Talkin baot music w yours truliest, Abbott

do you like the smiths?

I heard "How Soon is Now?" and I kept trying to find out which Depeche Mode album it was. At 16, I discovered it was the Smiths.

I like the Smiths.

rolling abbott music thread!

OH YOU BET

Trivia:

Tina Root, lead singer of Switchblade Symphony, says her main influence in singing style is: Mike Patton.

Fact:

I do not look like any notable music-type people.

I am greatly pleased by this thread.

DAEREST ABBOTT -- in the way back when you used to be a Radiohead fan; are you now still? If so why so, if not why not.

Truth:

David Sylvian looks better without makeup.

DAEREST ABBOTT what are your top ten fave bands and albums?

Abbott

Why are depeche mode remixes always so disappointing?

MY FINE MR. RAGGETT:

I stopped totally digging Radiohead circa...Hail to the Thief? Which I never even really listened to (tho I bought the special edition, haha). Maybe I listened to it 2x all the way through. It reminded me of how SAD I was all the fucking time listening to Radiohead, getting all sucked into Amnesiac. I mean after OK Computer there are is no brightness or cheer. Not that that is necessary, but...I don't know. They just quit making dreamy music, and they reminded me of past depression. those are the main reasons. I haven't even listened to anything since then. (Plz no one try and convince me to.)

Upt0eleven,

A remix is essentially a carbon-dating technique for a song, IMO, and that's about it. All remixes from one year sound miraculously similar. That may be why.

I can't fucking believe they released a what, five? six? boxset of remixes!!!

Jesus, Hermannn, sheesh. Let's give this a go. Fave ten albums:

XTC – Big Express
Human League – Dare
Pink Floyd – Meddle
K8 Bush – The Dreaming
Henry Cow – Leg End
Blue Öyster Cult – Secret Treaties
Coil – Horse Rotovator
Japan – Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Roxy Music – Country Life
Tomahawk – Mit Gas

Abbott, have you ever heard the first Slapp Happy album entitled Sort Of?

I cosign with Sleeve that if you have not heard this fine Slapp Happy album that you should.

Ten fave bands:

XTC
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Kate Bush
Devo
Cardiacs
Siouxsie & the Banshees
This Heat
Fela Kuti
ABC
Depeche Mode

(This is kind of darts in the dark actually.)

I have never heard this Slapp Happy album!!

OK check your email in a little while.

also, TS: Acnalbasac Noom vs. Casablanca Moon

Acnalbasac Noom! I think I am in the minority here.

"Blue-Eyed William" is so sweet and golden.

I liked Dagmar best in SH, surprisingly enough. :O

Abbott why do you hate the rap music so much?

Interesting note: Harry Chapin wrote a poem about his girlfriend shitting on his chest.

Z S,

heterozygous dominant disease.

Why you bring up my birth defects and all?

Abbott,

What are your favorite disabled singers?

Who! Who! No more mistakes, starting...NOW!

Abbott,

How much do I need to hear that Coil album? They're a band I'm greatly intrigued by.

YOU NEED IT BAD

nb I am not Abbott but you really do need it

Dear LJ,

You need to hear it instead of Mercury Rev, I'll tell you that much.

It is RADICAND. I also like Scatology.

Srsly LJ you will love it.

Z S sad to say it is Kids of Whidney High ;_;

LJ needs to hear CHROME

I have Musick To Play In The Dark 1 and it's awesome, I'll doubtless be adding to my collection soon! I don't doubt for a second I'll love it. And I'm only going on about the Rev tonight because of new album excitement.

If I'm allowed a return suggestion, btw, Coil collaborator Thighpaulsandra's debut album "I, Thighpaulsandra" is genuinely something special.

Oh hell yeah!

Srsly how much Coil/Stapleton/Tibet/Death in June inbreeding IS there?

lots, although DIJ got kicked out of the family sometime in the late 90's I think.

Cld someone plz make a flowchart?

BTW is this OUTLIER of 'Thunder Perfect Mind' albums any good?

http://www.brainticket.com/shopbt/images/cat/pale%20divine%20-%20thunder%20perfect.jpg

Abbott you should post on the rolling metal thread

Abbott, you've HEARD "I, Thighpaulsandra"??! WOW, I thought it was my little ILX secret...but yay! "Michel Publicity Window" ft all-time w

I r read ur mind

I hardly even like any metal at all!

Coil – Horse Rotovator

<3 <3 <3

Abbott you should post to ILM more!

yeah srsly

haha

that is the word on CHATZ right now

which is why I started this thread

Guilty Pleasure: PWEI – "Def Con One"

We scared Curtis off chatz

What do you think of A Flock of Seagulls?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwSnSsT0w4I

whoa I have never even heard of that Pale Divine record

COMUS is going on tour???????????? :O

Probably not to anywhere near me though.

BTW I read Comus & it doesn't really enhance appreciation of their music.

http://www.mtsu.edu/english/milton/blake-drawing-for-Web.jpg

Well, Nate asked for ilxor suggestions for good U.S. venues for them. Tell him about an awesome Comus-ready venue within striking distance of your domain! It ain't often you actually have access to the ppl making these decisions.

Hey pfunkboy, the song that dodo sings sound really familiar, but I can't place it. J0hn lolled pretty hard bcz he thought it was a duck at first.

It's this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgzRgLRuKt0

WHOA Sea of Tranquility

Dear Abbott,

I'm still a tad weirded out that your favorite album of all-time is Best of Brick. But still, due to your unending coolness, I must know: what are your ten (10!) favorite movie musicals of all-time?

xoxokjb

Hi Kevin,

Thank you for asking. They are mostly "B-musicals." Here they are, in no real order, and without much thought:

1. West Side Story
2. Grease 2
3. Little Shop of Horrors
4. Shock Treatment
5. Music Man
6. Jesus Christ Superstar
7. The Apple
8. Cabaret (have to listen to this every time IO cut up a pineapple)
9. Newsies
10. Best of Brick: The Musical

There's a deli in town with some weird movie posters...I forget the name of the particular film in question, but the tagline promises it's "the GAYEST musical this side of the border!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ4FnsDxtL8&feature=related

I have such a big crush on Jessica Harper.

OMG!! First of all, I almost spit out my coffee at the heavy lolz of Best of Brick: The Musical!!

Second, two of your all-time fave musicals are mine too, okay??? The Apple and, OMG!, Shock Treatment! Did I ever tell you I threw a BIM party/screening of The Apple and made everyone wear on their faces these iridescent stickers I bought at a toy store? As for the latter, it's a much better film qua film than Rocky Horror. I love every damn frame! I had the soundtrack for years before I actually got to see the thing. Blew my mind because I necessarily constructed another film in my head around the songs. Fave song: "Look What I Did to My Id."

I have an essay on both RHPS and Shock Treatment in this book right here (but ouch! no softcover??).

Fave Cabaret song: "Money" easily!!! (DESPISED the stage show when I saw it about ten years ago)
Fave Grease 2 song: "Reproduction" easily!!!
Fave Music Man song: The Shipoopi!!!! I loooooove how dude jumps up and down right before the song like "OMG! Let's soooooooooooo do The Shipoopi!!!!!"

What are your thoughts on Bye Bye Birdie? "Telephone Hour" is in the running for greatest movie musical number of all-time.

I saw the made-for-TV "Bye Bye Birdie" with Jason Alexander & I don't remember much about it (it's been 15 years!) except being extremely irritated by the title song...maybe I should give it another go.

Glad you love THE APPLE & of course SHOCK TREATMENT! I tend to find most Rocky Horror stans are appalled at the idea that it's better than Rocky Horror, so I am glad you are with me on that one.

My husband & I sing "Bitchin' in the Kitchen" together all the time.

Hey Kevin, is the musical of Hairspray worth watching? I love the3 Waters film but I am kind of apprehensive about the musical.

And back to giddy excitement abt Shock treatment: I totally feel you when you say you love every frame! It looks so good! I mean, even just the color scheme is really fresh and vivid – if you tried to condense each frame into some Mondrian-style blocks of color it would still look awesome.

RHPS will always be closest to my heart but for many, MANY extratextual reasons (even though I do love the film). In short, RHPS casts should be federally funded, they should.

I was NOT a fan of the recent Hairspray. The movie was decent enough but the music was godawful. All one has to do is listen to the cheap, quick soundtrack for Waters' Hairspray (which leaves out sooooo many great songs as it is) and then the soundtrack for this one and you'll hear why Broadway is still stuck in a pathetic, out-of-touch cocoon (although the results are rarely worthwhile when shows try to keep up with popular music).

I saw the made-for-TV "Bye Bye Birdie" with Jason Alexander & I don't remember much about it

badwrongfalsebirdie

trust me ms abbott the original w/ janet leigh and ann margaret and mr paul lynde is about 3-10 wtf explosions per scene, rent it tonight if you've already gone that far down this route

it's from this bizarre window of time when the counterculture had gained enough purchase that people had begun to poke self-conscious fun at 50's nuclear family cliches, but the real late 60's shift hadn't happened yet so it's still got this scary innocence to it all, it is critical viewing

Yeah it's a masterpiece. In the 1972 Conclusion to his Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, Peter Wollen admits he was wrong in what he expected of Godard and finds that Makavejev's WR - Mysteries of The Organism (1971) and, even more so, Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising (1964) should receive the credit for "exploit(ing) the full semiological possibilities of film" instead of Godard (157). But actually, that credit should really go to Bye Bye Birdie from 1963 which is positively bursting with semiological hubris. It feels as if George Sidney had the opportunity to make only one film in his life and just went nutso trying to fulfill film's potential. (Which, obviously, was not the case since he's the auteur behind some of MGM's most scintillating musicals ever.)

1963 and 1964...hmmm...what a rich and strange interzone. Throw in "Surfin' Bird" and you wonder why The Beatles/the counterculture "had" to happen.

Jessica Harper is tres hottt.

"Summer Breeze" is killing me right now! There are only two dudes, here, in Seals & Croft – sirs how do you get your voices to carry those 398 extra invisible notes on "miiiiind"? You can just say any banality about "I came home" without poetic embellishment if you weave them around this amazing vessel. Thanks for blowing through the jasmine of my mind!

Daer Abbott, has viceroy driven you daft yet with his listening to every album on the metal poll?

PS, have you caught him listening to that Pungent Stench album yet?

He has been listening to them on headphones.

do you approve?

Abbbottt what are your favorite and least favorite Beach Boys albums

I'm gonna just do this off the top of my head: fave – Wild Honey (hard choice!), least fave – 15 Big Ones (super easy choice).

tell me about it hard choice, I could alternate between 5 or 6 different ones!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7J99LtTjds

fuck yes @ this

I told myself I was going to be more musically adventurous but all I wanna do is rock EWF.

let this groove get to your shoes, it's alright.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PD0tk-zCHM

DAEREST ABOT:
fuck yes @ this too?

omg it has the "place in france where the naked ladies dance" noodled in there
what a fucking jam

DAEREST ABOT:
how do you feel about the new Ke$ha song that bases it's chorus on the "place in france" melody?

WHaaaat? Man, I admit, I don't rly follow chart pop all that thoroughly. Like the first time I heard "Calif. Gurls" by that xtian chick was yesterday. So, idk, but I am thinking I might need to hear this Ke$ha jam IF it mentions men go there just to see their underwear.

stevie, thank u 4 spreading the roger troutman gospel

Sorry to be a broken record, but have you ever tried any Shiina Ringo? I think you might enjoy her, based on some of the other things you like (but then again, I've already steered people wrong thanks to thinking that about other people, notably poor Surmounter).

This is kind of going for the jugular, since I am posting a link to what I think of as the ultimate track on her ultimate album:

Souretsu

Or you could go back to her first album:

Kabukichou No Jou

Or maybe you've already tried her, or don't like listening to songs in foreign languages, etc.

(OT: I just had a chicharron burrito from Cecilia's. Good, but I think I prefer the chicharron breakfast burrito.)

Oh shit chicharron burritos – I should round one of those up.
Shiina Ringo is one of the fave artists of one of my friends who has p similar tastes in music to me, so I have been meaning to check her out for a while now. That is some cosmic shit, "Sourestsu." What album is it off of?
For some reason I imagined her sounding like Teena Marie? That was totally wrong.

I've been here two and a half years now, but I only recently tried chicharron, and I am sold on it.

Souretsu is from Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana (phew). She's doing more conventional things these days with her band Tokyo Jihen, but they are still fairly unique overall. Recent live performance:

OSCA and FOUL

(Their bass player has some sort of problem here and disappears for a while but it all works out.)

I also imagined she was like 60 and had been making records since the 1970s...how did this imaginary narrative for her even happen?

I don't know. She does kind of do R&Bish stuff sometimes, but other than that I'm not sure. She's been very productive since she started in the late 90s.

I used to see the name and think it was some kind of Japanese noise type thing.

hey abbott do you have anything to say baout this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oag1XDszddk&feature=player_embedded

Sometimes I think Dolly Parton is the world's best human. wkiw for sure. Is that guy on the right Chet or a TV host? I like that he's chipping in.

btw flopson what was yr old username?

that's the tv host, ralph emmery. chet atkins is the hot guitar licks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oag1XDszddk&feature=player_embedded
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Are you trying to make these represent shapes of letters? Your name was ARCS? AROS?

haha no sorry that was an attempt at a riddle in the style of this thread Game: Guess the Name of the Artist Based on a String of Pictures, &c.

my previous login rhymed with "a roast of ribbed veal"

"aroma: glib seal"