Most similar/dissimilar tastes on ILM

Anyhow, by reading your blog (particularly the thing about the CD changer) and seeing you rummage my CDs and MP3s, it's rather clear to me that the only person I share even 50% of my opinions with is you, Ian. Just admit you asked that question so you could get props.

*lets watch swing back and forth* Now look into my eyes and tell me you'll go out and get Exciter by Depeche Mode. There, see, you feel better already!

"Thank You" -- better Dido than a certain Ms. Morrisette. GRG.

After Nitsuh's Men Without Hats revelation, I sense a closer musical kinship than I'd previously thought. One thing about having almost completely random tastes; it's easy to find compatible music with other people.

But my long lost twin brother is Stevo (give or take some tiny details in re. The Cl*sh/Autechre ;)

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Indeed you do, sir. We still seem to be the only ones who like Urge Overkill though. Makes you understand Tadeusz better in re. Z*pp* ;)

btw Dr.C did you by any chance catch Roxy Music live recently? Just wondering.

Now if Eno was involved.....

Dissimilar: ??? Probably Ethan, although I love hearing what he has to say. I just don't know much of the stuff he usually raves about. #

Hi Ned, did you feel that earthquake this afternoon? ####

Dr.C re: Roxy, I'm going to see them on thursday. I heard they start the set with 'Remake-Remodel' and end with 'For Your Pleasure'[starts to drool].

pinefox probably hates the greatest number of records i love. josh might love the greatest number of records that i hate. we seem to approach a lot of the same broad areas of music from totally different angles. he's on the right path with neubauten and wire though.

"It's Too Soon to Know." A great song by the Orioles.

re. guitar sounds, I usually trust Steady Mike's judgement.

The only obstacle is that I first have to extricate myself from the other ILM band I seem to be in at the moment - Dr. C and Captain Swing (euro-rap duo). Shouldn't be a problem - 'erm Robin, I quit!

actually i think you'd be surprised - i'm a lot less indie than i come across..

And yes, I am another one of those people who got into Killing Joke because of Alex in NYC. You really should be paid a finder's fee by the group members.

I look forward to someday down the line being able to relate my musical tastes in general with someone around here and vice versa. I like how I've "met" Ned and Dan, two people who also adore The Cure, and it is kinda nice to see a discussion forum filled with mature adults (and mature adult-to-bes) who also like Duran Duran but don't go on and on about how exciting those halcyon days were and OMG wasn't ________ absolutely adorable?, but in general? Maybe in a year or so I'll find out the answer to that quandary.

That's really nice to hear. Which one?

To answer the thread q.: none of you like Annette Hanshaw (I don't think) = I don't know any of you.

a 2 CD set on Indigo records called 'Going back to old kentucky'. It covers the early days of Bluegrass and I found the liner notes to be really informative as well.

1/"francesco zappa" synclavier electronic music elpee
2/ bits of "hot rats"
3/ thee odd bit here & there

"shut up and play yer guitar" volume...er...whatever....is the WORST record i have ever heard in the world ever, even worse than bloody kitaro.

his lyrics = sux0r

generally i agree w/you abt "freak out with the mothers"

I was going to suggest you review all of marillion's post-fish albums and er trace their arc mumble mumble, but i thought that wd be too cruel a fate for you to endure!

geir probably most dissimilar... and where is he now not seen the old fella in ages...

And we were at the same Giants game too.

I've been waiting, what, *three years* for you to start a blog and prove yourself wrong.

I have completely mental taste, totally obsessive, schizoid, self-conscious, idiotically sentimental, and overanalytical.

of course.

Hrm.

why Ned champions the Smashing Pumpkins I'll never know

Easy, cause they're great. :-)

Dan Perry and Ned's tastes fascinate me probably more than any others.

We aim to please.

Thanks for all the kind or bemused words. ;-) I hold to my original answer, which is of course The Dan, man of mystery and wonder and worth. I have picked up quite a bit from others in general and always well (Momus and Dr. C on the Passage being a fine current example).

I did watch him on TV when i was in toronto. he was OK then but i supposed that isn't high enough praise.

As to similar tastes, I really can't say. Most of you have at least some rockist tendencies, while I have none (I own about 10 rock records, last time I bought one was in 1997).

heh, yeah i remember that. its the first time anyone has actually said i've written something 'amazing'. thanks.

great place, this is...

i suspect mark s has been exposed to all the things that fell out of british culture after punk emerging as style and fashion, circa j.division, t.g. onwards (ie stuff other than bloody m.b.v.), mark as someone perhaps coincidentally/ contemporaneously knowledgeable and sympathetic with/to a lot of the peculiarly english improv

there are overlaps with the primarily black radical avant-garde of the u.s. thats european consequences perhaps date from the time of the a.a.c.m. late '60s paris scene, oddballs like the mutantes and brotzman and the melting pot of swinging london almost hand in hand with underground music in the u.s. and then what might loosely be called 'free-jazz' all from the largest and most cosmopolitan of the worlds cities

three decades of artistic impression really creating *something*, some change (often with unexpected consequences) in society everywhere -- i'm so scared that this avenue for realistic dialogue through art has been stymied by a more all-encompassing generic world culture in this new century, a culture of mere consumption at least marketed generically, the empire striking back would be the way i suppose jefferson starship meant it

duane is someone who i suspect i could spend hours with discussing developements in music/art in the late 20th century, di someone who could really provide other less canonical perspectives on some of the peculiarities in the culture of the last 30-40 years

messrs diamond, blount, stencil, clover .. i guess they're aware of a lot of that yet maybe they're more interested in the futures of music

obv. julio is a keen devotee of some of the (lazily labled) 'fire music' made with instruments including guitar and i have to work harder to maintain his less than others' interest in composers of recent classical and jazz 'instrumental music' (how does intelligent. instrumental. music. sound ?)

oh, i really mean the '50s through to the '80s, as the '90s don't seem to have left the same giant footprints -- maybe time will change that, but when i reflect on developements over the last ten years in music, well progress in music has seemed to me much less important socially and artistically and much more corporate and generic than those other more formative decades -- maybe the subsumation of sonic youth and nirvana into the mainstream and the calculated corporate progress of britpop (oasis = blur = radiohead, even marketing like 'j.spaceman') have been the most dissapointing elements of mainstreaming in music as the industry downsizes

for all the so-called independent music anybody with equipment can manufacture themselves these days, the strength and urgency of good independent music seems to have been thoroughly diluted in the public mind by all the recent and often electronic independent music that seems to boil down to easy-listening-muzak, muzak to dance to or "ambience" or "trance" with nothing to say like bad progressive rock ("music of the uncommitted"), professional 'independent' music -- such a pity, given that there is great independent music in amoungst the rest, perhaps sinking through simple lack of initial superficial attractiveness qualities

george we DID spend many hours in the late 20thC. doing this, as i recall

I think an odd misconception has developed that that is my musical taste. I like acoustics in a lot of contexts, and I like songwriters in lots of ways - yes. But I suspect that the combination of them here is pointing at something that's not particularly what I'm about.

Then again: odder than the misconception is the fact that anyone still mentions me in such a context on ILM: which touches me a little.

Three years late here, but that's not true!

I love Annette Hanshaw.