crap albums you bought because of ILM

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crap!

shookout (shookout), Monday, 19 September 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Akon?!?! Serves you right.

Crackity (Crackity Jones), Monday, 19 September 2005 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

two off the top of my list :

dismemberment plan - change
medicine - a noisy one that i just dont enjoy one bit

but when matched against the stuff i have discovered cos of ILM i aint complaining ..

mark e (mark e), Monday, 19 September 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

I wanted to get it anyway, but the unanimous acclaim of the Sun Kil Moon album led me to finally purchase it last week, and I'm extremely disappointed with it. It sounds like Kozelek jumping the shark and making music for Garden State/Eternal Sunshine lovers, and he's almost insufferable to listen to because he sings through his nose the whole album. I've tried giving it a few more spins (since some people wrote that it needs about twenty times to sink in) but it doesn't improve and I end up shutting it off not long after I start it. I'm going to trade it in for something else later this week.

Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Monday, 19 September 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, I'd never buy ANYTHING because of ILM.

Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 19 September 2005 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

The Streets 'O.P.M'

I learned my lesson...

Baaderonixx and the hedonistic gluttons (baaderonixx), Monday, 19 September 2005 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

And the winner is: Audio Bullys' self-titled crapper.

Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Monday, 19 September 2005 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

My Computer
Audio Bullys seconded

sean gramophone (Sean M), Monday, 19 September 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

I'd have said the Junior Boys, for about six months until the penny dropped and I saw the light. But let's not talk about them.

mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 19 September 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

ISIS - Oceanic
Junior Boys (Again)
And probably a lot more besides

But agree with mark e - The amount of stuff I've discovered because of ILM far outweighs the shite I've bought

actionjackson, Monday, 19 September 2005 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

black rebel motorshite

hub, Monday, 19 September 2005 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Arcade Fire

Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 19 September 2005 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

i keep reading about how good the new black rebel motorbike album is. we had a thread recently where this came up. the avalanches won unanimously.

scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 19 September 2005 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

scott, it's decent! maybe even better than their last one.

Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 19 September 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

i heard it was a heavy rock monster and not one of those one-chord jesusmarychain kinda things. it made me curious.

scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 19 September 2005 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

it's not that difficult to be better than their last one, which was one of the WORST ALBUM EVA

hub, Monday, 19 September 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Whereas improvement means they have now strayed to the very heights of dull mediocrity.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 September 2005 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

b-b-but it ISN'T a rock record per se!

Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 19 September 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

That Junior Boys record sure sucks ass.

J Knowles, Monday, 19 September 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

That Junior Boys record sure sucks ass.

I really didn't understand that hype about it here and all the music portals. Boring as hell.

zeus, Monday, 19 September 2005 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't actually bought any crap albums because of ILM cos I download them off Slsk first to check, but I was pretty underwhelmed by the Junior Boys, the Streets and the new Freeform Five (I liked Perspex Sex).

I somehow haven't heard Arular by MIA yet but I liked a few things off that Piracy Funds Terrorism comp.

I'm shocked to hear that BRMC were recommended by anyone to anyone.

Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

BRMC were highly recommended by a friend of mine who writes for an important magazine years ago.
almost 10 years ago he recommended me YOUNGER YOUNGER 28, one of the most dreadful bands ever. he doesn't have any credit left now.

hub, Monday, 19 September 2005 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

ANimal

Old School (sexyDancer), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, that medicine one, "the mechanical forces of love". it's not *crap* but it was a let-down.

weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Annie = super tepid

zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 19 September 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

It's 2005 -- if you buy something without d/l'ing or listening to it at your local music store to see if you like it first, then you deserve what you get.

MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 19 September 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

my brother-in-law said that the junior boys sounded like "movie music" to him. He didn't mean it as a compliment. i was underwhelmed by it too. and xiu xiu. and annie. and arular.

scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 19 September 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't buy just downloaded Kanye West's Late Registration and it was mediocre at best.
The Avalanches album was also crap.
Annie is not crap, just not THAT good.

zeus, Monday, 19 September 2005 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Nouvelle Vague.
The Arcade Fire- although Ned told me not to get it, apparently.

I just bought this Richard Hell comp because someone here was talking about it- I hope it's not crap.

k/l (Ken L), Monday, 19 September 2005 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

LUOMO

god, what crap.

richard wood johnson, Monday, 19 September 2005 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

i liked the luomo album i bought!

scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 19 September 2005 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

What's wrong with God?

Jena (JenaP), Monday, 19 September 2005 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Simple Machines "Now Here is Nowhere" sounded like something I would like from some posts around here and the 30 second song samples from Amazon, but it never really caught on with me. It is a good sounding record, but the songs are not that great. Electric Wizard, Sir Lord Baltimore and Cult of Luna were all just OK and not nearly as grand as I hoped. Still the amount of good records I have found via ILM greatly out numbers the meh.

earlnash, Monday, 19 September 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

GOD is awesome! The Streets, not so much.

The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 19 September 2005 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

i really like junior boys and annie.

m.i.a. is dull.

the streets are good.

lucien n luciano are CRAP, fuck you guys, man

gear (gear), Monday, 19 September 2005 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

some Denny Vertigo live bootleg on some Bulgarian label... FUCK YOU AND YOUR PUSTULE-RIDDEN PABULUM-CODDLED CRANIUM

gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 19 September 2005 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

if it was Live In The Eastern Quandrant, i would have told you "avoid!"

gear (gear), Monday, 19 September 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

any grime or reggaeton. basically anything that faggy rock critics like.

NOIZZZZE, Monday, 19 September 2005 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

I like "Live in the Eastern Quandrant."

walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

It's 2005 -- if you buy something without d/l'ing or listening to it at your local music store to see if you like it first, then you deserve what you get.

True, but I sort of enjoy the thrill. But then, I also buy scratch-off lottery tickets more than once a month, so I'm not the brightest.

emilys. (emilys.), Monday, 19 September 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

The Arcade Fire- although Ned told me not to get it, apparently.

I warned yer.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 19 September 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Annie! Annie! ANNIE!

Dingbat, Monday, 19 September 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Junior Boys and Annie seconded..er...thirded...er 14th-ed.

kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Monday, 19 September 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand how anyone would choose to buy Arcade Fire after reading ILM. Did you also buy some Dave Matthews Band albums as well?

kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Monday, 19 September 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

some Stereolab one. oh the horror.
I was disappointed in a Scarface one, too, but I wouldn't go so far as to deem it crap.

oops (Oops), Monday, 19 September 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

wow...don't really have much to say to people who can't dig sun kil moon, medicine, or stereolab

Brett G. (Brett G.), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

Which Stereolab album though?

walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

how bout "you have good taste"?

xpost emperor tomato ketchup i think? it doesn't matter which, i don't think i'd like any of them or anything that sounds remotely like that.

oops (Oops), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

what is with this arcade fire hating? are we REALLY going to lie to ourselves? liars liars liars!

rockaction (rockaction), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

But "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" is awesome. How can you not dig "Les Yper Sound"?

Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

what is with this arcade fire hating? are we REALLY going to lie to ourselves? liars liars liars!
― rockaction (rockaction), Tuesday, September 20, 2005 4:30 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

ian, Sunday, 30 November 2008 17:29 (sixteen years ago)

I bought the new Jenny Lewis album cuz people on ILM made it sound good (and also cuz I liked her on Conan) but it really doesn't do anything for me at all. Not even sure I made it to the second LP.

ian, Sunday, 30 November 2008 17:31 (sixteen years ago)

i have listened to/bought a million albums because of ilm. pretty sure the hit/miss ratio is quite good in ilm's favour.

s1ocki, Sunday, 30 November 2008 18:15 (sixteen years ago)

I like the Avalanches and Junior Boys and MIA. Yep.

filthy dylan, Sunday, 30 November 2008 18:16 (sixteen years ago)

Avalanches are one of the worst things I ever downloaded.

Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 30 November 2008 19:29 (sixteen years ago)

yeah actually i found that o'keefe album on the street, so i should not bitch. i hope this doesn't sound condescending, but what exactly do you like about that album?

also, i'd say the hit-to-miss ratio for ilm is fantastic

psychgawsple, Sunday, 30 November 2008 20:26 (sixteen years ago)

i hope this doesn't sound condescending, but, how old are you? you might want to put it away and then play it again in ten years. no, seriously! it works for me sometimes.

i wouldn't recommend global blues to anyone and everyone. i'd have to know what you were into.

i don't think i was the one to mention it on that beardo thread, but i certainly have raved about o'keefe records on other threads.

what do i like about it? man, lots of things. for one thing, i'm a HUGE fan of his voice. and there is just something really ambitious and inspiring about his songwriting on that album. i find the whole thing fascinating. played up against his earlier albums and seeing the progression of his talents from year to year is part of the charm for me as well. he makes some of the same leaps that tim hardin and tim buckley and others would make, but i find his style(s) fairly unique. i think breezy stories and the global blues are two albums where he really hit on something special. they are fearless albums. and not comparable to a whole lot either. they are very definitely one person's vision. whether or not you want to go along with that one person for the ride is another thing entirely. i can definitely see some people not digging it. on the easy to like/hard to like scale, i 'd say it was in the middle somewhere. easier to like than, say, climate of hunter, but maybe harder to like than, say, a leo sayer album. i would even say that artistically danny was a little leo and a little scott. danny's maudlin streak and soft spot for americana and tin pan alley goop (not as evident on the globa blues as on earlier albums) would be the equivalent to scott's wiemar republic/pre-vichy govt. french sadsackitude. or leo's love for metaphorical storm clouds and choo choo trains. i admire the shamelessness of all three artists. they let it rip. (though i can't say that i've listened to a leo sayer album in many a moon. and he never took the kind of chances that scott or danny did. even if his early albums are kinda underrated and harder to peg than his later gloss and fame would have you believe. the poor man's elton, really.) i'm guessing how i feel about danny o'keefe is how other people feel about jeff buckley or rufus wainright? i dunno. it's a guess. i wonder if rufus is a fan. he should be. (note: i'm not a huge rufus fan.)

anyway, if someone was a fan of the more idiosyncratic end of 70's pop and singersongwriterhood, then i think the global blues could make someone's day in a big way. (his songwriting is so friggin' great! the way voice and music flow and intertwine is majik to these ears. fer real.)

scott seward, Sunday, 30 November 2008 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

I wish there could some how be a thread where posh, middle-aged New Yorker readers editors complain about the crap records they bought listened to once because of Sasha Frere-Jones

fixed

m coleman, Monday, 1 December 2008 01:54 (sixteen years ago)

i doubt the avg new yorker reader makes it halfway through his columns

m coleman, Monday, 1 December 2008 01:55 (sixteen years ago)

um.... Junior Boys are kinda awesome.

billstevejim, Monday, 1 December 2008 02:29 (sixteen years ago)

ESG. Mostly due to threads like this where the consensus was about 90% Classic: ESG - classic or dud?
I played the first track and was underwhelmed, and thought, "This might be cool for a party or something," then it was all downhill from there. I respect the opinions, but it didn't do much at all for me

skygreenleopard, Monday, 1 December 2008 06:57 (sixteen years ago)

ha, I was just introducing another ilxor to ESG today

The Saving Grace of Gospel House (The Reverend), Monday, 1 December 2008 07:15 (sixteen years ago)

personally, I was v. disappointed when I found out not all post-punk sounds like ESG

The Saving Grace of Gospel House (The Reverend), Monday, 1 December 2008 07:16 (sixteen years ago)

yes i love ESG

psychgawsple, Monday, 1 December 2008 07:17 (sixteen years ago)

I love ESG but the two albums proper I checked out were kind of a disappointment after A South Bronx Story, just because that is pure concentrated awesome and the tracks that didn't make it aren't so much.

I wonder if a certain Irishman would be embarrassed that I bought Ryan Adams - Gold after him enthusing on here? It was in a 3-for-cheaper where I could only find two CDs I wanted, though, so no real loss.

Also I bought some Vichy Govt stuff which I think the indier factions of early London ILX were into, and it's not really my thing (or only in small doses) but the guy sounds smart and angry and if I move back to Belfast it's probably my duty to look up the things he's angry about and feel guilty for my Englishness, or something.

..··¨ rush ~°~ push ~°~ ca$h ¨··.. (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 1 December 2008 10:47 (sixteen years ago)

Manitoba comes to mind

baaderonixx, Monday, 1 December 2008 13:18 (sixteen years ago)

And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Boredom

Matos W.K., Monday, 1 December 2008 13:33 (sixteen years ago)

hahaha omg EMBRACE

Matos W.K., Monday, 1 December 2008 13:34 (sixteen years ago)

Junior Boys and Annie are great. Definitely among the better RYM favs.

Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 14:16 (sixteen years ago)

LCD Soundsystem

Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 14:31 (sixteen years ago)

Loveless. <adjusts flak jacket, puts tin hat on>

Phil Will, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 14:31 (sixteen years ago)

hope it's a fire-resistant jacket, cos you should diaf for that one :)

k3vin k., Tuesday, 2 December 2008 14:41 (sixteen years ago)

I wish there could some how be a thread where posh, middle-aged New Yorker readers complain about the crap records they bought because of Sasha Frere-Jones

― Indiespace Administratester (Hurting 2), Saturday, November 29, 2008 11:21 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

man i was just thinking something along these lines when looking over his 2008 list on his blog today ------- i know omg mainstream critic tokenizes rap records is a boring/challops-y but for a dude who got all aggy about that indie-dude-likes-old-white-music thing ...

deej, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 14:42 (sixteen years ago)

haha not that more rap records is likely to solve the problem of SFJ disappointing posh middle aged nyers

deej, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 14:43 (sixteen years ago)

it looks like i agree w/ most of the ilm canon. i love so much of this stuff! (except for the 2 groups matos listed)

t_g, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 14:52 (sixteen years ago)

medicine - a noisy one that i just dont enjoy one bit
ISIS - Oceanic
Junior Boys (Again)
I didn't buy just downloaded Kanye West's Late Registration and it was mediocre at best.
The Avalanches album was also crap.
some Stereolab one. oh the horror.
mountain goats
the knife - deep cuts
Loveless (LOLZ)
10,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong
Love and Rockets. I blame that one on Ned, god bless him.
kish kash
Manitoba comes to mind
LCD Soundsystem

All totally fucking great.

ilxor, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 04:59 (sixteen years ago)

ESG definitely released a lot of boring stuff. I think the live half of that first EP is the best thing they ever did (is that in print?)

Mark, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 05:09 (sixteen years ago)

But "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" is awesome. How can you not dig "Les Yper Sound"?

just listened to this to reassess and omg nails on a chalkboard that is my eardrums

Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 05:39 (sixteen years ago)

I am listening to ESG right now just to spite you people.

I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 14:41 (sixteen years ago)

fuck yeah

Manchego Bay (G00blar), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 14:50 (sixteen years ago)

"Crap" might be over-stating it, but I could easily have lived without the Cut Copy and Girl Talk albums.

mike t-diva, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 14:52 (sixteen years ago)

The Streets, um... Dizzee Rascal, I guess.

o. nate, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:18 (sixteen years ago)

I bought a Foghat album because of xhuck. It wasn't exactly crap, but I didn't make it all the way through either.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:21 (sixteen years ago)

i don't understand how anyone could think of the avalanches as 'crap'. who else has made an album like 'since i left you'?

psychgawsple, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:41 (sixteen years ago)

noone else? thank fuck.

Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:57 (sixteen years ago)

i don't understand how anyone could think of the avalanches as 'crap'. who else has made an album like 'since i left you'?

Well nobody really. But not many have a couple of years to wait sitting on their arses waiting to clear each sample. That's if its still possible to do what they did.

Craicwhore (craicwhore), Thursday, 11 December 2008 07:00 (sixteen years ago)

I am so ILM-canonical

Tim F, Thursday, 11 December 2008 07:12 (sixteen years ago)

This thread is full of great albums. The "ILM Canon" is more reliable than most.

― Tim F, Sunday, November 30, 2008 9:29 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

OTM. Also - try before you buy!

Holden McGroin (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 11 December 2008 09:19 (sixteen years ago)

I've watched plenty more crap films because of ILE than bought crap albums because of ILM. The Ordeal?? Fucking terrible film.

nate woolls, Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:30 (sixteen years ago)

I really didn't like that Knife album.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 11 December 2008 11:23 (sixteen years ago)

Also big lol @ Matos for buying Embrace cos of ILM.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 11 December 2008 11:23 (sixteen years ago)

I mean, i do still love a lot of what they did, but I wouldn't expect Matos to like 'em for ten seconds.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 11 December 2008 11:25 (sixteen years ago)

Junior Boys I never fell in love with, but quite liked. MIA I loved the first single by and then was nonplussed from thereon in. That Medicine record I REALLY disliked. Never got Joy Division.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 11 December 2008 11:26 (sixteen years ago)

who will be first to say Merriweather Post Pavillion?

sonderangerbot, Thursday, 11 December 2008 11:52 (sixteen years ago)

I just gave up my lunch money for This Nation's Saving Grace.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 13:31 (sixteen years ago)

And you think it's crap?

Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 13:37 (sixteen years ago)

Mouthy, why were you so perplexed by MIA? I mean, its not like she's John Cage or anything.

Cat-Wrangler (Pillbox), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 13:56 (sixteen years ago)

I blame ILM for my brief flirtation with Godspeed! You Black Emperor, regardless of whether I first heard of them here or not.

Ca-hoot na na na oh oh (HI DERE), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago)

That Medicine record I REALLY disliked.

i actually bought 2 medicine albums because of ILM based love.
not been able to listen to either all way through.

mark e, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 19:26 (sixteen years ago)

plus the dude is a 9/11 truther d-bag

soup kitchen electro (omar little), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 19:27 (sixteen years ago)


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