Music inflicted on you by your parents which you still have a sneaking affection for...

[mollyroger]

..was just remembering Dire Straits which my mum used to lsiten to when she did the ironing and thinking ''hell, yeah, Romeo ad Juliet is a great song''

But then I remembered by Dad used to love Lindisfarne - fog on the tyne but actually it's still pretty fab!

And Leo Sayer and Neil Diamond!

Oh, and The Hollies.

I love Jennifer Eccles, I know that she loves me .......

oh!

Whistlin' Roger Whittaker!
this is seriously one of my earliest musical memories

yak!

oooh going to see that soon molly!

what?

war of the worlds not roger whittaker

whaddya mean, see it?
omg, have they made it into a stage show?

yes! it's really good - going to see it at the O2

Neil Diamond - I LOVE him, went to the O2 last year with my mum and dad to see him

Simon and Garfunkle

Johnny Cash

Englebert

The Everly Brothers

Elvis

My parents didn't seem to do music at all, except for having Radio 2 on all the time (oooh, perhaps they did influence me...), one abiding memory form that is Junior Choice and Sing Something Simple

My Dad used to play mouldy old dough to us - I heard it on R2 the other day for the first time in about 30 years and it really took me back

Billy Joel
Barbara Streisand was played nonstop by mum, the Guilty album ( prob cos she was having an affair!)
The Eagles
The Beatles
The Who

things played which i hated and still do

Leo Sayer
The Everly Brothers
Dire Straits

Verylapsedrunner - i remember lying in bed with a tiny transisteor radio listening to Junior Choice - that's a whole new thread I reckon
The radio was contraband, from my big sister as my father didn't approve.

pink floyd
genesis

the beatles, but that isn't sneaking

oh just read op and a few more

dire straits yes kind of!

ah no, Beatles is Seminal part of everyone's growing-up over the age of 30, I'd have thought....

My Father was very folkie. We had scary Ewan Mcoll and martin Carthy and proper finger in ear stuff.
which i still like

OK, I am clearly old enough to be all your mothers - that's the stuff I grew up with, not by parents' choice...

They liked Perry Como, Val Doonican, Sinatra & Co, yeedly jazz, that sort of thing. 'Cheerful' Charlie Chester and 'Family Favourites'.

The horror, the horror.

Val Doonican & Nana Mouskouri

Ruby - yes - rocking chair and aaran jumpers. Apparently, he was evil personified in real life (according to another mnetter, who's mother used to work in a theatre and had to 'deal' with him)

There was a band called Sad Cafe(?) probably a one-hit wonder

I used to love my Sharona, can't remember the band

Shalamar

I went to school with the daughter of one of the blokes from Sad Café!

Carpenters, Dire Straits, ELO, David Bowie.
I still like all of them actually!

lol doodle2u....my mum loved val doonican..and whenever ireland won eurovision we were forced to listen to the song for months...johnny logans "what's another year" brings me out in a rash now.