OMG how rude!!!!

[johninblack]

If it helps, I've just started a new job and have spent the past two months listening to one of my colleagues slag off all the music I like, every day without fail.

Sounds like a right contemptable idiot to me. Bet he likes Westlife!

[willowroolz]

Sounds like a right contemptable idiot to me. Bet he likes Westlife!

Now that would be funny 

Actually he's just confessed to liking Led Zep. Hmm, can't really get my own back on that one 

[keyboardistmatt]

Most of my family (when I lived at home) were fairly indifferent to Arena, however, when I recieved 'Contagion' from Verglas I played it, and noticed various family members enjoying "Salamander"!

I was well impressed!

[kmorse]

I married for love, but not love of music. Musically, my wife and I are opposites. I like prog, prog-metal and classic stuff like the Who and Beatles.
I'm going to be on a long car trip (6-7 hours) with her later this spring. I'm very carefully putting together some CDs of "accessible prog" that won't get me tossed out onto the highway. For my wife, I'm afraid that even something like "Waiting for the Flood" would be too wild.
She leans toward stuff such as Sting (although I think "The Soul Cages" is a great album and don't really mind much of his stuff) and I prefer the Police; she likes Phil Collins and later Genesis, I like the earlier stuff; I like Peter Gabriel's early solo work; she likes his later solo work (though not his last one very much).
She likes to poke fun at prog lyrics, too. Although I'll admit that that some prog lyrics can be real howlers. She also has little patience for excessive repetition of choruses or musical themes (which occasionally is an issue with prog; the end of "Waiting for the Flood" would be an example of one that would send her looking for the "Next" button.
Music we can agree on:
All of Steve Hackett's acoustic stuff, Arena's "The Cry", much of Pat Metheny's mellower work; Bruce Cockburn (check out his "Speechless" CD of all acoustic guitar stuff, it's exquisite); bluesy stuff such as Stevie Ray Vaugh; Vivaldi; Mozart; Bach.
Any suggestions for my compilation will be welcome. I've got the whole Genesis catalog, early King Crimson, Yes, Arena, IQ, Pallas, Jadis, EL&P (talk about "howler" lyrics!), Steve Hackett, to name some prog acts.

This may seem odd, but I'll be able to put together almost an entire CD of Opeth's mellow stuff for my wife. I sneaked one song from "Damnation" on our "long trip" CD  and she said, "Who's that?" In her parlance, that means, "I like it." Who would ever have thought .... ?

[Appelmoes??]

Give her another year and she'll be banging her head!

[johninblack]

finally mum has started to listen to our kinda music and she is enjoying it. she really likes frost she even wants to go and see a gig.........p.s it's sammi just on dads account.


sammi
-X-

[Appelmoes??]

Yaaay

[maddox]

finally mum has started to listen to our kinda music and she is enjoying it. she really likes frost she even wants to go and see a gig.........p.s it's sammi just on dads account.


sammi
-X-

That's great to hear, sammiinblack. 

[PH]

finally mum has started to listen to our kinda music and she is enjoying it. she really likes frost she even wants to go and see a gig.........p.s it's sammi just on dads account.


sammi
-X-

Great! Maybe she can convince my mum.

[johninblack]

What Sammi dosn't know (yet) is that the night before the Summers End Festival Credo are playing in Brentford and me and Sue are going!

[Appelmoes??]

Sooo, party at Sammi's place?

[johninblack]

Sammi here  what daddy doesn' t know is that i did know him and mum were going to that gig. and yes there will be a small party at my place (now goin to the yay thread)

[johninblack]

That's not so uncommon...
Magazine critics will often attack the audience, particularly when they don't know what to say about our music.
Progressive Rock can be an easy target (although I think Heavy Metal is easier!).
Maybe you should find a less complex song, and play it to her 'out of context'... she might accidently like it then!

This is 'work in progress' and progress is definally being made! Sue (the wife what hates prog) LOVES Milliontown the new album from Frost* and rather likes Rhetoric from Credo, in fact she likes these so much that she will be seeing each of  afore mentioned bands later this year. A couple of weeks ago we went somewhere (cant remember where and that is not important) and I had Pepper's Ghost on (the same album that started all this) and she admitted that it was getting easier for her to listen too. So by about 2020 I'll get her coming to the Arena gigs!