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[MIMIC]

My mother was a Whitney Houston and Toni Braxton fanatic. When ever she would take me and my brother with her to do errands and whatnot, there was either a Whitney Houston or a Toni Braxton tape in the cassette player.

Their songs (everything before 1998) are burned into my memory (which is why I get a warm sense of nostalgia every time I hear an oldie of theirs...because after all, they are exceptional vocalists).

*plays Tony Braxton's "Unbreak My Heart"*

Songs of choice:

Toni Braxton: "Breath Again," "Unbreak My Heart"


Whitney Houston: This entire CD:

 

[DarienA]

My father was an Earth, Wind and Fire and Sade FIEND..... he passed it down to me.

 

[Tuvoc]

My parents listened to a lot of Michael Bolton and The Eagles.

Their song if choice....."Hotel California"

 

[Eminem]

Billy fuckin' Joel.

And yes, I now realize he's the man.

Their song if choice....."Hotel California"

not a bad song at all, dude.

 

[way more]

Bob Dylan
Tom Waits
Neil Young
and
Joan Osbourne

 

[Days like these...]

Antthing played on SOUL TRAIN saturday mornings via my mom. Barry Manilow and Disco via my gay uncle who used to live with us! :lol

 

[MIMIC]

:lol I just realized that the title should be "Artsts" not "songs"

Oh well...*edits post*

 

[Chairman85]

Pink Floyd
The Beatles
The Who

not too shabby

 

[MIMIC]

It's weird...I was forced to love songs talking about wanting men. :lol

 

[Dice]

From my mom... The Monkees, The Partridge Family, The Carpenters, Bryan Adams, Bon Jovi, then she got into country when it started to change in the 90's.

On the flipsside due to my neighborhood I also grew up with hip-hop and r&b.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Queen
Steve Miller Band
random popular 50s songs

My dad listened to a lot of AC/DC, but I never got into that.

 

[Manabanana]

I feel sorry for some of you. My dad would put headphones on my mom's stomach when I was in the womb, so before I was born I was listening to Black Sabbath and Bob Dylan :lol I grew up on Parliament, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ozzy, Hendrix, Muddy Waters, various blues artists and some other classic rock.

 

[levious]

My father was an Earth, Wind and Fire and Sade FIEND..... he passed it down to me.

Lucky, my mother loved ABBA... amazingly we still get along.

 

[Hooker]

Classic rock (especially ballads) and Motown



I let my baby brother grow up on Metal He's quite the Deftones fanboy now at the age of 7

 

[Tuvoc]

Billy fuckin' Joel.

And yes, I now realize he's the man.




not a bad song at all, dude.

oh i know, Hotel California is a great song. I acually like listening to Don Henley and The Eagles.

 

[DHGamer]

Whitney Housten, Steve Winwood, Sinatra, Dean Martin, Kenny Rogers

Nice demented mix there...

well except I'm a big Sinatra/Martin fan still.

 

[Brian Fellows]

My parents listend to country music. I however did not.

 

[Vicious]

.

 

[Eminem]

oh i know, Hotel California is a great song. I acually like listening to Don Henley and The Eagles.

Right on, right on.

It's kinda sad that most of the stuff listed in here I find to be GREAT music.

 

[Tuvoc]

My parents listend to country music. I however did not.

I'm sorry...

If i had to listen to country in the car all the time. I'd go fucking crazy.

 

[drohne]

easy listening radio, mainly. i remember picking out some of the obviously good stuff, like marvin gaye, bob dylan (i don't even know why they were playing dylan, but they were), stevie wonder, and simon and garfunkel. and also various random 70s detritus that i'm still fond of, like "summer breeze," "rhinestone cowboy," and a bunch of carpenters stuff. their record collection is haphazard beyond belief. i remember picking out a bunch of good records when i went off to college -- blondie, michael jackson, a bunch of motown stuff -- but then they also own more than one captain and tenille record, and my dad is inexplicably fond of engelbert humperdinck.

 

[Meatpuppet]

Travelling Wilburies Vol. 1 was the tape of choice on the school run to the point that every track is firmly etched in my long term memory.

I still maintain that Tweeter & The Monkeyman is perhaps the best song Dylan ever wrote.

 

[Manabanana]

I still maintain that Tweeter & The Monkeyman is perhaps the best song Dylan ever wrote.

Yes! Man, my dad has video of me rocking out to this song when I was like, 4.

 

[KarishBHR]

My Dad has always had a young taste in music, so I group up with:

-The Beatles *poppy stuff*
-Violent Fems (Blister in the Sun)
-Verve Pipe (Freshman)
-The entire first Counting Crows Album (still my favorite all time band)
-Tracy Chapman (First album)
-The Gin Blossoms
-Green Day (Dookie)


Alot of this was my father and my brothers coming together in a common music love

 

[Iceman]

Neil Diamond
Abba (Respect!!!)
Classical music (Tchaikovsky especially)
"A Whiter Shade of Pale"
"Crimson and Clover"
Jim Morrison/The Doors

 

[frogg609]

Air Supply
Anything by the Drifters (i love them now)
the 4 tops.


almost anything from the 50's

 

[totoro'd]

My mother was a Whitney Houston and Toni Braxton fanatic. When ever she would take me and my brother with her to do errands and whatnot, there was either a Whitney Houston or a Toni Braxton tape in the cassette player.

Their songs (everything before 1998) are burned into my memory (which is why I get a warm sense of nostalgia every time I hear an oldie of theirs...because after all, they are exceptional vocalists).

suddenly, I feel very old

My father loved folk music, so I grew up listening to Peter, Paul and Mary, and the Kingston Trio, among others. I used to hate it, but now I actually like it

 

[Meatpuppet]

Completely forgot,

Buddy Holly & The Crickets

Great pop songs, key step in the progression of modern rock music, awesome awesome awesome.

I'd kill to be able to sing with the hiccup-fill he uses in most songs.

 

[ToxicAdam]

Unfortunately for me .... Barry Manilow.


I know every word to 'Mandy', 'Copacabana', 'I Write the Songs..' and a few others.


I was fucking 4 yrs old mom .. why why?!

 

[demon]

Pretty much everything I heard was through my dad. The majority of it was stuff pumped out on Oldies 104.3 in Chicago. One of the better oldies stations I've heard, too.

For the most part it was The Beatles, Moody Blues, Crosby Stills & Nash, Zeppelin, Floyd, Stones. Basically, oldies.

My dad listened to Frank Sinatra, my mother listened to country music, and my older brother was big into hair metal.

I hate absolutely everything they ever listen to.

Hey c'mon dude, Sinatra was the man.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Glenn Miller and his Orchestra.

 

[Gorey]

The Good
Queen - the record with Another bites the Dust on it.
Tom Petty - specifically, Damn the Torpedoes
Eagles - Hotel California
Led Zep - all

The Horrible
Disco- tons and tons of disco. My mom liked to dance.
Fleetwood Mac
ABBA
Barbara Streisand

 

[Jim Bowie]

The Monkees and Pink Floyd. My mother played contemporary Christian stuff.

I like The Monkees for the sheer novelty of them, but that's about it.

 

[Richiban]

Led Zeppelin
INXS
Iggy Pop
Def Leppard
Duran Duran


Some of my favorite memories would be my mother cranking that stuff up on a Sunday morning and waking up to it.

 

[levious]

Abba (Respect!!!)

Good seats still available!

 

[MaverickX9]

My parents always used to listen to Anita Baker when we would go on trips.

There is NOTHING worse than Anita Baker.

Seriously, I think the lyrics to one of her songs are:

Dooo-doo-booo-deee-daaaaa
Shibby-la-la-dooo
Meety-oh-meety-meeeee
Da-da-da-dooooo-looooo-la

 

[speedpop]

I grew up listening to;

Father: The Beatles, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Queen, The Doors, every other Brit rock band in the 60's/70's. Also a dash of Hendrix.

Mother: The Carpenters, The Beach Boys, The Eagles, Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley.

 

[Tarazet]

Classical, right up until about the point that I started playing it on my own. Alongside the good stuff like Nirvana and Soundgarden, I heard a lot of shit like KLF, New Order, and Thomas Dolby.

 

[Mugen]

Beatles Beatles Beatles.

 

[Ill Saint]

Bob Marley.

 

[Fuzzy]

There were only two kinds of music in my house: The Beatles and Elvis.

 

[Quadrophenic]

The only albums (though, I guess they were cassettes) that I remember listening to while growing up were The Kingston Trio, and the soundtrack to Paint Your Wagon. Both came from my dad.

 

[Jason]

Carol King, Aaron Neville, Elton John and The Eagles are the ones I remember.

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

Isleys, Confunction, James Brown, N2ME, Commadores, Otis Reading, Bootsy, George Clinton, Zapp, Rick James. Mostly Soul and Funk stuff from the 70s