So my wife has pretty much the stereotypical taste in music: she's a fan of Michael Buble, Adele, Mumford and Sons and that type of thing. She tends not to like what she refers to as 'bangy bangy' music (basically the stuff I like). This isn't a huge issue since I tend to enjoy most of what she likes as well.

Anyway, I listen to music quite often when I'm cooking and cleaning up in the kitchen, so we have a small radio/CD player in there (yeah, I still buy CDs). I'd left Soundgarden's Down on the Upside in it and last night she happened to be doing some cooking instead of me and she decided to just play whatever was in the CD player. So Pretty Noose comes on and about half way through I come into the kitchen and say "What are you doing listening to this? This isn't your type of music." And she says "Well, I just thought I'd see what was in the player and this came on and I like this song, so I just left it going". I offered to grab another CD for her and hse said to let it play. In the end, she said she liked about half the songs on the disc. Pretty cool.

Another incident, but related to gaming: she doesn't game at all. Has no interest in doing so, but she's seen me playing my games many times. I was playing Avadon:The Black Fortress and she says to me "That's a pretty crappy game. It looks really old". Heh, who knew my wife was a graphics junkie?

No real earth shattering point to this, but just wanted to say it's little things like this that make me love that woman all the more.

Heh, it just goes to show how much you think you know about a person, and then really don't! :)

I get some funny looks from some people. because I like bands like Evanescence and Lacuna Coil, but also bands like Rammstein lol!

+1 and thanks for sharing.

i know exactly where you are coming from :D

My wife is the same, she likes listening to all the dance stuff which REALLY does my nut in.

However lately she has been enjoying Metallica and getting into all the old school rock stuff from late 70's and 80's that I like.

I would more put it that no matter how well you know a person, there's always something more to learn. Even after 16 years of marriage, one of the things we like best is sitting with a bottle of wine and chatting for a couple hours. It amazes and pleases me that we still have lots of stuff to talk about. I do as well. I'm 48 years old, so most of the people in my age group give me funny looks when they find out I'm an avid PC gamer as well as when they find out what type of music I like (preference towards bands like Porcupine Tree, Dream Theater, Pain of Salvation, Riverside, Rush, Jethro Tull, etc.)

My wife likes my rock as long as it isn't like Negative (Like Du Hast by Rammstein or Bodies by Drowning pool), she also hates scary games and scary movies which I love to death.

She scares easily but I love that about her.

Ooh, Dream Theater are another good favorite - they have this awesome drummer, Mike Portnoy, love watching his drum solo's. :)

Cute stuff.

Mine doesn't like gaming at all but she does like Mirror's Edge, for some random reason.

Have you heard the new SG album, it's pretty good, not in Badmotor's league, but a respectable enough return to form.

music comes in very weird taste, i try not bother with othes peoples choices unless they are trying to play it in my car while i am driving

@Coelocanth I know the feeling on the music.
My partner listens to Beyoncé, Britney Spears, what ever is top 20 in the chart, etc. and so I normally wear headphones when she is home and I am listening to my music so I don't offend her 'normal' taste.
One day I was home alone, so I put on a my NIN collection on the computer, and was doing house work when she came home early from something. Instead of the expected reaction of flipping out about my 'horrible music' and switching it off, she just sat there listening. When I noticed she had come home she just said, 'I feel like it spoke to me', it was a really weird moment.
I did think for a moment she had been body-snatched, or gained some sort of musical taste but it did not last.

She does watch me play a lot of my games. She can always tell me exactly how unnecessarily violent I was in a Hitman level, or anything else I play, and how I should be nicer to the hits/civilians. She believes that computer games make people violent because she sees it on the news. Yet she still lets me play them?
Yet with playing games she has no interest, she wont even play games on the Wii. I have tried a few adventure games, sim games, and even Theme Hospital, which just got a 'this is very violent' as a reaction when I showed her the Inflation room.

Should have told her "you look pretty old yourself but you got it where it counts, why should games be any different?" Then ran for your life!

My wife is absolutely a child of 70s and 80s pop, much of which I also like - in measured doses. And we both share a love for the aforementioned Mumford and Sons, and k.d. lang, Neil Young, Chris Isaak, BoDeans, and a bunch of other softer stuff. So I was thrown more than just a little bit when I one time heard her blurt, "Ya know, I could really stand to hear some Rage right about now." Would you like it cranked to eleven, my dear? "Twelve would be better." Twelve it is!

She won't touch any game stuff but used to get a kick from watching me play. Her favorite game to spectate was Rock 'n Roll Racing on PS1 - "Tarquinn lights him up!" "Spike should AVOID mines!" Now, she'll come into the office when I'm playing on the laptop, just before she goes to bed. "Pause it and give me a kiss, Game Boy."

What's wrong with Mumford and Sons?