What Do Your Parents Listen To?
Otis_Funkmeyer
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Being in the car with the 'rents as a kiddie, my bro and I heard lots of:
ELO
Queen
The Cars
The Pajama Game
Cabaret
John Denver
Thriller
My Dad's always been infatuated with Tina Turner, mostly for her legs, and he listens to her later stuff, not her early stuff (??). He always talks about this time he saw Bobby Bland in the Bronx in the 60s. I got my copy of Hot Buttered Soul from him.
"Steven, this is make out music".
My mom likes Springsteen, Rod Stewart, Billy Joel, The Beatles, Neil Diamond, and she took me to my first concert ever - The Rolling Stones Steel Wheels Tour at Shea Stadium in 1988.
Neither of them are really into music if you couldn't tell.
ELO
Queen
The Cars
The Pajama Game
Cabaret
John Denver
Thriller
My Dad's always been infatuated with Tina Turner, mostly for her legs, and he listens to her later stuff, not her early stuff (??). He always talks about this time he saw Bobby Bland in the Bronx in the 60s. I got my copy of Hot Buttered Soul from him.
"Steven, this is make out music".
My mom likes Springsteen, Rod Stewart, Billy Joel, The Beatles, Neil Diamond, and she took me to my first concert ever - The Rolling Stones Steel Wheels Tour at Shea Stadium in 1988.
Neither of them are really into music if you couldn't tell.
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he likes classical music now
She ususally likes all the soul stuff I listen to, but she only remember the big names like Delfonics, Moments, Curtis etc.....but I did get her hooked on Joe Quarterman and the Free Soul, made me make her a CD. Shes got "so Much trouble" on repeat
Definitely the only white woman I know that knows who Joe Quarterman is.
Mother: Mother's side of my family knew Lou Rawls. I would hear all about these stories about houseparties where Richard Pryor and Gene Simmons would come over with at least a dozen ladies in tow and the inhuman coke and pot consumtion ensuing with Rawls' hippie girlfriend (was her name Lana, by any chance? someone help me out here.) Apparently their mansion was haunted, too. Blue Magic S/T and Santana's "Abraxas" are her all time favorite LPs.
Grandmother: Gave me her copy of Frank Sinatra's "Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back". "Let Me Try Again" is the cut.
Uncle: Introduced to me to Perez Prado and Howlin' Wolf...
My Dad is forever asking fro more Gwen McCrae soubding ish these days, though.
K.
mom: Motown, 60s soul, 60s pop, etc. as a kid
now she's into Nelly and shit. I stopped by one day she
was playing an Enimen CD.....
dad: 60s/70s rock: Floyd, Doors, Zeppelin, etc. as a kid
same shit now. oh yeah, plus the country channel.....
My pops was the parent who was mainly into music, mom just hummed along sometimes. Pops would play gospel music and jazz mainly, but would slip in some soul every now and again. Here's the list:
Gospel (tons of groups, here's a sampling):
-The Gospel Keynotes.
-The Mighty Clouds of Joy.
-The Swan Silvertones.
-The Pilgrim Jubilees.
-Willie Banks & the Messengers.
-The Williams Brothers.
-The Jackson Southernaires.
-The Soul Stirrers.
-Walter Hawkins & the Love Alive Choir.
-The Gospel Caravans.
-The Sensational Nightingales.
-The Gospelaires of Dayton Ohio.
-The Brooklyn All-Stars.
-Glenn Jones & the Modulaires.
-Little Cedric & the Hailey Singers.
-The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi
Jazz (examples):
-Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers.
-Dave Brubeck.
-John Coltrane.
-Miles Davis.
-Sonny Rollins.
-Paul Desmond.
-Chet Baker.
-Nina Simone.
-Sarah Vaughn.
Soul/Funk (examples):
-Lloyd Price.
-The Impressions.
-The Temptations.
-Eddie Kendricks.
-Marvin Gaye.
-Barry White.
-The Commodores.
-Earth, Wind, & Fire.
-Lou Rawls.
-Diana Ross (pops used to have a crush on her as a kid, so mom says; Yuck!!!).
-Johnny Taylor (he used to rock my "Disco Lady" 45 when I was a kid).
-James Brown.
-Dorothy Moore.
-Betty Wright.
Other (examples):
-Poco.
-Willie Nelson.
-Steely Dan/Donald Fagen.
-The Beatles.
-Chicago.
-AM Gold stuff like Carole King, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, etc.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
my dad- Springsteen and ZZ Top, Beatles blah blah blah...
Probably the coolest thing is that when I was a kid, he would go out to record stores on the weekends and drag me along. I would get a couple of dollarbin jazz LP's and flip through stacks while he bought Solid Smoke James Brown Live at the Appolo reissues. We would always listen in the car to this blues show on Saturday afternoons that ran for over 20 years...I remember getting psyched when it would be ending, because after that, they would play old 40's radio thrillers like "Suspense," and I was mad into those. What's cool about it is that now I DJ on that same station that he played for me when I was kid, and he listens to every show, and usually calls in with some comment that shows he's not just tuning in, he's listening, which means we've come full circle. An I tend to drop in samples from "Suspense," too...
Moms is into whatever they are playing on BET. She got a system with 10's in her car that beats harder than my car! Only thing I've done that she really likes is the Gift of Gab record.
1.Zamfir.
2.Michael Bolton.
3.Enya.
4.Mento(Compilations)Early Jamaican traditional music.
5.60's Ska & Rock Steady music.
7.ABBA
8.Peter Tosh
9.Kenny G.
10.Richard Harris - "Kahil Gibran's - The Prophet"(I'm tired of making copies of this for him)it's his absolute all-time fav.
11.Joe Cocker.
12.Celine Dion.
Mom's fav's (Blank/nothing) she doesn't buy music.
Well to be truthful i've seen her buy 3 albums in my lifetime those were
Billy Paul, Melba Moore and Bee Gees.
Your parents have better taste than almost all of Soulstrut! But your mom is into "The Whisper Song"???!?!!??!
My folks:
A lot of latin music,
oldies,
motown
In the 80's they LOVED Julio Iglesias
Pop rock stuff like Kansas and Elton John or something.
I do remember my mom saying she was a big 5th Dimension head (for the past 15 years she's been into a lot of Enya, Yanni, and Kitaro)
My dad said he used to go watch Cal Tjadernplay and I think it was my dad who hipped me to Sade.
specifically baroque and minimalist works,
with some Satie, Debussy, and Bartok thrown in.
i got a gang of good records from him
when he abandoned vinyl.
moms is a more typical beatles/motown/dylan/ravi shankar 60's mom.
dad listens to some gypsy kings steeze while my moms listens to nothin but motown & east LA soul ish, she heavily bumps shig's cd & she just copped paychecks impalaville as well...
I know nothing of this, and because of that, I feel
Herm
well worth the wait sorry for blowin up spots but sayin though...
peace
ps herm i got part2 of that other shit commin up soon as well... ill hit you off when its complete...
Carly Simon, Joan Baez and the Beatles when I was in like kindergarten
to stuff like Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke, Joan Armitrading, Prince, The B-52's, Little Feat, Patsy Cline and Glen Miller Band when I was a little older
to stuff like KD Lang, Travelling Wilburys, Dead Can Dance, stuff like that now.
Dad - Doc and Merle Watson, Johnny Cash, John Prine, Bob Dylan, etc
Stepdad - Rush, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Tricky, Massive Attack, Dead Can Dance (I got him into the trip hop stuff, he loves it and I hardly listen to it, haha)
Man, im telling you!!! I never me him, but his (family) legacy, has been probably the greatest inpiration for so much in my life. He was a great man, AND a tough dude. He had a very advanced case of heart disease the last few years of his life, and would work, carrying around a Dixie Cup to spit up blood in. And whats crazy too, is, though he was a Mill Worker, he was also a tattoo artist (started whilst in service), he did CRAZY pieces on my Moms uncles and aunts, friends, etc... He had sleeves, and panels. Homie even had his thing tattooed (a fly, and i couldn't tell you why.) My Grandma had alot of flicks of the work he had done on family. Since she passed, they cant be located. I dont know, just the stories, and the way my family speak of him have touched me since i was like 14 or something. My mom recently got in touch with a friend of his actually, that has a guitar he built and gave to said friend right before his death. She is trying to get it, but you know how stuff like that goes....
thats my dads steez, loves that classic rock shit.. and RJD2 ???
my mom strictly listens to show tunes.
pz.
my mom is much cooler though, i left my phil ranelin cd in her car and caught her bumping it, she's also into the classic jazz albums, kind of blue, love supreme etc. I remember when i brought that smith s/t album home she said "i used to have that album!!" and the kicker is after she remarried her name became "Julie London" so last year for her birthday i gave her a couple Julie London albums and she totally dug them.
needless to say my moms an pops are divorced.
Thats okay though, they are the best people in the world to me. They had my in theory classes at age 4 and drilled music into me since I was in the womb. Today they are still my primary inspiration in life. God bless em.
dad is a musician, he listened to cream, jimi hendrix, bb king, muddy waters, and all of that back in the day, also reggae, when i was little i used to go to sleep to ijahman - are we a warrior and stuff.. now it's mainly allman brothers, los lobos and robert cray...
I really should spend more time with him getting up on some of his Ska game becuase he's so so serious with that shit. I guess in his older age he's reverting back to the music of his youth, so it's Ska 24/7 everytime I see him. Best thing about him rocking out to it, is that he goes into these long ass monologues about when he first heard the song or was at a dance where the band or singer was performing. Breaks down the dances that were popular at the time and all that. Pawpaw appreciation fo fo real.
My mom's on some alt.christian.cheeserock shit right now. The only thing she will tolerate outside that is some really familiar jazz like Miles "birth of cool" or Coltrane's "my favorite things". eh.
Both of my parents like(d) The Beatles, not just because it was the hot music of the time, but because they, like many classical musicians appreciate The Beatles music as "more musical" than a lot of the other rock/pop stuff they were exposed to.
My dad loves older jazz like Duke Ellington and Count Basie, but has often surprised me with some heavy knowledge in Jazz areas. He also layed some jazzy stuff himself with various ensembles. His rendition of "Watermelon Man" with a basson quintet remains one of my favourite versions of that tune.
My mom likes to hear weird shit I play for her, and judges things primarily on the principle "are the musicians any good/do they have their minds in the right place?".
They continue to surprise me with how many people who were active in the Norwegian rock-scene they hung out with or knew, Including Terje Rypdal and an X amount of studio musicians. They also went to concerts with some heavy music, like James Brown.
My uncle is the real head when it comes to music in my family though; big on the prog-rock and pscychedelic stuff, and a manic Zappa fan.
Could be a WHOLE lot worse...
- J