Best Albums Given To a Boyfriend/Girlfriend Whose Indifferent Reaction Was Cause For Concern

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Luckily, my current gf has great taste in music and finds something to like about almost every thing I dump on her-- except for Loveless, but we're working through it and I think everything is going to be okay-- but my ex- had me continually slapping my forehead in disbelief every time she said, "I don't know-- it's just not... fun enough." Stupid bitch. Seriously, though... One time, for a Christmas present, I bought her a CaseLogic for her car with twenty classics albums (er, CD-Rs of classic albums) with everything: Miles Davis, Pet Sounds, Velvet Underground, OK Computer, The Soft Bulletin, In An Aeroplane Over the Sea-- nothing all that challenging. A week later, she picked me up and was still playing a copy of Gling Glo I gave her on a whim a few months before-- even though there was a copy Post in the case! ARgh.
I mean, it's cool that she thought the Pixies were too "screechy," and that Destroyer wasn't "dancey" enough for her, but how could she say that London Calling was too "punky"?!?!

Am I alone here? (My current gf just came home with a copy of Remain in Light, so everything is just fine these days. woo-hoo!)

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 5 February 2005 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

goddamit. i hate it when i forget to close a fucking html bracket.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 5 February 2005 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Does she know that you refer to her as your "current" girlfriend?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 February 2005 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, nah.. i just wanted to make it clear she didn't suck. you know, ex- vs. current... i didn't want to use names-- who knows who you people are.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 5 February 2005 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd be pretty indifferent if you gave me London Calling too.

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 5 February 2005 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe she just didn't like those albums. differing tastes is hardly a "cause for concern"

― Michael Dubsky, Saturday, 5 February 2005 05:59 (twenty-one years ago)

You can't make someone appreciate music, poortheatre (believe, I've tried). Some people just aren't going to share your enthusiasm -- especially if you browbeat them about it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 February 2005 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Although London Calling "too punky"? I love it, but it just ain't "punky" ENOUGH as far as I'm concerned.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 February 2005 06:01 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post

i know i'm a bastard, just list some damn albums you've given to your girlfriends that they didn't like. yeesh.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 5 February 2005 06:01 (twenty-one years ago)

But I can relate -- my ex told me that everything I listened to was "too *bouncy*". She gave this reaction to various jazz, to Cymande, to old rare funk and soul I had taped off of WKCR, etc. She also told me that she didn't like De La Soul (I lent her Stakes is High) because there wasn't enough bass in it.

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 5 February 2005 06:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahahaha.....

Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk -- The wife just doesn't think it's as utterly, celestially perfect as I do.

Grace by Jeff Buckley -- apart from the cover of "Hallelujah" and maybe "Lilac Wine," she can't stand it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 February 2005 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Mostly, this ex liked current mainstream hip-hop, though she had this weird thing where she also liked some old folky stuff (Woodie Guthrie, Joe Hill) -- I think this was more for political than musical reasons.

She also really liked the song "It's The Time of The Season (for loving)" -- she explained to me once that she found the song really sexy, because the guy is telling this girl all the things he can give her that her daddy can't. I still get kind of turned on thinking about her explaining that for some reason.

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 5 February 2005 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

and that Destroyer wasn't "dancey" enough for her

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 February 2005 06:08 (twenty-one years ago)

my gf said cure's "faith" was too down , then said "wish ' was too up but we both like "disintregration".now we have many ups and downs.

goddamit. i hate it when i forget to close a fucking html bracket.
-- poortheatre (gah24...), February 5th, 2005.
so that was you......get out and stay out

― middleton, Saturday, 5 February 2005 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

play her "dynasty" - it's disco album isn't it ?
it's got chic basslines

― middleton, Saturday, 5 February 2005 06:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I celebrate the day i stopped caring about what my girlfriends listen to.

My girlfriend loves blink 182, the monkees, green day the most. It's fun, she remarked that a Fall song from 'This Nation's Saving Grace' sounded exactly like a monkees song.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 5 February 2005 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Many moons ago, I made my girlfriend a tape of Cupid/Psyche 85 by Scritti Politti.

"This sounds like WHAM!"

I married her anyway. And hey, maybe she wasn't so far wrong.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Saturday, 5 February 2005 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Three years ago I gave him a burned copy of the Go-Betweens' "Tallulah." He told me very politely that it was "nice." I almost told him to fuck off.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 5 February 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Really? I think Cupid and Psyche 85 sounds like New Order, only with more diverse music and intentional pop music cliches. I love it, though...and I definitely don't hear Wham!

My former lover (who I met because we both had an appreciation for The Birthday Party and is into everything from Catherine Wheel to Gang of Four to Chainsaw Kittens) wasn't fond of A.R. Kane's 69...she described it as "Cocteau Twins with something stuck up their ass". I suppose that's actually a bit true, but I love it.

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 5 February 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

My current girlfriend doesn't like some of my music, but she's very picky about music, which I have respect for.

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 5 February 2005 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

This, for me, would be an instant deal breaker.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 5 February 2005 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

this is like

― arjun (arjun), Saturday, 5 February 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, that sucks.

what i meant to say is:

this is just like that other thread except with girls. i don't think it's gonna end well.

― arjun (arjun), Saturday, 5 February 2005 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

mia is shit.

― mia is shit., Saturday, 5 February 2005 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

My gal loves Deerhoof and she ain't even a hipster!

― Rubberband Man (Rubberband Man), Sunday, 6 February 2005 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, my girlfriend mostly listens to the most bland, mediocre modern rock there is, she is a big fan of that song that goes "we were meant to live for so much more, but we lost ourselves", that soft jet song, veruca salt, soundgarden and other stuff kind of like that... it all sounds the same to me. i burned her the new phoenix cd, and she likes that though. she says most of my music is too weird, i can't get her into built to spill, pavement, but i think i may have gotten arcade fire past her. she likes modest mouse, but didn't even know they had any cds before good news. eh, i'm just bitching at this point, but i guess you get the point.

― j-willy, Sunday, 6 February 2005 07:31 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, my partner hates big guitars. anything distorted, overdriven, multitracked is cause for concern. "too loud! too loud! why does it have to be that loud?!?!". she had no time whatsoever for Loveless, obv, and the rest of my shoegazer records. it's led to changes in how I listen to music, to be sure, mostly to the extent that there are only certain times that i listen to loud guitar records, and it's all about delayed gratification now.

we like a lot of things, otherwise, and she's prompted me to explore a lot of mellower paths. things are ok. our relationship wasn't founded on music or aesthetics, so any common ground is just an extra cherry on the sundae.

― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 6 February 2005 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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