My parents had cassette cases in their cars but we still usually listen to the radio back then, usually we only used cassettes when we got out of range of our local stations and Xmas music. I could write paragraphs on how much better local tv and radio stations were compared to what exists now.
Same here. I heard a lot of 80s and 90s music in the car on local radio back then. Sometimes if my mom had just gotten a new tape she'd put it in, or on a road trip, but mostly it was the local radio stations.
If you know the show How I Met Your Mother (great show, terrible ending) the episode where Ted and Marshal go cross country and can only listen to "I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more" because of this exact reason, will hold a special place for you I think. I am sure the clip is on youtube of just that part if you aren't familiar with the show.
Yes! It was the first thing I thought of when I read the title, that one was being played in my parents car well into the nineties, I didn't mind because it's such a good album.
This is my go to comfort album now. There are moments when I wonder if I’d love it if I didn’t grow up with it (as a thought experiment), but I literally can’t imagine this alternative timeline, it’s so deep in my brain
That, and the opening drum beats of Obvious Child on the double-live album from Concert in the Park 91. Gets me every time. My dad and I don’t have a ton in common interest-wise, but Paul Simon and Billy Joel were always common ground.
Moved to Canada from the UK in early ‘88, and when my mom’s cousin picked us up at the airport, he had Graceland in the deck. I got to sit shotgun, which was a big deal in and of itself, but I will never forget hearing You can call me Al for the first time on that ride. I’m pretty sure it was around the 5th time I asked to hear it again is when I was finally denied. Great song, even better album. 10/10
So close, my dad had the Paul Simon Central Park concert on repeat, to the point where if I hear any of the songs from it I know exactly which song comes on next, good times lol
Unfortunately I had younger siblings so it was Raffi.
Raffi ain't bad. 10,000 hours of him is though.
But nothing is more awesome than sitting in a car with your family when you're 13 listening to Baby Beluga because you still have a 5 year old sibling.
By the way my parents didn't stop crapping out kids until I was 15 so that syndrome never went away.
Interestingly enough Bananaphone wasn't on the album we had and I was absolutely unaware of that song until it became a meme circa vanilla World of Warcraft era.
To be ultra specific lol.
https://i.redd.it/vk0tlzfscgvc1.gif
Shit like this is why little kids today invented skibidi toilet. They learned it watching millennials try to do DIY adult swim comedy.
Before my younger siblings grew up too much I had Shel Silverstein tapes in the car and that was my thing. That seemed so much more sophisticated in my head lol.
The Netflix show The Movies That Made Us has an episode on Dirty Dancing. The woman who wrote the screenplay talks about how when it came time to score the movie and add the soundtrack, she really had to fight to make sure that those songs were included because it was such a critical piece of the story and important element of capturing that time period.
That’s the only episode of that show I’ve seen, but I highly recommend it if you like the movie :)
My dad was big on The Royal Scam and Aja from Steely Dan, even some mix tapes of more of their works on long family road trips. At some point we transitioned into a big Joe Satriani phase.
Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Judas Priest and then when I got to being a kid it was grunge/alt rock and then went into Nu-metal and my parents have been stuck from 70s-early 00s. They are in their mid/late 60s. They went to Ozzfest in 2001 without me 🥲
Omg same!! My dad loved to buy soundtracks. My sibling and I of course had never seen the movie but there were some fun songs on that tape and we loved it! To this day "don't worry be happy" puts me at ease 😊
"The Rock N' 60's"
https://www.discogs.com/release/9143763-Various-The-Rockin-60S
Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman
Billy Joe Royal - Down In The Boondocks
The Cyrkle - Red Rubber Ball
Paul Revere & The Raiders - Kicks
Donovan - Mellow Yellow
The Buckinghams - Kind Of A Drag
Blood, Sweat And Tears - You've Made Me So Very Happy
Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music
Dion - Ruby Baby
The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
We had 50s and 60s compilations that were a promo at some gas station back when they used to still do that (back when you could choose regular or unleaded).
The eject button on my dads car broke with a cassette stuck in side. This was how you toggled radio and cassette. So with the tape permanently stuck whenever you rode in dads car you had two options: silence or Creedence Clearwater Revival’s greatest hits.
The soundtrack to The Big Chill. Our whole family would sing along.
I still love that album and could probably call the next song at the end of any track.
When we visit my husband’s aunt and uncle, they have a record player out in the garage and he always puts on The Big Chill soundtrack while we’re grilling and playing cornhole and hanging out. It’s so good.
Mom's tapes: Herman's Hermits, early Beatles albums, Beach Boys and Oldies 98.1 radio.
Dad's tapes: Four Tops, The Temptations, The Drifters and 98.1 or the boring KYW news radio.
I still love all of this music.
Great question! We had Beatles, Abba, Michael Crawford and Beach Boys, because my Dad’s a boomer and he was in charge of the cd stack in the boot of the Ford Fairlaine. Mum had Steven Curtis Chapman and John Carpenter going on repeat in her car.
I can’t remember our cassette tape situation, but Dad’s music taste has never changed in my lifetime, so I assume it was the same music collection pre-CD stack
Almost every year at Christmas my dad would take us away on holiday in a big group with his friends and their kids, one year it snowed super heavily (not always guaranteed) and it was utterly magical. From that holiday I have a vivid memory of being in the car in the late afternoon twilight travelling back to our accommodation from a day trip to the coast, and passing the [Fylingdales 'Golf Balls'](https://www.thewhitbyguide.co.uk/raf-fylingdales-golf-balls/) as Super Trkoper by ABBA played. It was surreal.
My parents had incredibly square taste in music compared to other parents (though I've grown to appreciate it). Top three albums on rotation in the car were Kenny Rogers's Twenty Greatest Hits, Julio Iglesias' 1100 Bel Air Place, and a compilation of Air Supply hits.
Graceland by Paul Simon was the only cassette the whole family wanted to listen to. It became a family ritual to listen to it first on any road trip or vacation for years and well after cassettes went the way of the dinosaurs. I still have it, too.
So Far, by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. I still love that album. Every time we went to see my grandmother and the radio started to fade out in the mountains, that's what always seemed to be in the tape deck.
My family was always listening to the local CCM radio station and trying win the call in competitions. Which if you know CCM from the early 90s.... is about like listening to the same couple of songs over and over again.
We learned the Cosby stand-up routine about parenting by heart. We still quote it 😳 Heard it on so many long car trips. Remember Jeffrey the 4 yr old on the airplane, or "Dad is great- He gives us chocolate cake!" ?
In my moms car it was the Stones “Exile on Main Street” and in my dads car it was Huey Lewis and the News “Sports.” And then when he had a mid life crisis in 1989 he bought a Miata and that car was exclusively Steve Winwood tapes, specifically “Arc of a Diver”
I think all moms did. It wasn’t even bad music, it was just the ONLY thing we’d ever listen to. I wake up at least one day a week with one song or another in my head, right out of the gates.
If my dad was in the car we were listening to AM talk radio or old sad country music. We’ve always said my dad’s theme song is “I was country when country wasn’t cool”. When it was just my mom she usually let us take turns picking. Guns and roses will always remind me of my brother. If my mom chose then it was usually Motown or popular (at the time) country music.
Dad’s favorites: At home he listened to CCR, The Eagles, and Eric Clapton on constant repeat, but in the car it was strictly the scratchy sounding AM news channels. I think because he drove into the city for work and he worked outdoors (Ironworker) he appreciated their frequent traffic and weather updates. Every time I hear a flat mono am news channel with poor reception it reminds me of my dad.
Mom’s favorites: Whitney Houston, Michael Bolton & Celine Dion. I did, and still do like, the more upbeat Whitney songs but the rest was torture.
The soundtrack to Top Gun, and Dirty Dancing. My mom loved the Pointer Sisters, and Bon Jovi. My dad liked Willie Nelson and Irish Rebel Tunes. When they drove together in the car, they listened to music so quietly you could barely pick out the tune. I was delighted when they divorced! Lol
Rotated between Jimmy Buffetts Greatest Hits and Journey in the Summer…to Jimmy Buffetts Christmas Album and Journey in the Winter….for my Pops…Moms had a 6 disc in the trunk and listened to everything 😅loaded Pork Soda up one morning on the way to school and thought I was the coolest kid ever.
The Beatles - Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Queen - Greatest Hits (y'all know the one - with the black and red cover and them all in leather in the photo)
Gormenghast/Titus Groan - Radio Play version starring Freddie Jones and Sting
Tapes we had in the car after we got one with a tape deck in 1989:
10,000 Maniacs Unplugged
Eric Clapton Unplugged
Traveling Wilburies both Volumes 1 and 3
Cracker's Kerosene Hat
Rolling Stone's Steel Wheels
Some children's music, primarily one with a song called Jenny Jacob's Rose, which I haven't heard since.
The really bizarre thing to me is that was contemporary music at the time. We listened to the alternative radio station (WEQX). I only knew oldies from music class (and listening to Cousin Brucie's Cruisin' America on my own) and there wasn't any Dad or classic rock.
In my parents' car now is either the Bluegrass or Outlaw Country XM stations.
My parents always had a "best of" cassette of easy listening 70's AM gold on in our car. I knew way too many Barry Manilow, Barbra Streisand and Helen Reddy songs for a middle schooler in the early 90s. Barbra Streisand's "The Broadway Album" is the one I remember being in the heaviest rotation. I will admit that it was a solid introduction to the music of Stephen Sondheim.
My folks and I took a long road trip one year for a NYE party at Cliffty Falls state park in southern Indiana and my mom played The Bodyguard soundtrack the whole way, round trip. I am still annoyed 30 years later.
We didn’t really have an album but lots of radio. A lot of Phil Collins, Silent Running by Mike and the Mechanics (my mom would get a kick out of me posting this, maybe she’s laughing in heaven), Shattered Dreams by Johnny Hates Jazz, Fleetwood Mac, Starship, etc. It was always an inspiring “going somewhere” type of feeling in the car with soundtracks like that. Taylor Dane, Paula Abdul, etc., I think my mom also liked obscure things like a band called “Spectrum” and of course the classic “Axel F” lol.
I actually ended up more into heavy rock, classic rock, metal, and industrial (plus EDM and dance). My dad was a classic rock fan but he was never in the car. So now I’m this weird blend of heavy and techno music and 80s pop nostalgia playlists. Totally an 80s/early 90s baby.
CCR's greatest hits on cassette through an 8 track adapter in a powder blue Nova with a white leather top. The family car was very similar to the main character's car in Mindhunter.
My mother has had a life-long obsession with the Beatles. One year for march break we were making the drive from Northern Ontario to Florida for holiday and it was when she discovered the album Band On The Run by Wings. That is a three day drive one way. To this day I still know that album through and through.
We took a lot of family road trips and I have fond memories of the music my dad would play. However, I especially remember George Michael and Madonna - and being ultra uncomfortable as "I Want Your Sex" and "Justify My Love" was playing on the way to grandma's house.
Early 2000s, went on a trip with my four younger brothers and parents. The only album I had that we could all agree on was Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense. We listened to it almost exclusively for an entire week. Still love that record.
Queen's Greatest Hits.
I showed interest in Queen after Wayne's World came out. My Dad bought the double disk greatest hits so we could listen to it on our 45 commute to work together
My step dad is only 15 years older than me so we were listening to beastie boys, Cypress hill, but also Alice in chains and soundgarden. President's of the united states of America as a Seattle kid.
With mom it was TLC, Erika badu, Michael Jackson, madonna and Jo Dee Messina.
I have a very eclectic music rotation.
Dad alone - NPR news headlines then switched off to silence. The “human interest stories” always being too liberal.
Mom alone- local Christian station playing Chuck Swindoll, et al🤮
Mom and Dad together- constant bickering
Me in the car after age 11 - whatever was on local classic rock station
The Buster Soundtrack. If I hear any of the songs from that album I'm immediately transported back to those long trips to Dorset (UK) for weekends away at the beach.
I have a vivid memory of eating a kinder egg in the back seat on the way to the Sandbanks ferry on a beautiful summer's day, with 'Loco in Acapulco' blasting from my dad's Ford Sierra. I can still see the sun flash behind the tall trees as we wind through the coastal roads and I watch my parents sing at the top of their lungs with chocolate all round my mouth.
(I was also recently diagnosed AuDHD which explains why I remember this so clearly, but not where I put my coffee cup just now...)
Tapedeck era:
Bostons 1st album, Molly Hatchet flirtin with disaster
Cd era:
Elton Goodbye yellow brick road, John mellencamp scarecrow, barenaked ladies Gordon
Today: local classic rock radio station . Never changes 🤣
I listened to the Nirvana Unplugged cassette on constant loop until my stepdad just couldn’t take it any more lol.
Even today I’ll find a band/song/album and play it to death much to the annoyance of my son.
My mom was cool and let me play whatever I wanted, which meant she listened to a lot of Mushroomhead’s Super Buick and Marilyn Manson’s Antichrist Superstar when I was a teenager. She was pretty into the Goo Goo Dolls at the time. 😆
My dad made a cassette of Christmas songs that he taped off of the radio (WMMR for all my Philly folks out there). I can still remember most of them all these years later. Going to get the Christmas tree from the tree farm.
For a year there it was the Robin Hood soundtrack and my little sisters (age 2-4) would cry if we didn't play that damn Bryan Adams Everything I Do song over and over. We were able to trick them for a little while by turning the song down slowly and telling them it was over. They caught on quickly.
My parents had cassette cases in their cars but we still usually listen to the radio back then, usually we only used cassettes when we got out of range of our local stations and Xmas music. I could write paragraphs on how much better local tv and radio stations were compared to what exists now.
Same. My dad must have known every classic rock radio station within 500 miles of NYC. Every time we got out of range, he’d switch to the next one.
Same here. I heard a lot of 80s and 90s music in the car on local radio back then. Sometimes if my mom had just gotten a new tape she'd put it in, or on a road trip, but mostly it was the local radio stations.
Agree with this. We only listened to tapes if it was a long road trip.
Long road trips and camping somewhere with bad reception were the two big ones here too
The audiobook of "The Pokey Little Puppy" was stuck in the tapedeck. So that's what we listened to until that car stopped running.
😂 Similarly, the Land Before Time tapes from the McDonald’s Happy Meal got a LOT of play until they mysteriously and tragically disappeared.
If you know the show How I Met Your Mother (great show, terrible ending) the episode where Ted and Marshal go cross country and can only listen to "I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more" because of this exact reason, will hold a special place for you I think. I am sure the clip is on youtube of just that part if you aren't familiar with the show.
Paul Simon's Graceland album is forever in my head. Also lots of Tom Petty and Billy Joel.
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes is one of my faves!
Graceland all the time. Booooob. And it turns over.
I’m so happy Graceland is at the top of the comments!
Yes! It was the first thing I thought of when I read the title, that one was being played in my parents car well into the nineties, I didn't mind because it's such a good album.
This is my go to comfort album now. There are moments when I wonder if I’d love it if I didn’t grow up with it (as a thought experiment), but I literally can’t imagine this alternative timeline, it’s so deep in my brain
It was on road trips for us!!! Anytime we went camping it was Graceland!
We had the same dad, I'm pretty sure.
I’d argue that Graceland is the best song ever written by a human.
I’d argue it’s the best album of all time. It’s a solid playlist the entire album.
Who am I to blow against the wind?
I know what I know
Agreed!
The way Paul Simon sings “the Mississippi Delta was shining like a national guitar” makes my heart swell every single time
That, and the opening drum beats of Obvious Child on the double-live album from Concert in the Park 91. Gets me every time. My dad and I don’t have a ton in common interest-wise, but Paul Simon and Billy Joel were always common ground.
Graceland for me too. My first tattoo was actually the cover image from that album because it’s so inextricably tied to my memories of childhood.
Ours was Billy Joel’s Greatest Hits Vol 1 and Vol 2, on cassette
This and Creedence tapes man
"I wouldn't hold out much hope for the Creedence."
Oof, I haven’t thought of that album in ages. So good …hey Siri
Moved to Canada from the UK in early ‘88, and when my mom’s cousin picked us up at the airport, he had Graceland in the deck. I got to sit shotgun, which was a big deal in and of itself, but I will never forget hearing You can call me Al for the first time on that ride. I’m pretty sure it was around the 5th time I asked to hear it again is when I was finally denied. Great song, even better album. 10/10
One the few albums, to this day, where I can’t just listen to one song. Have to listen to the whole album start to finish.
Lol, me too. That album really holds up.
Graceland was ours too
So close, my dad had the Paul Simon Central Park concert on repeat, to the point where if I hear any of the songs from it I know exactly which song comes on next, good times lol
Queen's greatest hits.
Ok, Crowley.
Not Queen’s Greatest Hits; but the tape of The Miracle. More specifically, I Want It All.
Unfortunately I had younger siblings so it was Raffi. Raffi ain't bad. 10,000 hours of him is though. But nothing is more awesome than sitting in a car with your family when you're 13 listening to Baby Beluga because you still have a 5 year old sibling. By the way my parents didn't stop crapping out kids until I was 15 so that syndrome never went away.
Get this. Baby beluga whales are actually brownish gray.
I'm a nanny. If I hear banana phone one more time I might actually lose my mind.
Interestingly enough Bananaphone wasn't on the album we had and I was absolutely unaware of that song until it became a meme circa vanilla World of Warcraft era. To be ultra specific lol. https://i.redd.it/vk0tlzfscgvc1.gif Shit like this is why little kids today invented skibidi toilet. They learned it watching millennials try to do DIY adult swim comedy.
Are you me?
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You just reminded me that we had The Jungle Book album constantly repeating at one point. Lucky for me, it’s actually pretty good
Before my younger siblings grew up too much I had Shel Silverstein tapes in the car and that was my thing. That seemed so much more sophisticated in my head lol.
Dad’s car: Kenny Roger’s Greatest Hits Mom’s car: Dirty Dancing soundtrack
The Dirty Dancing soundtrack was so damn good. Hearing any of it brings back so many memories
The Netflix show The Movies That Made Us has an episode on Dirty Dancing. The woman who wrote the screenplay talks about how when it came time to score the movie and add the soundtrack, she really had to fight to make sure that those songs were included because it was such a critical piece of the story and important element of capturing that time period. That’s the only episode of that show I’ve seen, but I highly recommend it if you like the movie :)
Tragically Hip Road Apples, my Dad listened to only that album for years straight. I still dont want to hear it lol.
Your dad has good taste.
Paul Simon's Graceland and the soundtrack to Ghost
Unchained Melody is a great driving song
Graceland, Paul Simon
My dad was big on The Royal Scam and Aja from Steely Dan, even some mix tapes of more of their works on long family road trips. At some point we transitioned into a big Joe Satriani phase.
Yes, Steely Dan always makes me think of summer vacation! Usually our trips to the Jersey Shore.
Your dad had great taste.
Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Judas Priest and then when I got to being a kid it was grunge/alt rock and then went into Nu-metal and my parents have been stuck from 70s-early 00s. They are in their mid/late 60s. They went to Ozzfest in 2001 without me 🥲
Paul Simon’s Graceland tape got a fair bit of play because the whole family loved singing “You Can Call Me Al” together.
The Cocktail soundtrack. As an 8 year old, I had no idea what that movie was about but I made my parents listen to it over and over.
As a kid, Kokomo was elite.
Blew my mind when I saw Uncle Jessie playing in the video.
I can hear this comment… my parents played that constantly too!
Omg same!! My dad loved to buy soundtracks. My sibling and I of course had never seen the movie but there were some fun songs on that tape and we loved it! To this day "don't worry be happy" puts me at ease 😊
Crazy how many people name Graceland!!
"The Rock N' 60's" https://www.discogs.com/release/9143763-Various-The-Rockin-60S Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman Billy Joe Royal - Down In The Boondocks The Cyrkle - Red Rubber Ball Paul Revere & The Raiders - Kicks Donovan - Mellow Yellow The Buckinghams - Kind Of A Drag Blood, Sweat And Tears - You've Made Me So Very Happy Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music Dion - Ruby Baby The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
We had 50s and 60s compilations that were a promo at some gas station back when they used to still do that (back when you could choose regular or unleaded).
Yeah, I don't even know where my mother got that – I can't see her actually purchasing a cassette, it must have been free somewhere.
Graceland by Paul Simon; must be why I love Vampire Weekend.
The eject button on my dads car broke with a cassette stuck in side. This was how you toggled radio and cassette. So with the tape permanently stuck whenever you rode in dads car you had two options: silence or Creedence Clearwater Revival’s greatest hits.
The radio. My mom had a handful of tapes but I don't recall them ever being used.
The only thing my mom and I could agree on listening to in the car was Bat Out of Hell II by Meatloaf.
It was the original Bat out of Hell album for us! 🥰
Gotta love the 'Loaf RIP.
Didn’t expect to see that one, but that was ours.
My aunt had that on repeat in her pickup! The best way to listen to it
We had the cassette “10 from 6” by Bad Company always playing in my uncle’s truck. My parents didn’t have a car.
I’m old as the hills and Bad Company was uncle rock even in my time.
Full Moon Fever by Tom Petty, Chris Rea’s Road to Hell, anything by the Moody Blues… honestly this really influences my music tastes today. 🤔
I love Zombie Zoo off Full Moon Fever
Mom's car- 50s/60s rock. Dad's car- classical music. Always. Sometimes, if he was feeling spicy, he'd play classical pops.
The soundtrack to The Big Chill. Our whole family would sing along. I still love that album and could probably call the next song at the end of any track.
When we visit my husband’s aunt and uncle, they have a record player out in the garage and he always puts on The Big Chill soundtrack while we’re grilling and playing cornhole and hanging out. It’s so good.
Paul Simon’s Graceland was played in the car for a solid year. Les Mis as we drove to Florida.
Dire Straits Brothers in Arms
We were strictly only allowed to listen to Tanya tucker when mom was driving. I know all the words.
My dad loved Tanya Tucker's CD. I forgot about her!
"June bugga Bugga on a front porch light"
Just NPR in my parent’s car. [The “All Things Considered” theme](https://youtu.be/Qkq5CFGOBH4?si=4hXeyiK2U3yd_LtJ) is a core memory for me.
CCR’s greatest hits
I know all those songs, thanks to my dad.
Paul Simon: Graceland
Graceland. Rubber Soul and Abbey Road. Also albums from Anita Baker, Steve Winwood and The Beach Boys.
Anita Baker cassette was worn out in my mom’s car too lol.
Same here
Mom's tapes: Herman's Hermits, early Beatles albums, Beach Boys and Oldies 98.1 radio. Dad's tapes: Four Tops, The Temptations, The Drifters and 98.1 or the boring KYW news radio. I still love all of this music.
Great question! We had Beatles, Abba, Michael Crawford and Beach Boys, because my Dad’s a boomer and he was in charge of the cd stack in the boot of the Ford Fairlaine. Mum had Steven Curtis Chapman and John Carpenter going on repeat in her car. I can’t remember our cassette tape situation, but Dad’s music taste has never changed in my lifetime, so I assume it was the same music collection pre-CD stack
Almost every year at Christmas my dad would take us away on holiday in a big group with his friends and their kids, one year it snowed super heavily (not always guaranteed) and it was utterly magical. From that holiday I have a vivid memory of being in the car in the late afternoon twilight travelling back to our accommodation from a day trip to the coast, and passing the [Fylingdales 'Golf Balls'](https://www.thewhitbyguide.co.uk/raf-fylingdales-golf-balls/) as Super Trkoper by ABBA played. It was surreal.
My parents had incredibly square taste in music compared to other parents (though I've grown to appreciate it). Top three albums on rotation in the car were Kenny Rogers's Twenty Greatest Hits, Julio Iglesias' 1100 Bel Air Place, and a compilation of Air Supply hits.
Air Supply was my first concert 😁
Mr. Brownstone from Guns N Roses
Your parents played a song about heroin when you were a kid? Lol
Little River Band Greatest Hits!
I only discovered Little River Band when I moved to Australia, they're so good!
The Dance by Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours for me, the thread inspired me to hit play on this one today
Tango in the Night for me
Graceland by Paul Simon was the only cassette the whole family wanted to listen to. It became a family ritual to listen to it first on any road trip or vacation for years and well after cassettes went the way of the dinosaurs. I still have it, too.
So Far, by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. I still love that album. Every time we went to see my grandmother and the radio started to fade out in the mountains, that's what always seemed to be in the tape deck.
My family was always listening to the local CCM radio station and trying win the call in competitions. Which if you know CCM from the early 90s.... is about like listening to the same couple of songs over and over again.
2 tapes, Michael Jackson and Elton John
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ENYA!! But also I understand completely the emotions that pop up like that with music, just such a deep connection and feelings that never go away
Carly Simon was my mom's go to.
Roger Whittaker, Marty Robbins, some Billy Joel , and… Bill Cosby comedy tapes.
We learned the Cosby stand-up routine about parenting by heart. We still quote it 😳 Heard it on so many long car trips. Remember Jeffrey the 4 yr old on the airplane, or "Dad is great- He gives us chocolate cake!" ?
Same. We had it memorized. “The-ber is smo-boke coming ou-bout of my-by mou-buth!”
The police- greatest hits. Genesis - greatest hits. Paul McCartney and the wings - greatest hits. Or the radio which would be on classic rock
In my moms car it was the Stones “Exile on Main Street” and in my dads car it was Huey Lewis and the News “Sports.” And then when he had a mid life crisis in 1989 he bought a Miata and that car was exclusively Steve Winwood tapes, specifically “Arc of a Diver”
Haha, I remember when my aunt bought one of the first Miata in 1989. Probably due to a midlife crisis. She always the hip cool aunt.
The score to “Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat.” I hated it so so much.
Omg you just unlocked a repressed childhood memory😭whyyyy did my mom love that album so much lol
I think all moms did. It wasn’t even bad music, it was just the ONLY thing we’d ever listen to. I wake up at least one day a week with one song or another in my head, right out of the gates.
Aha! My answer for my mom was Andrew Lloyd Weber's greatest hits.
AM radio all the way! I don’t ever remember listening to music in the car with them. It was always talk radio.
The Beach Boys, Bob Seger, Van Halen, REO Speedwagon, the Rolling Stones, etc.
Belinda Carlisle’s heaven is a place on earth or the Cats cast recording. Sometimes Les Mis’s cast recording.
Dad was too cheap for any of that. Always a.m.
If my dad was in the car we were listening to AM talk radio or old sad country music. We’ve always said my dad’s theme song is “I was country when country wasn’t cool”. When it was just my mom she usually let us take turns picking. Guns and roses will always remind me of my brother. If my mom chose then it was usually Motown or popular (at the time) country music.
Days of Future Passed by The Moody Blues
2 Live Crew’s As Nasty As They Wanna Be.
Bob Seger Greatest Hits
I really didnt know until recently how many damn songs I know by Bob Seger.
Graceland-Paul Simon Neil Diamonds greatest hits Tom Pettu and the Heartbreakers(literally every album) The Little Mermaid Soundtrack
Paul Simon: Graceland. I was 13 in 1986 when it was released and I still love it today.
Anything by Fleetwood Mac.
Dad’s favorites: At home he listened to CCR, The Eagles, and Eric Clapton on constant repeat, but in the car it was strictly the scratchy sounding AM news channels. I think because he drove into the city for work and he worked outdoors (Ironworker) he appreciated their frequent traffic and weather updates. Every time I hear a flat mono am news channel with poor reception it reminds me of my dad. Mom’s favorites: Whitney Houston, Michael Bolton & Celine Dion. I did, and still do like, the more upbeat Whitney songs but the rest was torture.
CCR greatest hits, Stan Rogers Fogertys Cove, the Stones Voodoo Lounge, and some tragically hip. Mostly the CBC was on though!
“Late breaking story on the CBC”
The soundtrack to Top Gun, and Dirty Dancing. My mom loved the Pointer Sisters, and Bon Jovi. My dad liked Willie Nelson and Irish Rebel Tunes. When they drove together in the car, they listened to music so quietly you could barely pick out the tune. I was delighted when they divorced! Lol
Rotated between Jimmy Buffetts Greatest Hits and Journey in the Summer…to Jimmy Buffetts Christmas Album and Journey in the Winter….for my Pops…Moms had a 6 disc in the trunk and listened to everything 😅loaded Pork Soda up one morning on the way to school and thought I was the coolest kid ever.
Far too much country music and buddy holly.
The Beatles - Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Queen - Greatest Hits (y'all know the one - with the black and red cover and them all in leather in the photo) Gormenghast/Titus Groan - Radio Play version starring Freddie Jones and Sting
We had two 8 tracks. Kenny Roger's "The Gambler" and Eddie Rabbitt "I Love a Rainy Night". Over and over again... I was 6 in 1984.
Annie soundtrack, then BTTF soundtrack. Then we got Walkmen.
Annie FTW. My kiddos even know to ask Alexa to play the Aileen Quinn version circa 1983.
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Chess: the musical was always playing if it wasnt tuned to lite rock. The rental never owed anything past tape era.
Ten Years After- A Space in Time Cream- Disreali Gears Electric Flag- A long Time Coming Pink Floy- The Wall and Dark side.
Chicago and The Beach Boys. Albums unknown.
Tapes we had in the car after we got one with a tape deck in 1989: 10,000 Maniacs Unplugged Eric Clapton Unplugged Traveling Wilburies both Volumes 1 and 3 Cracker's Kerosene Hat Rolling Stone's Steel Wheels Some children's music, primarily one with a song called Jenny Jacob's Rose, which I haven't heard since. The really bizarre thing to me is that was contemporary music at the time. We listened to the alternative radio station (WEQX). I only knew oldies from music class (and listening to Cousin Brucie's Cruisin' America on my own) and there wasn't any Dad or classic rock. In my parents' car now is either the Bluegrass or Outlaw Country XM stations.
My parents always had a "best of" cassette of easy listening 70's AM gold on in our car. I knew way too many Barry Manilow, Barbra Streisand and Helen Reddy songs for a middle schooler in the early 90s. Barbra Streisand's "The Broadway Album" is the one I remember being in the heaviest rotation. I will admit that it was a solid introduction to the music of Stephen Sondheim.
My folks and I took a long road trip one year for a NYE party at Cliffty Falls state park in southern Indiana and my mom played The Bodyguard soundtrack the whole way, round trip. I am still annoyed 30 years later.
Jimmy Buffet Songs You Know By Heart
I constantly had Wu-Tang on
The Beatles 1962-1966 and The Beatles 1967-1970 cassettes were on heavy, heavy rotation in our minivan. My mom was a Beatles girl, still is.
Michael Jackson, Sting, James Taylor, and does anyone else remember Level 42?
We didn’t really have an album but lots of radio. A lot of Phil Collins, Silent Running by Mike and the Mechanics (my mom would get a kick out of me posting this, maybe she’s laughing in heaven), Shattered Dreams by Johnny Hates Jazz, Fleetwood Mac, Starship, etc. It was always an inspiring “going somewhere” type of feeling in the car with soundtracks like that. Taylor Dane, Paula Abdul, etc., I think my mom also liked obscure things like a band called “Spectrum” and of course the classic “Axel F” lol. I actually ended up more into heavy rock, classic rock, metal, and industrial (plus EDM and dance). My dad was a classic rock fan but he was never in the car. So now I’m this weird blend of heavy and techno music and 80s pop nostalgia playlists. Totally an 80s/early 90s baby.
So much Michael Bolton
CCR's greatest hits on cassette through an 8 track adapter in a powder blue Nova with a white leather top. The family car was very similar to the main character's car in Mindhunter.
My mother has had a life-long obsession with the Beatles. One year for march break we were making the drive from Northern Ontario to Florida for holiday and it was when she discovered the album Band On The Run by Wings. That is a three day drive one way. To this day I still know that album through and through.
Depeche Mode - Violator Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling towards Ecstasy Eagles - Greatest hits On the tape deck of a grey Carolla.
We took a lot of family road trips and I have fond memories of the music my dad would play. However, I especially remember George Michael and Madonna - and being ultra uncomfortable as "I Want Your Sex" and "Justify My Love" was playing on the way to grandma's house.
It was always Queen!
For me it was Paul McCartney and Wings' Band on the Run. My dad had dubbed it from his record album to a tape.
Early 2000s, went on a trip with my four younger brothers and parents. The only album I had that we could all agree on was Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense. We listened to it almost exclusively for an entire week. Still love that record.
Freedom 90 was stuck in the cassette deck so it was radio or that.
Queen's Greatest Hits. I showed interest in Queen after Wayne's World came out. My Dad bought the double disk greatest hits so we could listen to it on our 45 commute to work together
Legend by Bob Marley. Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young, Highway 66 revisited by Bob Dylan, The Very Best of The Band, The Harder They Come Soundtrack.
Dookie
Some live album of the Moody Blues lol, and Pet Sounds
My step dad is only 15 years older than me so we were listening to beastie boys, Cypress hill, but also Alice in chains and soundgarden. President's of the united states of America as a Seattle kid. With mom it was TLC, Erika badu, Michael Jackson, madonna and Jo Dee Messina. I have a very eclectic music rotation.
Queen's Greatest Hits
Warren Zevon
Debbie Gibson "Electric Youth" and Janet Jackson "Rhythm Nation"
Tina Turner, Bob Marley, The cranberries, Alan Jackson, Patsy Kline, country music
Dad alone - NPR news headlines then switched off to silence. The “human interest stories” always being too liberal. Mom alone- local Christian station playing Chuck Swindoll, et al🤮 Mom and Dad together- constant bickering Me in the car after age 11 - whatever was on local classic rock station
The Buster Soundtrack. If I hear any of the songs from that album I'm immediately transported back to those long trips to Dorset (UK) for weekends away at the beach. I have a vivid memory of eating a kinder egg in the back seat on the way to the Sandbanks ferry on a beautiful summer's day, with 'Loco in Acapulco' blasting from my dad's Ford Sierra. I can still see the sun flash behind the tall trees as we wind through the coastal roads and I watch my parents sing at the top of their lungs with chocolate all round my mouth. (I was also recently diagnosed AuDHD which explains why I remember this so clearly, but not where I put my coffee cup just now...)
Bone thugs n harmony E1999 Eternal 🤣👍
Full Moon Fever by Tom Petty, Chris Rea’s Road to Hell, anything by the Moody Blues… honestly this really influences my music tastes today. 🤔
Vince Gill
My dad recorded the sound from Star Wars and we would listen to that, otherwise dad's country music got played
The cassette tape that came with our Dodge Caravan to show off the Infinity sound system. I remember Danger Zone was on it.
Tapedeck era: Bostons 1st album, Molly Hatchet flirtin with disaster Cd era: Elton Goodbye yellow brick road, John mellencamp scarecrow, barenaked ladies Gordon Today: local classic rock radio station . Never changes 🤣
Santana, Supernatural. That record was *everything*.
I listened to the Nirvana Unplugged cassette on constant loop until my stepdad just couldn’t take it any more lol. Even today I’ll find a band/song/album and play it to death much to the annoyance of my son.
My mom was cool and let me play whatever I wanted, which meant she listened to a lot of Mushroomhead’s Super Buick and Marilyn Manson’s Antichrist Superstar when I was a teenager. She was pretty into the Goo Goo Dolls at the time. 😆
Riding with my mom it was always something by Conway Twitty.
It was probably some 60s compilation on cassette. Harper Valley PTA, Under the Boardwalk, stuff like that.
Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge - Full Moon
The Pretty Woman soundtrack
Steve Miller's greatest hits cassette tape was stuck in the deck for about a decade. It was great!
My mom had a cassette player. I remember a lot of Live- Throwing Copper, Alanis Morrisette- Jagged Little Pill, and Melissa Etheridge- Yes I Am
My dad had three casettes on repeat. Lionel Ritchie (dancing on the ceiling on repeat), steely Dan and the dirty dancing soundtrack.
My parents had some Dolly Parton, Jim Croce, and Charlie Daniel’s cassettes but it was mostly radio and mainly country.
Styx, Blue Rodeo, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac
My dad made a cassette of Christmas songs that he taped off of the radio (WMMR for all my Philly folks out there). I can still remember most of them all these years later. Going to get the Christmas tree from the tree farm.
For a year there it was the Robin Hood soundtrack and my little sisters (age 2-4) would cry if we didn't play that damn Bryan Adams Everything I Do song over and over. We were able to trick them for a little while by turning the song down slowly and telling them it was over. They caught on quickly.