What music does your dad like? (lemmy.zip)

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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.

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

“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

[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 1 points 19 hours ago

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.

[-] TrippingBalls@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

No because elevator music all sounds the same

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