Songs your parents played

well, the way it's put by beanz - What songs did your parents play when you were a kid but you hated... except now you love hearing them? - for me, the question doesn't quite compute. for the simple reason that we didn't have any kind of record player in our home until i was about 11 or 12 years old (which maketh it very-early-70s-ish), and there were very few records around even after that - until i was sent to school to town in a coupla years and i gradually started to buy some haphazard things on my own, etc.

so the music i definitely associate with my parents, from my pre-teens, aren't any records played in the house but rather certain choral songs i heard my mother rehearsing with her fellow teachers at school -- sitting there through the rehearsals, i certainly liked some tunes better than the others, and i do vaguely recall having barely tolerated a few of them... yet as of now, there's only one slo' melody i clearly remember, and that one sounds rather "neutral" to me after all these years
..."vii-re tak-ka / tu-le-vad kolm/ me-re-sõi-du/ ma-si-nat-ta..." -- i've no idea who the composer might be, or wether it's a folk tune

When I was around 18 months old i developed an obsession with my parents Dansette and their record collection. From then on until i started buying my own chart records when i was about 10, I played some of these records constantly.

Interestingly, the records originally purchased by my father included the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan - which i hated. My mothers collection included a huge heap of 45s by PJ Proby, Walker Brothers, Lou Christie, Pretty Things - I loved these 45's - and around 10 years ago during a musical low point i found myself rediscovering (and buying!) nearly everything by these bands.. which led me on to the whole girl group thing - Phil Spector, Scott Walker etc etc.

Nowadays their musical tastes aren't even worth mentioning......

i hated these as a kid, and even more as a noisy guitar band listening teenager... but have since come to appreciate their true genius.

my dad liked credence, which i loved, and santana, which i hated but now secretly like.

I was embarrassed that my mom liked "Hair", a Broadway album.

Oh God, I had totally blocked Hair out of my memory.

That's the only terrible one I can think of. They listened to classical almost exclusively, and my dad would break out the classic country on Friday nights after work. My Mom did have a love for the Beatles and Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells a Story.

OMG I hated "Hair" I thought it was racist because it had the "N" word in it.

Dad: Laurie Anderson 'O Superman', John Lennon 'Watching The Wheels', Led Zeppelin 'Since I've Been Lovin You', Roxy Music 'Dance Away'

Mum: Getz & Gilberto 'Girl From Ipanema', Hot Butter 'Popcorn', Charles Aznavour and lots of other French singers.

You didn't/don't like "Popcorn", dog latin?!

no i love it. i love all those songs. didn't realise it was things we didn't like

Basically those songs combined sum up my taste today.

My parents weren't huge music fans, but I liked what they played. Some of my Mum's French singers were awful, but I like a bit of Aznavour.

Good for ya! :)

This thread got me to look up Morgana King this morning. Really cool.

My dad's taste was pretty much the worst: Mantovani and 101 Strings type stuff. Boots Randolph and Herb Alpert/TJB were as good as it got. And my mom didn't even play the radio, much less records. She would sing around the house a lot though; "El Paso" by Marty Robbins and "He'll Have To Go" by Jim Reeves were two that stuck with me.