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#42

The music of people getting slowly more uncomfortable during a very long drive.

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#43

Graceland, Bruce Springsteen’s Greatest Hits, Eagles Greatest Hits and Billy Joel Innocent Man were the cornerstones of car tape listening, along with a lot of 5 Live (have vivid memories of Leeds winning the title in 92 on the A65 on the way home from the Dales and David Busst’s leg falling off somewhere in the Peak District). He had a comp he’d made at a friend’s (who actually had a proper record collection) that had stuff like Sparks This Town…, Boys of Summer by Don Henley and, weirdly, Hole in My Shoe by Neil from the Young Ones.

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#44

If it wasn’t Oasis then it was Radio 5 Live.

#45

Used to have a lot of long car journeys out to industrial estates to look at carpets, wallpaper etc. Trip round Poundstretcher for us kids if we were lucky

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#46

Dad’s car- Dire Straits, Mike and the Mechanics, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Robert Palmer

Mum’s car- Lighthouse Family, Simply Red, Beautiful South

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#47

Simon and Garfunkel - The Sounds Of Silence
Meatloaf - Hits Out Of Hell
Sade - Diamond Life (though this was short-lived)
These tapes of old sci-fi books. Not Asimov - who was the other famous Russian sci-fi author?

#48

We would get BBC Radio 4 in our car. The only tape dad had was a rock and roll compilation which had stuff like great balls of fire, blue suede shoes,

#49

Bulychov? (That’s the only Russian Sci Fi author I can think of, might well be wrong lol).

#50

Today is seven years since I lost my Dad so this is a really lovely thread to read and brings back lots of good memories. His go to albums were Bat Out of Hell and Queen’s Greatest Hits Vol 1 and 2. In fact I am going to listen to all of those now.

I am now really curious what my kids’ memories of what I play in the car will be like in a few years :thinking:

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#51

Oh yes, Blue is the Colour was a staple. Us kids obviously loved it because of the swearing.

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#52

Gloria Estefan & The Miami Sound Machine
Madonna - The Immaculate Collection (but with one of the songs taped over with something else because he didn’t like it)
Various Now! compilations

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#53

Why do you all have the same parents?

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#54

We’re one big happy family

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#55

I did a double CD compilation of all the stuff my parents regularly listened to in the car (which were my Mum’s self compiled cassette recording (or home piracy!) from the Charts. Based on the artwork on the Haynes manuals for our succession of Vauxhalls:

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We also listened to a lot of Jean Michel Jarre and synthesizer advert music. While sucking Fox’s Glacier Mints (which made me feel sick). Thankfully seatbelts weren’t mandatory, so we could squirm around freely in a state of nausea (much as I would imagine would be necessary if listening to the Lighthouse Family).

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#56

Yep. There was a scrabble to turn the volume down once when we put it on for my catholic nan when she came round for tea

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#57

fuck, here we go. My dads staples:

Bat out of Hell (1 and 2)
Lighthouse Family
Mike and the Mechanics
Gloria Estefan
Blue is the Colour
Dire Straits
Chris Rea

Thankfully my brother had better taste.

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#58

Another for Meatloaf, Chris Rea and Queen. Throw Bonnie Tyler and Rod Stewart into the mix too.

We definitely had a Tina Turner best of around, strong memories of driving up to Bridlington in the Summer, windows up because we were on the motorway, the smell of two parents smoking like chimneys in the front mingling with vanilla air freshener and my pleas to pull over somewhere drowned out by Nutbush City Limits as I proceeded to wildly chunder into my lap.

In happier times I was sat in my dads car on a snowy day, aged 5 maybe, he put on a cassette of The Best Of Blondie and Heart of Glass came on and it was magic.

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#59

Wtf is up with all the meatloaf

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