quite fuckin contrary

I like [band considered uncool] more than [canonical band everyone agrees is cool].

This works best if there is some similarity between the bands.

As in, "I like Lynyrd Skynyrd more than the Stooges" (which is true for me.)

I don't know if that's anti-canonical or not. I'm new around here.

i said in my blog a few days ago that i like the birthday party more than the stooges. i like "miss e" more than "what's going on?" chances are i like any band with a slint influence more than slint themselves (if i ever liked any band with a slint influence in the first place.) i like otis redding's (or cat power's for chrissakes) version of "satisfaction" better than the stones. i like juvenile more than de la soul, krs-1, common, nas, biggie (and on and on and on...) i love happy hardcore and i hate most detroit techno. shall i go on?

Dislike: Ryan Adams, the Rolling Stones, Neil Young.

Yes, this means I esteem _Stronger Than Pride_ above _Tonight's the Night_.

Shoot me now.

I also think - lyrics entirely aside - that Bob Dylan is a better vocalist than Liz Fraser. And I think Abba were a better band than Joy Division.

Unsubtle hint -- have you ever considered it doesn't come across that way?

I like Roxette more than Abba. I don't really listen to Roxette though. Actually I like most things more than I like Abba, though I'm not going to make some silly comparison between them and Joy Division. I will, however, compare them unfavourably to New Order.

I don't see anything really special about Britney Spears. I think I preferred Paula Abdul.

Every CCR song I've heard sounds identical and is as boring as the last. They can group-grope the Band for all I care. I generally hate 'tasteful' classic rock that people with 'good taste' listen to. I only like classic rock that is based on masculine posturing, empty virtuosity, and half-baked chemically-inspired hippie romanticism. This does not mean that I like all classic rock that fits this description.

I like Jimmy Page a lot more than Jimi Hendrix.

Silly boy. ;-)

David Bowie made a good studio album with a great producer. He also had some catchy singles. Period. Arguments for his greatness usually end up going more into his fashion sense than his music.

Ultimately I'm still not convinced Weezer is that big a deal. If I bought a Matthew Sweet or Lemonheads album it would probably have some catchy songs on it too.

More milk, Kitty? All you need to understand the Smiths, wherever you are, is gaydar, a social conscience, the desire to get out of the shuithole you were born in, the inability to speak about anything other than that shithole once you DO leave, and a fairly comprehensive knowledge of post-war British film. As for the fashion part, only 5% of their fans have any style whatsofuckingever.

And dave q. I love you for hating X as much as I do. Living in Los Angeles only makes it worse.

Re Smiths fans: Color me spineless and insufferable.

Don't hate them per se, but can do without the worship and the band's generally snotty view of music that isn't exactly like their own.

And Exene's contempt for anyone who doesn't fit into her cozy beatnik Beyond Baroque Class of '77 worldview = dudududdudududdududududdududududud.

The Beach Boys - much as I love Pet Sounds and parts of the early seventies albums, the bad bits are so TOTALLY dreadful (and so frequent) that sometimes I think the joke's on us, and the BB's should be considered, as they were for much of the late 70's and 80's, as beyond the pale.

Actually, the last statement is a lie. I do think the Andrew WK record is really fun, though.

Amen!! A STINKY OLD TURD THAT REALLY SHOULD HAVE DRIED UP BY NOW oops aorry for the caps

I am getting sick of all the Dylan 60th birthday/new album cocksuckingbrownosing too ... fuck, I'd rather hear Donovan over Dylan since they used to be compared earlier even though I've never really heard Donovan before. oh fuck the "make them comparable" rule - I'd rather listen to barbra streisand than dylan. ok thats a lie, but only sort of

I like Offspring so much better than Wire or X or etc, etc. I hate living in Los Angeles and not being able to like an album called "los angeles," how fucking frustrating. I like los angeles better than new york because i'm here so naturally it's better, isn't it

i like amnesiac much better than boring ok computer if i had to pick radiohead albums, surfer rosa better than doolittle, boys for pele better than little earthquakes, tidal better than when the pawn.. i like the aaliyah album better than the strokes album, its so not the best album of the year so shut up. i like "alt-hip-hop" if there is such a thing better than alt-country since i hate alt-country, i hate ryan adams and i think he should be shot in the pelvis repeatedly just for his new album (which has been getting too much attention) 's cover of him standing there in some cutesy pose in a stupid t-shirt, american flag and jeans, stupid picture what a stupid fuck. i hate term papers

i like just coming to music message board sites and typing shit rather than going through that whole fucking process of introducing yourself and expecting people to slowly get to know you over a period of few months as you warm up to their little clique and become familiar with you and become your e-friends - fuck that, i dont care about making e-friends anymore if its going to take so long. i've invaded this hideout die little vermin die MUAHAHAHAHAHHHAHA

Not surprisingly Loaded is my fave VU album.

Vic - you're on the money about Ryan Adams/alt-country etc etc.

Stick around, Vic. I think we could use you in these here parts.

Fuck it thats not that weird is it.

I like Woody Guthrie more than Hank Williams. I like Merle Haggard more than Johnny Cash.

I think Limp Bizkit are the new Public Enemy. Ahem.

Britney is the new Patsy Kline.

Adam Ricketts is the new David Bowie.

Er I've lost track of myself now.

It's a little weird that people will accept that I don't like The Beatles fairly easily, and also that I do like The 'Scopes, but if it was to cross their minds that, uh, hang on, this means I actually think that The Telescopes are better than The Beatles, they'd be astounded.

Perhaps this is because people are a bit thick, hmmm...

i like virtually anything inspired by the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson, but for the most part, cannot stand the Beach Boys.

It's harder to think of anything permanent felt about contemporary music.

I think that the Teardrop Explodes were getting better before they split up and think that "Everybody wants to shag..." (the 'unreleased' third album) is a damn fine record, even though the original bootleg mix is better than the released version.

I prefer "Isn't anything" to "Loveless", and agree with whoever said that "69" is better than both. And "i" is great too. And so were Butterfly Child and Papa Sprain, but who cares about them anymore?

I actually rather liked Primal Scream's mid 80s stuff, you know.

Everything on Sarah Records is brilliant except for Heavenly. (Which might explain the above).

I prefer the This Mortal Coil versions to the originals, more often than not.

(Can you tell I grew up in the 80s yet?)

Oh, there'll be more but I'm pressed for time.

Stockholm Monsters - on the whole no, but I know what you mean. Staggeringly great band, for the most part (Fairy Tale excepted). At the moment though I'm pretending that they never existed, as my continuing failure to get hold of a copy of 'Alma Mater' is driving me nuts!

The Wake - 'An Immaculate Conception' is one of the best trax on Factory and up there with JD/NO. The rest, I don't think much of. It's OK.

Hey, this IS fun! Why have i not noticed this thread til now?

I hate canons as I am an agnostic. But still I prefer Velvet Underground to The Strokes, The Beatles to Oasis and Joy Division to New Order. I prefer Bob Dylan to Van Morrison. I prefer Prince to Michael Jackson. And Janet Jackson to Whitney Houston. No surprises here. And actually I think I prefer Abba to Roxette. But there I am not so sure. I never listen to any of those two except when forced to. I prefer the Spice Girls disbanded.

Ummagumma was one of PF's best albums. Roger Waters was a poor man's Frank Zappa (which, as I've said before, I mean as a compliment). And, speaking about FZ, he got better after he dumped the original Mothers of Invention.

M.C. Ren should have been as big as Dre. His stuff on Straight Outta Compton was better than Eazy-E's.

I also prefer Slint's first record. I like Tortoise. A Flock of Seagull's music is preferable to New Order (the guy from A Flock is now bald and looks like a Lynyrd Skynyrd roadie, BTW). Elton John is better than Rod Stewart. And I don't know what the hell Bryan Ferry is saying at the beginning of his cover of "Sympathy for the Devil" (sorry, Arthur).

oh man, best thread ever

favs = Black Thought, Del, Common, Cee-Lo, Lyrics Born, Gift of Gab
least favs = Jay-Z, Missy Elliot, Eminem, Ja Rule, Ludacris
where my favs match up with the canon = Busta, Q-Tip, Dirty, Meth

That felt good.

I like:

Diana Ross more than Aretha Franklin
Iron Butterfly > Thirteenth Floor Elevators
Days of Future Passed > Astral Weeks
Motown > Stax and >> all Philly soul except "TSOP"
Solo McCartney > Solo Lennon (And Yoko > Either of 'em!)
Van Halen > The Clash
Metal Machine Music > every other Lou Reed LP
Freddie Mercury > Morrissey
The Feelies > R.E.M.
Get The Knack > Radio City
Styx > Stereolab
"Afternoon Delight" > "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
Tea Party > 98% of all current English bands; and
Anything at all > reggae

Love this thread! Keep 'em comin...

(...and note that I don't necessarily DISLIKE all 14 of the inferiors)