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the thing that people here really might enjoy but doesn't get mentioned enough

before i went out last night, while i was doing my hair and choosing which combination of brown and orange would be the loveliest, i was listening to DMX Krew's 'Fffrrreeeessssshhhhhh!', with its sexy basslines and 80s pop vibes and its singalong tunes and its heart rendering lyrics (Bonkers goes back to school is the sound of Grange Hill man) and chords that make you grin with their wonderful sillyness and gorgeousness.

but nobody seems to like it! except me and ambrose. this cannot be right! rectify this!

so, what is there that you really like that you are surprised that people here don't seem to be into?

― gareth, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

fressshhhh is, as i have said before (cant find it now) the only music anyone ever needs. although jimi tenor 'intervision' is joining this category at the moment.....

see basslines thread *starts basslines thread*

― ambrose, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lloyd Cole.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Go-Betweens.
Luna.
Jazz Butcher.
Yo La Tengo.

― Dave225, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I dunno, there's a fairly large number of YLT and Go Betweens fans on the twin beeotch.

― RickyT, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Howe Gelb, Giant Sand, Calexico, Friends of Dean Martinez to name some amazing musicians/bands from Arizona. Relaxed and atmospheric desert music with sudden noisy and/or improvisational outbursts. Mixing indie rock, country, blues and folk. Howe Gelb's new solo piano improvisation album is very good. Almost like Keith Jarrett's jazz solo improvisations. I can maybe understand that his music is not in the charts but I do not understand why hardly anybody on the ILM forum cares.

― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Smooth Jam R&B.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

People's antipathy/indifference towards the records (especially the more recent records) of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci is a constant source of sorrow to me. Especially odd is Sarah's abandonment of them post-'Gorky 5', which is the point at which they started to put away entertaining but ultimately constricting childish wackiness and begin the process of breaking my heart in earnest. The cloth eared public paid no attention. It's like it's some kind of Truman Show type conspiracy.

― Nick, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Imperial Drag, The Eels, Bing Crosby, Henry Mancini, and then all the adult-alternative stuff which apparently no one at ILM likes-- basically all the kids in the Froom/Blake camp... interestingly enough, ILM'ers will rave about the sidemen in these outings, who are almost always Knitting Factory musicians, but the artists themselves are scoffed at... sniff sniff.

― Mickey Black Eyes, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Europe, Poison, Bon Jovi!

― james, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

More Plastic, but they just might be dammed to be Canadian the rest of their lives. Their absolutely insane in a small club.

― Mr Noodles, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick, I love the last two Gorky's albums.

― Sean, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cecil Taylor in words and music. Also, non-musically, Kickboxer.

― laavanyan, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Haysi Fantayzee.

Nick, don't be sorrowful. I really like the last two Gorky's albums, too.

― Arthur, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, yeah. EL VEZ. He's *supposed* to be a novelty act, what's wrong with that? He's a very good novelty act. What a showman!

― Arthur, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

earth wind and fire is amazing.

― fields of salmon, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

disco-muthfuckin-inferno
kitches of-muthfuckin-distinction
family-muthfuckin-fodder
slip-muthfuckin-know
moon-muthfuckin-shake
(nb: yes, i'm serious about slipknot.)

― jess, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The only things I'm tejusly evangelical about just now (not here, obviously; I don't post here) are Calexico and (Nick--->) Gorky's.

― Ellie, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Boney M

― stevo, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jess is right about the godlike Disco Inferno. I know Tom, Ned, Gareth and (I think) Tim F, like 'em as well, but their relative unpopularity round here is totally baffling to me.

― RickyT, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thank you for your support. I know there are other people who feel the same way, but NOT MANY. Look on the NME thread at how few people have 'How I Long To Feel The Summer In My Heart' (just me and Scott, the last time I looked), when they own so many other middling to poor ones. It's just that so few people whose taste I generally agree with pay them much attention. I'm not generally one for 'you must like this if you like this' but I find it weird that people who love Pet Sounds should not love the last four Gorky's albums. Not that they are a Beach Boys pastiche band (there's enough tiresome people doing that) - it's just a common spirit that I hear in the music. And a similar knack for melodies and harmonies that floor you. Except Gorky's keep on doing it album after album, rather than releasing 'Wild Honey'.

I keep assuming that people either haven't heard them recently or else are just put off by their dreadful name.

― Nick, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sudden Sway. Fave group ever.

I live in eternal hope of finding a single MP3 anywhere on the Internet.

'76 Kids Forever!

― Zanny Gognet, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ADAM AND THE ANTS.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I would like Disco Inferno if I could find any of their records anywhere. OK, I haven't looked that hard, but they certainly don't crop up second-hand and in sale racks much, which is where most of my bands-I've-only-vaguely-heard-of shopping gets done. I do have one cd single of theirs, which was nice but didn't blow me away, but if I saw more cheap I'd snap it up.

But then everyone here who likes Disco Inferno seems to think Eva Luna is a work of genius, and I don't quite get that either, so, hrm.

― Rebecca, Friday, 7 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I absolutely love Luna & am bored by Galaxie 500, which def. puts me in the minority on this board.
Calexico are gorgeous.
I think Slipknot are a good thing to have around the house, and I give them credit for giving all those gothic punk high-schoolers stuck in some small town out in the midwest a reason to be proud of it. Really, let me put on my Gilles Peterson voice here: "We love a little bit of those fright-masked-Iowan-doom-metal-grooves."

― daria gray, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

FBD-muthfuckin-Project
The-muthfuckin-Blue-Nile
Underground-muthfuckin-Lovers

PS. I LovX0r Disco Inferno, Kitchens of Distinction and Moonshake.

― Tim, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Th' Faith Healers. (somebody please explain)
Game Theory/Loud Family.
Headless Chickens.

― dan, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My aunt used to date Paul Moore of The Blue Nile.

― Melissa W, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thinking here of C-o-D threads I started and which never got anywhere interesting -

Dexys. Squeeze. Talking Heads. Billy Bragg.

i.e. if it was in the 80s and not shiny ILM seems a bit wary.

Of current records the Playgroup album's now been on 5 or 6 end of year charts in the 'real' world and I think I'm the only person to mention it here.

― Tom, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rebecca, I'll gladly do you a DI tape if you want one. Don't be put off by the the liking Eva Luna correlation, it really isn't universal. Of the DI fans here, I know Gareth dislikes Moonshake and Tom was ambivalent at best the last time I remember him saying anything about them on the modern interweb (ie 1997).

― RickyT, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually Nick that's three owners of Gorky's as you forgot that I have all 50 albums listed (even the Tyde).

One of the numerous bands/artists by whom punters get put off by the perception that they put out too many records ("another Stereolab LP, yawn - another High Llamas/Tindersticks/Merzbow/Jay-Z/Sizzla etc. - my shelves groan, do I really need any more of their stuff?").

Which does them down, as I thought their new one was jolly good and certainly better than the misbegotten '80isms of the album at number 49.

― K Nakerzyiad, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, I stopped buying Stereolab, Llamas and Tindersticks partially for that reason ...

... and partially because I was just getting plain bored of them.

Only own "Bwyd Time" and the "Amber Gambler" EP. Which are probably terribly unrepresentative and I ought to have caught up with the Gorkys' later work and I never got round to gawd I am so typical.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did I really ever buy llamas as pets?

(half past midnight, you see. I always start missing words out round about now.)

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 11 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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