The Official "Music Was So Much Better in the Glorious Days of Yore" Thread

[Marie Monday]

Debbie Harry, the hard rock and metal pioneer
Lol

[elphenor]

Originally Posted by jadis

Women have tastes in music that are as eclectic and highly individualized as men's. Based on a considerable sample of those young women who are arguably the likeliest to be open-minded and discriminating when it comes to music (college students), I have, however, seen certain patterns emerge: for example, women, as a rule, very rarely enjoy the dissonant, abrasive and repetitive stylings of the likes of The Fall and Captain Beefheart. There are exceptions, obviously. I know IRL a woman who loves The Fall and another who used to be obsessed with Primus. But I would not count on them if music plays a central role in your social identity, including in courtship of women, and you want to score.

Live shows are different, I think, cause they're social events.

I think, put in perspective, nobody is listening to The Fall

but women, in my experience, do like the Fall (indeed they've almost always been part of The Fall) for similar reasons as your other weird example of Can (who also have a significant female audience)

[The Batlord]

If most of those people not listening to The Fall heard The Fall they wouldn't like them.

[SGR]

Originally Posted by elphenor

but women, in my experience, do like the Fall (indeed they've almost always been part of The Fall)

What does this mean? That women like the Fall because there's been a few women as members of the group over their 40 year history?

[Frownland]

Yeah you know how the womenfolk always google the lineup of whatever they listen to before deciding how they feel about it.