Emotions with Prog and... Women!

Mandrakeroot wrote: The fact is more strange if I consider that my list of girlfriends love (or please) Prog Metal!

Lucky b*****d!

That's funny, while the borderline-metal of the John Wetton era is very "masculine" music I don't think the more symphonic/psychedelic stuff King Crimson played early on wouldn't (stereotypicaly) appeal to women.

As for the entire "picking friends and potential girlfriends from their tastes in music", that's something I sometimes engage in (meeting people at gigs, esp. local ones where I can count on them being regulars) but just as often not care much about. In the latter case, however, I find that people I get well along with often listen to some of the same music as I do even though it should perhaps be mentioned here that since I begun in college last autumn I've become a much more extroverted person and begun listening to more different genres of music. I'm certain that there is some kind of correlation. People's personalities usually influence their taste in music, not the other way around... but sometimes it's a bit unclear really.

EDIT: By the way, I didn't know Bald Friede was a woman. Guess you learn something every day.


Edited by Toaster Mantis - March 29 2009 at 14:14

Ahh, keep your head up! There may not be many of us out there, but girls do like prog..

I am a girl (or rather woman), and I have no problem with my girl (or rather wife). She likes prog too, and we have a huge collection.

Rabid wrote: If your girl does'nt like your music, you got the wrong girl !

Find a girl with a healthy prog-rock collection. Niet problemski ! 

Edited by Rabid - February 23 2009 at 17:40

Good topic. Prog is mostly boys music, there are exceptions, I'm not altogether sure why that is.

There are some interesting things going on here, and for me it is a little bit topical.

I was going through heartbtreak over Christmas, and at the time I was listening to 'Paradise Hotel' by the Flower Kings. Now you must understand that I do not listen to the words when I listen to music. I listen to the, er, music.

Anyway, there were two songs that absolutely killed me. 'Jealousy' might as well have been named after the girl's name as far as I was concerned, and on Christmas Day it brought me to tears.

 

As the girl in question hails from Eastern Europe (and I'm English) I suffered some more in 'Bavarian skies'. Dreadfully painful! Strangely, no one talks about these two tracks in their reviews...

I'm currently suffering some more with Sylvan's 'That's why it hurts'.

It's not Prog itself that is the cause, more the fact that it is the type of music that I listen to.

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Well this is an unusaul thread, and I'm sorry to see that so many of you have been unlucky in love and with sharing your musical tastes with your partners. This is just to say it can work! I met my wife at school when I was 16. We'd both just been to the Plumpton Rock festival (1970) and spent our first evening discussing the bands we'd seen. We've grown up together listening to the same music and we love the same things . I think the only bands she doesn't like are the Beatles and the Cardiacs. But Van Der Graaf, Egg, Alamailmaan Vasarat. Lars Hollmer, Detektivbyran, Uz Jsme Doma - we both like the same. When we had children we stopped playing some of them, such as Yes as the kids couldn't stand them. After our son died (age 12) we started playing them again, as songs like 'Close to the Edge' touched a chord of hopefulness after the loss we suffered. But we survived, we love each other more than ever, and we're still going to see Van der graaf whenever we can! Have faith -you may yet meet your perfect partner.

Alan