Who On ILM Has The Best And Worst Music Taste 2002

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Apart from yourself obviously.

Yeah we've done it before but things have changed. I said Alex in NYC back then but he likes loads of pop now. Also I've got a bit of an empty afternoon and need entertaining.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

there'll be tears before bedtime...

― zebedee (Jeff W), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Apart from myself, obviously.

Er, probably Tim F. off the top of my head. One of the rockists is worst.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, obvious point - having sucky music taste (or great music taste) IN NO WAY implies that you're stupid or inarticulate or even that you can't write well about it. Well it doesn't in my book.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

honourable mentions to gareth and ronan.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Good taste: Tim H, d k, Jeff W seems pretty OTM, Jess, Mark S, Mike Daddino

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom, are you trying to start FITE!s?

That said, the only person I can think of who's posted here repeatedly and exhibited abhorrent musical taste is that one guy who kept posting anti-rap stuff to the "rock vs rap" thread and also started a thread about how horrible Stevie Wonder was. I forget his alias, but it was something preposterous and stupid.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not trying to start FITEs cos I don't think having good or bad music taste is very important, especially not in discussion or writing. One regular contributor to FT would be maybe the 3rd last person on here I'd ask for a recommendation but that doesn't mean I dislike their writing or them.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I might be trying to start a FITE about whether taste is important though...

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

er, thanks Tom

howevah, "I've got a bit of an empty afternoon" = send snotty e-mails to 102 pt.2 defaulters, surely?

― Jeff W (Jeff W), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Alas Jeff W as I said on ILE there's a fuck-up with the home email. It tempts me with news of 475 new messages (all porn no doubt) but crashes if I send or receive.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Finney, Kellman, Harvell, Ewing, Hopkins.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

But what if your writing is mediocre and underdeveloped and your exquisite super-hep taste is ALL YOU'VE GOT OH GOD I'M LIVING A LIE *sob*

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:20 (twenty-three years ago)

the best taste = the closest to mine(?): Jess H,
but also waiting for recommendations from Tim Finney and Tom E, sometimes looking for tips of Marcello, Andy Kellmann and Bob Zemko.

― luke (luke), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I would say best taste: Siegbran! (except the trance ; )

But also Gareth, Omar, Michael W and Michael B.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Taste is important - but I think the best writers are aware of their own taste and how it guides them, and don't treat it as a sacrosanct truth (unless they do this for effect, christigau-style).

Maybe taste is like the wind & tide, and the listener is like a castaway clutching to a bit of flotsam - sometimes it'll wash you up on the beach of a gaugin island full of exotic fruits and babes, sometimes it will dash you on the rocks, sometimes it just takes you home, sometimes it takes you further and further out to sea.

it's kind of an external force shaped by random experience and neurological quirks - so if a writer tells me a little bit about why something hits them hard as a person it means more than outlining a series of logical rules about why something must be good. Or if they can at least acknowledge that their logical system is their own, not something immutable.

is this a bunch of hippy crap?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:39 (twenty-three years ago)

It should be painfully obvious that the ILMite with the best taste in music is yourself. :D

Actually, in my short time here, I've found that Nate Patrin has rather "good" (as in "similar-to-mine") taste in music...maybe I've still got that TS: Jimi Hendrix/Eddie Hazel thread stuck in my mind though. :D

Of coruse, it should be noted I've been here a rather short amount of time.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know who to say for worst, I think I have no real comprehension of Tom's tastes but that doesn't make them the worst really cos there is some common ground. I don't know, I could say Graham but I do like SEB, so you know it's not all bad!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

would it be facile to say that it's not what you like as much as how you like it?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Not at all. I like all sorts of shmutz, but I realize that the reason I do for the most part is merely that "it sounds good" or "I like the lyrics" and not, say, "I am king of all irony; tremble in the presence of my insincere love for cheesy bullshit" or "this is REAL music and not CRAP BY MACHINES". It's not a crime to like the Beastie Boys, but to like them because "they have nifty merch and I buy into their boho Free Tibet lifestyle" is pretty lame.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Poor Reading Comprehension! I mistook 'facile' for a synonym for 'trivial'. D'oh! It's before 9 AM, forgive me.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I wouldn't apply the categories best and worst for musical taste. Instead I can list the people who have the closest musical taste to mine. But this often seems to depend on the genre:

In general I often agree with Mark@Pitchfork and David Raposa.
I also like a lot of stuff Josh likes though there is a lot I don't (The Plan e.g.) and a lot I don't know. A lot of the indie Kate is/was into, I am into as well. Especially the droney stuff. Concerning Americana I rather trust bnw. Dan's comments on New Order and The Cure (with exceptions, eg The Top) are often OTM. For the postpunk/new wave years 1977-83 Dr.C is my guide though in general our tastes are rather diametric. And I occasionally agree with you, Tom concerning some UK indie, eg Wedding Present and Jesus and Mary Chain.

Others but I am not 100% sure: Sean Carruthers, Nitsuh, Sundar, Jody Beth.

And I still don't know what Mark S likes except MMM (or is that irony?).

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I said Alex in NYC back then but he likes loads of pop now.

Oooh... okay, I'll take the bait.

Why does liking pop/r'n'b/hip-hop imply having "good taste", and why does liking rock/indie imply "bad taste"?

The person with the best taste is the person who's taste most corresponds to mine - I like virtually all the records in Ronan's singles list and only a few of the records in Tim Finney's list. Does that mean Tim has worse taste? Probably not.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember a friend's brother saying once that he'd heard I had "great musical taste". I think all this meant was that I had loads of records. I don't really think the concept of good or bad musical taste has any validity. All you really mean when you say that someone has bad musical taste is that they like different music than you. And in attempting to imply that something subjective can be turned into something objective you are guilty of rockism.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

All you really mean when you say that someone has bad musical taste is that they like different music than you.
I'd say that they like music I hate or despise. Someone liking music I don't know or don't know enough about doesn't necessarily have a bad taste. But taste discussions are a waste of time anyway...

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Best taste: dleone, mark s, Douglas Wolk, hstencil

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Why does liking pop/r'n'b/hip-hop imply having "good taste", and why does liking rock/indie imply "bad taste"?

The person with the best taste is the person who's taste most corresponds to mine

Your second sentence answers your first Matt! ;) I don't think I've ever tried to claim taste is anything other than subjective.

Also back then I singled out Alex in NYC because even within the areas he did like I thought he liked some awful bands. Anyway it's not quite along those lines. Alex in NYC has (crudely) moved from saying "all pop is awful" to "nearly all pop is awful but I appreciate a good pop record when I hear it dammit", which is a shift in taste no matter what the dismissed genre was. All the people I mentioned as having particularly good taste like some indie (except maybe d k) and rock (except Tim).

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)

its me! I'm a tweeist.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

(i actually do like MMM alex, i just don't know where my copy has gone to, and i don't want to get it on CD as i think it will be wrecked by the digitalisation)

in the sense of sensible filters, i have terrible taste: i like almost everything, and i like liking things => apart from a tiny number of more or less "token" dislikes (=U2 haha), even ppl I am really quite critical of (=the Clash/the Jam/Van Morrison) have made records I very much like. There are records I am a bit baffled by other's love for — Perfect Teeth and Imperial ffrr — and projects who get what seems to me free-pass approval from weak reasons (Fishbone? but really I only know a couple of their LPs and they seem also to be ones disliked by Fishbone aficionados).

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

sorry that reads like it needs a big but: thus, BUT mainly I get bored when people announce tastes pro and con for reasons that seem to me worn out by overuse

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

''(i actually do like MMM alex, i just don't know where my copy has gone to, and i don't want to get it on CD as i think it will be wrecked by the digitalisation)''

I can confirm this.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Most of the people on my 'good taste' list are there because of the records they do like not because of those they don't. Mark S is the exception.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Just out of curiosity, can you expand on what you consider to be good taste, Tom? Is there a criteria independent of your own taste?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:27 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a combination of 'liking the same stuff I like', 'not disliking other stuff i like' and 'sharing the same outlook on music' - both entirely self-centred. I distrust ideas of 'taste' which try to operate using independent criteria.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, that makes sense

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Admittedly, overlap with my own taste is a criterion of whether I consider someone else's taste to be good, but there's more to it than that. If someone has good taste, then when I hear them describe something they like, it makes me want to like it too. Sometimes, it doesn't click for me, but I usually at least get a sense that there is something of value in it that I could appreciate. The people who seem to me to have the best taste are not the ones who simply like what I like. Rather, they are the people who like some of what I like, plus many other things that I'm not familiar with but which they make me curious about.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

best: dave q, s trife, siegbran, and the koritfw!! guy
worst: me

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I vote for Matos cos he's always mentioning things I've never heard of, plus old pop which is always an education.

Worst taste is predictable taste so genre-huggers of all descriptions can go in that bucket...

― Jacob, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

But O.Nate isn't that a function of articulacy not taste? Or does taste = articulacy.

I like people with predictable taste. I think the Pinefox has good taste within the area of music he's chosen to listen to, for instance.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

everyone on this board does my sensibilities aesthetic violence.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Others but I am not 100% sure: Sean Carruthers...
99% thanks there, alex. I'm generally not 100% sure of my own tastes either, so that's fair enough.

I haven't really thought about this too much since the last one, and I think most of the people who contribute regularly are great to read, whether I agree or not. In a pinch I'd probably say Andy K and Dan P and def arthur (returning the favour from last go around). Probably markp too. I'd say Ned, because he seems to be most like me from a likes/dislikes perspective, but his stubborn refusal to admit that some of my favourite bands aren't trash sort of scratches that. ;)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom could you explain "outlook on music", it just strikes me that "what's your/other ilxers outlook on music" could be quite interesting. I've no real idea what mine is, nor could I begin to talk about others. Doesn't it just mean tastes aswell?

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess my definition of taste is kind of logocentric in that it privileges those who have an ability to articulate their likes and dislikes. I guess for me these two things are kind of bound up together. Perhaps part of having good taste is having the self-awareness to discern what it is in the things one likes that makes one like them. Would it be possible for someone to have good taste without being able to articulate it? In theory, I guess it would, although it might not be possible for anyone else to recognize that they had good taste.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't think of anyone on ilm who has what I'd consider bad taste in musical terms, simply because when it comes to talking about something they like or dislike they usually display evidence of having a discerning, informed palate QED: they have 'good' taste. When it comes to wondering who has closest likes and dislikes to mine own, well, everybody seems so fucking disparate and broad in their musical (de)(a)ppreciation that I can't help but admire. I bet everybody on these boards could get right into it with everybody else here, on some level of common musical ground.

― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Well O I guess they could articulate it if they were making you a mixtape or DJing. I mean I have no idea how articulate Trevor Jackson is but his Party-Mix CD is a pretty textbook example of "good taste" within the remit he's set himself.

Ronan - "outlook on music" boils down to "what you want from music" I guess. I look for sonic surprise, good times, immediate impact, wit and novelty. I used to look for emotional impact much more than I do now. I've never looked for technical complexity and somebody who did would probably think I had pretty rotten taste. etc etc

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, that's true, a mixtape could be a way of articulating taste. As could starting a band.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

i've just skimmed through the best singles of 2002 list and would like to add jess to my previous nominees.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I find that weird, I know it stinks of posturing to say I don't really know what I look for. But I don't.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I can confirm this.
What can you confirm, Julio? That Mark S likes MMM or that the digitalisation didn't do any good to MMM? Is digitalised guitar feedback really discernible from analog guitar feedback? I somehow doubt it. As digitalisation cuts the music into bits I could imagine (in theory only) that the CD version is even better as it should be even more fucked up. You must know that MMM is on my wishlist.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

"I said Alex in NYC back then but he likes loads of pop now."

It's not that I *SUDDENLY* developed a liking for pop, it's that you all immediately assumed that I *ONLY* liked certain things and didn't credit me with having broader tastes.....you thankless pop fascists!

Beyond that, "taste" is all relative. I might think Julio has indefensibly abysmal tastes, but that's only based on patently ridiculous statements he's made in the past ("I don't care either way because the ramones were shit.") But, ultimately, what's treasure to one person might be sewage to someone else. All's fair (although saying the Ramones are shit immediately robs one of any/all credibility.)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

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i like someone mostly only passionate about one thing or a small group rather than someone with all ten of their toes dipped in ten different tepid pools. maybe it is why i am so close minded. i like the first stone roses album so apparently i have the worst taste.

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 30 December 2002 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

keith: You've inspired me to start a new thread!

― original bgm, Monday, 30 December 2002 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)

One regular contributor to FT would be maybe the 3rd last person on here I'd ask for a recommendation but that doesn't mean I dislike their writing or them.

Tom - is that me? And, do you dislike me, or my writing?

― dwh (dwh), Sunday, 5 January 2003 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha Tom who is it? I know I've given you some real clunkers! (well by clunkers I mean songs you hated)

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 5 January 2003 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually I thought Tom meant me. I would, though. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 5 January 2003 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It couldn't be me.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 5 January 2003 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

He's a Carter USM fan for crying out loud, he should just say who it is! If it were me I wouldn't be offended, but since I'm in no way an FT contributor I don't have to worry about that.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 5 January 2003 23:23 (twenty-three years ago)

its ronan i am sure! or maybe sundar (only say this becuase i think the tastes have little common ground with tom)

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 5 January 2003 23:56 (twenty-three years ago)

we are waiting...

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 6 January 2003 08:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not saying! I do like them though and I like their writing too so it doesn't matter. (Also they're higher in the 'rankings' now heh). dwh I've never even met you so how am I supposed to dislike you?? Oh BTW I think I am still sitting on a C90Go! of yours - is it still OK to run it?

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 6 January 2003 10:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I am about to submit a C-90 too!! Is this OK, Tom?

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 6 January 2003 10:40 (twenty-three years ago)

It's very OK - planning a big revival for that feature.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 6 January 2003 11:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Err, re:C90 - I'd rather you didn't publish that without me giving it a total rework, thanks.

― dwh (dwh), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I won't publish it then - the point of C90go is that it captures a specific listening moment (74/90/120/whatever minutes long); editing for spelling and readability is encouraged, otherwise no reworking. By all means do a new one though, and I'm sorry for not putting it up.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Worst = Anyone who posted in this thread

― Curtis Stephens, Monday, 6 January 2003 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

how could you hate dance music curtis? you're terrible y'are!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:39 (twenty-three years ago)

worst=curtis stephens

― michael wells (michael w.), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, let me read it again Tom (I've got it here) and I'll see how I feel. If not, I'll do another, with a better tracklisting as well.

― dwh (dwh), Monday, 6 January 2003 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I like dance music, but I seldom like dance music with vocals.

― Curtis Stephens, Monday, 6 January 2003 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

In the aftermath of me being told that I have the most wrongheaded taste on here, why not bump?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 15 February 2004 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

is miccio worse?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 15 February 2004 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm, out of my top20 albums of the year, 3 I got bcuz Patrin liked 'em, 2 coz Tom liked 'em, 1 bcuz of trife, 1 because of Blount, 2 bcuz of Dom. So all of these ppl have great taste. Oh, and Swygart also comes closest to me as far as tastes in chartpop/indiepop go, but he's actually even *less* discriminating than I am, so he can't be trusted.

Worst tastes I've encountered on ILM: Omar, Aquaman, and all you annoying tossers who keep going on about godamn Post Punk (yeah, I know, many of the ppl on my "best taste" list like that stuff too, but they're not as vocal about it.)

xpost no he isn't coz he likes The Clash.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 15 February 2004 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

(Ned still gets a free pass for liking the shittiest band that I've ever loved, and continue loving, as described upthread)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 15 February 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

ned gets a free pass from too for liking the shittiest band that i have ever hated cuz he listens to so much other groovy stuff and cuz chameleons fans have to stick together. (rhymes with dashing bumpkins)

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 15 February 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Man, it shouldn't RHYME with that band, that would have been a fantastic name for them instead!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 February 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm, out of my top20 albums of the year, 3 I got bcuz Patrin liked 'em

oh damn! which ones?

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 15 February 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The Majesticons, The Yeah yeah Yeahs and Killer Mike.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 15 February 2004 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The people who I most seem to identify with musically here are Edward O, Tom and The Lex.

― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 15 February 2004 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Ed O does seem to definitely be on point with a lot of his picks, he's like a slightly de-testosteroned version of me in his tastes.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 15 February 2004 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I have never yet downloaded a Mind Taker recommendation and been disappointed.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Sunday, 15 February 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I don't think I've ever encountered anyone here who I think has horrible taste. Actually, maybe taste isn't the right word. I don't see people lauding things that don't fit with the values they hold. There are some critics out there who often feel WRONG, like they calling something orange when its plainly green. I don't get that feeling very often here. There are people who I definitely don't agree with, but they don't seem tasteless WITHIN their value system.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 15 February 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

In addition to Nick H, The Lex, Alex in Doncaster (all of whom have basically the exact same taste as me), Swygart, Dom, Tom and Mind Taker (who hears things nobody else has, genius), the poppier recommendations from Matthew Perpetua, Ned, Anthony Miccio, Tim Finney and Thomas Inskeep tend to be usually correct.

Me, the de-testeroned Dom Passantino. The long search for an epitaph is over!

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 15 February 2004 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Calum has the worst taste.

― Sym (shmuel), Sunday, 15 February 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

The only person I really trust tastewise (as far as if he likes it I probably will) is Chuck Eddy. While I don't always like the stuff AS much (he gives Loverboy a 10, I'd give it a 7) I rarely don't get the value in it at all. In fact, he was right enough about the Drive-By Truckers (which at first I just did NOT get) that his approval of Dizzee makes me worry that I'm going to eat some of my recent words about him (not that that should be a big deal anyhow).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 15 February 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

and lemme apologize to Julio for being a bit more of a toolbar than necessary back in Nov '02. Actually London Calling and Double Nickels On The Dime are pretty equal in value to me (though the title track and "Lost In The Supermarket" beat anything by the Minutemen ever). The Clash (US Version) still reigns supreme though.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 15 February 2004 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Calum would have pretty good taste if he liked his favourite pop stars for their music.

I'm amazed Geir hasn't been mentioned for worst taste, although he brings so much else to the table.

I suppose I have people who I listen to for different genres; Edward, The Lex and Mind Taker for pop, Stevem, Barima and Ronan for dance, Strongo and Tim Finney for hip hop and garage. Tom is the one who traverses these the best overall for me.

― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 15 February 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Melissa.

― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Sunday, 15 February 2004 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Good Taste: gaz, Nate Patrin, Nordikskillz, Douglas Wolk.
Bad Taste: Geir Hongro. (Only a creature without a soul could literally hate James Browns music with that much intensity.)

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Sunday, 15 February 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Y'know, the P&J threads were a real eye-opener for me, because for a while I had started to second-guess my taste/judgment/whatever for not liking certain things that had been lauded by certain well-respected folks around here.
And then I saw Chuck Eddy praise Amy Grant somewhere and Zwan was on Ned's P&J list, and I was like "half the people here are wrong and everyone else is a nerd."
Myself included.

Note these are not value judgments (though it's hard to imagine how else to take "wrong" but use your imaginations).

― huck, Monday, 16 February 2004 06:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 February 2004 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Calum has the worst taste

I think Calum has the least taste.

Best Taste: jack cole, Alex NYC.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 16 February 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Without scrolling up, can I make the tres obv point that taste is for lamers!

― ENRQ (Enrique), Monday, 16 February 2004 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks, dave!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 February 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

best taste = melissa w, seconded

― (Jon L), Monday, 16 February 2004 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Aww, thank you (she says, two days late).

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 19 February 2004 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

In my head, it's still Wednesday.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 19 February 2004 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i realized the other day that i have never been disappointed in a mike daddino pick

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 19 February 2004 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel the same way about Arthur.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 19 February 2004 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

REVIVE IN 05!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 August 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

But you'll all be crawling on your knees in obesiance to us when the inevitable Front 242/Skinny Puppy revival happens!

ON YOUR KNEES YOU TIEFSCHWARZ/BLACK STROBE FREAKS.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 August 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

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