Me first. My wife listens to these Disney Party CD's. These things are bad. This is like what a geekey 9 year old would put on thinking it's cool. Actually I don't think even a geekey 9 year old would find these cool. Livin' La Vida Mickey - yep that bad.

Other than that, she likes baaaaadd new age music. Like yuppie hot tub experience music. Not necessarily Yanni or John Tesh, but that baaaaaadd.

Who's next?

Sippin on da Crown Royal,, mmmm likey likey!

Damn my brotha, that suxx.... I'm blessed with a woman that digs Peter Green to Zepp to Hendrix to Phish to the Dead. I couldn't of married her over a year ago otherwise....

She had bad hair style taste in high school though, does that count?

Robert....mmm, I feel for ya man.

Yeah, one of the reasons I hit it off with my wife was our love of music. She taught me to like stuff like Steve Earle and I taught her about the Replacements. It was rock n roll courting time!

We are compatible with music/movies/arts, etc. but just different enough to help each other see something new once in awhile.

My ex and I never really hit it off musically. It should have been a sign. But my fiance, one of the things that attracted me was her love of Zappa's music.

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Originally posted by Rollo Timbre:
My ex and I never really hit it off musically. It should have been a sign. But my fiance, one of the things that attracted me was her love of Zappa's music.

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Hmmmm.... my ex and I never hit it off musically either.

Come to think of it, my girlfriend of 3 1/2 years and I are musically incompatable too. It's not as bad as with the ex, but we're definitely off. She listens to country pretty much all the time and does not venture outside of that style very much. She also likes Eminem and Shaggy and I think I am more disturbed by this admission than anything else.

So.... should I dismiss her now before I have to let her leave with half of my stuff?

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Originally posted by GuitArtMan:
Me first. My wife listens to these Disney Party CD's. These things are bad. This is like what a geekey 9 year old would put on thinking it's cool. Actually I don't think even a geekey 9 year old would find these cool. Livin' La Vida Mickey - yep that bad.

Other than that, she likes baaaaadd new age music. Like yuppie hot tub experience music. Not necessarily Yanni or John Tesh, but that baaaaaadd.

Who's next?

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It sounds like you win the "Significant other has the worst taste in music" contest


I believe there is a reason that men pretty much make up the top 100 guitarists of all time...No Women!

It's gotta be they are using the wrong part of the brain or something..LOL

My girl is a rocker and a roller...but she listens to a bit much of this "emo" stuff...the pop punkers discovering the cure and the smiths twenty years too late doesn't make them senstive or profound in spite of previously brainless musical efforts in my opinion...So she has to deal with my snobbery when it comes to music...

Also..dudes...any girl who likes the replacements is a keeper. That's the real thing.

My wife likes oldies most of the time, or Willie Nelson style country tunes, both of which are okay by me... I like almost everything.

Interestingly, she really liked the Christina Aguilera song "Beautiful" so she got the cd... it was playing in the car and guess what... it's pretty doggone good. I borrowed it and have been playing it in my car. There's some nice effects and well done tunes... listen to "Make Over" for fx and grinding guitars... so I got introduced to some new music that I would not have otherwise tried through her oddball tastes

regards, Jack

To her credit Fluffy likes Surf music a lot. On the other hand she likes "Smooth Jazz" if you know what I mean.

remember the archies--------ah- sugar------ ah honey honey. thats my wife.

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Originally posted by GuitArtMan:
Me first. My wife listens to these Disney Party CD's. These things are bad. This is like what a geekey 9 year old would put on thinking it's cool. Actually I don't think even a geekey 9 year old would find these cool. Livin' La Vida Mickey - yep that bad.

Other than that, she likes baaaaadd new age music. Like yuppie hot tub experience music. Not necessarily Yanni or John Tesh, but that baaaaaadd.

Who's next?

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Congrats Gman--you just won a case of black label Jim Beam from WILLIEBUDDA for Xmas

I'm still single--getting older and more cantankerous by the second. I damn near WON'T GO OUT with a woman that has bad taste in music. I think it's safe to say that we all here hold music as something much more than just a "hobby". The last chick I dated listened to hip-hop/gangsta rap 24/7, I've never run away from something so fast in my freakin' life!! I'd rather have a red hot fire poker shoved up my ass sideways.. That stuff isn't even music...

My SO would say *I* would win the award, since I like black metal & grind which to her is "people screaming with drums in the background!"

davei:

You mean to say that it IS something more than "people screaming with drums in the background!"? ;-)

While its not as terrible as GuitrArtMan's torturous experience (you poor, poor man _, My ex-gal listened to shit like Jewel and The Indidgo Girls...Now, I admit The Indigo Girls are good songwriters and great at what they do, And Jewel is...well...She sucks. Man, after a few years of that shit, you realize why folks go postal.
The girl I'm dating now is a bit closer to my tastes (though my tastes are broad). The fist day I hung out with her, we walked into her apartment and she had a Rocket From the Crypt poster on her wall...I thought "Now THIS I can work with!"

My wife likes some cool stuff at times, but she does have her bad moments. Here is a random sample of some CD's she digs:

1) Classic Disney (this gets played alot)
2) John Denver's Greatest Hits
3) Yaz
4) Lots of Lesbian fight songs (indigo girls, Melissa E, etc). Not real sure about this. Some tunes are OK. Others suck.
5) Pure Crap (80's collection). It's not really called that- I renamed it
6) Showtunes- by the truckload. I sometimes wonder if I married a gay man trapped in an asian woman's body.

We don't really get a long musically. We have learned to tolerate each other's tastes over the years. She also broke me of the habit of listening to music 24/7, which actually improved my playing.

I guess I'm on both sides of the fence. At this point, I have no idea whether I have "good taste".

My wife is 8 years younger than me, so she comes from a different perspective. She listens to a lot of Rap music... I don't by default hate Rap music, but I come from R&B, Soul, & Funk, as defined by Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, Sly Stone, Billy Preston, Parliament Funkadelic, Graham Central Station, Al Green, Ike & Tina Turner, The Isley Brothers, & many others. So when I listen to current tunes, I'm instantly drawn into many of the grooves (sampled or otherwise). But I must say that as soon as the "Rap" commences, I'm immediately made to feel pissed off & irritated, not unlike being situated in a restaurant with someone who talks too loud on their cell phone, & at that point, my initial draw to the groove is quite lost, regardless of whatever message is being presented. I guess this is why, regardless of how I feel about categorization, I separate "music" from prose, poetry, or other literary forms - by its very definition, music contains "melody" (among other things), which I do not find as a constant in Rap Music. I will however say that the one artist of the genre that I've consistently been impressed with is Twista.

My wife constantly asks me - "have you heard that song, ******* ?" My answer is usually the same - "No." I don't listen to commercial radio, be it modern rock, modern country, modern R&B, modern Siberian Polka music, whatever. Actually that's not entirely true - I listen to enough to realize that it's not my bag. And I listen with enough of an open mind to realize that now & then something extremely cool can sneak in - as in the case of Prince or Madonna.

I never intended to influence my wife musically, really... but I must say that now she digs Gillian Welch, The Replacements, Aimee Mann, Wilco, Lucinda Williams, & others.

As for "guitar hero" music, my wife's opinion is much the same as my own - a little bit goes a long way. She's become a huge Jeff Beck fan (maybe if she'd first been exposed to "Truth", it'd be a different story... perhaps, the new direction is, for her, a throwback to Electronica, Techno, House, her "Rave" days, albeit with a bit more welcome chicken grease & whatnot...) but like myself, & without the influence of myself, she does consider Jeff to be the greatest living electric guitarist. She also digs Danny Gatton (best "road music" in her opinion), & loves John Scofield & Pat Metheny, as well.

Her fave record is the same as mine, Miles Davis' "Kind Of Blue".

All things considered, I suppose I should count myself lucky.

My wife likes the stink of a too loud electric guitar, especially if propelled by maniacal drum work! She tolerates cover bands, but is all about original music. My only negative is that she hates "weird" noises. I can play my electric guitar totally distorted and cranked up right next to her, for hours; but the second I hit an octave pedal or wacked out filter or ring mod thing, or start messing with the delay time on my analog delay while it's feeding back -- lookout! Dirty looks, turn that down, I hate that, why do you like that, that's upsetting me -- blah, blah, blah. Same goes for playing CDs with wierd effects. That's some of the stuff I enjoy the most -- the more creative noises that can get put in there and make something different. Oh well, the main thing I like is rock (hard rock, current pop, country-rock, folk-rock, classic-rock, rock-'n-roll oldies, etc), followed by jazz, folk, blues and classical (in no particular order) and my wife, while coming from a dance music background, pretty much digs all of it. She doesn't seem to like Buffalo Springfield though, which bothers me when I want to throw on a cd. She wants more of a driving rhythm, I guess. She really digs Santana, but also loves the drums with The Who or Rush.

Anyway, I could have done A LOT worse. We just took a car trip this weekend and I put in the obscure Neil Young and Crazy Horse CD R*E*A*C*T*O*R -- if you know it, that's the one with the infamous song that only consists of Neil "singing" "Ain't got no T-bone, got mashed potatoes" like 100 times for like over fifteen minutes over a distorted and flanged interminable Neil Young electric guitar solo. Well, we were both rocking out to the first few tunes, and then I would normally skip "T-bone" with anyone but an old college buddy in the car (and probably even then), but she was enjoying it (as was I) so much, I decided to put her to the ultimate test. Without saying anything, I let T-Bone play, allll the way through, and she never even batted an eye! The next song finally came on and we were rocking out again, rolling down the highway through the night.

Yo, Corleone:
While we're on the topic of music...
Is that guy in your avatar Lee Hazlewood? I've always noticed it, but never asked. It sure looks like a picture of a young Hazlewood.

I'm guessing that my experience is fairly common. With a few exceptions, most of the women I've been involved with haven't cared about music nearly as much as I, and hence, were fairly content to let me pick the tunes. An old girlfriend told me once that she loved having music on, but didn't really care enough about what it was to go to the trouble of buying it and picking what to play, so she liked the "live-in DJ" aspect of being with a guy who was enthusiatic about it--she got the benefits but none of the hassle.

Of course, there are exceptions. My wife actively likes Sting and Seal and tolerates anything that isn't too grating (so I have to keep "Jazz from Hell" and Ornette and Henry Kaiser and some of my Tom Waits and Dillenger Escape Plan and Critters Buggin' and stuff like that down at the office).

Well, well.....So far, most of the women I meet have crap for taste! My last one liked nothing but Rave music.....Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Crap!

The one before the last liked..........*sighhhh*...Andrew Lloyd Weber! Horrific! I need to stop picking up girls at the bookstore!