Name ten artists YOU have never seen mentioned on ILM.

Yeah but for the purposes of this game you're not supposed to use the search function anyway (see the rubric at the top of the thread).

Which is what makes Guy's assertion that ILM doesn't talk about non-rock stuff even stranger. Surely what he means is 'I don't read threads about non-rock genres'.

xp: oh, I didn't notice that. I get it now.

I first heard of Man Parrish on ILM!

I am annoyed that I hadn't read the Jake Thackray thread before. Thanks for pointing it out . Man Parrish has been mentioned in quite a few posts but not been given a solo spot, which says well something.

But two out of ten. Well that's 80% of a point confirmed. Probably only Reese & Santonio on my list were properly obscure, most of the others have topped charts of some sort.

And the point was? Simply that surprisingly major figures who are working in non-rock genres or predate the 1960s don't get discussed much.

We don't talk about Fall Out Boy all too much around here.

FOB's last album placed at like #44 on the 2009 poll thing

The Throbs

bewitched

(was listening to brain eraser t'other day)

Crippled Pilgrims

henzai hisato. he has a new disc -- henzai -- which is kind of a lonely, isolated, japanese take on the blues, maybe? can't find any reviews of it, either, beyond a favorable-ish writeup in the volcanic tounge record store's weekly email bulletin:

New album from spectral Japanese guitarist Hisato Higuchi, star of PSF’s Tokyo Flashback series. Higuchi takes off on Loren Connors’ concept of Venusian Blues and smudges it to the point of a distant communication across time, with sad arcs of single note sorrow weeping through layers of tape and fuzzy memories while he occasionally accompanies himself on weirdly non-gender specific whispered/half-sung vocals. Higuchi’s translation of the blues into a loner Japanese context is every bit as radical as Tatuzi Akiyama’s but while Akiyama works in a more overtly explosive/reductive style Higuchi’s focus is entirely inward, unravelling emotionally fraught tone poems from the very depth of his being. Edition of 550 copies

i kind of like what i hear in the soundscans; i'm considering downloading it. if anyone's heard of the artist or disc, opinions are greatly appreciated.

Haven't heard it, but it got just a so-so review in the Wire whose reviewer thought it was a bit of a step down from the previous one, which had some wilder and noisier moments on it iirc. Complaint about the new one was the lack of variation.

yeah, "same-y" might apply. but i kind of dig the weirdly sterile take on the blues, and the singer's wordless vocals (what looks like the press kit compares the vocals to blind willie johnson's dark is the night; obviously, that's being very -- very very very very very -- generous to higuchi's dics, but i can see the basis for comparison).

Fabulous Poodles

There's some Fab Poos discussion in the archive, mostly from me and xhuxk, I think.

Daniel, have you got L's Holy Letters? Another Japanese guy who uses Blind Willie Johnson as the start point for his stuff.

I have a hard time finding stuff using the search feature in ILM for some reason, Rudipherous. So I'm not surprised I'm wrong about the FabPoos.

don't have it. searching emusic for it now. does the artist go by "L"?

hey hey

is it good?

I haven't listened to Holy Letters in a while. Probably because it's a cd that I keep filed with my seven inch records.
I've got an edition with a bonus single and a nice picture sleeve. It is good. He's collaborated with Ben Chasny, haven't heard that.

I have a hard time finding stuff using the search feature in ILM for some reason, Rudipherous. So I'm not surprised I'm wrong about the FabPoos.

Since the thread is really about what you have never seen rather than what is there or not, that's fine. (Actually, I started this thread, but I can no longer remember what the point was, if there was any.) When searching, make sure you have it set to "posts" if you want to search posts and not just thread titles. That could be your problem.

When I was in junior high, the Fabulous Poos came to the college newspaper where he was working and he had them call me on the phone. I didn't believe it was them at first. He has a picture of himself holding up a phone, surrounded by the Fabulous Poodles. Oh man, I need to see that photo again.

That's also where he met Bob Marley, and I yelled at him for not knowing who Bob Marley was, but unfortunately I didn't get to talk to Bob Marley on the phone.

Will and the Bushmen

Friends Again

I've only been on ILM for 2 years or so (mostly just creeping on threads obv) but I'm pretty sure I've resisted name dropping The Young Sinclairs (cept maybe tangentially in a whater ye listenin to thread or something). They're some dudes making broadly labeled psych rock that's heavily (like really heavily) influenced by the 60s but they've gradually honed their sound into a 12 string led psych pop that's impossibly perfect to my ears.

I'm pretty sure they're a band that most of ILM would love (probably should've posted them in scott's west coast thread ages ago but their youtubes are mostly crappy sounding), they've got tons of melodic, (mostly) beautifully produced analog recordings but, sadly, not much 'web presence' or whatever. they remain an obscure treasure for me others that've stumbled across their vinyls. Check em out they'll make a great Christmas gift for Rickenbacker enthusiast on your list.

i've been spending more time with the weekly lists of new releases issued by two idiosyncratic record stores -- acquarius records and volcanic tounge records -- and that's led me to a bunch of artists that i don't think i've seen mentioned on ilx before.

it's nice to be reminded that there's still a lot to discover.

Sweet Sensation
Jack Jones
Edie Gorme
Blackgiris
Art (The Only Band In The World)
Jimmy Spicer
Frummox
Kay Kayser
C-Bank
Fotomaker

Jimmy Spicer

JIMMIE "SUPER RHYMES" SPICER is the forgotten genius of old school.
and yo check it out: the REAL Lovebug Starski has a myspace page!!!

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, September 9, 2006 7:03 PM (4 years ago)

Der Blutharsch
In Gowan Ring
The Soil Bleeds Black
Paul Roland
Blood Axis
Allerseelen
Feindflug
Puissance
Von Thronstahl
Triarii

coincidence: i mentioned hisato higuchi in this thread; this morning, dusted magazine ran a favorable review of higuchi's new disc.

i downloaded it earlier this week. i've hardly digested it all (not really an album i can listen to in one sitting), but i like it a lot.

the beatles
prince
kraftwerk
steely dan
kate bush
the cure
the beach boys
saint etienne
the-dream
new order/joy division

never saw this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SosdezX2Ut8

battlehooch.

i kind of dig the samples.

OK, ilxor's last post was pretty funny (but where's Nate Dogg?)

Black Helicopter - was just listening to the wonderful (if a little dubious) The Good Times when the thread came up again. Not seen them mentioned.

I didn't actually know until just now that they had recorded a third album.

surprisingly, timber timbre

I saw Black Helicopter open for Killing Joke recently. Solid band but didn't grab me.

haven't seen grimes mentioned. their new album -- geidi prime -- is killer.

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/geidi-primes.jpg

lots of dune-references in the track-titles, e.g., feyd rautha dark heart. hypnotic and cool.

I'm sure some of these have been mentioned once or twice, so I listed 12 to hedge my bets. The difficulty is that some (like Castanets) are impossible to search for without turning up thread after thread mentioning castanets rather than Castanets.

-Jack Breakfast (can't recommend this guy enough)
-Castanets
-Ill Lit
-Parker and Lily
-Lucky Jeremy
-It's a Wise Child
-Myssouri
-Mr. Wright
-Martin Coffey Racing
-Zilch
-Josh Cole and the Household
-DiskothiQ

i got into grimes when i saw her open for asobi seksu, i think it was. i dug her infinitely more than asobi, whom i'm just kinda partial to but thought the $12 ticket price good enough to engorge myself in masses of sweaty indie chix

anyways, grimes is great live. not much action (she stands, nods, but mostly stands), but sounds so so so very much like studio.

noel gallagher's high flyin' birds

re: Grimes, the charm is about how she forgoes a mic stand for instead cradling the mic like a telephone receiver while swapping patches, turning knobs.
Co-sign on Jack Breakfast, famous Toronto book detective

can't speak to this ^^^^^^^^ but i find the dune-themed song-titles charming (shadout mapes; caladan; zoal, face dancer).

SLAM BAMBOO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0foccuYinFI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi7q85B1PwA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Rabbit

Nuclear Rabbit has a large fan base despite being a perpetually underground and independent band. They are arguably one of the most well known underground bands in California, having more mainstream bands like Papa Roach, Alien Ant Farm, and Deftones opening for them.

has anyone heard of these guys. i havent and neither has anyone i know from california

they appear to be... really bad

i have never heard of nuclear rabbit. i hate their name, and i youtubed them and i agree, their music seems really irritating. they sound like what primus would sound like if instead of listening to them you had a nightmare about listening to them.

i've never seen the stupid stupid henchmen mentioned here, which is a shame, because they are geniuses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBYXc4jl6Gs

http://www.davegrossman.net/chromatic-fantasy/2003-09-25-nuclear-rabbit/Dsc02776.jpg