lang featured heavily
With my dad we listened to a lot of Andrew Lloyd Webber tapes in the car, I’ve no idea why. Chess was my favorite!