Entertainment For Lively Minds
First Time Fumblings and Fickle Tastes
Have you ever finished with some one because of their record collection or their dubious taste? I have. I was taken back to my Summer The First Time moment recently. Not only did the lovely Christine encourage my fumblings, she encouraged them to the soundtrack of Diamond Dogs, so was I getting my tops and I was getting them to The Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family. Result.
A few years later I met a nice girl and all was going swimmingly until I went round to hers one night. Making straight for the vinyl I was assaulted by Fleetwood Mac, Simply Red, Grace Jones and The Eurythmics. Something had to go. It was me. Fickle I know, but standards had to maintained.
I also packed a lass after she insisted that it was Johnny Rotten who did for Nancy and not Sid. Right up my producing documentary evidence, so strong was her ignorance that she was finished. By phone.
I'm not proud of my actions, I hope I'm alone in them. I'll bet I'm not.
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Dear God...
...this isn't true, is it?
Crikey!
Dumping a lass just because she has no taste in music seems a bit strong eh? After all, had you have kept them on you could have later rubbished their self confidence and subverted their own sense of self worth. Karma will out. I'm glad that you made this first baby step to well being.
yesI had that Uma Thurman
yes
I had that Uma Thurman take me back to hers a few years back.
While she was mixing a cocktail and getting the bedroom temperature right, I perused her CD collection. Lt.Pidgeon!..Lena Zavroni!?..Jive Bunny..and worst of all Sisters Of Mercy.
I was out of there before you could say "Small minded musical snob"
I'm not proud of it, but you must admit, it was a narrow escape.
Conversely, I met a girl
Conversely, I met a girl once whose record collection was filled with absolutely first-rate stuff. You know...Magma,Keith Christmas, Hackensack, Portsmouth Symphonia, Blue Cheer, Dewy Martin's Medicine Ball.
I threw my lot in with her and she turned out to be a complete and utter sow.
I dumped a girl because she
I dumped a girl because she enjoyed the dulcet tones of ''Asia'' more than ''The Fall'', who she found to be crude and unsentimental.
She can stick that accusation up her shitter.
The chance to educate
the poor girl would be one I would be unable to resist.
* Fires up cd burner*
The very idea
that my girlfriend (or wife) should enjoy exactly the same taste as me in anything is truly frightening.
If I met a woman who was really interested in Captain Beefheart, Id probably run a mile.
My wife is kind, loving, supportive and sexy.
She can listen to what she bloody well likes.
Clannad
I once went to see Clannad at Hammersmith Apollo in the hope that I would accidentally on purpose bump into a girl I fancied, who I knew liked them (her favourite band no less) and would be a the gig. Suffice to say I didn't bump into her and endured 2 hours of mystic celtic drivel. I knew it was a complete non-starter after that. Still haven't got those 2 hours back mind...
Where did she go?
Tried to impress a rare admirer during those difficult late teen years with one of my 'special' mix tapes - as an aside, it is a shame that the iTunes playlist has made such compilations too easy for the kids these days. Much love and care went into this particular tape, which as I recall opened with the Stones 2000 Light Years from Home, included both Syd-era and (gulp!) Wall era Pink Floyd and, to show I was a deep and sensitive sort, culminated in the Smiths There is a Light (sensibly, stopped short of putting Half a Person on there) followed by Clair de Lune.
A distinct cooling of the relationship occured pretty quickly after she gave the tape a listen. Saw her a few months later snogging some muppet at a local club to Tainted Love and the thumb twangingly painful Level 42. Her loss!
Musical match
On the other hand, I met my husband through a shared love of the Bonzo Dog Band. Can't say I agree with a lot of his other musical tastes but you can't win 'em all...