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.
Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
Laga - Sep 18, 2009 11:14:36 am PDT #1601 of 6436
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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.
Amy - Sep 18, 2009 12:11:48 pm PDT #1606 of 6436
Because books.
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.
Wait, are we related? That was ME!
DavidS - Sep 18, 2009 2:16:47 pm PDT #1607 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I inherited my sister's 45s which included "Mony Mony" by Tommy James and A Question of Temperature by The Balloon Farm (awesomecakes song!)
My dad liked big band music but rarely played it. He talked about Harry James a lot. My mom liked choogling around the living room to CCR, but I was basically on my own and found music by reading Creem magazine from an early (14ish?) age.
juliana - Sep 19, 2009 7:27:25 am PDT #1608 of 6436
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Oft-heard music around my parents' house: The Clancy Brothers, ABBA, Creedence Clearwater Revival, BOB MOTHERFUCKING SEGER, Heart, the "Flashdance" soundtrack, and many, many musicals. So many musicals. But, my mom was also an aerobics instructor, so she ended up buying a lot of singles on 45 to develop new routines for, which made me hear a lot of Top 40 rock & pop. (Never mind that she thought that Aerosmith's "Dude Looks Like A Lady" was "Do The Funky Lady", and got frustrated when she couldn't find that in the bins.)
juliana - Sep 19, 2009 7:35:23 am PDT #1609 of 6436
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
And in other news:
I am making a Bad playlist - so far I have:
Cory Branan, "A Bad Man Might Do You Good"
Cobra Starship, "I Make Good Girls Go Bad"
Pink, "Bad Influence"
Joan Jett, "Bad Reputation"
David Allan Coe, "Need A Little Time Off For Bad Behavior"
George Thorogood, "Bad To The Bone"
What else should I put on? I don't want songs like "Bad Moon Rising" - that's more of a passive thing, and I want Instigator/Trickster songs. Thoughts?
Frankenbuddha - Sep 19, 2009 7:40:20 am PDT #1610 of 6436
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
"I Wanna Do Bad Things with You" - can't remember the name of the artist, but it's used as the theme music for True Blood.
"They Did a Bad Bad Thing" - Chris Isaak. Not really trickster/instigator, but about those types.