― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
I also don't recall anyone saying completely dismissing Public Enemy -- maybe their stuff after 1991, but not their entire oeuvre. Though I could be wrong.
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
pinefox hates public enemy (ok that's a guess but i will eat kelley deal if i'm wrong)
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
Can I add... The Spinners, Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes, Chaka Khan?
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― tyler (tyler), Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
That's why I said take issue with his peak work, not with the "entirety of his career" or whatever. The crap can negate his merit, but not the merit of stuff like Talking Book, etc.
― wl (wl), Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
Anyway, now I guess I'll just throw my weight behind T. Rex and James Brown, since the Beatles and the Boys seem like dubious contenders.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Graham (graham), Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
Only untimely death saves folks from this syndrome.
― wl (wl), Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
If we go by Alex's "if someone has released crap they're shot down", I'd say Iggy Pop would be the first one to go. I dig "Search & Destroy" as much as the next guy, but what about that 80's catalogue? Brrrr....
I'm willing to bet I'm the only person on ILM who can't stand ABBA, and even I like a few songs.
Everyone loves *some* Kraftwerk for sure.
The closest I can get is I like Afrika Bambaata songs that sample 'em.
T. Rex.
Eh, I think everyone could agree that they were OK, but do they really inspire widespread LOVE?
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
Personally speaking, no matter how great some of Stevie Wonder's stuff may be, I absolutely *LOATHE* some of his later work to the extent that I cannot bear to listen to *ANY* Stevie Wonder, and thus I cannot admit to liking him.
I do like the Pixies, the Clash, New Order, the Beatles, Kraftwerk, and Buzzcocks.
Daniel's spot-on about some of Ig's 80's work (let alone some of his 90's work)....some of which is irrefutably sub-par, but in the same way WL defends Stevie Wonder, I'll stand by Iggy. But, I suppose I can understand why some might not think he's exactly the messiah.
Has anyone mentioned the Rolling Stones as yet?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
Like you and Stevie Wonder, I honestly can't listen to the Stones anymore - even the stuff I used to love - without feeling sorta dirty and used. They're just such fucking trendhoppers and unrepentant whores.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
Do you have any suggestions then?
― wl (wl), Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
And really, how could they?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Graham (graham), Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
no one's shot down James Brown yet.
NP: "Hell", by the man himself. It's GRATE.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 19 September 2002 23:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
Teenage Fanclub.....yawn.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 September 2002 23:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 19 September 2002 23:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
Absolutely not. I think that's the point.
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 19 September 2002 23:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
(I love how this thread has turned out WORSE than last time by descending into Everyone who's ever released one bad song is out. I think find band no one wants killed would be hard enough)
― Graham (graham), Thursday, 19 September 2002 23:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― thom west (thom w), Thursday, 19 September 2002 23:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 19 September 2002 23:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 19 September 2002 23:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 19 September 2002 23:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 19 September 2002 23:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Graham (graham), Thursday, 19 September 2002 23:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
My brother told me today that everyone likes the Strokes except me. He lies. Sensible folk know they suck.
Everyone likes at least one Mercury Rev album. QED. I never hear anything really bad said about Weezer or Basement Jaxx, either.
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 19 September 2002 23:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
And a good point at that.
― wl (wl), Friday, 20 September 2002 00:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 20 September 2002 00:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
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― the Dirt, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link