You and your significant other share which musical tastes?

She doesn't like Ying Yang Twinz or The Fall, I don't like The Dixie Chicks.

Oh god. I'm sorry.

Oh god. I'm sorry.

She's pretty tolerant of most of the other stuff. She never asks me to turn anything off, but that's because I know well in advance that Arthur Doyle and Eliane Radigue are big no-nos while in the car. Make no mistake - she's the boss.

Stuff she likes that I don't: Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, Broadway musicals (lordy do I hate those)

not liking hip-hop, that I don't think I could deal with. i really dont get people who dont like hip-hop these days.

She's not so into random electronic music and I'm not so into random garage rock.

The only two bands we agree on are The Ramones and Busted. Oh yeah, and Mogwai, he likes Mogwai.

She doesn't like a lot of what I listen to though - anything messy/unpretty such as noise, grime, most hip hop, most post-punk, most house, most techno etc.

My wolf eyes records never go down well!

That's one of the few that he's turned me on to, rather than the other way around.

She doesn't at all like these faves of mine:
Lil' Jon, Matmos, Squarepusher, Love Shop, all house music.

I like most of the music she plays.

When we were first going together, I nearly bought tickets for the JesusMaryChain/MyBloodyValentine/Ride? "Rollercoaster" tour when it came to Newcastle, but thought to myself "We've been going three months, I can't subject her to 17 minute version of "You made me realise" can I?

Sometimes she'll like a pop single and I won't but it's pretty rare. She'd generally rather watch TV or DVDs than listen to music anyway.

She likes a lot of Nick Cave, 80s stuff, and some dance music that I can listen to but don't love for the most part. I listen to bunches of jazz, hip-hop, brass band, and assorted weird shit (on my own time).

She loves Nick Cave, Flaming Lips, Iggy, James Taylor (???), Tori Amos, Low and Depeche Mode.

To some degree, it's the High Fidelity thing--as per Minnie Driver, she likes and, more importantly perhaps, understands music, but unlike me, does not seem like she would die screaming without, say, the re-mastered re-release of some rare Small Faces B-sides.

what are they like? I'm seeing them open for Blonde Redhead on Thursday...worth showing up early for?

However, there is a vast overlap in our tastes when it comes to funk, metal, hip-hop, all things 80s, "classic rock", experimental electronic music, old punk (Cramps, Ramones, Clash), glam, country, tons of others stuff.

She also hates Wu-Tang, inexplicably (tho I think she secretly likes some Ol Dirty Bastard).

Most times she will be open enough to try a new thing out though, which is beautiful!

erm, i would've said that until 1999. I really don't get people who like (current) hip hop these days. makes me smile sometimes that it's reached indie acceptance in possible its worst period since 85-88.

but back to the question. wife and i share: kompakt, plastic city, DFA-type stuff, outkast, goodie mobb, interpol, british sea power, bowie.

she hates: dancehall, minimal techno, wedding present

we agree to dislike: crunk, aphex/autechre type stuff, r kelly.

The boards must be torture for ya, then!

Heh, that reminds me of when I brought my girlfriend to see Frith, Cutler, and some synth dude at the Knitting Factory... she was a good sport about it, as she always is. (See also: staying up into the wee hours to see Neil Michael Hagerty on a worknight... or the Red Crayola, same scenario... or going to see Hagerty on her *birthday*... etc.)

Thats cause she is waiting to spring stuff on you when you move in.

Joy Division, New Order, Radiohead. *thinks hard*

Slint, Rodan.

That's it, I think. At least we agree on some of the important things (to me).

she likes a lot: sonic youth, hole, bruce springsteen, hiphop (lil kim, biggie, gangstarr), tindersticks, contemprary singersongwriters mainly women(damien jurado/rose thomas/lisa germano/kristin hersh/kathleen edwards/amiee mann/kathryn williams but dislikes when it get out of middle od the road maybe stuff like joanna newsom) she likes her music normal and plain i like it experimental. fun stuff like peaches, fannypack salt n pepa etc

she dislikes: postpunk of most kinds accept pretty straight female-led stuff like the slits, anything too noisy (except sonic youth), anything twee, soul, generally music made before 1980 (bruce springsteen & nick drake are stuff she likes though and robert wyatt)

i like most of her stuff except i an live without lisa germano/kristin hersh/amiee mann.

we also share this goth thing from when we met.

She doesn't like techno, it took me a few days to forgive her for that one...

We do not share, to my sadness: Kate Bush(at all), Ride/MBV/Slowdive/etc., any loud guitars, really.

It's real hard to get some Wilco on the hi-fi around here when he's home :)

Incidentally, while we're on the subject:

"HSA loves bad early punk"

Kate, I can only think that your definition of at least one of the following words differs quite violently from mine: "Bad"; "Early"; "Punk"!

Since we've been together C.'s also developed a taste for Aztec Camera, British Sea Power, Can, Nick Cave, Clearlake, Bob Dylan, The Fall, Flaming Lips, Gorky's, Lambchop, Grandaddy, Hawksley Workman, Mercury Rev, Charles Mingus, Mull Historical Society, Outkast, Polyphonic Spree, Cat Power, Prefab Sprout, Super Furry Animals, Tindersticks, Tom Waits, not to mention some sizable chunks of dub, hip-hop, trip-hop, quite a bit of jazz....

She's slowly getting there with Beefheart but doesn't seem to have "got" Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Pere Ubu, or The Pixies yet and some of the jazz and the other more "out-there" stuff I listen to leaves her cold - but then most of the Classical / Opera / Country stuff she likes has the same effect on me.

She likes: Van Morrison, Simply Red, the Waterboys, Sade, the Blow Monkeys, George Michael, Everything But the Girl, Nina Simone

We BOTH like: Echo & the Bunnymen, The The, Talk Talk, Duran Duran, Massive Attack, Public Image Ltd. (although she only likes "Rise" and "This is Not a Love Song")

It's taken a few years, but my girlfriend has at least learned to tolerate most of what I like, though she remains pretty much funk impaired and the last screaming fight we had was over Kelis' "Milkshake" (I say yay, she say nay).

She leans towards folk, I lean towards rock, so pretty much the only thing we both like equally is "Mermaid Avenue."

Pretty much the only things we both enjoy are Southern Rock and Prog/Power Metal.

She has no truck with rap, dance, jazz, post-punk, or much soul.

I avoid Cheap Trick & Billy Joel at all costs, meaning of course that I still have to hear them when she's in the passenger seat.

But we can agree on Credence, Soul Hat & Dragonforce at least.

my wife tolerates almost all of my musical obsessions, and genuinely likes 90% of it (she is fairly passive about music, but open-minded). she dabbles a bit in jazz which i certainly don't dislike, but i never really listen to it. she also grew up with a lot of classical/opera, but i don't dig that so much, except for early/renaissance type stuff. our dislikes are almost entirely in sync.

My ex was one of those music-as-background people who just left it on the jazz station all day. The one musician she felt really strongly about was Jason Mraz and it took everything in me not to be a dick about that.