What kind of music do your parents listen to?

My Mom has always enjoyed music, especially the blues. Now days, she mostly listen to gospel. She’s 90 years old.

My father was a big country fan. My mother not much of anything. I like everything myself.

My mum likes The Beatles, Elvis & Roy Orbison….yep, all the oldies.
Don’t know about my dad, haven’t seen him since I was little.

She grew up in the NW, listening to (at least from what I observed growing up) 90s hip-hop, R&B, grunge, and alternative rock.

@Vunessuh Your parents sound like they are roughly contemporary to me.

My mother likes opera and classical music, with occasional tunes from musicals of the 50s and 60s. My father liked big band music, cowboy music (Marty Robbins), Irish ballads, and Scottish vocals (Harry Lauder)

Dad: The Beatles, Wings, Led Zeppelin, Elton John.
Mom: Rock and Pop. She’s a regular K-Earth listener and loves all the new pop stars out there.

Classical.

My mom was very eclectic in her musical tastes. I grew up listening to everything from classical to Jazz to Heavy metal and everything in between.

Mom listens to rap, hip hop, r & b, and dance pop. Dad listens to contemporary Christian and shitty Jack Johnson/John Mayer stuff, whatever you’d call that genre.

My mum is constantly listening to classical music. My dad adore Fleetwood Mac and other Motown artists, like George Benson. They hate eachother’s taste in music!

My dad raised me on classic rock. My mom likes pretty crappy music though with the exception of Bowie. She really isnt big into music either. I love music far far more than both my parents though.

Ain’t no Grave by Johnny Cash. All 3 are passed on..

My parents are big country fans. For some reason, they seem to prefer modern country as opposed to the older style country music of their youth. I am not much of a country fan myself, but will listen to just about anything else.

My mother REALLY enjoys African music, especiallt Congolese. My dad on the other hand enjoys more blues and Bowie is his favourite musician since he was a young man.

Classical,jazz and some pop.

Dad- Dadrock, proto-metal, classical.
Mom- mainstream stuff, broadway tunes, American idol stuff.

Dad: Soul, and blues (Al Green is one of his favorites). Little Richard, Chuck Berry
Mom: Broadway, Simon and Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, Fleetwood Mac

I get my love of music from my older sibs (all in their late 40’s): they listened to: Frank Zappa, Ozzy, metal, Pink Floyd, Queen, Hendrix, The Who, Stevie Ray, Zepplin, (my one brother named our dog after Gerry Garcia), and Jeff Beck just to name a few.

My dad (RIP) while he was a truck driver used to like that twangy country back in the 70’s and 80’s to me it was torture, I did not care that so and so lost their dog, had a truck, lost their wife and cried the blues lord help me. Then he started liking Luciano Pavarotti O sole mio more torture. Then he liked this lady called Rita McNeil the torture kept going. In the 90’s he changed his tune to start liking Celine Dion and The Rankin Family.

My mom was a different story, she liked KISS, REO speedwagon, Elvis, Roy Orbison, Rod Stewart, Phil Collins, Bob Seiger.
I heard everything in my house my brother is into heavy metal he has over 4000 CDs if you asked him about any group from the late 60’s and on he could tell you who was, is or isn’t in that band. Every once in awhile he will surprise you and say “hey what do you think of this?” then you hear the sounds of JLo or Tom Jones LOL

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard‘s dad likes Jack Johnson and @Meego‘s dad enjoys Celine Dion. You are brave souls to admit this. lawl XD

And thanks everyone for your answers!

The one I grew up with listened to 60s/70s R&B and 70s/80s gospel, the last I knew, and some Beatles. She was a Ringo fan as a teenager.

The parents of my family of choice were exclusively gospel (30s-90s) listeners from the time I met them until they died. I heard some seriously old, down-home stuff when I lived with them.

Your dad kinda sounds like mine. He listened to everything. From Enya to Cradle of Filth. I discovered a lot of music through my dad, such as Headless Chickens and Ministry.
But his total favourites were all the big names from the sixties and seventies. The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Rolling stones, and his ultimate favourite, Jimi Hendrix.

He loved music and always had some playing, as I say, a lot of variety, but those 60’s/70’s ones were the ones to play the most often.

My mom also loves Pink Floyd, but he favourite genre is country. I can’t name any examples because I don’t remember any of them.

My dad loved The Inkspots, Dusty Springfield, Franky Lane (think that was the name), Jim Reeves, Nat King Cole. He didn’t like Frank Sinatra.

Don’t know about my mum.

Mom seemed to stop appreciating new music after the 40’s, although she liked Billy Joel’s Only the Good Die Young. Daddy was able to move forward a bit in time. He loved Dixieland Jazz. One of his favorite performers was Pete Fountain. He also had what could be referred to as an open crush on Linda Ronstadt.

Classic Rock, the kind from the late 60’s and early 70’s. The modern stuff mom likes is folksy rock stuff.

Country and Classic rock!

My dad mostly listens to hair/dad rock like Styx and Genesis and whatever genre Pink Floyd come under. He also introduced me to a lot of my favourite music (Barbra Streisand, Dusty Springfield, Barry Manilow stop laughing! etc). Going on a long car journey with my dad is awesome!

My mum is very fickle with her music tastes. She tends to like whatever is in the charts but discards it for the next newest thing when it isn’t popular anymore. I think the only singer she has liked for years (for at least as long as I’ve been alive) is Madonna.

My mom listens to basically whatever I play, which happens to be what she would listen to, like The Moody Blues, The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel. My dad prefers silence, except when classical music is playing or more of the subdued rock from the late sixties.