Music You Grew Up With?

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Music you grew up with . . .

Talking heads, REM and then later Sheryl Crow, Verve Pipe, Alanis Morissette, Hootie and the Blowfish, Smash Mouth, Wallflowers, Paula Cole, U2, Marcy Playground . . . the list goes on.

You?

Lots of old School Punk and Hardcore.

ya. basicly what you wrote right their.

Including old school Dr. Dre, Nirvana, beasty boys, offspring, red hot chilli peppers, presidents of the united states, smashing pumpkins, TLC, and the list goes on.

In high school, I listened to alot of Todd Rundgren and Utopia, Jackson Brown, Pat Benatar, Journey, and Foreigner....I did not listen to my favorite music, Rush, till I was in my mid-20's.....

I didn't grow up with any music, sure my parents had CDs but they were never played and it was boring pop music anyway.

My dad was a fundie Baptist, so growing up I could only listen to classical, gospel, or some tame childrens stuff.

After the divorce(I was around 12) I lived with mom and didn't have to live by dad's rules anymore, so I started listening to country and oldies rock stations. After a few years I stopped liking country and started listening to alternative rock(Got my own stereo), still listened to classical, and started to get into some heavier stuff. But after a few years I didn't like the heavier stuff much. Got into folk, blues, hip hop, etc. etc. Right now I'm preferring folk and jazz, but pretty much like everything(depending on artist really).

As teenager (in the mid-to-late 80's) I listened to REM, U2, Simple Minds, Peter Gabriel, Depeche Mode, the The, Men at Work, INXS, Violent Femmes, Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails.
Still listen to some of those artists now (have lotsa' old cassette tapes-mostly haven't moved forward to cd's & beyond).
For what I listened to at younger age, see thread:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postxf59912-0-15.html
Bee-Gees & that late-70's & early-to-mid 80's stuff...
I like stuff that sounds good to me, even though it might seem embarrassing to admit these.
Such as:
"Scoundrel Days" album by A-ha (no, their big hit "Take on Me" isn't even on that one). Really liked their follow-up/lesser hit, "The Sun Always Shines on tv" (though that's not on this one, either).
Wang Chung, various 80's songs: "I Can Hardly Wait", "To Live and Die in L.A." & "Let's Go".
The Dream Academy: "Edge of Forever" (used in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off") & "Love Parade".
Some songs from Miami Vice soundtracks-esp. Jan Hammer's work (he did music for that groovy Clive Owen 1990's series "Chancer").
George Michael (both "Faith" & "Listen w/o Prejudice vol.1" albums).
Definately a "one-hit-wonder": Living in a Box's "Living in a Box"-catchy tune, nonetheless.
I could go on...

My parents were pretty controlling when it came to music. I didn't get to choose any of my own music until I was about 12. Before that age, I had to listen to what my parents listened to: classical, jazz, some traditional Scottish music, one Beach Boys tape, and one 1950s rock tape. The last three were my favorites; I've always preferred songs to instrumental music.

In middle school, I liked Led Zeppelin and The Doors, but I didn't have much to choose from. In high school, I got around my parents strict rules and my abhorrence of radio music by listening to stuff like Vic Chesnutt, Townes Van Zandt, and Cowboy Junkies.

When I moved away from home and got to listen to whatever I wanted to, I discovered punk and "proto-punk". Ever since then, I've been obsessed with the 70's.

In my mid-twenties, I started listening to metal and hardcore. The older I got, the faster I wanted my music to be. Kind of the opposite of the way it is for most people.

I grew up with musical influence from two angles:

1. The Beatles, who my dad loved and so I also loved and still do.

2. Holidays. When we went on holiday, we had a stockpile of a handful of cassette tapes that we would play during the journey there and back. They were as follows:
Queen - Made In Heaven
Blur - Parklife
Supergrass - I Should Coco
Seal - Seal (the first one)
Eurythmics - Greatest Hits
Steve Miller - Greatest Hits

Parklife remains one of my favourite albums ever, and both Blur and Queen are among my favourite bands. Parklife is such a sun-soaked album to me.

From that point on, the music that influenced me was almost entirely conjured up myself, and I have a now insatiable appetite for music.

When I lived with my mother and father, the only CDs that were ever being played were onces by AC/DC. My father loved to listen to them.