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.
“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
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.
No because elevator music all sounds the same