You Owned More Than One Album By Them. You Listened To Them Fairly Often. You Knew, In Your Heart Of Hearts, That They Really Weren't Very Good.

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I liked ONE Salem 66 song: "Across The Sea". I somehow ended up with 3 of their albums. The singer with the lower voice (Beth? Judy?), had one of the worst voices i've ever heard. I tried to fool myself for quite a while into liking them. why?

I liked one song by Fetchin' Bones: "Stray". I somehow ended up with 3 of their albums AND a single with "Super Freak" on it. AND i bought a tape of the singer's post-FB band. I ended up liking 2 of their songs. I think i kinda hate don dixon. sorry.

I used to own two Christmas albums. I listened to the one with the postage stamp on the cover quite a bit. EVEN THOUGH i knew it was corny as hell. why?

I used to own two Lucy Show albums. I convinced myself that they were on to something. (proto-shoegaze, maybe?) Turns out, they really weren't on to anything. They had one really good song. And one of them possessed one of the worst voices I have ever heard.

this is all 80's stuff. i've since learned not to buy every album an artist has made based on one song. i mean, sometimes it doesn't matter. i like lots of crappy stuff that i know is crappy stuff, but i like it for historical/novelty/genre reasons. i can listen to bad 60's garage rock all day long. and bad 80's rap and bad metal, etc. But with some stuff, I was obviously ignoring the inherent crappiness of what i was listening to. And on some level, I knew that these groups were sorta second-rate. the bands i have named are not the worst bands in the world, but at the time i think i was trying to embrace them just so i could have more music that i considered "mine" in a way. maybe this is just a tale of youth. so, more youthful indiscretions, please. Or maybe you would like to make a confession about all those Boards Of Canada records that you bought. One or the other.

When i was a kid and a big Judas Priest fan, I tried so hard to convince myself that I liked a Krokus album I bought with my hard-earned allowance money that to this day if you ask me if I'm a Krokus fan I will say yes.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 13 March 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

then there was stuff that i just knew was horrible and didn't try to fool myself about. like that scruffy the cat album i mistakenly bought. i owned 2 woodentops record at one time. i only liked one song by them too. but i kinda wonder how they would sound to me now.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 13 March 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Surely the ILM diktat handed down from the day the 12ft lizards bought this place into creation* is that there is no such thing as a guilty pleasure?

*Worked for six days creating the world and on the seventh day they procrastinated and, lo! ILX was born.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

(This isn't really a guilty pleasure thread though, is it. I own two Manitoba albums and I don't think I've ever wanted to listen to either of them)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

(But I still did)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Placebo. I listen to them; I know they're crap; I listen to them again.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

yeah, this isn't about guilty pleasures. i don't believe in that term either. never have. and it's not about bands that you felt like you HAD to like cuz other people did/critical cred kinda thing. this is all about the insanity of making yourself believe that a band was better than they were. or maybe i'm the only one crazy enough to do this? i think it has to do with that whole "i discovered this band on my OWN! i don't care if no one else likes them" kinda thing. i knew kids in my high school who were huge government issue fans. not because government issue were the best punk band. it was because they were the ONLY punk band that our one record store carried the entire discography of. they became fans out of neccesity. actually, this was true for me too in some cases. i know that record world in brookfield, connecticut was wear i bought lucy show tapes and salem 66 records. i was lucky enough to go on record buying trips to the big apple, but sometimes i had to make do.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

The Sundays? Somehow I ended up with all three albums.

― 57 7th (calstars), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Some days I felt this way about the Beatles and the Stones. (On those days I was perfectly correct, now I'm indifferent.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

I used to own two Christmas albums. I listened to the one with the postage stamp on the cover quite a bit. EVEN THOUGH i knew it was corny as hell. why?
Because at the time you hadn't yet fallen under the evil witch's spell that subsequently made you unable to appreciate the fact that In Excelsior Dayglo was one of the best debuts of the 80's.

― dlp9001, Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Ah, Christmas. And Combustible Edison too. Was there no beginning to their talent?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

i think what is more common is pretending to like an album by someone you LOVE even though you know that it's crap. and yes, i know, tin machine albums are very underrated.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

i have felt that way about the stones, ned. where i find myself thinking, "i should be liking this more, shouldn't i?". but it depends. sometimes they sound great to me. usually when i hear them on the radio.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

I had some Stones stuff. Then one day I thought, "You know, I haven't listened to any of this in about ten years, and have no impulse to either." So I ripped the discs and sold them back and haven't had any impulse to listen to the mp3s. Problem solved!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Interpol. And I'm still convincing myself that they're good.

I think The Sundays are quite good! What's so wrong with them?

― Ian Riese-Moraine was a diver and he was always down. (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 13 March 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

At one point, I owned at least 10 Controlled Bleeding albums. I think I definitely wanted to like them more than I did. I heard one wax trax album that i really liked and that's one of the only ones i still play.that was during their industrialdancemetal phase. (i do dig the psychopornmetal on the two skin chamber records they did for roadrunner a bunch though.) and i still find their dub/choral/noise efforts intriguing. just not very memorable when all is said and done.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 13 March 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Giant Sand. I had the majority of their stuff and I was able to fit all I needed on one and a half CD-Rs.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 13 March 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

david bowie (i could have just stuck with the Ryko 2CD)

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 13 March 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

I appear to own three Mighty Lemon Drops albums, including "Sound", which is prime ashtray material. It's a mystery worthy of Sherlock Holmes.

― Si Carter (Si Carter), Sunday, 13 March 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

The Railway Children, EMF, That Petrol Emotion, there are quite a few ... it's not that I dislike them, it's just that I can't understand why I have so many of their albums when there is so much better stuff out there that I don't.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 13 March 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Lemonheads

― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horny (AaronHz), Sunday, 13 March 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I was charged up about That Petrol Emotion's US debut at one point. Why? ex-Undertones with a yank lead singer who could've been in Styx? Interestingly, a lot of Scott's examples were 80s indie rock (esp. from Boston?). I don't know, there was something earnest and DUTIFUL about listening to these bands at the time, like you had to take your medicine cause it was good-for-ya instead of rotting your teeth with sweet treats like the Thompson Twins and Hayzee Fantayzee and Shannon's "Let the Music Play." Scruffy the Cat, OMG.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 13 March 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

and i still listen to hayzee fantayzee to this day! i still like manic pop thrill. it was babble that lost me. so i still only own one that petrol emotion album.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 13 March 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

OK Manic Pop Thrill was the one I favorably reviewed, and Babble was the one all Styx-ed out in the vocal dept. Tried to search for that 80s country-rock thread we did a while back, this is how I felt about many of the bands mentioned there.

This is also how EXACTLY how I felt about Uriah Heep and Wishbone Ash in the decade previous, but here revisionist history strikes again -- maybe I was wrong in my heart of hearts.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 13 March 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I quite liked Manic Pop Thrill, but still can't convince myself that I genuinely liked Babble, Chemicrazy and whatever the other one is that I used to listen to wanting to like it but never quite getting there.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 13 March 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

"Yeah, this isn't about guilty pleasures. i don't believe in that term either. never have."

Oy. There's this guy who does a radio show in San Diego once a week and he has a segment called "Guilty Pleasures." Can't stand it. To him, Paul Revere and the Raiders and the Association are guilty pleasures. He once played a song by City Boy and said, "Oh, it's really a nice pop song but they RUIN IT WITH A LAUGHABLE HARD ROCK GUITAR SOLO."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 13 March 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Kajagoogoo/Limahl

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 13 March 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Panda.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 13 March 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

**wanting to like it but never quite getting there.**

this describes my reaction to too much of the new stuff that I read about and search out these days. Must be getting old. Perhaps the kind of patience/endurance described in the question is a function of youthful enthusiasm?

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 13 March 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

i think so, lovebug.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 13 March 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

when i was younger, i was more apt to hear a song or two and sweepingly claim "OMG! My new favorite band!", buy everything i could get my hands on and then deal with the consequences later. It worked out well in a lot of cases.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

not that i won't be staring at my acid mother temple collection in a couple of years shaking my head and muttering "what have i done?" i will. (that was also the subject of a good thread.) at least there i will get good value for my dollar on the open market.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Scott, this is why ripping discs is so much fun. You get your dollar and if you still want the music again at some point, you still have it!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i gotta get on that. i really need to buy a burner. are cheap ones okay?

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

David Bowie fulfills this function for me. I have Low and "Heroes" and Scary Monsters and Station To Station and the only song I really like on any of those four CDs is the song "Heroes."

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Y&T - Open Fire
Deep Purple - House of Blue Light (i was a metal kid and thought I had an obligation to respect my roots for some reason....)

honestly, too....Jimi Hendrix, for the most part.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

i really need to buy a burner. are cheap ones okay?

Well, depends, you should ask around (like on here). If you're Mac, Elvis Telecom's advice won't steer you wrong. His approach, as he mentioned on the thread about such things, is to rip to a hard drive (as they're so cheap) but also backup on DVD-R just in case, which sounds fairly wise. I'll probably switch over to that approach within the next few months.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Iron Maiden. Had I been less spineless in high school I would've been a bigger Scorpions fan.

― dave q (listerine), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

oh, i was thinking of buying one of those burners that you hook up to your stereo. so i could make cd copies of vinyl and tapes and stuff.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

The Mission UK

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Scruffy the Cat, OMG.
Yeah, haven't heard that name since back in the day. I seem to remember seeing them at that place on the top of the building in Times Square, maybe it was also an Indian restaurant, Nirvana? They were on a bill with Thelonious Monster, IIRC. At one point Bob Forrest put a glass of scotch on his head. I was a little scared that he was going to accidentally crash through one of the plate glass windows.

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

okay, i also owned a thelonious monster album back then too that i never listened to. i wonder why i even bought it? the name? did i read a rave review of a thelonious monster album somewhere?

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

I own not one but fuckin' three albums by NYC noise terrrorists Missing Foundation. Why do I hold onto them? I have no idea.

And dave, IRON MAIDEN OWN YOU, AND YOU WILL DO THEIR BIDDING UNTIL THE COWS OF THE APOCALYPSE COME HOME AND SHIT ALL OVER YOUR MOTHER'S LAWN WITH FLAMING HELLFIRE COWPIES! FUCK THE SCORPIONS!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

It's very possible, permissible even, to like the Scorpions and Iron Maiden. I do. It's just not possible or permissible to like the Scorpions more than Iron Maiden.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 13 March 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

G. Cosloy used to mock Scruffy the Cat in Conflict. I think I remember them having one decent song "My Baby, She's Alright." B. Christgau was a big-ish fan of Thelonious Monster and probably convinced a number of people to give them a shot. Three A- and a B+.

― dlp9001, Sunday, 13 March 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'm skeptical of those grades!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 13 March 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

I bought an Alarm album once.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 13 March 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Step forward... Echo and The Bunnymen! They were pretentious but not too bright. WHy did I ever buy into it? Those people always shunned me at school, and I shunned them too, and we were happy with the arrangement.

I don't know what happened to those records. I am more of a Teardrop Explodes man these days.

― moley, Sunday, 13 March 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Cabaret Voltaire. It took several albums before I realised I was going down a blind alley.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Sunday, 13 March 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

I feel this way about My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus & Mary Chain. I listen to them because everyone tells me of the cherry melodies buried underneath the glaze that I still don't hear, and I'd rather listen to The Pretty Things anyways. I'm hoping to hear how I'm wrong someday, since so many people insist I am, and probably won't sell Loveless or Psychocandy ever. But still.

― david watts, Sunday, 13 March 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

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ooooh oooh Of Montreal

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 May 2021 20:25 (four years ago)

I saw Of Montreal do a great show live in MN once when I was home visiting and have spent the time since then wondering why they seem physically incapable of being interesting in the studio

― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Monday, 17 May 2021 20:31 (four years ago)

yeah I liked it at the time for a while but now i almost physically recoil

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 May 2021 20:34 (four years ago)

I think this would be Curve, for me

― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 17 May 2021 21:33 (four years ago)

Oh! Caspar Brötzmann Massaker
― Maresn3st, Monday, May 17, 2021 8:02 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Saw them late 2019, in fact the last gig I attended before you-know-what, and they were exactly the same as ever and still an awesome wall of avant-Hendrix noise, so this opinion is red-carded I'm afraid.

― remind me not to read the comments on that one (Matt #2), Monday, 17 May 2021 21:43 (four years ago)

Curve is close to my platonic ideal of what Good Mysic should be

― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Monday, 17 May 2021 22:24 (four years ago)

Kid606 (and stuff on Tigerbeat6 in general)
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, May 17, 2021 8:22 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I thought this was me, but a few years ago I decided to check out one of the more recent Kid606 albums, Happiness, and I'll be damned if it didn't sound great to me!

― Mark E. Smith died this year. Or, maybe last year. (bernard snowy), Monday, 17 May 2021 22:27 (four years ago)

"My not so fresh hot take is that the Counting Crows are actually a very good band with a reputation forever crippled by a ridiculous frontman and a string of terrible mid-career singles."

their first two albums are fine. why anyone would want to hear anything else by them though is beyond me

― akm, Monday, 17 May 2021 22:42 (four years ago)

DJP they *sound* great but I never quite believed them. Interviewed Dean once and he was a lovely guy, total studio rat and deeply into the music, but I always felt Toni was kind of cosplaying goth and was never quite as desperate as she sounded. Can’t really go back to the records these days.

― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 17 May 2021 23:04 (four years ago)

Amon Tobin’s first decade, from Bricolage to Foley Room, is still amazing in my book. His Ninja Tune peers were always slighter, but I still think back fondly on their music, which was formative for me at the time.

― pomenitul, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:09 (four years ago)

I thought all goth was essentially cosplay to start with?

xpost

― remind me not to read the comments on that one (Matt #2), Monday, 17 May 2021 23:09 (four years ago)

Some cosplayers are more convincing than others.

― pomenitul, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:11 (four years ago)

Just got a flashback to another one: Blur. They’ve got some good songs but I’ve never been on board with a whole album of theirs, even though I used to pretend I was.

― pomenitul, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:16 (four years ago)

Tortoise

Oval

No interest in revisiting their material at all.

― pomenitul, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:18 (four years ago)

otm

― sleeve, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:25 (four years ago)

Of Montreal and Tortoise's appeal has always mystified me-- I do like the first s/t Tortoise album tho

Ben Folds is awesome and better than Elton imo

Pole is a rare band, I used to love them, then I realized that they weren't very good, and now I've changed my mind and love them again

― what's fgti up to these days? nothing. she's fake (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 17 May 2021 23:26 (four years ago)

I guess Pole is "an artist" not "an band"

― what's fgti up to these days? nothing. she's fake (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 17 May 2021 23:27 (four years ago)

lol I've been listening to lots of Pole lately with extreme enjoyment b/c I GOT A SUBWOOFER FINALLY

― sleeve, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:27 (four years ago)

incredible music IMO, still holds up

― sleeve, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:27 (four years ago)

Pole 1-3 still all-time imo.

― pomenitul, Monday, 17 May 2021 23:29 (four years ago)

Tortoise TNT (the album, but especially the track) still holds up, though admittedly I don't revisit much "post-rock" these days. I'm not sure how many tortoise albums I truly need, but it's less than the number I have.

On the other hand, I still love pretty much the entire Blur discography.

― enochroot, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 00:20 (four years ago)

tnt is still so fucking good

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 00:21 (four years ago)

still love first three tortoise albums

still love 94 diskont

still love kid606s soccergirl why I love life glitchy ambient EPs

still love pole 2 and parts of 1 and 3

― brimstead, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 00:24 (four years ago)

also re oval, microstoria rules

― brimstead, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 00:24 (four years ago)

I enjoy more than 3 albums each by Tortoise, BF5 and Pole.

I've also had music released on Tigerbeat6 and one of the late offshoots so I like at least those releases and a few more ;)

― (the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 00:38 (four years ago)

*more should be 'at least' there

― (the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 00:39 (four years ago)

Gonna listen to Systemisch now, thanks for the reminder.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 00:48 (four years ago)

Thread is a trainwreck

Defending/souring on former artist fave X based on whether or you still think they’re any cop is doing about 5% of the heavy lifting here

― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 00:50 (four years ago)

other Matt goth is all cosplay yes, but Halliday was a contemporary pop artiste cosplaying goth which is an order of magnitude worse than a kid on the dole or a student
also I think the thread is about bands you convinced yourself were good but *even at the time* you knew you were kidding yourself

― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 00:52 (four years ago)

I like Tortoise even more now

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 01:24 (four years ago)

I just thought the emphasis was more on the ‘underdogs’, the ‘likeable’ artist, the ‘soft spot’ - maybe local/regional guys made good, or the good live act who remind you of better recording acts

There just seems to be a place of assumed competency with Oval, Pole, Tortoise etc that is antithetical to the premise imo

― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 01:25 (four years ago)

Sure, but if we go by the thread title alone, Oval, Tortoise and Blur fit the bill 100% as far as my own experiences are concerned. There's room for both 'I lied to myself about how much I liked critically-acclaimed band X' and 'I lied to myself about how much I liked unsung band Y'.

― pomenitul, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 01:33 (four years ago)

The other side of this phenomenon is listening deeply to a bunch of an artist's material, appreciating it on some intellectual level, but realizing you're never going to love it - even if you know, in your heart of hearts, that they ARE very good.

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 01:40 (four years ago)

That's the spirit in which I took the original question.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 03:26 (four years ago)

Any whatever-feelings I have towards Tortoise's discography are dwarfed by my adoration for Jeff Parker's output

― what's fgti up to these days? nothing. she's fake (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 15:19 (four years ago)

tnt is still so fucking good
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, May 17, 2021 8:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 15:23 (four years ago)

"I set my face to the hillside" alone should disqualify them from this thread

― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 15:24 (four years ago)

xp to fgti: I was gonna say, listening to Jeff Parker's solo work makes me want to revisit my Tortoise CDs!

Also, the TNT CD design (on the actual physical disc) is all-time

― Mark E. Smith died this year. Or, maybe last year. (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 16:30 (four years ago)

I used to listen to Tom Waits quite a bit but I think I'm done. Actually I was done a long time ago.

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 16:53 (four years ago)

Wow.

I own not one but fuckin' three albums by NYC noise terrrorists Missing Foundation. Why do I hold onto them? I have no idea.
And dave, IRON MAIDEN OWN YOU, AND YOU WILL DO THEIR BIDDING UNTIL THE COWS OF THE APOCALYPSE COME HOME AND SHIT ALL OVER YOUR MOTHER'S LAWN WITH FLAMING HELLFIRE COWPIES! FUCK THE SCORPIONS!

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 17:34 (four years ago)

Alex!! 🙂

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 17:36 (four years ago)

lol Missing Foundation is another good call, I am down to 1 LP and 1 7" but I used to have the 1st 2 LP reissues and literally never opened them from the shrink, then I sold them

― sleeve, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 17:42 (four years ago)

XP - I was listening to Voyage Au Soliel by numün today, and it was giving me strong TNT vibes.

― enochroot, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 20:50 (four years ago)

mouse on mars

― massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 19 May 2021 03:58 (four years ago)

Fine, I'll say it: Dave Matthews Band

― Indexed, Friday, 21 May 2021 17:03 (four years ago)

It's okay, Indexed, you're among friends.

(btw, Step 7 = calling up all the old friends who you forced to go to Dave Matthews concerts, and apologizing)

― enochroot, Friday, 21 May 2021 18:48 (four years ago)

you owned more than one album by them. you listened to them fairly often. you knew, in your heart of hearts, that they would empty their tour bus toilet onto you.

― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 21 May 2021 18:54 (four years ago)

ooh how about Devendra Banhart? I am 100% guilty there.

― sleeve, Sunday, 16 May 2021 22:34 (one week ago) link

I don't like Devendra Banhart, I saw too many of his half-assed side projects perform in the early 00's (he was always "on the bill") to give his more focused music a chance tbf.

But what I really resent is the way he's staked claims to the lecagies of older artists, Haruomi Hosono being a more recent example. To position himself as having some kind of alliance with that, or ownership, is just so repulsive.

― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 27 May 2021 01:28 (four years ago)

For me this band would be Matmos.

― octobeard, Friday, 28 May 2021 06:09 (four years ago)

Another variation on this is a band whose albums you kept buying even when you knew you were entering a period of steeply diminishing returns. For me that band would probably be Ween.

― o. nate, Friday, 28 May 2021 21:24 (four years ago)

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