DadMusic

[peeveen]

Alright, post a tune that you love that you would probably never have heard if it wasn't for your dad. Yeah, it's a bit like "Inheritance Tracks" on Radio Four's "Saturday Live". I know.

Here's my choice. This, incidentally, is also the tune I'd use as my "walk-on" music if I became a professional darts player.

This is from the album that my dad would play most Friday or Saturday nights in the 1980s while getting ready to go out with my mum. To me, it's the reassuring sound that something is happening in the world. Throw some Brut 33 around the place for extra realism.

Coming soon: MumMusic! ... followed by AuntMusic! (not really)

[Guest]

Absolute weapon.

[ZOK]

Word of Mouth by Toni Basil is one of my favourite albums, my dad used to play it in the car all the time.

[dam_aks]

[Nathan Wind]

My Dad is responsible for my love of Thin Lizzy, Dire Straits, Motorhead and ELO among lots of other stuff. Other than that he's a prick, but he has largely decent taste in music.

[jaynay]

It was UB40/Johnny Cash/The Wurzels on constant repeat in his car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkz71zy8T8s

[Nathan Wind]

Dire straits is defo dad rock.

Certainly is, but they've knocked out some undeniably catchy tunes. I got loads of other good stuff out of my old man - Chuck Berry, ACDC, The Who, all sorts.

[Wickedkitten]

It wasn't until I was in my 20s that I actually Sussex what fucking excellent taste my dad has in music for a guy from the Highlands

[KartoffelKopf]

Other albums that I love that my Dad is directly responsible for. I probably would have discovered them all at some point but they wouldn't have been part of my growing up in the same way.

[Vimster]

My dad hated music. He never had any records in the house. My brothers also appeared to hate music too. I had to find my own way musically.

[Calashnikov]

Absolute menace and doom, being driven about the Scottish highlands in my dad's car in the dead of night, listening to this on the stereo. Amazing.

[Charliemouse]

My Dad had dreadful taste in music, Bon Jovi and Def Leppard were the main staples for the long car journeys when I was a kid.

It gets worse though, after my parents split up, it was around the time Bryan Adams was at number one with Everything I do I do it for you, and it was all he would play when he had us for weekends. It got so bad, we couldn't even leave the car until the bloody song had finished, with my Dad locking the doors, so my brothers and I couldn't escape the torture our ears were receiving.

[Plissken]

To be honest, we've spent the last 20 years going to blues/rock concerts together. He's got tinnitus now, which is a shame.

[Guest]

My Dad had dreadful taste in music, Bon Jovi and Def Leppard were the main staples for the long car journeys when I was a kid.

It gets worse though, after my parents split up, it was around the time Brain Adams was at number one with Everything I do I do it for you, and it was all he would play when he had us for weekends. It got so bad, we couldn't even leave the car until the bloody song had finished, with my Dad locking the doors, so my brothers and I couldn't escape the torture our ears were receiving.

It's Bryan .

[Charliemouse]

It's Bryan .

So it is, see the even has mentally scarred me so much, I can't even spell his name correctly now.

[Nick R]

It gets worse though, after my parents split up, it was around the time Bryan Adams was at number one with Everything I do I do it for you, and it was all he would play when he had us for weekends. It got so bad, we couldn't even leave the car until the bloody song had finished, with my Dad locking the doors, so my brothers and I couldn't escape the torture our ears were receiving.

You might want to read this:

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2011/05/bryan-adams-everything-i-do-i-do-it-for-you/

(Although I suppose you feel a bit more strongly about it than he does in the last sentence!)

[SeanR]

What is it with west Indians and country and western anyway?

[ngchol]

This, and Cleo Laine, and John Denver *chokes back vomit* - having said that, Demis Roussos also appears on one of my favourite pieces of music ever - Tales Of The Future from Blade Runner.

[KRP]

War on Drugs is perfect dad music.

[SeanR]

could be worse...

[ZOK]

This, and Cleo Laine, and John Denver *chokes back vomit* - having said that, Demis Roussos also appears on one of my favourite pieces of music ever - Tales Of The Future from Blade Runner.

I like all of those!

could be worse...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0zQJVJwNd0

And that!

[Wiper]

My dad is mostly responsible for getting me into the Kinks, the Beatles, Cream and King Crimson. And for spectacularly putting me off Bob Dylan through consistent attempting to get me to appreciate him by forcing to sit through albums at a time of his tone-deaf singing. So that backfired a bit. But yeah, thanks to the selection being broad and not really osbcure there's nothing really interesting enough to post an example of, really.

On the other hand, my mum's partner (lived with my mum from when I was two, so effectively stepdad) didn't have a very broad effect on my taste in music, but did instill in me a deep love for jukeboxes and the joy of a musical household as he'd inevitably fire the old Wurlitzer up to belt out whatever singles he'd stuck in that month. Of all the music that he liked to pipe out, the songs that stuck with me throughout my childhood were Jerry Lee Lewis' Great Balls of Fire, Prince's Partyman, Billy Idol's Rebel Yell and this piece of wonder:

(I only found out what that actual track was thanks to this forum last year, finally, having never watched the series)

Lots of love for all of those songs still (alongside an eventual, though not really linked, realisation that Prince is fucking amazing generally), and the urge to always listen to them at ridiculous volumes in the middle of the day, much to the gf's chagrin - alas, she grew up in a house of quiet, so loud music is generally frowned upon

[DjSatansfur3h]

My dad is a cunt.

[dizogg]

This is a good one, I remember my dad having the Joe Jackson album "I'm the man" on cassette and playing it. Revisited it today.

He also listened to a lot of Bowie. And also Northern Soul and Motown but I can never remember specific song titles or artists names of that stuff.