Does your "other half" share your tastes in music?

[scottycelt]

Well, either way, I suppose. Do you share your other half's taste in music?

Do you listen together, or usually separately?

Please give examples (without causing domestic friction of course.)

HS

My other ... er, three-quarters ... can't stand Bruckner and adores Cliff Richard and Neil Diamond.

We both used to like the Clyde Valley Stompers, though ...

[EdgeleyRob]

I do most of my listening via headphones (or i-pod whilst walking the dog) as Mrs ER prefers to watch telly.
She is more of a 100 best ever classical tunes boxed set person (although she "doesn't mind" Brahms!).
I have dragged her off to one or two concerts over the years (including a Mahler 2 many years ago which she described as "painful" and a Death in Venice "thank heavens that's over my head hurts")
On the other hand I have returned the favour and begrudgingly been to see Rod Stewart and The Beautiful South amongst others.
We do however share a love of the Eagles,Earth Wind and Fire and and Barry White.

[Osborn]

I have dragged her off to one or two concerts over the years (including a Mahler 2 many years ago which she described as "painful" and a Death in Venice "thank heavens that's over my head hurts")

What an intelligent and perceptive lady. I'm sure I'd like her.

[Nick Armstrong]

What an intelligent and perceptive lady. I'm sure I'd like her.

Easy, tiger!!

[Flay]

Well Mrs Flay likes her Radio 1. She has it on as background whenever she can, and her favourite is Chris Moyles in the mornings. She doesn't like "classical" although has been to a couple of concerts with me. Like EdgeleyRob's Death in Venice faux pas, I took her to see Peter Grimes - she still smarts about it (she found an excuse to spend an act in the bar!) So I use the ipod via headphones on long car journeys, or in the garden, or walking the dogs. She forever complains that I'm "plugged in" and ignoring her. As if...

So most of us have disparate "others" - perhaps that is why we are posting here. God help our marriages if ff sets up a FoR3 dating agency

[gurnemanz]

We go everywhere together. She even humours me by pretending to enjoy Parsifal. (Next up Mariinsky/Gergiev at Barbican in April). She dislikes it when I play recordings of "screeching" sopranos late in the evening. She has insisted on booking to see Andris Nelsons conducting Jonas Kaufmann in Birmingham in April, I suspect, because she fancies both men, a longish midweek drive but it looks like a good concert. Closer to home, on Wednesday this week she has booked us in to see the Scottish folk band Breabach at the Wiltshire music Centre. I don't know if the men involved are hunky but they were highly praised in the Indie.

[Serial_Apologist]

After reading most of these posts, I'm just glad I live alone!

[jayne lee wilson]

Me too or, "me too" - though I'm sure a happy marriage or partnership has its consolations...?

As a committed commitment-phobe (sex was the easy bit, right?) I think music, or rather my need for it, was one of the main reasons I ended up with cats rather than people. Mind you, my 90 year-old live-in mother (former amateur-orchestra violinist) loves classical too, and the bigger and louder the better, so no wonder we get on. My cooking helps of course.

The cats? Largely indifferent to music...
Our new young rescue cat "watches" stereo imagery but the music seems to bore her.

After reading most of these posts, I'm just glad I live alone!

[salymap]

Me too or, "me too" - though I'm sure a happy marriage or partnership has its consolations...?

As a committed commitment-phobe (sex was the easy bit, right?) I think music, or rather my need for it, was one of the main reasons I ended up with cats rather than people. Mind you, my 90 year-old live-in mother (former amateur-orchestra violinist) loves classical too, and the bigger and louder the better, so no wonder we get on. My cooking helps of course.

The cats? Largely indifferent to music...
Our new young rescue cat "watches" stereo imagery but the music seems to bore her.

Yes, this thread is very interesting and makes we singletons see the good side of living alone.

Thinks, it would be nice to have an attractive older man who is computer literate and would take me shopping, next door. For friendship only these days, of course. And loving music too, of course.

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes, this thread is very interesting and makes we singletons see the good side of living alone.

Thinks, it would be nice to have an attractive older man who is computer literate and would take me shopping, next door. For friendship only these days, of course. And loving music too, of course.

Unfortunately, a good twelve miles separates us, saly!

[salymap]

And my cycling days are over too S-A.

[MrGongGong]

After reading most of these posts, I'm just glad I live alone!

Come off it let Karlheinz bring you together

[Pianorak]

No longer wondering who's buying all these iPods, iThis and iThat and expensive headsets.

[Osborn]

She has insisted on booking to see Andris Nelsons conducting Jonas Kaufmann in Birmingham in April, I suspect, because she fancies both men...

The CBSO & Jonas Kaufmann perform under Nelsons at Symphony Hall on Wed 7 March & are then on a European tour with JK for the rest of the month.

Might Mrs G be a teeny weeny bit cross if you turn up in Birmingham a month late?

[Rumbaba]

Well, either way, I suppose. Do you share your other half's taste in music?

Do you listen together, or usually separately?

Please give examples (without causing domestic friction of course.)

HS

Some but not all. She hates Captain Beefheart and Tom Waits and only likes jazz that 'has a tune' (also hates drum and bass solos - I'm not that keen either TBH). However, after seeing my Billy Jenkins DVD, she wishes she had come to the Sourhbank with me to see him performing with the BBC big band at the London Jazz Festival but only because he is such a great laugh.

I can only listen to my recently aquired vinyl copy of 'Lick my decals off, Baby' when she is out of the house.