Do you remember when?

[Mikielikesit]

When I was a kid my Moms turned me on to all different kinds of music and also let me experiment with my own tastes. What I would like to know is how you developed your musical tastes and what where some of your first influences.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA4gAYix6S0

One of the first DARK songs I heard as a kids

[Mikielikesit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiShfBmb-oA

Another door to the darkside....hehehehehe

[Troy Spiral (13)]

In my house my parents listened to the previous generations music (for the most part) with some of "their" music mixed in. The previous generation being Frank Sinatra / Dean Martin etc. And "their" music being Elvis / Ricky Nelson / The Beach Boys, all of which I like now, but at the time as a pre and early teen couldn't stand.

I would have gotten whipped and in the doghouse for like a year if i listened to anything remotely like Ozzy / Black Sabbath. Didn't grow up in an "open minded" household. Even The Beatles were suspect (drug taking hippie pagans!)

Musical experimentation consisted of listening to different song on the same 8 tracks that my mom/dad approved of hah.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6QwtvNMhvo

Great song. Written by Rodger Miller (also a good musician) but I prefer this version. Re-done by a million modern artists just like all classics. Especially in the techno and hiphop genres.

I'm a fan of Frankie / Dean & gang despite hating it growing up. These were the original cool cats.

Like most all beach boy's songs on the "fluffy" side but they really did know how to write a melody. My dad was HUGE on these guys, he never actually said it, but I assume this was his favorite "band" although he wouldn't have used terms like that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCeD_6Y3GQc&feature=related

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Favorite of my mother that I must have heard 1000 times.

( I wonder how many people actually listen to these things we post)

[Slogo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grmeznspMIc

My dad is a HUGE Frank Zappa fan

Edited June 29, 2011 by Slogo

[Shaun]

As the lady said in blues brothers, in my house we listened to both kinds "Country" and "Western". My mom has been a coutry fan since before I was born. I grew up in the ghetto though so being exposed to Rap and Hip Hop was inevitable. My first exposure to rock was actually G'N'R's Appetite and Metallica's Black Album . I ordered them based on their covers from one of those Columbia house 12 for a penny offers when I was 13 and ended up wearing them both out. Now I listen to a little bit of everything. Oh also when I was really little so I found the old Napoleon XIV Their coming to take me away single in my moms records collection. The original vinyl one with the backward version as the B Side . I think I wore both sides out, probably had my poor mother wanting to smash the record player .

Couple songs I was especially fond of as a kid .

Highwayman by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ03ngpdU80

Sweet Child of Mine by G'N'R'

I could go on but thats plenty.

P.S. I usually listen to the stuff if its and artist I know, but I song I don't have. I actually just bought that Dean Martin track off Itunes because I didn't have it .

Edited June 29, 2011 by Shaun

[Simon Bar Sinister]

lots of Latin music, Beatles and Motown, along with a little jazz and a tiny bit of country - mainly the HeeHaw show for the country part, to be honest.

[Mikielikesit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCvMKcNJCAY

yeah my brother let me play his albums when I was a kid and boy did I mess them up.....

The great Zepplin

[Mikielikesit]

Moms also had a funny side and she had all kinds of Dr. Demento type music even though she did not listen to him, but it primed me for it....Dr. D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgWMe6yPuQE

Jim Stafford pretty cool tunes

[kat (1)]

My grandmother, who I stayed with on and off until I was about 6 listened to this alot:

[Joey Deadcat]

I was 4 when this album came out and heard this song so many times as my mother and my aunts would play this album a lot. I also remember always looking at the album cover and being both fascinated and creeped out by Jerry Hall.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

As the lady said in blues brothers, in my house we listened to both kinds "Country" and "Western". My mom has been a coutry fan since before I was born. I grew up in the ghetto though so being exposed to Rap and Hip Hop was inevitable. My first exposure to rock was actually G'N'R's Appetite and Metallica's Black Album . I ordered them based on their covers from one of those Columbia house 12 for a penny offers when I was 13 and ended up wearing them both out. Now I listen to a little bit of everything. Oh also when I was really little so I found the old Napoleon XIV Their coming to take me away single in my moms records collection. The original vinyl one with the backward version as the B Side . I think I wore both sides out, probably had my poor mother wanting to smash the record player .

Couple songs I was especially fond of as a kid .

Highwayman by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ03ngpdU80

Sweet Child of Mine by G'N'R'

I could go on but thats plenty.

P.S. I usually listen to the stuff if its and artist I know, but I song I don't have. I actually just bought that Dean Martin track off Itunes because I didn't have it .

Yeah, country AND western. hah

P.S. I usually listen to the stuff if its and artist I know, but I song I don't have. I actually just bought that Dean Martin track off Itunes because I didn't have it .

Now thats a good man right there.

[Mikielikesit]

A little Kris Kristofferson some counrty and some western

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNGWGwXEfDE

[Troy Spiral (13)]

My grandmother, who I stayed with on and off until I was about 6 listened to this alot:

Forgot about that type of stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YPnXBWl9Tk&feature=fvwrel

later on when me & the rest of the weirdos were into They Might Be Giants I was the only one that didn't think it was a "they might be giants song".

[Troy Spiral (13)]

A little Kris Kristofferson some counrty and some western

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNGWGwXEfDE

first time I've ever actually heard Kristofferson as an independent artist. I knew he was, i just never actually remember hearing anything by him outside of The Highwaymen.

[kat (1)]

My mother and her friends used to hang out on the porch and listen to this stuff:

[Mikielikesit]

I could always tell what my Mom's moods where as soon as I walked in our house as a kid by the music she played....

When mad at my Dad....

When in a good mood...

[Mikielikesit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgD-D_z0Cs8

yes yes yes....sympathy for my friend.......