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.
The Beach Boys
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).
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!!
He liked Bavarian brass band music and classical orchestral music.
Crosby Stills & Nash
Bob Dylan
“25 or 6 to 4” by Chicago. He’s a band geek at heart, so the horn section is a must.
he dead. but like gene autrey.
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
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.
He loves all the Red Hot Chili Peppers songs!
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 saw Jimi Hendrix live. But he also likes Eric Clapton 😬
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.
My dad became a Christian Nationalist, but he loved Jim Croce when I was growing up.
He really liked the song Which Way Are You Going, but true to the song he’s got “one hand on the Bible, one hand on the gun.” It could have been written about him, but he still thinks he’s the pinnacle of righteousness.
