What were the hippest albums in your Parent's Record Collection when you were growing up?

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Based somewhat on this thread...

....what slabs of vinyl did you dust off and discover in the family collection before some hepcat older sibling set you on the right path?

My Mom's collection somewhat inexplicably included the following:

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Yerz?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 9 January 2004 08:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Mom was also big into...

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She also had several records by the Baja Marimba Band...who used to dress up like large sombrero'd banditos. I don't ever remember her playing them, but we had at least three of their records.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 9 January 2004 08:50 (twenty-two years ago)

These dudes...

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 9 January 2004 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

francoise hardy 45s and some tapes with melanie on them

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 9 January 2004 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

'Ziggy Stardust', a couple of Roxy Music albums, a couple of Stevie Wonder albums and 'Get on the good foot' by James Brown.

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 9 January 2004 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"The String-a-longs" album on London records, umm, Sgt Pepper, um, The West Side Story soundtrack, struggling...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 9 January 2004 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Nino Rota's "Romeo and Juliet" sndtrk. WOO. Actually it's good, just coated in dialogue. My Dad once owned a Creedence record, but his Mum got rid of it when he moved, the bitch. How I coveted it!

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Friday, 9 January 2004 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

my parents were fucking dead from neck up - music wise. even in my recent enlightened times i still have absolutely no connection to their stuff. manhattan transfer anyone. b*stards, and to think they sould have had such cool stuff for me to play/scratch destroy as a child. luckily i found peelie/on-u sound/foetus/cab voltaire early on and was saved from eternal damnation ..

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 9 January 2004 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to get annoyed cos my Mum had a bunch of Joan Baez Vanguard Lps but no John Faheys, which might've least been worth something (I used to tell her), not that I've got anything against Baez and besides I'd have just kept the Faheys anyway. I think Sandy Bull had stuff on Vanguard too.

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Friday, 9 January 2004 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

my parents weren't very interested in music, but i still got a few frank sinatra and elvis singles from them.

― joan vich (joan vich), Friday, 9 January 2004 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

well. mine did have a few elvis 7" ... but evenso .. 'best of bread', barry manilow anyone .. grisly. grisly.
then again i feel for my kids. poor buggers. i mean foetus/ageofchance/on-u sound kinda sets them up babdly doesn't it ..

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 9 January 2004 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaah now singles...

What were the hippest singles in your Parent's Record Collection when you were growing up?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 9 January 2004 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I always wondered how this...

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..got in there, since most of the rest of the stuff they had was the usual mid-60s Beatles/Stones/Mannfred Mann/Animals/Kinks etc.

My dad did have some great Sonny Terry/Brownie McGhee, Blind Blake and Charlie Parker records though.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 9 January 2004 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

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― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Friday, 9 January 2004 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Amazingly, my Dad has the first Emitt Rhodes LP which he'd bought when it came out cause he heard it on John Peel's show. Very surprising given it's relative obscurity and the fact he was listening to Peel. Unsurprising because of the Beatles/ McCartney influence.

― mms (mms), Friday, 9 January 2004 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Chris V (Chris V), Friday, 9 January 2004 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

That reminds me, (xpost)

My dad had "London Conversations" by John Martyn, and told me that he was in the studio when J.Martyn recorded it (as an 18 year old lad, JM not ny dad). Told how someone brought a sitar in which JM had a go on and used it on one of the tracks there and then. This was all told to me back in the late seventies or so.

Anyway, about two years ago, Mojo mag were doing a piece on Nick Drake where the whole story was repeated exactly as above. So I asked my dad and he said yes he remembered the scenario, I described Nick Drake but he said he didn't notice him.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 9 January 2004 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

wow.

― Chris V (Chris V), Friday, 9 January 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave Brubeck seconded.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 9 January 2004 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 9 January 2004 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

A lot of Latin/fake-Latin stuff. Sergio Mendes, Tijuana Brass, Baja Marimba Band, Los Indios Tabarajas, had to've been some Yma Sumac in there. Odd, as neither speak Spanish, or had been any further south than Seattle up until recently. Hippest by far was the Salsoul Orchestra Christmas record.

― dave q, Friday, 9 January 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

dave - I finally posted that stuff I promised you.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

The White Album and Bridge Over Troubled Water by a country mile.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm showing my age here, but the only thing cool in my parents' collection was a Fats Domino album. Mantovani was more their style.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

You're 163?!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Your parents are timelords?!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Everyone in college in the early 60s had Time Out (including my Dad.) He had a lot of surf guitar stuff, which I guess is hip. Dick Dale, the Astronauts.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

My dad rocks. He was into tons of groovy stuff. Velvet Underground and Nico, Piper At the Gates of Dawn (the US version with "See Emily Play"), The Unfolding's How to Blow Your Mind and Have a Freak-Out Party, The Kinks' entire oevure, Freak Out!, We're Only In It for the Money, and The Fugs self-titled, but, sadly, no P-Funk.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The only records I can remember my parents ever buying were Herb Alpert, but I have no memory of them ever actually playing them.

― boldbury, Friday, 9 January 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

My Mom has the Serge Gainsbourg and jane Birkin "Moi non Plus" 45 (you know with the orgasm) that she bought in Paris in 1969. Is this worth any money, by the way?

― Magic City (ano ano), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

There was absolutely no rock in my parents collection, mostly classical and worldly music, none of which I actually recall actively listening to on my own aside from a couple of Tomita albums; Greatest Hits and Kosmos.

I guess stuff like Pete Seeger, Buffy, Joni and Baez was often playing as well. I don't remember ever really liking this stuff while growing up but I'm pretty certain it's shaped my taste in music (which tends to drift into the softer, acoustic side of things) in some way or another.

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I just remembered how this album was in their collection (the lone rocker) and how much of an affect it had on me when I first discovered it on my own.

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I have fond memories of using it to learn how to "scratch" too. I blame Rock It by Herbie Hancock which probably destroyed countless valuable records after kids first heard it on the radio.

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

My dad has pretty cool taste in music. Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder and lots of late-era Motown featured heavily on compilation tapes I remember from childhood car journeys. The first times I heard anything by The Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Kinks or Pink Floyd it was probably my dad playing them. I can also recall him going on about how *he* had a copy of The Velvet Underground and Nico "before John Peel played it and everyone else went out and bought a copy" (this moment was made weirder still by the fact that my then 18 year old self had said similar things regarding the first Trumans Water album). He still surprises me every now and then with stuff he listens to (the last time I was home he had a DJ Cam CD in his car...maybe not that hip, but he had heard it somewhere, liked it and tracked it down himself).

My dad's little sister was the one with really cool taste. I remember my jaw almost hitting the floor when I discovered the first four Faust records (plus a duplicate, bootleg version of The Faust Tapes) while idly browsing through the records in her house.

― Liar (Liar), Friday, 9 January 2004 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

My dad had lots of jazz stuff, from Coltrane to Chuck Mangione. (And yes, Brubeck, too.) But if we're talking absolutely hippest, probably the Ornette Coleman best-of. And then, when I was in high school, he bought this:

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― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 January 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

my dad is a former daytripping hippie who used to live in topanga canyon during the 60s. his wife was a songwriter who had some sort of bar/lounge and a studio that alot of musicians used to hang out at. lots of crosby stills nash and young stories. my dad actually has a white label of after the gold rush. it think its numbered in the high thousands, but you know.. still.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 9 January 2004 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

My parents were Longines Symphonette types (muzak you bought) with the odd Robert Goulet (my mom's) and German beer-drinking LPs (my dad). They were both born in the 20s so I didn't expect any rock in there. Luckily I had a four-year-older brother that guided me through the forest of R&R.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 10 January 2004 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Anthony Braxton's Saxaphone Improvisations, Series F; Sun Ra's Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra; Muddy Waters, Folk Singer; The Wildflowers series; King Sunny Ade, Synchro System; Jorge Ben, Africa Brasil; Masekela Introducing Hedzoleh Soundz; Althea & Donna, Uptown Top Ranking; Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dread Beat an' Blood; Max Romeo & the Upsetters, War Ina Babylon, Vanguard's The Great Blues Men compilation, almost the entire 1960s output of Bob Dylan and the odd Springsteen record.

And yet I spent most of my grungoid '90s adolescence listening to Pearl Jam and Led Zeppelin.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 10 January 2004 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Neither of my parents (both nearing age 60) were ever major record buyers (tho I made up for them & the next few generations!) The coolest LP my dad owned was a Five Man Electrical Band album ("Coming of Age", NOT the one with "Signs"); Mom had nothing useful aside from "Elvis' Golden Records". Both of 'em had lotsa 45s however, mostly from the early '60s. BTW, my late octogenarian grandfather was inexplicably a big Dire Straits fan!

― Scott Bloomfield, Monday, 12 January 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

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