#41

Mum:
Radio 5
Chris de burgh
Alison Moyet

Dad:
Radio 4 especially question time and gardener’s question time
Tracy Chapman
Bob Marley
Pogues
Dubliners

We also had a lot of story tapes that my mum recorded …mr men, blackberry farm and others.

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#42

Same. Always surprises me that so many people grew up with cars, it was a totally alien idea to me growing up and my brain can’t adjust to the reality that most people had/have cars.

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#43

Yeah, I grew up in London which obviously helped but my parents raised 6 kids with no car and when I tell people that it blows their mind.

Has put me off ever learning to drive too. Because I didn’t grow up with cars I have no idea what anything does. A driving instructor would need to talk to me as if I was a child to understand what the gear stick does, probably,

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#44

Mum:
ABBA Gold
Barbara Streisand - Woman in Love
Beatles - best of
Jimmy Nail - best of
Mike and the mechanics - best of

Dad:
Moody Blues - various albums
otherwise just listened to the radio

#45

Nothing until I was a teenager. My mum likes to say she was really into music before she met my dad but idk. Occasionally they’d put Dad’s REM best of or Scissor Sisters on. Rarely.

After I left for uni my mum got into Fleet Foxes, Local Natives, Villagers, and Junip. She has those in the car, now.

#46

My mum used to tape songs off the radio and make her own mixtapes with 80s stuff like Phil Collins, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Luther Vandross, Lionel Ritchie, the cars etc. Really enjoyed it

#47

Just reminded me, my mum always had Billy Joel’s River of Dreams on. Always.

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#48

Do hymns for adults have bad language?

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#49

My Mum had checked out before 90s Joel. Turnstiles, The Stranger, An Innocent Man… that was where it was at.

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#50

Just more focus on damnation I think

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#51

No car. We just had to sing Incredible String Band rarities on the walk into the village.

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#52

Sounds healthy

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#53

Graceland
Some Phil Collins nonsense
The Best of Eurythmics
Some Simply Red nonsense
The Best of UB40
Bat out of Hell
Divine Madness

My dad’s LPs are far better than his tapes; he settled into proper MOR rubbish in his 30s. Simply Red was mum’s at least… it was that or Classical FM. Like most people who listen to predominantly classical, she has terrible taste in pop music.

#54

Weird how music nerds always seem to come from parents ambivalent about music.

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#55

+1 for John Denver

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#56

I’ve found mum’s old box of tapes from the car!!

Also found she kept every mothers’ day card I ever gave her :cry:

Here goes:

  • Simply Red - Just all of it. Albums, singles, samplers, live bootlegs
  • INXS Greatest Hits
  • Yes - Close to the Edge
  • Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
  • Genesis - Invisible Touch
  • Loads of my grandad’s sessions (was a bigwig jazz drummer)
  • Led Zeppelin - 2 and 3
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#57

Invisible Touch :two_hearts: Off to listen to The Brazilian right now.

#58

I get borderline PTSD every time I hear Devil Woman by Cliff Richard because it was the only cassette my Mum had and would soundtrack every single ride to school

#59

Hadn’t heard it for ages until I, Tonya. Surprising banger.

#60

Sam Cooke
Springsteen
CSNY
The Eagles
Eurythmics
Elton John
Billy Joel