Has anyone ever tried to hook you up with people based on music taste??

Astronomer · 07-14-2010, 10:54 PM

I'm dating a boy who plays guitar in a alt/prog band, who understands polyrhythms and odd time signatures, and has a Tool poster above his bed. It's pretty win, apart from when he wants to "show me his new song" in which consequently I am sitting and listening quietly for about 14 minutes.

Freebase Dali · 07-15-2010, 12:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Lateralus

I'm dating a boy who plays guitar in a alt/prog band, who understands polyrhythms and odd time signatures, and has a Tool poster above his bed. It's pretty win, apart from when he wants to "show me his new song" in which consequently I am sitting and listening quietly for about 14 minutes.

hahaha... oh god.
When I was young I used to be that guy who showed girls his songs. Eventually I realized that it's just kinda douchey and none of them thought it was a great idea. There's an art to showing someone your music... it involves NOT showing it to them, but them listening to it by chance and you, in your nonchalance, mentioning "Yea, that's just a little something I wrote a couple years back. So do you like wine?" lol..

Seriously though, I feel sorry for the poor potential girlfriends of musicians who want to offload all their "projects" on a girl for "opinions", as though it wasn't a date, but a screening.

bannister · 07-15-2010, 12:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Paloma

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaah

So many punk boys don't shower. Like, a ****ing vast majority.
Not okay, but you know you gotta pick and choose. I took the few that showered.
The relationships were pretty much **** anyway.

It sucks, doesn't it? Out of the like, 20 punk boys in any given small town, 10 of them actually have music tastes that aren't sh*t. Out of those ten, about 7 aren't nazis. Out of those seven, about 5 actually shower regularly. And out of the 5, two of them have good personalities.

And both of the two are in a relationship/not attracted to women.

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Originally Posted by Lateralus

I'm dating a boy who plays guitar in a alt/prog band, who understands polyrhythms and odd time signatures, and has a Tool poster above his bed. It's pretty win, apart from when he wants to "show me his new song" in which consequently I am sitting and listening quietly for about 14 minutes.

Oh, the fun of dating a musician.

boo boo · 07-15-2010, 01:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Paloma

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaah

So many punk boys don't shower. Like, a ****ing vast majority.
Not okay, but you know you gotta pick and choose. I took the few that showered.
The relationships were pretty much **** anyway.

I did have an affair with someone who had the exact same music taste as I did, and he has a horrible personality

so good personality + ok music taste > **** personality + excellent music taste

Some of the nicest people I know are people who listen to nothing but country and yeah if a girl likes a lot of indie I'm taking it as an omen of pretentious bitchdom.

Grace_Under_Pressure · 07-15-2010, 04:09 AM

I think I must lucky.. IDK I don't really have a heard time finding someone with similar taste in music.. Never have.. I have dated a few guys that liked country and a few that liked rap(but it didn't last long).. I guess a lot of guys like Rock. Music is how me and my boyfriend got together.. He posted some Violent Femmes Lyrics on myspace and I knew them and we started talking from there..

When I met him I felt like I had known him for ever... Even though we were friends on myspace for over a year..

Astronomer · 07-15-2010, 04:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

hahaha... oh god.
When I was young I used to be that guy who showed girls his songs. Eventually I realized that it's just kinda douchey and none of them thought it was a great idea. There's an art to showing someone your music... it involves NOT showing it to them, but them listening to it by chance and you, in your nonchalance, mentioning "Yea, that's just a little something I wrote a couple years back. So do you like wine?" lol..

Seriously though, I feel sorry for the poor potential girlfriends of musicians who want to offload all their "projects" on a girl for "opinions", as though it wasn't a date, but a screening.

I know right. I actually don't mind, at first I was flattered that he would even want my opinion... or maybe just a chance to show off, haha. But I like listening to new music and I enjoy his band so it's a pleasure really. Plus it works two ways, he has to put up with hearing my 'music,' i.e. singing badly in the shower/ car/ anywhere else, abusing my bass, and playing terribly on his guitars without asking.

"Yea, that's just a little something I wrote a couple years back. So do you like wine?" -

I like it!

**Janszoon** · 07-15-2010, 07:53 AM

One thing that's kind of fascinating to me in this conversation is the number of guys talking about dating women who are really into music. No offense to any of the women present but in my experience women who are as into music as I am are very few and far between. For whatever reason, being a massive music geek seems to be largely a guy thing. When I was out there dating I honestly never was with anyone who was super into music. There were a couple punk/hardcore scenester-types but I don't really think of people like as being into music, they're more into the scene than anything else.

Astronomer · 07-15-2010, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

One thing that's kind of fascinating to me in this conversation is the number of guys talking about dating women who are really into music. No offense to any of the women present but in my experience women who are as into music as I am are very few and far between. For whatever reason, being a massive music geek seems to be largely a guy thing. When I was out there dating I honestly never was with anyone who was super into music. There were a couple punk/hardcore scenester-types but I don't really think of people like as being into music, they're more into the scene than anything else.

Really? I find this weird. I know plenty of females who are entirely into music, and not just the 'scene.' My band consists of 4 females and we all are heavily into music and play music instruments... does this make us an anomaly then? I never thought of being interested in music as a wholly male thing.

**Janszoon** · 07-15-2010, 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Lateralus

Really? I find this weird. I know plenty of females who are entirely into music, and not just the 'scene.' My band consists of 4 females and we all are heavily into music and play music instruments... does this make us an anomaly then? I never thought of being interested in music as a wholly male thing.

That's really great! I wish I could have run into some women like you when I was out there dating. I do think it's a bit of an anomaly though, or maybe just an anomaly in my country, I don't know. All I know is I don't think I ever met a woman IRL with a music collection the size of mine or who liked to talk about music as much as I do, but I have met plenty of guys who are similar to me in this area.

~~Farfisa~~ · 07-15-2010, 08:23 AM

What actually qualifies someone as a genuine music lover? I've always found it to be a bit perplexing as to where the line is drawn exactly.

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Grace_Under_Pressure Groupie Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Memphis, Tn Posts: 30	I think I must lucky.. IDK I don't really have a heard time finding someone with similar taste in music.. Never have.. I have dated a few guys that liked country and a few that liked rap(but it didn't last long).. I guess a lot of guys like Rock. Music is how me and my boyfriend got together.. He posted some Violent Femmes Lyrics on myspace and I knew them and we started talking from there.. When I met him I felt like I had known him for ever... Even though we were friends on myspace for over a year.. __________________ "If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"

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Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	One thing that's kind of fascinating to me in this conversation is the number of guys talking about dating women who are really into music. No offense to any of the women present but in my experience women who are as into music as I am are very few and far between. For whatever reason, being a massive music geek seems to be largely a guy thing. When I was out there dating I honestly never was with anyone who was super into music. There were a couple punk/hardcore scenester-types but I don't really think of people like as being into music, they're more into the scene than anything else. __________________ A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man Time & Place 25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die last.fm

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~~Farfisa~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 2,773	What actually qualifies someone as a genuine music lover? I've always found it to be a bit perplexing as to where the line is drawn exactly.