your spouse/partner/significant other critiques your music

There isn't much arguing about music. She didn't like the Bad Brains stuff I was playing the other day but that is most likely because we were getting ready to leave and it's kind of stressful.

i like the fact that my gay boyfriend loves music that is so stereotypical gay man

madonna
cher
elton
bowie
every seventies disco soul sister
christina
gaga
pat benatar   :D
abba

and i like the loudest most obnoxious crap to a gay man's ears possible.

James wrote:
Anybody else have someone special who is not quite the music geek you are, or just simply hears it differently than you do? This is the thread to post their comments or your shared stories on.

For example, I played the new Tom Waits album at home for the first time last night. I was a Waits fan back in the 80's and early 90's, but my interest piqued about the time of Rain Dogs. To me his music has grown increasingly grating and distant. The new one, however, does have some good parts and is his best since Rain Dogs.

So midway through the second song, my sweetie proclaims "This music SUCKS." and midway through the album, "You will never play this album again in this house." (I guess it's going to have to be a long car ride sort of album, haha).

Then again, I don't get her love for Tupac or Steely Dan.

My wife still hates Tom Waits. And Lucinda Williams. And Steve Earle. And the Velvet Underground. Or anything in the vast and varied history of punk rock, even the Ramones. And delights in telling me how much my music tastes sucks, using those "boring, untalented, typical tastes for a 50 year old man" artists as her primary examples. Seems like she tells me that on a monthly basis, almost like clockwork.

Yada wrote:

chaz wrote:
My lady has impeccable taste (ie likes all the shit I like and vise versa) and never gets on my case about any of this kind of stuff.  I think she's the coolest person in the whole world and she thinks I'm the coolest person in the whole world.  This makes for blissful times. 

She can rock out to Black Sabbath or nerd out to An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music.

She is the most amazing person.  Beautiful in every way imaginable.

Chaz, have pulled up tix to Roger Waters three times now and still haven't pulled the trigger. Can't bring myself to pay these prices!!

Yada was such a Space case back in the day.

Space wrote:

Yada wrote:
Chaz, have pulled up tix to Roger Waters three times now and still haven't pulled the trigger. Can't bring myself to pay these prices!!

Yada was such a Space case back in the day.

Curious …the waters tix were probably like $60 then

Hyper-hatch wrote:

Space wrote:

Yada wrote:
Chaz, have pulled up tix to Roger Waters three times now and still haven't pulled the trigger. Can't bring myself to pay these prices!!

Yada was such a Space case back in the day.

Curious …the waters tix were probably like $60 then

I ended up actually going to this show as well as Roger's recent stop in the district, both times buying tickets way below market value! #thrifty