My wife has never really listened to music much.
She has a collection of LP’s from the 70s-80’s consisting of John Denver, Barbara Streisand, Joanie Mitchell, Janis Ian, Bread, Dan Fogelberg, some classical, some show tunes - several hundred records.
I thank GOD she doesn’t still listen to that stuff. Like I said, she never really listened to MUSIC much.
Anyone remember the old Martin Mull joke about the “great folk music scare of the sixties? Yeah, that sh!t almost caught on.”
She’s stone deaf in one ear (from childhood ear infections) and that’s part of it, but just isn’t “in to” music at all which is funny as our son is a multi-instrument musician (vibes, xylophone, drums, bass, keyboards), our daughter likes listening and was a decent drummer in elementary/middle school, guitar player but gave it up.
Me? I studied jazz drumming for a few years, but I’m a virtuoso on HiFi.
There’s definitely a family component to music appreciation.
She’s never mentioned once my collecting vinyl as I think she knows I’ll just point to her shoe collection and I have photos of the Hefty garbage bags full we’ve donated to Goodwill year after year since we got married 33 years ago.