Updated Introduce Yourselves

I am currently listening to Pleasure Victim by Berlin (they had good clothes).

My musical tastes are fairly broad, as those things go, but also fairly particular. I own more records by The Fall and James Brown than anyone else; other perpetual favorites of mine include Wire, Martin Carthy, New Order, Ornette Coleman, Fleetwood Mac, the Clean, the Magnetic Fields, Fela Kuti, Unrest, the Flying Lizards, Family Fodder, Uncle Wiggly and the Beatles.

Favorite music writers: Greil Marcus, Nik Cohn, Lester Bangs, Richard Meltzer (I finally saw the light), Tom Ewing, Mark Sinker, Ally Kearney.

Other facts: I'm obsessed with New York City. I have a mad crush on Kathleen Hanna that even I can't really explain. I really hate facial hair and any kind of cologne. I'm not fond of drugs. When I was 3 I met John McCain and apparently told him I'd vote for him (I didn't). In real life, I do my Jerry Seinfeld impression perhaps slightly too often. I'm a sucker for books/films about gloomy alienated people even though I generally hate them if I meet them. I've had the same haircut since I was 14. I hate all political parties and am not too fond of regular parties, either. Someday I'd like to go to Antarctica. I guess that's all you need to know.

I thought we were FWIENDS. *bawls*

I must admit that he's influenced me significantly

Dance for me, puppet, DANCE! Er, I mean, thanks, I do appreciate it. :-)

I don't like Puddle of Mudd.

lolve vinyl a lil too much and can usually be found bitching about the quality of modern vinyl (its floppy for gods sake).

as far as music is concerned - hmm lets see (this is probably in chronological order of getting in to it. HIP -HOP (from the 80's)) sex pistols, hendrix, the who, mod sounds, r&b, soul (northern, commercial - motown, stax, invictus, buddha), various indie trelated media coined movements NWONW - well the trainers were good.

then i got in to the funk and it has spiralled since then - just searching for breaks - hitting the disco, the rare funk, the latin sounds, trying to find lo-fi hip hop from stones throw, playing stuff to make that ass move on the dance floor, weird and wonderful bootlegs, - living in soul jazz, busta and tip and jay-z, the neptunes and just watching the women dance

then finding that basically im not a 24 hour party person - listening to stuff that moved, axlerod, coltrane (jon and alice), barry white, ikes mood, ornette, tjader, MBV, phil spector, brian wilson, spiritulised, spaceman 3 - mercury rev (i like his voice)listening and finally hearing words - joni, carol, burt and hal , apoclypse now, creedance, dylan, hank williams, littlwe bit of protest and revolution, cant be dancing all the time sometimes you gotta fight, black power - last poets, revolution will not be televised, nina simeone, comman sense, marvin oh marvin you truely are the best

yeah i like that

Career-in-music-wise, besides my thrilling if unrenumerative years in the "alternative" press, I've worked in college and public radio, done extensive record-store clerking, and freelanced for, among others, NYLON, THE WIRE, and CMJ (and they still haven't paid me a red cent, the bastards), plus a ton of weeklies. I also wrote the liner notes for the recent reissue of John Fahey's THE DANCE OF DEATH. Not very impressive, I suppose, considering how long I've been doing this, but I'm not much of a sell-yourself sorta guy. Regardless, I don't really write about music anymore and wouldn't have time to freelance if I did.

I've been obsessed with music (listening, not playing) since childhood, and, something like Mr. Matos, am a free-range generalist. I like knowing a little something about everything, but am usually not that interested in knowing everything about anything in particular. Last five things I listened to: the first Faust album, Tim Berne/Bloodcount's Unwound three-CD set, the Kammerflimmer Kollektief's Maander, Plaid's Trainer comp, and Led Zep's Presence (a great summer album if you ask me, "Achilles Last Stand" notwithstanding). At one point I probably had as many IDM recordings as I do jazz albums, but probably not anymore. The first preset button on my car radio is tuned to 92Q, the local "urban" station, cause the black pop music that makes it to the commercial airwaves is almost always better than any other kind of pop music that makes it that far (plus the Q plays tons of homegrown Baltimore "club music," and if you don't know, you better ask somebody). The second preset button goes to the local NPR affiliate. The third goes to the somewhat lame local classical station; since I stopped writing about music, I've been listening to more classical music, mainly because I have the time to. String quartets by Mozart and Haydn and anything I can find by Takemitsu number among recent enthusiasms.

Oh, and I'm glad I stumbled across this place. It's been fun so far.

Jess to thread...

I like bits of everything but currently everything about dance music appeals to me, house primarily, getting into techno, really getting into nu breaks like ILS, Stanton Warriors, Plump DJs, Koma and Bones. The sort of house I like at the mo' is non prog stuff, from Jon Carter to Joey Negro to X-Press 2 to Shakedown to whatever else I happen to like at a given time. There are too many hot singles to list them all, but my blog will be updated eventually http://compass.pitas.com

Oh and I also like "this nu electro stuff".

And country.

X-Press 2's Lazy is single of the year though.

How come every time I go to Bray the hill seems to be covered in folks going knacker drinking, often whole families of parents with the kids too? Well i suppose the views fairly nice and its cheaper than the pubs.

I'm currently distracting myself from writing for allirelandmusic.com by lurking round this thing.

So whatever happened to the glastonbury article Tom was working on?

MW

I like slayer, poison and bon jovi.

but i love you all and that's why I'm here.

I'm Geoff from Minneapolis, MN, USA. I think I've posted before as misterhungry, but now I won't. I'm 24. I'm a clerk. I'd love to get into the writing/journo game but I haven't a clue where or how. I don't make nearly enough money, and I don't understand how all y'all buy so fucking much.

I spend a lot of time trying to figger our what it is that I like about the music I like. Lately I've been listening the shit out of Radio 4, St. Etienne's first one, and Roxy Music's first two. Perennial faves include: Blone Redhead, David Bowie, Otis Redding, Gang of Four (I'll stop there). Teenage obsessions: the Pixies and Sonic Youth.

I don't now, and probably never will, own, hear, or know enough about music. I want it all.

Oh, and I grew up with a violin in my hand, so I've got some classical know-how behind it all, too. I may drop annoying comments about that.

love and kisses, Geoff

I’ll be 27 in August, and was therefore the youngest in my year, hence my low-self esteem and quiet nature. I live in Brighton with my girlfriend and work on a newspaper doing what I often describe as graphic design, but is actually 75% of the time just sticking pictures of houses and cars into adverts, correcting pretentious and obscenely wrong copy written by dumb estate agents, and following layouts created by monkeys. In my spare time I try to write music under the moniker ‘Dumb Shoegazing’ which is a collision between MBV melancholia and E’d-up hardcore euphoria, essentially cool guitar effects pedals creating a wash of textured noise with a kicking bass. One day I’ll stick them up on the interweb if I ever get around to using my free ISP space.

I enjoy drinking quality beers, such as Budvar and other Czech lagers, Belgium beers such as Leffe, and the local beers by the small Ansty brewery (If you’re ever in Brighton check out The Evening Star, their pub, for exceptional and modern (I hate to use the phrase ‘progressive’ but I guess it’s the only one that truly fits) real-ale. And when me and my girlfriend feel our ageing bodies are up to it indulge in a bit of clubbing.

Aside from my girlfriend and (of course) music, my other true love is Ipswich Town FC (my home town), about the only team I can think of which would get relegated, but whose supporters still have enough faith in the team, manager and chairman to actually buy more season tickets this year than last. Despite having a 250 mile round journey to contend with every time I go to a home game, I share a season ticket with my brother and go to about 15 a season (including cup games).

Oh, yes, music. MBV (obviously), Hardcore and Jungle (obviously), Commodore 64 game music (less obviously), Todd Edwards, Bootlegs/bastard pop, bis , Todd Edwards, Björk, Huggy Bear, UK Garage, Harmonia, (mainly the last, genius) Slowdive (album), Brian Wilson, Sonic Youth, the uniquitous Can + Slint, Rob Hubbard, Basement Jaxx, early Roxy Music among thousands more.

I have 500 CDs, 250 LPs, 100 tapes, 50 minidiscs, and about 50gig of MP3s (at a rough guess).

YES YOU WILL. Or you could just send them directly to me. :-)

My music tastes tend towards vaguely generic indie, but I'll listen to just about anything once (except nu-metal). My favorite bands in the Active division are Firewater, Girls Against Boys, and the Dismemberment Plan, but that's probably because I still haven't quite gotten over Soul Coughing and the Afghan Whigs breaking up. (I maintain a semi-official Afghan Whigs Frequently Asked Questions File.)

Note to self: Remember to write to Tom about that piece I'd like to do for FT about the video for M's "Pop Muzik."

It's all part of my wicked plan. Seriously, compared to some folks here, I know squat, so don't fret.

I work in a Manhattan record store several days a week and temp 9 to 5 to support that--and to support my compulsive record buying habit, of course. I once fancied myself an aspiring music-critic, until I realized I enjoy music writing more when I consider it a hobby rather than something I need to do to pay the bills (that's a personal choice, not a judgement on others, by the way). The last piece I wrote was for Sound Collector, and it's the first thing in recent memory that I can go back to without cringing (though you might think I should cringe, ha ha). In addition, I DJ around New York from time to time (mostly rock, punk, and the ubiquitous dub- metal), and also spend a fair amount of time playing music in a band that hasn't played out yet.

My favorite bands are far too numerous to list, though Drive Like Jehu is probably still number one. Favorite song at the moment: "7" by the Boredoms (from Super Roots 7). The last few records I've listened to are: the Parson Sound s/t CD; the Mission for Christ 7"; a Laddio Bolocko live CD-R; Hawkwind's Space Ritual, and a dub of the Black Flag 1982 demos LP.

There's more I could write, but I'm getting uncomfortable with starting every sentence with "I", so now seems like the perfect time to wrap this up...

Last five purchases: Carpet Msics, Rachid Taha, Mum, Akufen, and Ornette.

Weird thing is: I found it in HMV Oxford street of all places, and they seem to have loads of copies, despite it showing no signs of being a reissue. It's still got the original label details with the phone number as 071 and everything.

My school's ethnomusicology professor runs an ensemble; we play folk and classical music from all over the Middle East.

How about listening to Middle Eastern music--any favorites?

Honestly, I don't listen to a whole lot of it, but not because I'm not interested. Middle Eastern music, like a lot of music from other cultures, seems really daunting to try to get into, and I worry that people who might recommend recordings for me don't really want the same things out of it that I do. I want it to be as different from what I'm used to as possible, whereas if I ask my teacher, I feel like she'll recommend more pop stuff because that's what most others want. She does make tapes for us, but those are mostly field recordings. We played our final concert last year with Richard and Harold Hagopian, who are Armenian-Americans who play Armenian music, and I think I enjoyed playing that more than any of the other music we played throughout the year-- very graceful, pretty stuff.

Though there's nothing in your post I can interpret as a request for recommendations, I am going to make some anyway:

Since you mentioned playing Armenian music, you might like the Armenian-Turkish oudist, Udi Hrant Kenkulian. I have a CD from the Traditional Crossroads label which is uses his name as the title. It's not quite the style of oud playing I prefer, but I would still recommend it.

The Persian classical singer Mohammad Reza Shajarian and the kamencheh player Kayhan Kalhor put out a very nice collaboration in 2000 (on the same label as above): "Night Silence Desert."

Another recent release I like in a traditional vein is Farida's "Mawal & Maqamat Iraqi" (New Samarkand).

To move on to territory more familiar to me, early recordings by Oum Kalthoum tend to be quite a bit different from anything you will hear in western music. Even here, there is some influence from western classical music, however. "Ana Fe Entazarak" and "Salo Ko'os Ettala" are both works which will give you a taste of something distinctively Arabic. "Robayat el Khayam" is also really great, though somewhat less foreign sounding. Mind you, these are vocally oriented recordings. Arabic music tends to be very focused on the singer, and on lyrics, but you still hear some pretty remarkable instrumental performances on these recordings. Are you interested in Middle Eastern vocal music, or mostly just instrumental styles?

Anouar Brahim's more Middle Eastern oriented music is pretty good. Not exactly the sound I look for, but close.

I really prefer old school Arabic popular music (e.g., Oum Katlhoum, Asmahan, Farid el Atrache, Riad el Sounbatti, Mohammed Abdel Wahab (judiciously), Said Mekawy (mostly as composer), and Fairouz), which does not completely hold itself apart from western influences, but which is nevertheless as authentically Arab as you are going to get. I think that a 1970's Farid el Atrache piece with strange electronic organ in it is still more likely to be coming from a distinctively Arab sensibility than some sort of western attempt at recreating traditional Arab music.

Okay, sorry to hijack the thread. I like Arabic music, among other things. A more complete introduction can be found on the original introductions thread.

Damnit, I want a boyfriend. I recently moved to NYC, just turned 31 and I still have no boyfriend. I see lots of cute nerdish indie guys all over the city and still, no boyfriend. Oh, I've seen makeoutclub.com already. Boyfriend? Are you kidding me? Impossible to navigate thru that pieceashit website! And when there's a cute guy, they're straight or far too young. Or they're just toe- curlingly horrible writers, give to the kind of pretentious collegiate nonsense whose plucky naivete makes my heart pang.

So who do I have to fuck to get a date around here? Ha ha. Like I said I'm 31 but I look much younger oh wow. Did I really say that? Yeah, I did. I suppose I should also define my terms. I'm more interested in guys my age plus or minus five-to-ten years my age. My heart goes a-flutter for all sorts of guys, but husky guys loom large in my erotic topography (surely Sean from SF is wretching right now). Also, I'm a snob. If you can't write a coherent sentence, forget it. If you don't live in NYC, forget it. Hopefully, we'll also share certain cultural points of reference, including very "interior" pursuits: reading, writing, websmithing, music, moves, the parks, conversation, etc. This is what I look like. Music, well, you know me, it's all over the place. Do I really have to spell it out? If I do, E-mail me for more information.

It was taken in K-mart photobooth at Penn Station. The lights were bright so I'm squinting.

Thanks for closing up the link, btw.

It's older. Though I shuttle back and forth from a variety of hairstyles, depending on the season.

Dude, Mike, this is a good thing. Every man I meet here is completely insane, why do you want that? Ugh, I refuse to date anyone. That doesn't mean I don't get any, but just don't, like, do the serious thing, because THEY ARE ALL INSANE HERE.

Oh,oh.

Hey Kilian, I have relatives in Bray, and visited there one summer several years ago. Seemed like a nice, mellow place at the time--a cross on the hill, a seaside carnival...

I'm 30, have 3 billion experience points and a +18 Sword of Thorin Oakenshieldian Quietriotian Thunder. I win.

I have four cats!
I am lazy and unemployed beyond babysitting and the occasional odd job for my neighbor (such as putting labels on Meals on Wheels newsletters to help him with his community service.) My last paying job was at a pizzeria and I quit because my boss was a total tool and I worked six hour days with no break in a hot kitche and kept burning myself on the ovens.

I have exactly four working days left at my pleasant but spiritually unfulfilling Java-coding job, at which point I have plans to spend some time doing nothing but writing and playing guitar in bands that cheerfully rip off Built To Spill and Death Cab For Cutie. If I don't become a rock star or internationally famous music critic by the time the money runs out (I figure I have enough for eight to twelve months), I guess I'll have to get another coding job. Sigh.

My favorite album is The Dismemberment Plan's Emergency & I.

In that case, could you send the repairman over to refurbish mine? It leaks.

JC Arcila. 23. Gay male. Currently residing in South Texas, hating it of course, but trying to make the most of it. Future's uncertain, but I hope to go back to school one day.

I’ve been (mostly) lurking these boards since the summer of 00’ (I, uh think). I’m not sure whether it was Ned’s Nineties, Cultural Artifacts of the Moment or Freaky Trigger I found first, but which ever it was, it completely blew my mind. All three were very important to me during that 'wide eyed musical exploratory' period for me.

I don’t post often because, well, I’m not nearly as articulate as the lot of you when discussing music. So, what do I like to listen to then? Gosh, from the Chameleons, to ESG, to 50’s rock, to Julie London, to Disco… I wouldn’t really know where to begin.
Some of my favorite movies: Bringing Up Baby, Now, Voyager, Holiday, Wonder Boys, George Washington, My Man Godfrey and Written on the Wind

That’ll be all.

I was an indie kid into Cocteau Twins/My Bloody Valentine/Smiths/New Order/Wedding Present/Loop/Spacemen3 etc. Got very into the Kitchens of Distinction because my girlfriend at the time's sister was a friend of Patrick's, and saw them play dozens of times including a few Toilets of Destruction gigs - their versions of Drive Blind knocked Ride's into a cocked hat.

Over the years my music taste has broadened, nowadays I tend to go for electronica, particularly the Four Tet/Manitoba-flavour but I'll listen to anything - for example, QOTSA, Leona Naess, Terry Allen, John Zorn, MC Solaar.

Not Five Star though.

I used to make music with a friend of mine until he joined the police (no, not like Sting - the cops, the fuzz, the heat variety - shotgun wedding, needed a job quick, fire brigade full, you get the picture) just at the point where we could have got a contract (sigh). I haven't done much since but fully intended to when I've got a bit of time and space.

One of the advantages of the Internet is that you can collate and cross-reference information. I was hoping that this would mean that there would be a database of stuff so that if you liked one band, you could easily find other stuff that you are probably going to like. Amazon's recommendations bit is okay, but if you buy something for someone else (I had to get a Mario Lanza CD for my Mum) then your recommendations get fucked. AMG goes a long way towards this, but is maybe too specific. I discovered ilXor a couple of months ago and I think it's just wonderful. Through reading various posts I've discovered music that I may never have discovered otherwise and for that I thank you all.

*exudes fierce jealousy* I only saw KoD three times. Dammit. Anyway, welcome to you and JC and all the new people. :-)

There are 224 more guys named Dave in this big world. Ask Bruce McCullogh to name a few of them for you.

Musical favorites: the Go-Betweens, the Chills, Verlaines, Able Tasmans (hell, most Flying Nun label output in the 80s), Wire, Orange Juice, Josef K (double hell -- ALL Postcard output), Game Theory, Big Star and Felt.

New-ish recent listening: Consonant, Interpol, Enon, Go-Betweens reissue bonus discs, Wire (both EPs), Jason Loewenstein, Ladytron, those DFA 12"es, Hot Snakes and Spoon.

I write for a living, but I (almost entirely) gave up writing about music a few years ago. It's a mug's game.

I like sunsets, tea with honey, kittens, lemurs, cooking at home, and bridge.

All else being equal, I prefer a well-written song to a well-performed one.

i'm 22 and in bad need of motivation and inspriation, so i just mostly travel and listen to music- the buckleys, elliott smith, wilco, air, rufus wainwright, smog, bright eyes/the faint/saddle creek whatevers, sigur ros, mouse on mars, heartbreaker-ryan adams, bollywood music, smiths, david bowie, doves, super furry animals, etc etc

you gotta die if you wanna wanna be alive

When not enough people buy those, I issue records by other musicians. Or write journalism for American magazines like Black Book, Index and Metropolis. I'm Scottish, but lived in NYC 2000 to 2002, live right now in Tokyo, and will soon move to Paris.

Music I love: Scratch Pet Land, DAT Politics, Tarwater, John Cage, Holger Hiller, Tom Waits, Brecht and Weill, Ivor Cutler, Georges Brassens, Toog, Super Madrigal Brothers, Gutevolk, Tomomi Adachi and Nobukazu Takemura.

My current favourite quote comes from Cardinal Newman: 'All representations, whether true or not, are in themselves pleasureable'.

May peace, pleasure and experiment prevail on earth.

I'm Charlie, I'm 27 and I'm currently living in Sydney (although I'm really from sortofLondon). ILM keeps me alive, as does my cold heart and the love of a good tune.

Current obsessions: the new McAlmont & Butler album (Curtis Mayfield, singing songs written by/with David Bowie, produced by Phil Spector? Yes please!), OPM (still), Pulp (forever), Jimmy Cliff's The Harder They Come soundtrack and a prepostrous band called Suicidal Rap Orgy (http://sro.shitwank.com/music.html - you won't regret it).

If anyone can find me a decent goodnewmusic club to go to here in Syd, there's a shiny penny in it for you...

I love music, and there is little I can't find some redeeming quality in, but it does exist sadly enough.

Im not going to give out my age, because if I do, in all of my threads from this point on people will say "YOU'RE TOO YOUNG TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MUSIC BLAH BLAH BLAH."

I enjoy lots of music, blues (actually, more or less blues right before it morphed into rock, I dont like the really, really early stuff like field-recordings), jazz, especially Mingus, Sun Ra (of course), rock n' roll (Favorite bands are probably Velvet Underground or the Pixies), funk, old skool rap, some country, most especially Johnny Cash, and actually probably more music if it we played for me as Im pretty open minded.

I also think this thread is very corney, and doubt anybody is reading it.

First record bought might have been "Silver Machine" by Hawkwind, although I have supressed memories of one of those Woolworth's "can you tell these hits from the originals?" compilations containing "Ernie" by Benny Hill.

First band seen might have been John Steven's Away - which sounds cool, except they were supporting Steve Hillage and almost got booed offstage.

Saw Joy Division once, would have been twice but I had to catch the last bus home, which is also the reason why I missed Public Image's first live appearance at Futurama.

I am a freelance writer but it's only computer manuals and online help and stuff which probably pays better than freelance music writer but doesn't have -- even at my advanced age -- the same pizazz. And I've been between contracts for 4 months now, although this hasn't been helped by moving from Leeds to Austin, Texas.

Only person i've spoken to on this page is Momus, last time he played Emo's.

All time fave albums: I Roy's first two LPs, Beach Boy's "Surf's Up", Faust's first, Bonzo Dog's "Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse", the Stooges "Funhouse", France Gall's "1968", Shirley and Dolly Collin's "Anthems in Eden", Pere Ubu's "New Dun Housing", Margaret O'Hara's "Miss America" and Agitation Free's "Malesch". Nothing less than 10 years old, I'm horrified to note. Old fartdom beckons....

I'm 23 and living in State College, PA. Penn State graduate, film major (wanna see an example of my work? http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/b/a/bar185/video/CANCER.rm). I work at three libraries on campus (part time, which sucks). I used to write for the local paper in early college and high school, got sick of music reviews until I read Stairway To Hell, now I can't stop judging and enjoying things! I got at least one music review in the Voice so far (hopefully another this week or next), and I'm hoping to get a website of my video reviews up sometime in the '03. I like just about anything that qualifies as pop or rock, genrewise. Some albums I think are undeniable classics: Neil Young's "Rust Never Sleeps," Replacements' "Let It Be", Prince "Sign O' The Times," Brian Eno's "Here Come The Warm Jets," Weezer's "Pinkerton," Roxy Music's "Greatest Hits." Spent a decade with REM as my favorite band, then Sleater-Kinney, then Rocket From The Crypt, then nobody (though I still like all those bands a lot). I do so little at work that I can spend hours on this listserv. It's fun. Some movies that are classics: "Cabaret," "Seven Samurai," "Moscow On The Hudson," "Used Cars."

Um that's all I can think of for now. Will answer questions though, always. Debates is fun.

Okay, for real now...

My name is Nick Coleman, I'm 24, a single father of one who lives in Lexington, KY, USA. I pay the bills with my gig as an insurance agent (ugh) but my passion in life is music. I'm in a band that has been referred to as "Red Hot System of a Eminem" by local press (http://www.greentheory.net) and I do some really god-awful made-in-the-wee-hours-of-the-night 4-track stuff too (http://nickaliscious.iuma.com). I also haven't yet learned the hyperlink procedures for this site. :D

I don't review music whatsoever, I'm just obsessed with it. If I had to proclaim some sort of favorite, I'm certain Fishbone, who I've listened to since I was 9 years old, would definitely be mentioned, but I certainly wouldn't leave out Mr. Bungle or anything Mike Patton affiliated, Beck, Bjork, P-Funk, Roland Kirk, Kool Keith, Latyrx, Blackalicious, DJ Shadow, Talvin Singh, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Peter Gabriel-&-his-years-with-Genesis, Del, JSBX, Miles Davis, John Zorn, Tom Waits, Fela Kuti, System of a Down, Sabbath, Zep, the Chili Peppers, Buckethead, Radiohead, Talking Heads, Primus&Oysterhead, anything ending in -head, Kraftwerk, Sly Stone, James Brown, Outkast, Goodie Mob, De La, Propellerheads, um, and of course The Roots.

There, I've been introduced. :D

{set to the tune of "Introduce Yourself" by a Mike Patton-less Faith No More}

While I'm not quite as well-versed on the Chomsky, RAW is by far one of my all-time favorite reads, along with Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Joyce, Crowley (he was fucked up, but MAN that's some interesting reading!), and R. Buckminster Fuller, who somehow makes stuff that should be very boring not boring at all.

~~"I also think this thread is very corney, and doubt anybody is reading it."~~

I agree with the former, and disagree with the latter. :D

i'm also a pseudonym for a recovering music journalist/editor who decided that he liked music too much to work in it anymore. at least, for now. we'll see what happens later.

i'm searching for music that sounds like haruki murakami writes. i may have found it in mum, but i'm not sure just yet.

I mostly like music with some sort of 'roots' thing going on - a sense that it emerges from a distinct culture of some sort. I also like stuff with stylistic quirks from another era.

These days I mostly listen to UK garage, all sorts of hip hop, disco oddities, dated-sounding house, 80s groove and maudlin country music. I don't get modern rock music, but quite like stuff that sounds like ZZ Top. CDs have no place in my house and I like to buy records for the cover art and typography alone, which is an imprecise science but gets you to interesting places.

:-)

I like stuff like this: la dusseldorf, harmonia, boris, the fall, brise glace, goblin, yes, penguin cafe orchestra, terry riley, john fahey, wolfgang voigt, syd barrett, etc.

hello!

treachery is the deepest muscle of my heart

I live with my wife of 2 years in a ok townhouse smackdab between DC and Baltimore. I played guitar in highchool for bands that I thought were great and now realize that they're more than great.

Since moving from home 4 years ago I've been left to get all the dinky little songs out with a drum machine and a TASCAM 4-tk (tape). Most recently I've been experimenting with trip-hop. I'm now transitioning from ripping off Portishead to ripping off DJ Shadow.

Favorite musical entities include(but are not limited to):

MC5, the Who, Black Flag, Prince, FEAR, Rye Coalition, Herbie Hancock, Bad Brains, Miles Davis, my 17 year old brother Nate (because he taught himself guitar and bass while taking drum lessons. way to multitask), Iggy Pop, And You Will Know Us By The Length Of Our Band Name, Dr. John, Pink Floyd, Buddy Rich, Jimmy Smith, Redman, the Supersuckers, Refused, (International) Noise Conspiracy, Turbonegro, and Johnny Cash.

Musical entities I think are really silly include (but are not limited to):

Radiohead, Trent Reznor, Gene Simmons, Nelly, Korn, Mudvayne, Nu-Metal in general, David Lee Roth, Sammy Hagar, Van Halen singers in general, and Lil Kim.

Musical entities that I think are boring, bland, and generally flaccid include (but are not limited to):

U2, Oasis, Bauhaus, Lenny Kravitz, Bad Religion (after No Control), Crass, Cornershop, and Thursday.

I like those Danelectro mini-pedals because they sound good and they're cheap, but I don't like them because after 2 months the quit working for me. Even if I change the battery. I also watch at least and hour and a half of Food Network every day.

I like techno (CARL CRAIG IS GOD), but not trance, except for a few harder examples on Harthouse circa 1996-7-8. Synthpop and old electro give me a serious buzz. This new electroclash crap needs some work, however (by which I mean Williamsburger leather & hairspray shit, not 313 type electro disco and disko B type stuffs, which are still cool).

Hip hop is something I like on the radio but won't buy albums of, unless Q-Tip is involved, because everything else is so inconsistent it rates as a waste of time and money.

I like rock played live in clubs, and occasionally I also like rock on recordings if it's really, really good. Right now my favorite rock albums are by the Bangs and the Shakedowns, a local act.

I rock out at home with a Yamaha RS7000 (best piece of equipment EVER, fuck the MPC series) and not much else at the moment since Dan is borrowing all my other good shit.

I easily get crushed on girls playing bass.

Enough of that.

25, art student(i.e., slacker), reside in Arizona. I recognize a few names here from the old sinister belle and sebastian list. I am a bit nervous about getting involved in internet forums these days so I imagine I'll be mostly lurking and gathering knowledge.

Recently I've been obsessed with the following: shannon wright/crowsdell, neko case, mary timony, sigur ros, kitty wells, mum, songs:ohia, gillian welch, astor piazzolla, the new beth gibbons record, edith frost, nordic/bulgarian folk music. In that general sort of rank.

Now back to lurking.

I have a tendency to stick my nose into business which leads to odd things like having a production credit on a Spacemen 3 album, conning Robert Anton Wilson into conducting a funeral mass for Oscar the Grouch, having Stan Ridgway read from a UFO book during my bands' radio appearance, running a record label, consulting with a Dutch television crew wanting to visit Area 51, and multiple accusations of being a Secret Ruler Of The Internet.

Oh yeah, I also blew off seeing MBV for no good reason other than "oh, I'll catch them next tour".

lived in south-east England for a long time, but mercifully escaped (although all cultural roads do seem to lead back to South West Surrey, oddly enough). now live overlooking the English Channel, contended in my personal life despite a chronic lack of social functions. but, you know, I'm *happy* with my writings and my thoughts. maybe one day soon I could get paid for them. maybe make a living and fly to the next phase in my life ... either deeper in the country, or the very heart of the city. as yet, I simply don't know.

my favourite songs ever are Public Enemy's "Welcome To The Terrordome", Wu-Tang Clan's "A Better Tomorrow" and Love's "Alone Again Or". at the moment I'm poised between Sugababes and Flying Saucer Attack musically; story of my life, I suspect.

Musically, I guess I'd describe myself as a populist. My favorite song ever is Sam Cooke's version of "A Change Is Gonna Come", my current favorite album is A Love Supreme, my favorite bands are probably Big Star, The Saints, The Beach Boys and the Stones. I'm a hip-hop lover, I love glitchy electronic music, MTV pop, death metal, Japanese psych, showtunes, comedy albums, country AND western, crooners, wailers, moaners, singer/songwriters, lullabies, ungodly screeches, and sometimes (but not always) the Beatles.

I'm adam, i'm 29, i live in london and my favourite record is "i'm going to make you love me" by the temptations

Not that I encourage you to do that, necessarily.

I found ILM googling for more info on the Raunchy Young Lepers, so you can blame Ned.

then again, on that 'is-there-anybody-left-on-ILM-who's-not-a-fkn-rock-crit' thread i already bared myself quite sufficiently, thank ya

mm, okay -- might as well admit that i'm nearly as ancient as Martin Skidmore or mark s
mm mm, i ..."come from a tiny plot of land bordering on the Baltic. To the west of it lies the aristocratic Europe, in the east spreads Russia, and right across the sea lie the enlightened Nordic countries..."
(not my words, this's from an article i'm supposed to be editing right now)

Grew up in Manchester, lived for a while in Nottingham, then Southampton. Been living in North London now for about 9 years, live with my girlfriend and 19 month old son. Work for a newspaper selling advertising space.

Listen to a fair old range of stuff, particularly rock, pop, jazz, soul and country. Couldn't really name my favourite artists as I get different obsessions at different times, but here are some people that I have a lot of records by: David Bowie, Roxy Music/Ferry/Eno, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis. Also, Neil Young, Dr John, the Velvets/Reed/Cale, the Stooges/Iggy, the Beach Boys, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Madness, Steely Dan, New Order, Tim Buckley, Van Morrison, John Coltrane, the Rolling Stones, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash. And I even buy the occasional record by alive people under the age of 40.

Been on here for a couple of months. Disturbingly addictive.

I also play bass/yell in a band (if anyone cares, my email is the key!) which sounds something like the Minutemen/Josef K/B-52s but with breakdowns for all the kids with reflector pants. And unlike Alex in NYC, I think Beyonce is everything RIGHT with the world!

CDs currently in my handbag:
Ladytron 'Light And Magic'
The Rammones 'Anthology'
Various, mixed by Tiga 'DJ Kicks'
Sleater Kinney 'Call The Doctor'

Make of that what you will.

I'm 23, I've been a freelance journalist for the last four months, prior to that I was Mixmag's staff writer for two years (I have never liked hard house though). I live in north London, I've been here, although mainly on ILE, for just over a year.

Music-Tom Waits! AND Stones, Prince, Patti Smith, Chet Baker, Replacements, Liars, QOTSA. Jimi Tenor, Outkast, Daft Punk, The Clash, Harry Smith stuff, Fat Possum, Flaming Lips, Al Green, Ramones, Junior Wells, Sinatra. Currently listening to Devendra Banhart, Maria Callas, and Townes Van Zandt.The first record I bought was "Star Trekkin" by The Firm.

Films-Jim Jarmusch, Hal Hartley, Todd Haynes, Terry Zwigoff, David Lynch, Aki Kaurismaki, but as a kid I looooved Young Guns.

If there is one quote that sums me up, it's the one about putting away childish things only to realise that childish things are actually pretty cool - I am useless when it comes to quoting anything.

I also love Southwestern food, but you can't get any in England. If you know a gteat recipe for corn muffins please email me. Thank you.

I'm John and I LOVE MUSIC.

i am an avid NON-COLLECTOR of music. i have a very small collection which reflects my narrow mindedness and inability to progress past mild noise, which is just fine with me. current heavies = laddio bolocko (rip,nyc), casiotone for the painfully alone (seattle), violent ramp (ann arbor), pita (vienna), boredoms (osaka).

i'm currently a "were-eagle" in an oakland, ca band who if i were to draw any parallels... perhaps we're the musical equivalent of gatchaman.

my favorite movie is chris marker's sans soleil which was broadcast several weeks ago on japanese public television at about 2 in the morning.

ny nom-du-ilm gygax! is also the name of one of my favorite records of the past 10 years for too many reasons to list here.

Paul Nauert, 36 years old, composer and music theorist, teacher of these subjects at the University of California, Santa Cruz (about an hour south of San Francisco).

My most enduring enthusiasm is for the music of postwar modernism (Harrison Birtwistle, Pierre Boulez, Elliott Carter, Morton Feldman, Brian Ferneyhough, and Gyorgi Ligeti are some of the better-known names among my favorites). But I have very eclectic musical taste, along with some strong dislikes.

My interest in popular music sagged a bit in the late 80s, early 90s, and was revived when I encountered techno and especially jungle/drum’n’bass in the mid 90s. Since then I’ve...
- gone back to favorites from the 80s
- explored current synthpop, electro, and industrial artists (I’m happy to spout off some favorites if anyone wants to hear about it -- this is a corner of the musical world that doesn’t get mentioned much at ILM)
- retrospectively discovered lots of "indie" bands and artists from the 90s

Now I find my interests pointing in so many directions at once, thanks largely to ILM, that I can’t be bothered to try and summarize them.

something like that.

write for http://www.pataphysics-lab.com ... have had snippets of poetry published here and there.

into most types of music in one way or another.

bandwise, i am currently a dolphin in oakland, california with gygax! and an unnamed, unidentified third member. trilogize man!

i apologize, but i mostly insist on writing in lowercase and having somewhat questionable puncuation use. (see: "...")
m.

ps i post on the fmbb quite a bit. we really aren't such big idiots. i think we're victims of some sort of unrealized virtual version of MTV's The Real World (tm).

Today I listened to the Chopin etudes as played by Murray Perahia; Handel arias sung by Andreas Scholl; N.E.R.D.; Orange Juice; Felt; Off The Wall; and the t.A.T.u. album several times over (because it's the best thing ever).

So hello all. My posts so far have met with limited response, but that's usually the way I likes it. I am also a regular denizen of the Bowlie boards.

I'm more out on the drony/psychedelic side of things, with dalliances in various flavors of stoner rock, electronic, punk. Oddly enough, i can't be bothered with 99% of the pop music out there. I guess it's just too disposable or something.

Current faves: Wall of Voodoo, Eno, Savage Republic, Acid Mothers Temple, Spacemen 3 and related, Roy Montgomery, Neutral Milk Hotel and a bunch of others. Ned is threatening to unleash a flood of The Verve upon me to punish me for my ignorance of said band.

-Matt, not drinking his coffee fast enough.

I've been accused of being a *coff*goth in the past but it was just the clothes (I cant abide most "goth" music) and the friends I had. Really, I'm hardcore indiechick, I love all the obvious 4AD/Creation/Factory/Rough Trade/Sub Pop/Matador etc stuff and am horribly stuck in the early 90s. Lately though, I've been introduced to a lot of very nifty deep house/jazz kinda stuff like Chris Lum and Swell Session and I rather like it. I am also currently rabidly obsessed with the Faint for some reason.

It's all electric sound of jim's fault I'm even here, I don't think I've laughed out loud at so much online stuff in a very long time. I've been a big Usenet person for years, but thats a desert compared to this place. Yay for ilx0r!

I love real ale, the shipping forecast, silas t-shirts, motorway service stations and seem to be a perpetual participant in so-near-yet-so-far romantic entanglements. I've been lurking for a little while now and finally decided it was time to get active, ILM is far too special not to get involved.

Receiving heavy rotation right now are Black Dice, Kopernik, Bending Mouth, Buck 65, Grand Buffet, Circus, Lightning Bolt, The New Pornographers, LCD Soundsystem, new Cat Power, Sweden's tape and the recent (and not so recent) mego releases by Hecker, Tujiko Noriko and Kevin Drumm.

Probably won't be able to post as often as I want to, but - yay! - just moved to a more secluded spot at the day job so hopefully I'll see you around.

I love it all, and hate much of it. Some current/recent obsessions: Replacements--Sorry Ma and Stink, Harry Nilsson, Orchestre Baobab, Ahmad Jamal, Ted Leo/Pharmacists, We're Twins comp, Thee More Shallows, Jimmy Smith, the jiggy and the crunk, Caetano Veloso's book--Tropical Truths, and staring at the cover of Oneida's Each One Teach One LP (and the music therein). Burma and The Clean, all-time faves.

To Tom Millar - you mean the Colonial Recordings USA Shakedowns????? Haven't heard their name bandied about much; this must be the place.

John, 43, married, 3 kids ages 7, 5, & 2. Special education teacher working with high school age kids with severe emotional/behavioral disorders. I reside in Georgia, USA.

I am a musician since childhood, 1st on drums, then guitar from age 13 to the present. In & out of many bands since age 14, with only 4 making it to vinyl &/or CD: Risky Shift, Hooker Diesel, the Opium Hello, and the Dot Commies. These very generally in the garage/psych vein. Just when it appeared i might find myself in the vanguard of a bit of a 'southern paisley underground' thing, it all went to hell. Such is life.

I am very much into psychedelic and drone stuff, free jazz, some noise, and some avant-garde classical things, as well as bizarre folk.

Some of my favorite artists at the moment include:
Peter Brotzmann, Devendra Banhart, Caroliner, total, Six Organs of Admittance, Troum, Avarus, Avey Tare & Panda Bear, Anaksimandros, Acid Mothers temple, Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, K. Stockhausen, William Parker, Mainliner, Ramleh, Skullflower, Sightings, Fursaxa, the Iditarod, the Birdtree, Kinski, Surface of Eceon, Paul Flaherty's projects, and Microphones. All-time heroes include the likes of Patti Smith, Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, Plan 9, Dream Syndicate, Lyres, Black Sabbath, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Stones/Kinks/Beatles/Who/Yardbirds/Animals, Pretty Things, Frank Zappa, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, Screaming Trees, tons of bands in the original punk vanguard - especially Ramones, Damned, Buzzcocks, Jam,...

All the best to everybody...

Hi. I'm Jonathan, a 28 year old lawyer living in St. John's, Newfoundland with my girlfriend. I'm from London, Ontario, where I did my undergraduate degree and was the entertainment editor of the student newspaper (I spent far more time doing the latter than the former). Though music had been a passion long before I got to university, I'd say it was around that time that I really became exposed to a wide variety of music. I admit to being quite a serious brit-pop fan in it's hey day, but luckily got over that (for the most part). In 1999, my book about Radiohead, called From a Great Height, was published by ECW Press. Interestingly, that also pretty much ended my music writing as well, due to law school (though I just started a blog where I'm trying to get back into the writing thing).
Hmmm... I’m obsessed with CD shopping, though finances have forced me to control my spending (well, to a degree, at least). But there’s just something about flipping through a rack and finding something used and cheap, or that’s deleted, and it really makes my day.

My tastes have been changing quite a bit lately (largely due to ILM, I should add). Maybe not changing as much as expanding. About a year ago, I decided to dig deeper into soul music, because my interest had been piqued by a number of artists. I find myself still searching out and buying up cds by different soul artists. I'd say my current faves are Curtis Mayfield, J.J. Barnes, Sam Cooke, the Impressions, Marvin Gaye, Bobby "Blues" Bland, Donny Hathaway, Al Green, James Brown, Darrell Banks, Larry Saunders, William Bell, Otis Redding, James Carr, Aretha Franklin, Howard Tate and Stevie Wonder.

Aside from soul, I love jazz, blues, electronic music (though I'm more into the ambient/acoustic stuff), hip hop, post rock, shoegazer, alt-country, indie pop, slowcore, reggae, and so on. Some of my faves (aside from those mentioned above) include Outkast, Prefuse 73, David Bowie, Radiohead (still very obsessed with them), Shuggie Otis, David Holmes, Leadbelly, Bob Marley, Ulrich Schnauss, Beatles, Elvis Costello, Tim Buckley, MF Doom, Buck 65, Howlin' Wolf, Charles Mingus, Mos Def, Fourtet, Fridge, Shack, Gavin Friday, Sigur Ros, Black Heart Procession, Kinks, Divine Comedy, Scott Walker, Son House, Múm, Tom Waits, Mark Kozelek (including RHP and Sun Kil Moon), Uncle Tupelo, Mogwai, Posies, Elliott Smith, Notwist, Luke Haines/Auteurs, Sean Paul, Nas, Lambchop, Too Much Joy, DJ Shadow, The Smiths, Josh Rouse, El-P, Streets, Wonderstuff, Zombies, Pixies, Iggy Pop, Morrissey, Stooges, Animals That Swim, Jack, Arab Strap, and so on. I like lists. Sorry if I went on too much, there.

Anyway, I'm glad I found this page on ILM, because it's nice to read up on others whom I read posts from every day.

Oh, and while typing this out, I've been listening to Hint's album Portakabin Fever which is a really nice downtempo stuff.

Anyway, guess that's all. Hi everyone.

My name is Sarah. I'm eighteen years old and a freshman at Loyola University of Chicago, although since June I haven't lived in the city proper. At the moment, I'm in the process of looking for a roommate while enduring long commutes a few times a week. I'm majoring in English, and I hope to be a freelance writer eventually. Truman Capote is probably my biggest role model; if i can't write like him I'd at least like to live like him someday so I can talk smack about Jackie O and Gore Vidal.

My music fixation first reared its ugly head when I was about six or seven when my parents made the mistake of buying me a colossal Sony boom box on which I proceeded to wear out a Beach Boys Greatest Hits Vol. 1 tape. It was really the purchase of Pulp's This Is Hardcore (still my favourite of theirs) at fourteen that brought me to where I am today in the musical sense. I had a drawn-out Britpop/anglophile phase throughout my mid-teens but I've moved away from most of those bands, thankfully.

These days I'm mostly fixated on music made between 1960 and 1980, especially psych, garage, proto-punk, freakbeat, baroque pop, yé-yé, New York punk, krautrock, easy listening, classic country, tropicalia, bossa nova, group sounds, Bollywood, coked-out seventies popular music (earlier this summer I made a box set when I had too much time on my hands), (northern) soul, R&B, and funk. I also have a weakness for a bit of eighties new wave and synth-pop, Indian classical music, dreampop, classic power pop, qawwali, free jazz, and what they call incredibly strange music. I particularly enjoy the music of Burt Bacharach, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Phil Spector, The Left Banke, The Zombies, Forever Amber, The Blades of Grass, The Move, The Velvet Underground, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Gaslight Radio, The Scene Creamers, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, the MC5, Serge Gainsbourg, Michel Polnareff, Camera Obscura, Jean-Michel Caradec, Big Star, Television, The Lovin' Spoonful, Honeybus, Syd Barrett, Alexander Spence, Joe Meek, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, The Out Crowd, Jeff Buckley, Statuesque, Julie Doiron, Jimmy Webb, Lee Hazlewood, Donovan, Popol Vuh, and, well...I'll stop before this gets even more out of hand.

I've been in two bands in the past but haven't made music in some time. I have read a lot of books and publications about music in the past. So far, I have have not had my writing published anywhere. I'm either very busy or very lazy, whichever explanation you prefer. Through a few twists of fate, there are small pictures of me in two magazines (Anthem and Lumpen) that are out now across the country. Exciting, eh? (Not really.)

Nah, that's uncool. I'd prefer to say hi. Hi there!

The box in question was pretty fucking excessive itself...had I ended up putting it on disc (my old computer's burner broke around the time I finished downloading everything) it might've been as many as ten discs. A friend suggested I prune it down to seven, assigning each a letter from C-O-C-A-I-N-E.

''You've got great taste, John. Stick around!!''

John of course has been around for quite a while, which is great!

I don't post here all that often, because I spend most of my internet message board time over at Barbelith, where I'm one of the moderators of the music forum there. That music forum is generally way more boring than this, but very seldom obnoxious, which goes a long way for me, personally. I used to be really, really obnoxious online when I was younger. I used to post as "the bbc" on the FMBB back in the late 90s, and I understand 100% why a lot of those people still hate me. I was a total moron back then. I'd like to think that I'm not a moron anymore, but you can draw your own conclusions.

I mostly just post here when I'm extremely bored, and I only ever seem to a) get into ridiculous arguments when I'm in a bad mood b) post innocuous fluff to the POX threads or c) defend some music that I feel someone is unfairly dissing. That's about it.

(please?)
-- M Matos (michaelangelomato...), September 29th, 2003.

Suffer, li'l Mattos, SUFFERRRRR! ;)

Bands/artists I love: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Cecil Taylor, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Peter Brotzmann, Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Dimmu Borgir, Grave, Strapping Young Lad, Keiji Haino, Les Rallizes Denudes, Merzbow, Spirit Caravan, Saint Vitus, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, pre-1983 ZZ Top, Underworld, DJ Krush, Tricky's first two albums, Charles Mingus, Matthew Shipp, David S. Ware, Other Dimensions In Music, Sunny Murray, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Vital Remains, Mortician, High On Fire...

In the meantime, you can always go here if you need something to do that badly.

Just don't expect a lot of hidden gems in the box. It's about as subtle as a sledgehammer...or, well, "More Than A Feeling," which has been stuck in my head for the past 36 hours.

I'm João Pedro Almeida, almost 26, and I must be the only ILMer from Portugal. I have a Materials Engineering degree, and earn some money from jobs I don't like, as I would really like to make a living out of music. I do spend much of my money in CD's though, as I am yet another compulsive music buyer. (The count is now on 1293, CD's only)

My taste in music is composed by: Yes, Genesis (w/PG), The Smashing Pumpkins, Fugazi, Blur, Radiohead, Nirvana, Throwing Muses, Pixies, Anathema, My Dying Bride, Tool, Steve Albini production, fuzz guitar, fuzz bass guitar, dreamy soundscapes, Duran Duran's 1st album, a lot of indie bands, some more prog and a few metal bands.

I am now playing bass on a band that I don't really like, but it's that or nothing, and I really need to play to improve technique.

I am now listening to Maudlin of the Well's "My Fruit Psychobells... a Seed Combustible". It's 21:26 GMT. See ya.

Lately I've been listening to a lot of Gram Parsons & Bonnie Prince Billy, counterbalanced by large doses of Birchville Cat Motel, Kaoru Abe/Masayuki Takayanagi duos, and Alan Licht/Tamiro Shiraishi duos. Its a yin/yang week for me. Charlambides & Troum have also been hitting the spot late in the evening... :)

1. They had to be top 40 singles in the US charts.
2. They had to be released from 1970-1979.
3. Each song had to be one that I personally enjoyed.
4. They had to, in some way, evoke the mental image of cocaine, polyester, Quaaludes, 70's porn, Studio 54, etc.

So don't gribe about obvious omissions--this was meant to be a very subjective project. That said, it was a lot of work. So here it is, in one huge clump:

Wild Cherry--Play That Funky Music
Eddie Money--Baby Hold On
Fleetwood Mac--Say That You Love Me
The Tubes--Don't Touch Me There
Rod Stewart--Maggie May
The Grass Roots--Sooner Or Later
Alicia Bridges--I Love The Nightlife (Disco 'Round)
The Captain and Tennille--Love Will Keep Us Together
The Partridge Family--I Think I Love You
Manfred Mann's Earth Band--Blinded By The Light
Rod Stewart--Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright)
America--Sister Golden Hair
Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show--Cover Of Rolling Stone
Blondie--Heart Of Glass
Abba--Dancing Queen
Gloria Gaynor--I Will Survive
The Jackson 5--I Want You Back
LaBelle--Lady Marmalade
Boston--More Than A Feeling
The Bee Gees--Night Fever
Rod Stewart--I Know I'm Losing You
The Rolling Stones--Miss You
Heart--Magic Man
Roberta Flack--Killing Me Softly With His Song
The Carpenters--Superstar
Chicago--If You Leave Me Now
Lynyrd Skynyrd--Free Bird
Marvin Gaye--Let's Get It On
Chic--Good Times
The Rolling Stones--Brown Sugar
The Bee Gees--How Deep Is Your Love
Stevie Wonder--Superstition
The Jackson 5--ABC
Carole King--It's Too Late
Blue Oyster Cult--(Don't Fear) The Reaper
Chic--Le Freak
KC and the Sunshine Band--(That's The Way) I Like It
Elton John--Your Song
David Bowie--Fame
Nick Lowe--Cruel To Be Kind
Gilbert O'Sullivan--Alone Again (Naturally)
Edwin Starr--War
Looking Glass--Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)
Isaac Hayes--Theme From 'Shaft'
Neil Young--Heart Of Gold
Donna Summer--Hot Stuff
The Village People--YMCA
Terry Jacks--Seasons In The Sun
The Eagles--Desperado
Marvin Gaye--What's Going On
KC and the Sunshine Band--Get Down Tonight
Starland Vocal Band--Afternoon Delight
Carl Douglas--Kung Fu Fighting
Abba--Fernando
Al Green--Let's Stay Together
Kiss--Beth
Billy Paul--Me And Mrs. Jones
Andy Gibb--I Just Want To Be Your Everything
The Hues Corporation--Rock The Boat
Tony Orlando and Dawn--Knock Three Times
Nilsson--Without You
Todd Rundgren--Hello, It's Me
The Commodores--Three Times A Lady
Carly Simon--You're So Vain
Rod Stewart--Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
Hot Butter--Popcorn
Norman Greenbaum--Spirit In The Sky
The Sweet--Fox On The Run
Exile--Kiss You All Over
The Emotions--Best Of My Love
Donna Summer--I Feel Love
Peaches and Herb--Reunited
Grand Funk Railroad--The Loco-Motion
The Osmonds--One Bad Apple
Black Sabbath--Iron Man
Thin Lizzy--The Boys Are Back In Town
Deep Purple--Smoke On The Water
Kansas--Dust In The Wind
Hall and Oates--Sara Smile
Golden Earring--Radar Love
Stealers Wheel--Stuck In The Middle With You
Joe Jackson--Is She Really Going Out With Him?
Todd Rundgren--I Saw The Light
Alice Cooper--Eighteen
Nazareth--Love Hurts
Styx--Babe
Foreigner--Cold As Ice
Cheap Trick--I Want You To Want Me
The Raspberries--Go All The Way
Elvis Presley--Suspicious Minds
Bread--Everything I Own
Gary Wright--Dream Weaver
Meatloaf--Paradise By The Dashboard Light
T. Rex--Bang A Gong (Get It On)
The Bay City Rollers--Saturday Night
Gary Glitter--Rock And Roll (Parts 1 & 2)
Mott The Hoople--All The Young Dudes
Heart--Crazy On You
Foghat--Slow Ride
Eric Carmen--All By Myself
The Edgar Winter Group--Free Ride
The Sweet--Ballroom Blitz
Linda Ronstadt--You're No Good
Rod Stewart--You're In My Heart
The Trammps--Disco Inferno
The Village People--In The Navy
Foreigner--Hot Blooded
Blue Swede--Hooked On A Feeling
Rick Derringer--Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo
10cc--The Things We Do For Love
Supertramp--The Logical Song
War--Why Can't We Be Friends?
Bachman-Turner Overdrive--Takin' Care Of Business
The Moody Blues--Nights In White Satin
Barry Manilow--Copacabana
Electric Light Orchestra--Don't Bring Me Down
Bread--Baby I'm A-Want You
Bill Conti and His Orchestra--Gonna Fly Now (Theme From Rocky)
Peter Frampton--Baby I Love Your Way
Grand Funk Railroad--We're An American Band
Eddie Money--Two Tickets To Paradise
Patti Smith Group--Because The Night
Carly Simon--Nobody Does It Better
Cat Stevens--Wild World
Foreigner--Double Vision
Yvonne Elliman--If I Can't Have You
The Hollies--The Air That I Breathe
The Stylistics--Betcha By Golly, Wow
Michael Jackson--Rock With You
Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose--Too Late To Turn Back Now
Elvis Presley--Burnin' Love
Rare Earth--I Just Want To Celebrate
Hall and Oates--Rich Girl
Minnie Riperton--Lovin' You
Dan Hill--Sometimes When We Touch
Stevie Wonder--You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
Rose Royce--Car Wash
Sly and the Family Stone--Thank You (Falletin Me Be Mice Elf Agin)
The Jaggerz--The Rapper
Bill Withers--Ain't No Sunshine
Stephen Stills--Love The One You're With
The Doobie Brothers--Jesus Is Just Alright
Lee Michaels--Do You Know What I Mean
Sly and the Family Stone--Family Affair
The Staple Singers--I'll Take You There
Argent--Hold Your Head Up
The Chi-Lites--Oh Girl
The O'Jays--Back Stabbers
Curtis Mayfield--Superfly
The O'Jays--Love Train
Redbone--Come And Get Your Love
Al Green--Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy)
Maria Muldaur--Midnight At The Oasis
Elton John--The Bitch Is Back
J. Geils Band--Must Of Got Lost
Ace--How Long
Van McCoy--The Hustle
John Sebastian--Welcome Back
Marvin Gaye--Got To Give It Up (Part 1)
Glen Campbell--Southern Nights
Gallery--Nice To Be With You
Brewer and Shipley--One Toke Over The Line
Fleetwood Mac--Dreams

I like to write angry emails to pitchfork.
Also, I enjoy finding Chris Ott's name pop up in strange places and imagine him sharing the same office as Josh Weber.

I'm into Joe Turner and Wynonie Harris. Neil Young and the Go-Betweens. REM and Fannypack. I also think that the Libertines had last years best rock record. Achewood makes me laugh and I'm 25.

I like Wynonne Harris, too.

(cue Smothers's voice): I like the way "Snnnnrub" thinks!

Nik, 29, work for a major financier of arms, also a major high street finance thing. I find my job easy and keep getting promoted. I solve problems. Am only there until I can get hold of some shares. With that I want to move to Barcelona 4evah; I start Spanish class on Monday. Will come in useful for my second Sonar in 2004.

I like this music a lot. I also like loads of other stuff. I used to run a e-zine that we shut down after 6 issues over 2 years. We were behind the infamous "Wire Drinking Game" as featured in Anne Hilde-Nest's bitstream column. I think its totally significant and cool that I immigrated to England in 1988, in the midst of Acieeed House mayhem and D-Mob/Cathy Dennis. Er whatelse, I have a tatoo. I DJed in public 4 times this year, one of them being in London, one of them was work work (!!???), and one of them actually had a whole room of dancing people having fun. I made some bootlegs before bootlegs became big. I don't have too many clothes, but as I get older and prepared to spend more on nice items. I invented Ultimate frisbee independently of the real innventors. I used to live in Nigeria.

God I'm bored, maybe I should've gone out,

and Hi everyone.

I'll use very short sentences to indicate shyness.

Real name's Michael. Born in Latvia. Live in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Interned at the Voice. Wrote for Salon, Time Out and (deep breath) Pitchfork. Have incurred ILM's wrath as a reviewer. Hope to soon incur it as a singer.

I grew up on a bunch of religious music and showtunes because my parents are absolutely square. Then I got hooked on the rock from an older kid who was a friend of the family (no, not the crack rock). Van Halen and U2 were early favorites, but I drifted into indie rock for most of the '90s.

Last week's best listens were The Earlies, Robbie Fulks, and The Izzys.

i also like tired jokes, apparently.

mark e : 39, married with 2 kids, domestic bliss with too many tantrums, bristol, crappy IT job, crappily designed music website fills the void caused by lack of parental love, too many cds that i never listen to but still can't part with (much to my wifes annoyance).
summary : i have a good life, but can't spell, or punctuate properly.
music : david bowie, age of chance, prince, madness, cabaret voltaire, shriekback, foetus, on-u sound system, devo.

my one weakness : i dont blame ned.

I often ask myself this.

Good stuff I listen to: Starving Weirdos, Wolf Eyes, Kan Mikami, Les Rallizes Denudes, Animal Collective, Fushitsusha, The Stooges, Anthony Braxton, John Coltrane, Noah Howard, Double Leopards, Zaïmph, Hototogisu, No Neck, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Skullflower, MC5, Miles Davis, The Fall, Fairport Convention, Fraction, 13th Floor Elevators, Filthy Turd, Pedestrian Deposit, Graveyards, Mouthus, Julie Mittens, Wold, Leviathan, Prurient, Steeleye Span, Bowie, Hair Police, Dead Machines, Spykes, Blizzardz, Wu Tang, The Rita, Burning Star Core, Can't, John Wiese, Steve Reich, Lambsbread...and more..

You wish, haaa!

Fixed. And welcome again o' course. Tiit, nothing from you, you grinning Balt!

Do you, like, also like Flairck?

never heard of them!

do you know them or something?

Neat, I saw N&W somewhere in Ohio awhile back - I think they opened for The Decemberists and were a duo at the time. wikipedia says that you play bass, piano, and sing, and that you have perfect pitch.

I'm Steve, I don't have a moustache anymore, I record songs and post on messageboards.

I'm sleeve, male, 40, done public radio since '84, been a sound guy, roadie, that kinda stuff. I have been obsessed by The Fall, Nurse With Wound, Muslimgauze, and the Legendary Pink Dots along with various others. I've probably been posting here for a little over a year and a half.

I may work Tee Pee Records soon (lord help me, I quit my internship at Infidel Records because my superiors tried to eat my soul whilst I was tripping on mushrooms). My future goals are to: learn drums, learn sound engineering, yell at the guy who booked the Siberia gig I'll be playing at in April for misspelling psychedelic as "psychadelic" and charging too much at the door ($10 shows for nyc bands playing in nyc is bullshit, especially if there's no such thing as a guest list).

Marc Ribot is my overlord but I get wasted to Wino.

Yes! Twice. We opened for Devotchka at the Varsity in June, and then played at 7th St. on our own in November.

I first heard about the band on dcist.com

Oh dear god.

xpost:OH THANK YOU.

Were you the only ones on the bill at the entry?

Whew!

Were you the only ones on the bill at the entry?

No, we played with locals the Winter Blanket, and Corrina Repp, who traveled with us on our whole tour...

I've seen you then, which is why I remember the name. I know Doug and Stef from the Winter Blanket through my girlfriend, and now that I can attach the name to a place and some other bandnames, I remember liking your stuff quite a bit. So hi there.

Right now I am listening to Sir Lord Baltimore and Anonymous, both courtesy of the Anthology Records site.

i want to learn portugese so i can understand what gilberto gil, tom ze and caetano veloso are singing about. i've never heard any brazilian music i didn't like. gil can get me through anything. so can al green. i listen to i'm still in love with you on the walk to school every morning. i've usually had two cups of coffee. it's a good way to wake up.

i hate black people but less than i used to. i've been listening to a lot of ghostface recently; he's black. so is prince, who i love with all my heart. and those aren't the only black people who have made music i like! i no longer hate fun. i like to dance. you don't want to see me dance unless you're as drunk as i am.

i like the boredoms a lot. my favorites are super roots 5, super ae and chocolate synthesizer. i like can. i like 'noise'--kevin drumm, joe colley, john wiese, damion romero, spencer yeh, aaron dilloway. i love stroking my chin, especially when i'm high, so i also really like toshimaru nakamura, sachiko m, kaffe matthews, greg kelley, dean roberts, jason lescalleet, otomo yoshihide, polwechsel & related, fennesz, oren ambarchi, morton feldman, amm, keith rowe, etc. ugh i promised myself i wouldn't do lists. and then i broke my promise. sorry!

two more things. i don't see how it is possible for me to not like anything made between the years 1970 and 1977. thank you ilx for further confirming my suspicion by turning me on to fleetwood mac and steely dan.

-- M Matos (michaelangelomato...) (webmail), July 8th, 2002 8:00 PM.

no.

how could i have forgotten about that?

10) Wolf Eyes - Dread
9) Wire - Pink Flag
8) Ruins - Burning Stone
7) Kraftwerk - Computerworld
6) Stooges - Fun House
5) My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
4) Can - Tago Mago
3) Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
2) Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
1) Sonic Youth - Sister

-- LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (william...), March 15th, 2004.

story: i ended up at that bar the next day to get my bank card and someone played 'love and happiness'!

I dig jazz, hip-hop, a bit of indie rock.

Transient Top 10:

1. "White Light/White Heat"--The Velvet Underground
2. "Illmatic"--Nas
3. "A Tribute to Jack Johnson"--Miles Davis
4. "Highway 61 Revisited"--Bob Dylan
5. "Enter the Wu-Tang (The 36 Chambers)"--Wu Tang
6. "The Low End Theory"--A Tribe Called Quest
7. "Unknown Pleasures"--Joy Division
8. "Paul's Boutique"--Beastie Boys
9. "Giant Steps"--John Coltrane
10. "Wildflowers Vol. 2"--V/A

I stumbled across ILM about a year ago while Googling and have kept coming back for more. I pretty much love everything. Right now I'm obsessing over the Boredoms, Captain Beefheart, Of Montreal, Fela Kuti, the new LCD Soundsystem and the new Patrick Wolf, Burial, Busdriver, Why? and Isolee. I have weaknesses for classic rock, cheesy clubby gay or euro house, comedy/novelty records, goth and power ballads. My favorite album of 2006 was Joanna Newsom "Ys". I like My Chemical Romance. The only things I really can't deal with are modern pop country and "modern rock" like Nickelback. I can always rely on David Bowie, Fugazi, the Smiths, Tom Waits, the Minutemen, the Damned, MF Doom, Brian Eno, Sleater-Kinney, Zappa, Bob Dylan, the Stooges and John Coltrane. I don't pretend to know anything more about anything that I already do, which is more than the normal human being should but less than many do. I'm nice.

Its reign as best in America is in dispute until I've been there to judge (after Lotus of Siam in Vegas my standards are *incredibly* high). But best in NYC is good enough for me!

ilx confuses and upsets me. I don't know why I come here.

I found I Love Music through I Hate Music. My unhealthy obsessions generally relate to Dexy's, Scritti and Prefab Sprout. I'm 34 and I write a blog loosely relating my toddler daughter's reactions when I play my favourite records, but mainly giving myself another platform. I like coffee.

Perhaps the name Wildrose might have clued you in a bit.

Denied.

no, I've only lived here since 1990. before that I lived in Bloomington Indiana where I'm still pretty sure I must have met ILMer earlnash. I grew up in Charlottesville Virginia listening to the great radio station WTJU.

(xxpost to Haikunym)

Dan, you've been born twice?
Well dun!
:)

I'm Rodney and I hate black people, but not as much as I hate white people. The other ethnicities, with the exceptian of Papau New Guinean tribes unexposed to western civilization, fall somewhere in between.

WHY U BRAKE MY WITEY HART

I'm more interested in the music I haven't heard but recently have been listening to a lot of stuff from the late 70s and early 80s although I'll probably change my mind next week. I'm pretty fickle really.

Just starting to get into Ash Ra Tempel and the cosmic disco stuff is fascinating for the odd track. Several times a year with music you hear something that just totally floors you. To me that's why I listen to it.

Current Winamp tonight is...

1. Haircut One Hundred - Evil Smokestacking Baby (4:35)
2. Tarwater - Arkestra (2:16)
3. Bark Psychosis - A Street Scene (5:35)
4. Force Of Nature - Unstoppable (6:05)
5. The Police - Walking on The Moon (5:01)
6. Underworld - Most 'Ospitable (5:53)
7. David Bowie - Heroes (3:37)
8. Fire Engines - Candyskin (2:54)
9. Underworld - 215 Miles (20:02)
10. Andreas Vollenweider - Behind the gardens,behind the wall,under the tree (7:14)
11. Cluster & Eno - Foreign Affairs (3:31)
12. Eno, Moebius, Roedelius - The Belldog (6:17)
13. Anders Ilar - Clouds Are Made In Factories (14:05)
14. Brian Eno/Harold Budd - Late October (4:37)
15. Ash Ra Tempel - Shuttlecock (8:27)
16. Sinema - In Your Eyes (Playgroup Remix) (5:50)
17. Playgroup - Bring It On (Version) (5:03)
18. Force of Nature - Liberate (6:48)
19. Force Of Nature - Transmute (4:50)
20. Force Of Nature - Sequencer (6:24)
21. Rod Modell - Forester Park (6:53)
22. Ash Ra Tempel - Slightly Delayed.mp3 (6:50)

Burn in hell, cracker.

Right now I'm getting a hookup with some job at the Times (not that one) writing for the music department,
probably because they need a "fresh" b(m)eat, and I'm a young J major in on the metro scene anyway,
so I fit something of a profile
but 1- even though most eyeroll when I say the name of the Place, whatever man, it's a job
2- except I don't know if I'm enough the quippy bitch to yet survive myself, so I'm still deciding if even want to work in this field. I'm not yet completely pro-trained. I'm too careless apathetic. I'm potentially intelligent but not enough music fact-checked
and frankly
I'm finding it hard to keep up with the volume of music currently available and forthcoming through the interwire. I used to check the mu-news everyday, but I...stopped caring when the new bubblicious band was touring because most of them are trash performers. I love music a and probably know about more artists than hell of a lot more than my peers (but much less than most here), but despite slipping back on in-the's I do still want to press pause something and catch up to see if I've skipped over any life-changers
but you just have to nevermind it because the car is up the road already. so...just grab the scenery that you can, okay. Plus, there's so much flipping garbage music abound and the music kids I know that stick by it are so relentless in their ignorance of better histories
..that maybe I could make some sort of a difference. in my area, at least.
I'm passionate, just still really really green.
Anyway.
But my palette has been mostly cleansed of artificial, so do I trust my taste.
Anyway, if I don't want the job that bad (do I?), it's probably not a good idea to stick my head in the sand
but
I don't know, we'll see if I figure out how to breathe.

I like to dance on the weekends.
I think most of the DJs in D.C. are uglytired setlists, but I've yet to come across anyone (live) who can fully understand why I believe this, (is ILM the sole conglomerate of serious fanaticals? maybe I'm just too young.) so I mostly keep my mouth shut about it.
I guess I should name some things I like. Dolly Mixture, Rakim, The Chills' "Pink Frost," The Sound, V;, Yaz's "Only You," Hood, Bush Tetras, The Knife, Flying Lizards, Art Bears, Liliput. I really like Obey the New Wave.
I rently made a mix for with 86 tracks that fit on a CD and gave it to a few people, including Mx Tndra, who informed me I unknowingly put a track next to his about him. funny. I like his work, as well.

One tries. (I don't WANT to be mean, trust me.)

Are you on a stalking tip, Ned? I'm South West London if that helps the itinerary.

Yup, you're all dead. No, it's just that I'll be in town in early March -- thread on ILE is here:

So I'm back in London from March 4th to March 10th

interesting. i'm a full dog's year older than sleeve, and yet i've managed to do public radio only since '92 :)
oh, and to say nuthin' of me never been a roadie or sound guy or anything.

and i still haven't met any of teh ilxors in this mysterious "real life".

I was once a proud upholder of the station's no co-host policy. You get better at doing radio a whole lot faster when you have to sit in the studio and do all the talking, cueing et cetera on your own.

For further introductory purposes, I'm 25 years old, an ex-record store clerk and a current assistant music supervisor for television commercials.

I am the Benito Mussolini of ILX'S All Noise Dude Summertime Fun Board and Pickle Bar which has been around since 2004. I've been on ILX since 2002 or so. I may be a jerk, but moderation and administration is timely! I am currently working on a music project using Pure Data and I also have a blog that posts mp3s sometimes.

There is a posh Thai place in L.I.C. that is really fantastic though Dan.

Obviously, I should be on Chowhound now, sorry for the intrusion.

well, as a college freshman, I was lucky enough to land in a town where there was a crazy cable FM station full of weirdos and like 10,000 LPs that had been around since '75 or so. So it wasn't quite "real" FM, but it was broadcast over the cable TV network and any subscriber could listen by hooking it up to their recevier. their presence in town was fairly major for such a dubious proposition, and they eventually morphed into a legit FM station long after I left. I started doing actual FM broadcasting in 1990 when I moved to Eugene.

Okay, so essentially you're saying that when I next visit New York you are the guy planning where all the FAPs will be.

I am hoping to start a new life in the next couple years, somewhere in the Southwest

Nice! I suspect you're not looking at LA. Hope all the plans come together.

Do the billionaires ever confess their musical fantasies?

Forgot to add: if I'm known for anything on this board, that would be my unwavering, simpering adulation of everything Luke Haines deigns to commit to CD.

Now how 'original' was he actually, eh?

I have made a 25 year study of NYC Thai food.

Okay, so essentially you're saying that when I next visit New York you are the guy planning where all the FAPs will be.

I will be pleased and honored to do so! (I almost always "FAP" anyway...)

Sorry if this looks funny, my html skillz are not very good ("Baby My Phrasing Is Bad").

Thanks Ned!

Take the opportunities as you can find them. You only live once!

He can drum.

Wow. Really sobering to go back and read this today.

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Now that you’ve got a kid in college, maybe?

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