Ned Raggett

Not much better than that.

Prone to stock phrases and sweeping pronouncements, highly biased towards certain kinds of small subcultures while ignoring the larger picture...

just kidding! great rock critic. i don't care if this has been done, whateves. ned has good taste, and seems like a really cool duders. rah!

Ned, I was kidding! You're my favorite rock critic (it's 2007 and I'm 21). Think about that. . . Just wanted to say thanks!

I'm not kidding either!

someone has to be kidding.

um. i just like ned's opinions. i'll be back later with more kind words.

Ned's reviews are "particularly fine"

Absolutely. Painfully so.

(And seriously speaking, thank you Andi.)

Long live Lord Raggett! May his AMG reviews and 136 List survive any online terrorism that should wipe out the internet!

Seriously, Ned, everyone would love to see you do something equivalent for the 1980s like you did for the 1990s with that albums list. (I can only imagine how long it took you to do the first, but still, it could be a condensed version where you just name the albums and write a brief, brief blurb.) Do it for the children.

The kids'll have their own opinions. Outside of Jackin' Pop, say, I have no inclination to create ranked lists at this point in time and perhaps never again. I really think the listmaking impulse is fairly pernicious now in terms of a truly flexible and process-based appreciation of music, but that's just me.

Ned Raggett isn't for the children.

R.I.P. children

I am the anti-pied piper.

<I>I really think the listmaking impulse is fairly pernicious now in terms of a truly flexible and process-based appreciation of music, but that's just me.</I>

I understand, and I think there's truth that lists are 97% silly but lists such as that one are great because it unearthed a lot of great, obscure releases. If lists be the means to that end they will have my vote every November.

his early work was better, ja✧✧✧@k✧✧✧.o✧✧

whoa, so much for my kucidotorg joke :/

Alack.

ned, your daring interpretation of the works of t✧✧@k✧✧.e✧✧ knows no parallel...yet.

What about Ned Raggett, the recording artist? This board is so critic friendly!

it was all downhill from Captain Kangaroo

booger74 (9 months ago)
who the fuck is ned raggett

lol love this guy.

Ned Raggett once bedded fifteen women in one night. True Fact. And impregnated eight of them. And all eight babies were born with shoulder-length hair.

and the legend grew larger!

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1046/809836691_6bf37f8c7a.jpg?v=0

It would be cool if Ned started a radio program, and had all the regular ILXers on as staff and guests.

and ned is so utterly ned in person! such a treat.

Ned, I just listened to all the My Bloody Valentine eps. I knew you would be proud.

you're all avoiding the most important question
Does NED RAGGETT smoke weed?

this fuckin guy

It would be cool if Ned started a radio program, and had all the regular ILXers on as staff and guests.

You never know...

Oh man!

Exemplary rock critic, Ned is.

Wow, thanks! Very much appreciated. And that's a fine argument for "Only Shallow."

Ned Raggett - Thunderously Adequate!

(hi dere ned.)

Overwhelmingly There!

Militantly Present!

Unquestionably Existing!

Ned's Nineties = my great awakening

Ned is the best San Diego-native rock critic since Lester Bangs, with the possible exception of a bunch of guys I don't know about.

smoke a pound of that raggett

-- deej, Wednesday, June 20, 2007 9:00 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

http://hometown.aol.com/aliveoasis/fan/index.htm

Haha, where's that Deej comment from.

this thread would be a 5.6 without Ned being the first to reply to it.

10.0

also, who else is in on Honolulu FAP October 2008?

I ALRED FOOKIN SED IT BUT TO BE ONEST ILL SAY IT AGEN-NED I WANT YA BALLS LAD,I WANT YA FOOKIN BALLS

-- GARU G (GARU...), July 7th, 2005.

2008? But I'll be there this October!

Ned is a really good guy. Who should come up to Seattle more often.

It'll happen.

Meantime I finally finished reading up all through Marooned. Great stuff in there!

'cept that one piece

Ned is a really good guy. Who should come up to Seattle more often.

^^^^This.

Ned and I have unwittingly crossed e-paths repeatedly. We were on the 4AD, Catherine Wheel and Kitchens Of Distinction lists in the mid-90s. He appears in other lists of bands I like - Ned's Atomic Dustbin, TMBG, Stiff Little Fingers. We were on an e-mail sent out to a handful of people who ordered Cud's unreleased _Donkey With A Fez_ in 2002. We were on the Chameleons mailing list together for years, probably had some discussions there. We probably know some of the same people via these lists. It's a small world when you like music outside the mainstream.

He always seemed like a good bloke, so here's to Ned. And may every deserving ILMer have a thread dedicated to them for their 15 minutes of fame.

i appreciate how he appreciates things like lycia to oasis to the sundays to minimal man, etc. good people, ned is. the voice of a generation.

10. Jim Jones
9. Common
8. 50 Cent
7. Jay-Z
6. Young Jeezy
5. Kanye West
4. Andre 3000
3. The Game
2. T.I.
1. Lil Ned

http://www.australiantraveller.com/site_files/s1001/images/ned.jpg

Shit, that was the wrong one. This:

http://www.nick.com/podcasts/neds/ned_podcast.jpg

lycia to oasis to the sundays to minimal man

That is so not a broad range of things, especially compared to a slew of people on here. Some perspective, please!

(And thanks again for all kind words.)

always pleased when I run across one of Ned's AMG entries. Although it's infinitely useful and well done overall, a little levity never hurts. And I'm pretty sure I've chuckled at more than one of Ned's reviews.

of at. (or maybe it should be "with")

I try to sneak in low-key larfs where appropriate. (Not always successfully, I am sure.)

met Ned in person after years of admiration from afar. gotta say... wasn't impressed. sorry.

Oh, no worries. (Where'd we meet, anyway?)

one of the Terrastocks. and, well, now i have to admit that the humor and humility with which you just responded made me LOL for reals and reconsider my stance. so maybe i'm not the only sane person in the ILXverse but, in fact, a lone crazy person immune whose illness makes him unfortunately immune to your charms.

Nah, just part of being human, I'd figure; not everyone can get along no matter how much it might seem like they might, and I've been plenty guilty of ignoring or just missing signs that I'm irritating people more than anything else. My harshest critic is me and there's plenty I always put under my own personal microscope and look at askance (and I know some close friends are frustrated by that, so hey). To heck with being a lone crazy person, yer just honest! Nothing wrong with that.

Ned, did you go to a Terrastock on the east coast? Joe Turner (of Abunai) organized many of them; I've known him since high school.

lycia to oasis to the sundays to minimal man

That is so not a broad range of things, especially compared to a slew of people on here. Some perspective, please!

(And thanks again for all kind words.)

-- Ned Raggett, Monday, July 30, 2007 7:49 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

well, shit. you still got a lot to teach me then!

Ned, did you go to a Terrastock on the east coast? Joe Turner (of Abunai) organized many of them; I've known him since high school.

Two -- Boston 2002, Providence last year. And Joe and I have chatted a few times, he's a good sort!

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ned_Raggett&oldid=143089688

Not a typo.

!

Am totally Okay with and better still Into for at least two reasons outside this board.

He STILL hasn't started any poll threads, as far as any I've ever encountered! And he's always been extremely polite to me the (few} times that I've challenged any of his claims! Plus he knows a lot about music!
Whatta guy!

hasn't started any poll threads

critical measure of coolness

i need to meet ned.

Too kind of all of yer.

My initial ardor for him has cooled somewhat, but why should he be different from anyone or anything else?

ned let me and three of my friends stay in his garage for a few nights in the summer of 99. a year later we visited him again and he used this new contraption he had just purchased called a cd burner to copy any cds from his vast collection that we desired. he even mailed them to us.

only drawback: he threw in a momus cd.

It was just prep for you coming here. Kinda. Roll on October...

"here" did not yet exist.

also, i found "here" by googling "bumrocks" in jan 06 and lurked the beardo thread for weeks before ever clicking New Answers. A thread with Ned Raggett in the title was towards the top when i did.

"here" did not yet exist.

MINOR DETAILS. I was my own John the Baptist, non-beheaded variety.

Ned Raggett is a gentleman and a scholar.

i take back waht i said on noise board, ned and grady are the real john cusack/kate beckinsale

No one's every seen Ned and Kevin Shields together. Hmmmmmmmm......

Hi Ned! Your name showed up in my facebook feed because they just linked to your blog post.

http://nedraggett.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/not-just-the-ticket-a-ticketless-special-on-too-much-joy-spring-1992/

Tim said he was going to do that. V. kind of him!

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/2011/morphosis-what-have-we-learned.jpg

(That's probably been "noted" already, but since I don't read much ILM these days I haven't seen it yet.)

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks.

More likely Edward Lear.

Now that I'm all for.

We real cool. We
Left school. We

Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We

Lear Ned. We
soon dead.

Oui.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/RaggettBrain.jpg
Pi on, Raggett Brain

wow

Awesome.

Ned, why does everyone feel like they have to address you with your name (Ned), even when it is obvious they are saying something to you, Ned? I think it is because everyone feels excited that they are interacting with the famous Ned, Ned.

it seems disrespectful to address him as Ned (no surname) due to the risk of confusing him with Ned the Synthetics Phonics Dog.

http://imageshack.us/m/838/8728/9780198386773.jpg

it's just not the kind of mix-up my reputation could well survive.

confouding things further is the existence of Rag the Synthetic Phonics rat:

http://imageshack.us/m/851/5861/121075px310219664.jpg

New display name: My Dog Ned Ragrat?

Where is Get the Synthetic Phonics Goat when you need him?

http://i52.tinypic.com/34fxnrc.jpg