lol
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 7 September 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
All trios are Norwegian.
― I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Friday, 7 September 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
All ILM posters are liars
― jmm, Friday, 7 September 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
I feel like the Eagles worm has been turning for years now, but still no one is ready to say the Eagles are good. Until now folks. The Eagles are Pretty Good
― strong deutan (rip van wanko), Friday, September 7, 2018 1:03 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I have a constantly running loop of that lebowski clip in my head, but never more than last night when I was in a duane reade after hell commute that was playing take it easy
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 7 September 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
jmm otm
― Evan, Friday, 7 September 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
― strong deutan (rip van wanko), Friday, September 7, 2018 10:03 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"i can't tell you why" is an amazing song but i can't join you here just yet
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Friday, 7 September 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
the eagles are good
i can't tell you why is really good
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 7 September 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
other eagles songs i like: hotel california, new kid in town, try and love again, take it easy, peaceful easy feeling, witchy woman
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 7 September 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
The High Llamas were (are?) a million times better than their 'parents', the Beach Boys.
― Daniel Giraffe, Friday, 7 September 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
that's not controversial, it's just wrong
― Οὖτις, Friday, 7 September 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
the only good Beach Boy was/is Mike Love.
― omar little, Friday, 7 September 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
High Llamas relationship to the Beach Boys was always tangential at best (and related to a very brief period/narrow slice of their catalog) and was way over-emphasized in their press materials.
I would take even the low points of M.I.U. over the High Llamas tbh
― Οὖτις, Friday, 7 September 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
No artist at all has a "New Jersey" - a huge event album that ultimately feels a bit hollow & signals a career decline
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Friday, 7 September 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
You could say that about any band that has the opportunity to develop someone else's idea further, if it works for you.
xps
― Evan, Friday, 7 September 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
There are a bunch of good Eagles songs. Every one of them was released as a single, so a compilation is all you need. There's not one Eagles album worth listening to all the way through. The Long Run comes closest.
The Beach Boys have, like, two good songs ("Good Vibrations" and "Don't Worry Baby"), and I could happily go the rest of my life without hearing either one of them ever again.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 7 September 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
Can't think of any.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 7 September 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
Black metal sucks. Even the "good" stuff is bad enough that it's worth handing the whole genre over to the Nazis and walking away. Let 'em have it.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 7 September 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
Does it have to be a controversial opinion that we actually hold or are we allowed to just say something we think might wind people up?
― Daniel Giraffe, Friday, 7 September 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
Saying a band or genre you don't like sucks isn't controversial or even a wind-up tbh.
― everything, Friday, 7 September 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
that late-90s Brian Wilson worship was so tiresome
― strong deutan (rip van wanko), Friday, 7 September 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
Counterpoint: at a Silver Jews show, D. Berman did a sneering routine of saying, "What's the big deal with Brian Wilson? He's so overrated," etc.; which was equally annoying.
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Friday, 7 September 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
It could have been John Prine who wrote "Margaritaville."
― Pesto Mindset (Eazy), Friday, 7 September 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
Here's an (actually held) controversial opinion: while I've been into the Silver Jews since I first ran across "The Arizona Record" (filed under Pavement on a rack), and I think they have some terrific records, I also think Berman is significantly overvalued as a lyricist by most fans. He has some good one-liners, but his lyrics tend to be strings of "clever" non-sequiturs that only sometimes land. He's seen as some kind of rock poet.
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Friday, 7 September 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
― strong deutan (rip van wanko), Friday, September 7, 2018 10:03 AM
We have a daily listening thread that'll prove you wrong.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 September 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
you could make a dud list for most anybody
― strong deutan (rip van wanko), Friday, 7 September 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
i remember Howard Stern once had a guy on who claimed it was ok to drink your own urine and he did it daily, so they had the guy pee in a cup and drink it to prove it. it was pretty clear he was not very used to drinking his own urine.
― omar little, Friday, 7 September 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
music is a fine hobbie for kids and teenagers but should be outgrown (outside of casual interest) early in adulthood
― flopson, Friday, 7 September 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
yes
99% of the music criticism on ILM is actually bad sociology
― the late great, Friday, 7 September 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
There's music for adults and music for children/teenagers. Many adults refuse to a) admit this and b) learn the difference.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 7 September 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
apollonian >>> dionysian
― the late great, Friday, 7 September 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
xp - rude
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Friday, 7 September 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
90% of piano ballads suck
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 7 September 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
I heard "Take It to the Limit" on the radio last night and man that song sounds great, I'm pro-Eagles now
― crüt, Friday, 7 September 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
This is very, very good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqhYXLVYQJ8
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 7 September 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
controversial opinion: randy meisner sings "take it to the limit" better than etta james
― crüt, Friday, 7 September 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
Retro soul covers of rock songs (Charles Bradley's version of Black Sabbath's "Changes" comes immediately to mind) frequently suck, and are mostly championed by people who don't want to be seen liking the original version.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 7 September 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
we definitely need another one of these threads
lots of opinions about people here instead of music what a surprise
― brimstead, Friday, 7 September 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
*falls off high horse into trough of metallica blackened whiskey*
Probably not controversial, but have just realised that most of the music I don't really get, from The Eagles and Steely Dan through to 80s hardcore punk, yacht rock, hair metal, grunge and most of the US indie music of the last 25 years, it's all straight white American guys with guitars.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 7 September 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
Kenny G and Chuck Mangione are the two most influential and important jazz artists of the 20th century and it isn't close.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 7 September 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
Yeah, but only if you consider 'important' and 'influential' to be synonyms.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 7 September 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
xxp humblebrag much, lol
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Friday, 7 September 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
didn't mean it that way, honest! I listen to a lot of music by straight non-American white guys with guitars for example.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 7 September 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
man i love Steely Dan so much
― brimstead, Friday, 7 September 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, September 7, 2018 5:02 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
agreed 100%, but I've known this basically all my life
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 7 September 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
three chords and the truth, that's all you really need
― strong deutan (rip van wanko), Friday, 7 September 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
that's a quote about classic country songwriting, tbf
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Friday, 7 September 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
Joy Division was the best band of all times. In the early days of ILM this was less controversial, I think.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 7 September 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
what is "yacht rock"
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 September 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
http://www.yachtrock.com/yacht-or-nyacht-jay-gradient/
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 7 September 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
plus, david gates made all those cool surf records with the wrecking crew. did America make cool surf records with glenn campbell and leon russell and hal blaine? i don't think they did.
https://i.discogs.com/rZYjhEmORe7x2LPjdepPyCR9eY0qX_a3bPNd6b3coxU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:597/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIzOTg4/MjktMTYxNzczMDYy/OC0yMjcyLmpwZWc.jpeg
https://i.discogs.com/RuMZQZCn5l1gNbA1dIR_fFXVL2PDpW_ZhGZFsgc2q0M/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI1ODU4/NjUtMTU3MTU4MjYy/OS0xMTEwLmpwZWc.jpeg
https://i.discogs.com/IXN0tE8mBWtc40aJXHN6HQ_EKvrbhG9s3tcD7CCmZ_4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI5NDc3/NDItMTUyNDQ0MzM4/Ni02MTY2LmpwZWc.jpeg
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:07 (four weeks ago) link
actually i have no idea what america was doing before america.
back when david gates and leon russell were the fencemen.
https://i.discogs.com/HBJ0bCxE4eUmu64KRbXbh7rbWINkjB98W84fUW5AiF0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:591/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1NjQ2/ODA5LTE1OTUxNjc2/NjQtMjUyNS5qcGVn.jpeg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdKiOocYCk4
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 14:10 (four weeks ago) link
enh, you're right. dewey and the gang were certainly not songwriting studio dwelling pros. they were coffee shoppers who somehow got lucky enough to get george martin's attention occasionally.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 15:38 (four weeks ago) link
Good collection from Australia:
David Gates - The Early Years 1962-1967
Url: https://www.discogs.com/release/9963232-David-Gates-The-Early-Years-1962-1967
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 16:30 (four weeks ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOHe8uJXwAAxc3_?format=jpg&name=900x900
am i doing this right
― Indexed, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 16:50 (four weeks ago) link
most people on this board will agree with you
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 16:52 (four weeks ago) link
i've never listened to the chronic. i'm more of a nate dogg fan. i love those other ones though.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 16:54 (four weeks ago) link
i've never listened to doggystyle either. i'm more of a Above The Law kinda person. i do like "gin and juice".
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 16:56 (four weeks ago) link
that looks to be an excerpt from the list "boring ass mainstream classics that i don't want to ever hear or hear about ever again ever"
but ya i'd agree with those rankings, generally speaking.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:02 (four weeks ago) link
The only one of those albums I've heard front to back is 1989, so I have no idea how I'd rank them, but The Chronic is the one I'd be most likely to listen to, so I guess I'd put that on top.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:11 (four weeks ago) link
i do v much appreciate the based controp energy of putting the beatles immediately below all of those because fuck the stupid fucking bratles.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:24 (four weeks ago) link
that wasn't a typo, this is the controp thread 8)
xp re slovenly: weird that Thinking Of Empire is missing from spotify as all their other SST albums are up. it might be my favourite of their albums and may have the most appeal for your average indie/post-punk fan?
Thinking of Empire was never released on CD, which probably has something to do with it. Though there was a Saint Vitus album (I want to say the second one, Hallows Victim?) that suddenly appeared on CD a few years ago when Greg realised he could sell a few, I guess?
the band should get the new alliance stuff reissued at least (mostly because “sic/think” is secretly their best song and dammit, what a mood!).
Well, that’s why I did a little shopping around on Discogs a year into the pandemic and got some near-mint copies of their three New Alliance records for pretty reasonable prices (and a not-quite-mint copy of Drive It Home, Abbernathy).
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:29 (four weeks ago) link
do people actually prefer 1989 (taylor's version) to 1989 or are they just kissing the ring?
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:42 (four weeks ago) link
David Gates WAY more talented than Dr. Dre.
wrecking crew -vs- world class wreckin cru
hollywood -vs- compton fiiiiiiiite!!!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:51 (four weeks ago) link
xp that made me lol, too. it's the worst (Taylor's Version) relative to the original to my ears.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 18:06 (four weeks ago) link
wrecking crew -vs- world class wreckin cruhollywood -vs- compton fiiiiiiiite!!!― scott seward, Tuesday, May 21, 2024 10:51 AM (thirty-two minutes ago)
― scott seward, Tuesday, May 21, 2024 10:51 AM (thirty-two minutes ago)
Had to rack my brain but Jimmy Zavala played with both Jeff Skunk Baxter (on RStewart's Tonight I'm Yours) as well as with Dr. Dre on Efil4zaggin.
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 18:33 (four weeks ago) link
its a small world after all.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 18:40 (four weeks ago) link
Best of Bread much bester than America's Greatest Hits. America is all glopped up with CSN harmonies, not the Neil whine of the biggest hit. Best of Bread also has that old San Diego Padres typeface that I love. But across both records, so many gentle exhortations to lay down together, I gotta pour out the snifter of Harvey's Bristol Cream and ruin the shag carpet in front of the fireplace and leave for now.
― Bertold Brak (bendy), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 20:13 (four weeks ago) link
Best of Bread also has that old San Diego Padres typeface that I love
b a d r e
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 21:37 (four weeks ago) link
i didn't realize that the guy from the avalanches went on to be in bread (to say nothing of all the other connections). i love learning about shit like that. thanks scott. i will report back if i end up liking bread.
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 22:24 (four weeks ago) link
thought being in bread involved how you came into the world
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 22:29 (four weeks ago) link
scott you should listen to the chronic
― c u (crüt), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 22:33 (four weeks ago) link
co-sign would watch a first reaction vid
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 02:43 (three weeks ago) link