For me, let's see - there was plenty of choral/church music. The "easy listening"/Barbara Streisand years. A short-lived dixieland jazz craze. Musicals. It all drove me crazy growing up, but I look on all of it fondly today.

The last time my parents listened to contemporary pop radio, 'Born To Run' was a recent single.

My Dad was a huge fan of The Hollies and The Walker Brothers, so I was brought up on a staple musical diet of those two.

Kind of weird that, now my Dad is longer with us, I actually don't mind listening to them as a sort of tribute to him, but as a kid, I couldn't bear it

They didn't "force" me to listen to anything. I always had the option of going to my room and reading a book...or playing outside. Which I did. Often.

Not sure that I was forced, but my mother always listened to the oldiest station on the radio. Today, I am a huge fan of Motown because of it.

Lnog car trips we often had Anita Baker, Stephanie Mills or Natalie Cole playing; the same albums on repeat for hours. By the end of the trip my brother and I knew every single word.

ABBA, Boney M, Kenny Rogers

Sam Cooke, Luther Ingram, Stevie, James, Ohio Players, Funkadelic, Bootsy, LTD, Issac Hayes, Impressions, Jerry Butler, Wilson Pickett, ADC Band, Bobby Womack, Wes Montgomery, Dizzy Gillespie, Stanley Turrentine, Ojays, Teddy Pendergrass,Millie Jackson, Harold Melvin, Jasper Williams, King Floyd, Motown, EWF etc. Music was my life!!!

The 3 records my mom played the most (circa 1981) were Micheal Jackson's Off The Wall, Stevie Wonder's Hotter Than July and Journey's Escape---the only Rock album she ever bought and it ended up having a bigger impact than I realized. She played those records to death...

My dad was all into Yes and Return To Forever... I didn't get that stuff at all and remember him getting mad at me for not liking it. Of course, when I started studying music, I got into Fusion and Prog and started to eventually love that stuff.

my stepdad always played elton john and michael jackson when we drove to his parents from early age, i remember a dangerous tape , but i dont know wich elton john tapes he played. i still love both artists

I was never forced to listen to anything. Just about every genre was being played in my house when I was growing up and I thank goodness that I was exposed to so many different types of music and learned to develop an appeciation for it all.

Since there was just one TV in the house, we had no choice in watching The Lawrence Welk Show every fuckin week. It was aural and video torture

My mom just bought the stuff that was popular and she could get at a discount (most likely). I recall LPs by Mirelle Mathieu, Kenny Rogers, Phil Collins, Tom Jones, Elvis Presley, Harry Belafonte and Tanita Tikaram in the house.

Sometimes she would listen to bullshit like pan pipe music.

Finnish pop music of the 1980s was pretty damn terrible as well. I was forced to listen to that mostly when the TV was on and some of the music shows would be on.

Singer/songwriter stuff, including international artists, circa 1962-1974...

They didn't force me into shit.

Timmy84 said:

They didn't force me into shit.

ha! no?

not even on loooooong car trips, or on sunday mornings??

JoeTyler said:

Timmy84 said:

They didn't force me into shit.

ha! no?

not even on loooooong car trips, or on sunday mornings??

Nope.

I was attracted to old school shit at the age of 4. It just happened.

Timmy84 said:

JoeTyler said:

ha! no?

not even on loooooong car trips, or on sunday mornings??

Nope.

I was attracted to old school shit at the age of 4. It just happened.

wrong! you were listening to Martika, Jane's Addiction and Depeche Mode

EWF

Boney James

Najee

george benson

grover washington

george duke

......and every jazz and or funk r&b musician that ever lived !!!

JoeTyler said:

Timmy84 said:

Nope.

I was attracted to old school shit at the age of 4. It just happened.

wrong! you were listening to Martika, Jane's Addiction and Depeche Mode

I actually didn't. Well yeah but not like THAT.

My dad or mom didn't force me to listen to Roger Troutman, Prince, Michael Jackson, Motown, etc.

runphilrun said:

Since there was just one TV in the house, we had no choice in watching The Lawrence Welk Show every fuckin week. It was aural and video torture

That was torturous!

I guess Miles Davis would be mine by default. It was always on. Hell, I probably was conceived with Miles Davis playing in the background.

Genesia said:

They didn't "force" me to listen to anything. I always had the option of going to my room and reading a book...or playing outside. Which I did. Often.

At least she had a room.

It was also dangerous to play outside in the 80s in Europe due to Tsernobyl etc.

novabrkr said:

It was also dangerous to play outside in the 80s in Europe due to Tsernobyl etc.

Classical music! My dad only likes to listen to classic music, romantic and classical period specifically...He's one of those people who can't tell the difference between Rock, R&B, Pop songs lol They all sound the same to him. He was quite disappointed at my music catalog when he borrowed my laptop lol

Nobody forced me into anything because I've always had a mind of my own. I fell in love with disco in the sixth grade. When it died, I flipped over to R&B radio and got into funk which was closest sounding thing to disco at the time. And when funk died, I got into house which sounded like disco's reincarnation. So you see, I never really strayed far away from what I fell in love with all on my own all those years ago which was disco because most everything I've ever loved since then has had the same formula as disco....uptempo, fun, funky, and ass shakable. And when music finally lost disco's formula, that's when I started bitching.

runphilrun said:

Since there was just one TV in the house, we had no choice in watching The Lawrence Welk Show every fuckin week. It was aural and video torture

My daddy used to watch the damn Lawrence Welk Show and he also used to watch The Grand Ole Opry. I just didn't stay in the same room with it because it was the dullest shit I had ever heard in my life.

Everything I love now, including Prince

It seemed like ages ago when I'd rather listen to Jodici, Mary J, Keith Sweat and SWV instead of Phyllis Hyman or Teddy Pendergrass.

Harlepolis said:

Everything I love now, including Prince

It seemed like ages ago when I'd rather listen to Jodici, Mary J, Keith Sweat and SWV instead of Phyllis Hyman or Teddy Pendergrass.

My parents are the reason I got into Prince too. Since I was born in the year Prince became a SUPERSTAR (1984), it makes perfect sense. I was supposed to be born in the month Purple Rain (the film) came out.

But yeah I'm like you, back then, I was all into the new jack swing and hip-hop but I was also into oldies too.

vainandy said:

runphilrun said:

Since there was just one TV in the house, we had no choice in watching The Lawrence Welk Show every fuckin week. It was aural and video torture

My daddy used to watch the damn Lawrence Welk Show and he also used to watch The Grand Ole Opry. I just didn't stay in the same room with it because it was the dullest shit I had ever heard in my life.

I mean look at this shit. It's better then getting a fleet enema. I remember they had a young guy named Bobby or something who was the youngest and the star dancer. Everybody else was like in theire 40s or 50s, and oh yeah, they even had a token black dude