#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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#100

Literally the opposite of my family.

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#101

That’s the one, had to google the covert art.

#102

I’ve absolutely no idea about the context behind the song, genuinely sounds like something that was thought up down the pub. It’s pretty bizarre.

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#103

Best of Bowie, some Meatloaf, Elvis Costello and Queen were also in fairly regular rotation too.

#104

Neil Young: Harvest Moon
Tina Turner: Live in Europe 1992
Meat Loaf: Bat out of Hell
Eurythmics: Revenge
Runrig: Searchlight
Bruce Springsteen: Greatest hits
Cher: Love Hurts
Annie Lennox: Diva

#105

Def Leppard - Hysteria
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Paul Simon - Graceland
Van Halen - 5150

There was also a somewhat uneasy truce around post-prog Rush. My mum would occasionally tolerate anything after Geddy was singing in a lower key.

There was very little musical agreement in our family so most often the radio would go on and we’d endure DLT and the like.

Eventually I asked for a Walkman one Christmas and just listened to whatever I wanted.

#106

Used to have loads of horrendous compilation tapes like these-
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Had a Now compilation tape that had the KLF on it and a great three-song run of James, the Cure and EMF. Didn’t care much for the rest of it.

Think all cars came with a Chris Rea tape as standard in the late Eighties/ early Nineties.

#107

I cannot find a photo of the tap but we had a double cassette called ‘Best of The 1970s II’ or something like that. It was absolutely brilliant, vividly remember listening to ‘Up The Junction’ by Squeeze, ‘I’m Not In Love’ by 10cc and ‘Oliver’s Army’ by Elvis Costello and loving them.

My Mam loved ABBA and Michael Jackson so they were occasionally on in the car. Dad didn’t listen to much music in the car, was always trying to listen to sports results, so I was happy. He’s a massive music fan though and now has his iPod Touch hooked up in the car and listens to loads of things.

The only CD I can remember either parent asking me to turn off was MBV’s Loveless as my Mam thought it was doing funny things to her hearing.

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#108

Buddy Holly - the hits
Beach Boys - the hits
Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack
Joseph’s Technicoloured Dreamcoat soundtrack
Elkie Brooks - the hits
Kate Bush - live album
A best of classic FM tape that had the dulux dog on the cover

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