Albums Your Parents Instilled In You
 

Are there any albums that your parents were always playing that you still listen to today?
The only one that immediately comes to mind for me is Hair of the Dog.

I got sick of Whitesnake and Guns & Roses very early into my childhood, but Nazareth still slays.

My dad had Album of the Year (CD) and King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime (cassette) by FNM, and he played those two all the time. They're my all time favorite band now. There's a lot more generic ones (Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, etc), but some others that he jammed a ton were Chokebore and Cop Shoot Cop. He had all their albums respectively on CD, played them all the time, and once again two of my all time favorite bands. Integrity was played a lot too.

My mom never listened to music, despite being an excellent singer and piano player. Go figure.

My dad indoctrinated me with Pixies and Radiohead. Eternally grateful.

Idk album names but 4 come to mind:

Metallica (the black album)
Rush - whatever one had Tom Sawyer
Ozzy - whatever one had Ironman
Squeeze - whatever one had Cool for Cats

None. The only album that mattered from either of my parents when I was young was this one.

Made my groin feel kinda sparkly for some reason.

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A few albums came to mind immediately, but this is the only one that I had on vinyl, cassette, and CD - it was a favorite of my dad's.

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my mother doesn't listen to music. my father listens to italian singer-songwriters and (rarely) Rock of the 60's, 70's and 80's. But we never shared music.
My brother listens to Alternative Rock and I made my first steps in the music world thanks to him. Btw, nowadays, the only album I discovered thanks to my family that I still listen to, is "Three Imaginary Boys" by The Cure

LiL, I can see why.

I guess the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds is mine. My dad plays it quite often. It's still an all-time favourite.

"Candy-O" isn't the greatest classic rock album by any means, but in its entirety it's a nice listen. (I really love "Panorama" - in my opinion that was the most interesting Cars album.)

The first time I heard "Pet Sounds" was on 8-track cartridge in my gran's basement. I didn't get to listen to the entire thing because it kept switching channels and it frightened me, but years later I've come to appreciate it as a beautiful and necessary album for the overall 1960s experience.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'

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Your dad sounds awesome :thumb:

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.

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.

My dad listens to a lot of bad junk but he's also gotten me into Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies, Floyd, Beatles, etc. the classics mainly. My mom doesn't listen to much music.

The two albums that I remember listening to as a kid are Appetite for Destruction and Nevermind. I got sick of GnR but just finished listening to Nevermind, so I'd say that's an album that stuck with me.

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About the only thing I can thank a parent for. Thanks mum :)

My dad let me borrow this CD one day, and it's basically my number three album of all time now, something like that.

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yeah but FUCK that album cover ;_;

As awesome as that is, I'm a little bit in shock than anyone's dad is into that album. What other music did he listen to?

Well he got me into Chokebore and Cop Shoot Cop like I said before, basically my 2 favorite noise rock bands. His main **** is country (the classics like Waylon and newer alternative stuff like the Pine Box Boys and Those Poor Bastards) and metal (mostly heavy and thrash, he's really into King Diamond).

But he also knows his fair share of old school metalcore and more noise rock, The Jesus Lizard, Integrity, Today Is The Day, Cows, Guzzard, Bloodlet, Neurosis, I love them all thanks to him.

Your dad sounds ****ing amazing.

My mom had the punk, she has a lot Rudimentary Peni and Subhumans records, 2 more of my favorites. She was also all about EBM and industrial stuff.

Damn Mondo, your parents sound badass. Now I'd like to know how they managed to find each other.

mondo confirmed to be bob's son

^ha

i was thinking....i wonder if i know your parents....did they grow up in this area?

My dad grew up in Redding and my mom in Seaside, OR. We moved to Reno in like 2003.

Redding?! Fuck i thought Reno was bad

Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson is a big one for me. My dad used to listen to that all the time when I was little.