My mom...all muscials "Oklahoma", "South Pacific", "The King and I", etc...I did memorize that "riff" in "The Music Man". You know...it goes...

He's a Music Man
He's a what?
He's a what?

He's a Music Man
And he sells clarinets
to the kids in the town...yadda, yadda, yadda

I used to do the whole thing all the way from L.A to San Frnacisco. LOL Drove her nuts!

I have to admit to being a Tony Bennet fan, though. Always liked him. She also introduced me to Ella Fitzgerald and Lionel Hampton. My high school graduation present was sitting up front at their concert. I'll never forget it.

My preferences have percolated to my kids. AC/DC, Van Halen (W/David Lee Roth), Queen, Seal, Gordon Lightfoot, James Taylor, Carole King, etc., Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and other classical pieces. Although my daughter added the Grateful Dead to her listening repetoire (sp?)

uh...his hips!? there so....roll-ey

my mom liked the oakridge boys and hated my dead head phase... which, 17 years later, i now completely understand i also got chewed out for leaving a dr. hook tape in her car which led to my little brother hearing 'get my rocks off..." :grin:

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some fairly sordid tales, rambles, and anecdotes
Hypothetically Speaking * Something More * Cammy Interrupted * An Experimental Vacation * Masked * so..damn..hot * Thank You * My toy, his idea * no.19 Maple Lane * I Have A Surprise For You * Yesterday * In a Quiet Kitchen * help me decide * untitled prose * more untitled prose

My parents always listened to 50's sock hop music which was very easy to enjoy.

I tormented them with Bad Company, AC/DC, Quiet Riot and Twisted Sister. Now I listen to everything from Disturbed to Sinatra. And it keeps my kids guessing, that's for sure. "So what's it today, Dad...Etta James or Rob Zombie?" :grin:

As for Mrs. WI...she's discovered just how good music in the 80's was. She's recently purchased Bananarama and ABBA, and just yesterday the crowning jewel of her new collection.........The Thompson Twins.

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I always thought my Mom raised me right, listening to the Stones, CCR, Bob Dylan, the Beatles White Album (we were surprised to learn it wasn't their first as we grew older), the Greatful Dead, all that stuff. I still love it. But when I was in my late teens, she remembered she's half Scottish and went mad for bagpipes. I can't STAND bagpipes. To me, they sound like someone's molesting a flock of ducks.

As far as MY music...I really don't know. She tended to ignore anything she didn't like, figured we'd just play it louder if she let us know it got to her. I kind of rejected 80s pop in favour of her music, so I wasn't bringing anything home she didn't already know. She liked a lot of the things I loved in my late teens/college (went through an Indigo Girls/Cranberries/Angsty female rock phase). I'm pretty sure that if she got over the bagpipe fetish, that'd still be true .

I do know that she did put her foot down at some of my older brother's more mysogenistic rap (back in the EZ-E days)...and she and I both agree that there isn't a lot of music in Ministry (another brother's obsession).

Dang...looking back on it that way....I was a really boring child .

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my mother was scratch that is also a musicianmade her living at it she started at the age of 4 humming which my gran finally noticed and got her off to piano lessons she was studying classical opera in college in the 60's when she tuned in turned on, (or something like that) hitched to nyc and worked in the village when alot of the famous musicians were just nobodys like her we came to calif with peter tork(the monkees) and hoyt axton.
so i was def exposed to alot of music growing up both other musicians as well as her own material (which we have just recently rereleased) but i believe that the one that got to her the most was "ice cream man" by van halen as for hers i recall anything she ever played as being unbearable but then i am highly biased was then am now she is def one of my idols an i aspire to be like her as much as is possible if anyone is interested our web addy is on my profile page and there is a link from there to a site that has taken the time to put sm sound bytes to sample. as for my kid well so far we pretty much agree on the music although i am still most fond of being able to actually HEAR the lyrics. (another thing from momma) these days i'm just as likely to listen to Kid Rock as i am any of my old faves i sing a bit but no where near like the angel voice of my ma. god blessed her without a doubt.


** you can tell when you are getting old when that's what you lead off with b4 a story!*

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Thanx for the welcum Lixy Chick I haven't been here long but feel i've been forever.Great people here!!!

My parents made me enjoy Boney M, Neil Diamond, ABBA and other cheesey tunes from the 70s. I have stayed away from that stuff now.

I like all music but prefer not to listen to Britney and Mariah too often.

I was chatting with a friend who was blasting opera, another friend blasting jazz, Eminem is on permanent repeat for me lately & Saturday night I went to a bar to listen to some rockabilly. Yesterday I enjoyed some music from Afghanistan at the local pizza place waiting for my veggie samosas.

I really like it all. George Jones was sung by me on the way to a friend's the other night.

I didn't drive my parents too nuts with my music, I don't think (but I believe that's why my father built a room in the basement for me). They thought I was going to be a musician so they encouraged me.

I introduced Dad to John Prine, Leonard Cohen & other folkies.

Oh wait! My mother's love of Andrew Lloyd Webber confounds me. I remember buying her one of his CDs for Christmas with gritted teeth.