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Music Your Wife Will Really LISTEN To with you ?

It seems that many of us would like to have their wives/girlfriends/"significant others" more involved in the audiophile experience. To that end, I thought it might be interesting to compare notes on what pieces / types of music that we find they will actually sit back and REALLY LISTEN to in an "audiophile" kind of way. Maybe we can seduce our wives to come sit with us on the couch and listen a little bit more. And who knows where that could lead...

Here's a few that I recall my wife being wowed by, and some NOT wowed by, in no particular order:

Glenn Gould - Moonlight, Appassionata sonatas - but NOT Goldberg Variations.

Pink Floyd - The Wall (not all 4 sides at once) but NOT Dark Side of the Moon.

Carlos Kleiber conducting of Beethoven's Fifth

Supertramp - Crime of the Century, Side 1

Ry Cooder - Jazz

HOFFERT Concerto for Contemporary Violin - Steven Staryk on Ultrafi Records

Joe Sample - Swing Street Cafe

Living Presence lp's more than Living Stereo lp's

Elton John - Funeral For a Friend from Yellow Brick Road (played loud with lights down).

Gershwin's Fascinating Rhythms - Clive Lythgoe

Glenn Miller - In A Digital Mood

Joan Baez - The First Ten Years

Nancy Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms

Bizet/Shchedrin: Carmen Ballet conducted by Arthur Fiedler

Well that's a start anyway. I'd like to hear your success stories.
opalchip
spudco
88 posts
 
Most recently:

Tinsley Ellis - Lost Highwayman
Barbara Morrison - Live at the Dakota
Joe Sample - Soul Shadows
Fontalla Bass - No Way Tired
Spirit - Tweleve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus
Monty Alexander - Live at Montreux
Linus of Hollywood - Your Favorite Record

She loves most rock/pop/blues based stuff and is OK with some Jazz.
johnrob
76 posts
 
The musical tastes of "wives" will vary as much as the mucical tastes of any male audiofile. Look at the variability within these threads. Trying to figure out what a "wife" will listen to as an audiofile is similar to trying to figure out what she likes to eat. Unless you observe and remember, you will never know. and even if it is music that she likes, listening "as an audiofile" is also an acquired taste. I know what my wife likes (e.g., Santana, classical guitar, Kenny G, some baroque, and some pop) and I make a point of playing that sort of music when she is around. I even have explored her musical tastes to expand beyond one or two CDs (e.g., we now have a number of classical guitar CDs, and while she appreciates some of the newer stuff I've purchased, she still tends to listen to the standby CDs.) I have no expectation that she will ever listen in an "audiofile" sort of way. It simply is not her interest. We will dance to what is beong played, sing along, and go to concerts, but it is unlikely that she will sit in the front and centre of the speakers, close her eyes and listen to a CD from start to finish.
kurt_tank
1,189 posts
 
First off, I should state that my wife is into music more than most women, especially women her age, which shall we say is middle aged. (I guess I won't get castrated for saying that! I hope anyway!)

She is particularly fond of:

The Dave Matthews Band. Mostly the older stuff, but even the newer stuff she likes quite a bit.
(Actually, she has pretty much told me she would run away with him if he asked her too. Guess he's a favorite, either that or she is a floozy!)

Coldplay

Death Cab for Cutie

And of course, most of the popular women singers, including Norah Jones, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, The Holly Cole Trio, etc..

Music she hates though includes: Anything by Supertramp, America or any heavy metal type of music. (No accounting for taste I guess.)
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milpai
2,456 posts
 
Norah Jones, Rebecca Pidgeon, Kenny G, John Denver, Kenny Rogers, older rock/pop from late 80s to early 90s. She likes certain Jazz CDs, but I have not told her that it is Jazz - lest she stops listening with me :-)
She just ignores me when I put on the Living Presence or Living Stereo or hardcore Jazz.
armstrod
619 posts
 
My wife adoress classical, particularly big symphonic works and violin and cello solo works. She also shares my love of big band and 50's-60's pop vocalists like Sinatra and Bennett.

She draws the line, however, at my prog rock. If I pull out Yes or ELP or Genesis, she gently reminds me that I should listen to it when she's not home. That's why Trick of the Tail is on right now...

:-)
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