We Are Family

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A thread from yesterday that should have its own post:

How much has your family influenced your listening habits? Are you an older/younger/middle sibling, or an only child? Are your musical tastes anything like your parents'?

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My parents agreed on the Beatles, I listened to my Dad's records from the 60s (mostly) a bit, although mainly only the ones I already thought would be good (first Led Zep; lots of Rolling Stones; Buffalo Springfield; Dylan). Other than that my Mum only listens to Classical which I've never been into in a big way. My Dad got into Iron Maiden when I was at an impressionable age and both me and my brother got into metal that way (although I think I liked Bon Jovi, AC/DC independently and first). He had WASP tapes, and Helloween, which I listened to; later bought me Kiss, Dave Lee Roth, trying to find things I might like, which was really sweet. My brother's taste is quite unpredictable, he is younger than me but got into pop earlier than I did. (Much later I remember talking him into buying the Scatman John album -- and when he got me Steps Gold for Christmas, which I already had, he listened to it himself and seemed to like it. I got him the Isis album for Christmas last year, which he says he liked). He had been getting Look-In which came with free Flexi Discs e.g. The Jets, Crush on You, and bought some 7" singles -- A-Ha, Falco, and I can remember him having a huge row with my mother who disapproved of Samantha Fox... Then we would argue over trading tracks from compilations (I'll swap you Pet Shop Boys from Now whatever for Prince from Hits whatever) for a bit. But he never liked hip-hop as far as I know and my first big love was Licensed to Ill by the Beastie Boys, and then I went away to boarding school and from that point on all my musical tastes were defined from there rather than around my family. He went very metal as he learned to play guitar (e.g. Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen) while I went for thrash -- Metallica etc. -- and then into indie. I can remember my dad being unimpressed by the Wonderstuff, although he liked the spoken word bits on Surfer Rosa by the Pixies...