You and your OH - matching music tastes?

[anonymous-user]

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[illmonkey]

Go with friends? Oh...

[kieranjholland]

The OH and I have similar taste but disagree on some stuff. For example we both love Ocean Colour Scene and Embrace but I like Stone Roses whereas she likes James... I went to a James gig with her and she's coming along to the Roses with me.

I also like loads of ecclectic stuff she doesn't get so there will always be differences but when we met it was great as we share each others catalogues.

I think it would be a little boring if you like the same stuff but at the same time, it helps if there is some crossover.

[B Huey]

My O/H can't stand The Beastie Boys, apart from that we have fairly similar tastes.

When we moved in together she turned up with an Alanis Morissette CD.

I took it back to Woolies and swapped it for something else. She's still not noticed.

[gbbird]

We didnt at first, but she has seen the light and likes a lot of heavy stuff now. But she still sneaks a listen of Destiny's Child etc whenever i am out
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Edited by gbbird on Saturday 18th February 21:09

[Efbe]

she's learning

[kiteless]

We do and we don't. We both love blues (Peter Green and Gary Moore style especially), and we both enjoy classical.

I also love a bit of trance, whereas mrs k hates it on a cellular level. She loves Motown, all of it, whereas I am a fence sitter on it.

If I play any Soundgarden / Pantera / Megadeth, her central nervous system implodes.

Our perfect common ground is Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2

[koenig999]

Mrs Koenig and I don't have much overlap

Her : Serious classical choral music from 1600's and Songs from the Shows, Sound of Music etc.

Him: Merzbow, The Hanatrashari, Disciples of Annhilation, Ugandan Methods, Severed Heads etc.

Lots of disputes of what to listen to in the car.

Koenig

[kieranjholland]

koenig999 said:

Him: Merzbow, The Hanatrashari, Disciples of Annhilation, Ugandan Methods, Severed Heads etc.

Lots of disputes of what to listen to in the car.

Koenig

I want to see a video of you listening and enjoying anything by Disciples of Annhilation whilst holding some custard... otherwise not true

[Dan_1981]

We have tastes so far apart its almost amusing.

Her - X factor, manufactured pop, Pink, Take That, etc etc


Me - Metallica, Maiden, Machinehead, Avenged Sevenfold (i refuse to type A7X) etc etc.

[satan 59]

Used to be similar but now Mrs Satan is into poppy stuff while my taste has gone more extreme and loud (doom meatl).
Go to gigs on own these days but that's not a problem, usually met mates there.

[New POD]

My wife thinks Culture Club is brilliant.
I think that the Jam, pretty much were the best band ever.

Our tastes in music have become more opposite since we met

[alfa pint]

Her: wide ranging. Hates opera. Likes Adele, Pink, Embrace, Charlatans, quite a lot of jock rock, lady gg, doesn't do heavy metal or similar but likes some of the foo fighters. Loves tom petty, travis, james, brandon flowers. Worst album - probably steps.

Me: wide ranging the other way. Love opera, love classical music. Love blues. Grew up with a lot of prog rock - floyd, peter gabriel, marillion etc. Love arcade fire, broken social scene, old rolling stones, zz top, love my niche indie like twilight sad, black keys, bon iver, british sea power, clap your hands say yeah, interpol, editors, guillemots, the national, bloc party, TV on the radio, editors etc.

Bands I got her into: the killers, muse, tom mcrae, damien rice, guillemots, noah and the whale, mumford and sons, elbow, edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros, bright eyes, arcade fire, flaming lips.

Bands she got me into: teenage fanclub, old bryan adams, feeder, paloma faith, the tings tings, the vaccines, vampire weekend.

Where we'll never agree: Twilight Sad (mine), Scissor Sisters (hers), Interpol (mine), Fatboy Slim (hers) and any band with the word 'bass' in their name (hers).

[beckerman]

Me: proper blues, 70s funk, Grateful Dead & other psychedelia

Mrs Beckerman: Kraftwerk, Nitzer Ebb, Skinny Puppy, Cat Rapes Dog

So I suppose the answer is largely no

[sw67]

We both like the same music - mainly punk and rock but she does embrace newer music more than me. We also like some of our sons music ( king blues , ed sheeran etc )

At 45 this year we still get to lots of gigs - last one was Drop Kick Murphys a few weeks ago

[NotDave]

Not at all. We listen to music for different reasons.

she listens to:


- Bjork
- Portishead
- Modest Mouse
- Thom Yorke
- Radiohead
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs

and the odd smattering of "death metal"



Me, basically generic st you hear on BBC Radio1. Combined with some euphoric 90s dance music, the odd bit of Nickelback. And then some classics such as:

- Phil Collins
- Dr Hook
- Dire Straits
- Rod Stewart


As well as current faviourites: Mumford & Sons. And The Black Keys. chase &status. Clare MacGuire.


I can happily tolerate her music, as long as not driving and tired. And in the right setting, actively enjoy it.


She hates my music, all of it. Every last second of it.

[Bullett]

There is some convergence (I'm educating her). She leans towards pop ste, I have wider tastes but leaning towards the indie guitar end of the market.

I have a theory she doesn't actually like music that much. It just for background rather than something to listen to.

[Flip Martian]

Having similar tastes is fantastic. With my ex we had little music wise in common, but that was manageable, even if it meant going to gigs alone. We did occasionally collide - Kaiser Chiefs, A-Ha, spring to mind.

But my fiancee now has similar tastes - a lot of 80s synth stuff, Mike Oldfield, even Rammstein who we're seeing at the weekend. She doesn't get Marilyn Manson or Nirvana but that's ok. The downside is I had to take her to see John Barrowman last year and twice went to see Adam Ant...

But in terms of music in the car, around the house, gig going generally - we're either mostly in agreement or can tolerate it.

If she started listening to anything Simon Cowell related it would be the end (yes ok, I'm joking). Fortunately she hates that saccharine coated commercial pap as much as I do.

In conclusion - I LOVE having a partner with similar musical tastes.

[Miguel Alvarez]

We have similar tastes. I'm a rap fan first but like my soul, reggae, jazz etc. She's a reggae fan first but likes the similar things. She's probably a bit more open minded than I am. Jamaican's tend to be very open minded when it comes to music as I found out being in the middle of a session in downtown Kingston and to hear a dj throw on Celine Dion.

[mrmaggit]

We have very similar tastes, with one exception.

I like the pipes, and she doesn't.

I'm not Scottish either.