# Did you raid your parents' record collection? What made an impression? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-raid-your-parents-record-collection-what-made-an-impression/593204 "2011-08-18T18:37:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-raid-your-parents-record-collection-what-made-an-impression/593204/81 "2011-08-22T17:53:32Z")
My parents records were entirely classical (including some opera) and Broadway shows. I listened to them quite a lot when I was growing up, and indeed I still like classical and musicals to this day, though I don’t listen to those genres exclusively anymore. But my childhood was kind of weird, musically speaking. I don’t think I listened to much pop music at all until I was maybe twelve years old. We simply never had it at our house. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-raid-your-parents-record-collection-what-made-an-impression/593204/82 "2011-08-22T19:51:07Z")
My Folks had a lot of albums I love, and when the moved to Florida a few years ago, I got a bunch of them, Harry Chapin, Vivaldi, George Carlin. But my favorite is my Mom’s Bookends album. I inherited the poster in it long before I got the Album, and I still have both! ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-raid-your-parents-record-collection-what-made-an-impression/593204/83 "2011-08-22T20:26:20Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Aww, damn, faulty memory. Of course it’s Liszt [/facepalm]. And, no, there’s no way in hell I can attempt that piece, holy crap I don’t know how anyone could. Yeah, it’s pretty badass. But that little duh-duh-duh-da-duh-duh-duh thing in double octaves isn’t too bad and probably could get you a time share in somewhere not good if you play it for the right people. Most of the rest of it is just awful to play – all the arpeggiated octaves in RH. Not good. Not good for anyone. Love the music, but Liszt was a sick asshole, pretty much, or a giant raging egoman. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-raid-your-parents-record-collection-what-made-an-impression/593204/84 "2011-08-22T20:47:18Z")
Sorry I said that about Liszt – he was one of the most deserving-of-accolades composers, IMHO. It’s true he was a raging asshole about writing stuff almost nobody could reasonably play. 😉 Yeah, yeah, Alkan and everybody else who wrote difficult things = teh suxxor. But Liszt was, dare I say it, “transcendent.” ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-raid-your-parents-record-collection-what-made-an-impression/593204/85 "2011-08-22T23:52:48Z")
Great comedy stuff- Bill Cosby’s “Wonderfulness” and “Bill Cosby is a very funny fellow: Right!”, Flip Wilson’s “Cowboys and Colored People” and “You Devil You”, Bob Newhart’s “The Buttoned Down Mind Strikes Back”, Lily Tomlin’s “This Is A Recording”, Rowan & Martin’s “The Humor of Rowan & Martin”. But my prize record is one my mom got from her dad- Benny Goodman’s 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. One of the best gifts I ever got for my mom was finding the Carnegie Hall concert on CD for her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-raid-your-parents-record-collection-what-made-an-impression/593204.md?page=4)