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What did you hear in your older brother or sisters room?

Posted over 5 years ago
I was just thinking about this the other day. My older sis was a 70's girl and I used to sit outside her room and hear Earth Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder and Led Zep. My middle sis was a punk rocker turned rasta so I used to hear the Slits and the Bad Brains coming from her room. Funny to think about. What did you hear? I'm talking about music, of course.
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  1. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says Great post! I had two older brothers...lets see, and I am 31...from one room I heard the J Geils Band and Queen....and from my oldest brother's room a ton of Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Dio...i have kind of landed in the middle!
    Permalink posted 10/09/2006
  2. champy
    champy says Unfortunately I don't have any brothers or sisters so I guess I will have to settle for cousins. My cousins are from New York and an average a good five years older than myself. But my most memorable experiences with them have always revolved around music, because they were always really into hip hop, more specifically east coast rap. I thank them for any hip hop knowledge that I do have! Good post btw
    Permalink posted 10/09/2006
  3. SatisfiedMind614
    SatisfiedMind614 says I was always so jealous of the kid in Almost Famous and that moment when his sister shared her record collection with him...love that scene...love that movie!
    Permalink posted 10/09/2006
  4. sugarbaby
    sugarbaby says My sister is seven years older than me and I used to love sneaking into her room to look at her albums. She introduced me to The Beatles, Elton John and then disco, but the biggest influence was Kiss. I was fascinated by what they looked like - the big hair, the shiny make-up and the platform shoes... not that it was really so foreign - I grew up in Brooklyn after all, but to see GUYS wearing that stuff was just crazy. Peter Criss was one of my first crushes. It was the cat thing.... and Gene Simmon's tongue was too scary for a seven year old...
    Permalink posted 10/09/2006
  5. kb
    kb says def funny to think about: older sis: kinks, who, stones, floyd, doors, talking heads, that direction... older bro: genesis, police, gtr, led zep, dead, male rockers... mom: teddy p, marvin, aretha, anyone af.am. dad: beach boys, alt country, reggae, all over the map feeling like a kaleidoscope/ myriad of it all, plus phish, wilco, ani, from myself mixed with my husband's more alternative, indi, house blend.
    Permalink posted 10/09/2006
  6. SWozniak
    SWozniak says I'm the oldest. My younger brother's taste is all over the place (but mostly stuff you can find in a KMart, since that's pretty much the only place he buys CDs - it's across the street). My sister LOVES Pearl Jam, but has some similar taste to my brother. And both overlap a few artists with me, which makes it cool, cuz we can have fun at a show together.
    Permalink posted 10/09/2006
  7. SWozniak
    SWozniak says I'm the oldest. My younger brother's taste is all over the place (but mostly stuff you can find in a KMart, since that's pretty much the only place he buys CDs - it's across the street). My sister LOVES Pearl Jam, but has some similar taste to my brother. And both overlap a few artists with me, which makes it cool, cuz we can have fun at a show together.
    Permalink posted 10/09/2006
  8. Lord Helmet
    Lord Helmet says Nice--any chance to zing my older bro is a good one. LA Guns, Faster Pussycat, Slaughter, Warrant, Bullet Boys, Judas Priest. Here's to your curly mullet with lines shaved into the sides, bro...
    Permalink posted 10/09/2006
  9. KebStarr
    KebStarr says My older bro, my only bro, listened to Metallica when he was 13 (so I was 8) then death metal, then Christian rock. I don't even know what he listens to now. He liked Lenny Kravitz when he was in uni.
    Permalink posted 10/09/2006
  10. etcvisitor
    etcvisitor says my brother turned me on to punk rock and death metal... i still love it. my dad turned me on to new wave... that is the weird thing. he was a total audiophile and he had one of the first CD players in the neighborhood... in fact i want to say it was an early model before they were actually consumer grade. well, the deal is between his vinyl and CDs i came out being a big fan of Men at Work... and he also turned me on to Bob Marley and some other stuff. he always says he wished he had never exposed me to rock n roll. that's when i tell him, at least it gave me some variety from all of the punk rock and death metal. and then i laugh in his face.
    Permalink posted 10/09/2006
  11. lemontwist
    lemontwist says Hm, my (older) sister and I sort of started listening to music together, though it was mostly top 40 stuff. I graduated into 90s rock, and my sister didn't really follow, and we sort of drifted apart for awhile (for other reasons), so I never really gained a musical education from her. My little brother didn't really start listening to music until last year, as he entered college. But he doesn't listen to much stuff that I like, so... sadly, I don't think I've been an influence on him. :) My dad, on the other hand, introduced me to classic rock. And through his collection of records (that I have now "borrowed") I gained an appreciation for not only vinyl as a medium, but many of the awesome bands from the 1970s.
    Permalink posted 10/09/2006
  12. Slicing
    Slicing says let's see,for a while there me and my older sister were listening to the same thing because we're only 2 yrs. apart,but after we got different radios? hmm, bone thugs-n-harmony,brandy,jennifer lopez,master p, slikk the shocker, mystikal, ice cube,SWV,Total...basically rap music and R&B
    Permalink posted 10/09/2006
  13. holyfool
    holyfool says I am the older brother, so I can't really say. My uncle is the only other real music lover in my family, and through him I got exposed to Kiss, Skynyrd, Kraftwerk, Schooly D, Afrika Bambaataa, Michael Jackson, ABC, Thin Lizzy, early house music and loads of hip hop. He turned me on to Portishead too, for which I am ver grateful. My sister never really assimilated too much of my music (her interests lie elsewhere), but I've managed to turn her on to some good stuff.
    Permalink posted 10/09/2006
  14. El Monko and Son
    El Monko and Son says Meh. My sister was into Phil Collins. The only taste we shared in high school was The Kinks.
    Permalink posted 10/09/2006
  15. chucky
    chucky says I'm the oldest and I have no influence at all, sad to say. My little brother listens to hardcore and my little sister listens to trance. Blegh.
    Permalink posted 10/09/2006
  16. BigaPan
    BigaPan says I´the oldest too (35), my mother from colombia, my father from switzerland, both are ex hippies, i grow up in africa between 1975 to 1986, and now i´m mixing dn´b!!! what can i say... just take a look to my music collection! Nice post!!!
    Permalink posted 10/09/2006
  17. david hyman
    david hyman says everything. i relived almost famous. brother ran away to hawaii for a few years and left me with hundreds of records. everything! all stones, doors, who, traffic, cream, clapton, you name it. the stuff one needs to nourish themselves on during those formative years. but hearing through the room? i distinctly remember frampton comes alive, l.a. woman, and tennesse jed.
    Permalink posted 10/09/2006
  18. Manos
    Manos says Great question! My brother continues to be a big influence. First it was Linda Rondstadt, Jackson brown and CSNY, then Talking Heads, then bebop and Latin jazz. He plays drums and is as obsessed with music as I am.
    Permalink posted 10/10/2006
  19. steve simon
    steve simon says i remember my sister and her friends always blasting, "let the good times roll" by the cars when it first came out lizzie
    Permalink posted 10/10/2006
  20. eshep
    eshep says my older brother played some really cool music and some really bad music. some of it i ended up claiming for my own, and some of it i steered clear from from that moment on. the good: pink floyd kiss (early) billy joel the bad: alabama chicago foreigner
    Permalink posted 10/11/2006

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