Urban Hat€monger ?

None

I grew up listening to my Mum & Dad's huge singles collections as they only owned a handful of albums between them.
Actually I'm glad I did too I had a much more varied selection to choose from as they pretty much had every genre of music that got into the charts from the late 50s to the late 70s.

I'm so glad I wasn't indoctrinated on just rock music, I think it's made me appreciate so much more stuff.

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Pet_Sounds

Expanding past albums, my mom always has the classical station on in the car. She'd always get me to guess what instrument was playing when I was younger. Thanks to her, I could differentiate between most of the major composers when I was 12.

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Blarobbarg

My parents raised me on a steady diet of Carlos Santana, ZZ Top, and a whoooooole lot of old Motown stuff. In addition, my mom listened to a lot of trashy CCM garbage (which ironically, she now hates), and my dad listened to a lot of trashy post-grunge garbage (he still likes Nickelback, but now he listens to the country station a lot). I can look back on my early musical formation and recognize that it sparked the still-running love of Latin percussion, catchy song structure, and soul. Thankfully, I didn't inherit my parent's less stellar musical choices.

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Key

Pretty sure my dad played ACDC's Back In Black more times than I can remember when I was growing up. Along with a whole bunch of Triumph and Megadeth.

Goofle

There honestly aren't any for me. They liked certain bands, but we generally listened to the radio, which in turn formed my taste as opposed to specific albums. I think by the time I started listening to what they listened to, I already liked those bands.

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Ninetales

ya my family isn't really that musical. cant say I took much from my parents in terms of music, save having a soft spot for The Wall because I saw Roger Waters perform it live with my old man. Besides that I do my own thang.

Cuthbert

Paranoid?

My dad is a massive Bowie fan and I got into him through that but no particular album.

He also introduced me to The Specials debut album and Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak.

Black Francis

I don't come from a very musical family and i didn't grew up with my father around so neither of my parents influenced me musically.

My mother only listened to cheesy power ballads they played on the radio but she never bought any albums
My aunt (Bless her soul) was one of the few around me who introduced me to Mecano and Yuri albums which were latin pop rock artist but to my recollection i can't pinpoint a single album from them either.

My big sister collected R&B cassettes from Mariah, CeCe peniston, Mary j blige and her idol, Janet Jackson.

The only album i can recall that was constantly playing in my house is Janet's 5th album 'Janet'


Your dad sounds awesome

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Machine

I've said it on another thread before but my dad is pretty much the reason I listen to music the way I do now weather it be The Flaming Lips' Yoshimi, Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Autechtre ' Confield, Can's Tago Mago, or Stereolab's Emperor Tomato Ketchup.

I listen to lots of other things now recently discovering, Jazz Rap, Folk Punk, Noise,.Drone, Power Electronics but that was my staring point.

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Chrysalis

None for me. My parents didn't listen to music that often and they were always confused by the fact that I preferred albums since, based on their past purchases (which were just a lot of pop country albums), they thought that all albums contained a lot of filler and thus weren't worth listening to.

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