Whats on your turntable tonight?

@boxer12, Tim, you're welcome, glad you enjoyed "mbv".  Maybe today I'll have a chance to get the tape measure out.  But laundry and yard work are the rule of the day.  When that's done, a load of stuff for Goodwill.


Plus, I cracked open another box of goodies from the past.  This will take another couple days of sloshing through the Spin Clean then Degritter.  Some nice surprises are in there. (Hint: Red Crayola, Lora Logic and Fred Frith)

Now, a question for the group.  How much does your spouse/significant other appreciate what you listen to?  Me, well, my wife isn't very impressed with things like Reagan Youth or Dead Kennedys or even Boards of Canada.  But most classical and especially flamenco gets her attention.

To answer the question.
I wish that my wife enjoyed the hi-fi even half as much as I do.  About 98% of the time I play my system she leaves the room, no matter what the music is.  I take showers daily so it's not that I smell bad.  She liked the Marvin Gaye album I played on Saturday night, but then left the room after the next album went on.  You guys are lucky that your spouses enjoy the music and the good hi-fi.  I have had from very good and up to great hi-fi systems since the age of 18.  When we dated I had a very large bi-amped, bad-ass Accuphase system, and it was the center of every day living.  She loved it and all of the music styles.  She never used to be the way she is now, but alas, sometimes people change.  It won't stop me from my lifestyle of hi-fi.  

….well, i met her at work..different department but still “ fishing off the company pier “… caught my interest when her weekend plan was NW Folklife festival… asked her how that went and she handed me a Music of the Andes cassette……
I made her a LiL Feat mixtape, the rest is history….

mutual listening waxes and wanes….we do a thing w server, she will do a search of song titles with a word…like rain, heart, river, etc… The NAIm crunches thru 3k plus ripped CD’s and generates a playlist… i let her drive 2
For LP, i just let her have discogs collection view and she picks 4-6 to play……

we call it “ Music Nite “, she Trish is much more Video aligned, so she will often pull me in to Music documentary…Tom Petty ( The Greatest American band, ever ! ), Rush, Eagles, etc… We have decent TV both places w Sonos soundbar….. we don’t suffer much…

Finally, some great shared music while driving experience…one very memorable..coming out of Canada after a long week of fishing together ( with no music ), the Indy College radio station in Bellingham was playing a Train album straight thru….. First time we had heard Train…..hooked us both…..