Can you name a song your dad listened to/listens to?
Why did you pick that song?
There are no rules around how you choose to pick a song! It could be something meaningful you as a kid or something he listens to now that annoys you!
I’ll go first.
Abadan by Genesis
When I was a kid my dad had a giant 200 disc CD player and he’d buy whole albums to out in it. There were always a lot of Genesis songs playing.
When he got a divorce, he lost most of that, but he always seemed to have Abacab album lying around. I asked him once and he told me why he thinks Abacab was one of the greatest songs ever written.
Pretty much any U2 song. But my dad listens to a ton of music.
DSOM & The Chain.
Massive Beatles fan, Moody Blues, Beck, Nirvana are the ones that stand out. Both children absorbed the first and last ones. Lots of others that got tuned out during my teenaged years.
But he’s still a casual seeker of music via radio, so there was a period where he got really into Chaise Longue by Wet Leg.
He’s a massive fan if The Beatles. He has their entire discography on vinyl records in good condition. (He bought them in the 1970s; I don’t know if that is more or less impressive).
He also likes Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzie, and The Horslips. He has a bunch of their records, too. There’s also some Pink Floyd in there.
The Beach Boys
My old man loves Steely Dan. Great memories of bopping along to their music with him as kid. Always had to listen to one of their albums minimum every road trip. Everyone call your Dad!!
“25 or 6 to 4” by Chicago. He’s a band geek at heart, so the horn section is a must.
My dad likes Dire Straits, Clapton, The Police, Tracy Chapman, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison. I know a few more from what he’s told me later in life, but those were the casettes/CDs he had around when I was a kid.
When I was a teen I tried to introduce him to the Pixies, but he looked like I was making his ears bleed.
It was my mom that introduced me to Pink Floyd though, which is really the only musical common ground I have with my parents (although I will definitely get whiskey drunk and belt out Dire Straits on occasion, or sing along to Orbison).
Ride the Lightning by Metallica
My dad liked to occasionally play his records or CDs as loud as he could. He’d say he was trying to break the windows.
I remember being young and being absolutely terrified of the intro to a Rob Zombie album where it’s a young girl talking all creepy. Used to run away and hold over my ears lol.
“Homeward Bound” by Simon & Garfunkel.
It was really hard to choose because my dad loves music and has played guitar for almost 60 years. He’s still active in the local music scene and plays a couple gigs a week even in his 70s.
But I picked this song because when I was a kid he was in a folk duo that practiced in our basement. This was the last song they played at their gigs, and the last one they played at practice.
I was in elementary school at the time so my bedtime was right around when they’d be wrapping up and I have a core memory of hearing my dad singing it wafting up from the basement as I drifted off to sleep
My dad loved Homeward Bound too. It’s one of the songs that inspired this question because it’s one of my favorites now too.
No because elevator music all sounds the same
My dad’s first concert was Black Sabbath and Grand Funk Railroad, he loved taking about it.
So I’ll add War Pigs by Black Sabbath, a favorite of both of ours
He liked Bavarian brass band music and classical orchestral music.
Doobie brothers
On a related note, what maiden name does your mother like?
lol. I did think of that but I’m actually collecting answers for a giant Spotify playlist of dad music.
Crosby Stills & Nash
Bob Dylan
