The Guardian - "The Pogues are a boy's band"

[soulfinger]

A woman called Laura Barton wrote a piece in the Guardian today in which she proposes that men and women listen to music differently.

She suggests that men like Public Enemy, Kraftwerk, Oasis, Madness, The Pogues, Slayer, Jeff Mills and Frank Zappa while women are alleged to prefer Cat Stevens in the 1970's, James Blunt, Dido, Take That, Maroon 5, Joni Mitchell, Eternal and Tori Amos.

She also says that her method for storing records is to put the ones she thinks would be friends next to each other.

http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0 ... 05,00.html if you can bear to read it.......

What worries me is that some bloke may have agreed to pay her for writing this!

[DzM]

She suggests that men like Public Enemy, Kraftwerk, Oasis, Madness, The Pogues, Slayer, Jeff Mills and Frank Zappa

Meh. Ooo! Nope. Ooo! Ooo! Nope. Who? Meh.

while women are alleged to prefer Cat Stevens in the 1970's, James Blunt, Dido, Take That, Maroon 5, Joni Mitchell, Eternal and Tori Amos.

Meh. Who? Who? Who? Who? Nope. Who? Nope.

Lame theory. If extended out she'll next be telling us that there are films targeted at females and films targeted at males. As though there were some kind of different audience for "On Golden Pond" and "Friday the 13th" and "Porky's." Pff. Lame.

[Shaz]

A woman called Laura Barton wrote a piece in the Guardian today in which she proposes that men and women listen to music differently.

She suggests that men like Public Enemy, Kraftwerk, Oasis, Madness, The Pogues, Slayer, Jeff Mills and Frank Zappa while women are alleged to prefer Cat Stevens in the 1970's, James Blunt, Dido, Take That, Maroon 5, Joni Mitchell, Eternal and Tori Amos.

She also says that her method for storing records is to put the ones she thinks would be friends next to each other.

http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0 ... 05,00.html if you can bear to read it.......

What worries me is that some bloke may have agreed to pay her for writing this!

Bleugh!

She obviously hasn't seen my record collection.

There should be a law against James Blunt. And I almost disowned my very cute eight-year-old nephew today when the little blighter insisted on playing Cat Stevens's Morning Has Broken on a bloody loop! I think I might have once bought a Tori Amos album but I couldn't manage to listen to it all the way through.

Obviously the features desk were scraping the bottom of the barrel today . . .!

[LittleCupcakes]

She suggests that men like Public Enemy, Kraftwerk, Oasis, Madness, The Pogues, Slayer, Jeff Mills and Frank Zappa

...music listened to by girls I wanted to date

while women are alleged to prefer Cat Stevens in the 1970's, James Blunt, Dido, Take That, Maroon 5, Joni Mitchell, Eternal and Tori Amos.

...music listened to by the girls who would actually date me.

[The Duke of Ingmar]

So did this woman finally notice that men and women are different !?

Congratulations !

[firehazard]

The online response to this article yesterday was full of women who like Slayer and men who love James Blunt.

Ok, the latter may not be true.

We do have certain differences of musical taste in this house. Not entirely along gender lines. But everybody here hates Dido. And everybody here loves The Pogues.

[Mark_Wafc]

I went to school with Laura Barton

My claims to fame are endless!

[dawson]

Obviously men and women prefer different bands. Men are more intelligent than women and like to listen to more intelligent music whereas women listen to SHIT

[DzM]

Obviously men and women prefer different bands. Men are more intelligent than women and like to listen to more intelligent music whereas women listen to SHIT

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

[KathleenwithaK]

Oh, that Dawson, what a kidder. Funny thing happened today though. In class one of the students was going on and on about KORN and I blurted out "oh KORN is such a GUY's band!" before I could stop myself. (not actually subscribing to such notions, really ) And then everyone chimed in and agreed with me.

[Fionn MacCool]

He's right though. The summary of the article is: women listen to shit music.

[Doktor Avalanche]

He's right though. The summary of the article is: women listen to shit music.

There you go again. Not enough hornet's nests where you live?

Of course exceptions abound: an old girlfriend of mine turned me onto The Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus and the Cure...

[Sandyfromvancouver]

Lots of common ground in my household. My husband and I have listened to the Pogues for years. (And there were plenty of other women in San Francisco at the Fillmore in October.) My husband and I both love Tom Waits, dub, reggae, celtic and Acadian music, the Chieftans, Ashley MacIsaac and the Irish Rovers, punk like the Clash and Billy Bragg, medieval music, rey, bhangra, Cesare Evora, Latin like the Buena Vista Social Club and other world music . . . .

Some music is hard edged and yes, all punk has an edge to it. Some people think of edgy, political bands as boys' bands. But for me it's the lyrics that make the difference. If a group tends to have violent or sexist lyrics, I consider that more as a boys' band. The politics better be progressive for it to be punk, though.

My husband listens to Frank Zappa, but I often give him a swerve (Zappa, not my husband) because his music feels like boy band stuff: I find his lyrics are sexist. My daughter doesn't seem to mind Zappa though.

[sir slug alot]

the pogues a boy band ... thats just a load of bollox

[Billie]

Lame theory. If extended out she'll next be telling us that there are films targeted at females and films targeted at males.

we talkin of porn?