As well as the aural atrocities inflicted on me as a child/teenager by my parents (Phil Collins, David Essex), I also got to listen to T-Rex and The Carpenters, both of which I'm still fond of.

Yeah, my mum played a lot of the Carpenters - when she wasn't sofa diving to Flux of Pink Indians, that is.

I only got round to the Carpenters relatively recently. They utterly, utterly pwn the world. Or something etc.

Todd Rundgren's A Wizzard a True Star changed my life

all the young uns make me cry

My house was always full of music growing up. My parenst would play Puerto Rican music, salsa, merengues, etc. all the time. I hated much of it, but enjoyed the salsa polyrhythms.

My mom would play this album every saturday without fail as she cleaned the house. the bee gees were her favorite band.



Also we would listen to THRILLER all the fucking time.


and my favorite records at the age of 8-11 were

my parents played this all the time:

Yeah, it could be worse. It's just not my cup of tea.

Some Motown hits collection and Miles Davis' Bitches Brew. (Both my mom's)
She then gave me her copy of the BB lp (1st ed!)

Changed my life for the better