Jen told us that Alice's restaurant was a fav from Mom and Dad's stack, and it made me think...what were favs of yours from mom and dads collection when you were young??

mine:
RS Lt it Bleed ( I really wanted a birthday cake with layers like that...)
RS Sticky Fingers ( mom had the the actual zippered Lp)
Janis Joplin Big brother and the holding Company she took me to see her at UT's Cactus room. ( R. Crumb's nippleiscious cartoons may have been early jackin' material)
Don Mclean American Pie -loved this, mom had some G.I.A.N.T. headphones and I would sit and rock in this wiker bottomed chair with the headphones on...

speaking of headphones, I loved Jade Warrior too.

my dad's Ramones vinyl catalog.

this thread could be illuminating... I forgot about PUMP

Stuff I glommed from my Dad's collection:

The first 4 Bill Cosby albums
The first 2 Allan Sherman albums
Bob Newhart - The Button Down Mind of...
Nichols & May - Nichols & May Examine Doctors
A half dozen Spike Jones 78s
Perrey & Kingsley - The In Sounds from Way Out
Perrey & Kingsley - Kaleidoscopic Vibrations

For the most part I'm too old to have parents with rock & roll records other than my Mom's Simon & Garfunkel LPs. Which I didn't so much glom as eventually buy my own copies of.

*Bread*
*Dolly Parton*
*Mac Davis*
*John Denver*
*Kathie Lee Gifford*
*Lesley Gore*
*Manheim Steam Roller*
*Phil Collins*

hrm, my parents have/had interesting tastes...

my dad's probably younger then some of you

New Order and Talking Heads are prob his favourite bands
+ The Police
Talk Talk
Prince

but he also likes shit like Phil Collins, solo Sting and Don Henley, ah well

Its funny. Like I said in another post my mom was really down and hip with music when she was younger and then somewhere...somehow...Kathie Lee Gifford happened. How the hell do you go from digging Hendrix records to listening to a daytime talk show host sing songs?

Kraftwerk
Steely Dan
The Blue Nile
Rolling Stones

John Coltrane
Sonny Rollins
Beach Boys
Steely Dan
Otis Redding
Sarah Vaughn
Louis Armstrong
The Beatles

My dad always guided me in the right direction musically. He even bought me headphones so I could sit at the record player and listen for hours while they were watching TV.

those are from your PARENT'S stack?
good lord, i'm old.

Yeah.

Blue Milk is sixteen. So, young enough that you could be his baby-mother... Though you would have been a mother at fourteen, in that case.

But, yeah... I wouldn't be surprised if his mum and dad are younger than my stepfather's older child (who's 39 (stepdad is 60)).

Seventeen. I wouldn't date someone younger than me at this age.

and as for me, when I was little I liked my dads AC/DC cds. Just because I was proud he was their photographer and it was the only band I really knew of because of that. I actually took after my brother a lot more. I started liking the doors because of him when I was around 5. I had three other brothers and sisters growing up, (four now) and I was influenced more by them than by my parents.
Also, my parents didn't listen to music around me unless it was in the car.
I did hear the Rolling Stones when I was younger because my mom has always been obsessed with them.

Beatles
Neil Diamond
John Cash, Willie Nelson, and all sorts of "outlaw country"
Jesus Christ Superstar album

this is a great question. let me get my thoughts together.

My mother's taste is music blows or is non-existent, take your pick. She admits it's not really an interest of hers, and that's cool with me.

From the ol' man:
WAR
CSNY
Bobby Bare
Willie Nelson
Al Green
Bill Withers
The Spinners
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Rolling Stones :: Hot Rocks
Tony Joe White
Bruce Springsteen :: Darkness on the Edge of Town
Doc Watson
The Band
The Four Tops

Yep.

Also:
Elvis Presley
Motown, Motown, Motown (they have a ton)

My dad has some interesting shit by people I"ve never heard of; I think he used to fancy himself a music fan at some point.

Mum:

*John Prine*
*Jimi Hendrix*

Stepdad:

*Hank Williams, Jr.*
*Monty Python*
*Steve Martin*

Dad:

*Bob Dylan*

Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
The Guess Who
Steely Dan
George Benson

my dad:
the beatles
the doors

my mom:
motown

The soundtrack to "taking care of shit" in the early/middle sixties. I can only imagine what dudes like Big Rick and Col. LooGar put on when killing drifters/hitchikers/diner waitresses back in that day.

hey loogar, if you're loogar, who is gar? i'm very confused.

I've inherited and shared a lot of wonderful music with Dr. Ish, especially.

To him I owe:

• the first 6 Springsteen albums on vinyl, headed by a lifelong dedication to "Born To Run"
• the first 9 Talking Heads albums on vinyl
• my love of Paul Simon, particularly "Graceland"
• my love of Neil Young
• my love of Prince
• Meat Load "Bat Out of Hell"

The roots run wide and deep.

Johnny Cash
Hank Williams (Sr)
Merle Haggard
Elvis Presley
Chubby Checker
Patsy Cline
Perry Como