Where is the Love For All These Bands from my "I" CD Shelves Who Don't Get Mentioned Nearly Enough on ILM?

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abdullah ibrahim (a/k/a dollar brand)
ibrahim electric
the icarus line
iced earth
i.c.u.
I-f*
i thousands
immortal*
indian jewelry
indochine
in extremo
infidel?/castro
in flames
the international playboys
intonarumori
i-roy*
gregory isaacs*
i start counting
vijay iyer*

* - unless they do

― xhuxk, Monday, 28 November 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

The Icarus Line -- Stevie Chick to thread!

Now is that 'i thousands' of 'if thousands'? (If the latter, I just heard their new album on Silber the other day -- very good stuff, they're compatriots of Low and were on their label once, though they're all instrumental and while darkly beautiful in That Way I Like they're not a one-note kinda band...one chord, maybe.)

I Start Counting -- Fortran 5 before they were Fortran 5.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Nope; I ain't heard a one of 'em. (FACT: More than 50% of the non-jazz "I" music from my own personal shelves currently either begins with "Ice" or "Iron"!)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

oops, yeah, IF Thousands. I have both *Yellowstone* and *Lullaby* on my shelf; haven't played them in a while, but I remember them both being quite lovely. (And yeah, fortunately instrumental. If they had indie vocals as introverted as the music is, I'd probably hate them.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 28 November 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Gregory Isaacs is sweet, sweet stuff.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

If you like those albums, Chuck, you'll like the new one -- a bit of futzing around with their sound but in a quietly fun way rather than a 'look we are CHANGING!' way.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Isn't Gregory Isaacs one of the kings of Lovers (apostrophe needed?) Rock? His Night Nurse album is very nice.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

I like a few Gregory Isaacs songs I think, off Punky Reggae Party or some Soul Jazz comp or something.

I-f did "Space invaders are smoking grass", right?

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 28 November 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Right -- among other things!

― xhuxk, Monday, 28 November 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

I Start Counting had a nice best-of on Mute about 15 years ago. I remember liking "Letters to a Friend" very much. My copy is at my parents' place in Michigan, so I haven't seen it in a long time.

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

The Icarus Line are one of those bands who I really, really don't want to admit to somewhat enjoying the latest release of, but I do, to a small degree. I abhor anything Buddyhead related out of principle and just good taste. And their scowling shagginess makes me want to smash all their smug coiffed mugs, but they had a nice sinister Angelhair/VSS quality to the stuff on their latest album that worked alright.

― dali madison's nut (donut), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

But at least The Icarus Line are not The Lashes... which is basically saying that The Icarus Line are not a tepid pile of dried poop.. not really a compliment, but hey, every little counts.

― dali madison's nut (donut), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

"Where is the love for.... i-roy"

[raises hand]

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Add Iceburn to the list.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

What's this about people not showing the love for I-F? I have a two full-lengths, an EP of "Space Invaders..." remixes, and a few singles/splits on vinyl. It's all quality stuff, to be certain. I should really dig out all the vinyl and give it a listen, as it's been a while since I've heard most of those.

― Josh Witkowski (braineater), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

There must be plenty of love here for Abdullah Ibrahim/Dollar Brand, I'd think. Has at least 5 or 6 essential albums. "Good News From Africa" under the name Dollar Brand Duo--it's with Johnny Dyani--is unquestionably sublime.

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

I-F would be 100% classic, even if he had never made any of his own music. both "mixed up in the hague"s are excellent, not to mention his voice-overs during the CBS top 100 countdown.

― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

> I abhor anything Buddyhead related out of principle and just good taste. And their scowling shagginess makes me want to smash all their smug coiffed mugs, but they had a nice sinister Angelhair/VSS quality to the stuff on their latest album that worked alright...But at least The Icarus Line are not The Lashes...<

I don't understand a single word of this! (Though I'm sure I'm just as cryptic sometimes.) (The Icarus Line are just a decent rock band with songs. I think Frank Kogan said they sounded like if GnR had decided to go alt-rock instead; not sure how much I agree with that, but it sounded to me like a fairly clever thing to say at the time.)

I never even heard of Iceburn. So no, they are not on the list.

― xhuxk, Monday, 28 November 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

(Okay, I guess I did undestand "smug coiffed mugs." Though I don't think I looked at the pictures on the CD cover very much myself.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 28 November 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

I remember I Start Counting fondly. They had a song called "Letters To a Friend" that was real good. I think I tried to buy one of their records once but it didn't quite hold up. Sure would like to hear them now.

― Vinegar and Artichoke Hearts (Bimble...), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Hey Stewart Osborne - I was hoping to catch up with you - a friend of mine wants that Red Beat CD and he said he couldn't get one, it was impossible to find - any advice? Oh also he just got the 1919 CD for cheap and was real happy cause he said it's very hard to find now, which surprised me. That is something I really need to get.

― Vinegar and Artichoke Hearts (Bimble...), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Not enough love for Iced Earth. Their box set is one of the few I have that I actually pull out and listen to from time to time. Their demo and first two albums, particularly with good remastered sound, are fair to excellent slabs of power metal. Their covers of Blue Oyster Cult have always been great, too.

I haven't heard anything since leader Schaeffer got into the poor man's Bruce Caton civil war thing.

― George the Animal Steele, Monday, 28 November 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

I recently bought a Dollar Brand solo album on the Canadian label Sackville that simply smokes. It's called Sangoma. Nice to hear him unadorned, can definitely hear his roots.

Iceburn were a hardcore/jazz band from Utah that released a bunch of records on Victory (I think). Great live band.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

oh GOD

― Pablo (Pablo A), Monday, 28 November 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

I have a secret soft spot for old Iced Earth. It's like Iron Maiden cornball lyrics & themes with Metallica riffs.

I really want to like Vijay Iyer, but Blood Sutra didn't do it for me. I realize he's working with some ridiculous rhythmic structures that are a little bit beyond me, but it's more deliberately obtuse and relentless than (for ex.) Greg Osby. Throw me some melody in my old age.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 28 November 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

I have the turquoise EP that ICU (aka IQU). I dug it a lot in college but I have a feeling it would sound kind of "dated" to me now -- the novelty probably having faded. I should throw it on and see though.

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Monday, 28 November 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

In Flames is a Swedish death metal outfit that mostly overcomes all the cliches being a Swedish death metal outfit usually entails. I quite liked Reroute to Remain, their second-most recent.

― J.D. Considine, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

On the topic of I-F,
was this a joke?
>> not to mention his voice-overs during the CBS top 100 countdown.

― Lee, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Dollar Brand doesn't get enough love? That's because our society has tragically failed to issue everyone a copy of African Marketplace, or any of the other five or six essential albums from Ibrahim... Though I will cop to getting him confused with Keith Jarrett every now and then (when both of them get happy and African, they tend to overlap).

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 1 December 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

Iced Earth - Mr Vegemite is a big fan. It's like cheesy Maiden to me, especially "when the eagle cries" off the new album. The 'Gettysburg' trilogy is pretty impressive, for sheer geekiness. Cannons & all.

In Flames - another Mr Vegemite fave. I saw them a few years ago at Slim's, it was my first show where I witnessed the phenomenon of head-banging guitarists in tandem. \m/

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 December 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

The metal bands have all gotten their fair share of interest. In Extremo less than the others, and oddly, they once got a MTV News 5 minute piece.

The only positive thing I can think of regarding Icarus Line was their famous SXSW performance a couple years back. I gotta admit, that was a pretty swank idea. Does Buddyhead even still exist?

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Thursday, 1 December 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

which ICU/IQU/I.C.U. are we talking about?

the band on k recs had some great moments. saw them before their LP opening for unwound and it blew me away. that first 7" is classic methinks.

the other icu i've heard is older... not the crappy punkish one in the mid 90s... but in the early 80s... those dudes joined the units later.... (http://www.synthpunk.org/units/1983.html)

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 1 December 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

i've heard two things by infidel castro - one cd that was spotty but had some really cool parts, and a split of which their half was amazing.

I-f's fucking consumer is great. love the john carpenter-esque dark synth throbbin' more than the "space invaders" goofiness.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 1 December 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

There's still plenty of love for Indochine's popgoth vibes in French-speaking territories, 20 years later. Not exactly a forgotten band around these parts, more like a band to forget !

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 1 December 2005 08:04 (twenty years ago)

>which ICU/IQU/I.C.U. are we talking about?<

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:ycs9ke9t0q7n~T1

I.C.U., *Mad Truth* CD, 1999. Girl-led punks, from the Lower East Side, apparently. I think their sound reminded me in a good way of the first X album. Someday I'll go back and listen again to be sure.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 1 December 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

revive

― skogsturken, Thursday, 25 March 2010 02:55 (fifteen years ago)

Ida Lupino was a good name for a band, until the singer...

http://www.rpadden.com/samp_article/ida.jpg

― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 25 March 2010 03:14 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUxADCsPV8s

― revive, Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:02 (fifteen years ago)

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