Which bands have you feigned an interest in to increase your chances with a romantic prospect?

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I remember gygax! mentioning that he pretended to like Jane's Addiction in high school or somewhere for this reason. Anyway, I think that this is a very telling subject that we should all explore together. Be as brutally honest as possible.

Me:

Suede
Rancid
The Verve
The Smashing Pumpkins
and...Finley Quaye *gulp*

― the baby from three men and a baby, but all growed up (nordicskilla), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago) link

i pretended to be able to stand emo once.

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link

"her band"

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago) link

OK, brutally honest -- in the deep dark '80's I accompanied a nubile, mainstream young lady to a Lionel Richie concert for the most ulterior (or is that anterior) of motives. Thank god Tina Turner was opening up (this was immediately before her comeback) or I'd have fallen asleep entirely.

Luigi is OTM as well, but is there anyone who hasn't stooped to that at some point?

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago) link

Ash.

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago) link

also, mine turned into a relationship. a short-lived one, albeit, but i do now have memories of making out with Thursday playing over the stereo.

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago) link

I should add that I like Bjork now, but originally got into her for practical (errrm...y'know) reasons when a pretty girl asked me to go to a Bjork show with her.

You can read my story here:

The awkward teenage dating story thread

― the baby from three men and a baby, but all growed up (nordicskilla), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link

I'm sure there have been many a young lady who feigned an interest in my writing to get in my pants.
Not that I ever held it against them.

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:17 (twenty years ago) link

Not that I ever held it against them

What, even if they asked?

― the baby from three men and a baby, but all growed up (nordicskilla), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

they never asked.

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

Rage Against the Machine, she was very into them when we met, and I had liked them when I was 15/16, and I didn't want to come off as a big snob so I tolerated them, even bought her the covers disc. But I think after a few months I subliminally started to affect her taste, or at least her public admission of such.

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago) link

I've never quite been able to feign interest in anything I don't like or care about. I always feel somewhat uncompromising with regard to tastes. Not sure that's a good thing or not.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

Depends on whether you get any, I suppose.

― the baby from three men and a baby, but all growed up (nordicskilla), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link

those of you who have browsed my slsk files lately might be wondering why i have every Idlewild b-side ever recorded...

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago) link

that thread has some awesome stories

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago) link

errr, the awkward teenage dating story thread

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago) link

The dangers inherent in this thread can lead subsequently to the dangers inherent in this thread:

Ludicrously irrelevant songs to remember your breakup by...

― the baby from three men and a baby, but all growed up (nordicskilla), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago) link

3rd Wave Ska.

― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago) link

how about all of the goddawful bands i've endured because a romantic prospect is a member? for me that's a better and far more shameful question.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

Oh c'mon Lauren, Chocolate Starfish had its good moments.

;)

― the baby from three men and a baby, but all growed up (nordicskilla), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago) link

ooh, BURN!

although i suppose that mr.durst wouldn't be borrowing cab fare all the time, at least.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago) link

Well the problem is I'm getting laid with my nasty taste dogma in tact. tee hee. :-)

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago) link

Dixie Chicks
Phish
Dashboard Confessional

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 15 January 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago) link

Dave Matthews Band. *shudder*

― carson dial, Thursday, 15 January 2004 19:06 (twenty years ago) link

-The Beatles are alright, but some people *really* like them.
-alt-country
-random mediocre detroit garage rock bands

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 15 January 2004 19:07 (twenty years ago) link

I suppose the real question is did any of these lies work.

What alt country did you pretend to like?

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 15 January 2004 19:08 (twenty years ago) link

I've pretended not to like bands. In particular: Phish and System of a Down.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 15 January 2004 19:09 (twenty years ago) link

That's a whole 'nother thread right yonder.

I've had to pretend I hated Oasis.

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 15 January 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link

Ani DiFranco

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 15 January 2004 19:18 (twenty years ago) link

Matchbox 20 and i'm still ashamed

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Thursday, 15 January 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

I've never really feigned. I like or don't mind everything my girlfriend plays, and I made fun of my ex's 12 cds (James Ingram and such). I did try harder to enjoy, say, Kate Bush than I would have otherwise.

It was nice of my gf to feign interest in John Coltrane and Graham Haynes when we met though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 15 January 2004 19:41 (twenty years ago) link

I'm still tickled by Tico Tico's story about the Smashing Pumpkins, but I would be. As for me...I don't think I ever have! Damn, I'm an evil smuggo.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 15 January 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago) link

Mazzy Star - and then I turned out to like them after all! So I kind of wasn't lying ... ahem ...

Elvis Costello - same goes for him, actually!

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 15 January 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

Dave Matthews Band. *shudder*
Oh my God! I feel pity for you. Truly!

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 15 January 2004 20:26 (twenty years ago) link

indie

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago) link

Shame on you, corny fuxx0r.

― Darcus How? (nordicskilla), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:15 (twenty years ago) link

What alt country did you pretend to like?

is My Morning Jacket alt-country, because I sort of liked that one Glen Campbell style song he did "Golden", but I pretended to like the rest of the album and his other albums.

Also, I pretend to like 'live' music with almost everyone, because I'm tired of explaining why I mostly don't.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:18 (twenty years ago) link

oh don't get me started. drum and bass, APHEX (she was feigning too it transpires). It's fucking worse when they feign at me. I AM MORE THAN A STUPID OCD RECORD COLLECTION. (a bit more)

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago) link

great thread, TBFTMAABBAGU.

Nick OTM about pretending to NOT like certain bands.

Me: "t.A.T.u.? I know! It's repulsive! I can't believe the crassness of the exploitation!"

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago) link

I pretended to like hearing 'Goldberg Variations' once a day.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:22 (twenty years ago) link

Cranes, Birthday Party, Fields of the Nephilim (erm yeah, she was a goth)

U2 - there was a concert, she invited me, i wanted to go to be with her, not Bono.
"In the naaammmmeee of love, (no) PRIDE in the name of love...."etc

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago) link

The real heroes of this thread are the men and women who have put up with *our* tastes!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:48 (twenty years ago) link

true, they only wanted one thing, but I think we can all agree that it's a noble and worthy cause.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:49 (twenty years ago) link

on the flip, i once had to skip an elliott smith show because a girl from work gave me a free ticket. she was v cute and i was v unavailable

― kephm, Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago) link

true, they only wanted one thing, but I think we can all agree that it's a noble and worthy cause.
he he.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago) link

"The real heroes of this thread are the men and women who have put up with *our* tastes!"
agreed completely

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago) link

10,000 maniacs. and what really annoyed me was i kept buying their records after we split (unresolved issues). 6 months afterwards i looked at them and thought wtf was i thinking.

― gallantseagull, Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago) link

Suede, Menswe@r, and the Super Furry Animals. I was dating an anglophile in 1998.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:50 (twenty years ago) link

"Also, I pretend to like 'live' music with almost everyone, because I'm tired of explaining why I mostly don't. "

OTM. the vitriol i get when i say i'm not a fan of live music is incredible.

― searchanddelete, Thursday, 15 January 2004 23:03 (twenty years ago) link

Several local Weezer-ripoffs
The Counting Crows

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 15 January 2004 23:19 (twenty years ago) link

Suede, Menswe@r, and the Super Furry Animals. I was dating an anglophile in 1998.

I don't remember dating you!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:27 (twenty years ago) link

I pretended to like Soda Stereo and give a flying fuck about the Smashing Pumpkins to increase my chances with a certain romantic prospect.

― Cacaman Flores, Friday, 16 January 2004 04:08 (twenty years ago) link

tori amos.

nuff said. and we're not together any more.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:10 (twenty years ago) link

tori amos SO rulz a thread like this one, it isn't funny. she's the goodbye girl of music guys listen to only so that they can get some.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:11 (twenty years ago) link

Er? I like her just cuz.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:13 (twenty years ago) link

Marissa Marchant

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:28 (twenty years ago) link

Eisbar's right, up to a point. Particularly if (for example) the girl like everything ever by Tori, subscribes to reallydeepthoughts etc., and the guy likes Little Earthquakes and then finds himself strapped to the front of the train past the diminishing albums, and the live shows, and the compilation (!) of live covers, each one a sign saying "turn back", not in neat white-on-green, but carved in the skulls of cattle, and elk, and was that an elephant?

For example.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 16 January 2004 10:01 (twenty years ago) link

jandek....just kidding ESOJ, i liked it...really :)

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Friday, 16 January 2004 10:07 (twenty years ago) link

I pretended to enjoy a remix of Smokey Robinson's "Cruisin'" so he put in on "repeat". We fell asleep, four hours later I woke up, it was still playing. Now anytime I hear "Cruisin'" I want to drive my car over the next available pedestrian.

― wuperetta, Friday, 16 January 2004 23:28 (twenty years ago) link

Silverchair. Oh god...

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Friday, 16 January 2004 23:59 (twenty years ago) link

Good Riddance
and then later
Tori Amos (twice)

― dean! (deangulberry), Saturday, 17 January 2004 00:01 (twenty years ago) link

Most recently, Evanescence and the Dead Milkmen. She was kinda-sorta Goth. I kinda like the Milkmen was never as enthusiastic as my friends about them. This chick ate em up.

― Chris O., Saturday, 17 January 2004 00:07 (twenty years ago) link

three years pass...

nothing really, though i've learned to like certain bands i wouldn't have normally as a result of being involved. usually i disown such bands after the invariable fizzle

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 27 April 2007 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Heh. Simply Red. Twice.

I have no shame whatsoever, clearly.

― Matthew H, Friday, 27 April 2007 09:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Some Grateful Dead cover band who play note for note versions of Dead concerts that were bootlegged in their heyday. The Dark Star Orchestra I believe their name is. ISn't that kind of copying (right down to the stage banter) totally the opposite of what the Dead were about? I still loved her though.

― Bill Magill, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I went to see sodding Kenickie at university in an attempt to get with a girl. Didn't work, either. Lovely as Lauren Laverne is, they really were quite a shit band.

― chap, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh god, I'm absolutely terrible at the feigning interest thing. If I don't like a band my date likes, I tend to say so. Quite emphatically. Apart from varous bands that various dates have been in... Belle and Sebastian/Pulp, Experimental Sound Art of many kinds, Old school British pub rock/Oi, yeurgh... ::vomits::

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

You dated a member of Pulp?

― chap, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Did you not see that APART FROM bit? Oops, various not varous, though.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Billy Graham and his Crusade.

(It didn't work.)

― mark 0, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I like The Verve now.

― admrl, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

and Suede. What was I talking about??

― admrl, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

haha i did this w/ MIA

― deej, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

i pretended to like the verve when i was hitting on her

― deej, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

― deej, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I pretended to like hearing 'Goldberg Variations' once a day.

You too! oh and U2 ... and Hefner ... and 'her' band ... so glad my wife just likes Robyn Hitchcock - life is easier

― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 27 April 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

good question. i have to/ hat eto say: bad industrial rock from the '90s! i used to kind of have a thing for goth girls and strippers so i have had to pretend this was not something i completely hated a few times in my life.

thankfully my girlfriend has great taste. i mean the worst i can say is she dances around in her room to the knife, rick james and momus more than *i* ever would, but so what. and she is always super cutely embarrassed when i walk in to find her dancing around like that, hah!

even more interesting to me is music you'd hardly give a chance to but when you fall in love with someone (or want to fall in love with them, whichever) that's one of those times in your life when you really do open up to new sounds, when your pretense is shed and you are actually open-minded about stuff the way you think you are but maybe aren't so much. this is how i got into so-called world music (1st girlfriend), country from the '70s and '80s (my ex-wife/ her family) and new jack swing (my serious-est seattle girlfriend).

― Mike McGooney-gal, Friday, 27 April 2007 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

RUSH :( That didn't work out at all

― Morley Timmons, Saturday, 28 April 2007 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link

pick a jam band, and i've had to feign interest in them in order to not completely turn off half the dudes in this town. fortunately, many of them like other stuff that isn't quite as intolerable - but man, you must be really, really hot if i am attempting to enjoy umphrey's mcgee for you.

― Emily Bjurnhjam, Saturday, 28 April 2007 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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