Artists That You've Enjoyed for Your Whole Life
 

Are there any artists that you've been listening to and enjoying for as long as you can remember? I imagine that most of this will be coming from our parents' musical tastes and collections as well as the radio.

One for me is Mr. Bungle. My dad was and is heavily into their first album, which he got after he saw them perform it before I was born. My mom didn't like me listening to it, so of course I gravitated towards it. I've overplayed it for myself a bit at this point, but I still love it when I throw it on every once in a while. I obviously can't speak for the future but I see this being pretty consistent.



So what are your personal classics?

Jim Croce.

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Almost 45 years later and I'm still finding little nuances that make the songs, and band, even greater.

Zep for me too. Their whole discography was rolling through my whole childhood.

My parents never really had interesting taste in music. Back when I was a kid, they still had their LP collection, so at least there was some variety. A few compilation discs with hits ensured that I didn't completely grow up without good music.

Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow
Queen - I Want to Break Free

These two are the only songs I remember from back then - from artists that I actually like now. It was mostly a bunch of material that I might feel nostalgia for, but don't actually like as such. Roger Whitaker, for example, really takes me back to the late 80's/early 90's. They must have had at least one complete album with him. An Abba song like Knowing Me, Knowing You is also like a complete mental teleport, but I only think they had some singles with Abba. I almost like Abba - at least as far as their best material goes. They're good for what it is, I guess.



Moonlight Shadow ended up being the real gift from my past. I tracked it down again a few years ago, purely because I remembered it from my childhood, and it turned out that Discovery and Crises are two really great Mike Oldfield albums that I'm very happy that I gave a chance.



Come to think of it, this song alone vastly outclasses absolutely all other music I even knew up to the age of around 12. I took me so long to figure out that I ****ing love music, simply because no one around me played anything all that good for years and years.

Brian Eno was an early favourite that I never tired of. Tubeway Army's Replicas was a favourite at 12 that I still listen to at 50.

One of the joys of parenting is getting to torture your kids with your taste in music lol.

Well, let's see, I call myself Rubber Soul...

So naturally it's the Bonzo Doo Dah Dog Band. :D

Of course, it's the Beatles. Also Donovan seemed to stick in my head a lot growing up. I didn't really get into artists of my actual decade until I discovered Bowie.

Pink Floyd and Rush. My older brother and older cousins were into them and they're part of the soundtrack of my earliest memories. Still love listening to both bands even if I don't do it nearly as much as I used to.

Fleetwood Mac and Prince are definitely two of the biggest ones I got from my father. there's quite a bit of country I learned to enjoy through my relatives as well, stuff like Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Willy Nelson, etc.

Nothing from my parents' side - my mother was a beautiful singer but no interest in the big band kind of style music they were into; Sinatra, Crosby etc. But basically I'd say any band I got deep into - Genesis, Seger, ELO, Supertramp etc - I'm still into and probably always will be. While I try to expand my musical horizons a little I never consider, nor will, leaving behind the bands which created basically the soundtrack to my life.