My mom used to play N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton on repeat. So she had a shop at the Compton swap meet and should would pay it nonstop. I used to try and play my Metallica album, and she would turn it off, telling me nobody is trying to hear heavy metal in Compton. When I think about it now, it's so funny to think about this short Salvadoran older lady playing some N.W.A. She was a gangsta, pulling out guns on people who tried to rob from her.
> nobody is trying to hear heavy metal in Compton.
Dr. Dre probably was 🤣 this guy was probably the only guy in the whole city listening to obscure French jazz fusion (which gave us Kill You by Eminem)
Omg are we siblings? 😂
Fleetwood Mac and Eagles. If they were feeling spicy, some Bob Seger or John Cougar (my dad refused to refer to him as John Mellencamp)
My parents mainly listened to outlaw country at this time but I remember harder they come on repeat with Bob Wills Texas Playboys, later it was Graceland and Rhythm of the saints and Dr. John (we lived in LA for a bit). They were friends with Willy Nelson so lots of his stuff too. I feel like this music imprinted on me somehow, I’ve been to Jamaica twice now.
Wow! Same here. I grew up on Jimmys Music. Met him a few times since at the gigs in Paris. Best weekends of my life and me and my dad miss him so much. RIP jimmy, it’s been a lovely cruise
Man, nothing worse than coming home and hearing Bat Out Of Hell. That meant my mom and step dad were drunk and probably going to fuck. Thank god my mom got pregnant and the partying slowed down.
Jfc, I was going to say how it was my childhood soundtrack and have great memories from it with my parents. Yours sounds decidedly different and not as much fun.
It was just that Meatloaf album. I have so many really happy memories around my parents music. Their taste in music was excellent, and they actually had something written in their divorce agreement about splitting the record collection.
lol you wish. My parents hated that record but I played it over and over again the way other 5 year olds replay cartoons. It was the first record I had growing up that was “mine.”
Growing up, when I spent the weekend at my dad's, he'd always put on one of two albums at bedtime:
"The Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd
or
"Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis
I still listen to them both regularly.
Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits was my Dad’s go to album. After he died in 1991 I couldn’t listen to it.. but a few years later I went through his record collection and found some amazing stuff that I still enjoy. Boston, Queen, even introduced me to Kill Em All by Metallica. Dire Straits still gets me emotional though.
Right up there with my most listened to albums, easily in the hundreds at this point.
Astral Weeks, Moondance and It's Too Late to Stop Now are the holy trinity for me.
I still remember when one of my aunts went to see him and got a kiss from him backstage. Caused a lot of strife in their relationship since my uncle was overly possessive.
When I was a kid, it was Bat out of Hell, a couple of Laura Branigan records, American Pie by Don McClean, one of the Cat Stephens albums (Teaser and the Firecat, maybe), definitely some John Denver, and I THINK a Loggins/Messina.
Kenny's Greatest for me, too!
I'd get home off the bus and my mom would have a snack for me. Then we'd play Clue or something while that album was on in the background
My Mom had a few over the years, she’d stick with an album on repeat for a while
Matchbox 20 - yourself or someone like you
Savage Garden self titled
Shania Twain - Come on over
Meredith Brooks - Blurring the Edges
Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill
Shaggy - Hot Shot
Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Candlebox. My uncle loved Elton John and my Aunt loved Sheryl Crow. Still listen to those tunes plenty now when i want some nostalgia.
God my dad played ac/dc too and I fucking hate them
and that dudes stupid vests and his stupid hat due to my association. He even named his boat (better investment than my college tuition/braces/health insurance) back in black bc him and my aunt both got divorced and were celebrating their "freedom" 🤢🤮 by getting drunk and snorting coke with two literal children. One time, my dad kidnapped my puppy to "let him experience the water" and it took me hours to finally find him and my terrified puppy on that fucking boat, still tied to the dock, my dad high as fucking balls.
But also every time I hear that song I remember thinking the words were "dirty thieves dunder king" similar to being unable to hear blinded by the light without "wrapped up like a douche"
My dad saw fucking Led Zeppelin live, he saw the Rolling Stones live and could have named his stupid boat "Paint it Black." But no, I had to listen to fucking ac/dc. I was lucky if he played ZZ top or rush.
Oh and now that motherfucker has somehow decided fucking Green Day is his "favorite band" and my sister wants to take him to see them and I'm sitting here thinking about how I actually am into fucking punk and was into it when he was making me listen to bullshit yacht rock and shit.
. I also can't listen to "that smell" my Lynyrd Skynyrd without remembering my dad pulling up while I was walking my sister home from the bus stop and rolling down the window and me realizing "that's the fucking smell fuck."
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Tarkus, Works, Brain Salad Surgery, Black Moon
Emerson, Lake, and Powell
Not a lot of King Crimson…odd
(My mom had a thing for Greg Lake, I think)
Jimmy Buffet - Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Aerosmith - Pump
Extreme - Pornograffiti. But she hated More than Words. 🤣
Metallica - Black album. I saw Metallica and Guns N Roses (with Faith No More opening)…with my mom. 🤘
My mom’s were Earth Wind and Fire’s greatest hits and the soundtrack to F.M. I still have both of the same LPs (with her name on them) to this day. Later on I think the soundtracks to Sister Act and Dirty Dancing were stuck in her car CD player.
My dad was a huge Dan Fogelberg fan and had most of his albums. The ones I remember hearing a lot were Souvenirs and Phoenix. He also played Led Zeppelin IV a good bit, as well as Eagles greatest hits volume two. Whichever album Suzanne Vega’s “Luca” on it was a big one in dad’s car, too.
Both my parents were big into James Taylor as well.
It was a compilation called “Songs of the Protest Era”. We’d listen to it in the car… I found a Spotify playlist with the same songs decades after I’d last heard it, and still knew the exact song order.
The track listing:
* A1 Barry McGuire– Eve Of Destruction
* A2 The Byrds– The Times They Are A Changing
* A3 Johnny Rivers– Blowin' In The Wind
* A4 Donovan– The Universal Soldier
* A5 Phil Ochs– I Aint Marching Any More
* A6 Manfred Mann– With God On Our Side
* A7 Joan Baez– We Shall Overcome
* A8 Peter, Paul & Mary– If A Had A Hammer
* A9 The Ugly's– Wake Up My Mind
* A10 Hedgehoppers Anonymous– It's Good News Week
* B1 Buffalo Springfield– For What It's Worth
* B2 The Turtles– Let Me Be
* B3 Jody Miller– Home Of The Brave
* B4 Verdelle Smith– Tar and Cement
* B5 Toni Fisher– West Of The Wall
* B6 Janis Ian– Society's Child
* B7 Pete Seeger– Little Boxes
* B8 Country Joe And The Fish– I Feel Like I'M Fixin To Die Rag
* B9 Five Man Electrical Band– Signs
* B10 The Barracudas*– We're Living In Violent Times
They played anti-war protest music at me my entire childhood, then wondered why I turned into an anti-war protestor lol
My dads vinyl was Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, CCR, Queen, Rush and Steely Dan.
Mom was Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, The Pointer Sisters, ABBA, and Dolly Pardon.
The first album I bought with my own money was Prince's Purple Rain. My parents were less than happy
My family drove on all vacations. We grew up in Ohio so they were never short trips, which meant to listening to a ton of cassettes and CDs all the way through so we wouldn’t have to change the radio dial every hour or so. I’m gonna cheat and give two for each of my parents.
Mom - “In Blue” by The Coors and “Greatest Hits” by Wilson Phillips.
Dad - “ELO’s Greatest Hits” - Electric Light Orchestra and “1” by the Beatles.
Mom: Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi. She's still obsessed with him to this day.
Dad: Piece of Mind by Iron Maiden. He was, and still is well into his late 60s, a big metalhead. Heard a lot of Iron Maiden, Kiss, Metallica, Venom, Voivod, Black Sabbath & Ozzy's solo stuff, Megadeth growing up. He was also a huge fan of Rush so I heard a lot of that. Piece of Mind is his all time favorite though so I heard that one relentlessly.
Also Carol King (mom). They also liked Neil Diamond and Rod Stewart - but later Rod. All the 'Smooth 70s' really ... I feel like I spent a lot of time walking around K Mart listening to Gerry Rafferty. I know all the words. I once had an unexpected surgery and the docs let me choose the music in the room. I requested 70s soft rock. It went a bit awry and I thought I was going to die listening to 'If You Leave Me Now' by Chicago. It was a bit cliche and surreal, but also comforting.
“Furey’s Finest” by The Fureys
“Come Away With Me” by Norah Jones
“Painted Desert Serenade” by Joshua Kadison
And James Taylor’s greatest hits.
So pretty much all chill dinner music, but that’s probably a good thing because even though I’ve heard them so many times I still enjoy them in the background. They all bring me a lot of nostalgia.
Not really on loop, but two years ago I stumbled on Chris rea's road to hell and it catapulted me back to my dad spinning it for quite some time.
And I realised that 1) I still know all the songs after not hearing it for idk 30 odd years and 2) it's a goddamn solid album.
Been spinning it on and off ever since.
My mom would clean the house every Saturday to Ray Charles- Modern Sounds Of Country Western music. Hearing Ray still makes me think of her. My dad never played an album in his life.
Some of my core memories are linked to Talking Heads, Michael Jackson, Rita Mitsouko ( French band), Mano Negra (French band and "Out Of Time Man" played in one Breaking Bad episode), TC Matic ( Belgian band).
My dad was a huge collector until the mid 80's when he got robbed of everything. Well we were robbed well on vacation and they left nothing. But it signalled the end of buying records for my dad.
I hope one day to find one of his records in second hand. Here in Brussels, Belgium. He marked them inside the sleeve where no one could see. No luck yet.
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, and a live with the Melbourne symphony album by Elton John. Oh, and whatever Stevie Wonder album has 'happy birthday' on it. Dad always played that for me on my birthday.
Easy: *Tapestry*, Neil Young's *After the Gold Rush* and *Harvest*, Joni Mitchell's *Ladies of the Canyon* and *Court and Spark,* The Beatles' *Blue Album*, Elton John's *Goodbye Yellow Brick Road* (okay, that one was me).
A lot of Greatest Hits albums - Cat Stevens, Billy Joel, the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Harry Chapin
Also, Broadway cast recordings - Guys & Dolls, Pippin, Les Mis, Phantom, Jesus Christ Superstar
My mom had a Miami Vice obsession in the 80s and she bought that Don Johnson album. 'Hearbeat' sparks violence in me 😆
edited to add: Also a lot of O'Jays and Levert (living in Ohio that was like an unspoken requirement), Earth Wind and and Fire etc but that music was actually good 😊
Mom was born in 1944, I was born in 1964. I remember Jim Croce's "You Don't Mess Around With Jim, "Jesus Christ Superstar", and John Prine's "Sweet Revenge."
Eight track cassette in my dad’s Cadillac. There’s was a tape of music that he got with the Cadillac. It was 1940’s standards. We also had The Eagles and Linda Rondstadt on rotation for road trips.
Goodness. My dad was obsessed with Olivia Newton-John. Had pictures of her all over his garage and he would play the album Totally Hot over and over again while working on his car. Wasn’t sure which album it was at first but I recognized the album cover immediately when I googled it lol
In the 1980 VW Vanagon with the tape deck: The Manhattan Transfer - *Extensions*.
I thought it was wack during my childhood. But I’ve since rediscovered that album and OMG it’s awesome!!!!!
Mum: Wednesday Morning, 3am; Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme; Bookends: Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel. OST West Side Story - Marni Nixon et al. Greatest Hits - Buddy Holly.
Dad: Revolver, Rubber Soul - The Beatles. Arrival - ABBA.
My parents played a lot of Van Halen. Wasn't really an album that was played over and over, so much as all the VH albums. There was a point where the Right Here, Right Now Live album was in pretty heavy rotation.
8 tracks in the car (my dad’s picks)
Three dog night
Carpenters Greatest Hits
Simon and Garfunkel Greatest Hits
Joan Baez, Diamonds and Rust
In the house (my mom’s records): Rumours, Tusk, Some Girls, Bat Out of Hell, Crosby, Stills & Nash
Dad: Back in Black by AC/DC & Toys in the Attic by Aerosmith
Mom: Throwing Copper by Live & Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens(Yusuf)
My dad still listens to the same dad rock, but ever since my mom got med marijuana, she became a Deadhead and Grateful Dead is all she listens to.
When my mom would get drunk she’d insist on playing Supertramp’s greatest hits - this biological trait has also passed on to my sister.
My dad would always play some type of jazz fusion, but not one album in particular. My favorite of his was always Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Anytime I rode with my dad in his 1980 Chevrolet Citation, he would play only three cassettes: Xanadu soundtrack, ELO’s Greatest Hits, and The Association.
Grew up listening to Les Brown and His Band of Renown. And Glen Miller. Big band swing was their music. And they rounded it out with classical music as well. At Christmas it was Nat King Cole and Perry Como.
Damn...I'm old.
My mother did not listen to music - phonograph, radio or otherwise. My father had 8 or 10 cassette tapes we heard over and over: Kenny Rogers Greatest Hits, a few Beatles albums, Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle, Jeff Wayne's rock opera adaptation of HG Wells "The War of the Worlds", 1 or 2 Johnny Cash albums.
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I seem to remember a lot of Engelbert Humperdinck in the 70s. He's actually a phenomenal singer. I can see why he is so popular. Hear his name once, you just have to check him out.
I heard Tapestry a lot as well! Others that are seared into my brain:
Beach Boys - Endless Summer
Chris Isaak - Forever Blue
Big Night OST
O Brother, Where Art Thou OST
Paul Simon - Graceland
Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming
The Eagles Greatest Hits, Linda Ronstadt Greatest Hits, Chicago, Beatles, Bee Gees, Jim Croce, and Fleetwood Mac were all on cassette tape rotation during interstate road trips as a kid.
My mom: John Denver's Poems, Prayers & Promises
My dad: Dan Fogelberg's The Innocent Age
There were definitely others I remember, but those were probably the most played by them.
Black Sabbath - Paranoid.
I know the album by heart and have vivid memories of my dad wearing a black hoodie and doing the aardvark two step in our rumpus room. O_o
Mom : Jagged Little Pill by Alanis, A Night At The Opera by Queen.
It’s funny because while thinking of something else to write here it came to me that those two albums describe my personality pretty well…
Rock Spectacle by Barenaked Ladies was on repeat in my mom’s car for at least 2 years. Also Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach Boys & The Bonnie Raitt Collection (1990).
My dad? Probably A Hard Day’s Night or Revolver by the Beatles or anything Bruce Springsteen did before 1987.
Centerfield by John Fogerty was probably the one I heard the most my dad play. As a kid I would always sing "put me in cold" instead of coach. My mom didn't really listen to music other than on the radio in the car.
I could make a long list, my parents were always playing music, but the ones that I remember the most are the Beatles compilation (the red and blue one), Songs On The Key of Life by Stevie Wonder (I am still a big fan of those artists myself because of that) and the Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.
My mom used to play N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton on repeat. So she had a shop at the Compton swap meet and should would pay it nonstop. I used to try and play my Metallica album, and she would turn it off, telling me nobody is trying to hear heavy metal in Compton. When I think about it now, it's so funny to think about this short Salvadoran older lady playing some N.W.A. She was a gangsta, pulling out guns on people who tried to rob from her.
You’ve painted a great little picture here! ❤️😂
> nobody is trying to hear heavy metal in Compton. Dr. Dre probably was 🤣 this guy was probably the only guy in the whole city listening to obscure French jazz fusion (which gave us Kill You by Eminem)
My mom taught ballet at a small liberal arts college in New England. We would hear Vivaldi on repeat.
You would probably like Swap Meet Louie by Sir MixA Lot
Mom: Simon and Garfunkel’s Parsely Sage Rosemary and Thyme. Dad: Jethro Tull’s Aqualung
Yep, same with my mom, Simon and Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits. I can still remember the orange color of those disks
I still have disc 2 in the stereo in the car.
Wow! Are you me?
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
On 8-track 🤣 Also Eagles - Hotel California
Rumours was the first cassette tape my parents ever owned so it was played in the car a lot when they got a car with a cassette player
Omg are we siblings? 😂 Fleetwood Mac and Eagles. If they were feeling spicy, some Bob Seger or John Cougar (my dad refused to refer to him as John Mellencamp)
The Harder They Come soundtrack. Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Dekker, Toots and the Maytals. I know every note on that album.
My parents mainly listened to outlaw country at this time but I remember harder they come on repeat with Bob Wills Texas Playboys, later it was Graceland and Rhythm of the saints and Dr. John (we lived in LA for a bit). They were friends with Willy Nelson so lots of his stuff too. I feel like this music imprinted on me somehow, I’ve been to Jamaica twice now.
Me too!
Graceland and Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes.
Are we related?
Wow! Same here. I grew up on Jimmys Music. Met him a few times since at the gigs in Paris. Best weekends of my life and me and my dad miss him so much. RIP jimmy, it’s been a lovely cruise
My dad used to listen to a lot of Capenters and Queen. Cant help but feel nostalgic whenever I hear their songs nowadays.
Let's put it this way, I was probably the only kid in elementary school who could sing the entire Bat Out Of Hell album from start to finish.
Man, nothing worse than coming home and hearing Bat Out Of Hell. That meant my mom and step dad were drunk and probably going to fuck. Thank god my mom got pregnant and the partying slowed down.
Jfc, I was going to say how it was my childhood soundtrack and have great memories from it with my parents. Yours sounds decidedly different and not as much fun.
It was just that Meatloaf album. I have so many really happy memories around my parents music. Their taste in music was excellent, and they actually had something written in their divorce agreement about splitting the record collection.
This! My mom loved this album
lol you wish. My parents hated that record but I played it over and over again the way other 5 year olds replay cartoons. It was the first record I had growing up that was “mine.”
Lol! I totally could too!
Growing up, when I spent the weekend at my dad's, he'd always put on one of two albums at bedtime: "The Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd or "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis I still listen to them both regularly.
Dad: “In Session” - Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan Mom: “Trio” - Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, & Emmylou Harris
Looks like I'm playing the Trio albums today. Word to your mother.
I listened to it for the first time in 30 years not long ago and, regardless of my nostalgia, it’s a banger of an album.
Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits was my Dad’s go to album. After he died in 1991 I couldn’t listen to it.. but a few years later I went through his record collection and found some amazing stuff that I still enjoy. Boston, Queen, even introduced me to Kill Em All by Metallica. Dire Straits still gets me emotional though.
Moondance by van morrison
Oh man, me too. Every time I got into my mom's car this was the CD that was playing.
Right up there with my most listened to albums, easily in the hundreds at this point. Astral Weeks, Moondance and It's Too Late to Stop Now are the holy trinity for me.
My mom was a huge fan of Barry Manilow and Michael Jackson so she had their songs on loop
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
That's actually a great album
Billy Ocean- Suddenly Not gonna lie though, there's some hits on it lol
He's also absolutely fantastic in concert. I've seen plenty of live shows and Mr. Ocean remains a favorite.
I still remember when one of my aunts went to see him and got a kiss from him backstage. Caused a lot of strife in their relationship since my uncle was overly possessive.
This sharp left turn is why I enjoy Reddit.
When I was a kid, it was Bat out of Hell, a couple of Laura Branigan records, American Pie by Don McClean, one of the Cat Stephens albums (Teaser and the Firecat, maybe), definitely some John Denver, and I THINK a Loggins/Messina.
Kenny Rogers- Greatest Hits Phil Collins- No Jacket Required
Kenny's Greatest for me, too! I'd get home off the bus and my mom would have a snack for me. Then we'd play Clue or something while that album was on in the background
The Dirty Dancing soundtrack. Heard it so much as a kid. Moody Blues is up there too.
Dire Straits Brothers in Arms and Willie Nelson Stardust
It always seemed that Clapton Unplugged was in our car’s CD player more than any other CD.
Before you accuse me....
Rum, Sodomy, and the lash - The Pogues
My Mom had a few over the years, she’d stick with an album on repeat for a while Matchbox 20 - yourself or someone like you Savage Garden self titled Shania Twain - Come on over Meredith Brooks - Blurring the Edges Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill Shaggy - Hot Shot
Welp, I am old.
I was just thinking the same thing!
Millennial are kids and old people at the same time, depending on who you ask. Middle age is weird this time.
We are adults with adult money, and we can be kids again!
It's very possible that a friend of mine is this person's parent lol.
Aquarius by Aqua. Dunno why my dad had that cd, but he would kept playing it over and over.
Dad got laid, (or almost did with the one that got away) to one of those songs.
Barry Manilow… I don’t remember which one because it was all of them. Some of those songs slap I’ll admit. But it needs to be in moderation
[At the Copa...Copacabana](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MK3OEmVaIE)
Bob Marley- Legend. My dad loves Bob Marley and the Wailers, he even saw them in concert. Lucky its a great album, I love listening to it as well.
Dad: New Order - Power Corruption and Lies Mom: Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill
Your dad rules.
Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Candlebox. My uncle loved Elton John and my Aunt loved Sheryl Crow. Still listen to those tunes plenty now when i want some nostalgia.
Mum: Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over troubled water Dad: AC/DC - Dirty deeds done dirt cheap Older Sister: Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
God my dad played ac/dc too and I fucking hate them and that dudes stupid vests and his stupid hat due to my association. He even named his boat (better investment than my college tuition/braces/health insurance) back in black bc him and my aunt both got divorced and were celebrating their "freedom" 🤢🤮 by getting drunk and snorting coke with two literal children. One time, my dad kidnapped my puppy to "let him experience the water" and it took me hours to finally find him and my terrified puppy on that fucking boat, still tied to the dock, my dad high as fucking balls. But also every time I hear that song I remember thinking the words were "dirty thieves dunder king" similar to being unable to hear blinded by the light without "wrapped up like a douche" My dad saw fucking Led Zeppelin live, he saw the Rolling Stones live and could have named his stupid boat "Paint it Black." But no, I had to listen to fucking ac/dc. I was lucky if he played ZZ top or rush. Oh and now that motherfucker has somehow decided fucking Green Day is his "favorite band" and my sister wants to take him to see them and I'm sitting here thinking about how I actually am into fucking punk and was into it when he was making me listen to bullshit yacht rock and shit. . I also can't listen to "that smell" my Lynyrd Skynyrd without remembering my dad pulling up while I was walking my sister home from the bus stop and rolling down the window and me realizing "that's the fucking smell fuck."
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Tarkus, Works, Brain Salad Surgery, Black Moon Emerson, Lake, and Powell Not a lot of King Crimson…odd (My mom had a thing for Greg Lake, I think) Jimmy Buffet - Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes Aerosmith - Pump Extreme - Pornograffiti. But she hated More than Words. 🤣 Metallica - Black album. I saw Metallica and Guns N Roses (with Faith No More opening)…with my mom. 🤘
A prog household with some hair metal and boomer party music. You parents partied.
sgt. pepper for my dad, morrissey's you are the quarry for my mom.
Tom Lehrer…
Jimmy Buffet 'Songs You Know By Heart' Crosby, Stills, Nash 'CSN' War 'War' And just Dad, not Mom. And listening to these I still get emotional.
Dad listened to Dark Side of the Moon a lot
Ella Fitzgerald,Live in Berlin… my parents had great taste in music…
My mom’s were Earth Wind and Fire’s greatest hits and the soundtrack to F.M. I still have both of the same LPs (with her name on them) to this day. Later on I think the soundtracks to Sister Act and Dirty Dancing were stuck in her car CD player. My dad was a huge Dan Fogelberg fan and had most of his albums. The ones I remember hearing a lot were Souvenirs and Phoenix. He also played Led Zeppelin IV a good bit, as well as Eagles greatest hits volume two. Whichever album Suzanne Vega’s “Luca” on it was a big one in dad’s car, too. Both my parents were big into James Taylor as well.
It was a compilation called “Songs of the Protest Era”. We’d listen to it in the car… I found a Spotify playlist with the same songs decades after I’d last heard it, and still knew the exact song order. The track listing: * A1 Barry McGuire– Eve Of Destruction * A2 The Byrds– The Times They Are A Changing * A3 Johnny Rivers– Blowin' In The Wind * A4 Donovan– The Universal Soldier * A5 Phil Ochs– I Aint Marching Any More * A6 Manfred Mann– With God On Our Side * A7 Joan Baez– We Shall Overcome * A8 Peter, Paul & Mary– If A Had A Hammer * A9 The Ugly's– Wake Up My Mind * A10 Hedgehoppers Anonymous– It's Good News Week * B1 Buffalo Springfield– For What It's Worth * B2 The Turtles– Let Me Be * B3 Jody Miller– Home Of The Brave * B4 Verdelle Smith– Tar and Cement * B5 Toni Fisher– West Of The Wall * B6 Janis Ian– Society's Child * B7 Pete Seeger– Little Boxes * B8 Country Joe And The Fish– I Feel Like I'M Fixin To Die Rag * B9 Five Man Electrical Band– Signs * B10 The Barracudas*– We're Living In Violent Times They played anti-war protest music at me my entire childhood, then wondered why I turned into an anti-war protestor lol
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band’s Live Bullet was my dad’s go-to, and Rick Astley’s Whenever You Need Somebody was my mom’s.
Harvest Moon, Neil Young Master of Disaster, John Wyatt
My dads vinyl was Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, CCR, Queen, Rush and Steely Dan. Mom was Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, The Pointer Sisters, ABBA, and Dolly Pardon. The first album I bought with my own money was Prince's Purple Rain. My parents were less than happy
Feetwood Mac - Rumors, Billy Joel - Glass Houses, Queen - Night at the Opera
Eagles- Hell Freezes Over was her cleaning album. If I heard that from outside I knew not to go in or I was getting put to work.
Basia- Time and Tide for many many years. I probably still know that album by heart lol
I still listen to this album😊
It’s a good one! Sometimes I put it on for some nostalgia
Peer gynt. My parents were OLD
My mum: Sgt Pepper's and Regatta de blanc, The Police
*The Rhythm of the Saints* by Paul Simon. Parents were already big Paul Simon fans, but that album blew them away. I heard it so much. Still love it.
It was Graceland at my house
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Jonny Cash live at Fulsom Prison. I know every song on that album.
My childhood background music was Steely Dan ❤️
Dad: Who’s Next by The Who Mom: Gord’s Gold by Gordon Lightfoot
My family drove on all vacations. We grew up in Ohio so they were never short trips, which meant to listening to a ton of cassettes and CDs all the way through so we wouldn’t have to change the radio dial every hour or so. I’m gonna cheat and give two for each of my parents. Mom - “In Blue” by The Coors and “Greatest Hits” by Wilson Phillips. Dad - “ELO’s Greatest Hits” - Electric Light Orchestra and “1” by the Beatles.
Yes, I can sing most of Bobby Short's catalogue, and all the words to Ain't Misbehavin' and 42nd St ;)
Ain't Misbehavin' for road trips, my whole childhood. Little people who ain't got nuttin' Join the people who live on Sutton
Mom: Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi. She's still obsessed with him to this day. Dad: Piece of Mind by Iron Maiden. He was, and still is well into his late 60s, a big metalhead. Heard a lot of Iron Maiden, Kiss, Metallica, Venom, Voivod, Black Sabbath & Ozzy's solo stuff, Megadeth growing up. He was also a huge fan of Rush so I heard a lot of that. Piece of Mind is his all time favorite though so I heard that one relentlessly.
Also Carol King (mom). They also liked Neil Diamond and Rod Stewart - but later Rod. All the 'Smooth 70s' really ... I feel like I spent a lot of time walking around K Mart listening to Gerry Rafferty. I know all the words. I once had an unexpected surgery and the docs let me choose the music in the room. I requested 70s soft rock. It went a bit awry and I thought I was going to die listening to 'If You Leave Me Now' by Chicago. It was a bit cliche and surreal, but also comforting.
“Furey’s Finest” by The Fureys “Come Away With Me” by Norah Jones “Painted Desert Serenade” by Joshua Kadison And James Taylor’s greatest hits. So pretty much all chill dinner music, but that’s probably a good thing because even though I’ve heard them so many times I still enjoy them in the background. They all bring me a lot of nostalgia.
Not really on loop, but two years ago I stumbled on Chris rea's road to hell and it catapulted me back to my dad spinning it for quite some time. And I realised that 1) I still know all the songs after not hearing it for idk 30 odd years and 2) it's a goddamn solid album. Been spinning it on and off ever since.
My mom would clean the house every Saturday to Ray Charles- Modern Sounds Of Country Western music. Hearing Ray still makes me think of her. My dad never played an album in his life.
The tapes in our car were: The Doors Talking Heads Tour of Duty soundtrack Tracy Chapman
We had those too. The soundtrack to our 1992 Ford Escort.
Some of my core memories are linked to Talking Heads, Michael Jackson, Rita Mitsouko ( French band), Mano Negra (French band and "Out Of Time Man" played in one Breaking Bad episode), TC Matic ( Belgian band). My dad was a huge collector until the mid 80's when he got robbed of everything. Well we were robbed well on vacation and they left nothing. But it signalled the end of buying records for my dad. I hope one day to find one of his records in second hand. Here in Brussels, Belgium. He marked them inside the sleeve where no one could see. No luck yet.
There was the Bob Seeger phase Cat Stevens and I got acquainted, sure But, it was the Bat Out of Hell phase that nearly killed me
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, and a live with the Melbourne symphony album by Elton John. Oh, and whatever Stevie Wonder album has 'happy birthday' on it. Dad always played that for me on my birthday.
I remember when my mom got Maroon 5s “Songs About Jane” when I was about 6 years old. I still know basically every song by heart lol
Good lord I feel like a dinosaur reading this. 🦕 💀
The indigo girls.
My mother always listened to Guilty by Barbara Streisand. It was written and produced by the Bee Gees and features a duet with Barry Gibb.
Chic Corea, return to forever https://youtu.be/bzDEzafNkfs?si=TBi4pAHoZL7dUZNk
Easy: *Tapestry*, Neil Young's *After the Gold Rush* and *Harvest*, Joni Mitchell's *Ladies of the Canyon* and *Court and Spark,* The Beatles' *Blue Album*, Elton John's *Goodbye Yellow Brick Road* (okay, that one was me).
The Eagles. Greatest hits. On rotation. All day.
A lot of Greatest Hits albums - Cat Stevens, Billy Joel, the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Harry Chapin Also, Broadway cast recordings - Guys & Dolls, Pippin, Les Mis, Phantom, Jesus Christ Superstar
My mom had a Miami Vice obsession in the 80s and she bought that Don Johnson album. 'Hearbeat' sparks violence in me 😆 edited to add: Also a lot of O'Jays and Levert (living in Ohio that was like an unspoken requirement), Earth Wind and and Fire etc but that music was actually good 😊
Mom: Michael Jackson - Off The Wall Dad: Temptations - To be continued
Mom was born in 1944, I was born in 1964. I remember Jim Croce's "You Don't Mess Around With Jim, "Jesus Christ Superstar", and John Prine's "Sweet Revenge."
My mom had Abba on repeat in our house.
Eight track cassette in my dad’s Cadillac. There’s was a tape of music that he got with the Cadillac. It was 1940’s standards. We also had The Eagles and Linda Rondstadt on rotation for road trips.
Helen Reddy Greatest Hits - I love when one of those songs pops up on Deep Tracks or the 79s channel.
Waylon and Willie
My mom played Stardust the first 10 years of my life.
Very nice. I still have my mom's copy of that.
elvis presley and bob segar
Great album
Supernatural by Santana
Dirty dancing movie soundtrack. I have to say, it was a killer group of songs.
INXS - Live Baby Live I used to despise it because of how often it was played. Took me until I was almost 40 to appreciate it.
Whitesnake's seminal record, 1987. Every time I got in the car.
Goodness. My dad was obsessed with Olivia Newton-John. Had pictures of her all over his garage and he would play the album Totally Hot over and over again while working on his car. Wasn’t sure which album it was at first but I recognized the album cover immediately when I googled it lol
In the 1980 VW Vanagon with the tape deck: The Manhattan Transfer - *Extensions*. I thought it was wack during my childhood. But I’ve since rediscovered that album and OMG it’s awesome!!!!!
Queen Greatest Hits was a permanent fixture in the car. The few times the CD got replaced it was replaced with Simon and Garfunkel Greatest Hits.
Concert in the Park over here
Mum: Wednesday Morning, 3am; Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme; Bookends: Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel. OST West Side Story - Marni Nixon et al. Greatest Hits - Buddy Holly. Dad: Revolver, Rubber Soul - The Beatles. Arrival - ABBA.
“Ok Computer” my dad loves radiohead
Manu Chao "Esperanza"
‘The Notorious K.I.M’ by Lil Kim
Bonnie Rait's "The Nick of Time" by a mile. Still know all the lyrics and even they are sick of it now
My parents played a lot of Van Halen. Wasn't really an album that was played over and over, so much as all the VH albums. There was a point where the Right Here, Right Now Live album was in pretty heavy rotation.
8 tracks in the car (my dad’s picks) Three dog night Carpenters Greatest Hits Simon and Garfunkel Greatest Hits Joan Baez, Diamonds and Rust In the house (my mom’s records): Rumours, Tusk, Some Girls, Bat Out of Hell, Crosby, Stills & Nash
Dad: Back in Black by AC/DC & Toys in the Attic by Aerosmith Mom: Throwing Copper by Live & Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens(Yusuf) My dad still listens to the same dad rock, but ever since my mom got med marijuana, she became a Deadhead and Grateful Dead is all she listens to.
Tina Turner - Foreign Affair
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Right after he died, I went with Mom to the record store on the city bus and she spun that thing every day.
When my mom would get drunk she’d insist on playing Supertramp’s greatest hits - this biological trait has also passed on to my sister. My dad would always play some type of jazz fusion, but not one album in particular. My favorite of his was always Mahavishnu Orchestra.
My dad constantly played Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Anytime I rode with my dad in his 1980 Chevrolet Citation, he would play only three cassettes: Xanadu soundtrack, ELO’s Greatest Hits, and The Association.
Bruce Springsteen "Born to Run"
Mom: Beatles Abby Road Dad: Neil Diamond live I'm so glad I got my mom's musical taste
Abba - Gold
Grew up listening to Les Brown and His Band of Renown. And Glen Miller. Big band swing was their music. And they rounded it out with classical music as well. At Christmas it was Nat King Cole and Perry Como. Damn...I'm old.
Simon and Garfunkel - Greatest Hits Cat Stevens - Greatest Hits Harry Chapin - Greatest Stories Live I can sing those three from start to finish.
Mom: Carly Simon and Roberta Flack Dad: James Taylor and Jim Croce
Phantom of the Opera
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Handel's Messiah.
My mom played the soundtrack to phantom of the Opera at least five days a week. I know every song still, some two decades later.
I know every lyric to every Carpenters album (my Mom).
*What’s the 411?* by Mary J. Blige *Secrets* by Toni Braxton *My Way* by Usher *CrazySexyCool* by TLC
My mother did not listen to music - phonograph, radio or otherwise. My father had 8 or 10 cassette tapes we heard over and over: Kenny Rogers Greatest Hits, a few Beatles albums, Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle, Jeff Wayne's rock opera adaptation of HG Wells "The War of the Worlds", 1 or 2 Johnny Cash albums.
Songs From The Big Chair by Tears For Fears. That or Ten Summoner's Tales by Sting.
https://preview.redd.it/egh3jan2x1ic1.png?width=890&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c61df8bca4c04d3e287742aa493522ff6da1346d I seem to remember a lot of Engelbert Humperdinck in the 70s. He's actually a phenomenal singer. I can see why he is so popular. Hear his name once, you just have to check him out.
The Rainmakers - Tornado got a lot of play during my childhood years, particularly on road trips. I'm still a fan.
I heard Tapestry a lot as well! Others that are seared into my brain: Beach Boys - Endless Summer Chris Isaak - Forever Blue Big Night OST O Brother, Where Art Thou OST Paul Simon - Graceland Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming
Forever changes by Love... My dad
My mom had Don Henley, Aaron Neville, Richard Marx, and Michael Bolton albums on repeat.
My dad mainly played classical music - I actually wouldn’t mind finding out what his favorite pieces were.
Eagles Hell Freezes Over, Wayne's World Soundtrack, Beatles 1962-1966 Compilation Album, Queen Greatest Hits
It wasn’t an album but more of an artist in particular. Mum : Frederic François (I hated it) Dad : Jean Jacques Goldman (I love it)
My mother played the shit out of Kenny Roger’s Greatest Hits and Randy Travis’ Greatest Hits. On repeat. Constantly.
My mom played all of John Denver on repeat for a solid 2 years before switching to REO Speedwagon for what felt like another year.
Live throwing copper, offspring, oasis when I was between about 9-12 years old
The Eagles Greatest Hits, Linda Ronstadt Greatest Hits, Chicago, Beatles, Bee Gees, Jim Croce, and Fleetwood Mac were all on cassette tape rotation during interstate road trips as a kid.
Mum-Hot August Night, Neil Diamond Dad- Songs Of Chris Christopherson Both- Ike and Tina Turner, unsure of the album.
Jazz by Queen
All the mumblecrap Bob Dylan ever released
A Night at Studio 54 and Donna Summer’s Bad Girls
My mom: John Denver's Poems, Prayers & Promises My dad: Dan Fogelberg's The Innocent Age There were definitely others I remember, but those were probably the most played by them.
Black Sabbath - Paranoid. I know the album by heart and have vivid memories of my dad wearing a black hoodie and doing the aardvark two step in our rumpus room. O_o
Mom- Graceland Paul Simon Dad- Paranoid black sabbath
John Denver, Back Home Again
80s baby here and it was “Born in the USA”
Badfinger- Magic Christian Music
Dad: Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Mom : Jagged Little Pill by Alanis, A Night At The Opera by Queen. It’s funny because while thinking of something else to write here it came to me that those two albums describe my personality pretty well…
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Harvest moon was in my dad's car for every morning drive to school that I can remember
The VHS of The Talking Heads Stop Making Sense Tour.
Dad: Anything by The Ventures (but mostly "Telstar"). Mom : Anything by John Denver (because she went to school with him in Montgomery, Alabama).
Dad: Conway Twitty Now and Then Mom: Celine Dion The Colour of my Love
Rock Spectacle by Barenaked Ladies was on repeat in my mom’s car for at least 2 years. Also Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach Boys & The Bonnie Raitt Collection (1990). My dad? Probably A Hard Day’s Night or Revolver by the Beatles or anything Bruce Springsteen did before 1987.
Welcome to my Nightmare by Alice Cooper. All Led Zeppelin Some Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath were on rotation too
Dad - No More Tears by Ozzy Mom - Come On Over by Shania Twain
Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All This Years
Centerfield by John Fogerty was probably the one I heard the most my dad play. As a kid I would always sing "put me in cold" instead of coach. My mom didn't really listen to music other than on the radio in the car.
I could make a long list, my parents were always playing music, but the ones that I remember the most are the Beatles compilation (the red and blue one), Songs On The Key of Life by Stevie Wonder (I am still a big fan of those artists myself because of that) and the Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.
My dad: Fleetwood Mac’s Rumors Paul Simon’s Graceland. My mom: also Tapestry and Joni Mitchell’s Blue.
Genesis - Invisible Touch.
Paul Simon - Rhythm of the Saints Steely Dan - Aja I used to loathe both, but they are now probably my two favorite albums.