Mom Music---bring it on

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this was started during a pink martini thread when everyone else who posted all agreed, Pink Martini is the ultimate in Mom music...any other suggestions?

― breezy, Friday, 29 April 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link

my mom also loves Crystal Gail , that woman with the super long hair

― breezy, Friday, 29 April 2005 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Get one Johnny Mathis album!

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link

My mom liked Boz Scaggs and Chuck Mangione back in the day. Now I think she just likes Christmas music.

― p.j. (Henry), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link

haha. christmas all year round for moms. Dad music is generally better I'd say,...but not always.

― breezy, Friday, 29 April 2005 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Vangelis.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Dan stole my answer!

― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~takeito/image/DanSeals80.JPG

― breezy, Friday, 29 April 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Andrea Bocelli (sp?)
Sarah Brightman

― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Michael Buble and Il Divo fit the bill.

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

all the American Idols. Maybe except that thuggish Scott character who is probably on drugs.

― Aaron A., Friday, 29 April 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

My mom likes Bruce, ELO, Yanni, Don McLean, Sinatra.

I still like ELO because of her indoctrination.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link

ABBA
Fleetwood Mac

At least for my mom anyway...

― darin (darin), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Neil Diamond
The Eagles
Linda Ronstadt

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Feist, Rufus Wainwright & Roch Vosine.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link

STEELY DAN
TED LEO
FLEETWOOD MAC

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link

There should be a band called Steely Leo.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Mom music = music liked by mothers?

I guess I lucked out---Joni Mitchell.

― I.M. (I.M.), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link

There should be a band called Steely Leo.
http://www.jnautographs.com/captures/TedDanson1903.jpg

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Some of your moms are way cooler than mine!

― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

feist is SUCH a good call! i bet my mom would love Feist. so soothing and unoffensive

― breezy, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

My mom likes Iggy.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

It's a slipperly slope, Julie Doiron was deemed 'depressing'. And don't forget Neil Young, you know, the guy who did Harvest and Harvest Moon.

Ranikin Family and Lorena Mckennitt.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link

My mom hipped me to:

Michael Jackson - Off the Wall (album)
Lipps Inc. - Funky Town
Prince - Controversy (album)
Prince - 1999 (album)
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Madonna - Holiday
Mtume - Juicy Fruit
Laid Back - White Horse
Maurice - This is Acid

When I was in 1st grade, we had to write a letter to our mothers for mothers day stating why we love them. Mine says "I don't know y you buy me them records, but I like them."

She has that framed.

Shae married a man who hipped me to Kraftwerk when I was 10, granted he's a classic rock fan for the most part.

She now likes Limp Bizkit.

I'm not sure how this helps your mom, but wishiful thinking...

― PappaWheelie, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait, my mom listened to the "big band" channel that comes with cable service and it was like the best thing I think she's ever played. And I think she has Louis Armstrong's greatest hits now. At least she doesn't listen to Michael Franks...it sounds like a brand of vegetarian hot dogs.

― p.j. (Henry), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Celine Dion
Peter Paul and Mary

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

My mom loves roots reggae, esp. dub.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Shakey Mo to thread!

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Elvis Presley
Vince Gill

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

moms like vashti bunyan

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:46 (eighteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002V1B.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link

The mother of all music festivals: Mamapalooza?

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 30 April 2005 01:23 (eighteen years ago) link

My mom loves Anne Murray (who I enjoy), Daniel Lavoie (whose one and only album I LOVE), Buffalo Springfield (Just look at my previous threads and you know my feelings on anything that has Neil), and then the stuff like Celine Dion, Kathy Lee Gifford, etc... SO she looses much of the cool-factor in my eyes... but its all good, she's my mom.

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Saturday, 30 April 2005 04:15 (eighteen years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

It's Mother's Day (in America anyway), so why not revive this thread?

My mom:

- bought us blank tapes the day the classic rock station played 24 hours of Rolling Stones
- took me and my best friend to see Neil Young & Crazy Horse, on the tour where Sonic Youth and Social Distortion opened
- loved New Order's Substance and Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense
- liked Iggy Pop's voice, but hated Brian Johnson's voice, so I wasn't allowed to play AC/DC in the house but could get away with Metallic K.O.
- told me "jazz is music for people who think they're smart"

― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, 12 May 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link

- drove down to the Masonic temple box office in Detroit to wait in line with the freaks to get me Frank Zappa tickets, because the ticket outlet at the local department store was on the fritz. When she finally got to the window they assumed she was there for Nutcracker tickets.

― henry s, Sunday, 12 May 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link

- took my sister and me to the Uptown Throwdown hip-hop show, when I was in high school and my sister was in middle school.

― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Sunday, 12 May 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link

Good thread too:
Things Your Parents Say/Said About Music

Mom: Who is this?
Me: They're called Low. The guy and lady singing are married.
Mom: I hope they're in counseling.

― sbahnhof, Friday, 17 May 2019 05:56 (four years ago) link

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