― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 19 September 2002 20:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― rms (rms), Thursday, 19 September 2002 20:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
How about Iggy Pop?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Transient, Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
I agree. The Stooges are vastly overrated. And the Iggy-penned comments accompanying the re-mastered Raw Power album have got to be the most self-serving, self-aggrandizing liner notes I've ever seen.
― Rahul Kamath (Rahul Kamath), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chemical Queen (Rahul Kamath), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
How about NEW ORDER?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
new order could be THE ONE. although i have my doubts.
― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Simon, Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Motel Hell (vassifer), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― wl (wl), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
I could try Pulp I guess (ps. anyone in the UK seen the new BT Broadband ad?)...
― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
I know: JAMES BROWN
― Nate Patrin, Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― 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
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