My wife is not yet convinced that the few notes that I can get out of my new starter set will eventually lead me to play things of beauty. I would appreciate hearing from some of you pipers as to some of your favorite pipe cds.
Stuart
My wife is not a great fan of piping but I can get her to listen to almost anything by Liam O’Flynn. She’ll also listen to Mick O’Brien & Caoimhin O’Reilly (Kittie Lie Over) and Brian McNamara (Piper’s Dream and Fort of the Jewels). That’s about it for her …
Tony - I think Stuart is looking for something that he can get the missus to listen to, i.e. something not too hard-core (correct me if I’m wrong).
PJ… ya sure?
Stuart, let your wife listen to some of this:
http://www.aniar.net/peace.html
It’s Todd Denman. Uilleann pipes mixed with other instruments. Colorful, yet more palatable to the American non-uilleann ear.
Linked from this website: http://www.aniar.net/
I’m with Tony here, get her hooked on the hard core stuff and eventually she’ll never let you put your pipes down. 
Wonderful, thanks all. So some of the hard-core would be??
Curses … Foiled again … 
We’ll I’d recommende Mikie Smyth’s “The Wild Keys”. Not only are the pipes on the album ‘in-tune’ but the regulator playing and chanter work is excellent (in my opinion). You wife will probably appreciate the complexity of the instrument and you’ll be motivated by Mikie’ playing as well.
Cheers L42B 
PS: “The Wild Keys” also has some nice flute and whistle playing as well.
We’ll I’d recommende Mikie Smyth’s “The Wild Keys”
I’d agree!
Also you’ll never go wrong with the Drones and Chanters Vol 1 and 2.
Lately I really like Martin McCormack’s cd. There’s not a lot of solo stuff but it’s just really good playing with good solid accompanyment, not over done either. Well worth a listen.
Tommy
And Tommy here (tompipes) has a couple of really nice CD’s himself, though humility prevented him from saying so. Therefore, I just have.
Check out his CDbaby link.
My wife had no exposure to Irish music before meeting me; she doesn’t play the music, and while she doesn’t hate it, doesn’t love it either. She really digs the playing of Mike McGoldrick, the Miles Davis of Irish music (with the brass section to prove it) 
Actually, I think “Morning Rory”, his first album, was her ‘gateway drug’ (see other threads). She’ll still put that one on to play, all on her own, unprompted by me. I really enjoy it too: virtuoso fluting, low-whistling and piping, but peppy and fun. “Fused” still goes down well too, though it’s more to be enjoyed after dinner, with the lights turned down low…
Brian McNamara’s playing goes over well too, since it’s so animated and playful, though her palate gets tired soon, unschooled as it is in the distinction between flat & concert pitch.
On a slight tangent, does anyone know if McGoldrick is bringing out something else soon? Saw him play at the Galway Arts Festival several years ago, with the brass section, drummer and bodhrán, and it was great.
-Frank
Frank, McGoldrick released an album called “Wired” earlier this year.