Songs you're not allowed to play within earshot of your significant other

anything w/that 60s warbly female folk voice

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Merzbox.

Anything with sirens.

haha my girlfriend hates that pussycat dolls song

There is a long, long list of spouse-inappropriate music. It starts with The Fall.

Theme to "The Young Ones"
Big Star version of "In the Street"
Bob Dylan

I currently don't have one but Pure Garage compilations don't seem to go down to well.

Or Kaoru Abe.

There is a long, long list of spouse-inappropriate music

yes.

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my significant other does not seem to enjoy the radio stations hot 97 or power 105.1

There is a long, long list of spouse-inappropriate music. It starts with The Fall.

Says it all, really. While our tastes overlap here and there, my wife loathes most of my favorite music.

at least we know ethan and dom aren't dating

It would be easier to list what i am allowed to listen to while my better half is in the house, thankfully the list includes Bowie and Devo so all is not lost.

wife don't like it too disco

Not sonically welcome:
Everything by Killing Joke that isn't "Love Like Blood," anything/everything by Motorhead, anything by The Stranglers that isn't "Golden Brown." No Venom. No Celtic Frost. No Virgin Prunes. No Throbbing Gristle. etc.

zomg alex in nyc married someone who does not worship the fire?

Or Kaoru Abe.

My significant other doesn't like it when I listen to Abe, but only because she feels like he never was as good as he was on Milford Graves' Meditation Among Us, and that his solo/duo records are just disappointments.

(We've agreed to disagree on this)

oddly enough... any album by Talk Talk. Something about Mark Hollis' voice creeps her out.

speed, thrash, death and/or black metal (with the exception of 80s Metallica and Slayer)

Also: Anything commonly considered "pop" or "commercial" that is is not old or absurd enough to be enjoyed ironically (my girl be rockist).

I thought my wife was going to kill me when I once played Yoo Doo Right in the car.

And she totally went off on Sun Kil Moon, yelling about how the singer has marbles in his mouth and can't even pronounce his words, to which I really couldn't argue.

There is a long, long list of spouse-inappropriate music. It starts with The Fall.

I'll quote this again, since it sums my experience up perfectly. Anything with lots of distortion or indistinct noise is also verboten: JAMC, MBV.

my old girlfriend's band.

"anything w/that 60s warbly female folk voice"

OTM. That's a guarantee to start a fight.

Also most metal drives her pretty crazy too, but she refuses to listen to any black/death metal.

Oh and she don't like 50 neither.

(xpost)Mostly because of the vocals, I think, although we've never gotten far enough in our conversations about it for me to be sure.

If "The Boiler" ever comes up on my iPod, my wife yells for me to turn it off.

That Special A/K/A song about the homely rape victim?

Can't blame her, that IS some disturbing shit. At least Mojo Nixon (who you also mentioned) is funny...

Show tunes.

most rap.

thank god for headphones & solo car trips.

inexplicably, she loves flo rida's "low."

my ex-girlfriend = rap music. also dancehall, drum & bass, dub, etc.. exceptions included dizzee rascal and saul williams.

The Scott Walker song with the duck voice !!!

Anything with sinewaves.
Merzbow, Masonna etc etc.
And the biggie, which no-one's mentioned yet : PROG.

Apart from a bit of Magma every now and then.

stuff i don't even bother playing for her:

Merzbow, any noise for that matter (see a pattern here?)
black metal, any metal for that matter
Anything with sinewaves. spot on. No Ryoji Ikeda for the gf.
Swans, Angels of Light, anything related to Michael Gira
anything with excessively weird or eccentric vocals (I'm sure there's some exceptions)
Autechre
Boredoms
PROG fuck, spot on again. I've debated playing Ruins but I think she'll find them very annoying.

Yes. Anything prog. Anything with Elvis Costello. Anything with vocals. Anything with guitars. Anything that creates sound waves.

Cocteau Twins
The Jesus and Mary Chain
My Bloody Valentine

Swans, Angels of Light, anything related to Michael Gira

agreed ^

Anything with lots of distortion or indistinct noise is also verboten: JAMC, MBV.

hah! i'm glad to see someone else mentioned this.

she does enjoy similar stuff with "pretty" distortion - Slowdive for one. also, Strawberry Wine/Ecstasy-era MBV.

oh, and she hates Bardo Pond.

Any Glenn Branca
Any Naked City with Eye vocals.

i've actually upped her free jazz tolerance (from zero to .5) cause i play it so much, but she still has no truck with prog.

this thread has gone a long way to helping me understand my relationship history

The only thing she's ever asked me to turn off is Trout Mask Replica.

Recently playing Yes at Montreux jazz festival DVD, 'er indoors walks in, sees Steve Howe doing guitar tricks, says 'WHAT'S THIS CRAP'

Yeah, I could see Trout Mask getting turned off lots.

Any reggae, dub, etc
Anything that could reasonably be called "hippie shit"

She likes Haino Keiji, Sabbath, some hardcore, but (though she's loathe to object) I get the impression that black metal, crusty doom and straight noise get on her nerves after a while

Fantomas

anything by

Accept maybe the twin peaks song.

omg alex in nyc married someone who does not worship the fire?

Well, like I said, she likes (and owns the 7" single of) "Love Like Blood," but she doesn't have any time for their earlier, more aggro stuff.

That all said, she herself knows better than to put on any Bob Dylan or Van Morrison while I'm in the house, being that I'd rather pour a platoon of angry red fire ants in my ears than be subjected to that sonic offal.

i like this thread.

i've actually upped her free jazz tolerance (from zero to .5)

lol! i've got no idea where mine got her free jazz tolerance, it's pretty high. ornette - coltrane - sun ra - archie shepp - ayler are all okay. i probably won't bust out the peter brotzmann stuff though. same goes for derek bailey. most of the anthony braxton albums are probably too weird for her, too.

Anything with lots of distortion or indistinct noise is also verboten: JAMC, MBV.

yea no dice for me either. same goes for bardo pond. i once put some MBV on a mix cd for her and it was the only song she didn't like.

there's lots of stuff she likes but that i'm afraid i'm pushing the limit with. like once i find out she likes it (or tolerates it), i'm all like "okay i'm going to play this all the time then". i think i pushed the limit with dub a while back, but now it's okay again. a few months ago i think i was crossing her electric miles-threshold, now it's better, i think. you'd think i'd be pushing the solo acoustic guitar trip i've been on (fahey, sir richard bishop, six organs) but she's really digging all that.

One of many reasons that I am now divorced. My wife essentially hated all of my many thousands of records. Her loss.

I just got my new girlfriend into Mercyful Fate...

I'm allowed to play more metal now that my gf digs Metalocalypse.

This is quite a blokes thread isn't it?

Anything with overly dominant repetitive beats. Most chart pop. Pet Shop Boys / Marc Almond (and he's GAY FFS), and anything else too clever-clever/theatrical. Obscenely happy music. Anything with "too many notes in it".

yup.

add boards of canada (tortured my mother with 'music has the right...' one christmas). and steely dan.

although my mother isn't my significant other.

promise.

ryan hates it when i put Kate Bush's Aerial on now, cuz i overplayed it. and Shake It Off by Mariah (altho sometimes he wants to hear that 2)

I'm allowed to play more metal now that my gf digs Metalocalypse.

-- W4LTER, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:59 PM

totally!

Metalocalypse is the reason we can bond over Iron Maiden now.

Swans, Angels of Light, anything related to Michael Gira

agreed ^

Try playing her their major label album! That is very soothing...

It used to be a fervent wish to meet my future wife at a gig, which at least might imply that she cared about music.

No such luck.

But I did get to use a Robyn Hithcock song for our wedding dance ("I Feel Beautiful") and the whole lighter side of indie she digs (Lloyd Cole, Hem, Neko Case, etc).

Metalolcalypse is when someone tries too hard to get excelsiored and kills the thread.

The Dwarves "Blood Guts And Pussy" is absolutely forbidden.

Johnny Moped's "Incendiary Device" is met with some hostility.

noise is tolerated in very small doses.

However my SO has also attended and enjoyed concerts by Jandek and Nurse With Wound. So I gotta give her tons of props. She really didn't listen to much music while she was raising kids in the 80's and 90's, so she approaches stuff with a very open mind now.

The Dwarves "Blood Guts And Pussy" is absolutely forbidden.

Dude, PULLING THAT SHIT OUT OF THE SHELF IS VERBOTEN! She also seems to have taken a dislike to "Dead Brides In White", although my 14 year-old son loves it.