What music did you grow up to?

[SeaCat]

Love it or hate it, I happen to love it. I grew up hearing singers like Patsy Cline, Ernest Tubb, Ernie Ford and others. I grew to love their songs and the sounds of their music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuZTk1hdpMs&NR=1&feature=fvwp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9GTKJrLgYc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pleovx3k894

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG0I32IUP10

This is what I grew up with and still enjoy. There are very few out there that I like that are new, although there are a few. Miss Rhimes started out good but then she shifted to the Hip Hop circle and has gone downhill in my opinion.

So what did you grow up with?

Cat

 

[lance gt]

The first song that caught my attention as a young boy of 6, was 'Cara Mia' by Jay and the Americans. I heard all the rock of the day from Bill Haley & the Comets, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, etc., and have listened to everything new since.

 

[popcorn2721]

My Dad was an Eagles and Santana fan.. he also liked Bread and Cream.
My Mother loved Led Zeppelin and Abba with a side order of Laurence Welk and Elvis. Myself, I loved those artist but found my biggest thrill listening to my Grandmothers old 45's on her HI-FI stereo cabinet. Were talking about the Chicago/ Chess records scene and the Motown sound here that was hip during the 50s. No one told me that music was out of style, so I guess when I started playing music myself it was natural to swing and boogie.

 

[TE999]

I was a teenager when Rock N' Roll first appeared...I listened to Rhythm and Blues as well and still listen to both on CD's. My parents played a lot of Big Band music and I listen to that today. I enjoy Country, Folk, Metal, some Techno...everything except Rap which I cannot stand.

 

[Lady_Guenivere]

Blondie
Queen
Supertramp
Aerosmith
Steve Miller Band
Led Zepplin

Etc...

Had a brother who was 10 years older and 2 sisters that were 8 and 6 years older...our house was filled with very cool music.

 

[Bianca_Sommerland]

My dad's a trucker, so a lot of country and old rock. People think I'm a freak because I love Travis Tritt, but usually listen to Disturbed.

 

[glynndah]

Country from the 60's, Eddy Arnold, Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, George Jones, etc., which I didn't like then and still don't.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Dad was a music teacher. We grew up on the classics. What pop we did enjoy would be mostly the Kingston Trio, Joan Baez, PP&M. I remember many nights entranced by Hootenany.

 

[Darkniciad]

I didn't listen to much beyond Weird Al until I was... sixteen maybe? It was the Run-DMC video for Walk this Way that introduced me to Aerosmith. The 8-track of the original album in Dad's collection got me hooked.

Al, Aerosmith, Guns N' Roses, the Cars, Phil Collins, and Genesis dominated my ever-worn-out-and-replaced cassette collection, along with the Blues Brothers. Van Halen, Skid Row, Kiss, Alice Cooper, and quite a few others are in there too, but those were the ones that got the most play.

Getting the baseline from "Draw the Line" stuck in my head at work the other day reminded me that I've been living too much on a steady diet of video game soundtracks of late. I couldn't even place it, until the riff finally hit me about halfway through the day, followed by "Checkmate honey, beat you at your own damn game."

Time to dig up what few CDs I have and rip them onto the computer/MP3 player, and proceed to hit up my channels for all the ones that I still only have on cassette. I actually took the day off tomorrow to get my music rounded back out in a format that I can get to easily again.

 

[Bianca_Sommerland]

I didn't listen to much beyond Weird Al until I was... sixteen maybe? It was the Run-DMC video for Walk this Way that introduced me to Aerosmith. The 8-track of the original album in Dad's collection got me hooked.

Al, Aerosmith, Guns N' Roses, the Cars, Phil Collins, and Genesis dominated my ever-worn-out-and-replaced cassette collection, along with the Blues Brothers. Van Halen, Skid Row, and quite a few others are in there too, but those were the ones that got the most play.

Getting the baseline from "Draw the Line" stuck in my head at work the other day reminded me that I've been living too much on a steady diet of video game soundtracks of late. I couldn't even place it, until the riff finally hit me about halfway through the day, followed by "Checkmate honey, beat you at your own damn game."

Time to dig up what few CDs I have and rip them onto the computer/MP3 player, and proceed to hit up my channels for all the ones that I still only have on cassette. I actually took the day off tomorrow to get my music rounded back out in a format that I can get to easily again.

Love Skid Row. Funny thing is, I didn't start listening to them and Def Lepord until I was older. To me it was new. I find it funny when people say 'Oh, so you like old school rock'

Umm...guess so

 

[past_perfect]

I also had two older brothers ten and six years older than me, who fed me with Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin et al. - my parents listened to more traditional folk and popular music I didn't really like that much.

The very first album I got together with my first record player was a Jimi Hendrix compilation. When I was ten however, me and my friends stumbled upon a container full of records the fire brigade had filled after a small fire in a record shop, some still in good enough condition - and thus began my life-long love affair with classical music including opera. I think I was the only one at that age group who answered the question of "what is your favourite music" with "Wagner".

 

[sr71plt]

Elvis moving into Peter, Paul, and Mary (rip, Mary).

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Frank (Fucking) Sanotra. My mother loved him. AAAARRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!

 

[Weird Harold]

Love it or hate it, I happen to love it. I grew up hearing singers like Patsy Cline, Ernest Tubb, Ernie Ford and others. I grew to love their songs and the sounds of their music.

All of those from the Grand Ol' Opry, plus...

The Sunday Polka Party (whatever it was actually called) Lawrence Welk, Show Tunes and other songs that made Billboard's top 100 throughthe fifties and sixties, Doo Wop, proto-surfer music from Annette Funicello's Beach movies, The Common Book of Hymns, Folk music and a few Woody Guthrie and Pete Seager protest songs suitable for grade school choir class and campfire sing-a-longs, Classical (mostly religious) choral arrangements (like Handel's Messiah) for the church choir, commercial 'folk' (Peter Paul and Mary, Kingston Trio, Joan Baez, et al,) and the Beatles from 'I Want To hold Your Hand; to Sgt Pepper.

I didn't get much exposure to Jazz or Gospel that wasn't suited to Grand Ol' Oppry until much later, but just about everything except sitting through a complete Opera shaped my taste in Music.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I started off with random 80s music. I couldn't tell you most of the artists that I liked, I don't remember who they were. It was wide spread through pop, rock, and anything that caught my fancy.

As I grew older, I shifted more and more towards rock in the late 80s and early 90s. Bands like Def Lepard, Guns & Roses, Whitesanke, White Lion, Winger (lot-o-double-us...), etcetera.

Then, around 92/93, I got heavily into metal Starting with Anthrax, and then moving on to Slayer, Morbid Angel, Sepultura, Metallica, and so on.

I got stuck in a metal rut after that

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

Blues and jazz mostly:

Robert Johnson

Bessie Smith

Billie Holiday

Sarah Vaughn

Louis Armstrong

 

[Boota]

I grew up on 50's and 60's rock and traditional country. Even though most would guess me as a diehard metal head, I still love the stuff I started with. The American Graffiti Sountrack on 8 track is probably the first record I ever LOVED. I can listen to Don Williams sing anything. My first concert was Dolly Parton when I was about four years old.

I come from a family of musicians, mostly country. My dad's cousin used to play guitar on the road with Waylon Jennings and Loretta Lynn, and a bunch of others. Back in the late 60's and early 70's he was so into his drug use that he routinely turned down record deals from Nashville. Why did he need a deal? He had all the drugs he could handle already.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

Oh, and I forgot to add:

Ike & Tina Turner!

 

[sadangel]

Love it or hate it, I happen to love it. I grew up hearing singers like Patsy Cline, Ernest Tubb, Ernie Ford and others. I grew to love their songs and the sounds of their music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuZTk1hdpMs&NR=1&feature=fvwp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9GTKJrLgYc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pleovx3k894

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG0I32IUP10

This is what I grew up with and still enjoy. There are very few out there that I like that are new, although there are a few. Miss Rhimes started out good but then she shifted to the Hip Hop circle and has gone downhill in my opinion.

So what did you grow up with?

Cat

Ernest Tubb--I met him in person and got to sing with him and then my family was invited to dinner at a small diner with him and his band. We had a blast.

Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Kitty Wells, Elvis Presley, George Jones, and so on. When I became an older teenager, I graduated to Air Supply and Iron Maiden, but must admit, I always go back to my Classic Country roots.

 

[McKenna]

Eclectic, at best:

ABBA

Kenny Rogers

Olivia Newton John

Barry Manilow

The Oak Ridge Boys

 

[jomar]

Beatles are my all-time favorite followed by Led Zeppelin, and the Stones. In high school there were a slew of others including CCR, Deep Purple, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aerosmith, Uriah Heep, Jethro Tull, Alice Cooper, Elton John, and some local bands.

In college there was also Marshall Tucker, Fleetwood Mac, early Springsteen, Jeff Beck, Buffett, Peter Frampton, Grin, Marley, Little Feat, Talking Heads, Head East, Pousette Dart Band, Roxy Music and on and on.

And I like a lot of the more current stuff - Dave Matthews, Bela Fleck, Interpol, Rilo Kiley, Band of Horses, Modest Mouse, Morcheeba, Aimee Mann...

Too many to name it seems.

 

[Teloz]

Buddy Holly et al, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bread, Jethro Tull, Steeleye Span, Fleetwood Mac, Dire Straits, UB40... The list is endless as I haven't finished growing up yet!

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Blues and jazz mostly:

Robert Johnson

Bessie Smith

Billie Holiday

Sarah Vaughn

Louis Armstrong

Robert Johnson and Bessie Smith? Wow! You were really into the old Blues.
I'm more into the Big Momma Thornton/Chicago Blues kind of thing.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

Robert Johnson and Bessie Smith? Wow! You were really into the old Blues.
I'm more into the Big Momma Thornton/Chicago Blues kind of thing.

Yes, definitely so. I'm from New Orleans, and blues are in my blood, I guess. It all started with my Grandmother who loved those old Delta blues singers. And, then I just kept loving them all my life.

 

[lance gt]

Because I make my own videos, I get into every style of music from opera and classical to oldies like Patsy Cline and Dion and the Belmonts. I've used techno rock like Crystal Method, bands like Staind, Fuel, Catherine Wheel, R&B artists like Regina Belle, Dido, Country music from Trace Adkins, Julianne Hough, Gary Allen, Classic rock like Led Zeppelin and so on. I produce under the name 11:15PM Productions and call the line Dreamgirls. I've used Playboy, Penthouse and AV stars as the subjects. It's really broadened my interest in different styles of music I normally wouldn't listen to.