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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[marnameow.livejournal.com]

My parents aren't that into music, but had the requisite smattering of sixties stuff about the house. I figured out how to pull the chair over to the kitchen counter to clamber up to put The Seekers tape on when I was very small indeed. (Such clambering skills came in very useful when pilfering bulbs of raw garlic to munch on, as well.)

When I was twelve or so I did theft a lot of their tapes and got very into the sixties thing - Beatles (we had Sgt Pepper, and the red and blue compilations), Stones, Kinks, Joni Mitchell, Simon and Garfunkel. And then I went and hunted *more* sixties things (tending towards the folkier end of things), ending up with the Leonard Cohen obsession, and loving the Bob Dylan, and so forth. (An aside - someone's big brother, who must have been all of about twenty, told me that no thirteen year old could *possibly* like Dylan, and I was clearly just pretending to. How ponce-faced is that?)

Then I discovered music made in later decades, particularly NOISY MUSIC, and loved that too.

Then my bigger little brother decided he liked the hardcore and other noise too, and there was much thefting of cassettes and he *still* has most of my Descendents and Bad Religion cds. He likes music lotsandlots, and plays drums, and ting. (I think he still likes the Punk Rawk and he's also into a fair bit of bleep these days.)

The other little siblings like mostly mainstream-ish stuff, and never have been as excited about music as me or Conor. Unless you count Cow wanting to have sex with Mr BillyJoe and his Green Days.