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.
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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.)
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.
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...

:-)
My wife listens to every CD in our collection, from Soundgarden to Tomasz Stanko, from Jordi Savall to Tool. Lots of contemporary jazz/eclectic music as well: Toe 2000, Todd Sickafoose, Scott Hill, Modest Mouse, Sun Kil Moon, American Music Club, etc.... Her favorites are King's X & Charles Mingus. The ONLY music we have that she doesn't care for are the happier songs from XTC. Oh, and if she hears Diana Krall's version of "Temptation" one more time, she's gonna scream!
Eva Cassidy's Songbird, soundtracks from: "Love Actually" or "I am Sam" and "Sleepless in Seattle"....Thats it!