#80

Cool dad. What tapes did he have?

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#81

This was on a lot

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#84

The design on those covers is so good

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#85

Jesus to a child. My mum loves Jesus to a child.

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#86

The Very Best of Cat Stevens. Can’t remember anything else. Everyone singing along to that on way back from grandparents is a good memory.

#87

Chris Rea. Basically, all of them.

What Ever Happened to Benny Santini?
Deltics
Tennis
Chris Rea
Watersign
Wired to the Moon
Shamrock Diaries
On the Beach
Dancing with Strangers
The Road to Hell
Auberge
God’s Great Banana Skin
Espresso Logic
The Blue Cafe

Oh, and some Ennio Morricone.

#88

Mums car stereo was broken for years and she never got it fixed cos she thought it’d be distracting when she drove, then she got a new car and now she listens to radio 2 and 4. Dad has loads of CDs on rotation

#89

Fuck. Ing. Hell.

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#90

Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours
Paul Simon – Graceland

Those were all in constant rotation. There was the occasional bit of 10CC or Simply Red, and then when Classic FM arrived it became just that.

#91

Came to post Jeff Wayne’s War Of The World’s when I saw the title of the post.

I’d have to listen to that each car journey from London to Bolton when I was a kid when we’d spend the Easter Holidays at Bolton. We’d stop off for some chips at Julie’s Pantry at Birmingham motorway services along the way.

Bought back a whole train of thought and memories for me from the early/mid 80s. Good memories too. Nice one!

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#92

This reads like a list of album names you just have to come up with in 30 seconds

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#93

My dad made tapes for the car, properly crafted ones like on High Fidelity, dozens and dozens of them, they lived in a battered case in the glove compartment. He made tapes for everyone, loads for me and my sisters as we were growing up, even made a tape for the local Italian restaurant once, think it had That’s Amore on it.

We had tapes of Children’s Favourites when we were little, The Ugly Duckling, nursery rhymes, that kind of thing, then the best of Disney, then the Nows (whichever Now has Weather With You on got played a LOT).

Then when we were older it was music he liked - he was always listening to new stuff, it was never just nostalgia. He grew up on Led Zeppelin, Free, early Genesis, Black Sabbath, but never played them in the car. It was shit new stuff though, country-ish folky bluesy crap like Mary Chapin Carpenter, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, I can’t bear it. Sometimes he likes some kind of alright stuff, he was bang into the Alabama 3 and this was pretty much his favourite song for about three years in the early 2000s. Could have been worse/10.

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#94

Mum - Radio 2
Dad - early on it was a lot of early 90s dance, Massive Attack, jungle and Deep Forest. Then Radiohead, Bowie, Steely Dan, Bjork, Joni Mitchell, all the favourites.

#95

New Light Through Old Windows: The Best of Chris Rea got a heavy spin for a while.

I asked my Dad why he had it on in the car once and he shot back “Because your fucking Mum likes him” with piercing anger.

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#96

Remember many journeys soundtracked to this monstrosity. Still find myself regularly humming this ffs

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#97

My Dad had “the best of Sky” on tape. Once got so bored in the car that I read the entire booklet that came with it

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#98

The album was called “Little Creatures”. Unless they had a CASSINGLE?

#99

Grandad Roberts and his son Elvis!

Never understood this. Must have been a joke that got out of hand

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