Your parents & siblings taste in music

[DrummerDeanna]

I still wonder to this day what the hell my mom did throughout the 70s. She has pretty much no knowledge of any of the popular music of the era. She STILL doesn't quite know who Stevie Nicks is...I'll be happy if I can get her to stop pronouncing it "steh-vee" Grrr....and no, she has no accent of any kind

She liked the Beatles - but the early stuff, other than that Elvis, Paul and Paula, Paul Anka...some country...she had some Johnny Cash albums (which I stole) but I think they were my ex-dads.

I got a lot of my music taste from my sister and from tv

Sister:
The Beatles, esp. Paul McCartney, Wham!, Fleetwood Mac, Monkees...some 80s stuff....

I'm right there with her on the Beatles and FM - and we do like a ton of the same artists - but I've discovered much more on my own: Sheryl Crow, The COunting Crows, The Decemberists....lots and lots...

[PsychCat]

As a youngin' growing up.... I remember the one album that stood out in my parents record collection was McCartney's first solo album.

Can't recall specifics but in general:
Dad: Allman Bros., blues
Mom: Chicago, Neil Diamond, Bette Midler
Older Bro: KISS, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, Queen, The Who, basically everything that is now "classic rock"
Younger Bro: Kinks, ELO, KISS, McCartney & Wings

I embraced Fleetwood Mac on my own.... got the rest of my family interested. They are about the one band that has stayed constant for me.
I also love the McCartney & Wings era of his work + the Beatles.

[ryan8472]

Well my parents were kind of huge stoners in their younger days.
- GRATEFUL DEAD (I was forcefed this as a kid. Still am. )
- Rush
- Pink Floyd
- Beatles
- Zeppelin
- Deep Purple
- Tom Petty
- The Who
- Talking Heads (although I discovered them on my own)
- Fleetwood Mac
- Tom Waits
- Bruce Cockburn
- It's A Beautiful Day
- Genesis
- Bon Jovi (my mom was a closet fan. It wasn't cool to be a Dead Head who loved Bon Jovi. )
- Max Creek (local-ish band that my mom's friends are in, and she worked for in the 80's. They're big around here I guess, but never hit it big. They didn't want to.)

My sister is 15 right now and on the whole listens to ****ty music.
- Taking Back Sunday
- All American Rejects
- Lady Sovereign

She's about as deep as a sandbox.

[goldustsongbird]

Originally Posted by ryan8472

My sister is 15 right now and on the whole listens to ****ty music.
- Taking Back Sunday
- All American Rejects
- Lady Sovereign

My sympathies. Lady Sovereign is such a joke. I saw her video for whatever song she's got out now, and I was like... This... is music?

[CreepingDeath]

Mom:

Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks -they have been in my life for as long as I can remember.
Carole King
Carly Simon
James Taylor
Cat Stevens
No Doubt
Pink
Aerosmith
Black Sabbath/ Ozzy Osbourne
Pink Floyd
The Beatles
Jethro Tull
Deep Purple
Led Zeppelin
Metallica

Two younger brothers:

Rammstein
Metallica
Pantera
Megadeth
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath/ Ozzy Osbourne
AC/DC
Alice In Chains
Black Label Society
Guns n' Roses
Korn
Godsmack
Disturbed
Nirvana
NIN
AFI

My father died when I was six, so I'm not really sure what his favourites were. I think he liked 70's rock for the most part, though. Fleetwood Mac, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, The Doobie Brothers, Aerosmith, etc.

[Villavic]

Daddy loved mambo. Mom liked it too but she prefers more the Sinatra style, Doris Day, etc..

Both of them love boleros too.

[irishgrl]

my mom was into Janis Joplin, Iron Butterfly and Hair among others.
My brother listened to Pink Floyd, Steppenwolf, all the surfer and hot rod bands (my brother was born in '50, my mom in '32)
my step-dad listened to the country stuff, and the cajun stuff.......I hated it then. I only barely tolerate it now....

I grew up in the 60's and 70's so I got the best of all musical worlds!

[macmar71]

Mom:
The Beatles
Motown
Dusty Springfield
Sly & The Family Stone
Carole King
Jim Croce
Barry Manilow
Barbara Streisand
Bette Midler
James Taylor
Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
The Eagles
Fleetwood Mac
Michael Bolton
Celine Dion
Anita Baker
Lots of old school R & B
Some Current R & B as well

Brother:
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Fleetwood Mac
Korn
Deftones
Lil Kim
Mary J. Blige
Monica
Various Dance, Remixes and Techno Stuff

Sister:
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Fleetwood Mac
Otep
Him
Silverchair
Incubus
Silvertide
Hinder
Shinedown

[markolas]

Neither one of my parents was a big music fan when I was growing up, but my dad kind of got into it later. I remember some old albums laying around the house that I think were my mom's:

Donna Fargo
The Oak Ridge Boys
Rusty Wier
David Allan Coe
Willie Nelson

I think you get the picture.

My mom's mom had a **** load of albums and 8-track tapes, but I somehow doubt she ever listened to one of them:

Wanda Jackson
Kitty Wells
Elvis Presley
Willie Nelson

Basically, stuff she heard in the honky tonks she worked in on the Bossier Strip in the 1960s.

My dad likes "surf" music from the '60s (Beach Boys, Dick Dale & the Deltones, etc); also, Linda Ronstadt, Brenda Lee, Roy Orbison, and various girl groups.

[Miss Vicky]

My dad has never been a big music fan, so there was nothing to mention there.

As for my mom, it was pretty much all GNR, Led Zep, Aerosmith, and hair bands like Poison when I was little. As I got older she switched to R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and P.J. Harvey. Then for awhile she listened to nothing but classical. Lately she's been on a Bruce Springsteen kick. Go figure.

My older brother (3 years my senior) listened to a lot of Metallica, Def Leopard, and classic rock bands like Led Zep, Skynyrd, and the Doors. These days he listens to a lot of rap, country, and alternative (do they even still call it that? I'm so out of touch.).