crap albums you bought because of ILM

dismemberment plan - change
medicine - a noisy one that i just dont enjoy one bit

but when matched against the stuff i have discovered cos of ILM i aint complaining ..

I learned my lesson...

But agree with mark e - The amount of stuff I've discovered because of ILM far outweighs the shite I've bought

I really didn't understand that hype about it here and all the music portals. Boring as hell.

I somehow haven't heard Arular by MIA yet but I liked a few things off that Piracy Funds Terrorism comp.

I'm shocked to hear that BRMC were recommended by anyone to anyone.

I just bought this Richard Hell comp because someone here was talking about it- I hope it's not crap.

god, what crap.

m.i.a. is dull.

the streets are good.

lucien n luciano are CRAP, fuck you guys, man

I warned yer.

xpost emperor tomato ketchup i think? it doesn't matter which, i don't think i'd like any of them or anything that sounds remotely like that.

and indirectly, Luomo - The Present Lover. Wasn't so hot on this album, but Vocalcity was suggested anyways. . .

heh, i saw through that shit immediately

not feeling it after 3 spins crap vocals all over the place that i find seriously annoying

.. could be a return journey to fopp for that one.

Give over, it's warm and cuddly.

xpost re The Knife - ah c'mon mark, it was a fiver! I bought it too, although not solely cos of ilm. i think it's alright, but then i'm a sucker for electropop of all shapes and sizes.

Streets, M.I.A., Stereolab all great.

I guess I bought a few more Grime records than I should have because the scene as a whole got bigged up on ILM so much from the get-go, but it'd be silly to say that I hadn't got warning signs about those Roll Deep and Kano albums here, as well.

Oh, I have one now: Destroyer!

Which Mountain Goats did you get, Amateurist?

(OK, I just downloaded it, but still: unlistenable. And I like Beefheart and the Minutemen so don't give me that "ha ha you are into Led Zeppelin you plebe" garbage.)

"Holy Water" is so much better. I got into this album 'cause of my girlfriend's mom, not ILM hype. Was this a big deal here?

My ears are better than yours because they recognize how superior Pavement are.

xpost

I also cannot imagine myself listening to "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul" more than once, if by "once" you mean 2/3 of the way through. I will give him the "good lyricist" caveat but reading and hearing are two different beasts.

....tho' I didn't actually buy it.

re The Fah: I DO NOT LIKE THE MAN'S VOICE. THAT IS NOT A CRIME. Also it is well-documented that when you combine James Brown and indie rock and garage rock you also risk getting JSBX.

And, (blushes) I didn't buy it. I dubbed/listened to the copy we have at the radio station. I am spoiled. Although I did spend a buck on a blank CD at the student bookstore.

i dunno why.

I wish there could some how be a thread where posh, middle-aged New Yorker readers complain about the crap records they bought because of Sasha Frere-Jones

I've bought several things because of discussions in ILM, a good number of them terrible. I guess the Black Hole album springs to mind first as an awful bit of crap that I wouldn't have otherwise gotten. (Some bits of crap are kinda interesting to have around for sporadic crapful listenings. E.g., Psycodrama's Nigger or Lisa Suckdog's Drugs are Nice. I prob won't get rid of Black Hole just 'cause it's more bad than it is mediocre.) I don't really have hard and fast criteria about buying unheard music, tho. Why not take random chances based on no reasons whatsoever!? Sometimes they pan out! I found the A FRAMES thru a totally unreasonable journey: I was looking at some folks' MySpace pages and I noted some dude's friend was the S-S-Records guy. I liked his avatar, so I found his site and there were about 5 CDs (as opposed to vinyl) that I could order. I randomly chose the A FRAMES CDs, but it was like the best random choice ever.

somebody recommended this on the balearic/beach/beardo/hippie thread...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B000EMGJNQ/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music

ugh. pretty insufferable, and not in a way that needs to be re-contextualized, just in a bad way

crap, here's the image...

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/CDUCoverArt/Music/33/7037833.jpg

avalanches. but that's more than years ago. disco inferno was a little bit of a let-down. people mentioning them and joy division in one sentence should be crucified. what else? the one trick pony burial (and it is not even a funny trick). the shoegaze copycat pluramon but i am not sure if i bought it because of ilm.

arular, kish kash

both those albums are awesome wtf

This thread is full of great albums. The "ILM Canon" is more reliable than most.

lol critics

Reverend, how do you rate Rooty against their other albums?

uh, 2nd fave after Kish

i love this album!!!!!

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/CDUCoverArt/Music/33/7037833.jpg

Plus, I really can't imagine that O'Keefe album costing more than four bucks.

There are so many R&B/hip-hop/dance fans here that I would never take ILM popularity as a blanket recommendation. Plus I usually use Soulseek or Torrent to check something with an entirely new act to me at first before I buy it. So the answer is no.

The problem with SFJ is that he's gone from writing about music that's good to writing about music that is good for a 3000 word essay. I don't sense much glee in his listening, even when he likes the artist.

what is with this arcade fire hating? are we REALLY going to lie to ourselves? liars liars liars!
― rockaction (rockaction), Tuesday, September 20, 2005 4:30 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

I bought the new Jenny Lewis album cuz people on ILM made it sound good (and also cuz I liked her on Conan) but it really doesn't do anything for me at all. Not even sure I made it to the second LP.

i have listened to/bought a million albums because of ilm. pretty sure the hit/miss ratio is quite good in ilm's favour.

I like the Avalanches and Junior Boys and MIA. Yep.

Avalanches are one of the worst things I ever downloaded.

yeah actually i found that o'keefe album on the street, so i should not bitch. i hope this doesn't sound condescending, but what exactly do you like about that album?

also, i'd say the hit-to-miss ratio for ilm is fantastic

i hope this doesn't sound condescending, but, how old are you? you might want to put it away and then play it again in ten years. no, seriously! it works for me sometimes.

i wouldn't recommend global blues to anyone and everyone. i'd have to know what you were into.

i don't think i was the one to mention it on that beardo thread, but i certainly have raved about o'keefe records on other threads.

what do i like about it? man, lots of things. for one thing, i'm a HUGE fan of his voice. and there is just something really ambitious and inspiring about his songwriting on that album. i find the whole thing fascinating. played up against his earlier albums and seeing the progression of his talents from year to year is part of the charm for me as well. he makes some of the same leaps that tim hardin and tim buckley and others would make, but i find his style(s) fairly unique. i think breezy stories and the global blues are two albums where he really hit on something special. they are fearless albums. and not comparable to a whole lot either. they are very definitely one person's vision. whether or not you want to go along with that one person for the ride is another thing entirely. i can definitely see some people not digging it. on the easy to like/hard to like scale, i 'd say it was in the middle somewhere. easier to like than, say, climate of hunter, but maybe harder to like than, say, a leo sayer album. i would even say that artistically danny was a little leo and a little scott. danny's maudlin streak and soft spot for americana and tin pan alley goop (not as evident on the globa blues as on earlier albums) would be the equivalent to scott's wiemar republic/pre-vichy govt. french sadsackitude. or leo's love for metaphorical storm clouds and choo choo trains. i admire the shamelessness of all three artists. they let it rip. (though i can't say that i've listened to a leo sayer album in many a moon. and he never took the kind of chances that scott or danny did. even if his early albums are kinda underrated and harder to peg than his later gloss and fame would have you believe. the poor man's elton, really.) i'm guessing how i feel about danny o'keefe is how other people feel about jeff buckley or rufus wainright? i dunno. it's a guess. i wonder if rufus is a fan. he should be. (note: i'm not a huge rufus fan.)

anyway, if someone was a fan of the more idiosyncratic end of 70's pop and singersongwriterhood, then i think the global blues could make someone's day in a big way. (his songwriting is so friggin' great! the way voice and music flow and intertwine is majik to these ears. fer real.)

I wish there could some how be a thread where posh, middle-aged New Yorker readers editors complain about the crap records they bought listened to once because of Sasha Frere-Jones

fixed

i doubt the avg new yorker reader makes it halfway through his columns

um.... Junior Boys are kinda awesome.

ESG. Mostly due to threads like this where the consensus was about 90% Classic: ESG - classic or dud?
I played the first track and was underwhelmed, and thought, "This might be cool for a party or something," then it was all downhill from there. I respect the opinions, but it didn't do much at all for me

ha, I was just introducing another ilxor to ESG today

personally, I was v. disappointed when I found out not all post-punk sounds like ESG

yes i love ESG

I love ESG but the two albums proper I checked out were kind of a disappointment after A South Bronx Story, just because that is pure concentrated awesome and the tracks that didn't make it aren't so much.

I wonder if a certain Irishman would be embarrassed that I bought Ryan Adams - Gold after him enthusing on here? It was in a 3-for-cheaper where I could only find two CDs I wanted, though, so no real loss.

Also I bought some Vichy Govt stuff which I think the indier factions of early London ILX were into, and it's not really my thing (or only in small doses) but the guy sounds smart and angry and if I move back to Belfast it's probably my duty to look up the things he's angry about and feel guilty for my Englishness, or something.

Manitoba comes to mind

And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Boredom

hahaha omg EMBRACE

Junior Boys and Annie are great. Definitely among the better RYM favs.

LCD Soundsystem

Loveless. <adjusts flak jacket, puts tin hat on>

hope it's a fire-resistant jacket, cos you should diaf for that one :)

I wish there could some how be a thread where posh, middle-aged New Yorker readers complain about the crap records they bought because of Sasha Frere-Jones

― Indiespace Administratester (Hurting 2), Saturday, November 29, 2008 11:21 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

man i was just thinking something along these lines when looking over his 2008 list on his blog today ------- i know omg mainstream critic tokenizes rap records is a boring/challops-y but for a dude who got all aggy about that indie-dude-likes-old-white-music thing ...

haha not that more rap records is likely to solve the problem of SFJ disappointing posh middle aged nyers

it looks like i agree w/ most of the ilm canon. i love so much of this stuff! (except for the 2 groups matos listed)

medicine - a noisy one that i just dont enjoy one bit
ISIS - Oceanic
Junior Boys (Again)
I didn't buy just downloaded Kanye West's Late Registration and it was mediocre at best.
The Avalanches album was also crap.
some Stereolab one. oh the horror.
mountain goats
the knife - deep cuts
Loveless (LOLZ)
10,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong
Love and Rockets. I blame that one on Ned, god bless him.
kish kash
Manitoba comes to mind
LCD Soundsystem

All totally fucking great.

ESG definitely released a lot of boring stuff. I think the live half of that first EP is the best thing they ever did (is that in print?)

But "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" is awesome. How can you not dig "Les Yper Sound"?

just listened to this to reassess and omg nails on a chalkboard that is my eardrums

I am listening to ESG right now just to spite you people.

fuck yeah

"Crap" might be over-stating it, but I could easily have lived without the Cut Copy and Girl Talk albums.

The Streets, um... Dizzee Rascal, I guess.

I bought a Foghat album because of xhuck. It wasn't exactly crap, but I didn't make it all the way through either.

i don't understand how anyone could think of the avalanches as 'crap'. who else has made an album like 'since i left you'?

noone else? thank fuck.

i don't understand how anyone could think of the avalanches as 'crap'. who else has made an album like 'since i left you'?

Well nobody really. But not many have a couple of years to wait sitting on their arses waiting to clear each sample. That's if its still possible to do what they did.

I am so ILM-canonical

This thread is full of great albums. The "ILM Canon" is more reliable than most.

― Tim F, Sunday, November 30, 2008 9:29 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

OTM. Also - try before you buy!

I've watched plenty more crap films because of ILE than bought crap albums because of ILM. The Ordeal?? Fucking terrible film.

I really didn't like that Knife album.

Also big lol @ Matos for buying Embrace cos of ILM.

I mean, i do still love a lot of what they did, but I wouldn't expect Matos to like 'em for ten seconds.

Junior Boys I never fell in love with, but quite liked. MIA I loved the first single by and then was nonplussed from thereon in. That Medicine record I REALLY disliked. Never got Joy Division.

who will be first to say Merriweather Post Pavillion?

I just gave up my lunch money for This Nation's Saving Grace.

And you think it's crap?

Mouthy, why were you so perplexed by MIA? I mean, its not like she's John Cage or anything.

I blame ILM for my brief flirtation with Godspeed! You Black Emperor, regardless of whether I first heard of them here or not.

That Medicine record I REALLY disliked.

i actually bought 2 medicine albums because of ILM based love.
not been able to listen to either all way through.

plus the dude is a 9/11 truther d-bag