Music/Sounds the Significant Other Dislikes
Big_Stacks
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Hey,Who here has ever dealt with this? You pour some drank, sit back to chill with your significant other, put on an LP YOU LOVE, only to be dissed by her/him. I love me some vibes, but everytime I put them on, T**i says, "You know I don't like that tinkly sound." Damn!!!! The only two I can sneak past her are "Milt Jackson with Strings" and "Moon Child" by Johnny Lytle Trio ft. Ray Barretto. Any of y'all have records you have to avoid playing around the significant other?Peace,Big Stacks from Kakalak
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The girl before her was a dragon. Anything without distorted guitar was a no go.
Oh yeah, T**i also fronts on soul tracks with screaming, chuuch-like vocal. I quote her, "All that hollering is gettin' on my nerves." I last experienced this while playing the self-titled joint by The Patterson Sisters.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
he has no patience for excessive keyboard noodling ie Steve Reid and Jimmy Smith...it reminds him of 'cats running loose on the keys', literal cats, not hep-cats
She's a big hatter on 80s soul and boogie AND...
she doesn't like hip hop. None. Not old school, not golden age, not electro, not new stuff, none.
I take that back, she likes Mr. Lif and Edan.
Other than that, she's cool with everything else.
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You can add Reggae and Grime to the list as far as my Mrs is concerned...
There are some interesting debates in the car on long journeys...
I actually think we are jealous of each others music, as weird as that sounds.
I'll play a set and he will freak the fuck out!! (which is actually genuine)
He will pull out some shit and play it, and I will instantly go lookin for it.
It's really nice, but maybe there is a storm on the way, you never know.
She loves all new wave and a lot of white, whiny indie rock.
yuck
OK, I admit that early Can might be considered harsh listening for a sunday morning. She's usually very open to different genres, as long as it's not noisy, chaotic or really hard.
Same here. My wife does not understand my old school/modern soul/boogie obsession. She's strictly a "current" pop music listener.
- spidey
This pretty much sums up mine. So the rule is, in her car she plays what she likes and in my car I play what I like and if at the house, we play music we both like... Cuz I can't stand her shit, may sound a bit odd but it actually works...
Someone mentioned reggae, and yes, T**i fronts on that too. "It's so monotonous" she says. It was weird though, because she like my Boris Gardiner's "Soul Experience" album. Actually, she likes big orchestral stuff with a lot of movement, ala Alice Coltrane and Rachminoff, or really smooth stuff like Johnny Hartman, Shirley Horne, Herbie Hancock ("Maiden Voyage"), and Miles Davis ("Sketches in Spain", which has movement too). So, there is stuff I can play to appease her. Me, I can't stand Take Six and she loooooooves them. Those shrieky, "skatty" vocals irritate me to no end, and during roadtrips, I have to eject the CD after a while. Oh yeah, and she likes Barbara Streisand who again, drives me up the wall. I find her screaming high notes tortuous.
In addition, T**i will diss underground hip-hop, but likes "Get Jiggy with It" but also "Mr. Nigga" by Mos Def and "Dre Day".
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
example: She's into stuff on the radio when it's hot (mostly WPGC or KISSFM in DC), so she wants that latest hot joint wether it's Young Jeezy or Fergie or Beyonce or what have you. Then I'll play some Jay-Z she's heard a million times and she'll say...."I really don't like rap that much", meanwhile she knows every words to old rap like Salt n Pepa, Lyte and Run DMC, and starts dancing whenever she hears that. I'm like 'huh? You don't like rap?'
Or she'll get the iPod while I am driving and put on Bob Dylan. I ask her, "You like Dylan?" and she'll say, "Not especially."
Only sure fire with her is anything Lauryn Hill/Fugees related (except Unplugged THANK GOD)and 80s related. And she thinks AC/DC is the best rock band, so I guess I can live with that.
other than that, she's perfect.
haha more like this
and she drove this
-spidey
My girl isn't quite that bad, but there isn't a great deal of hip-hop she likes. Old-school, party-type stuff she's fine with. She likes Jay-Z, Snoop and Kanye, but not a great deal else that you could call current. I remember visiting her when she worked in Nashville a few years back, and we went on a short road trip. I put on "Bulletproof Wallets", which she absolutely hated, and not because it's Ghostface's worst album either. Even now, she'll still sometimes mention how much she hated "that album you played in the car in Nashville". She's pretty cool with just about anything else, so long as it isn't excessively noisy or dissonant. She likes some classic rock, but she hates modern metal. Her thing is classic soul/r&b, particularly from the 80's, and newer shit like Mary, Angie Stone, Anthony Hamilton and some headwrap stuff like Goapele, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu. She likes a lot of Brit indie rock as well, like Oasis, the Charlatans, Primal Scream, the Coral, the Zutons, that kinda thing.
other than that - she tolerates almost anything
and loves Three 6 Mafia and Van Morrison.
nothing wrong with that.
noise
insane screechy saxophones