Cannot get the missus to listen to the mixes

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Tas wrote:I find myself these days NOT listening to commerical bands/artists but more to the underground scene.. There's so much out there thats based on REAL talent than manufacturing.
I too stopped listening to the radio ages ago. Been checking out stuff on http://www.garageband.com instead (nothing to do with the Mac proggy by the same name), loadsa different genres, free mp3 downloads, and if you want to support the artists by purchasing CDs a massive 60% of retail price goes straight back to the band. Beats mainstream big-5-record-labels-funded radio any day.

Anyhoo, enough plugging. Back to our regularly scheduled programming in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ...
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Jan Lund Thomsen wrote:
Thunderer wrote:She likes Sting, U2, the Dave Matthews Band, Mariah Carey, Madonna, Lenny Kravitz, mainly mainstream stuff.
Maria Carey? Sting?

She's a lost cause, mate. Get the pair of you some decent headphones, listen to whatever you like, and let that be the end of it. :D
her indoors love sting as it happens... i think its a woman thing ;)
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Tas wrote:She's a lost cause, mate. Get the pair of you some decent headphones, listen to whatever you like, and let that be the end of it. :D
Convince her, that You need Your retro-time too.. ^^
Play it LOUD when she's not at home... Would be the best IMHO...
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Re: Cannot get the missus to listen to the mixes

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Jan Lund Thomsen wrote:
Heyho Thunderer, and welcome to our little neck of the woods.
Thanks Jan, I am enjoying it already. I wish I had signed up earlier though, much earlier.
Jan Lund Thomsen wrote: Case in point: A while back I had a SLAY Radio show on when the missus entered the flat from whatever it is that women do when we're not watching them, she started bobbing her head to the tune playing. That's when I told her she was listening to the Last Ninja 3 intro tune. Her reponse?

- Whoops! :oops:
Ha, ha, did that a couple of times but with the same response. To be fair, she has admitted liking a few remixes, without witnesses of course so there's no way to corroborate my claims, but "2 or 3 songs out of a hundred doesn't make it all good." I suppose that's a small positive sign.

I agree with all of you that people that have not grown up with the warm, sensual, emotional, aesthetic, eclectic, beautiful sounds of "bleep bleep" music will find it more difficult enjoying it.
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n3mo wrote:
Tas wrote:She's a lost cause, mate. Get the pair of you some decent headphones, listen to whatever you like, and let that be the end of it. :D
Convince her, that You need Your retro-time too.. ^^
Play it LOUD when she's not at home... Would be the best IMHO...
I think she knows that but retro time somehow coincides with baby time, so I have my fix at work. My female colleague doesn't mind it surprisingly.
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And btw, welcome to the board, too, n3mo. :D
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Yep. I'm glad we found you n3mo.*


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* I can't believe no one's made that joke yet!
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Chris Abbott wrote: * I can't believe no one's made that joke yet!
Well nobody wanted to make a pun *that* bad yet. :D
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LMan / Remix64 wrote:
Chris Abbott wrote: * I can't believe no one's made that joke yet!
Well nobody wanted to make a pun *that* bad yet. :D
Once n3mo becomes Captain, I'll think we will get there...

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I like Sting. Not so keen on his most recent album though.
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merman wrote:I like Sting. Not so keen on his most recent album though.
I'm still waiting for his collaboration with Debbie Reynolds and God. :wink:
'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death.
I'm very disappointed with that attitude.
I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.'
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Thunderer wrote:I think she knows that but retro time somehow coincides with baby time, so I have my fix at work. My female colleague doesn't mind it surprisingly.
Well, then there's at least one place where you can get your retro-time.. ^^
Baby's need their sleep too yeah...
LMan / Remix64 wrote:And btw, welcome to the board, too, n3mo. :D
Thanks LMan! ^^ Will be a pleasure to be here.. ^^
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My girl doesn't like C64-remixes either. But she also doesn't like anything else what I like to listen to. So who cares.
All is lost.
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Me and my gf went to BiT live last year :)

She's an old mac fan so she really liked the PPoT version of Monkey Island. I'll have her into Hubbard by the end of the year ;)
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Driller wrote:Me and my gf went to BiT live last year :)

She's an old mac fan so she really liked the PPoT version of Monkey Island. I'll have her into Hubbard by the end of the year ;)
Oooh, careful there, he's married :)

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