This topic is inspired by some of the posts in the "Me Wise Young 'Un" thread in Opinions.

Anyway, I can't really complain. My parents were very young (19-20) when I was born, so at least they weren't listening to Lawrence Welk when I was a kid. Some of the stuff I remember hearing around the house when I was growing up:

Beatles, Rolling Stones, Warren Zevon, Zeppelin, Lynard Skynard, Heart, Allman Brothers, Eagles, early ZZ Top, Bonnie Raitt, Wings, BB King.

I didn't like all of it, but it could've been MUCH, MUCH worse. My dad is a guitar player, and while he was never really into hard rock, I distinctly remember him making a comment about Eddie Van Halen being a talented kid. This was around '79, so I was 9 years old and barely knew who Van Halen was. I think I was aware that they did "Dance the Night Away", though.

At any rate, some of you must have some horror stories--let's hear 'em!

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It depended on who I was with - my parents were young and listened to mainstream rock and pop - so it was everything from "Green Eyed Lady", "Draggin' The Line", BTO, Isaac Hayes (Shaft - can you dig it?) to the Doors "Touch Me", to the Carpenters; whatever was on the radio...

Now with my grandparents it was a different story; Andy Williams, BJ Thomas, Perry Como, all that mellow crooner stuff...

The first time I ever heard a Black Sabbath song as a teenager I felt like I had heard it before but couldn't quite place when or where - sort of a musical "deja vu"... I'm sure that someone played their first album in my presence when I was very young (I was 4 when Sabbath came out).

I was exposed mostly to pop music from the 60s and 70s, some country like Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Randy Travis, etc, and then a LOT of soft rock from the 80s.

I got my rock introduction from my brother, who is four years older than I am.

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Kenny Rogers, John Denver, Nana Miskouri(sp?). There's actually one John Denver song that for the life of me I can't remember the name of. But when I used to hear it as a child it would really take me away to a different place. Wish I could remember the name. Maybe I'll see if I can find it on Amazon and re-live my youth.http://www.vhlinks.com/vhlforum/smilies/smile.gif

When I was 12 and 13, my dad worked and lived three hours away. we were planning on moving up there but in the meantime drove 3 hours both ways every weekend. My mom always played Billy Joel tapes. I wasn't in to music yet, so I allowed the stuff to grow on me, and now I own every cd the dude has released. He also led to me enjoying heavier stuff too.

Kinda sucked though. I was in middle school at the time and it wasn't cool to like the same music as your parents. But, like now, I didn't give a shit what anybody else thought.

Anything and everything!! From Flatt and Scruggs to Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Beatles, you name it. My parents never force fed my any one style of music, and they never told me what records I could buy. Very cool.

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"I won't go down in history, but I will go down on your sister!"...David Lee Roth

The Beatles,
Motown,
Big Band,
and TONS of Christmas Music!


as i grew up, i developed my own taste by getting into Kiss, Billy Joel, and then Van Halen & U2. there's a ton of other music i like, but the core of it i settled on when i was pretty\ young.
thanks, Mom!

I heard all kinds of stuff - Elvis at my Aunt's, my Mom had Herb Alpert and Bobby Vinton, my Dad and his wife were into country plus I grew up listening to what was top 40 stuff back then. I liked some of the early disco but ahttp://www.vhlinks.com/vhlforum/smilies/smile.gif it started becoming real repetitive and bhttp://www.vhlinks.com/vhlforum/smilies/smile.gif Boston's first album and "Frampton Comes Alive" started steering me down a different path.

My parents belonged to a record club, so they never had to pick out anything. The club would just send them the top selling albums. Thank god for me that included Led Zeppelin, Santana, Stones, and Steppenwolf.

The problem is they didn't like that good stuff, so they bought John Denver, Bread, America and all that hippy shit. That's the stuff they played over and over.

Carpenters
Pearcy Faith Stings do The Beatles
Captain and Teneil
Cristopher Cross
Dan Fogelberg
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Phil Collins, Bruce Hornsby, The Beatles, Eagles, Boston ("More Than A Feeling" is a great song!!), Yes, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Elton John......

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Lets see...The Beatles, Juice Newton, old sixties rock and surf music (The Yardbirds, Cream, Mothers of Invention *I love them*, The Ventures, etc...) and some folk. My folks listened to nearly everything.

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my parents listened to everything . from michael jackson to elton john . but what i remember the most was the gap band . you dropped the bomb on me .

We heard a lot of stuff but one that got a lot of play by my dad was 1984. He bought it the week it came out. Motown,The Beatles The Stones Clapton a lot of classic material!

2711

My dad always listened to the Who, the Dead, and Little Feat. He was also a big Bruce Springsteen fan.

As for the music *I* listened to as a kid...it's a bit embarrassing....When I was in first grade the New Kids On The Block appeared and of course I loved them all through third grade...after that I was a big fan of Paula Abdul, Mariah Carey, Amy Grant and Whitney Houston...then we moved in 5th grade and all the other kids were into country, so I became a big fan of Mary Chapin Carpenter (She is awesome, I went to see her live in 8th grade) and when I got into high school I discovered rock and Van Halen, and have never been quite the same since. http://www.vhlinks.com/vhlforum/smilies/smile.gif

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I was pretty lucky.

My parents have a great record collection, and i have always loved to play there old records. Stuff like The Beatles,Elvis,The Eagles,Jim Croce,Meatloaf,Jan and Dean..the stuff from the 60's and 70's.
My Grandmother used to listen to Frank Sinatra alot, and I love Frank, one cool mutherfucker!

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My Mom and Dad together exposed our household to the 50's, Motown, Elvis,The Beatles, Creedence, John Denver, and Broadway scores to name a few.

My Dad always exposed us to Irish music as well. The Clancy Brothers, Paddy Reilly, and Tommy Makem.

You can also throw in a good percentage of Country too. Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson,Eddie Rabbit,Kenny Rogers,Patsy Cline,Dolly Parton, The Oak Ridge Boys, and Alabama. My parents love Country!

My Sister- Olivia-Newton John,Jimmy Buffet,Edie Brickell,The Dixie Chix, Alanis Morrissette.

My Youngest sister- GULP . . . .Dance music and freestyle music. Club Music. You know. The crap with the same bass drum beat over and over again in every song. At least it's not Rap though. That crap will not fly at home!


My parents take on Van Halen?

Mom- " It gives you a headache after awhile and why do you have to listen to it at such high volume?" Mom, funny enough, loves "Panama." She thinks Eddie is adorable with that smile!

Dad- "Super talented musician but those squealing sounds could wake the dead." "I have to hand it to them." "To last in that shit business that long is a credit to them!"

My parents think David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar have no talent, write silly lyrics, and have to scream instead of sing. Are those not the familiar words of parents regarding their children's music?

Georgie - LOL!! Very familiar words indeed, and not just for the parents. (How come you still listen to this in your mid twenties?)

holy shit, georgie!
Panama is my mom's favorite VH song, too!!
that's really funny!

I had older brothers and a sister who really dug Zep, Kiss, The Stones. Nugent, Molly Hatchet.
Then when VH came along, it was easy to see who my favorite band was going to be.

VanEdge- All Mom's dig "Panama!" Come on. Kids, try it out on Mom. Mom's prefer "panama."

Spanish Doctor- LOL I have also heard the similar. " It is a stage." "He'll outgrow them." OR "You still listen to that?" " Aren't you too old for that?"

I got a good dose of the Beatles and John Phillip Sousa when I was a kid. (I've always had an odd enjoyment of military marches, I guess that's why I play the piano, trumpet, trombone and drums...) Unfortunately, I also got a good dose of ABBA, Gordon Lightfoot and Air Supply. After years of painful therapy, I finally found VH. It cured all my musical needs.

My parents were hopeless music wise. About the only albums they used to buy were these huge 'Readers Digest' boxed sets with all the albums in these freaky rainbow couloured sleeves. As long as it was a readers digest box set, they dug it. Or they put it on the shelf and looked at the box.

Apart from that..... a fair dose of Abba and Neil Diamond... but I'm OK really considering http://www.vhlinks.com/vhlforum/smilies/wink.gif

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I was born in 1966, so growing up I was exposed to the awesome music of the 70's. My parents also had quite a music collection in the house, everything from Fats Domino, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Janis Joplin, The Beatles, Neil Diamond, Charlie Rich, The Rolling Stones, etc., etc. My parents never listened to r&b (thank God), they were pretty devoted to rock and some country. The country they listened to I didn't mind hearing, it's what I consider "real" country, unlike the crap that's out there now. Loretta Lynn, Charlie Rich, Johnny Rodriguez, Patsy Cline, et al. Growing up in the 70's was too fucking cool. I distinctly remember hearing Boston on the radio, Rod Stewart, my mom turning me on to Elton John, to which this day I remain a diehard fan, Olivia Newton-John, Barry Manilow, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Tony Orlando and Dawn, The Eagles, and so many others that I'm getting a migraine trying to remember them all.

It's clearly because of them that my love for music runs really deep. Thanks mom and dad.

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My mother was from The Catskills (upstate NY) and I really believe she was just born old. She liked Johnny Cash and the old time CW and your classic easy listening stations. She always watched Englebert Humperdink and Tom Jones, but HEE-HAW! My brother is 13 years older than me and he had the Stones, Elton John, but pretty light fare. Oddly enough, after I got through Bobby Sherman, The Monkees, the Partridge Family, and Elton John, I was the one who brought "that noise" into the house.

For a long time I didn't care for that CW and Tom Jones, but I worked at an oldies station a few years back and learned to appreciate those roots. Johnny Cash is pretty damn cool for an old guy.

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Hell yeah z28girl! Johnny Cash is awesome. I just got his greatest hits at Christmas. Though actually that was awhile ago. What's your favorite song? Mine's Long Black Veil, even though he didn't write it.

It's been awhile since I pulled out and Johnny Cash, and I haven't really heard his newer stuff. I really enjoyed a special they had awhile back (a tribute really) with Sheryl Crow and a bunch of other stars singing his songs. I've always wanted a tape of that. I like his older stuff (I Walk the Line, Folsom Prison Blues) and saw him at Toad's Place in New Haven a few years ago. He had his wife and her sisters open up, along with his son who did a southern rock type of thing.

It's good to like different types of music because by listening to it all you can see how it really all connects in a way. Chris Robinson said once that they're all part of one big song. I always thought that was a cool analogy.

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Great Topic.. My parents as far as Rock went liked: Fleetwood Mac, Doobie Brothers, Beach Boys, Beatles.. My Dad loved the song Barracuda..... and liked Blonde...
My older sister liked the Dead, Led Zep and David Bowie... The first 8 Track I started listening to was Skeletons in the Closet (The Dead).. Than Zep and from 6th - 8th grade Kiss.... VH become the band for me in 1978 and has been ever since....

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My parents--Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Elton John and the Kingston Trio

My brother--KISS, Ratt, Dokken, Van Halen, Def Leppard, Guns n' Roses and Dokken

My sister--The Police, R.E.M., U2 and the Indigo Girls

Out of all the music I was exposed to as a kid, the following bands are still among my faves; KISS, Van Halen, Def Leppard, GN'R and U2. I was fortunate to be exposed to a lot of different music.

Some of you guys are so lucky. I was always surrounded by country, and bluegrass, and the Grande Old Oprae. There was no escaping it. On family vacations by the time we arrived destination I was like Waldo with my face against the glass, clawing at the window. "Help me, desperate need for halen."

Excellent topic
I've been into music as long as I can remember.
My parents divorced when I was 3 but my mom married a guitar player a couple years later.
She was into the Suremes and a wailing gospel singer Mahalia Jackson.
My Stepfather had a reel to reel (late 60's early 70's) and always had some cool players on the stereo. Wes Montgomery, Tony Mottola, Joe Pass, Chet Atkins, and even some Quincy Jones.
The rock hit me early with Wipe-Out, the Monkees, then I embarrisngly got into the Osmonds, Jackson 5 ( they were cool ), and forgive me the Partridge Family.
I slowly repented by getting into Rush, Aerosmith, Deep Purple, Frampton, then what finally pushed a guitar in my hands forever... Ace Frehley and his smoking guitar! I was a Kiss nut until they went disco, by then Eddie had created a new reality and the rest is history.
Peace
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Well since the age of 13 all I was able to
listen to was christian rock and the
heaviest that went as far as rock
was "Stryper" http://208.50.7.95/vhlforum/smilies/redface.gif But I digressed, Van
Halen's "ou812" was the first rock record I
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I'm searchin moonlight and looking for a moonbeam, yeah you spent a lie and got lost in the jet stream ...

"Yah looking back all the years of video tape I suddenly realize now,
that I look like a fish!" Alex Boceebus Vo Halen

Well, I was exposed to music by a older brother who was 10yrs older than me..I grew up lstening to Elvis-Fats Dommino-ZZ Top-Ted Nugent-ACDC-Alice Cooper-Deep Purple-Black Sabbath-Kiss-Pat Travers- Robin Trower and finally at the age of 14 in 1979 I discovered VH!! It has not been the same since!!!

i´m 18 years old so oldies for me(for when i was kid)are:

Chicago(dam i love this group)
A-ha
Foreigner
Alphaville
Alice Cooper
Eric Clapton
Fleetwood mac
even Van Halen in 80´s

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My parents had a compilation tape that they'd play in the car everytime we drove to my grandparents. So we'd be singing along to Queen, Meatloaf, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Don McLean and 'Black Betty' by Ram Jam every other sunday as we drove...

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Because of my Carribean background, I started out listening to alot of calypso music. Then came Motown, especially the Jackson 5. I still love their old stuff. I also remember being into The Guess Who in the early 70's. Later on, it was just a mixture ofthe popular music of the time. In 1982, I started listening to Kasey Kasim's Top 40 countdown. Over a period of several weeks, I remember Kasey doin' an intro to a roy Orbison song done by some southern California band. At first I hated the song. Then slowly, week by week I was tuning into Kasim's show in hopes of hearin' the song. Of course, the song turned out to be "pretty women" and the group was TA DA! Van Halen. Afterwards, I started tuning into my local rock station (CHOM-FM in Montreal) from there I heard "Secrets" and it was all over! By the time "1984" came around in late '83, I was a full fledged Van Halenite.

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Believe it or not, I grew up with a sister who played The Carpenters, Olivia Newton-John, and broadway music stuff. My dad always played crappy elevator Blues and my mom always listens to Oldies...Where I got Van Halen as my choice is beyond me...lol http://208.50.7.95/vhlforum/smilies/smile.gif

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"A lot of bands mature, which means they get square; they start delivering messages. Hey, you got a message, use Western Union." - David Lee Roth

I was born in 82 and my dad is this christian guy so he listened to nothing. When I was little (like 4 or 5) the only music I ever heard was from my mom and she always listened to Amy Grant, James Taylor or 80's pop radio stations. I had to grow up listening to my moms music (that is pathetic). You wanna hear something pathetic, my damn dad blocked out MTV on our tv's (i still havent forgivin him for that). Around 96 we finally got MTV and my brother got me into rock and its been that way ever since. I caught the tale end of the alternative rock thing and I have been trying to make up for lost time ever since. (damn all those alternative bands rock).

The first cd I ever bought was Pearl Jam- Live On Two Legs.
The first actual cd I ever heard was balance.


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Kenny Rogers, John Denver, Nana Miskouri(sp?). There's actually one John Denver song that for the life of me I can't remember the name of. But when I used to hear it as a child it would really take me away to a different place. Wish I could remember the name. Maybe I'll see if I can find it on Amazon and re-live my youth. http://www.vhlinks.com/vhlforum/smilies/smile.gif <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Calypso? Fly Away, Country Roads, Rocky Mountain High, Sunshine?


I was exposed to all sorts of music from the
Tie a yellow ribbon.....Bad Bad Leroy Brown,
Any Fats Domino, Elvis Glen Miller...from my parents
and 3 older brothers had all the classics from Led Zep, Genesis, Floyd, Elton John
Rolling Stones, the Cars, Eagles,Queen on and on......



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I was always very close to my Dad and we would sit together and listen to Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison. I'll never forget the time I played Dave singing "Pretty Woman" for him. He listened to the whole song with out saying a word, and when the song was over, all he said was "not bad".
That was a huge compliment from a guy like my Dad.

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I don't feel tardy.

The music I remember hearing most when I was a kid that my parents played a lot, were these bands.

Billy Joel

The Who

Dire Straits

Bruce Springsteen

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ANGEL4U:
Calypso? Fly Away, Country Roads, Rocky Mountain High, Sunshine?


<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I checked Amazon and listened to a clip. It's called On the Road. It's on the Back Home Again album. My Dad used to listen to that record a lot, I wonder if he still has it.

Glenn,
By "exposed too" do you mean the crap I was FORCED to listen to as a child?
Let me see my mom ruled the "record player" with Nazi like expertise. Here are a few of the gems I was forced to endure.

Barbara Striesand
Nat King Cole
The Mills Brothers
Kenny FUKIN' Rogers
Charlie Pride
Perry Como
Xavier Cugat
Andy "Fag" Williams

Those are just a few. As you can see I still harbor some resentment to the aforementioned artist. I guess thats why I quit school the day after seeing VH open for Sabbath in 78 and became a rock n roll guitarist.

Lata Snake

I was lucky in this respect, i have two sisters around ten years older than me and from them i was able to hear,and be brought up on the following the rolling stones,sis has every album they ever made,led zep,cream,eagles,the who,and a lot of other bands from that era,and yes there was a little ac/dc,and some early van halen in there also, one sister got into country andit was some cool music,im talkin willie and waylon,david allen coe,ya know... some a them rough mutherfuckers, you have to admit they partied there ass off man.oh,from dad i heard a lot of elvis.

For band that comes to mind is Styx. Then comes the others:
Boston, Aerosmith, Led Zep, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, Doobie Brothers, Blondie, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Cars, Billy Joel, the Police, Genesis. My two childhood friend's older brothers' record collection was made up of the above artists. I remebre fondly the lazy summers playing they're records when they weren't around as "younger" brothers were not allowed to touch anything :D

Zep, Purple, Beatles, Rod, Floyd, Stones, Joplin.....

My mom and her sister were kinda hippyish, as was my stepdad.

i grew up with elton john, billy joel, madonna, oldies radio, backseat boys, nsuck.....the list goes on and on. FORTUNATLY i discovered van halen from watching tv!

Country..... :irked: :brickwall

I grew up listening to Creedance Clearwater Revival, country (good, real country, not country pop), Simon and Garfunkel, the Supremes...when I discovered radio and quit messing up my parents' albums, I liked Styx, REO Speedwagon, Led Zep....basically classic rock.

Then at 12 I bought The Time's "What Time Is It?!?" and eventually went into full white-boy breakdancer mode for a year or so. But when "1984" dropped, and RATT and QR and the like took off, I was a rocker, man, through and through.:thumb:

Oh....the first rock album I ever remember hearing in my life was "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road". My aunt was a rock-addicted 17 year old when it came out in '73 and was often stuck with babysitting me. I remember her wanting to teach me how to operate grandpa's record player.....and of course this new album she bought was the test platform.

At three years old, she tells me I knew all the words to all the songs on that record eventually.

Then at 12 I bought The Time's "What Time Is It?!?" and eventually went into full white-boy breakdancer mode for a year or so.

Jesus H Christ on a popsicle stick! I remember that fad too. All my friends were leaning how to "pop", but I just thought they looked like noodle-legged dopes. I was kinda ostracized from the crowd for not learning how to break dance. Oh well....."Panama" seemed to keep me nice and occupied. :D

My parents listened to classic rock. In high school I really started listening to it myself. I decided to look in their album collection to see what all they had. It was the gold mine:
Pink Floyd
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Heart
James Gang
JJ Cale
Eric Clapton
Boston
Deep Purple
Bad Company
Fleetwood Mac
Yes
Kansas
Peter Frampton
The Band
Jethro Tull
Aerosmith
Robin Trower
Traffic
ZZ Top
Eagles

But for some reason no Van Halen. Hmmm. I need to ask them why.

Well, other than the absence of VH, your parents fuckin rocked, SNIC. :thumb:

Well, other than the absence of VH, your parents fuckin rocked, SNIC. :thumb:

Funny thing is now all they listen to is country. Not me. I am hooked on classic rock!

Where I'm young, I've grown up with rock from the 70s and 80s: Van Halen (naturally), Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, etc...

Funny thing is now all they listen to is country!

Doesn't bode well for the future, does it? :D

Well, other than the absence of VH, your parents fuckin rocked, SNIC. :thumb:

Just talked to my dad. He said, "Yeah, he liked VH." Just didn't have any albums. Then he shared a depressing story for any classic rock fan.

When he was stationed in Thailand, someone broke into his apartment and stole everything. Took about 150 albums:
Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Cream
Eric Clapton
Rolling Stones
Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix

Just to name a few.

Man that sucks! I would love to have my hands on all those now.

The platters, Hank williams Sr.& Jr., Frankie Yanchovick(?) and his Yanks, The Glenn Miller Band and for some perverted reason I can still listen to all that stuff, (once in awhile) But while others were into Chic and the Gap Band, Hendrix, Van Halen, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Robbin Trower, and Zepplin were crankin out of my TEAC system!!

My dad liked easy listening, my mom liked country & Elvis & my older brother liked heavy metal. I started out liking pop like Rick Springfield, Hall & Oates & that time, then by the time I was in middle school my brother converted me to the dark side of good old rock n roll!!! Funny - when I was in high school, my mom started liking all the 80's hair bands!!!

When he was stationed in Thailand, someone broke into his apartment and stole everything. Took about 150 albums:


Aw fuck. Well, think of it this way:

Ya don't hear of anyone breaking into someone's pad to steal a stack of Backstreet Boys CD's, do ya? :D

Apparently when I was about three years old, I'd do a kareokee Tom Jones performance any time my parents played their vinyl LP of Jones. I used to sing in the car and if Mom ran into, oh say a grocery store, Dad and I waiting in the car, I useta use the on-the-column-stick shift as a microphone and sing . . .Tom Jones stuff.

Tom JOnes aka Lady killer

:D

Mom loved Kenny Rogers and Grandma loved John Denver...

I actually learned to sing partly because of those old Kenny records...Still pretty good stuff!

Well my parents were big in country in the 80s. They were forced a bit when they moved down to GA. Lots of Dolly and Kenny, Oak Ridge boys, Alabama, Willie Nelson and others. I didnt like much of it. A few songs here and there. MY guess thats why i hate country now...lol. Other tunes my parents played a lot was Ray charles, The Supremes, Eagles, Beatles, Beach boys, Temptations, Elvis and others. My parents listen to the music of the 60s and 70s now, So my history of music is pretty good. I have heard all types of music.I remeber when i was a kid I loved Bruce Springsten Born in the USA album. I would dance all over the house. But I really didnt get into music until i hit High school.

Aw fuck. Well, think of it this way:

Ya don't hear of anyone breaking into someone's pad to steal a stack of Backstreet Boys CD's, do ya? :D

Oh yeah, my sister exposed me to boy bands when I was 8! I almost screamed when I (thought) I saw a member from BSB (as I called them) in Lexington!

First of all, I'm glad I didn't have the Backdoor Boys around when I was growing up like you did, EVHshottie. Oh wait, yes I did. They were called New Kids on the Block... Cocksuckers... anyways...

My folks didn't listen to a lot of music when I was really little like 8 and under except for crappy shit like Eddy Arnold, Kenny Rogers and that type of shit. But even then, it was not on all the time or anything. We lived in Germany when I was 5 till 8 and we weren't around music much.

When I was 8 or so, that all changed. My cousin who's really into the local music scene in New Jersey (she knows bands like Poison, Cinderella, Bon Jovi, etc...) played Led Zeppelin and Iron Maiden for my younger brother and I and it was all over. Our eyes and ears lit up immediately and forever our lives had been changed. I've been a rocker ever since. Thank God she wasn't a goat roper...

Jim Croce, Otis Redding,James Taylor, Alabama, Linda Ronstadt, Ann Murray, Crystal Gayle, and lots of country. The first four I'm big fans of...Otis and Jim are two of my favorites and bring back great childhood memories. I remember learning to dance (on my dad's feet) in my living room to Jim Croce. Awww...I'm getting sentimental and need to go call my Daddy!

My parents had me late in life. My Mother was 46 years old. Back in 1962...and they loved Frank Sinatra, Big Band Swing, Lawrence Welk, all that stuff with lots of horns...Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy...OMG...they had a lot of this stuff on old 78 RPM records...and I still have them.
I was born and raised in Oakland, CA so the radio stations of those days for me (a child of the 60's), was made up of lots of Motown, old school funk, blues and some hippy-acid trip tunes.
Somehow, in my teens, I wound up liking Donny Osmond...that wore off in Jr. High School..and my tastes gravitated more towards Kiss...and Ozzy...not the disco crud that was so popular in those days. In High School...hard rock and Heavy Metal was the ONLY thing I'd listen to.
Quite a far cry from the days of Lawrence Welk's champaign~music! LOL!
JA :)

First of all, I'm glad I didn't have the Backdoor Boys around when I was growing up like you did, EVHshottie. Oh wait, yes I did. They were called New Kids on the Block... Cocksuckers... anyways...



TP went to a NKOTB concert at Texas Stadium. She made it all the way to the stage and drooled or Ricky, Tricky, Dicky, Licky, and Snicky, or whatever their names were. That was before I converted her to classic rock.

kt and jeanette, y'all have good taste! Jim Croce.....old-school funk.....that's the good stuff!:thumb:

Ricky, Tricky, Dicky, Licky, and Snicky, or whatever their names were.

I'm fairly certain those were their actual names, SNIC.

From my Parents:

50s/60s/70s rock and roll/pop: Elvis, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, Jan and Dean, The Beach Boys, Chubby Checkers, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Paul Anka, Andy Williams, Frankie Avalon, Chuck Berry, The Carpenters, The Captain and Tenille, Jim Croce, ABBA.

Country: Merle Haggard, Hank Williams Sr, Dolly Parton, The Carter Family, Roy Clark, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kenny Rogers, Hank Snow, Roy Rogers, Boxcar Willie, Charlie Rich, Patsy Cline, Marty Robbins, Jim Reeves, Tammy Wynette, Conway Twitty, Don Gibson, John Denver, Oak Ridge Boys, Alabama.

R&B/Motown/Jazz: exposed to this from friends.

Classical: picked up on it on my own.

From older cousins/friends/brothers:
Punk/Hard rock/Heavy metal: Van Halen, Rush, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Quiet Riot, Iron Maiden, The Who, Def Leppard, The Clash, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Ozzy, Nazareth, Judas Priest.

The 90s is where I explored music more on my own.

born in 68, thus way too much fucking AM radio! :brickwall

wasn't until 76-77-78 when an older uncle intro'd me to Beatles, Floyd, Meatloaf, Queen, KISS did I see that Mom's Carpenters 8-tracks just weren't cutting it anymore... :thumb:

My mom:Southern Gospel

My dad:Don Williams, Hank Williams, Kenny Rogers, Loretta Lynn,
Charlie Rich.... Stuff like that.

My sister:Alabama, Kentucky Head Hunters, Garth Brooks, George
Str8, Loretta Lynn, Alan Jackson, Travis Tritt and Eddie Rabbit.

My brother in Law:Dire Str8's, Nazareth, ZZ Top, Mothers Finest,
REO Speedwagon....

brother: AC/DC, Van Halen, Whitesnake, Guns N Roses, Metallica,
Iron Maiden, Anthrax, Aerosmith, Quiet Riot, Warrent, Led Zep,
and Prince.

While I don't like country... I do respect the likes of Rogers, George S,
Conway Twitty. THe only artist that I like though that my sister or
dad like is Eddie Rabbit. It's obvious I took music after my brother
as he introduced me to Vh and Aerosmith more than anything. I did
quit listening to rock for years after my brother died and just listened
to the country that my sister listened to. She basically became my
mother and I just sort of listened to it from 1990-1999 I'd say... Then
as I was growing older I went back to what I started getting into in
the mid-late 80's. The Blues/MoTown/Old Time R&B I've just started
listening to the last 4 or 5 years as I wasn't exposed to any of this
at all.

TP went to a NKOTB concert at Texas Stadium. She made it all the way to the stage and drooled or Ricky, Tricky, Dicky, Licky, and Snicky, or whatever their names were. That was before I converted her to classic rock.

You are a good person for saving her life from utter hell. :thumb: