you ever hate a band because of your girlfriend/boyfriend?

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isn't that being unfair and stupid? i can admit that after living with a tweeker gothic girlfriend for 2 years, ohgr's voice really grated on my nerves. "why the fuck does he sing like that!? he sounds like a fucking muppet! how could anyone take this seriously." of course, after breaking up with her i totally grew to love skinny puppy.

― chaki, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

also, my current girlfriend hates on my hip hop, prince and slow jamz. all girlfriends hate zappa unless they are old or on dope.

― chaki, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

if your gf does not like Prince, it is time to find a new gf.

― mt, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I once dated the owner of over 20 Prince bootlegs. Needless to say, that someone is now my wife. So I'd have to agree with mt here.

― Andy K, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You are a lucky man, Mr. Kellman. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Despite owning the 7"'s of Killing Joke's "Love Like Blood" and the Stranglers' "Golden Brown," my wife of six months would rather gleefully spin Van Morrison, Edwyn Collins, Lloyd Cole and ::::shudder:::: Simply Red,....much to my disdain. She too loves Prince, but that's alright with me too.

― Alex in NYC, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

she's young and just doesnt understand it yet. she likes rivit head stuff and soft cell. its just a matter of time.

― chaki, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't think about Eric Clapton the way I used to because of my ex-girlfiend was a fan of him. (No thats not a typo. I just think of her as my ex-girl-FIEND.); But on the other hand, she's the reason I'm such a TMBG fan.

― Lord Custos, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

She likes Eric Clapton, and she made you a They Might Be Giants fan, god, what a horrible person! :)

― mt, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Has anyone had any bad experiences of a girlfriend/boyfriend not really being interested in music at all? (like that seen in Ghost World)

― A Nairn, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

...and she made you a They Might Be Giants fan
Yeah, she made me. At Gunpoint.
...god, what a horrible person!
I Did say Girlfiend didn't I?

― Lord Custos, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

canadians will know what i'm on about here.....my wife thinks Rita MacNeil is great,especially her christmas album which i have had to explain to her will ruin my cd player in both the car and home stereo......fear for me:)

― william harris, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have had many pleasant experiences going out with someone who basically isn't interested in music, and the experiences that were unpleasant have mostly been the result of my trying to push some hugely ill-judged noise on her. I would absolutely recommend it.

― Tom, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate that NERD record cos my recent ex played it all the time. Which is a shame.

― jacob, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Avoid talking about music if you don't share the same taste or snobby attitude. Forgot that and as a result made my cousin cry the other day when discussing musick. Woops!

― helenfordsdale, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey...wait a second. I remember reading an old Tanya article about how she used to have this annoying record collector snob for a boyfriend...and now she sticks to writing a column about how she hates all music. Crap, she hates ALL MUSIC because of her ex-boyfriend!

― Lord Custos, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

Best radio station in the world..... 95bfm.com

― Matt, Wednesday, 10 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My last girlfriend had rotten taste - she really didn't care at all. Strangely, she couldn't listen to a lot of things because of her previous boyfriends.

I was worried about this last summer when I split up from my wife (now ex) of 23 years. There was a lot of music I love that was very strongly associated with her or with times together. I thought it might be ruined for me, but thankfully it hasn't been at all.

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i never had a problem with dave mathews before her. she talked about and played him non stop and i never complained. eventually it all built-up, all the little things that bothered me about him (and her)! when we broke-up it was freedom; freedom to openly bad-mouth him as much as my little heart desired. i've calmed down about it now, at least it wasn't rita macneil, thank god!

― dyson, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...

i never had a problem with dave before her. she talked and played about him stop

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and i never matthews

eventually it all all the that about when it to as as my about

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thank at least heart down

bad-mouth calmed desired openly freedom freedom broke-up (and her)!

― bamcquern, Saturday, 19 September 2009 23:25 (fifteen years ago)

Well I used to have a gf who would make me listen to Tool while we were doing it. Of course, now she lives with one of the guys in Tool so it's even harder for me to appreciate them.

― Nate Carson, Saturday, 19 September 2009 23:29 (fifteen years ago)

tori amos & most lilith fair type stuff -- first serious gf was really into this stuff and i can't listen to any of it now without thinking of her. today she seems really nice and normal, married with 3 (4? idk) kids but she was really nuts and really religious at the time and really messed me up and ruined me for god and earnest girlrock. now i totally seethe whenever any of this stuff comes on and recently freaked out my current gf by going on a vicious rant about the screamingly 90s back-patting essentially non-threatening feminist posturing

ani difranco does not count

― both HOOSlarious and truthful (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 19 September 2009 23:52 (fifteen years ago)

can't listen to Pink Floyd's 'Momentary Lapse of Reason' because of a douchey boyfriend I had when I was 16. Though now I'm thinking he may have done me a favor.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 20 September 2009 06:55 (fifteen years ago)

You're not missing anything.

― Nate Carson, Sunday, 20 September 2009 09:02 (fifteen years ago)

my girlfriend doesn't listen to music, she's a dancer so to her just sitting and listening to something alone doesn't make much sense. it's a good thing since i avoid being subject to her potentially bad tastes. but it's sort of a bad thing whenever i make her a mixtape and i know she probably won't listen to it more than once, or when i chew her ear off about a mindblowing concert or album i went to and she can't relate.

― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 20 September 2009 16:46 (fifteen years ago)

Sentinel Beast! Mr Vegemite has introduced me to a lot of great stuff...he got me into Iron Maiden, introduced me to Mercyful Fate, Venom, the hilarity that is Manowar..and 99% of the time, I love it. But that Sentinel Beast CD? UGH. No other word for it than godawful. Sounds like it was recorded through a metal tube. (It wasn't helped by the fact that I was sleeping the first time he cranked it on the stereo.Waking someone up to that is not the best way to engender any kind of love for their musical stylings.)

― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 20 September 2009 22:16 (fifteen years ago)

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