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From today's Guardian.
The music we grow up with shapes our tastes in later life, according to a study by Cornell University.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/s ... sic-tastes

What did your parents listen to and how (if at all) did it shape your listening habits?

My mum liked light operetta, light classical and musicals of the Rogers & Hart / Rogers and Hammerstein ilk. My dad liked brass bands and traditional British music hall acts.
Can't really see their influence on my own tastes.

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Curmudgeonly Rock 'n' Roll time traveller from ye olden days

2nd verse same as the 1st...

Me neither. Mum - classical, dad - Neil Diamond and that was it.

I suspect Kev's in a privileged position with regards his.

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Mod Supreme, Demon Headmaster

Yes, somewhat.

My Mum was a huge music fan for that teens and early 20s period, then, like many people, somehow lost interest. She would probably count Neil Young as her fave. She saw him in the early 70s a couple of times, and The Beach Boys too. She was also a big fan of Dark Side Of The Moon and T Rex. Her tastes, like many people's plummeted as she got older.

My Dad has always been a music obsessive like me. He was a DJ in the '70s and '80s so we got loads of free singles. His current favourite bands mirror some of mine (Sad Day For Puppets, Sambassadeur, The Raveonettes, Dum Dum Girls) but he also likes Muse, Foo Fighters and Pendulum somehow.

As for his record collection pre my birth - quite varied. Big fan of Creedence, The Who and Heart (Dreamboat Annie era, not the horrible power ballads that followed, that was like a different band), The Beatles, Small Faces, Stevie Wonder, Rolling Stones and Chris Farlow. But really his tastes were very diverse - he was the 4th of 5 children and was surrounded by just about everything the 60s and early 70s had to offer. Loves a bit of Motown and Northern Soul too. Too many to mention really! This is why he now presents 2 radio shows a week. One is '50s to '70s and includes plenty of rarities, the other is new releases.

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Definitely isn't inbred...has the GCSEs to prove it!

REVOLUTION PURITY LOVE SUICIDE ACCURACY

http://www.thesoundofconfusion.com

As for shaping tastes - well the radio was always on. radio 1 mainly. Listening to the top 40 over Sunday dinner was a ritual. I remember Come On Eileen being in the charts. I'd have been 2!

Also, on Sunday afternoons when my Dad would get the boxes of singles out and I'd get to pick through.

Favourite singles included Denis by Blondie, Geno by Dexys (my fave son then), Micky by Toni Basil, Black is Black by Los Lobos, various Beatles 7"s... and of course the less cool stuff like Status Quo, Japanese Boy, Toyah and various new romantic type stuff...

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Definitely isn't inbred...has the GCSEs to prove it!

REVOLUTION PURITY LOVE SUICIDE ACCURACY

http://www.thesoundofconfusion.com

Don't remember my dad actually listening that often, apart from Nat King COle and the odd outing of Mario Lanza, the student prince. But he had a few Burl Ives, Tom Lehrer and Louis Armstrong we used to put on.

My mum would mainly listen to the two Barbaras - Streisand and Dixon, Elkie Brooks, David Essex, Elaine Paige. That sort of thing. But also thankfully we got a lot of Simon and Garfunkel and Paul Simon too. If my mum has one stand out pieceof music though it's doing the washing up to We Built This City On Rock n Roll. Starship. Nice.

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So are we all agreed that Cornell University's research is a load of bollocks?

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Curmudgeonly Rock 'n' Roll time traveller from ye olden days

2nd verse same as the 1st...

mum: The Rolling Stones
dad: old school country/elvis/jim reeves

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Has something against Spotify...

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Definitely isn't inbred...has the GCSEs to prove it!

REVOLUTION PURITY LOVE SUICIDE ACCURACY

http://www.thesoundofconfusion.com

Dad - Drifters/Jim Reeves/Irish folk music/Irish war propoganda songs
Mum - Elvis/Elvis Elvis...much later Daniel O'fucking Donnell.

I adore Elvis but I think I would have anyway. I was influenced more by my five older brothers - watching them flirt with 70's disco/glam rock/mod music/reggae - they were so eclectic and I am definitely all over the place when it comes to genres. I like what I like and I don't care what it is. Folk/rap/cyber jazz, you name it, i'll have it. Funnily enough my son, Chipper Chaz, has inherited this from me.

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Jarvis Cocker or David Bowie or AVB or Johnny Borrell, she isn't picky

Cavey Cocker, Cup Cake Queen, Saint Thomas.

Dad: Kinks, Small Faces, Bowie, Dusty Springfield and just about every 1960s US soul act, but especially Otis Redding.

Mum: Mainly Stevie Wonder, Marvyn Gaye & erm, Simply Red.

It wasn't until I started listening to my sister's and uncle's record collections that I discovered anything after 1975 (they were both big fans of The Specials, Madness, Smiths and The Clash).

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Putting the pip in pop since the late 70s

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Curmudgeonly Rock 'n' Roll time traveller from ye olden days

2nd verse same as the 1st...

Both of 'em listened to largely the same stuff. Mainly some kind of bricolage of:

Leonard Cohen
Simon and Garfunkel/Paul Simon
Don McLean
John Denver
Nanci Griffith
Elvis Presley
Billy Joel
Neil Diamond
Eagles
America
Warren Zevon
Bruce Springsteen
Harry Chapin
Tracy Chapman

A pretty respectable list in retrospect. Almost exclusively singer-songwriters strangely! Leonard Cohen was the key staple. Many car journeys soundtracked going to Milton Keynes shopping centre with Songs of Love and Hate coming out of the stereo. Not sure that's a combination a child under 10 should be exposed to.

This was before my Dad started buying and selling jukeboxes mind you. After that it was a nice stream of 45s from the 60s/70s.

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Looks like Elijah Wood. Supports Liverpool. Likes Coldplay.

Mum: Beatles, Hollies, Neil Diamond, Abba, Simon And Garfunkel, Boney M.
Dad: Lonnie Donegan, Garth Brooks, Dr Hook, Military guards tunes, Houghton Weavers.

With the exception of the first two on Mum’s list I can’t say I hold much affection for any of that lot.

Like Cavey, I think my three older siblings were more of an influence, not only in helping me know what I do like but also what I don’t. In the case of my two sisters I disliked almost everything they listened too (Nichola’s Meatloaf summer is horribly scarred into my brain). My brother had his Adam and The Ants phase; his Queen phase; his Michael Jackson and Prince phase; Terrence Trent D’Arby phase; but it was when he moved on to The Stone Roses, James, Acid House and a little Hip-Hop that he sparked my interest and fired my love of music. He moved out though shortly after when I was 10, so from that point on it was up to me to find my own path and ward off Nichola’s evil New Kids On The Block empire.

For good or bad though music was always on in the house, be it Radio 1, Top Of The Pops, The Chart Show or latterly MTV, and that more than anything influenced me, as it allowed me to shape my own tastes - or lack of them!

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