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Name your mum's favourite band/artist

orangejuice [Edit] [Delete] 68 replies 00:12, 24 December '12

Had to be done.

Mine listens to Duffy and Amy Winehouse on repeat at the moment. Loves Hot Chip too.

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  • I gave your mum my LP the other day

    Gave it a spin, she seemed to enjoy it etc

    automatik | 24 Dec '12, 00:24 | X
    • But yeah probably Simon & Garfunkel

      She says Leonard Cohen and Janis Ian but she only has one album by each and the DiSer/man in me refuses to accept this

      automatik @automatik | 24 Dec '12, 00:26 | X
  • My Mum really loves the Eagles

    Could be a lot worse.

    Kitchmo | 24 Dec '12, 00:29 | X
  • The National

    wonton | 24 Dec '12, 00:45 | X
  • U2

    Or British Sea Power. I hope it's British Sea Power.

    Oissin_ | 24 Dec '12, 00:49 | X
  • The Smiths, T-Rex and The Doors

    plus Amy Winehouse

    beautiful_balloon | 24 Dec '12, 00:49 | X
  • Springsteen I think

    Icarus-Smicarus | 24 Dec '12, 00:52 | X
    • Or maybe Bowie.

      I bought her a book on Springsteen for Christmas and while I know she has loads of Springsteen albums, I hope she likes him enough to read a book about him. It's fucking massive.

      Icarus-Smicarus @Icarus-Smicarus | 24 Dec '12, 19:29 | X
  • I always remember my mum liking some really good stuff

    like Suede and Pulp, and some really fucking awful stuff like Simply Red and Wet Wet Wet.

    I think her favourites of all time are The Beatles & Queen, which is probably more predictable.

    Mozalini | 24 Dec '12, 01:07 | X
  • Take That

    StormJH | 24 Dec '12, 01:08 | X
  • Gordon Lightfoot

    theShipment | 24 Dec '12, 01:49 | X
    • Or Cat Stevens

      theShipment @theShipment | 24 Dec '12, 01:49 | X
      • my mum went through a weird phase not long ago

        where she thought Cat Stevens (or Yusuf Islam, w/e) was talking to her online through accounts under other names.

        :( (this was genuinely horrible. she seems a lot saner of late.)

        incandenza_ @theShipment | 28 Dec '12, 00:01 | X
        • hmmm, glad she's doing better.

          theShipment @incandenza_ | 28 Dec '12, 00:10 | X
          • This is one of the best songs ever

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-02VrChRqpc

            theShipment @theShipment | 28 Dec '12, 00:11 | X
  • genesis or supertramp or u2

    not too sure what she would rank as top

    gonad | 24 Dec '12, 02:02 | X
  • I'm not sure, probably Queen or something

    When mum used to get me to help her with her iPod playlists I used to throw in a bit of stuff she might not of heard but might like. This escalated to the point where I was putting on stuff like Throbbing Gristle.

    Needless to say, she doesn't require my help anymore for some reason.

    Antelope | 24 Dec '12, 02:13 | X
  • Beach Boys

    ThirstyDog | 24 Dec '12, 02:36 | X
    sunstroke_house this'd this
  • I don't think my mum likes music

    thorners | 24 Dec '12, 02:52 | X
    PenguinPants, shinymcshine, and gamecat this'd this
  • Simon & Garfunkel

    Or Help!-era Beatles.

    Infinite_Jest | 24 Dec '12, 09:44 | X
    shucks this'd this
  • Johnny Cash

    eoin | 24 Dec '12, 10:17 | X
  • Dunno, but her favourite single is Black Sabbath's Paranoid.

    TheWza | 24 Dec '12, 11:02 | X
    JaguarPirate this'd this
  • Either The Cure or Lou Reed

    poptimusgrime | 24 Dec '12, 11:06 | X
  • Neil Diamond

    Possibly the only gig she's ever been to as well.

    shimmetry | 24 Dec '12, 12:00 | X
  • Boney M

    Kings of Leon
    Tame Impala

    Aaron | 24 Dec '12, 12:03 | X
  • rod stewart

    i think she would leave my dad for him

    cat_race | 24 Dec '12, 12:10 | X
  • The Jam

    film_maker | 24 Dec '12, 12:10 | X
  • Roy Orbison and Simon & Garfunkel

    Favourite song I think is Chris Isaak's Wicked Game.

    Bethany_E | 24 Dec '12, 12:58 | X
  • David Bowie

    my mum's fantastic though

    DarwinDude | 24 Dec '12, 13:09 | X
    FannyMagnetophone and oceanRain this'd this
  • The Beatles, Carole King, Phil Collins

    Smyth2 | 24 Dec '12, 13:09 | X
  • The Beat

    rainmaker | 24 Dec '12, 13:10 | X
  • Abba

    untrue | 24 Dec '12, 13:10 | X
    shrewbie this'd this
  • Porcupine Tree

    benfyffemusic | 24 Dec '12, 14:00 | X
  • black sabbath

    __Low | 24 Dec '12, 14:44 | X
  • James Brown or Al Green

    Gotta love her

    CasimirPulaski | 24 Dec '12, 15:38 | X
  • Bublé

    lobotomypop | 24 Dec '12, 16:20 | X
  • Don't think she has a favourite band

    but I know her favourite song is I'm Not In Love by 10CC. Sends "shivers down her spine" apparently. Her and my dad get a bit soppy whenever it comes on.

    She prefers to listen to storytapes. Paul Temple's her favourite.

    sizeofanocean | 24 Dec '12, 16:25 | X
  • Simply Red

    twentynine | 24 Dec '12, 17:06 | X
    • Which is bonkers as her record collection is Wishbone Ash, Focus, T-Rex, Suede, Ash...

      twentynine @twentynine | 24 Dec '12, 17:07 | X
  • All time = Johnny Cash

    Current = Mumford & Sons

    pentargo | 24 Dec '12, 19:21 | X
  • Aerosmith (My Mum is 68)

    She loves loads.

    Pearl Jam
    Soundgarden
    Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club
    Elbow
    Arrows Down
    Daniel Land

    As well as a lot of the classic Rock 'n' Roll, Ell Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and many more.

    TheGrudge | 25 Dec '12, 20:32 | X
  • Muse, Nick Cave

    Talking Heads, Pulp... Crap like Usher and 1D, too. Maybe she keeps the Cave as a front for when I'm over.

    FilthyLittleCreep | 25 Dec '12, 20:52 | X
  • Either Fleetwood Mac, Elbow, or Bombay Bicycle Club

    Fairly standard mum stuff really.

    aactv | 25 Dec '12, 22:09 | X
  • Idlewild, Aereogramme or Stone Roses

    top mum

    JaguarPirate | 25 Dec '12, 22:22 | X
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    jack_on_fire | 26 Dec '12, 11:07 | X
  • the locust

    ithica | 26 Dec '12, 11:31 | X
    gonad, SCROTUM, and andyvine this'd this
  • Bach probably.

    She plays in an orchestra so she's much more into classical than anything else. She did buy me Endtroducing by DJ Shadow for my birthday once because she read a review and it sounded interesting. Top mum.

    stupidsexyflanders | 26 Dec '12, 11:47 | X
  • Boney M, Otis Redding

    Dettol | 26 Dec '12, 12:50 | X
  • Alt-J, Wild Beasts, The Cribs and Biffy Clyro.

    Bit of a mix.

    Wasted_Days | 26 Dec '12, 19:22 | X
  • Erasure

    and Simple Minds

    ryanwilson | 26 Dec '12, 19:45 | X
  • The Beatles

    since she was a teenager. She's 61, so prime age for liking them.

    Other than that she likes a bit of Idlewild, Ben Kweller, Stones, Roxy Music, Blondie, maybe a cheeky REM album here and there. Or just lots of Sixties stuff, you can't really go wrong with the music of your youth.

    pmj1980 | 26 Dec '12, 20:56 | X
  • Right Said Fred

    TheSoundofBastards | 26 Dec '12, 21:06 | X
  • my mum's 80

    so her liking lonnie donegan is probably about right.

    riverlodge | 26 Dec '12, 21:14 | X
  • Michael Buble, ABBA, Rod Stewart, Beyonce

    Puds | 26 Dec '12, 21:16 | X
  • R.E.M I think

    maybe Nirvana

    Severed799 | 27 Dec '12, 00:31 | X
  • David Bowie, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Cure or Simply Red

    Those were the only acts she used to play in the car. In recent times she's gotten into Cat Power, Feist and Emiliana Torrini.

    sean | 27 Dec '12, 22:09 | X
  • Cat Stevens

    which is cool because he has some proper classic material.

    also The Kinks, Love, The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel...60s stuff. and the odd bit of later stuff like Crowded House. and she said she liked some Mancunian stuff like New Order and Joy Division and The Smiths but idk if that was just a phase.

    she likes some mumsy rubbish, too. Westlife and stuff. but she's professed at times to liking some good recent stuff.

    like back when she was in The Christie, I put some Arcade Fire on a mix CD me and my sisters made and she thought it was great. also she commented positively on Grizzly Bear once.

    incandenza_ | 28 Dec '12, 00:15 | X
  • Savage Garden

    in_limbo | 28 Dec '12, 05:52 | X
  • She's very keen on Queens of the Stone Age right now

    right on!

    MadameChaos | 28 Dec '12, 06:46 | X
  • Pretty cool:

    Leonard Cohen, REM, The Verve, Elbow

    bizarro | 28 Dec '12, 13:04 | X
  • Bright Eyes and The Antlers are always on in my mum's car.

    PartMoth | 28 Dec '12, 13:18 | X
  • Rolf Harris

    and The Beautiful South

    Beautiful South actually have some good songs, funny, arch, dark.

    My dad has been trying to put hardcore folky stuff like Maddie Pryor, or mediaeval madrigals on and my Mum complains that it doesn't sound "rocking around the christmas tree" So he put on the Bad Shepherds.

    good insight?

    GoatmeatMF | 28 Dec '12, 13:39 | X
  • Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen

    and more recently (because of me) The National.

    Dagnammit | 28 Dec '12, 15:02 | X
  • i dunno

    she mostly listens to country, adult contemporary, showtunes, and christian music.

    if i had to guess i would probably say garth brooks or neil diamond. and the les miserables sountrack.

    blicky | 29 Dec '12, 04:08 | X
  • Simon & Garfunkel

    I'm lucky in that respect cos I love em too. We're split on solo careers though: I'm in the Simon camp and can't do with the other one, she's the opposite.

    wrightylew | 29 Dec '12, 11:24 | X
  • Abba, Adam and the Ants, The Clash, Amy Winehouse

    she also likes Enya!

    pip_ | 29 Dec '12, 12:35 | X
  • the locust

    thekidswhopoptoday | 29 Dec '12, 19:28 | X
  • Santana, Erykah Badu, Carole King, lots of 70's acid-jazz/soul stuff

    Recently she's been enjoying Plan B and Maverick Sabre

    citizenmeh | 29 Dec '12, 23:59 | X
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