Artists who you like but whose appeal you have difficulty explaining to others

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For me it's Smog, who I love, but I find myself saying things like "He writes really minimal lyrics, but they're really good, really evocative, and the music is kind of repetitive and droney but pretty and he can't really sing, I mean, he's got a great voice but he's got a range of like three notes, and oh, I guess you love it or you hate it."

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 4 August 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

I can't seem to explain why 15-60-75's Jimmy Bell record has been in heavy rotation at my house for the last 20 years .. but it has. "If you like Creedence and Captain Beefheart, then maybe you'll kinda get into them."

― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Thursday, 4 August 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

pretty much everything i listen to. my friends are all either into progressive house or old punk. i am into doom metal, ambient, acid rock, & old industrial stuff.

― ugly and mean, Thursday, 4 August 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

As I've mentioned on other threads: Scooter. Poppified German Trance ~~improved~~ defaced by the most ~~wonderful~~ ridiculous ESL rapping since MC Miker G and DJ Sven.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 4 August 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

i always feel bad that i have to fall back on the whole mysterious persona thing to try to get friends to listen to Jandek.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 4 August 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

ONE MR. LESTER VON CLAYPOOL.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 4 August 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

age of chance.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 4 August 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

AQUA

― dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 5 August 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

xpost:

Age Of Chance ruled!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

It's been terribly hard to explain the Associates to other people -- the only way forward is to play some songs at them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Booker T. and the MGs. Because they sound like they're going to be old-school funk, but they're so straight-ahead that a lot of people find them corny. But I like the understatement of it, the cool sense of control.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Real hard to explain the Boredoms to the uninitiated.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

I always find most people either LOVE the Associates...or really, really hate them.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

douglas otm

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

I have Boredoms playing right now in my office and someone walked in and asked me, "Is that a souped-up version of ELO you got playing there?" How awesome is that?

― p.j. (Henry), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

most of them.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

The Cardigans

sometimes pop music is good and real. sometimes people that i know are just too punk.

― andy, Saturday, 6 August 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

Sadly, I get this with a lot of the more er house-y/electro-ish music I listen to, I think I just don't have the vocabulary, or the eloquence, or something, so I lapse very quickly into synaesthesia and absurdities along the lines of 'it is sparkly! and city lights late at night! and um i really like it and stuff, here, let me make you a tape'.

― spontine (cis), Saturday, 6 August 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Xiu Xiu

"It's noise with two-dollar drum machines, or sparse acoustic guitar ballads with whining and yelping. Sometimes you're not sure if the singer is taking the piss or not."

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 6 August 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Black Eyes, Black Dice, Wolf Eyes, We Are Wolves.

― BanjoMania (Brilhante), Saturday, 6 August 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

i lack eloquence and consequenly can't explain the appeal of anything i like. this problem goes well beyond music.

― john in chicago (frankE), Saturday, 6 August 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

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