that any literature you have in your possession that you'd rather your wife/girlfriend/partner didn't know about is best hidden discreetly within the sleeve of a Fall album. Why else do you think they're still going?
Not sure about the Dan. My wife loves them. I can take or leave them.

I know lots of women who like Steely Dan. And they're not doing it to make a point either.

Likes Steely Dan - but she is possibly one of the only women to buy albums by both Marillion and Tull (before we were going out/married).

She can't stand The Doors though.

My wife can't stand the following:

The Smiths, Sex Pistols, Cat Power, any dub reggae and Bob Dylan when he plays the harmonica.

S*M*A*S*H get no love from her either, but I can sort of see her point there.

I am steeped in the indie punk stuff and my wife likes metal and Pink Floyd which I can't get into. Very little of either gets played in the house (thats what cars and long business trips up north are for). We meet around Sigur Ros, Athlete (I know but we took the first album on our first holiday together and it still works for me), Smiths/Morrissey sort of area.

She can't stand ABC - Lexicon of Love which still baffles me mind you.

Does anyone know any women who like them? I don't.

...and yes - I love the Dan. I'm listening to them now.

They really were a 'his not hers' band - but having said that I knew plenty of blokes who couldn't stand them either.

What about Pink Floyd? I can't can't imagine anyone buying something from that catalogue as a treat for their significant other.

Sorry, Dave. My wife's favourite album is DSOTM.

I'm the Floyd listener in our house, the Mr hates them.

As my regular readers may already be aware, I loathe and despise the Manic Street Whingers

And if we're on a Keith Emerson tip, how many of the other ladies own Five Bridges by The Nice?

Or The Allman Brothers live at the Fillmore?

Oh lawks, I've come over all prog...

Saw him Last night.Very Good. Very Blokey crowd 95% Male.
Went to see Minor Threat and Black Flag in Boston years ago.Counted 2 Girls in the crowd of about 300.
Don't know any Men who like Jamiroquai and always think Paul Weller is very bloke-ish.
Women into Prog ?

...never, ever met a Bird who was remotely interested in the pioneering Teutonic Techno-poppers

Give or take the exceptions to the rules, as entered above, by and large isn't it:
Jazz (proper), blues, rock (all sorts, from prog- to folk-)- men
Soul/r'n'b, pop, disco, jazz (lite*)- wimmin.
There you go.
Easy.
Folk cuts it both ways, unless there are melodeons, which points it toward men. Banjos do the same in cross cutting country. Usually beardy men.

*tootling keys, smooth(TM) sax and female vocals. not really jazz

...and I have yet to meet a woman who likes Tindersticks *sigh*

Despises my twin loves Caravan and Stackridge.
The grand divorce begins next month when she represents herself and is confident of receiving a substantial share of my fortune- ( a figure in the region of £0.25 has been widely predicted ).

I love Stackridge and Tindersticks.
I think Caravan are a bit girly, as well documented previously, tho'.......
(Mind you, given this is based upon Pye Hastings' shirts and Pip Coughlans "moustache", there may be a flaw. Mrs Path tells me that wives and partners often commend tonsorial and sartorial folly upon their other halves, so as to minimise any risk of straying or their being strayed upon)

Select your handbag and step outside sir!

I love a predictable response.
Sadly, I do like Caravan, if only he wouldn't bloody sing! I have a very good double LP retrospective, The Canterbury Tales, as well as, naturally, Grey and Pink. The organ sound, as on most of the offshoots and buds of the "Canterbury Sound" is exemplary. Usually by Dave Sinclair?

Avid. The Frazester will send details in a brown paper bag.

Backing down eh Mista Path?
( I should, presumably, have predicted it from the start ).

The true test is the live experience, isn't it?

Bruce Springsteen recently said something about building an audience back in his day. It went something like this: Guy goes to gig, next time the band comes around he'll bring his friend and if his friend likes it, the next time he'll bring his girlfriend. Once you've got the 3 of them, you're on the pig's back.

Well if that's the model, someone really needs to explain it to Wilco and Eels bcause I saw them both fairly recently and there was only a handful of girls in the building.. And I was on my own!

Everyone I know who's heard this early-ish Tom Waits song loves it. A lot of his early songs are beautiful and very romantic, and of course his voice wasn't always as gnarled as it is now. I'd say if there is a gender polarity with him, it's going to be with his rather challenging later work, which people with more important things to do may not be inclined to bother with.

I was convinced she would love Ron Sexsmith - young boyish looks, nice voice and tunes - she cant stand him.
As a rule of thumb she likes anything melodic - anything that requires effort or is a challenge is a waste of time playing to her.
Its a bit like the TV programmes they watch too - bland, soap operas, romcoms, reality tv.

Please dont ban me from the site - I will change my identity before the lawsuits start arriving!!!

On numerous occasions over the years my wife has walked into various rooms in our house as some Mark E Smith-inspired racket has clattered out of the stereo and with a sigh of weary resignation opined 'that's The Fall isn't it?'

This is usually followed by an equally weary shake of the head on her part and a sharp exit from the vicinity.

Controversially, she did recently concede that 'How I Wrote Elastic Man', an oft-played favourite of mine, was almost listenable but only because 'it doesn't really sound like The Fall'.

She knows nothing.

Surely no woman has ever bought Trout Mask Replica? I'd be terrified of stepping out on a first date with a lass who proclaimed a love of the Captain. What next? Diamanda Galas (who is surely not loved by anyone of either gender...)

Can. I once left Can on and then disappeared off to the bath. Emerged a while later to find the other half had left the thing running for the full 17 clattering minutes and was suddenly eager to question my mental health.

Not one to suggest as a soundtrack for any of those limos full of girls you see of a weekend night, perchance?

My good wife, who has brought to our collection all of following gems: Poppa Joe by The Sweet, Rose Garden by Lynn Anderson and Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep by Middle of the Road absolutely hates The Convincer by Nick Lowe. She really, really gets furious, if i try to play it. I even took her to see a Nick Lowe gig, but no success. She is adamant: Nick Lowe is a total joke to her...
I don't get it ?

my wife took exception to the lyrics in that song too. Seems like a sense of humour also divides the sexes. I love the black humour of films like Fargo and even theb more over the top stuff in Shaun of the Dead - my wife just thinks I am sick.

than merely Lichfield!
Last night I enjoyed the re-watching of 28 Days Later, a thoughtful birthday gift from the kids. Mrs Path went to bed early, not entirely unrelated!!

Despite considerable evidence to the contrary, I now realise that I am in fact a chap.I like most of the musicans and films cited as being whatever the reverse of catnip to girls is.
Apologies to a small and now clearly psychosexually traumatised number of male lesbians. Do I have to give the kit back, though?

I too, a femal of the species LOVE THIS!! Eat a Peach Em!

describes one area of music I really like, but which doesn't seem to do a lot for female listeners. I'm a big fan of John Scofield. About a minute into his set a few years ago my friend's wife leaned over to said friend and muttered, witheringly: "boy's music" .
When my brother managed to coerce his wife into attending one such gig, she observed that the audience consisted almost entirely of "bald men sitting nodding their heads".

I would love to know if there were carbon-based life forms of any gender who like the fine work carried out by this perplexing Australian industrial dance combo...?

of course..

After a few weeks' lurkage, I have registered to say: only girls like The Kooks.

That's not to say that ALL girls like The Kooks, I hasten.

Erm, cheers.

I never met a man who could tolerate that modern r'n'b stuff, but all of them love old r'nb. This may say more about the circles I move in though. The thing is though while I have plenty of music I think of as boy music I do have individual women friends who like individual artists of that ilk Cap Beefheart, Zappa, Waits etc). I dont have a woman friend who likes all of that though. Steely Dan though, I dont know anyone who can stand them...

Isn't it the case though that women like "emotional" music while men like "intellectual" music anyway? (ps that's Lesley Douglas, 6music and Radio 2 controller, I'd never be that sexist)