My family did not have any radio/stereo/music player at home and so we did not listen to any music.

What about your family?

My parents were pretty classical, and I had no sibling influences, so Mtv was how I discovered pop music. (And I'm referring to the original Mtv, not what it has degenerated into)

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We had a radio and record player as long as I can remember. I remember my dad bringing home a Johnny Cash album. One of the songs was Ring of Fire on it.
Also had a radio. He liked listening to The Grand ole oprey. But my mom liked what was popular in the early 1950's It wasn't until I had a radio of my own that I rember hearing the monster mash that I liked early rock in roll. And then the 60's came now there was the music I loved.

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Old James

We had radios and record players as far back as I can remember. I had my own personal radio by the time I was 10 or 11. I listened to rock n roll music on the radio and sometimes listened to classical music on my parents stereo that was in the living room. They also had a good collection of pop music from the 1950s thrun the late 60s. I remember liking to listen to big band music especially that of Glenn Miller. I like most forms of music but less so country and I have a strong distaste for rap.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

I still have my parents' two or three shelves of classical records. I should try to sell them one of these days. None of it ever interested me, but eventually I discovered they also had a couple of Alan Sherman records and a Tom Lehrer. Those I loved, not for the music but for the humor.

Exposure to their classical music, however much I didn't like it, did at least give me some appreciation for PDQ Bach, enabling me to catch humor that others might miss.

My thing is classic rock from the 60s and 70s, plus later releases from the artists who were active then. Not heavy or hard stuff. Beatles, Who, Stones, Billy Joel, Styx...

And I'm not really passionate about anything. I can't remember the last time I bought any music for myself, but whatever it was, it was probably PDQ or Weird Al or Capitol Steps. I am ethical enough not to steal music, but not moved enough by anything to buy it.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

I went to hard rock concerts with my mum. Nirvana, AC/DC.. We also saw a Pink Floyd concert together. I was a Pearl Jam fan while she loved Nirvana more :D

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I still have my parents' two or three shelves of classical records. I should try to sell them one of these days. None of it ever interested me, but eventually I discovered they also had a couple of Alan Sherman records and a Tom Lehrer. Those I loved, not for the music but for the humor.

Exposure to their classical music, however much I didn't like it, did at least give me some appreciation for PDQ Bach, enabling me to catch humor that others might miss.

My thing is classic rock from the 60s and 70s, plus later releases from the artists who were active then. Not heavy or hard stuff. Beatles, Who, Stones, Billy Joel, Styx...

And I'm not really passionate about anything. I can't remember the last time I bought any music for myself, but whatever it was, it was probably PDQ or Weird Al or Capitol Steps. I am ethical enough not to steal music, but not moved enough by anything to buy it.

I was total rock only. But then I heard some classical music. WOW.

I also love new age jazz. Vangelis and Kitaro or my top guys for that.

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Old James

I was lucky enough to grow up in a house full of music. My mother's family were almost all musical, and I have great memories of family sing alongs featuring several guitars, a fiddle and sometimes an accordion. My parents had a large 78 collection, a lot of western swing, 50s pop, and of course bag pipes (my father started his military career in a highland regiment). We listened to a lot of CBC radio, and that is where I discovered classical and jazz.

I started collecting 45s and LPs at about age 12. Beatles, Dave Clark 5, Donovan. When the 60s got into full swing I discovered "folk" as they then called it. Byrds, Dylan, Joni Mitchell. Plus a few obscure ones, like the Holy Modal Rounders and Spider John. I still have a few albums I bought in the 1960s.

All this led to my current obsession with music. I'm getting into high rez on my computer, played back through a Dragonfly DAC into the full stereo rig. These are great times for a music lover.

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The earliest memories I have of musical awareness were the oom pah pah of the polka, and the airy sound of zither music that my Grandfather played on the old Sears Roebuck console in his house.
My grandparents had immigrated from Germany, and they brought the love of their fatherland's music with them.

This was further embraced by my Father as he grew up, and then further influenced by the early hifi days and all the equipment my Dad bought to enjoy music....

This was further enhance when my Mom's brother, my dear Uncle Donald, came back from his tours of the New York performing arts scene and imparted to me the love of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then, when he saw my interest, more serious stuff like Puccini and Mozart and the rest of the classics.

I did a stint in the bar/dance scene clubs as a DJ in the 70's...so I did some time with Donna Summer and the Ohio Players....LOL.

And there was always the sound of rock and roll..........Elvis, all the crew at Sun Records.

When I got older, I stumbled upon the blues, and that took over for a long time.
I was at SRV's last show at Alpine Valley. And collected a rather worthy bunch of blues records. The least of which was almost anything that Alligator Records released.

I have posted here many things that tweaked my interest from time to time, and the range is far and wide.....and I am most happy that my musical interested are not narrow...the one thing I do detest is rap. Excuse for proper musical performance, in my opinion.

Jazz has never interested me much, but I do not dislike it. I can take it in certain doses, as they say.
Unless you mean dixieland jazz...oh yeah, howdee.
And the Harmonicats.
And Les Paul and Mary Ford.
And about and bit of bluegrass.

Guess that 'bout covers my musical experience....LOL.

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As to that old Sears radio.........
It still plays.
I crank it up once in a while just to check.
Not much on old AM radio these days.
There used to be a classic old station that alternated between old Big Band stuff and the old German classic polkas.
And they sounded perfect on that old speaker.]
I could get into the technical reasons....the frequency range, the size of the speaker, about humbucking the speaker coil, which was powered from the tube circuit...oh, well................

The station had gone off the air, last I checked.

But, this was the kind of stuff that was always on Grandpa's radio 24/7...
Not sure if Wilfarht's name was true, a stage name, or a joke.
But he was a prolific polka artist back then.

It Took Me All Night to Get Home Last Night Polka....

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When I was 10 years old my parents sent me to a piano teacher, the mother of Franco Gulli a good violinist who had to migrate to the USA to gain some fame and dollars. I would have preferred to be playing calcio (soccer) like my school mates, but my parent's orders were orders and I obeyed. So I made exercises for 5 years. At 15 I played the English Suites by Bach and started understanding what music really is. Then my parents had no more money to spend (we were three brothers at school) and I had to stop. But I still love Bach, especially as played by Glenn Gould, like the Goldberg Variations. That is pure mathematics.
Tullio

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When I was 10 years old my parents sent me to a piano teacher, the mother of Franco Gulli a good violinist who had to migrate to the USA to gain some fame and dollars. I would have preferred to be playing calcio (soccer) like my school mates, but my parent's orders were orders and I obeyed. So I made exercises for 5 years. At 15 I played the English Suites by Bach and started understanding what music really is. Then my parents had no more money to spend (we were three brothers at school) and I had to stop. But I still love Bach, especially as played by Glenn Gould, like the Goldberg Variations. That is pure mathematics.
Tullio

That dear Uncle Don I mentioned?
Having witnessed my appreciation of the classics, proceeded to rent a grand piano for me to attempt to play on, and took lessons on.
It was just not there for me. I had lessons, and then proceeded to pound upon the thing like some Jerry Lee Lewis, although I had not even heard his music yet.
I just am such a discoordinted thing, my limbs never know what my mind is thinking...LOL.
I really did give it a try.........it was very embarassing for me at the time, but I just was not cut out to be a performer of any kind.

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Thinking more about this subject, the start of my appreciation for and interest in classical music came from an unusual source, cartoons on Saturday mornings. Quite a few Warner Bros. cartoons featured classical music in the background to which the cartoon action was tied.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

Thinking more about this subject, the start of my appreciation for and interest in classical music came from an unusual source, cartoons on Saturday mornings. Quite a few Warner Bros. cartoons featured classical music in the background to which the cartoon action was tied.

Another one of my favorites....Geez, I connot quite work them all in...

One of many...

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I'm with you Bob. There are still some classical pieces that I can't listen to without thinking of Bugs and Elmer. "Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit...".

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I suppose that I might have been the one who the adverts were directed at, and took a different direction in life since.
I know advertising took a take on our young lives.........as was intended.

And that..........was the commercial.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

And it is almost impossible for me to post that without the twin bit about
OSCAR Mayer...
We all were wieners at one time.

We were all wieners. At one time.
I still can be a wiener at times.....

This was a line in the sand..............wiener moment of when wieners became self aware........ And then they took over.

Recently, in wiener history, Burger King just added HOT DOGS to their menu....
Oh, my.

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