WHAT MUSIC DID YOU GROW UP ON...

[batcity]

Thought i'd start this thread because apart from being a Meat Loaf Fan, We all had to start somewhere with our musical journey. well I grew up on Motown and soul, I remeber at a young age, listening to Barry White's lp "Can't Get Enough" when my dad put it on, and i loved it, the others artists my dad and mum played were as follows


Jimmy Helms/The Defonics/Stylistics/The Drifters/Otis Redding/Jimmy Ruffin/Isley Brothers etc

My Best album I really loved was an Ronco Complilation LP called "Black Explosion", still have the album in excelleny condition. but do not play it as now have all the tracks on cd (took me a long time to find all tracks, as some obscure).

When in secondary school in 1981 - 1987, Everyone was into Chaka Khan, Duran, Duran and Wham, fair enough!!! (each to their own). I was the outcast there, listened to MEAT LOAF, everyone else thought i was weird because I didnt listen to there stuff - (oh well, so what), ever since 1981 then I've been in fan!!!

I do listen to other artists from All About Eve to Joe Cocker, Lagwagon to OMD and from Chris Rea to ZZ Top

But once in a while I go back to where it all started - to 70's black soul, hey just seen Matalan advert and the music that was playing was one of my childhood songs grew up with (The Delfonics - I didn't I blow your mind this time)

So Tell Me Yours!!!!!

[duke knooby]

country tunes, sad story ones are best!!

[sunneke]

pink floyd, The Cats, Neil Diamond and doktor Hook... music my father loves to hear..........

[batcity]

Dr Hook !!! brilliant

[sunneke]

love the song: cover of the rolling stone :lol:

[LucyK!]

Oohh what a good thread!

From the age of 7 it's been Meat Loaf, but before that, all I can raelly remember is my Dad's country music ( about one of the only things he educated me well on! ) He was a big fan of Kenny Rogers and from that I grew to love his stuff too, he'd definately be the one I'd choose if I had to put a soundtrack to my growing up

[AndyK]

I was heavily influenced by both my brothers musical tastes when I was growing up, hence I was weaned on a diet of The Stones, The Faces, Springsteen, The Clash, Lindisfarne and Southside Johnny. Thankfully I wasn't influenced by my sisters taste in the Osmonds :))

[fireballgirl63]

Thankfully I wasn't influenced by my sisters taste in the Osmonds :))

Hey, what's the matter with the Osmonds :twisted: I grew up on Elvis (my mom's influence) and proceeded to direct myself to Bobby Sherman, the Osmonds (most specifically Donny) and Shaun Cassidy. Then I discovered the other world of Rock and Roll and since I came of age during the 80's it was a time of punk rock, glam hair bands and heavy metal

[JanT]

My mum loved listening to Mario Lanza and the guy who sings "The Desert Song" so that was the background track of my young life. I think she got her first grey hair when I brought home BOOH and played it on my little, red bacolite, mono, record player; turned up full blast. Not loud by todays standards but loud enough at the time. :))

[SW31]

grew up on the sound of the 70ts heavy rock music ect deep purple,rush,led zepplin,kiss,acdc,queen then into the 80s commercil stuff bon jovi,thunder,gnr
,faster pussycat & meat loaf

[KebLou]

Erm like every type of music there is, except classical and I guess that's why I don't really like it now.

My Padre is into rock, metal and that sort of music whereas, my mum is into R'n'B and Soul. My cousins who I spent a lot of time with are into Garage, Grime and Techno etc... so like a real mix of music.

[MeatGrl1]

Elvis Presley has been a big part of my life since I was six or seven years old. I love this guy to absolute peices, it's difficult to explain this to someone who's not experienced this attachment but he has become a big part of my :heart:.
He's been there when I've been down and has helped me through some really tough times with his music.

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[Jeanie]

As a small child, a lot of country music. Then as a teenager of the 70's and.. Disco < gag. I took another route, when a lot of people were listening to that, and discovered Meat Loaf, Kiss, Queen, Alice Cooper, The Eagles, Dr. Hook, CCR, Elvis ect.

Today, my taste in music is anything, in any genre, I find interesting.

J.

[Sapphire Lady]

Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett :D

[Keep Rocking]

I was infuenced by the music my father heared:
every kind of rock music: he has got a very large LP collection
and one of my earliest childhood memories is listening to the opening/speech part of hot summer night (I was born in 1975)

[daveake]

I'd love to answer this question, but I haven't grown up yet ...

Dave

[The Flying Mouse]

:twisted: Meat was the first "artist" I was ever into.

Until then there were just songs.

Two big staples were The House Of The Rising Sun, and Stand By Me.

Over the years my tastes expanded a lot.

I listened to everything from opera to rock, from blues to show tunes.


Was never into rap or house music or anything like that though, and I HATED bands like Take That with a passion.


These my tastes have narrowed again, and my staples are Meat, Joe Cocker, Roy Orbison, and Tanz Der Vampire.

Unless the old brain sends up a flair from the vaults and I listed to a song I haven't heard in ages :lol:


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[RadioMaster]

as a small child: german folk music, called "Schlager", about the uncoolest music you could ever imagine, my parents listened to it and there were 2 or 3 compilations I really liked as a kid. Weird, I know :oops:
about 10-13, I liked (and please dont kill me for that) Eminem :oops::oops::oops:
I liked it because it was so intensive and emotional, you see, although I listened to crap, I was already on the right way ;)
Now, Meat, of course and I grow an interest for musicals.
Last band I "discovered" for me was Tenacious D (last week:oops:)

[Lord Kagan]

A lot of stuff from the 60s..

[KebLou]

about 10-13, I liked (and please dont kill me for that) Eminem

I actually don't think they is anything wrong with liking Eminem, although more his earlier albums as his newer ones are more commercialised.

[needmoremeat]

We have these two 60s and 70s tapes, I grew up on them. Some songs I can remember:
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
No Milk Today (love this one!)
Da Do Run Run
Sixteen Candles
Lets Twist Again

Also the Eurythmics, like a lot of their songs (even though I thought Annie Lennox was a man when I was about 5!:shock: :lol: I know better now!), and Dave Stewart is from Sunderland!:mrgreen:

Since '93 it was BatII, even though I didn't know it at the time, knew AFL though.

Few years later I'm ashamed to admit it was when all the pop came into being I used to follow that, (btw, speaking of the Osmonds, if someone had told me they sang Love Me For A Reason I might have got one of their tapes, but no, went and got a boysone one!:oops: :oops: :oops: ) but not long after wanted something bigger, better and louder to listen to, but had no idea where to start as didn't have computer or internet. Couple of weeks later Mam said 'lets listen to Meat Loaf (Bat II) on the way to our caravan'! It was so much more than I would have settled for, it was just magnificent!

[Hypnobabe]

I've got a really eclectic taste in music, I grew up listening to Motown, 60's, Cliff Richard and old Country and Western, courtesy of my mum, and my ex-step-dad had a tape called 'Hooked on Classics' which was sort of classical music for the plebs. From this, I've gotten into classical music in a big way, and have a large collection. I rebelled against the constant diet of Cliff, and got into rock - Metallica, Guns 'n' Roses, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, but would still go for some Motown or 60's stuff every now and then.

Now it's Meat, alternative music like The Killers, Razorlight, Sandi Thom, Alanis Morrisette, K.T. Tunstall... in fact, I'll pretty much listen to anything except Jazz (although I do a like a bit of Nina Simone) and 70's Glam Rock, and I've never been into opera. Don't mind the musicals though, my mate has the soundtrack to 'Passion' which is worth a listen, and one of my favourites was and still is Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds.

Current favourite album? Bat III of course... Current favourite non-Meat album? Nickelback - Silver Side Up

[Chris]

I was heavily influenced by Dad's choices of Meat loaf, Queen and people like Phil Collins, The police and what is generally classed as sot-rock.

Mum got me hooked on country music - at the moment more modern stuff than classic, think Kenny Chesne, Toby keith, Martina mcBride, Gretchen Wilson, and of course the fabulous Alan Jackson) Mum also got me into musicals, both the classic wes ent/broadway hits and some of the lesser well known ones like 3 steps to heaven and stuff.

And thanks to my big sister a lot of 80's pop. Hands up anyone else who knows all the words to "Nothings gonna change my love for you"

Whenever we were in the car, they always had classic gold or Magic 828 on the radio which led to liking a lot of 60's & 70's stuff like Cliff (although he is 50's, 60's 70's 80's 90's & 00's - new album in the shops now folks!!)

[Hypnobabe]

Hands up anyone else who knows all the words to "Nothings gonna change my love for you"

:wave:

[Rockette]

I grew up on a solid diet of Gilbert and Sullivan, Nelson Eddy and Mario Lanza.
Then my big sister introduced me to Ricky Nelson, Brenda Lee, Fabian, etc. etc.
There followed Elvis, Bill Haley, etc.
In my early teens, The Beatles, until Meat Loaf "saved" me from the world of pop.
Now my musical taste is eclectic.
I bought Medicine Woman III on the same day I bought Bat Out of Hell III, much to the astonishment of the record store owner.

[needmoremeat]

Oh, how oculd I forget dear old Cliff?!:shock: :lol: :oops:

[batcity]

easily!!!

[geordieloaf]

Like most my Mother & Father's taste's influenced me. From my Father it was Meat Loaf, also The Animals and Pink Floyd.
From my Mother it was Roy Orbison, The Beatles & soul music.
Although my uncle got me into the Sex Pistols and i think the start to ''Anarchy in the uk'' is one of the all time great intro's.

[lisa01]

It was my uncle who got me into meat loaf i can remember when i was about 4 and my mum took me to my nans house and my uncle would play his music and i can remember asking who is that singing. he said its meat loaf. my first thought was wow i loved going to my nans with my mum and sitting with my uncle listening to meat loaf i first saw meat loaf on top of the pops in 1993 and i now know who he is and iam still a very big fan of meat loaf to day at the age of 31 and iam proud to call myself a fan as i have been a fan of meat loaf all of my life

[JennaG]

I grew up listening to Status Quo, Slade, Queen and Meat Loaf because that's what my dad liked to listen to and he usually had first choice of what music was played in our house but when my mum got to choose it was Neil Diamond, Bobby Goldsboro and Roy Orbison.

Their choices have influenced my tastes in music more so than my sister's and I'm grateful to them for introducing me to some great music.

[AndyK]

I'll let you know when I've grown up.

[Vickip]

Bobby Sherman. I had the biggest crush on him when I was growing up, and even had posters of him hanging on the wall :-)

Then I got hooked on Barry Manilow, Weird Al Yankovich and Ray Stevens (who I still listen to occasionally) before "discovering" Meat Loaf after Storytellers in 1999.

[Vickip]

I'll let you know when I've grown up.

:up:

[suzieq]

Music influence and preference has always played a big part in my tight family. I think I'm classified as a 'mutt' with the different genres of music I grew up on. So here goes a list of my top exposures:

Mom: Engelbert Humperdink (sp?), Barry Manilow, Pointer Sisters, anything Doo Wop. Dad: see mom and add Kenny Rogers and Lionel Richie. Sister #1: Journey, Air Supply, Chicago and Meat Loaf. Sister #2: Styx, The Sugar Hill Gang and Prince. Brother: local bands around Long Island N.Y., Rush, Def Leppard, Led Zepplin, The Cars, The Cure, Ted Nugent, Damn Yankees, The Eagles, Peter Frampton (and I know I'm missing a bunch).

I was exposed to Meat at a young age, but the Bat album cover actually scared me to death. I'm told that I used to dance to Paradise even though I had NO CLUE what the meaning of the song was. As I grew up, trying to come into my own opinions of music, I favored listening to Michael Jackson then Bon Jovi, Poison, Cinderella before age 11. Age 12, a car trip with my cousin from Florida to NY we had Meat playing from West Virginia all the way north. I've not swayed my favorite since. Bon Jovi still has a place in my heart but my love is Meat.

Suzieq

[howlerformeatloaf]

I grew up listening to old country with my mom. Then when I started listening to my own I found Beach Boys, Meat Loaf, Pink Floyd and a few others. But the more I went the more I really liked Meat Loaf the very best. Always will and will never stop. :D