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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Mum: Chris De Burgh, Wet Wet Wet, Enya. I think the last single she bought was Madonna's The Power of Goodbye...no! I bought her Gymtonic when she asked me to find that record 'to do my exercises with'.
Dad: Really poor country music, tapes from petrol stations called things like 'Hooked on No.1s'. I nicked his Simon and Garfunkel tape when I left home thinking it deserved a kinder place.
Sister: I shared a room with her (she's 12 years older) 'til I was seven so got used to the sound of Radio 1 through the night. Transvision Vamp, Nick Kershaw, The Colourfield (my dad designed a record studio so we had their demos - Kingdom No.3 used to be used to tease me because I was terrified of it), The Bangles, Beautiful South. Not so bad I guess. I got a bit into The Housemartins when I was thirteen and I'm quite fond of Ver Vamp.
Brother, 10 years older: Used to go to 'warehouse parties' when on leave and was the first of us to have a CD player. Introduced me to the Pet Shop Boys and New Order, inadvertently. I always used to ask him to tape me A Trip To Trumpton and Roobarb and Custard, but he never would. On the way to a funeral four years ago I asked him to put Radio 1 on in the car and he thought Liam Lynch's United States of Whatever was the best record of all time.

I've been virtually an only child since I was eight and my music tastes have been pretty much my own, really.