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.
Doobie brothers
“25 or 6 to 4” by Chicago. He’s a band geek at heart, so the horn section is a must.
My dad listens to a lot of linkin park and eminem, and there’s one mashup of the 2 he plays sometimes, I don’t even know what it’s called or where one would find it, but it always annoys me, cause the flows and beats don’t even fit for 80% of the song
I was talking about dad music with my coworkers and one of them said Linkin Park also. Gotta say I did not expect that.
Linkin park is total dad music :3
Not that I also don’t listen to them tbh, lol
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).
Crosby Stills & Nash
Bob Dylan
Bob Jovi, either Wanted Dead or Alive or Livin’ on a Prayer.
I like those but I think I prefer Runaway or It’s My Life myself.
He loves all the Red Hot Chili Peppers songs!
On a related note, what maiden name does your mother like?
“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, when he was still alive, liked Jim Croce, and I can’t remember who else, but there were more, of course. When Star Wars came out in 1977, I asked him to buy the soundtrack, and he liked that.
Yes, I’m old enough to be your dad.
Pretty much any U2 song. But my dad listens to a ton of music.
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
DSOM & The Chain.
he dead. but like gene autrey.
My dad saw Jimi Hendrix live. But he also likes Eric Clapton 😬
