What CDs does your Mom listen to?

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My Mom listens to Beck's Guero. I think Coldplay. And I remember she used to like Staind.

Moms are weird.

― Colin Cassidy (Colin Cassidy), Thursday, 10 August 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

SHUT UP ABOUT MY MOM ALREADY/

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 10 August 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

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― Colin Cassidy (Colin Cassidy), Thursday, 10 August 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

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― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 10 August 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

I went home to visit my mom a couple years ago, and to my horror she was listening to Toby Keith.

― Public Radio (public_radio), Thursday, 10 August 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

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― Colin Cassidy (Colin Cassidy), Thursday, 10 August 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

When i was 16, i found, among others 2 surprising records among my mother's vinyls by
Nancy and Lee, and Leonard Cohen.

― emekars (emekars), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Van Morrison and Tom Petty, although some love for The Beta Band has I believe been expressed.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

haven't been home in a while, but at last check, she was all about Paul Simon, Tom Petty and occasionally emailing me to ask if Joss Stone was cool enough to listen to

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" & "Tusk"
The Essential Pete Seeger
The Essential Bob Dylan
The Essential Leonard Cohen
Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd
In Time: The Best of REM 1988-2003
Tina Turner "Private Dancer"
U2 "All That You Can't Leave Behind"
Rush "Chronicles"
Coldplay "Parachutes" & "A Rush of Blood To The Head"
Death Cab For Cutie "Transatlanticism"

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

what cds does your Momus listen to?

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

she loves bob dylan, fred neil, maria muldaur, ian and sylvia, bonnie raitt, arlo guthrie, judy collins, mississippi john hurt, etc etc. the zombies, the byrds, buffalo springfield, the doors, the beatles. lots of jazz, i.e. kind of blue era miles, monk, chet baker. my mom is cool.

for new stuff, she really likes wilco and the arcade fire. she also loves sufjan and the magnetic fields, so ned wouldn't like her. :-P

― Emily B (Emily B), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

mary chapin carpenter, josh groban, celine dion, neil diamond, etc. she said that tortoise's "TNT" was 'pleasant'

― 6335 (6335), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

right now:

Prince - 3121
Damian Marley - Welcome to Jamrock
Love - Best of Love (she likes the heaviness of s/t and dacapo better than forever changes hippe crap)

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

/ian riese-moran

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Michael Buble, Simon & Garfunkel, Clay Aiken, Cat Stevens, Graham Nash, Coldplay, James Taylor

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I forgot Neil Young "Decade" and A Decade of Steely Dan.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Vince Gill.
The Bee Gees.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Susan Tedeschi.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I've actually had a word with the big M now and the first two things to come out were The Velvet Underground and Steve Harley, which I'd describe without tongue in cheek as more-or-less impeccable, as mothers' tastes go.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

in momses car the last time i saw her:

erykah badu
r. kelly
teena marie

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

My mom and grandma were both at the Tom Waits show with me on Monday!

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

The hippest family around!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think my mom splits her time between an expected Sting/Bartoli/classical stuff axis and all the In the Nursery CDs I've gotten for her over the years.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Predictable stuff moms likes: Cat Stevens, Paul Simon.
Less predictable stuff moms likes: Punjabi MC, Missy Eliot.
Stuff moms likes that I don't know what it is: some "hilarious" New Zealand folk duo.
Songs my moms has shocked me singing along with on the car stereo: ODB "Got Yr Money", Salt N Pepa "Push It".

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Stuff moms likes that I don't know what it is: some "hilarious" New Zealand folk duo.

Flight of the Conchords

And if you check around enough you'll easily guess how I know about these people.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

My mom likes Savage Garden and Josh Groban and country music. My stepmom likes a bit more interesting stuff (think WXPN programming), and I think Beth Orton.

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

michae buble, garth brooks, gloria estefan, the rolling stones & hip hop radio that my little sister puts on in the car

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, even their website cracks me up. Maybe I should listen to them.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Andreas Bocelli...my parents saw him live a few years ago which was the only time I can remember them going to a concert (aside from "classical in the park"-type stuff). Other than that it's entirely new age stuff. The teenage rebel in me says it's better this way.

― Euler (Euler), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

"HPPY BRTHDY DAV. I M SNDNG THIS USNG MND"

:-D

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

i'm home for the week visiting and found in her car Diana Krall, Josh Groban, and a lot of awful oatmeal crap like Chris Botti's cross-over record with Sting and Steven Tyler vocals.. poor momz. i realized accidentally left ready to die in there this morning. maybe she'll come home a fan?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

my mom listens to a lot of smooth jazz (yuk!)...she doesn't like songs with vocals, for some reason...I was able to use smooth jazz as a gateway to get her into exotica (Denny, Lyman, etc.), which she loves (kind of a payback, since I got into Jackie Gleason and Julie London through her old LP collection), as well as Jan Garbarek, Ralph Towner and other ECM fare...

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Joni Mitchel, Judy Collins, Gimon and Sarfunkle..

I bought her a copy of Hem's "Rabbit Songs," which she enjoyed.

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

a familiar "yuk"
My mom is all for the smooth jazz and only listens to Keiko Matsui at a very low volume. Well, I think sometimes she'll mix it up with Fattburger. Enya if she's feeling hip.
So far I haven't been able to do the gateway bit because she's not very open to finding anything new--she likes what she has.
I even reluctantly went with her to Keiko concert, and though it wasn't the worst thing it the world, it's not something I ever plan on doing again.

― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

have i not ranted about how cool my mom was early in my life?

things my mom hipped me to:

white horse
juicy fruit
this is acid

she lost it shortly after though. i think my mom and step dad went through a white zombie phase in the past 10 years or less.

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

uh oh ned, better lock the thread.

What kind of music are/were your parents into?
Music your parents listened to: was it any good?
ok then -- What Music Do Your Parents Listen To These Days?
Songs your parents played

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

So I have ranted before

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

uh oh ned, better lock the thread.

DOOM.

(Well, this is a specific enough thread, so hey.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

My moms likes:
Rachmaninoff, Ravi Shankar, and has all of those Yo-Yo Ma CDs of recent.

I played Stereolab in the car once, and she really liked it.

Also, smooth jazz can be amazing. So you haters: grow up o shut up.

― trees (treesessplode), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

On her birthday she'll be listening to Kim Jung Mi. Thanks to the person who started that thread.

― youn (youn), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

My mom adores: Barry White, Aretha Franklin, classic Motown, the Village People, Michael Jackson, Michael McDonald, Luther Vandross, Celine Dion (though she hates Barbra Streisand), Josh Groban, George Strait, Dusty Springfield, Paul Anka, Helen Reddy, and Connie Francis. These are the Big Notables, upon which you can base a general opinion of what her musical tastes are like. Our paths do converge at the works of the Chic Organisation, though. And I don't mind Barry White. And my mom is in her sixties age-wise, so her musical tastes are to be expected.

― Phoenix Dancing (krushsister), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

The Beatles
Fleetwood Mac
Dan Fogelberg
Paul Simon
Amy Grant
Jars of Clay
Coldplay

― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Thursday, 10 August 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

My mom is currently rocking a lot of Pink Martini and some newer group called The Ditty Bops, who are actually playing in my town this week.

― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 10 August 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

Mainly contemporary Christian music, but other than that, her favorite stuff is 50's Rock n' Roll and British invasion type of stuff.
Pretty recently I was listening to Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers "LAMF", and she was all like, "who is that!?" She actually REALLY liked it!

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 10 August 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

My mom died before CDs were available in the US, but she liked The Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel.

― Matt Golden (goldmatt), Friday, 11 August 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

Patsy Cline and - oddly enough - the Abba stuff from Mamma Mia. She'd still be listening to her overplayed Neil Diamond cassette tape if I hadn't finally stolen and hidden it from her.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 11 August 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

My mom loves music! Though, oddly enough, I've never known her to own a cd or record of anyone's. She used to be a natural at the piano, pre-alzheimer's, and most of the music I heard that involved her was show tunes, standards and hymns. She used to come watch my bar / blues band too.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

the big M?!?

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

Probably something Celtic and relaxing. Know there's a pennywhistle in there somewhere.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

My mom has a picture of Youssou Ndour in her bathroom, listens to lots of African. Most recent concert she went to may been Ferron. She asked me to make her a mixed tape of rap music to try to understand why I like that "non-music." I asked her to make me a CD of her old Rufus Harley records, which she did just a few weeks ago before prostate cancer kilt him (RIP, bad-ass bagpiper).

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

My mom has a picture of Youssou Ndour in her bathroom

You mom wins.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

uhhhh...
some kind of michael buble album and a 3 cd disco compilation, i got her for mothers day last year.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

Funny you should ask as my Mom had recently raided my older CD collection that I had left at home a few months ago:

Beck - Mutations
Beck - Sea Change
Belle & Sebastian - If You Are Feeling Sinister
B&S - The Boy With the Arab Strap
Cat Power - You are Free

Subsquently bought the The Life Pursuit and The Greatest.

― P. Paone (Paone), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

mom is a corny indie fuxor?

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 11 August 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

My mom went to see Kenny G live.

But I've nicked her Steppenwolf Live, After the Goldrush and Abbey Road over the years. She took me to see Jethro Tull, the Moody Blues, and C,S,N&Y too.

Most recently she was rocking out to the Melissa Etheridge album, and I just sent her the new Dixie Chicks. There's a classic folk venue in my home town, and she'll go see Sarah Lee Guthrie there.

― patita (patita), Friday, 11 August 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

seriously, I know. My mom wasn't even a big fan of it when I used to play that stuff only a few years ago! I come back to find my parents turned from Prairie Home Companion listeners to Indie Hipsters. The funny thing probably at the same time I started listening to late '70s stuff (disco, yacht rock etc..) that they would have HATED back in those days.

― P. Paone (Paone), Friday, 11 August 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

coolest thing my mom ever did:

I had given her money to go to the ticket outlet at the local Bonwit Teller to get me Frank Zappa tickets when I was in high school...the ticket computer was broken in the store, so she drove downtown and waited in line with all the freaks at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, and wound up scoring a pair in the sixth row...good lord, I get choked up just thinking about that...thanks, Mom!

― hank (hank s), Friday, 11 August 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

^Mom Of The Year^

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 12 August 2006 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

My mom loves Ween. I win.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 12 August 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

I envy you people with parents who have any aesthetic interests at all. The last records my mom bought were in the late 60s (Eddy Arnold and Andy Williams), and the last first-run movie my parents went out to see was Patton.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 12 August 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

i wasnt aware she listened to CDs. she did like japanese music, mainly 60s female singers dressed in long flowy dresses who sing about the snow and shit. what she currently listens to, i don't know. probably nothing as she's too busy working 24/7.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 12 August 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

What CDs did your mom listen to?

OK, now I feel fucking old

― wrapped up like a DOUche in the middle of the NUT (donut), Saturday, 12 August 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

My mom did like Boy George/Culture Club though, so I guess that's one definite "CD" she was into.

― wrapped up like a DOUche in the middle of the NUT (donut), Saturday, 12 August 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

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