Aphex Twin My girlfriend doesn't like Aphex Twin

  Terpentintollwut said:

But they usually back off quickly when it gets too experimental cause they're afraid to be put in the category of people who are

Your post is so true, its made of tr00th

however im sure the aphex fanbase must be split in half, i mean if not why even bother pointing out certain tracks are for girls and others for boys. for example ive always thought that come to daddy is a song for the boys and windowlicker is for girls. idk, maybe in some cases its the other way around.

ive met girls who rave like shit and they say aphex scares them, i think that because of the issues you mentioned (roles and facades) they are put off by his image?

in the end its all about taste, aphex is not for everyone, they cant handle it.

but hey, why not have sex with her to the beat of aphex? i think maybe shell like it then. and if you do it well, shell want to hear more!

i could never be with someone who doest like MM though...so if aphex is really important to you chose between them!

windowlicker was practically made for sex

was milkman made for rape?

beetles was made for a courtship ritual performed by aliens from the planet gweebnox

  MajaIloveyou said:

was milkman made for rape?

come to daddy was made for rape

My first girlfriend who took my virginity introduced me to aphex. She had great taste in music. Amazing really. She was a rare creature though. Most girls aren't like that

  marf said:

My first girlfriend who took my virginity introduced me to aphex. She had great taste in music. Amazing really. She was a rare creature though. Most girls aren't like that

did she play u elephants songs?

something like that

i'm sorry that your girlfriend doesn't like electronic music. but if you're in an otherwise happy relationship, why would it matter if she likes aphex twin?

Don't you think Richard was joking a bit when he explained the Girl-/Boy-Song-concept?

  MajaIloveyou said:

ive met girls who rave like shit and they say aphex scares them, i think that because of the issues you mentioned (roles and facades) they are put off by his image?

Possibly, some of them. I guess they probably just say it scares them cause they want to express their distance to it. But it could be the case that they really are a bit "scared" or put off by the fact that it's too different to what they know. They may rave, which seems unusual, but within groups, unusual things become usual again (=accepted), so they're not necessarily one step closer to understanding Aphex' stuff just because they're into rave.

  MajaIloveyou said:

i could never be with someone who doest like MM though...so if aphex is really important to you chose between them!

  Hoodie said:

i'm sorry that your girlfriend doesn't like electronic music. but if you're in an otherwise happy relationship, why would it matter if she likes aphex twin?

I think depending on the case, both can be appropriate. If she doesn't like Aphex' music but you otherwise make a good match, then of course it shouldn't be important. You can disagree about certain things and still be like made for each other, and if you do agree about other musicians, even less important should Richard's role be. Dispute is said to be making things most interesting (but I tend to hate it after all).

But if liking Aphex represents the whole artistic understanding we mentioned earlier, then I think it is indeed important and MajaIloveyou's point does become applicable. I used to be in love with a girl a few years ago, not dating her, but talking a lot, and this used to drive me insane. She listened to the worst kind of happy-happy-crap and watched all those terrible chart-shows. I kept wanting to "improve" her taste and actually got her S.A.W. vol.2 for her birthday after she had liked Curtains - it was totally awkward and she never played it past the first track, her little cousin called it "alien-music" and I was getting more and more angry and depressed - generally very painful. I had to admit that she only liked Curtains because it was "niiiiice", not because it was good. Eventually she told me (a couple of times) that the both of us just wouldn't match, wouldn't work etc, the usual awkward stuff, but damn she was incredibly right about that one and I am greatful for that now! A relationship would have been pure torture... smiling while putting up with bullshit eventually eats you.

Oh by the way, I got her brother to get me back the CD about half a year after this friendship-breakup and gave it to my best friend who had loved it all along.

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  tbio2007 said:

... stay away from Drugks.

Righard D. James

 

Aghex Twang

 

i hair because it grew

i lair because it grue

i snare because it's blue

i snare and you can too

lol

  Terpentintollwut said:

I kept wanting to "improve" her taste and actually got her S.A.W. vol.2 for her birthday after she had liked Curtains - it was totally awkward and she never played it past the first track, her little cousin called it "alien-music" and I was getting more and more angry and depressed - generally very painful. I had to admit that she only liked Curtains because it was "niiiiice", not because it was good.

Well to be fair with her its a difficult album, its like slaping soemone who's never heard of aphex with zigomatic. but alien music? i would expect that if you gave her something like windowlicker ep or RDJ.

As for the previous thing you said, its totally true, probably better than a girl who already likes aphex, a girl who doesnt know him alot, and you can teach her. in a case where she's open to learning of course. or, if both love aphex you can tear apart on all the other people and its awesome aswell.

actually a few weeks ago in some forum, couple of people checked out aphex after looking at my sig and downloaded the obvious tracks. one thing that made me smile is that one of them told me "cool, more music to drive my wife insane"

without gender differenciations i think one of the few songs anyone who hasnt heard of aphex/doesnt like him would accept quite instantly is Avril 14th.

I think if i wanted to make a girl who's reaction towards Aphex is "ewww" fall into his work, i would wait for a good mood day, and play her:

Alberto Balsalm

Fingerbib

Avril 14th

Iz-Us

Crying in your face

Im self employed

Everyday

but not just play it and stay quiet, cuddle abit, make out, ask her to focus on how beautiful the tunes are, explain her what each makes you think of.

If that fails then its a lost cause, she will never like it.

now that i think about it, aphex is one of the few you can make someone completely love or hate. there are certain artists who have no appealing songs to other than the fans.

in this case i think she would accept aphex more if she heard those songs, with that surrounding. if you wanted her to hate it you could play

Ventolin

come to daddy

the tracks from smojphace ep

the v/vm remixes (LOOOOL)

Elephant song

Afx237 V7 (though i think without the opening eeeeehh she would probably like it?)

etc...

wow

lol this reminds me when i bought the windowlicker vinyl and the girl at the counter took the money and then when she grabed the vinyl to put it inside a bag she stared at it for a few seconds. which proves the image is a strong factor on the aphex rejection.

It really says something that we are even talking about this. This music really is important because its amazing and its a little secret we have I guess. I don't understand people that don't want to push themselves with music and be open to anything. Lots of people seem really close minded, even fearful of music.

  MajaIloveyou said:

Well to be fair with her its a difficult album, its like slaping soemone who's never heard of aphex with zigomatic. but alien music? i would expect that if you gave her something like windowlicker ep or RDJ.

She literally never played further than Cliffs though, and that one is easy accessable I think. Radiator is very profound but she hadn't heard any of it. Her cousin called it alien-music merely because of the delay effect and cause it sounded unfamiliar I guess... Haha, now all the memories come back - trying to discuss films was even more back-breaking. Like everyone she liked Amélie, so I recommended Jeunet's City of Lost Children but she wasn't interested because the title sounded evil. It's the same director for fuck's sake :confused:

  MajaIloveyou said:

As for the previous thing you said, its totally true, probably better than a girl who already likes aphex, a girl who doesnt know him alot, and you can teach her. in a case where she's open to learning of course. or, if both love aphex you can tear apart on all the other people and its awesome aswell.

Yes I think this can be the basis for something enjoyable, but it's no guarantee I learned... I introduced my favourite music to my last girlfriend and she seemed to be loving it, but over the months I learned that she only liked it for reasons that were kind of phony. In the beginning, she seemed to be wanting to do me a favour by acting as if she'd be into certain albums the same way I am, liking it for the same aspects and so on. She liked most of my music, especially the loud and crazy tracks, which was nice at first but I was disenchanted when I learned that she liked it mostly because she had a certain need for aggressive music, she also liked all the whoo-whoo-we-are-evil kind of metal I've always found ridiculous... she was more a victim to the preset male gender role than to the female one. She used to express her dislike for female traits constantly, which also became annoying. In the beginning, it's awesome to be dating a girl who's into videogames, sick stuff and your music, but it doesn't stay that way when you discover that these features mostly exist due to personal issues she has and aren't real. She's now more into the breakcore scene, a genre I became very tired of long ago.... I think a relationship was doomed to fail for reasons not so different to the ones I described in my first post - when there's too little self-awareness on the other person's side, it sucks, for both parties, even if it does lead to your partner seemingly enjoying the same things you do... :on2long: After all I shouldn't judge about them too harshly, also I might be wrong with my analysis, so I guess it's best when I say I learned that these people are just on a path very different to the one I'm aiming for.

Now, Mailolman, what ARE you going to do?

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  marf said:

My first girlfriend who took my virginity introduced me to aphex. She had great taste in music. Amazing really. She was a rare creature though. Most girls aren't like that

 

I bet if you expounded upon this, it would be a really good read. C'maaan

Yes, I COULD tell the whole story which could actually be added to the aphex wikipedia page, but Im not gunna. Sorry

  Terpentintollwut said:

She liked most of my music, especially the loud and crazy tracks, which was nice at first but I was disenchanted when I learned that she liked it mostly because she had a certain need for aggressive music, she also liked all the whoo-whoo-we-are-evil kind of metal I've always found ridiculous... she was more a victim to the preset male gender role than to the female one. She used to express her dislike for female traits constantly, which also became annoying. In the beginning, it's awesome to be dating a girl who's into videogames, sick stuff and your music, but it doesn't stay that way when you discover that these features mostly exist due to personal issues she has and aren't real. She's now more into the breakcore scene,

you might've been dating a lesbian

You probably don't like 30 Seconds to Mars or Pussycat Dolls so it's only fair.

  Hoodie said:

you might've been dating a lesbian

It does sound likely, doesn't it ... I don't know. I always thought in this picture she looked a bit like one too... (nsfw) :

  Terpentintollwut said:

She's now more into the breakcore scene,

LOL.

my girlfriend likes Aphex Twin.

yeah.

She liked the Girl/Boy Song first, which is pretty obvious.

Fingerbib (none of my friends except for her like Fingerbib, by the way!).

SAW 85-92, ICBYD.

yeah.

I always skip the Girl/boy song when listening to the RDJ album. :omg:

I took my girlfriend's virginity to the sound of Mt. Saint Michel... It was great and she likes the track, calling it 'bells'.

She is at this moment telling me from bed that Aaron Funk rulz and that she will open a thread on WATMM for all WATMM's girlfriends. I have to join her in bed now, but she insists you ask your girlfirends if they would join in on such a thread! Of course she will need an account, otherwise I will have to lent her mine and there might be corruption there.

  gaarg said:

I took my girlfriend's virginity to the sound of Mt. Saint Michel... It was great and she likes the track, calling it 'bells'.

 

She is at this moment telling me from bed that Aaron Funk rulz and that she will open a thread on WATMM for all WATMM's girlfriends. I have to join her in bed now, but she insists you ask your girlfirends if they would join in on such a thread! Of course she will need an account, otherwise I will have to lent her mine and there might be corruption there.

yeah me too

all girls should have their cunts kicked in and their tits cut off

The image of kicked off tits is quite funny