SHOCKING ILM Confessions!

I have never listened to an entire Devo album.

I own no Beatles music.

When I was 12/13, I got pretty good at shoplifting cassettes. Until one day I was busted at K-Mart. The tape what got me? Aerosmith's 'Done With Mirrors.'

I kind of hate The Velvet Underground.

I've never listened to a DJ Screw mixtape

i don't actually hate steely dan anymore

I can't tell the difference between 3/4 and 4/4 time. In fact, I don't really know what either one means. I also don't know what it means to play in different keys.

I mentally put the 'parentheses-C' before any mention of rap.

I haven't kept current with Taylor Swift.

I vastly prefer Scott Walker the Crooner to Scott Walker the Looner.

I killed Geir

I've never listened to a whole album by:

Velvet Underground
Rolling Stones
Elton John
Billy Joel
Tupac

I've heard one Beatles album but that wasn't until I was in my 20s.

I'm into leather.

I killed Geir

I think the first two Rage Against the Machine albums hold up.

i never find time to listen to anyone else's mixes because i'm always busy listening to my own

not sure if that's shocking or par for the course for bedroom djs

sometimes i really enjoy turrican's posts

Fugazi's $5 cover charge policy has had disastrous effects on independent music in the 21st century.

I am posting naked while putting off taking a shower.

I have never knowingly listened to any music

Not even that one with Jack Charlton rapping?

i'm james murphy

ok cool then i get to say you are smug bastard and i've always hated you!!!

jk brimstead unless you really are james murphy

lol well i'm definitely a smug bastard :D

I've never listened to a DJ Screw mixtape

I am for real shocked at this one!

I have also never listened to a DJ Screw mixtape

or 36 Chambers

I used to post on a Pearl Jam message board.

xp 36 chambers? you need to get on that

so I hear! I am following the Wu poll fwiw

Sleeve are u a nationally published rap critic

fair point

loool

I have never listened to an entire Devo album.
― scott seward, Friday, 3 November 2017 18:28 (one hour ago)

i am genuinely shocked scott.

Never had a vinyl player and probably never will.

i check your facts but not mine

I know almost nothing about "classic rock", relatively.

I'm not Algerian.

i'm trevor rabin

I’ve never heard “Rude” but I’ve read enough about it that I may as well have

2017 was the first time that I ever listened to an entire album by The Band.

Aside from singles, I can do without Elvis Costello and The Clash.

And I definitely have no use for Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and vinyl.

Didn’t hear Houses of the Holy until 2015

the number of new, whole albums I've really gotten to know and enjoy in the past 20 years is ~4

What might they be?

I don't remember

I heard Big Star's "Femme Fatale" and The Feelies' "What Goes On" many years before I was even aware of the VU originals.

I kind of hate The Velvet Underground.

― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Friday, November 3, 2017 6:32 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is pretty shocking tbh. Don't care for, I could see that. But hate? Really?

Fugazi's $5 cover charge policy has had disastrous effects on independent music in the 21st century.

― flappy bird, Friday, November 3, 2017 1:52 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Take it to the controversial opinions thread.

While I admire the fact that David Bowie existed, every time I hear his music it makes we wish I were listening to early Queen instead.

perhaps shouting into the wind, but aiui this thread is for embarrassing personal confessions about your secret lack of collector-scum cred, not your controversial opinions about artists

you thing scott doesn't own devo records?

i think a lot of t-rex is shitty boogie woogie

xp I believe that he never listened to them!

I just can't see the appeal in bob dylan. Musically he's not that interesting and his lyrics are so obtuse that I can't find any enjoyment in them. Unlike most Dylan haters I do love his voice though

I'm not a Bob Dylan fan at all, although I appreciate that he influenced plenty of music that I like. Neil Young, too.

I hate punk and I can count the punk groups I'd ever willingly listen to on one hand.

XP: I'm not a Bob Dylan fan so it infuriates me that he's an obvious influence on things I do like, such as Bowie, Roxy and The Fall.

Bob Dylan is an obvious influence on The Fall? I hadn't realised.

Has anyone told Mark E. Smith?

Not liking Bob Dylan is not exactly shocking btw.

I hate punk and I can count the punk groups I'd ever willingly listen to on one hand

list plz?

i would rather listen to christopher cross than the sex pistols btw

I've never heard "Loveless".

oh, i've tried my best with that one and was an mbv fan from the 80s but it leaves me pretty cold tbh

Loved "Isn't Anything" but I think I'd lost interest in indie music in the interim.

The Bob Dylan/Fall thing is clear to me but maybe I'll take it to a Fall thread when I've got more time.

Punk: Minor Threat and Dead Kennedys are probably the only two punk bands I've listened to at home for reasons of pleasure in the last decade. There's a Brazilian band I'm listening to at the moment called Dead Kids if they count. Nothing else is currently presenting itself. And I'm not counting groups that are at the margins of something else like Amebix or Wire or Warsaw. Or Crass even. Anything even remotely punk-y I like tends to be either post punk or a metal hybrid when it comes down to it.

The Dylan/Fall thing = amphetamine sulphate.

I no longer have any interest in going to rock shows.

I've never owned a turntable, and even when there was one in the house (growing up, or with roommates) I generally preferred cassettes.

Have read more interviews with Mark E. Smith than have knowingly heard songs by The Fall.

I barely know the words to songs I have heard dozens and dozens of times, but I've known all the words to Ice-T's "Colors" since it came out.

I've never owned a Beatles album in any physical form.

I can't think of how any Bruce Springsteen song goes, apart from "Born to Run".

they all go like that.

1990 was a middling year for music.

Anything not good enough for a single probably wasn't worth bothering to record at all

These last two: do you know what a confession is

Lol scott otm

Xp

xp

Fair enough.

Alright, how about this one: I dislike approximately 95% of the R&B I've heard in my life.

lol scott

i'm starting to listen to more springsteen than i ever would have guessed, but it is pretty otm

Alright, how about this one: I dislike approximately 95% of the R&B I've heard in my life.

― pomenitul, Saturday, November 4, 2017 11:18 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Now that is an ilx confession.

it really is. i was about to fp but then i realized it was just a musical opinion. but still

if only

I am to (dis)please.

To elaborate, I generally prefer 60s and 70s R&B, with a few exceptions (Prince, D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, Kelela, etc.).

I can't think of how any Bruce Springsteen song goes, apart from "Born to Run".

― jmm, Saturday, November 4, 2017 11:08 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me neither

'State Trooper'

Never heard it.

It sounds un-Boss-like to me, which is why it's probably the best thing he's ever done. I say 'probably' because aside from the usual hits and Nebraska, I know nothing about his discography.

Ha, I was going to ask if your distaste for R&B went as far back as the 60s and 70s because that would be impressive. As it is, your R&B collection may be no smaller than mine.

I can’t tell the difference between the Palace Brothers and Bonnie Prince Billy

I seriously dislike Steely Dan. All that slick muso slickety slickness so tastefully played and recorded. Bleurgh.

There's nothing tasteful about Steely Dan. Pure kitsch, through and through.

I seriously dislike Steely Dan. All that slick muso slickety slickness so tastefully played and recorded. Bleurgh.

you are not alone.

I don't really get Steely Dan either. But my confession is that I really like Katy Perry's Chained to the Rhythm. I'm sorry, I can't help it, don't judge me.

we need a safe space within the ilx-o-sphere for Loveless agnostics. i'll meet you guys there

we need a safe space within the ilx-o-sphere for Loveless agnostics. i'll meet you guys there

Bands in this "tried but just don't give a shit" category for me: MBV, Loop, Spiritualized. Also Oasis and Blur, but that just comes from being American.

i would rather listen to 'a night at the hip-hopera' than actual queen or most of the hip-hop being sampled

Probably an age thing but my mind boggles at anyone not knowing 'Born In The USA'. And I'm English and have never owned or (to the best of my knowledge) heard any Springsteen studio albums. That song was pretty much ubiquitous when it came out. (I heard it recently while swimming and it sounded amazing.)

Yeah, I was born in '79 and remember that song as an indelible part of the 80s. You don't hear it as much anymore, though. If anything, "Dancin' in the Dark" seems to get more play.

As someone who grew up (and still lives) in New Jersey, my only response to anyone ignorant of the Springsteen oeuvre is a massive, crushing wave of jealousy. I certainly wish I'd never heard a note of his music myself.

ok, this is almost reverse james murphy:
i had tickets to daft punk inn 2007 but was tired and stayed home

in not inn

would stay at daft punk inn

you say that, but you'd just end up not going

I can't think of how any Bruce Springsteen song goes, apart from "Born to Run".

― jmm, Saturday, November 4, 2017 8:08 AM (eleven hours ago)

what about that one that goes "wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night"? i thought everybody knew that one.

every time i listen to "all balls don't bounce" i want to correct aceyalone and say "you mean 'not all balls bounce'".

Haha

I know no one cares but I woke up in a mad panic in the middle of the night because I hadn't added NOMEANSNO to the list of punk bands I listen to. I listen to NOMEANSNO every other day.

do you count Rudimentary Peni as not-quite-punk

No matter how many times I hear it, I can never remember how 'Ben' by Michael Jackson goes.

i'm trying to think of it in my head and all i'm getting is "ben, i've known you since you were ten, and you were a complete bastard then", which isn't at all how that song goes

I used to play that song on the jukebox in my local in Glasgow every time I was in. I was a popular customer. "Fire" by Arthur Brown was my other regular pick.

I still haven't found anyone on ILM whose taste I can trust more than let's say 50%.

lol these threads always just turn into passive aggressiveness shitting on other ppl's taste

i confess...... that thing you like sucks

i'm sorry you're such a jerk

I accuse myself of the following sins... MBV are overrated.

The more any of those bands on the periphery of Punk sound like actual punk, the more I dislike them. I can't think of a good specific example for Rudimentary Peni but I can give you a clear example for, say, Crass. I've been lucky enough to meet Steve Ignorant - really cool guy, love his attitude to life and society, really like his autobiography a lot etc etc. But, as much as I want to like 'his' version of Crass the most (mainly for reason of class), I hate that song 'Do They Owe Us A Living'. The only Crass did that's any good (to me) is the arty, rad fem, spoken word, messing about with noise and free jazz output and this is all of the stuff that routinely gets derided by a lot (but not all obv.) of punks as being pretentious or studenty (in my limited experience).

Imagine you're at a party, it's super chilled out, nice people there that you know, there's a warm glow in the room. As far as I'm concerned you could be listening to good music from almost any genre and it remains feeling like a nice situation to be in. Some cool French prog, some deep house, some 90s R&B, some doom metal, some dub, some synth pop, some roughneck jungle, some UK funky, some flute led Krautrock, some Afrobeat, some Argentinian marching band music... I can imagine listening to almost anything in this situation and it being a really good night. But then I picture someone bowling into the room and saying: "Have you heard this demo by Gordon And The Gonads? They played with the Murder Junkies once. The bass player stabbed a cop. The singer used to piss himself on stage. This was the only thing they ever recorded and Numero just put it out on vinyl." And then they put on a record that sounds like the big guy from Poison Idea shitting through a sieve into a dictaphone. That, to me, is the height of incivility. And even though it never happened anywhere outside of my own head, it still makes my blood boil.

"the only music Crass did"

crass rule. so much of what i love about crass is tied in with how much i worship john loder though. albini has never made a record that even approaches how great john loder could be. he wishes he could. but he never will. he doesn't know how. the best thing big black ever did is side one of songs about fucking. thanks to john loder. i could type his name a thousand times.

although i do love the production on heartbeat. the wire cover. albini must have done that. that sounds amazing. it's a better version than wire's original too.

the first shellac album is the only one that sounds any good and the only one recorded at southern studios. i think.

I tend to love anything described as krautrock; and can hardly listen to any actual krautrock.

Imagine you're at a party, it's super chilled out, nice people there that you know, there's a warm glow in the room. As far as I'm concerned you could be listening to good music from almost any genre and it remains feeling like a nice situation to be in. Some cool French prog, some deep house, some 90s R&B, some doom metal, some dub, some synth pop, some roughneck jungle, some UK funky, some flute led Krautrock, some Afrobeat, some Argentinian marching band music... I can imagine listening to almost anything in this situation and it being a really good night. But then I picture someone bowling into the room and saying: "Have you heard this demo by Gordon And The Gonads? They played with the Murder Junkies once. The bass player stabbed a cop. The singer used to piss himself on stage. This was the only thing they ever recorded and Numero just put it out on vinyl." And then they put on a record that sounds like the big guy from Poison Idea shitting through a sieve into a dictaphone. That, to me, is the height of incivility. And even though it never happened anywhere outside of my own head, it still makes my blood boil.

― Doran

i saw that buñuel film once. it was ok.

XP: I don't think that's fair. Action Park is one of the greatest rock LPs ever recorded so pretty much anything is going to sound slightly weak by comparison - not just other Shellac LPs. I think Dude Incredible is a really good LP as well though.

Terraform is the best Shellac record by a country mile

I'm just watching some UK gospel singers on TV at the moment who all sing with American accents and I confess this seems kind of wrong to me - if you believe in God and want to praise him, why would you put on an accent to do it?

God's obviously American so they hope he'll understand it better.

it's a longstanding tradition to play a character whenever you worship god in public

I love the Ut record that Albini produced. That's their best sounding record.

Yes, but the programme just switched over to rows of glum parisihioners in some chuch in Wolverhampton or somewhere dutifully singing a hymn in their bog standard accents. (xp)

Imago have you heard Nomeansno? Figure they'd be in your wheelhouse

I have never played an album by Springsteen or Led Zeppelin.

(and I am from the '70s)

Not only have I never played an album by Springsteen, I've never heard one either.

I am from New Jersey and have only listened to one straight through - "Born In The USA" - because my kid sister bought it on cassette when it was released. I'm sure he's a nice guy and all but ... no way. Could never deal with Broooooce.

The only Crass did that's any good (to me) is the arty, rad fem, spoken word, messing about with noise and free jazz output and this is all of the stuff that routinely gets derided by a lot (but not all obv.) of punks as being pretentious or studenty (in my limited experience).

Ha, I always think of this as basically all of Crass's output, probably because it's the stuff I listen to. I like "How Does It Feel (to Be the Mother of 1000 Dead)?" a lot, though.

I don't think I hate anything I've heard by Crass.

i would rather listen to 'a night at the hip-hopera' than actual queen or most of the hip-hop being sampled

― mookieproof, Saturday, November 4, 2017

I love you

I've only spent significant time listening to Penis Envy and the Nagasaki Nightmare single. Is that what we're talking about? I love that stuff.

will persevere with Nomeansno despite misgivings when I've heard them

best recent punk discovery = The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks, which is basically an experimental rock opus in punks clothes tbf

nomeansno is one of the greatest bands of all time

Jjmm: yes.

And Brad is clearly a man of great taste and erudition and no doubt is a snappy dresser who smells divine as well. NOMEANSNO are the best.

And as for buñuel, I would actually rather drag a piano with a dead donkey tied to it up a narrow staircase than listen to the Gordon And The Gonads' demo on Numero.

(Try Why Do They Call Me Mr Happy?, Wrong, The People's Choice, Live And Cuddly, 0+2=1 and/or comp The People's Choice for points of entry.)

Whoops.

When they make lists of "fempunk", "Penis Envy" never gets mentioned, and yet it's one of the best ones. Should be as automatically listed as the Au Pairs, etc.

I never heard a complete Nina Simone album until earlier this year.

Join the, I imagine fairly substantial, club.

Except I still haven't heard a Nina Simone album! And Pavement, I've never knowingly heard anything by them at all.

I find most Clinton projects just too damn silly. And not in a prankster-ish, transcendental way.

Bert Jansch's voice is a bit of a bore. See above.

I can't stand Scott Walker. I can't take opera singers. They are so ridiculous.

The only place where opera singing makes sense is under the shower.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ApTWdao7NE

^got you covered

Xp nb Jansch's guitar playing makes me levitate.

I like the Moody Blues a lot; I don't like the Kinks.

alex I am very pleased that we finally agree on something re: Scott Walker

can't stand the smiths, mostly morrissey tho

i always thought we agreed on lots of music, sleeve...

What Ross said ^

Marr is magic but Moz is not

I haven't listened to any Scott Walker since "The Drift"

Not only has "Power Windows" always been my favorite Rush album, I actually think Neil Peart's lyrics are pretty strong and particularly humanist on it.

"Better the pride that resides
In a citizen of the world
Than the pride that divides
When a colorful rag is unfurled"

Preach it, Peart.

The only thing shocking about this is that Power Windows isn't a unanimous ILM favorite

if ilx had a frontpage the cover of power windows should be the only thing you see.

I don't even really know how to process that opinion tbh.

i guess i do kinda just give up with UK dance stuff. after all these years. i don't connect with any of it. which just seems weird. but there you have it. i've tried too. i have never heard a dubstep or D&B track that i have loved. or even wanted to hear again. and i love dance music from all over the world and have been a dance music fan almost my entire life. i don't even care about rock nerd stuff like aphex twin. i do love second toughest in the infants if that counts.

i was listening to "trans-europe express" really loud the other day and thinking: this is possibly the greatest achievement of a long and bloody century. so, that's where my love is, i guess. i'm just a hip-hop fan at heart.

Is UK dance music more context dependent than other scenes? Like, does it make more sense once you've walked through Bristol or Stratford or on the Isle of Dogs or whatever? That's probably largely bollocks, but maybe there's a kernel of truth in there.

I've never been to the UK and I generally find UK dance more interesting than its American counterpart.

I wonder how much of it is a reaction to listening to singles in isolation vs in the mix at a club

context is always good. but it shouldn't matter too much as far as liking something goes. i've never been to Germany. i will say this: nothing looks older to me than an old UK dance 12-inch or CD. beat up orbital and shamen CDs at the thrift store always give me a shudder. and there were about 4 million 12-inches put out in the 90's that are not aphex twin 12-inches and nobody wants to listen to them.

when i got up this morning i made coffee and fed the cats and put Immer on. #15years #stillgoingstrong

i just don't listen to music because its new though. not anymore. not since the 80's. like i think i probably said on here somewhere, every once in a while i like to put on a new rap playlist on spotify just to get that new rap smell. but that's about it. i am definitely not time-sensitive. and obviously a lot of dance sub-genres are all about that.

Spoken like a man who's clearly never heard MC Tunes.

love love love random 90s techno/d&b/hardcore comps

bang your head to this: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Thunderdome/release/2888219

to the sound of the drum & the bass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djyfv3Ts-wg

i could listen to that mix all day long! the thunderdome one. its mostly belgian/german and also features my heroes lenny dee and omar santana.

i love dutch hardcore. i'm a numbskull.

I don't know jack shit about house and techno. And the existence of the fuckin innuhnet makes this hard to remedy, not easy…like, NTS doesn't help me understand 'em, being that NTS assumes a conversance with whichever musics their shows are devoted to… some mook's playlist won't do the trick either…I need a Rhino four CD boxset like the disco box or the love train philly soul comp or something with old school record biz-sanctioned "authority" to hold my hand…

there are so many great house comps. spotify must have good ones. just make a playlist of this for starters:

https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-History-Of-The-House-Sound-Of-Chicago/release/43501

Mixes not comps for techno, IMHO.

I listen to and love a lot of silly 90s Big Beat

i've never listened to a dead moon album...

I don't even know what dead moon is. A band? A label?

a band. fred cole of dead moon just passed away. and most of my facebook friends were big fans. he had a very distinctive voice. like an even weirder roky erickson. i really only know the lollipop shoppe album. and the weeds single from the 60s. and the mid-70's zipper album. dead moon put out a ton of stuff over the years.

I listened to Dead Moon for the first time this afternoon. They were OK. Fred's voice was like a cross between David Thomas of Pere Ubu and Roky Erickson. So if high-pitched "there's something living in my brain!" screeching is your thing, he was the man for that. The music was OK. Sort of garage punk meets Crazy Horse. They would never have dethroned the Lazy Cowgirls as my favorite American punk band that never really made it.

"you must be a witch" will always be all-time essential.

I love the note in the Nuggets booklet that the name change from the Weeds to the Lollipop Shoppe came about to avoid confusion with the Seeds. It's like, yep, that's certainly a name that doesn't sound anything like "the Seeds".

"you must be a witch" will always be all-time essential.

I've heard that but never heard anything by Dead Moon.

... or heard of them until now.

Oh! I thought of one. I prefer Mosley-era Faith No More to Patton-era

Jesus. Hadn't read the news when I posted that. Just saw the FNM thread above this one :(

I'm 38 years old and I've never heard "Stairway to Heaven" before. Or at least knowingly.

I think that's the first post on this thread that actually shocked me.

I sing in a mens barbershop chorus.

Called the Be Sharps?

i don't think i've ever listened to an entire album OR comp or hits collection by fats domino. or little richard. or jerry lee lewis.

ALSO: i listened to Hot Rats for the first time ever last week. that is a great album! i had no idea. i've sold a bunch of them. i've always liked other people's versions of willie the pimp. why can't every zappa album sound like that one? i would totally own zappa albums if they did.

The Grand Wazoo and Waka/Jawaka are the closest ones to Hot Rats.

I've had the s/t Beyoncé album on CD for nearly four years now and still haven't watched all the videos.

The Grand Wazoo and Waka/Jawaka are the closest ones to Hot Rats.

These are the three Zappa albums I listen to with any regularity.

the lack of vocals with the exception of beefheart on one track is a HUGE plus.

I don't think Burial is very good.

Outside.

...by David Bowie is fabulous. My shocking confession.

I'm 38 years old and I've never heard "Stairway to Heaven" before. Or at least knowingly.

― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Friday, November 10, 2017 7:43 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm interested in pursuing this one. How have you avoided it all these years? And when you say "before" does that mean you have just heard it for the first time?

i don't think i've ever listened to an entire album OR comp or hits collection by fats domino. or little richard. or jerry lee lewis.

― scott seward, Monday, November 13, 2017 8:13 AM (thirteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

brother you need to do this, little richard fuckin shreds

I'm interested in pursuing this one. How have you avoided it all these years?

He's probably British.

i forget yr tastes re:country scott but jerry lee's later 60s/early 70s nashville work is a rich vein worth mining, full of tragicomedy, pathos, bizarre covers, weird & great

gotta confess while i'll never hate beatles hearing their stuff has become a chore if not actively annoying

I don't like either parts of "Out There Somewhere?"

I don't like Slint, MBV, Spacemen 3, or Sonic Youth.

The older I get the less interested I am in music.

Just For a Day is the only good Slowdive album.

I'm a huge Roxy Music fan, and I like nearly every Bryan Ferry solo album, but I've never been able to get into "Avalon."

Darkthrone is the most overrated 'classic' Norwegian BM band.

I think "Poundcake" by Van Halen is a pretty solid single, and at the very least, Sammy is singing the hell out of it. Oh, and Michael is actually playing more than a few notes, too!

I'm interested in pursuing this one. How have you avoided it all these years? And when you say "before" does that mean you have just heard it for the first time?

― the young, low level volunteer named (Dan Peterson), Monday, November 13, 2017 4:13 PM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I haven't been avoiding it at all, at least not until the last few years due to it being a running joke among my 12-cd-owning Classic Rock fans. There's a chance I've inadvertently heard it somewhere. Was it ever in an advertisement or part of a film soundtrack? If so I may have heard it that way.

I haven't gone out of my way to check it out because I wasn't crazy about the first Led Zeppelin album, and I never listened to classic rock stations growing up. Got my first radio in '85 and listened to top-40 pop for about a decade, followed by an almost-exclusive hip hop diet until around 2002. All I know about the song is it's on the Led Zeppelin IV album and was a popular prom song in the 70s, lol.

It was a popular prom song after the 70s too.

I remember a lot of middle school dances in the late 80s that ended with Stairway. Kind of a weird song for slow dancing. It got so overplayed in the 70s and 80s that it became a joke, but it's a truly great song and you should give it a chance if you've never listened to it.

I danced to stairway at a school thing in like 2001, it's really stood the test of time and iirc it was a strangely communal feeling

I've only ever heard 'Stairway to Heaven' twice on the radio. Once in the early '90s, the other in about 2008 or thereabouts.

I prefer Aftermath to Beggars Banquet.

i saw a Pulp thread revive and felt it was my duty to mention that the only Pulp song i've ever heard is "common people". but lots of people have probably never listened to Pulp.

if they were even half as good as Doctors of Madness i might listen to them someday. it would be hard to believe that Pulp wrote lyrics as good as Doctors of Madness lyrics though. the jarvis always kinda bugged me though for some reason. just looking at him. which is mean.

listen to "Babies" or "Underwear", Pulp are gr8 and seem like a band you'd like!

Pulp are at least half as good as Doctors of Madness tbh. They are both good bands as far as I can tell

While we are on the subject of bands Scott hasn't listened to, did you listen to the Melvins yet?

I prefer This is Hardcore to pretty much any other album by Pulp

when I listen to music I imagine everybody on ILX judging what I'm listening to. then take a sleeping pill and go 2 sleep

ah, neanderthal, no :-/

metal kids are the cool kids on ilx i thought

nothing about me is cool

however this...

Darkthrone is the most overrated 'classic' Norwegian BM band.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, November 15, 2017 2:29 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IS RONG

I've never listened to Forever Changes.

spoiler alert: after all these decades, it's still the same

I have listened to Big Star too much and now find them tiring

"While we are on the subject of bands Scott hasn't listened to, did you listen to the Melvins yet?"

i still have never listened to a whole album. it might still happen someday.

i have listened to Forever Changes too many times probably.

The Melvins albums with two drummers - A Senile Animal, Nude With Boots, and The Bride Screamed Murder - are worth hearing in their entirety, especially A Senile Animal. Lysol (aka the self-titled album) is good too. Most of the rest I can really live without.

i never listened to them at all until youtube. i usually don't make it through an entire song. i think its just me. i never even listened to an entire nirvana album until a couple of years ago and i like nirvana. i still listen to my kyuss CDs every once in a while.

okay, i have definitely never listened to a soundgarden album. that's another one.

lol at the all the challop peacockin itt, it's like the godwin's rule of ilm

you should never write off an artist or artistic collective completely and indefinitely based on one work, but sometimes it just happens, and "Spoon Man" was one of those works.

I don't think I have ever listened to The Fall. I may have heard a song once or twice, but I've never sat down and listened and I don't know what they sound like.

I'm not sure I've heard any Soundgarden album besides "Badmotorfinger" but I've heard the singles, seen them live and feel like I pretty much understand the group. I don't think I've ever heard the Melvins, but I know what they sound like and what the guy with the fuzzy hair looks like. Not sure I've ever heard Boris, either, who I always imagined were like a Japanese Melvins.

melvins live are outstanding

BASS

I also can't really picture what the Melvins sound like

lol at the all the challop peacockin itt
thank you for the nomenclature, otm

Sometimes I let the press sheet/subject line--dissuade me from listening to/downloading the promo at all. B-but there are so many promos---
Sometimes, even if the music is sounding nice on my maiden voyage, I'm also websurfing---leting the music pull me back in, find the foreground if it can!
That's harsh, but the law of nature after all---the really unfair, shocking confession part is: I don't do this to all first listens!
However, some music just won't let me do anything else but listen to it, right from the start.
On the other hand, sometimes I just sit there and listen because I'm tired of/too lazy to websurf.

metal kids are the cool kids on ilx i thought

This is false, surely?

Man alive, I think you'd probably dislike the Fall at least as much as I do.

metal kids were never the cool kids anywhere

i'm enjoying music from big pink! i've never played it before. A1/A1 near mint 1st pressing. sounds awesome. almost a complete absence of surface noise. very quiet. which is not an easy thing to come by in 2017.

Got a tape for my car, the Best of Music. I only like one side. (Ok, a Steven Wright joke)

challopeacockin

This is probably not shocking but I absolutely categorically refuse to listen to a band called King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizzard

hahahaa

they have a poor effort-to-reward ratio imo. way, way too many releases, way too many gimmicks

This is probably not shocking but I absolutely categorically refuse to listen to a band called King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizzard

I was right there with you, but then a writer I really like praised their most recent album to the skies, so I streamed a song or two on Spotify. It sucked.

I like them for about one song, but they have a million songs and they all sound the same.

i still listen to the first Easterhouse album. i'm playing it right now. probably the closest thing to a U2 album that i own. is there a Marxist rock thread?

it IS better than an Alarm album though.

best lenin dirge...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ydAvYoJ-iA

"Grunge" rock is worse than Jimmy Buffet.

Red Hot Chili Peppers didn't get good until Californication.

I created that Philip Jeck thread.

I thought "I own no Bruce Springsteen", I mean he seems a decent bloke considering, but.

Anyway, I checked via my "My Collection" on Discogs, and I do own the NME Elvis tribute that has a version of "Viva Las Vegas".

i've never listened to a robbie basho album.

heres my confession, I have difficulty listening to a new album from an artist I like if I haven't heard all the previous stuff. it triggers my music OCD.

With you 100% on that one.

me too

I have never heard Dark Side of the Moon.

I've never listened to a Joni Mitchell album.

I'm not sure I've ever made it through an entire Bob Dylan album either. Not in one sitting certainly.

I've heard three Alice Coltrane albums and four Pharoah Sanders albums but only one John Coltrane album

when an artist like Coltrane has 15 or 20 albums that are considered classic/essential, I tend to put off listening to their work for fear of starting in the wrong place. I feel like a basic newb if I begin with the overhyped album that's on all the Rolling Stone GoaT lists, but I feel like a charlatan if I begin with the underrated fan favorite. thus I try to expedite the uncomfortable "just getting into their work" stage by listening to half a dozen or more of their albums over the course of a few days. the downside of this practice is that I either don't listen to any of the albums more than a couple times or I focus on one or two albums to the exclusion of all the rest. in the end I gain a very shallow understanding of what the artist is about, and once my initial interest has waned, I'm reluctant to dig deeper into their discography or return to more than couple of the albums I've already listened to.

if an artist has a smaller discography (say 6 albums) with no clear consensus as to which is the classic, I tend to binge listen to everything, and the result is pretty much the same as the above.

if an artist is prolific but one phase of their career is more celebrated than the rest, I can make do with listening to a handful of albums from that period, but I don't like to skip albums within that range, especially if I end up with one unheard album sandwiched between two heard albums. I hate "original album classics" sets that don't run in chronological order

I'm not this neurotic about all the music I listen to -- it only happens with certain artists that seem (usually for arbitrary reasons) worthy of my in-depth attention

when an artist like Coltrane has 15 or 20 albums that are considered classic/essential, I tend to put off listening to their work for fear of starting in the wrong place.

With you. I've listened to so much other R&B/soul/funk from the same era but I haven't gone much further than James Brown's singles.

what was the one coltrane album? just listen to blue train.

no! Just jump straight in with Ascension. Go hard or go home

i am a john coltrane fan who has listened to ascension only one or two times

I've listened to it a lot but it's not exactly a great showcase for him.

start with giant steps imo

wtf listen to all of them in any order at all

yeah you can start pretty much anywhere with Coltrane

Ole!

Africa/Brass

I never listened to a Kate Bush album until last year.

I’ve never knowing heard Kate Bush

I've never listened to a Kate Bush album. Or a Bruce Springsteen album. Could go on all night with this...

mithering shites and born to the runs, innit.

I didn’t hear jailbreak, aja, pirates or visitors until this year

There’s so much good new music it’s hard to make time for everything and there’s no shame in it.

At least half these confessions are true for me.

I realized at some point that “essential” is a marketing tactic used by the film, music and publishing industries. They create a sense of neverending “work” to be done with these lists of books you have to read and albums you have to listen to and in reality there are always way too many of them to get to and that’s the whole point.

Man Alive otm

Create yer own canon

what was the one coltrane album? just listen to blue train.

― scott seward, Tuesday, May 22, 2018 2:01 PM (eight hours ago)

no! Just jump straight in with Ascension. Go hard or go home

― Hire Planes (dog latin), Tuesday, May 22, 2018 4:23 PM (six hours ago)

Africa/Brass is the one I've heard. dog latin is probably right -- I feel like I'd be better off starting with a couple of his freest, heaviest albums and then working my way back to the (slightly) more obvious stuff

and yeah, man alive otm