Dear DiS

I am single, and this is beginning to bother me. As prickish as it may sound, I don't think it's that I'm exactly a woman repellant, but just that I haven't met anybody recently actually worth meeting

Anyway, my mate Lang and I were discussing this the other day, and he raised an interesting topic. Does music taste actually matter when meeting somebody?

He has no interest in music whatsoever, and found it hard to comprehend that I may be put off somebody due to their taste. But then I thought about it, and I still can't figure which of the following two scenarios would be worse when meeting a new lady (or man, whatever):

a) Meeting somebody who has absolutely no interest in music at all (going to gigs together would be pointless, a world of potential conversation missed etc)

or c) Having absolutely shocking taste. The kind of taste that is impossible to work out the thinking behind

I can't figure out if this is something that is keeping me the sad, lonely man I am. If it is, I hate the idea of it. Would it matter to anybody else? Or am I sounding too much like a cock?

Yours hopefully,

Confused in Carlisle