consistently worst taste in music on ILM

I like to imagine that I have very good taste but am just a lousy buyer.

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My tastes: I tend to be vaguely uncritical in my listening choices, meaning that there are many things in many genres that I enjoy. Genres I've honed in on in recent years would include techno, drum 'n bass, hip-hop, baroque cantatas/masses and contemporary choral music. My current roster of favorite artists would be The Cure, Prince, The Smiths, Orbital, Skinny Puppy, Bjork, Meat Beat Manifesto, Massive Attack, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Radiohead, Christine Goerke, Thomas Quasthoff, Ian Bostridge, Joshua Bell, Jill Scott, and Depeche Mode. My current favorite conductors are James Levine, Bernard Haitink, Seiji Ozawa, and Raphael Fruehbeck de Burgeous.

Better or worse, I can't say. One could level a claim to pretension except for that I've excised liking stuff ironically from my life after all that nonsense with the Spice Girls (and I don't care what anyone says, "Wannabe" is NOT a good song).

Which leads me to believe that Dan might share my love for ZZTop.

Should read: "some."

XTC wouldn't make my list, but the old ZZTop singles definitely would, as would AC/DC, Led Zepplin, old Aerosmith and Rush, Love and Rockets, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sade, Men Without Hats, Adam and the Ants, the B-52's, and THE JETS.

God, now I feel like I'm pulling band names out of a hat. Anybody remember "Right On Track" by The Breakfast Club? Or "Let's Go All The Way" by Sly Fox? "Tarzan Boy" by Baltimora?

(a) Men Without Hats' Rhythm of Youth is one of my secret desert-island top-ten records that I usually don't include or talk about because it wouldn't be worth going into.

(b) While having a really, really serious/unpleasant conversation with my mother in a cafe over the weekend, "Tarzan Boy" started playing. I don't know how I managed to maintain any semblance of attention or seriousness during that three minutes, because my brain was fixating on the absurd fact that this painful conversation was being scored by fucking "Tarzan Boy".

Sorry Phil ;)

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I like the rockist crowd at ILM, they're refreshing. Maybe I am one, I don't know. Other than my disco, singer/songwriter and Euro-everything leanings, my taste is pretty similar to Fritz.

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PROVISIONAL TRANSLATION: rock = self- loathing; pop = not

Mark - there's more of a canon in rock, so there's more general acceptance as to what rock is 'bad', so there's more assumption that admitting to certain things shows bad taste. Whereas if you don't like pop you think it's all bad, and if you do you are likely to care less about the question.

I don't really think there's a better song than "Do You Believe in Magic," honestly.

And if anyone takes umbrage at my ownership of the Nina Gordon solo record in conjunction with _Eight Arms to Hold You_ AND the _Blow it Out Your Ass_ EP, we can step outside and "discuss".

More to the point: I'm recovering from steadfast belief in the purity of indie; often make knee-jerk reactions, sometimes coupled with hyperbole; am almost certain to put Badfinger or ELO on a jukebox should the opportunity arise; love R*dioh*ad, Bl*r, Hefner, and B&S; feel guilty about what I'd like to think is eceleticism actually being tokenism; have an inability to embrace most earnest music, but when I do I take almost too much to heart; insist on making those around me listen to classic rock while cleaning the house or moving and then secretly hope "The Boys Are Back in Town" comes on the radio; attach too much weight to lyrics in rock/pop and rhythym in hip- hop at the expense of the other; at times, am far too cycnical.

I of course admit to no bad taste because I don't accept the principle of guilty pleasures or the like. But I know what annoys. I have about 20 homemade double disc collections of Smashing Pumpkins rarities, outtakes, demos, live shows, this that and the other material. This fact alone seems to cause many people to want to kill themselves to avoid me or to just make it simple and kill me. So I just wave all the CD tree volumes I have by the utterly godlike Walkabouts in their faces and escape while they're distracted.

Mr. Snrub

He is far from having the worst taste here. He just sucks at appreciating/accepting other people's taste in the musics.

This is sooooo OTM.

let's talk more about lex while he's not here

how is a thread like this not locked?

I didn't realize we had to sit and wait for everyone to appear in the thread to mention them. Besides, I'm not trying to pile on lex, I just wish he was a little more accepting of what other people like! I think he has a really great sense of what he loves and I truly adore his enthusiasm, I'm just not a fan of the way he kind of shuts down discussion on stuff he isn't into.

lex is cool. and most of the people hating on him itt have lame, shitty taste.

KIP ILM!

Do people even read posts anymore? I spent half that post explaining why I like lex!

i've never read posts tbh

ksh, obv

xp maybe people aren't specifically talking about you?

ksh, obv

― ASBO slice (J0rdan S.), Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:56 PM (1 minute ago)

booming post

xp probably not, but I just assume everyone here hates my taste, so, yeah

i don't think your taste is particularly weird or hateable jon?

I guess "hates" the wrong word, I'm just really self-conscious because I feel like I'm not bringing all these awesome new discoveries to the board. I feel like I'm just always chiming in with what others love.

even if that is true, there's nothing wrong with that dude

No, theres not, I'm just constantly inspired by people on this board and it makes me feel a little inadequate at times.

fair enough, but I like your posts and I'm sure many other people here do, so

Haha this is coming off as some weird ploy to get sympathy, but I swear its not!

jon I know how you feel. Hug it out, bro!

All y'all who were in love with the awful Lady Sov, Dizze Rascal, and that grime shite.

i didn't see this thread! the person w/the worst taste on ilm is prob someone who only posts in threads i wouldn't dream of clicking on, though my opening this today was inspired by iatee, who certainly fulfils alfred's "bad ways of thinking" criterion.

I'm really surprised Lex likes Quadron! I would have assumed he would dislike that and, like, Herbert for basically similar reasons

but herbert is really unlike quadron...i don't dislike herbert but i've never really got into him. oh wait, i've just remembered that story about him killing a pig (?) for "art" recently, that made me dislike him. his music's been everywhere from ok to boring.

Lex, if you're reading this, what do you think of "Pure Shores" by All Saints and "Creep" by TLC?

i love "pure shores" but prefer "black coffee" by all saints which is similar but better. all saints were always soooo much better than the spice girls. tlc are an all-time classic band, for both quality and ~importance~ reasons, with a back catalogue that anyone w/an interest in contemporary popular music should be familiar with, "creep" being one of several highlights in it. (fav tlc songs = "silly ho", "ain't 2 proud 2 beg", "red light special", "diggin' on you", "what about your friends")

judging from the amount of times i'm seeing their name crop up, i'm hoping quadron will be a sleeper contender to place in ilm's EOY poll

I guess "hates" the wrong word, I'm just really self-conscious because I feel like I'm not bringing all these awesome new discoveries to the board.

a lot of the people who do this are, like, critics, or students w/lots of time on their hands, or people who work in music. the motivation behind bringing awesome new discoveries to the board is in seeing people like you who don't necessarily have that time discover them and join in w/the enthusiasm!

i've piped up in defense of Tom Petty, surely that garners a nom

Nah, only a petty misdemeanor.

i thought andy k said the quadron record came out last yr?

lex is cool. and most of the people hating on him itt have lame, shitty taste.

― The Brainwasher, Friday, July 23, 2010 2:53 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I think lex has good music taste, but then nomination came from Mr. Snrub which I think has bad taste in music so finding myself disagreeing on the lex diss is a given.

Based upon what he doesn't like (or isn't even interested in paying attention to): The Lex

Based upon what they actually like: One of the people who usually only frequent hip-hop or black metal related threads.

moebius strip

Lex hates football (soccer) therefore has impeccable taste in all things.

Lex, please get really drunk and have New Jack Singalongs with me.

totally would!!

lex is wearing the same shirt in every pic ive seen of him so i guess he's some sort of glam crust punk and that's cool in my book

hi geir, i'd say you have the worst taste on ILM. not by tabulating what you like and don't, but by how you seem to think about it. unless your persona is a big piece of performance art, as i once suspected but now do not.

xoxo.

i dont know who has the worst taste but its not me, i have impeccable taste

id go so far as to say that i have the best taste on ilm

Sting should retire

Anyone who doesn't think they have the best taste in music is doing something wrong.

but herbert is really unlike quadron

I hear a lot of his vocal stuff as not incredibly far off -- like "Something Isn't Right" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsldFU7tS-Y) or bits of Bodily Functions, maybe

(In his defense, pig-wise, I think the idea was to record/sample the entire life cycle of a farm pig, which just sorta inevitably features the pig being slaughtered, since that's what we do with pigs and whatnot)

Anyway, yes, that Quadron record is working. (Except for maybe the one really on-the-nose old-soul pastiche.)

The Quadron album, production wise, certainly feels bloodless enough to be Herbert. It's got that same feeling of being produced in isolation without much connection to the music it's referencing. I don't like Herbert very much in case you hadn't guessed.

The singer's good but she strays too often into this weird twee Scandipop inflected version of a soul voice. Lex I can't help but feel that if this album had a massive indie hype bandwagon behind it you'd be straining at the leash to slag it off.

I think it did come out last year, or at least it was definitely 'around'

i have more than one t-shirt, and there are pictures of me in more than one t-shirt all over ilx. i def have to clear that up.

i don't feel there's much twee about the quadron album, it's too serious for that. it fits in really well with a lot of the stuff on the sideways r&b thread.

and everything i've found gives the release date as 2010, including discogs, which is the site i usually defer to on these matters

willing to defer to discogs on the release, but it was definitely around in 2009; from the rolling indie in 2009 thread:

quite like tht quadron record dunno if they are indie but they are swedish
― conezy (cozwn), Sunday, December 13, 2009 7:42 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i bet he means the electrik red one tho but that is a notably awes tshirt

^^this

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