Why is OK just listen to bands with boys

and start all kinds of terrible rumours about
him. like his sphincter- like, the muscles
don't work anymore because he got double-fisted
and they broke. so he has to wear diapers. he
can control it a bit and if he poops at regular
intervals it isn't so bad but he still has
to wear diapers just in case.

or steal stuff from him and sell it.

It's not a stupid question at all, Erin. If that happens to be what you prefer, then that is great. :-) As Ron notes, your brother is a dork, and you've already noted how the question can be thrown back at him just as easily -- does he listen to any bands with female performers in them?

That's funny you recommend Neko Case because of my fascination with maneki neko. Lol, I know that's a meaningless connection and all, but it makes me want to check them out even more than the others you mentioned. I wonder where the Neko in their name comes from? Okay, I'll shut up on that now 'cause that IS a stupid question!

dk, while your suggestion was funny and definitely intrigues me I'll have to pass. Believe it or not, I love Brett even if he's a loser and mean to me alot. Besides, the only chance of someone finding the mags is if his friend came in and saw them, lol! And he doesn't have anything worth stealing! LOL

ned, thanks again for your encouragement, you really make me feel totally welcome here. You seem like a really nice guy and you've made me more at ease about posting around people that know so much more about music than me! (c:

jack, I try to stand up to him, I really do! But when I get angry its like my brain falls out of my foot and the most I can usually do is stand there looking nasty with a red face! lol Well, maybe it's not quite THAT bad, but... Of coarse, I never think of good comebacks until way after the argument is over anyway. But thanks for your advice, I know you're probably right. :] P.S. What's so bad about Belle and Sebastian anyway? I'm not sure about my brother, but I know I like them!

Keith, my brother is CONSTANTLY playing Pavement. I guess their not all that bad, but once you hear them a ZILLION times you get sick of it! lol And he's only been home again for a week! He's also been listening to the Hives and the White Stripes, to name a few. I like some of the music he listens to and not some of the other stuff. But I try not to judge even if it is my brother! LOL

*Whew* I better stop yapping away now! I still have a blog entry to make, my mushroom trip was really good this time. Thanks for letting me waste your time with my silly and dumb questions and stuff, lol. I'm glad I've received such a positive reaction though, I was really nervous about posting. Keep the suggestions for music coming, I'm really interested. =)

Belle and Sebastian, that band famous for not having any female vocals...

For months I've been trying to get my sister to like either Ani DiFranco or Shakira, and have failed on both counts.

you really make me feel totally welcome here

Why, you're quite welcome! :-) We were all newcomers once.

OK, that's way too nerdy. How about singing "Woo Hoo" whenever "Hate To Say I Told You So" comes on and saying the Hives owe Blur royalties? Though your bro is probably one of those "Yeah, everyone likes the singles, but it's the rest of the album that really rocks" kinda guys, huh?

Truth be told, his tastes aren't bad, just a little predictable. You deserve credit for trying to branch out while he keeps with the safe choices.

great xx chromosome dominated work off the top of the dome - Dog Faced Hermans, Delia Derbyshire, People Like Us, Pauline Oliveros, Scissor Girls, Harry Pussy, Sonic Yoot, Blond Redhead, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Bardo Pond, Nautical Almanac, Monotrona, Erase Errata, Numbers, Kleenex/LiLiPUT, Yo La Tengo....

add the Fall, New Order, Boredoms, Thinking Fellers, Velvet Underground & this brother's got shit for a leg to stand on, you could out-cool his ass any time.

autovac (can't get into Tori Amos, but Joni Mitchell's cool by me)

"...am usually taken with cuteness of girl rockers"

If it's foxy female singers ye be hunting for, then look no further than Gemma Hayes' "Night on my Side". The music is cool enough, but even if this disappoints you, there is a rather seductive picture of her splendiferous features on the inner sleeve. Everyone's a winner!

Yeah, me too. It definitely isn't to do with a preference for the SOUND of a male vocalist, as there is nothing more pleasing to the ear than the sound of Bilinda Butcher or Mimi Parker or Beth Gibbons. There is nothing wrong with preferring a certain type of singer (I mean, everyone prefers different styles and sounds to others within music, so there is no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed about preferring a different gender of vocalist) but as I have no real gender preferences, I feel a little guilty about my male-dominated record collection.

plus that may be the best album title ever

also, does anyone know about a band called Chug or something like that? my brother's friend was playing a record by them and it was really neat. I really liked the lyrics and the girl singing. The guitars were really melodic but fuzzy at the same time. Does anyone know about them?

1. Don't shut up! That goes against everything ILX was built on. Just say it (unless it's something heretical like "Well, actually, Baby One More Time isn't that great...", in which case you'd be burnt at the stake).

2. Is that NZ Chug?

am I a bad person for like Tori Amos?

Oh heavens no.

It's just not okay to listen to RUBBISH bands with girls in them. Like Garbage.

(you might want to check out syrup usa, too -- their record has a really nice mary timony feel. seana carmody, the band's lead singer, has a solo record coming out either now or soon.)

maura, I have All Over the Land (do html thingies work here?) already, and like it very much. Do you know why they only put out the one album? I know they broke up but I have no clue why. :-/

Alpha person, you don't mean that do you? I like neither and I'm most certainly a HER, lol! Anyway, I should go because I spend too much time online as it is now anyway. :-L

I too have a 90-10 split in favour of males in my collection - and I was thinking the other day about why. And the only thign I could come up with IS that I don't like the way women sing. And before you jump down my throat, let me do a little explaining.

The women I DO have in my collection sing like blokes. I don't mean in a deep voice (!) but for the phrasing - Janis Joplin, PJ Harvey, Beth Orton, to name three obvious examples. The only two real exceptions to this rule is Sandy Denny (best voice EVER, so I'm allowed) and Joni Mitchell (but I hate her voice, and only stay for the songwriting, which kind of defeats the object)

I CERTAINLY don't consider myself mysoginistic - I buy and listen to what I like, and if the sound of the female voice doesn't do anything for me, I shouldn't feel bad about it.

I went through a similar crisis with black music about a year ago, when I realised that everything seemed to be white. I kinda panicked when I realised all I had was a Muddy Waters compilation and 3 feet high and rising, but then I twigged - it doesn't matter. As a white male, I'm gonna associate more with white males than anyone else. That doesn't mean to say that I can't bask in the lovliness of Who knows Where The Time Goes, or get down and dirty with Smokestack Lightnin', it just means that I'm more likley gonna listen to Leonard Cohen or The Who.

I guess it all boils back down to "Listen to what you feel like", but the other way round - don't feel that you SHOULD like someone just because they're of an ethnic minority of a different gender to you, because that's just as poor as NOT listening to them.

Really? Go on . . . like the ones Tori Amos sings?

As a white male, I'm gonna associate more with white males than anyone else.

But surely one of the nice things about music is that you can learn points of view other than your own? I'm not white or American or middle-aged or female, so isn't it more valuable for me to listen to Lucinda Williams?

(except for erin, who was raised by fairies and breathes pixie dust while dancing in her bedroom to Tori Amos singing "Smells Like Teen Spirit.")

If we're all victims of our "environments and genetic blueprints" then aren't you too? Or are you somehow special and above us? Isn't that alot like being a Nazi?