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?

Ooo that's weird. I was just about to post that I grew up in a village pub with a jukebox so we listened to new music all the time. But on the day we moved in, we discovered the previous owners had left a wind up gramaphone player with a single record. It was 11 more months and 10 more days. Remember it all these decades later!

Prog rock
There is only 17 yrs between me and my parents and when I was born in the 1960s we listened to a lot of prog rock, Frank Zappa etc. I was a punk but I still had a soft spot for a bit of prog… now I am 60 I listen mostly to prog!

Motown, reggae, the eagles, pink Floyd, earth wind and fire, Nat king Cole, simply red, al green, spandau ballet, aretha Franklin, rose Royce and tangerine dream!

Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash mainly - all good stuff. I still enjoy all their music today.

Scottish folk music, Neil Diamond, Labi Siffre, Bread, classical

Leonard Cohen, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter Seger, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, and lots of folk.

Jim Reeves, Foster and Allen and Vera Lynn are some that I remember being played, although my parents didn’t play music very often. I seem to remember there being cassettes of brass bands too.

My sister is 12 years older than me, she was a teenager in the early 1970s and had quite a mixed musical taste back then. I remember her playing Simon and Garfunkel, Gilbert O’Sullivan and also Gilbert and Sullivan, The Beatles too and Mozart and Beethoven.

I had older cousins who were avid music listeners and were an influence on me, rather than my immediate family.

Mum - Queen, Rod Stewart, lots of 60’s she loved Radio Caroline back in the day
Dad - meatloaf, fleetwood Mac, the eagles, pink Floyd
What I actually remember from my childhood was lots of 60’s, buddy holly, dean martin, Beatles, Roy Orbison, Queen
i still listen to all of the above with the inclusion of David Bowie, Duran, Spandau, Wham, Human League, ABC, Roxy Music, The Specials which all remind me of being in primary school.

Classical - Radio 4 and all classical programming on RTE 1.

Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Eddie Cochran, The Eagles, Crosby, Stills and Nash, EmmyLou Harris, Beethoven, Mozart, Motown, The Ronettes, Chuck Berry, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Patsy Cline...a right mixture!

Beatles, Burt Bacharach, Elvis, Roy Orbison, ABBA

Fleetwood Mac, Dire Straits, Oasis, Savage Garden, Dixie Chicks and Dolly Parton (just mum!), Metallica, Bryan Adams, REM and Red Hot Chilis (just dad), AC/DC, ZZ Top, INXS, Bon Jovi… loads more of course but they’re the ones I remember clearly’

The carpenters, Cliff Richard’s, Elton John, Heat wave,Michael Jackson ‘off the wall’ played loads on car journeys. Abba. The Eagles Fleetwood Max and QuincyJones - my Dad is a massive RnB guitar fan and did play in a band in his youth. Mum was a classical ainger so all the great classical stuff played in the house, Mozart was her go to when cleaning. Such a massive mix of genres growing up.

The Beatles
ABBA
The pop music of the time (1980s)
Runrig
Elvis
Tina Turner
The Eurythmics and Annie Lennox
Rod Stewart
Enya
The temptations
Four tops
Smokey Robinson
Queen

Mozart and classic FM when it started
Bob Dylan
Cat Stevens
Billy Connolly
Simon and Garfunkel
Clannad
The Beach Boys

My dad was Blondie, Pink Floyd. Had a record player so all were on records.
My mum was Simon & Garfunkel and The Scorpions.
Classical like Chopin, Mozart, Bach and Beethoven were on too.
It was all mood dependent.
Although the Piano by Michael Nyman was my mums favourite and as soon as I was able that was learnt on the piano 😅

Brook Benton
Nat King Cole
Dean Martin
Elkie Brooks
Jimmy Cliff

Whatever was on Radio 2.

I'd come down in the mornings to get ready for school and I'm sure it had that sodding Chanson L'Amour (ra-ta-ta-ta-ta) wailing from it nearly every time as I quickly changed it to Capital for the next hour.

During school holidays, there would usually be a brief bit of something I could tolerate on there around 10am (she insisted on it going back there at 9).

I wasn't entirely cool aged 8 - I could let They're Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace and A Mouse Lived in a Windmill go unmoaned about.

My mum loved:
Muse
Radiohead
No Doubt/Gwen Stefani
Duffy
Steps and S Club were a guilty pleasure!

My Dad listened to:
Kaiser Chiefs
The Fratellis
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Foo Fighters
Guns N Roses.

They both liked:
Gorillaz
Robbie Williams
Blur
Amy Winehouse

Their mix was great. I mostly remember

Classical, Mozart and others

Van Morrison Brown Eyed Girl etc

Dolly Parton, PTA song etc

Nat King Cole and Harry Belafonte

ELO, Boney M, the Beatles, lots of 70's and 80's hits.My dad was always playing music. It was lovely being woken up by something great on a Sunday morning - really fond memories.

We always have music on in our house and go to lots of gigs each year.

My father liked big band jazz. Duke Ellington, Count Basie. Singers like Sinatra and Tony Bennett with lush arrangements. He played trombone then switched to bass and played part time for dinner dance things.
Mum liked Tom Jones, Sinatra but listened to more pop like The Beatles. As I grew up she listened to Rod Stewart and other rock/pop things I listened to and knew quite a few bands.