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     spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2693 Registered: 05-2005 |
If you think about it, we are lucky, we are lucky that we can indulge in whatever musical flights of fancy floats our boats, and, where ever they choose to take us... but what of our friends??, the other half, him or her indoors! So...I'd like to now, what are the musical tastes, film or just cultural interests of our partners, girlfriends, boyfriends, just friends, wives or husbands, next door neighbour etc etc.... For me, I was lucky. I met my wife Alison, 18 years ago. I met her through the then girlfiend of Pete Paphides, the juornalist who now writes for The Times. He was always on the scene, went to all the same clubs and pubs, like the same music, he was a massive GB's and Postaard fan etc. So I suppose a lot of what he liked rubbed off on his girlfriend. I suppose his girlfriend listend/liked pretty much the same stuff as my wife to be. So when we eventually started going oout, it would be safe to say, she did. As the first compilation cassettes found their way into each other's cassette players etc, I found her musical tastes were similar to mine, (phew what a relief!). However there woukld be stuff that indicated we could be polar opposite too. Her main love was The Waterboys. She worshipped Mike Scott, but really dug the early stuff. I wasn't really into hom, but then she had a Momus 12'' the Hairstyle of the devil and I knew we wre destined for each other! Other artists she craved over the years, were the GB's, Jungle Borthers, World Party, Blue Aeroplanes, Will Smith, James, poppy Wonderstuff, Crowded House (shit!) swiftly moving on, other. Later years she would really get into madonna's stuff, the stuff around '98-2000. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2695 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sorry this is a hit post please delete admin, f8ck know what I am on about!  | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 542 Registered: 07-2006 |
back of admin! that's beautiful spence. i'm offensively content to remain single until i meet someone who's taste in records does it for me like that. i can see where alison's coming from. ray of light has it's way on me too. a shame about everyting that's followed, but remains a great record to get sweaty/inappropriately intimate to. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 241 Registered: 10-2006 |
Nah, come on, let's hear some more soppy stuff about wifes and lovers (or both) and what they listen to...my own (much) better half actually had the sh**est smallest CD collection I'd ever seen in my life but it did include ALL the Smiths stuff AND Viva Hate, and that, really, for an Italian, was something to marvel at. And then she DID look like Greta Garbo and then her mum DID own a trattoria...and she DOES now have a rather over-warm fondness for Robert Forster...but like a lot of women (he says warily) I think she feels that music isn't really THAT important enough to get all worked up about... | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 473 Registered: 02-2008 |
Reminds me of something Queen Latifah (that font of wisdom) said on a talk show, along the lines that a woman, given some extra cash will get her hair done, a "brother", as she put it, will buy a CD. It's a fact - women, in general, don't get all worked up about music to the extent that some men do. Very few female trainspotters... | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 543 Registered: 07-2006 |
hah....tell me stuart, as italians - how much slack exactly are we afforded? it's all true though, we are marvellous, tasteful and pretty. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2701 Registered: 05-2005 |
cheers joe! u dark star!!!!!!!! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 546 Registered: 07-2006 |
tanti grazie, signore. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2418 Registered: 05-2005 |
I used to be an inveterate mix tape maker and I was pretty good at it: The girls who got them liked what I put on the C-60s. But they didn't rush out and suddenly buy the back catalogues of The Go-Betweens, Nick Cave, Luna etc. They just said "That was great, can you make me another?" And I would. Bad taste didn't abound in my experience, thankfully, but I did have to request to one girl that she never, ever play Whitney Houston in my presence. I wrote an article once on women and music... And I've just posted it at www.myspace.com/padraigcollins I wrote it for In Dublin magazine in 1998. It is a little ribald at times, as that was the market In Dublin was going for at the time. I have edited it slightly from the published version for this reason (it's still a touch ribald though - those of a sensitive nature should steer clear ). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2419 Registered: 05-2005 |
I should also point out that the article is 99% true. The timeline is changed in one instance, but it still happened. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2420 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sorry, one more indulgence. I should point out that six months after writing in that article of a "desire to go to Brisbane just because The Go-Betweens come from there", I did indeed go to Brisbane just because The Go-Betweens come from there. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 550 Registered: 07-2006 |
embittered cynic - linger is lovely! as are a few of the tracks on that first record. i guessing the term "overexposed" probably doesn't even begin to cover it from your standpoint. also, a great deal of hifi aside, everything that followed automatic was completely worthy of desertion! aside, brilliant article...and pretty much encapsulates how hopeless i find the subject matter. i want someone to make me a steallar mix tape! worst of all - people/contenders who remark they are "into everything" when asked the dreaded question. cop out!!! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1810 Registered: 03-2005 |
I have only ONCE met a potential romantic interest whose musical tastes meshed well with mine. His name was Tony Cohen. No not THAT Tony Cohen. But he knew who THAT Tony Cohen was. He spent a half year in Scotland and traveled in the Smiths' entourage during their early commercial breakthrough. I thought my lifelong search was over. Unfortunately, by the third date we were already fighting like cats and dogs. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 877 Registered: 08-2004 |
Wifey was a fan of R.E.M. & Marvin Gaye when I met her. Since then her tastes seem to be dictated by Radio 2 which mixes the sublime with the beyond ridiculous. Morrissey seems to speak to her in a profound midlife crisis kind of way & this led to us going to see him play in the summer. She hates The Go-B's unless I don't tell her it's them. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2423 Registered: 05-2005 |
Love your last line Jerry! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2424 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Joe. I grew up in the next village to the one Dolores Cranberry grew up in (about four miles away). I'm pretty sure we used to get the same bus to school sometimes. I saw her and her Canadian husband in my brother's bar one time about 12 years ago. I asked them to leave (not really). | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 553 Registered: 07-2006 |
well i'm sure you thought it long and hard, which is essentially all that matters. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 387 Registered: 01-2007 |
oh I went to Africa for my medical elective primarily because I loved zwimbabwean guitar music. my wife does indeed love the go-betweens as well as folk and other stuff but slot of female singers and rem |