Music You Grew Up Listening To?

Zulu

08-17-2008, 06:07 PM

My mother introduced me to some truly terrific music as a kid. I grew up listening to the likes of the Platters, Shirley Bassey, the Shirelles, Della Reese, Nina Simone, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Dionne Warwick and the Commodores. Wow, what a fantastic legacy.

What kind of music did your parents expose you to as a kid?

fastidious percolator

08-17-2008, 11:08 PM

The Doors, Cream, David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Simple Minds, Eurythmics, Roxy Music, The Kinks, The Beatles, Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Genesis, Santana, The Eagles

To name a few. 😀

Neg

08-17-2008, 11:11 PM

Mainly country, so nothing lasting. There’s still some stuff that I must say I have respect for. The Statler Brothers and Restless Heart come to mind.

Zulu

08-18-2008, 12:19 AM

I really, really want to get into country, and I wish that my parents had introduced me to it as a kid, so I would be a little knowledgeable about it today. But, I was mainly introduced to "black music", which I, of course, appreciate.

I have a couple of Dolly Parton CDs, and I love a lot of her songs. Especially the ones about her childhood and hometown in the South. O:

Ngrplz

08-18-2008, 01:35 AM

For me it started off with pop (Alanis Morissette, Fiona Apple, ahh the joys of 1996) and then I got into heavier stuff when I was a teenager (Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson etc)

Now I listen to mostly Tori Amos and Nine Inch Nails.

poptart fantastico

08-18-2008, 03:02 PM

Mostly like, stuff in the 80’s. I can’t remember the 70’s very well though. I was born in ’76. lol Probably cheesy Sesame Street music or something. I listen to like, melodic death metal now, though. Don’t get me wrong, I still love stuff from the 80’s and 90’s, and a little from the 70’s and 60’s. Hell, I love it all.

Locke_FF36

08-18-2008, 04:58 PM

They started me on Zeppelin, the Doors, Jimi Hendrix. Went on my own from there with every other genre, except for rap and techno.

execrable gumwrapper

08-18-2008, 05:51 PM

Parents exposed me to country, but I only have a selective taste for it. I.E. only 80’s and 90’s country. Anything after, is utter shit.

My sister introduced me to Metallica. \m/

discodan

08-18-2008, 05:56 PM

My folks were always listening to "Light Rock"… Mostly ballads of rock groups, and or the softer early 80’s pop stuff that i can remember.

Shoden

08-19-2008, 03:37 AM