For me it would be The Eagles. I think my dad and all of his siblings loved their music. I think that's why all my cousins know exactly when an Eagles song comes on the radio.It seems like my dad was always listening to their greatest hits album especially when we were getting ready for school. That was before we had to get up earlier than him! So what music did everyone else grow up with??

Your dad sounds wonderful! For me, early on, it was Elvis and Roy Orbison, basically because my mom loved them! But teen wise, it was the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Animals, Jerry & the Pacemakers, Peter & Gordon, Peter Noonan, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot....and lots MORE! Rather an eclectic mix!

Man, when I was growing up?? Well, for starters, Dad had no musical influence at all. Oddly enough, he & I probably have the closest musical taste in a lot of respects....

We grew up with a lot of Dusty Springfield, Petula Clarke, Shirelles, Neil Diamond, Gene Pitney, Roy Orbison, CCR type stuff. And whatever was on the radio. We used to go to sleep with the radio on for as long as I can remember. I never used to be able to fall asleep at friend's places unless the radio was on!

My Dad had a great influence on my musical taste. He was himself a singer in a hard rock band (the band was in fact quite popular here in Estonia), had (and still has) long hair and wore leather and torn denim. During my childhood I hardly ever heard anything but Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper and other rock stuff. My Dad also taught me to play quite a few of The Beatles's songs on the guitar. I'm actually grateful to him for influencing me so much. Thanks Dad if you happen to be reading this!

Anyone from Ireland will know what I'm talking about (I don't know if there are that many). Showband music. For anyone that doesn't know....
In the fifties and sixties in Ireland not many of the top or chart acts ever came here so they went ahead and did their own stuff. So you had these terrific musicians and singers belting out fabulous rock n roll. They were not inferior cover bands or anything of the sort and their following was phenomenal. The dancehalls would be heaving with dangerous amounts of people and the saying went that "the walls would sweat". In fact one of these bands called the Royal Showband from here in Waterford played on the bill in the only live performance that the Beatles had in Ireland, and the Beatles supported the Royals!!! So for anyone that comes from Ireland...rock on Brendan Bowyer.

It's great that the current young generation can appreciate the music of their parents (most likely my age), that is, from the 60's through the 80's. My teenage daughters are constantly borrowing my CD's, though I still can't get them to appreciate Jethro Tull!

This is so much different from when I was growing up. My parents had no taste for music outside of their youth, which would be music of the 40's primarily. This is quite a bit differerent from Rock music, which people of that generation seemed to hate with a vengeance! "You call that noise music!", was a frequent refrain. I remember nothing but musical battles in most of my friends houses when I was young.

I like the Rock music of today as much as I did in the early years of Rock. In fact, I borrow my daughter's CD's as much as they do mine!

I grew up on classical music, mostly operas by Verdi, Mozart, Puccini and Wagner, and I still like them. My dad, however, brought me close to the Rock 'n' Roll stuff from '58 onwards. In fact, I find myself humming "Twilight Time" by The Platters whenever I'm browsing his cd's Other bands/singers whom I grew up on are ABBA, Elvis Presley, The Scorpions, The Eagles and Nancy Sinatra.
Today, my musical taste differs a lot from my dad's, though I still like ABBA, The Eagles, and Nancy. I guess I'm really a kid of the nineties... I like Nirvana, for example.´My dad hates them

Eagles, Beatles, Abba, Lionel Ritchie, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Olivia Newton-John, Anne Murray, Doobies, Chicago, America, Bachman-Turner-Overdrive, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Police, Queen ... do I need to go through my entire record/tape collection and get them all??? ... the list goes on ... I had (and still have) favourites in most music genres.

Well lets see , when i was really young i was so in love with the Osmonds , and the Bay City Rollers (anyone remember them?) then i decided to grow up a bit! Here are a few of my favortites from the 70's Roxy Music,T.Rex,Queen ,Rod Stewart, Thin Lizzy and Meat Loaf.

Anyone in the UK might remember on a Sunday something called "Sing Something Simple". As kids my mum and dad used to make us listen to that in return for being able to listen to the top 40.

2 songs that really stick in my mind are "Mull of Kintyre" being at number 1 for ages and I hated it so much in the end, and "Mississippi" which we all used to sing to my dad in really off tune voices as he loved it and we hated it.

Later on my sister really got me into Squeeze and my brother got me into Depeche Mode. My mum also got me into old Cole Porter and Gershwin classics as we'd sing them doing the washing and drying up. She'd later ask me how I knew all the words to old songs as she hadn't realised that listening to her sing had made me remember them.

This is such a nice thread and has made me think of loads of happy things. I'm off down memory lane.

I grew up listening to nothing. My mother preferred not to have music on, and my dad, although he likes music, wasn't so passionate about it to insist.

I'm really only just discovering what "that good time rock 'n' roll" is, because the new beau is so into it (Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and the Beatles are his favourites). It's led to some pretty funny conversations, like the time he was playing guitar for me a few months ago:

Me: That's pretty. What's it called?
Him: (flatly. Now that I think about it, he must have thought I was criticizing his playing!) It's Stairway to Heaven!
Me: Oh. I always wondered what that song sounded like.
Him: (incredulously) You've never heard Stairway to Heaven!?!?!?!

Moody Blues
Elton John
Pink Floyd
Yes

....to name a few.

I grew up listening to the master, Jimi Hendrix. Black Sabbath and Deep Purple were also an influence, followed by AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Sex Pistols and the Ramones.
Even though I've gone on to heavier music, I still have CDs by all these bands.

My dad liked showtunes, folk and some calpyso music. He also listened to a lot of comedy albums of the times. Mom listens to about the same as my dad did though she likes more soul music and gospel tunes. My older brothers were into the British Invasion bands & Dylan. So i grew up listening to this plus the 70's music of my time but since i never really grew up, i love music from now and all decades.

My dad listened to classic country ie Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams and also southern gospel ie The Spear Family, Dottie and Buck Rambo, The Goodmans, etc. While I still have a fondness of southern gospel it is not something I listen to often. The classic country I don't like much at all. I listened to the contemporary music of my peers (I came of age in the '70s).

We grew up without any music to speak of. Mum and Dad were in many ways real couch potatos. We had the TV and that was it, no record player or tape deck of any sort. When I went away to school at thirteen it was a real revelation to me. Many kids had record decks and casette recorders and there was a huge diversity in what people listened to.

I went from having almost no music in my life to instant exposure to: pop, folk, folk-rock, progressive rock, classical, jazz (never really got on with jazz), gregorian chant, chamber music and Sousa. That was all in the first couple of weeks.

So I guess you could say I grew up with no music and all music.

Hmmm, I'm still digesting that last one..hard to believe..though I've known people without any photos, or stuff like that..but, no music?
I'm the antithesis of that..don't think a day went by when I didn't hear someone singing..come to think of it, an hour!
Dad's a music teacher by speciality though..but, I had a solid grounding in all kinds of music, even Asian, by the time I was in school..then gradually got up to about four hours a day of practicing it!
I think there must have been over 20 instruments alone lying around the house too.
We had a stereo rather than a TV, the other way around, until I was about six.I grew up with Gospel, hymns, choral, band music, musicals, popular music, squaredance, Folk music, classical, rock..bluegrass, and then jazz.

My parents didn't listen to much music. Dad liked country music, somewhat, but not enough to buy any. Mom, I think, liked Sinatra a little.

I had older siblings, though, so I heard what they played. Mostly the teeny-bopper junk that was popular in that day and whatever was on the radio. I don't think they had especially good taste in music really. I don't either. Most popular music's pretty dumb if you really listen to it. I can't think of any off hand that isn't. Maybe some Elvis Costello songs.

Now I have a step-son. He seems to like They Might Be Giants and the Ramones version of "Spider-Man". That's pretty cool. I don't play as much music as I did when I was younger though. A lot of the music I like has coarse language or negative attitudes so I'm not keen on playing my Vandals CDs when he's around because he picks up on the lyrics.

One way in which the generation gap of earlier decades has been reproduced is through rap and/or techno. A lot of people my age or older think those are just noise and a lot of people younger than me seem to not want to listen to anything else. I don't mind some rap (especially Beastie Boys but I guess they don't really count) and I can stand techno for a while but eventually I get sick of it and want some variety and some djs look at you like you just keyed their car if you ask for something with a guitar and recognizable lyrics in it.

Er... I think I went off topic.

I was gradually accustomed to the gruff voice of Bob Dylan beginning at birth and continuing through my most formative years, until by junior high I actually loved the voice, and he is now my favorite musician. I was also exposed to, from my father, Fleetwood Mac and Ry Cooder and folk music and various other rock and roll bands. He spent hours making mixed tapes and had a tendency to play his music VERY loud.

Through my brother I was introduced to The Stones (whcih I never grew to like), Led Zepplin (which I never grew to like) the Eagles, Steely Dan, and Pink Floyd (which I do like). He also introduced me to Van Morrison, who has become my second favorite musician.

My mom listened mainly to country music of the type I hate. But she did expose me to one group I grew to love--Simon and Garfunkel (or maybe that was my Dad too, I'm not sure.)

I grew up on the music of the King of Rock-n-Roll, Elvis Presley. As I became a teen, I was into Menudo, and now that I am in my early 30's, I am back into Elvis.

One of my earliest memories of songs on the radio was some song about Plucking Pheasants.Cher singing about tramps and thieves was another.As I got older Abba were on the radio alot.When I was a teen I listened to Australian Crawl,Cold Chisel,Midnight Oil,AC/DC,The Radiators,Sunnyboys,Dead Kennedys,Sex Pistols,Split Enz and Icehouse.These bands are mostly listed in order of preference.