My parents had some Hawaiain music, Harry Hibbs and Dick Nolan. (That last two being Newfoundland performers.) The real musical influence on my childhood were my older siblings. Which is why I remember the day Pink Floyd's The Wall came out know most of the words to the songs on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, and have a deep abiding hatred of the Beach Boys and Fleetwood Mac.
She ain't movin'. Serenity's not movin'.
Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Sue - Sep 18, 2009 2:53:28 am PDT #1596 of 6436
hip deep in pie
tommyrot - Sep 18, 2009 5:19:56 am PDT #1597 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The real musical influence on my childhood were my older siblings.
Me two. Well, my one older brother. He's how I got into Pink Floyd (I remember when The Wall came out too), The Cars, The Police, Devo... well, those are the main ones....
smonster - Sep 18, 2009 5:33:11 am PDT #1598 of 6436
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
In our household it was Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles, and James Taylor (who I adored at 3 and called James Tail). A little bit of Kingston Trio and the Mamas and Papas, too. I think they had at least one PP&M cd, but I don't remember clearly.
tommyrot - Sep 18, 2009 5:52:18 am PDT #1599 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Huh. My iPod just shuffled me "This Must Be the Place (Naive Meoldoy)" by the Talking Heads. This was the favorite song of my best fried - his birthday would have been today.
Jon B. - Sep 18, 2009 7:07:44 am PDT #1600 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
a cassette of Simon and Garfunkle's Concert in Central Park.
I was at that concert! That's me clapping at the end of the songs.
Laga - Sep 18, 2009 11:14:36 am PDT #1601 of 6436
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
At home Dad played mostly Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz. In the car Mom played mostly Abba, John Denver and Barry Manilow. Dad played The Beach Boys. My siblings introduced me to everything else and eventually we were able to convince my parents that Creedence and Skynyrd were also good car tunes.
Glamcookie - Sep 18, 2009 11:55:49 am PDT #1602 of 6436
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I was raised on Motown and Southern rock.
Fred Pete - Sep 18, 2009 12:01:50 pm PDT #1603 of 6436
Ann, that's a ferret.
My parents listened mostly to country, though my mother would listen to the local AM soft rock radio station quite a bit. But Hank Williams and Johnny Cash were the regular diet around our house.
lisah - Sep 18, 2009 12:08:28 pm PDT #1604 of 6436
Punishingly Intricate
Old Timey, American and Irish folk music. And classical. Loads of Willie Nelson, the Outlaws, Linda Rondstadt, too. That's what my folks listened to when we were growing up. I have their whole record collection and it's kind of awesome.
Tom Scola - Sep 18, 2009 12:08:53 pm PDT #1605 of 6436
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
My two sisters in the room next to mine would play Billy Joel's The Stranger, Queen's News of the World, and Supertramp's Breakfast in America over and over and over again. I don't think they had any other albums.
No wait, they had Led Zeppelin IV, but the only track they would play was "Stairway to Heaven". Repeatedly.