She Hates It!!!

I don't know where you guys are getting your information, but I happen to be a women who loves prog.. and I know quite a few other women who love prog... Y'all must just be looking in the wrong places...

My wife REALLY likes ELP, Yes, Pink Floyd, Genesis and King Crimson. She generally doesn't like stuff that she is not familiar with...so, I play it some things over and over until she 'knows' the music, then she is generally OK.

She does not like, however, many of that aren't surprising, such as Faust, Can, Magma, no matter how much I try to slip them in. She actually doesn't mind side two of Faust's first album.

My girlfriend likes some of the symphonic stuff as long as it is not too complicated. Acoustic music is fine but not experimental!

However on the jazz side , she stops at Caravan, anything more she starts screeching, yelling and scratching.

I could've done worse! My prospective future conquest is however very axed towards music and is relatively open to experimental music! We are sort of waiting for each other (if anybody can understand THAT!?!?)

valravennz wrote: threefates wrote: I don't know where you guys are getting your information, but I happen to be a women who loves prog.. and I know quite a few other women who love prog... Y'all must just be looking in the wrong places...  - Believe it or not guys, prog is not just a male dominated passion

It took me a while to get my wife away from New Romantic & Goth, and it took a while but she is now a (new) member here; the biggest challenge, I have to admit, was Yes - especially after her seeing the 9012live video, and forever referring to Jon Anderson as "that mincing tart". But then she heard (of all things) 'Topographic Oceans', and was hooked!

Never quite got her into Pallas, though...

I wonder why?

The only time I ever scored at a gig, it was Snowy White's "Bird of Paradise" tour. (festivals not included!)

I've taken mrs. em to see Hawkwind, Fairport Convention, Roy Harper, It Bites and countless Enid gigs. She enjoyed them all, but wouldn't dream of sitting down and actually listening to a whole prog CD from start to finish.

 Pretty, but not prog...

My wife hates so much Yes that she collapsed and almost fell to the floor in the middle of 'Awaken' some years ago when I made her go with me to a concert.

On the other hand, I've made her more or less appreciate Camel and Oldfield. She likes Tina Turner and Annie Lennox, and my favourite sport is pointing out how several musician from her CDs used to play in prog bands (Peter John Vetesse (80s Tull) with Annie Lennox, Trevor Rabin with Tina Turner)...

My wife and I got together partly due to our tastes in music. She and I both Love Godspeed You Black Emperor, Pink Floyd and King Crimson although she is more of an 80's indie child than I am.

She also has a really, really nice bum.

BTW: English - American transaltion; bum= butt, so I'm not saying she keeps a nice vagrant in the house (apart from me ).


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MY soon to be wife is not yet 'there' but far enough seeing where she started.

She has gone from Destiny's Child and Shakira (whose folk songs are quite agreeable though) to Irish obscure folk like Lunasa and more mainstream Irish stuff like the Pogues and Floggin Molly.

Also, she has quite a lot of liking for Yes, anything with violins (King Crimson with David Cross!) and even some of the latest Fusion I play. The sad thing (that still has to change) is that she doesn't like it enough to go listen to it on her own. Though this week she has confessed 'getting used to' prog. So I guess I'm getting close to having a progette of my own. Though i'm not sure it was me who did any of the changing. (such a harm of pride when I find out it was her own exploring, let's hope not)

P.S I just saw this Spice Girls cd hanging about in my music stack, must have been from that drunk party last saturday, but I'll keep quiet about prog to her these few days if she finds out.