What Albums Did your Parents Own?

[Wolfie]

Any recollections from childhood as to what albums your folks owned?

To jog the memory, some may recall epic car journeys when holidaying in Ireland / visting country relatives when the car tapes unleashed such crimes against the senses as Chris De Burgh, Elkie Brooks and the music from "Chess".

These albums made it onto the folks car tape playlist at certain times in the 80's:

Chris De Burgh
Elkie Brooks
The Love Songs of the Beatles - The Beatles
But Seriously - Phil Collins
Graceland - Paul Simon
Abba - Greatest Hits
The Best of the Bee Gees - The Bee Gees
Hits out of Hell - Meatloaf
The Best of the Dubliners

Maybe there's other car journey survivors out there, trying to get on with their haunted lives, with their own tale of woe.......................................

[tetsujin1979]

I still have nightmares of long distance journeys with endless Neil Diamond albums.

[Block G Raptor]

a Vinyl copy of Wolfe Tones - Rifle's of the IRA is still knocking around the Gaff with a sticker with me ma's maiden name on it,
Other than that they actually hadn't got bad taste, found a load of Beatles and T-rex in the attic there a while ago

[Risteard]

Jimmy Nail - Crocodile Shoes
Kenny Rogers , Patsy Cline - Greatest Hits
Dylan.
Also Gilbert Sulivan.

[jebus]

Father played mostly Beatles and Rat Pack albums, mother had a liking for Joe Dolan and Duran Duran if I recall correctly

[jmurphyc]

My parents actually have decent taste in music. I actually like a lot of the stuff that they used to listen to (as depressing as that is). Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix to name but a few.

[Schumi]

Graceland - Paul Simon

Me too. Although I don't mind it, I liked those car trips to visit the relatives down the country.

[Wolfie]

My parents actually have decent taste in music. I actually like a lot of the stuff that they used to listen to (as depressing as that is). Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix to name but a few.

Yeah - in fairness to my folks they did have "cooler" albums but they never made it to the car for some reason!!!!

They had a lot of Neil Young, Dylan and Al Stewart stuff that I plundered years later.

[placid casual]

in my youth we were subjected to the following in the car.
(bear in mind we had no tape deck and were made to sing)

Boney M- Brown girl in the ring
The Dubliners -Weila Wila (a song about a child murderer!)
Gilbert O'Sullivan -Claire
Showaddywadyy-under the moon of love.

different days.:

[Lionel Ritchie]

Carpenters -Christ we couldn't go on a summer holiday without getting a fortnight of Carpenters. "One tape!!? you brought a tape recorder and one f*&^ing tape?!"

good days.

Others that come to mind are

Kenny Rogers
...that is all.

[Unreal Madrid]

Elvis
Patsy Cline Now Crazy is brill but '3 cigarates in an ashtry'
Johnny McAvoy

[Kingdom]

My parents had terrible taste in music. I should edit that, my father had terrible taste in music.

Gloria Estefan
Swing Out Sister
Lisa Stansfield
Loads of Funk and Motown - but none of the decent stuff.
Had to put up with shyte like Neil Diamond too. George Michael also.
Disturbing childhood. Very disturbing.

[stann]

Don't recall too many albums, though me Dad did have the ubiquitous Neil Diamond and Johnny McEvoy tapes. He liked Harry Belafonte too!
Years ago though I was very surprised and delighted to learn that me mam used to have the NME delivered to the depths of rural Tipperary back in the 60s.
on her behalf!

[Tis-smeee]

Plenty of bagatelle ,Dublin City Ramlblers, Wolfe Tones, Elkie Brooks over and over

















































and over

[Billsthoughts]

in my youth we were subjected to the following in the car.
(bear in mind we had no tape deck and were made to sing)

Boney M- Brown girl in the ring
The Dubliners -Weila Wila (a song about a child murderer!)
Gilbert O'Sullivan -Claire
Showaddywadyy-under the moon of love.

different days.:

ha ha brilliant

[Lionel Ritchie]

My parents had terrible taste in music. I should edit that, my father had terrible taste in music.

Gloria Estefan
Swing Out Sister
Lisa Stansfield
Loads of Funk and Motown - but none of the decent stuff.
Had to put up with shyte like Neil Diamond too. George Michael also.
Disturbing childhood. Very disturbing.

Christ!

I was asked to leave a public house once for singing "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" when the news reported that Gloria Estefan was on a life support machine following a bus crash. Measured and rational response I thought at the time.

[BohsPartisan]

My Dad's old Vinyl that I used to listen to constantly as a kid consisted of The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, The Small Faces, The Stones, Elvis, Buddy Holly and loads Ex-Jukebox singles of varying quality. Of My Ma's music the only thing I listened to was Scott Walker and the Walker Brothers.

[GenerationXI]

Kenny Rogers, Smokie, Billy Joel. . . but that was when I was younger, then my Dad went through a phase of buying new music recently, which he inevitably thought I'd find cool, somehow, like Dido and Pink. It made some sense that he would like music from his own era that I wouldn't, but the choices he made in more modern music were tragic.

Actually, what do your parents listen to now?

[superfrank]

The stuff I remember being played most: Hank Williams Snr. & Jnr., Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, T-Rex/Marc Bolan, The Saw Doctors, Rocky Horror Soundtrack, John Prine, Fleetwood Mac, Dean Martin, Nina Simone, Blues Brothers, Meat Loaf.

Also, I remember every Saturday night, going back about 15 years, we'd listen to this show on 2FM or 98FM, can't remember which, and it played all 60's stuff (the stuff my mother grew up listening to). It was almost always in the same sequence as well.

[Schumi]

Also, I remember every Saturday night, going back about 15 years, we'd listen to this show on 2FM or 98FM, can't remember which, and it played all 60's stuff (the stuff my mother grew up listening to). It was almost always in the same sequence as well.

98 FM. My mum made a tape of an hour (or however long the tape was) of it and played it in the car on trips down the country. You'd know the next song before it even started.