WHO HAS THE BEST TASTE IN music ON ilm ?

Actually come to think of it I don't know enough about what people here like.

Ethan always includes the Beatnuts in his lists, so I'm going to trust him on hiphop. So him.

Ronan is always investigating interesting stuff, and he has a soft spot for country & western. So him.

There's actually nobody here I can think of with crappy taste - I'm not crazy about everything that gets discussed here, but it's generally the most interesting music in whatever genre that gets the most discussion.

So I'll say "a guy who acts and dresses very similar to me, who lives in my room."

A. mark s = intellectual (proof by demonstration)
B. mark s = listening to Survivor all day since this thread appeared (proof by asking shellshocked neighbour)
C. mark s = at peak of logical form RIGHT NOW (proof by seeing the nose in front of yr face)

A + B + C => 2. QED.

Still, like I said, taste is relative. If you want to listen to them (which, basically, is tantamount to smearing your aural cavities with tepid, runny excrement), it's your head, after all.

Looks like someone needs to put on his "Happy Face".

Some of you folks take this stuff waaaayyyy too seriously!

But the people with the most intriguing taste for me are the people who are obsessive about stuff I (usually) haven't heard, like Melissa or Ethan or DeRayMi. Or Nitsuh, Dave Popshots or Ned when it comes to post-Nirvana American Indie I never investigated. Or Jess with regard to post-punk/disco not disco stuff I didn't hear the first time around. Or Tim Finney or Gareth on anything dance-related. Oh, fuck it, you've all got great taste. Bless you all. Everyone make me a mixtape. Thanks.

as for *shared* tastes, that list would include Melissa, Josh, Tim, Gareth, Jess and a whole bunch of others.

I don't "bash" my fellow ILM'ers, I opine (read: "bash") about artists I think need to be properly trounced due to their bloated overratedness. I can't be helped that people take it personally when something negative is said about a band/artist they happen to like.

please don't actually do this.

surely there is no bad blood on either side?

also it is amusing that his FAVOURITE EVAH GROUP so greatly resembles his top hates

No, never any sincere bad blood from me. Honest!

with shiney bits.

have at many points in my ilx career become obsessed with the tastes of a few posters. tim, rev (who i now share a lot in common with, prob not unrelatedly), skot, lex to a certain degree. definitely some others i'm forgetting. table is the table has been killing the rolling punk thread this year, i'm not sure what else he listens to tho. i believe pretty strongly in the benefits of doing this sort of thing, having role models and becoming absorbed into someone else's tastes, new alternate histories and canons. y'know, *expand yr mind bro* and that sort of stuff

This is a great post and a great point. Rather than best or worst I tend to think in terms of ILX posters whose tastes and general approach to music seems like something I could learn from.

I think the right word here might be "sensibility". I'm always intrigued when I start to recognise that someone "hears" something in music that I can't quite hear, even if we both like it, because they have a framework or context which I don't.

Like, deej's Summer Luau Love mixes are a pretty succinct encapsulation of what strikes me as a sensibility of his which I admire, that notion of laidback party music which stretches from DJ Quik rap to smooth house, and which (whatever its genre) tends to fly under the radar vis a vis its "edgier" equivs.

In some ways even if

Was gonna say:

In some ways even if I really love a track, if it fits into a sensibility that I associate with someone else I will half-consciously assume that they will have the "definitive" take, in that they will be best positioned or best equipped to recognise what it is the music does well, draw it out and put it on the page.

Find myself agreeing with:

Matos
Louis
Tim (half bang-on/half stuff like modern rnb and funky which I can't crack),
Dominique
Emily

Poptimism-into-dance-into-prog.

Cutty has got a decent selection of aceness too. Surely?

Alfred has been consistently turning me onto stuff lately, so him

― fried ice cream is a reality (outdoor_miner),

Aww. Thanks! What have you been listening to?

Cutty is the one who used to make ace mixes every now and then?

Soto's certainly one of the better writers on the board - I think my movie taste overlaps more with his than my music taste though.

Also, right back atcha Davek! Did you hear DL's new EP? He posted it to that thread I bumped. It's pretty good. (Also have you heard his albums? They're sick)

Hey, I haven't heard the new EP, but heard bits of the albums on Spotify. Some amazing stuff on there like the insane noise-bubblegum techno song, you know the one I mean.

'Nous Tombons Dans Elle' - been listening to that one a LOT recently - brilliant tune. Listen to both albums all the way through and let me know what you think.

Soto +1 too for unabashed MIA love.

xp tim: ya this is definitely similar to, like, mixtape making and identifying/creating constellations throughout vast swathes of music. before ilx i spent some time on a hip hop forum, and was never really fully satisfied with any of the poster's conception of good rap music. lots of people held value judgments i couldn't chalk up with, and barely any had a real wide scope of stuff they loved. my favourite ilx rap posters appear to know & love many forms of hip hop to varying degrees, but all within a constellation of bumpin shit. that might be a stupid point, there's a lot of rap that isn't bumpin. like, lots. it's weird. just doesn't bump. and people listen to it.

just, like, dudes who've got the ability to see past more traditional and obvious strands of musical dna into more interesting and meaningful aspects of what makes music work. pretty neat stuff

Who is the most vocal about their music taste on ILM?

everyone

lex and geir

only the popular kids.

aahh.. that was answering the initial question.. not "who's loudest"

Aww. Thanks! What have you been listening to?

― Would love to hear Bam babble about this (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn
xpst
If God ever spoke to me through my stereo, I'd hopefully wonder if it was George Clinton before returning it to the shop.-(Alfred
(Happy 69th birfday, btw, Herr George)
that's as good a reference point as any; also, those H&O 1980's records you rep for just hit my mile wide pop streak. but over time i've just noticed a pattern (Lou & GoB's, to name 2) of things we both dig lots. and i think i know what you're talking about when i read you

thankfully someone with eloquence, Tim F, elucidated what i was unable to upthread, i.e. "someone with a similar.. sensibility.. we can learn from".

I've only been on here for a year, so far I've really liked and agreed with a lot of things acoleuthic and Johnny Fever have said. I really like reading Herman G. Neuname's views in the funk listening thread.

I find Lex and Geir's views a little hard to take but I don't think I'm alone with that.

jon lewis, Mr. Soto, r1o natsume

actually, now that i think of it, i'd have to say former ilxor's Keith Harris and Rickey Wright. :-(

― deep purple yoda (Ioannis), Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:51 AM Bookmark

Was going to invoke Rickey myself. :-(

Y'all are too sweet btw.

Startrekman

chuck entertainment cheese

I lol'd

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080108182941AA2TipE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhSHOh9Q8tQ

"the 'e' in 'chuck e. cheese' stands for 'entertainment.'"

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_the_e_in_chuck_e_cheese_stand_for

Ejaculate.

Don't eat the pizza. Guess what the main ingredient in the cheese is...?

entertainment?

tim ellison
aaronhz
PEW

let me rank them:

Edward III
pfunkboy
LJ
Ned Raggett
Surmounter
Matos W.K.
HI DERE
some dude
Bill Magill
skot

my taste is best cos it's mine

im profound

someone tell me im deep

onimo!

Z_S

a bit ago i got really into punk/post-punk, was impressed by something alex in nyc said in some thread, and somehow i found his blog and started reading it. usually he will namedrop like ten bands per post. a lot of the time they are historically important bands that i am ignorant of, not having been alive at the time, so in effect reading his blog is like a musical history lesson u noe.

i hardly listen to any modern music, so to me that is the most valuable thing about reading ilm: the old dudes who heard X album when it came out, who have been listening/appreciating it for 20 years (which is how long i've been alive); who were part of the scene and can draw parallels that i am simply too young and ignorant to be aware of.

20 years may be hyperbole; i don't know how old people here are.

OH SHIT this isn't on topic at all is it. well frankly i am too new here to know who has the best taste. sorry for wasting your time if you read this, i am embarrassed now.

hey marc iv, welcome to the board. don't be embarrassed, we all go off topic from time to time. post and post some more as it's a lot of fun.

as far as how old everyone is around here, it's all ages: The ILX user age average Poll

I generally lend an ear to stuff recommended by Sick Mouthy, Ned R., HI DERE, Sotosyn, lex, Lou1s, Tim F., Herman, Matos and plenty of others I'm forgetting. Geir is nuts but I find myself agreeing with his '80s pop tastes (if not particularly his logic in arriving at said tastes) more often than most of us are willing to admit.

as i said already, geir has great taste

startrekman has best taste in drum machines

It's kind of hard to not pick people who reinforce your own tastes - for me that would be from Ned R, Hi Dere, pfunkboy, grimly f, trayce, stirmonster, the ATP guy (Jamie?) + also <3 Abbott for sharing the AWK love & being super duper compatible on last.fm.
aldo probably flies under the radar on ILM as he doesn't post much outside the metal threads but I probably share more of my music collection with him than anyone else on here.

Aw man I nearly forgot Bimble! ;_;

the ATP guy (Jamie?)

^^

And, yes... Bimble.

Much respect for all the gurus and professors at the ILM College of Musical Knowledge, but in terms of breadth and reliability of recommendations, skot is my hero.

Sir Milton Parker

Scott Seward, esp. on that disco albums thread. Also Dan Selzer for being the only person other than me (and Klaus Dinger) to like "Neu 4".

Besides people mentioned, Curmudgeon and Upper Mississippi Sh@kedown seem to know what I love before I do.

aldo def has a lot of the same taste as i have.
tom d has great taste as does shakey mo, but loads of people on ilm have great taste.

so in effect reading his blog is like a musical history lesson u noe.

Wow. Thanks, Marc. Please bear in mind, though (as I'm keen to point out these days) that it's it's all pretty subjective. Despite things I may have said here in the past, my word is by no means the law.

selzer and vahid

xp

Judge Alex in NYC is the law!!!

amongst others mentioned, i'd shout for Sleeve and Stormy Davis too

I know Ned likes a lot of good stuff.
Henrik Frantzon (Acclaimed Music) has posted here and has ace musical taste, but I guess he cannot really be counted as a regular.

I can tell you who DOESN'T that's for sure