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What did s/he convert you to?
We've had a thread on incompatabilities between partners. One of the things spoken about last night was music your significant other has converted you.
I used to loathe Jackson Browne. I'd been exposed to him by earlier girlfriends, so it wasn't just an imagined dislike because of his associations with the likes of The Eagles.
I can still recall the moment as we drove along in her car. Driver's choice and Lives In The Balance is on the tape player. It comes to In The Shape Of A Heart and as it plays it struck me that he wasn't in fact at all bad. Some 20 years on I'm a big fan and we always go and see him. Mind you, she always goes out and buys the new CD's.
Is there anyone else who has had a Damascene conversion they'd like to share?
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Not a damscene conversion as I never exactly hated it but
my wife is a massive lover of Motown and other upbeat Northern Soul type stuff. My tastes were always more towards the Stax/Atlantic side of things, but I have come to really, properly appreciate a good Motor City stomper now.
Mrs K just adores ELO
and has worn me down, to the point where "Evil Woman" rarely leaves my iPod. The real shocker was the constant exposure to (post "Diamond Life") Sade, I will now maintain that "Stronger Than Pride" and "Lovers Rock" are really beautiful records which resonate very deeply whenever I hear them. Amazing what love can do!
If you haven't
heard it Pete, give "Love Deluxe" a go - I think it's her best album. I was never much for the earlier stuff personally also, but really like the minimalism of this record.
Good call
The song Love Is Stronger Than Pride is really great - I remember even the NME, who weren't overly enamoured of Ms Adu, tipping their hat to this song. And your post has made me want to listen to it again...
Ms Adu is a MASSIVE talent
and the target of some of the worst snobbery in music.
This song is a veritable panacaea, I find:
The Smiths...
A woman I was good friends with around 12 years ago loved The Smiths to bits and would always play their records. I had never liked them at the time they were together and had even rejected the offer of two tickets to see them at the Kilburn National in 1986. As my feelings for her turned into love of the unrequited variety their music began to make more and more sense to me, until There Is a Light That Never Goes Out sounded like the greatest song I'd ever heard. I now count them amongst my favourite bands.
I used to think....
that the Smiths, and Morrissey, were just depressing.
My girlfriend (now my wife) loved both so I reluctantly agreed to get tickets for a Morrissey gig a couple of years ago...I listened to their stuff and realized it was actually pretty good.
The gig itself was fantastic, and I have been a convert ever since.
Indigo Girls
I was never really a fan; still not one, much. But my wife played me this years ago and it just tears me apart. That line about the first breath of Texas has me weeping just thinking about how beautiful it is.
Indigo Girls – Southland In The Springtime: http://open.spotify.com/track/4TY6EZN1agPQY548PhVmRy
As usual
I will dumb the conversation down!! My wife took me to see Take That in concert at Wembley this summer and while I will never listen to a Take That album unless she puts it on in the car it was a night of proper old fashioned entertainment enjoyed by 60000 fans and me. Gary Barlow is a popular song writer among the best and those boys really know how to put on a show.
Marilyn Manson
Yes, I'm still a youthful 23, but I enjoy young Brian Warner - something about his mix of bleak lyricism, calculating rage and desire to open us his emotions artistically is still enticing.
Maybe I'll grow out of it.
But it wasn't always that way... When I was in lower 6th I described myself as the anti-grunge. Then I discovered the Smashing Pumpkins.
I changed my mind.
Roddy Frame
I couldn't stand Aztec Camera - all those floppy fringes (on hair and jacket), awful 80's production, what wimpy rubbish!
However when Roddy Frame played in the late 90's to promote his North Star album my wife really wanted to see him so I grudgingly gave in and arranged it.
He was great! An excellent band including Craig Gannon from The Smiths, some really good new songs and the old Aztec Camera tracks sounded far better with a more powerful contemporary sound.
Then we saw him on his acoustic tours and I just really liked his on stage banter and he is an excellent and underated guitarist too.
He loves The Clash too!