Red Mosquito

Parents, siblings, spouses or children. Share the good, the bad and the inexplicable here.

My 21 year old brother loves Morrissey solo but can't stand The Smiths.

My brother and dad don't really listen to music. They are totally strange and only interested in working their asses off and then drinking beer and watching tv at the end of the day. I bet neither has bought a record/cd since they were teenagers. My mom likes Jackson Browne, Dylan, ect......but she also has some pretty crappy records in her collection like Loverboy and Bryan Adams. I guess people bought stuff like that in the 80's....

Sister- bad 90s and new country music
Brother-classic rock and bad new country
mom-absolutely nothing
dad-King of Easy listening..mostly solo piano remakes of standards and gospel..even loads of Liberace also a huge fan of Chet Atkins

My Dad's record collection consists of Wayne Newton, Willie Nelson and K-Tel compilation records. My Mum listens exclusively to Neil Diamond.

Dad: The Beatles, Pink Floyd, LZ, Hendrix
Mom: Doesn't really listen to music
Brother: Irish trad and terrible UK pop
Sister 1: Country and terrible US pop
Sister 2: Indie music (she hosts a radio show at UT-Austin and writes for gorillavsbear)
Wife: She kinda likes what I like
Daughter 1: Some bad dance music, but also Tegan & Sara
Son: I dunno, the music in Plants vs. Zombies and Minecraft
Daughter 2: The theme music to Eebee's Adventures
Grandfather: Bluegrass, Gospel, Hank

Dad: Country, oldies
Mom: Country, oldies
Brother 1 (29): National, Morrisey, Ray Lamontagne, Killers
Brother 2 (32): Terrible rock music that gets you pumped up. And I shit you not, WWE music. CM Punk's theme song and shit. It's awful.

theplatypus wrote:My 21 year old brother loves Morrissey solo but can't stand The Smiths.

Dad: Bagpipe music, marching bands (road tripping with my Dad when it's his turn to choose the cd)
Sister: light/classic rock - Supertramp, ELO, John Mayer, Genesis
Son: Blink-182, Angels & Airwaves, soundtrack music (movie scores), Jack Johnson, Sum 41
Brother: orchestral music, religious music
Sister 2: Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Tragically Hip, Elton John
Brother in Law: Elton John, Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven

surfndestroy wrote: Son: soundtrack music (movie scores)

Awesome.

My parents don't listen to much.
My brother listens to god awful late 90s rock.

I can remember my father playing exactly two songs for me as a child:

My Dad likes The Who, Josh White, Lindisfarne and Ray Charles. Other than Paul Simon, classical music stations and (inexplicably) KT Tunstall, I'm not sure what my Mum likes. I have no idea what my older brother likes now; he used to listen to Ben Folds and Jamiroquai, but hey, it was the late 90s.

Kevin Davis wrote:I can remember my father playing exactly two songs for me as a child:

I remember you mentioned these in your book.

My father was almost exclusively opera and classical, with the occasional show tune thrown in.

Dad: Jack White Projects, all good old shit, Stones mostly, stone foxes, natural child, the strange boys, all good rok and fool, George jones, Jerry lee,

Sister: Ty Segall, Nashville punk/rock/garage, growlers, jacuzzi boys, strange boys, Jeff the brotherhood, lots of garage rock, stones, nick drake, wilco, animal collective, talking heads,

Kids: first aid kit, mgmt, jack white, peach Kelli pop, feist, cat power, beastie boys, Edward sharp.

I listen to all that plus a ton more.

I have this memory of being in my dad's old brown GMC pickup truck. The kind of truck that didn't have power steering. And I was pissed off because he wouldn't let me turn on the pop station. And Bob Dylan's Rainy Day Women was on the station he was listening to and I was arguing pretty hard to change the channel and he just kept turning it up louder and louder while singing along louder and louder over my desperate, 6 year old pleas.

Earliest memory is sitting in the car (land rover) listening to Bob's Desire and BOTT. On repeat for what seems everytime. And I apparently sang along to both of those albums.

My family all share a love of B Dylan, Leonard Cohen, The Band/Robbie Robertson solo, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris. In fact, Dylan live in both 98 and 2001 was attended by both my divorced parents. Too lazy to buy tickets and for Bob they tolerated each other.

My father - Pink Floyd, Led Zep, The Who, Lindisfarne, Strawbs, Fairport Convention. He has seen PJ live too.

My mother - Bob Seger, Meatloaf, Elton John.

My Bro used to be into the same 90s music as I plus U2, Simple Minds, GnR, Big Country, Charlie Sexton. Now I have no idea but I'd guess still the same.

As a kid, I was always awoken to my dad's music on the weekends....
spitty crackly records or 8-tracks with a 1/2 plastic knife wrapped in electric tape jammed in the side....
those red 8-tracks that you could record on

hank Williams, freddy fender, dean martin, johnny cash,

I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden
lemon tree, very pretty
mule train

500 miles.. away from home, away from home, cold and tired and all alone...

my best memory is when my dad announced one night that the family was packing up and going to visit relatives in Jersey (in the middle of that very night)--
I remember laying in the rear window area (where kids laid when they were small in the 70s), looking up at the moon and "moon river" playing. There is no memory that quite compares.

Very good thread, btw

LetMeSleep wrote: My Bro used to be into the same 90s music as I ........ Now I have no idea but I'd guess still the same.

knee tunes wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote: My Bro used to be into the same 90s music as I ........ Now I have no idea but I'd guess still the same.

is that sad because I don't know anymore or because I think he's still listening to the same stuff?