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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Parents: always had Radio 1 on but never actually owned any records apart from Voulez Vous & Nightflight to Venus, so were happy for us kids to take over.

I'm the middle sibling: Big sister dominated my early musical tastes, giving me a liking for the Smiths & Depeche Mode that still exists today. Overall our tastes are broadly similar (I don't think we've ever had a real disagreement over music), but over the years we have influenced each other in different ways - she has always been a bit of an influence on the indie front, whereas I've kept her up to date on the pop front, and I also took her raving for the first time, which she loved.

Bizarrely considering how influential we've been on each other, we've had next to no influence on our younger brother who's musical tastes developed much more slowly, later and in quite a different direction - being into more leftfield dance music, bits of psychedelic 60s stuff, old soul, and some world music - which has belatedly started to now influence me.

And finally now we've all left home my parents seem to now be more into music than ever, as listening to Radio 2 keeps them in touch with some contemporary stuff. They even buy CDs now, even if they are of the Rod Stewart variety