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Post by ganews on Jan 16, 2022 18:27:46 GMT -5
Weeks past Christmas and I'm still feeling sentimental because I didn't get to see most of my family. So for February, nominate up to to albums that were special for your parents, or something specific you shared with them.
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Jan 16, 2022 19:45:28 GMT -5
I’ve mentioned this before, but at my parents’ 30th anniversary dinner they had a disagreement as to whether Adam & the Ants’ Kings of the Wild Frontier was actually good (my mom) or whether it was just a thing they everyone was into at the time and wasn’t actually any good (my dad). Let’s see who was right.
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Post by patbat on Jan 16, 2022 21:15:49 GMT -5
Joni Mitchell, For The Roses
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on Jan 17, 2022 4:02:13 GMT -5
Mountain, Climbing! (1970). I'll never hear "Mississippi Queen" without remembering the time in 1992 when my father and I stayed up late to watch Mountain play live on Dennis Miller's talk show.
Phish, A Picture Of Nectar (1992). The jam band behemoth you love to hate's major label debut is one of the last albums I sent my father from college before he passed in '95.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Jan 17, 2022 9:31:42 GMT -5
Roger McGuinn - Cardiff Rose ( 1976) |
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Jan 17, 2022 12:09:37 GMT -5
The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack -- my parents' very first date was to see that movie, followed by a Diet Coke for my mom and a coffee for my dad at a little diner that's still around 40+ years later.
I also think it's a genuinely good album, hence the nomination.
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Post by Dellarigg on Jan 17, 2022 12:18:32 GMT -5
I have more Bob Dylan albums than my parents had albums in total. What they did have tended to be ineligible greatest hits packages - Beach Boys, Elvis, Simon & Garfunkel; there was talk of my dad liking the Everly Brothers, but I never saw any evidence of it - and the odd Beatles and Stones album that I stole at the first available opportunity.
So I'll sit this one out, I think.
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Post by ganews on Jan 17, 2022 12:34:07 GMT -5
Joni Mitchell, For The Roses
Ohhh, I might have done that. My father loved Joni Mitchell his whole life. |
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Post by ganews on Jan 17, 2022 12:51:32 GMT -5
Dad listened to a lot of music and when I was growing up was the only person I knew who listened, or wanted to listen, to college stations. (We were on the fuzzy edge of range for the broadcasts from UGA and Georgia State.) But I will nominate based on an incident that didn't even involve me, but is just funny because of what a laid-back guy he was: he was talking to a friend at work, and the friend said, "Eh, I don't think much of Ry Cooder." Dad said, "Get out of my office. Our friendship is in danger."
Ry Cooder, "Paradise and Lunch"
My mom's favorite bands have always been R.E.M. and the B52s, covered on TI pretty well. So I will nominate the album the two of us always put on the cassette deck when merging onto I-95 en route to visit my grandparents.
Little Feat, "Let It Roll"
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jan 19, 2022 1:58:53 GMT -5
I have more Bob Dylan albums than my parents had albums in total. What they did have tended to be ineligible greatest hits packages - Beach Boys, Elvis, Simon & Garfunkel; there was talk of my dad liking the Everly Brothers, but I never saw any evidence of it - and the odd Beatles and Stones album that I stole at the first available opportunity. So I'll sit this one out, I think. This is the same for me. My parents mostly loved Country music. Although my father was a big fan of the Stones and the Beatles. My father also liked the Beach Boys, CCR and Three Dog Night. My mother, though, was strictly Country. (She is from Tennessee and her father was a Bluegrass musician.) |
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Post by monodrone on Jan 19, 2022 4:37:49 GMT -5
In my early years there were two bands that my dad listened to that have had a big influence on what I've gone on to enjoy in music so I'm going to go with the albums he's always considered the best from those groups.
Queen - Queen II
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
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Post by pantsgoblin on Jan 19, 2022 11:15:25 GMT -5
For my second nom, I'll go with the band that was my dad's favorite for annoying those around him: Steely Dan.
Gaucho (1980)
Not their best album but the one that's most interesting to talk about.
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Post by Prole Hole on Jan 21, 2022 11:43:58 GMT -5
I’ve mentioned this before, but at my parents’ 30th anniversary dinner they had a disagreement as to whether Adam & the Ants’ Kings of the Wild Frontier was actually good (my mom) or whether it was just a thing they everyone was into at the time and wasn’t actually any good (my dad). Let’s see who was right. Spoiler: It's your Dad. It's a really terrific little album. I have nothing to offer here unless someone's desperate to discuss the Barbara Streisand / Kris Krissto... Krost... Kristorp... er that version of A Star Is Born, or something dreadful by Barry Manilow (which is to say, anything by Barry Manilow). We were not a musical household, growing up. |
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jan 21, 2022 12:29:54 GMT -5
My mom's second favorite band after The Beatles (who have been analyzed to death) is AC/DC, and there's not much to analyze there.
My dad's favorite band is Renaissance, whom nobody has heard of, so I'll nominate their double album In The Beginning.
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Post by ganews on Jan 21, 2022 22:14:22 GMT -5
My mom's second favorite band after The Beatles (who have been analyzed to death) is AC/DC, and there's not much to analyze there. My dad's favorite band is Renaissance, whom nobody has heard of, so I'll nominate their double album In The Beginning. I'll have you know my mom is a big fan of Renaissance. I always thought "A Trip to the Fair" was creepy. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jan 22, 2022 10:22:34 GMT -5
My parents have REALLY good taste in music:
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Jan 24, 2022 20:14:28 GMT -5
My dad actually really good taste in music--he was one of those guys who would have been going to Ozzfests in his fifties even if I wasn't into it (those were our family outing the way other families did whatever other families did). His favorite album of all time was Todd Rundgren's "Something/Anything," but there's already a Todd album and I'm not going to split the vote, so I'll nominate what was probably his favorite band and go with the Rolling Stones' "Out of Our Heads," (US Version). It came out about when he was fourteen (the optimal age to fall in love with music, and features probably my favorite song of theirs "The Last Time."
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