We Are Family

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

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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[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

my dad liked v little beyond classical and I think Buddy Holly and Jim Reeves. My mum was the top 40 listener, so when i was 8/9/10 and started recording the top 40 that was her doing for sure. late 70s punk, post punk, and early 80s stuff was stuff we both loved. we went our separate ways pretty much when the Pet Shop Boys turned up.

My younger sister didn't really influence me - she seemed to like a string of pretty boys, from Nik Kershaw to Bros, but she did "find" late 80s rave stuff before me as I'd got way indie by then. specifically i remember her loving voodoo ray and me thinking it was shite. how wrong i was. now she listens to enya. i feel like I failed somewhere.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

there was a strange collection of albums in the house about 2ft long. ones i can recall: OST Sound of Music, a Doors album. My mum's vinyl was a lot of Boomtown Rats, Dire Straits and Springsteen. Plus a lot of more hippy/folksy stuff, like Harry Chapin. oh and Chris De Burgh and Billy Joel. I liked some Billy Joel. Still do.