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What media did your older siblings, parents, relatives get you hooked on? Any you hated because of them?

My dad got me into scifi/fantasy in the first place. He used to read the Hobbit, Heinlein juveniles, and other age-appropriate nerdy things to me as a kid (my sister too at first, but she lost interest). Star Wars and Star Trek. And then Stargate: SG1. He was more into hard scifi than I while I was more into fantasy, but we shared so many things in common.

I hate That Thing You Do because it was my sister's favorite movie, and she watched it nonstop.

My cousin got me into Ranma 1/2 and Saint Seiya. I still enjoy both.

My dad got me into classic rock. My Grandma got me into 90s country. My sisters got me into various nu metal bands.

But my oldest sister made me hate Nirvana because of how obsessed she was with them.

I loved my dad’s record collection and to this day all my faves are songs and bands I know thanks to him. Everything from late 50s and early 60s (love me some Shirelles and Penguins and Johnny Rivers, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, and of course Frankie Vallie) up through the early 70s. I also like quite a bit that has come out in my lifetime but probably less than 30 songs released after I graduated high school in 94. Most of what I love has distinct ties to what he introduced me to as a toddler.

My mom turned me on to the Beatles by using their albums to teach me how to use the turntable and how to handle vinyl and such when I was a lil kid. It's something I appreciate more as I get older (I'm an elder millennial) even if I don't actively collect or listen to vinyl... though I might once I inherit my parents' collection.

My mom turned me hard off of David Bowie by playing him, loudly, in the central room of the house every day for a full year after his death. I have auditory processing issues where I feel panicky if I hear overlapping audio so I basically couldn't play video games or watch TV or listen to my own music during the day unless I wanted to be a sobbing ball of anxiety. And it was "very rude" of me to ask her to turn it down.

Lol so many things from my Dad because he's a total nerd, and so am I :D
First of all pretty much a good chunk of movies going all the way back to the silent era with comedies like the Marx brothers, Laurel and Hardy, Mae West and Charlie Chaplin; Horror like the Universal monsters, Hammer Horror, 1950s B Movies just about anything with Vincent Price in it (Comedy of Terrors being my favourite) - and silent era with Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and just about anything involving Lon Chaney too.
That's in addition to Musicals, Sci-fis/fantasies and action movies (with the latter mainly starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Sylvester Stallone's Demolition Man). Even when I was a teenager getting into weebie anime/Japanese media, he was the one who introduced me to Akira Kurosawa's movies like Yojimbo. The only thing he's failed to get me into is cowboy movies, which I'm mostly meh about now but hated them as a kid because I had thought they were so boring (my one exception being Blazing Saddles, but that's because its one of my favourite Mel Brooks movies next to The Producers and High Anxiety).

Then there's the old animation by Tex Avery and Max Fleischer (was especially a big fan of Betty Boop and Felix the Cat as a kid), as well as old school Loony Tunes and very early Disney shorts.
Then there's SO MUCH SciFi - Star Trek (technically started with the original movies because he had no access to the original series until 2010 - followed by TNG all the way to Enterprise), Classic Doctor Who (the 8th Doctor being my first when the movie was shown on TV and then getting introduced to the first 4 Doctors with whatever vhs tapes he could find), Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Red Dwarf.

Also so much music and radio shows; mainly old British Comedies like The Goon Show and Round the Horne. There's probably even more stuff.
Funnily enough, the only thing my Mum got me into was a really weird Christian animation series called 'Testament: Bible in Animation' (I'm ex-catholic now, but the mixed media animation used in the different episodes really intrigued me and lead me to the other animation projects like Shakespeare the animated tales and The Canterbury Tales) and Harry Potter since she was the one reason I ended up watching the movies and getting into the books as a teen (not into it now because how everything is and lol coming on here has and seeing so much drama about it just tainted any chance of ever returning to it).

I've pretty much always liked The Beach Boys because of my dad. And I feel like I knew about Julie Andrews from my mom way before I actually saw Sound of Music or Mary Poppins - my parents had vinyl records and my mom had some of her Broadway My Fair Lady and Camelot soundtracks plus the Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella and her and Carol Burnette's Carnegie Hall show.

I cannot tell you how much I dislike the sound of The Threepenny Opera, like, it is what I would put under the dictionary definition of the word 'caterwaul'.

My estranged younger sister (who I have not seen in 20+ years) was right into B*witched, Steps, Lee Ann Rimes etc. hate all of those because of her. And the remake of Great Expectations that had Gwyneth Paltrow because we went to see it together and it was one of the rare times we got along.

I get a lot of my music tastes from my parents and siblings. My parents listened to Elvis, the Beatles and the like when I was growing up while my brother and sister listened to AC/DC, Green Day, etc.

Sadly none. Thanks to my dad I dislike style that is quite distinctive to my country. I feel bad about it, it's such a cultural thing.
I've got into sculpture thanks to my mom. Yeah it's not media but I've grown to like such a wonderful unique art.

Not much, really. I guess my stepfather is somewhat to thank for my basic level of knowledge of classic rock of the 60's, 70's, and 80's, since he listened to classic rock radio pretty constantly when I was a kid/teen. He didn't have a passion for any particular bands, though, he's just one of those people who wants the radio to be on CONSTANTY and classic rock was his station of choice.

My dad got me into Julien Baker, who's great, but she's very current.

My mum got a Biggles vbook out of the library for me when I was seven. I'm still hooked, decades later. Same with Tolkien - she bought The Hobbit when I was nine, and I';m the biggest Tolkien nerd I know now. It saved me throughout my adolsecnce.

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