Do you like your Dad's music?

Do you like your Dad's music?

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Otispunkmeyer

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12,553 posts

154 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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When I was younger I used to love going in the car with my dad because he drove fast. But I didn't like his loud, head banger music; Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, The Law, Paul Rodgers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Muddy Water Blues, Queen etc etc etc...

Couldn't wait for the day I could play my own music in the car.

But now? What kind of things do I listen to often, in the car and at home? Yep.... Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and the list goes on. At the time it was rubbish old man music. Now its easily still many stratospheres higher than the pop crap crimped out by the likes of Simon Cowel. Stairway to Heaven, Black Night and Free Bird and anything that comes out of Freddie Mercury's mouth are particular faves.

Is it just a case of good music is good music or did my Dad's taste in music get baked into my subconscious as a little boy?

Einion Yrth

19,575 posts

243 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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My father, now sadly defunct, never listened to anything but Brass Band music; I hated it then, and I hate it now.

soad

32,825 posts

175 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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I have no idea what He liked. Sad?

boxst

3,699 posts

144 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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soad said:
I have no idea what He liked. Sad?
Same for me.

I do inflict Del Amitri, The Eels, REM, The Cure and others on my children and they seem to like it.

xjay1337

15,966 posts

117 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Love a lot of my Dads music.

Tears for Fears, EBTG, Sting, The Christians, Pat Metheny, etc.

And I listen to mostly 90's and 0's rap and R&B, can't beat a bit of Metheny on a long motorway trek.

AClownsPocket

899 posts

158 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Meatloaf and Dire Straits.

No ta hurlredcard

Itsallicanafford

2,759 posts

158 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Hell yeah, i have about 10 of his vinyl albums...Thin Lizzy, Beatles white album, John Lennon double fantasy and a few Elvis

my Dad wasn't cool enough for Led Zep so i have had to buy those for myself cool

coopedup

3,741 posts

138 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Opera.........fk off!!!

anothernameitist

1,500 posts

134 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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What I was in the car it was radio 2.

Now for me its radio 2 , rather than the local indie stations around I listened to more than a few years ago.

So Yes I've grown into my dad!

Pieman68

4,264 posts

233 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Queen, Roxy Music, Eurythmics, Dire Straits I can cope with quite happily. Never grasped his love for Abba though

Although to this day, at 68, he tends to still come up with newer bands though. Kaiser Chiefs, Arctic Monkeys etc are all on his playlists

Although he doesn't seem to share my love of Disturbed, Linkin Park, Papa Roach, Five Finger Death Punch etc. biggrin

Zod

35,295 posts

257 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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My Dad listened to good music in the car until the late 70s (Stones, Beatles, but never Led Zeppelin - silly man!), but then he went very MOR when he hit 40. I am determined never to close my mind or ears to newer music.

soad

32,825 posts

175 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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AClownsPocket said:
Dire Straits.
I recall getting lift home (on a numerous occasions back in 1999) from my boss at the time (in his late 20s).
He had a World Rally Blue Impreza STI and used to blast Sultans Of Swing from the CD multichanger. hehe

RVVUNM

1,913 posts

208 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Never got what my old man saw in Neil Diamond................52 now, he's good isn't he.

Jimmy Recard

17,540 posts

178 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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My dad is really into Kylie Minogue and in the last ten years or so the Sugababes. I'm pretty sure he used to listen to a Jimmy Nail tape quite a bit too.

So my answer is no, not really.

Antony Moxey

8,014 posts

218 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Classical and Country mainly, so no, not a chance.

TIGA84

5,204 posts

230 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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My Mum and Dad were, (although not so much now in their late 60's, but still venture to the odd gig) massive concert goers, been to see hundreds, so naturally I've listened to a hell of a lot that transcended down to the car, my dads office as he worked, I dont think the Radio in the kitchen has ever been turned off in 30 years.

Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Yes, Santana, Genesis, Queen, Dire Straits, Led Zep, Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre, Marillion, Clapton, The Stones, The Who - the whole nine yards. Coupled with the fact that my dad was a bit of an audiophile and hi-fi freak, it was usually on most of the time. In answer to the question, I've always loved it (how may 8 year olds could play Crime of the Century on the Piano eh?) and still listen to a lot of it, I think it influenced my choices when I was growing up in to the whole dance music scene, then back into Rock/Jazz and everything in between.

No fking Pop music though, sadly Mrs Tiga prefers the whole X factor bks.

Still, I have headphones.


ManFromDelmonte

2,742 posts

179 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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I love almost all the music my parents were into but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't love everything I listen to now.

MrBarry123

6,025 posts

120 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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Some of it, Seal etc. but not a lot of the other stuff.

qube_TA

8,402 posts

244 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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My dad would only listen to sport in the car on an AM radio, usually golf or cricket, the muffled voices reminded me of the teacher on Charlie Brown.

I always hated it, the passenger(s) in the car would have to sit in absolute silence so he could hear the pointless chatter.

Music he would only play classical and opera, was never a fan of opera but love classical music, never liked 'best of' bits like you get from an advert but a full concerto is often lovely. I was about 7 years old before I heard anything else other than his music, I remember at school having a party where they had a DJ who opened with Kim Wilde's 'Kids in a America' presumably a hit at the time, I was really scared by it as I didn't know what to make of it and with all the other kids enthusiastically singing along made it all the more terrifying, how did they all know what it was?!!






HTP99

22,441 posts

139 months

Thursday 26th November 2015
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My late dad liked classical, choir and church music; I fking hate classic music.

I have memories of being at home as a child with Classic FM blaring away at full volume in the garage, whilst he worked on his cars; it really used to grate me.

However even though I'm not a massive choir or church music fan, if there is a really big and moving piece playing, it often brings a tear to my eye as it reminds me of him.