Music that your parents/over 40s listen to...

[Elmo]

Hey people!

Right my mum has instructed me to come up with a playlist for her to listen to whilst driving. As i'm 20 (4 weeks to 21ness!) and my mother is 50, there's a 30 year gap in our music tastes! Along with the fact she wouldnt listen to most of my music if she was paid to lol

So what i'm looking for is some songs that are catchy, probably a bit poppy but not boy bands/britney/christina type songs, with a bit of a beat, but not dance, that she might like to listen to whilst driving. As she describes it, songs that she would rather be late for work for and hear the whole song than get out the car lol.

so, there's the challenge! See what you lot can come up with!

so far i've got the following on the list:

1. Dandy Warhols - Bohemian like you
2. Shania Twain - man, i feel like a woman
3. Dire straits - Romeo & Juliet
4. Dire Straits - Solid Rock
5. Rolling Stones - Start me up
6. Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar
7. Blur - Song 2
8. Tha Clash - Should I stay or should i go

Right, i'll prolly need about 30ish. As you can see she has quite a varied taste...

Good luck!

[Kezzer]

My mates dad listens to literally exactly the same music as i do, and no, the music i listen to isn't old school.

My mum doesn't really listen to music, my dad listens to cher and pan pipes whereas i'm into a variety of music

[Norky]

Need some Coral on there, Dreaming Of You is a safe choice

Also see if you can get any Fiery Furnaces, they have a great female vocalist. Try get South Is Only A Home.

[Knoxville]

The Who - Pinball Wizard
Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the middle with you
Johnny Cash - 16 ton's
The Groundhogs - Groundhog (she has to like a bluegrass/country thing to like this)
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
The Doors - Break On Through
Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
The Animals - House of the rising sun
The Kinks - You Really Got me
The Kinks - All day and all of the night
Rolling Stones - Paint it Black

[DavidM]

Some great tracks - add some vintage Genesis & Fleetwood mac to the list

[Trippledence]

My mum likes Coldplay, The Beatles, Keane, G4 (untill i hid the cd), R.E.M, The Manic street preachers, and a few others. Mostly becuase i force her to listen to new music.

My dad likes Led Zeplin and Gorillaz, but hes not really a music person, more of a boring person. lol.

[0iD]

Took my mum to see Ziggy Marley the other night & she's just got Green Day's American Idiot album. And she's 62

Still, she likes
Fututreheads - Decent Days & Nights
Ordinary Boys - Week in & Week Out
Kasabian - Club Foot
Dr Feelgood - Milk & ALcohol
Ocean Colour Scene - Riverboat Song
Kula Shaker - Hey Dude
Ice Cube - Today was a good day

[silent ben]

My mum likes meatloaf, but she is strange

[Steve]

My mum likes meatloaf, but she is strange

Ditto

[shiato storm]

My dad likes Jazz ([I]GGgrrrreat[/]), Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges are classics

[wasabi]

Most of the bands you guys mention are not the sort of stuff women normally listen to. I'd chuck in stuff like Kate Bush (Hounds of Love for example ), Rolling Stones, Bowie's poppier stuff and early Blondie if I were you. I'm 34 so have the age (dis)advantage of vaguely remembering this stuff first time round

[Knoxville]

I was going more by the songs elmo had posted than by what women usually listen to tbh, sure your mom ain't up for some nightwish/lacuna coil Fi?

[Elmo]

lol, she doesnt like my music collection uneducated woman that she is

nah, she likes stuff she can bob along to like robbie williams - rock DJ

[shiato storm]

Kate Bush (Hounds of Love)

good god! um, 'man eater' ... 'desparate' ...
hound of love? that kind of worrying.