Music That Makes Your Wife Listen

jdjohn
jdjohn Posts: 3,164
in Music & Movies
As a 'sister' thread to this one: https://forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/189787/funny-things-your-wife-has-said-about-audio/p1 let's talk about music that makes your wife stop-and-listen...which can help garner precious listening time on new gear, without her knowing the objective. This can also be interpreted as a greatest hits list for our ladies. Ideally, this is for those instances when you pick an album (vinyl or digital), as a surprise for your lady, wait for that positive reaction, and then turn the volume up :)

I'll start. Tonight, I wanted to do some vinyl playback, so I picked Fiona Apple's, When the Pawn, which is (for some reason) a terribly expensive vinyl LP. Anyway, once the needle dropped, she swooned, and the volume knob was turned-up. Mission accomplished B)

"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,176
    INXS’s Listen Like Thieves or Kick.
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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,164
    Of course this will vary by spouse (or significant other). Norah Jones and Brandi Carlile are additional slam dunks for my wife, but also old-school gangsta rap like NWA - I did find one of their albums on vinyl, so kudos to me B)
    "This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
    "Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
    Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
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  • PSOVLSK
    PSOVLSK Posts: 5,213
    edited December 2021
    Good lord. I was trying to make a joke, but it’s posting the link instead of the picture and it won’t let me delete either of them. It wasn’t very funny to begin with, but this really takes away the humor😊😁
    Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.-John Wooden
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  • muncybob
    muncybob Posts: 3,059
    If I ask for a suggestion on what to play, my wife will almost always ask for Quicksilver. Otherwise, I can put on most any Van Morrison(esp Moondance or Hard Nose the Highway) and she's happy.
    Yep, my name really is Bob.
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  • Gardenstater
    Gardenstater Posts: 4,510
    Yikes......I'm thinking Peter Cetera's Greatest Hits if such an album actually exists. I think you want ones you can bare to listen to though........
    George / NJ

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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,451
    Anything Andrea Bocelli...
    The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD

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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,974
    "Let's talk about music that makes your wife stop-and-listen..."

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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,132
    edited December 2021
    The Wife likes all Steely Dan she prefers Royal Scam but any will do (Has nothing to do with the origin of thier name she just has a ear for good music.) Tracy Chapman the first one and Norah Jones the first one any Eagles or Bad Company, Bob Seger or Zappas Shiek Yourboti
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,791
    My wife likes Billy Joel. I've had a hard life.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,763
    Electronic music with big bass
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • DividedSky
    DividedSky Posts: 108
    Tragically, my wife strongly prefers silence
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  • maxward
    maxward Posts: 1,586
    Sting.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,451
    DividedSky wrote: »
    Tragically, my wife strongly prefers silence

    For her listening pleasure...

    https://youtu.be/B9z87viDmOo
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  • DividedSky
    DividedSky Posts: 108
    I should get every recording of this for her (and me) just to yank her chain :D
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