Introduce Yourselves!

Have a look at my web site : http://www.users.bigpond.com/pturnbul : for more including my small place in the history of Australian post-punk...

I'm going to be at work til midnight tonight. Jolly ho, all I want is a dance.

Seem to spend money on records with the hope that I will discover the new Beatles or Brian Wilson but am nearly always disappointed.

There now follows the usual random, unqualified list of stuff i really like or have been listening to lately: SFA, Boo Radleys/Brave Captain, Olivia Tremor Control, The Shazam, Jayhawks, Jellyfish, Outkast, Ben Folds Five, The Zombies, Roy Wood, Smokey Robinson, Aimee Mann, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, The Kingsbury Manx, Blur, Ryan Adams, Dexys Midnight Runners etc etc etc.

I am currently building a database of all my records and of course its for insurance reasons not because I'm sad.

One of my fave films is Brazil and my fave tv prog is the Simpsons. The current question i am pondering is, how much can you actually tell about someone from a list of their favourite things?

Er... That's it!!!!!

Old Fart

Odessey And Oracle is indeed most fine but given you said one of your weaknesses was box sets (as it is mine) I'm sure you'll understand I have the fantastic box set Zombie Heaven. 2 cds of everything they ever released in their original mixes, 1 cd of home demos and studio outtakes and 1 cd of BBC sessions plus a rather lovely booklet.

What with recent re-releases of Odessey I think its been getting more notice of late than it probably has for many years. The tracks recorded immediately after it as the band started to metamorphosise into Argent are equally as beautiful and even a lot of the tracks from the first album Begin Here are worth hearing. I especially like their version of Summertime(over exposed though that song is), although anything Colin Blunstone sings sounds good.

I'm sure there is no other band who would have such a strong singles collection and yet only one UK hit. Their problem I think was the complete lack of image. Just 4 unassuming guys who dropped out of their studies/bank jobs to have a go at being a band. Its pretty rock 'n' roll how un-rock 'n' roll they actually were - I'm sure if they had fought with each other, done loads of drugs and tried to write a rock opera they would have been huge but thankfully they didn't and weren't

I study journalism. I am also the editor of pop-magazine Nomad, a sort of The Face-meets-early nineties Melody Maker affair that doesn't sell very well, but has managed to show that intelligent writing about pop culture is possible even in this particular part of the world.

Spent my teenage years being an indie kid, then ditched guitars and switched to modern-day club and pop sounds. Into: UK garage, house, hip hop, R&B, Bacharach, brazilian/easy listening... I've spent the most part of last year listening to garage. Then during the summer I discovered Todd Edwards, and now I listen to nothing but garage and Todd Edwards. Mostly.

In my spare time I also DJ, and I'm starting to make tracks on my computer. They're not terribly good yet, but I've made an Aaliyah vs Jimmy Nash bootleg which I'm kinda proud of, and which all my friends and relatives had to sit through. I opened my set at last year's biggest Croatian rave with it, too. Then procedeed to play loads of garage and house. On the chill-out floor, mind you.

So I got the Nuggets box instead (even though I had about half of it on other compilations). The best box I've ever bought! ( superb re- mastering, great packaging, fantastic book)

I have the Nuggets box too and agree on how fantastic it is. Hard to believe all this stuff is from only a 3 year time period and nice to get an informative booklet too. I got the Phil Spector box for my christmas and it has an awful uninformative booklet. I suppose the quality of the music is paramount but when you pay £40/£50 for a box you expect decent packaging.

You may find that Odessey is the best Zombies stuff but most of the rest of the tracks on the box are great too and I don't think you would regret the purchase.

thanks.

Likes: Dogs, cities, vegetable stir-fry, B movies (esp. Peter Jackson), anime, the desert, the Internet, video games, Pellegrino, litchi nuts, wandering aimlessly, dancing to psy trance, dreams, crazy people, midnight movies, mind expanding literature, old houses, that my name sounds cool in Japanese, melodic techno, jungle, electro, FSOL, psy trance, early Rush, finishing this paragraph.

Dislikes: Pop, Jazz, House, IDM, chat rooms, alcoholic beverages, secular existentialism, mindless people.

Currently: Sitting on my legs typing at 2:00 AM.

Website: http://greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?top ic=Psychedelic%20Trance

Music-wise I gravitate between some hip-hop, Brit guitar types (loved the Doves album) and dance stuff, including (this jumps from genre to genre) Herbert, much of the Detroit jazzier sound (like C. Craig & Recloose), K & D and their derivatives, Ian Pooley and the Jaxx.

Pop annoys me and I love anything by Kundera and Haruki Murakami. The Avalanches new disc is my constant summer companion.

cheers.

I am a Student Teacher (RE) Studying at Bath Spa Uni.

I have to admit I lurk more than I post here but with the current state of the British Music press there's nowhere better for intelligent music criticism.

Likes: 2Step Garage, Early 90's hardcore, jungle when it was good, R&B, Hip Hop(Outkast and Mos Def are the best) Post Rock, Spiritualised, Kelis, Destiny's Child. Karl Marx, Weber, Keynes, Simon Reynolds, Doug Henwood, Erik Davies(Check out Techgnosis awesome book) cool Sci-fi, The Sopranos(Genius!) and too much other crap to mention.

Dislikes: Coldplay, Travis et al. Indie bores/snobs, Nu Metal sheep, NME, neo- classical economics. Religious Bigots/fundamentalists, OFSTED, Utilitarians(of all varities) oh and not forgeting the conservative party.

Umm that's it!

current favourite songs: billie ray martin - "your loving arms", the gerbils - "crayon box", throw that beat in the garbagecan! - "a kiss from you", the go-betweens - "people say", lil kim - "suck my dick", television personalities - "favourite films", kicking giant - "fuck the rules" bratmobile - "cool schmool" ´lew kirton - "heaven in the afternoon" sea & cake - "afternoon speaker"

favourite bands: erics trip, jonathan richman/modern lovers, daniel johnston, b&s, tindersticks, skinned teen, field mice & other sarah stuff, lou barlow stuff, noise addict, helen love, teen anthems.

i don´t like: most jazz stuff (that i´ve heard), metal, too cheesy new romantic...well i like most stuff. oasis, stones (except one or two songs) the who, phillysoul, westcoast hiphop, FUNK....

musically, i'm all over the place. in my cd player right now is aphex twin, but we can also talk pink floyd, belle and sebastian, radiohead, godspeed you black emperor!, manics (old), rem, smiths, nirvana... hell, you get the idea. i'll buy anything, and like most stuff thats not manufactured.

i have a webshite, but its crap and redundant. i'll build another when i get a moment...

oh, i'm 28, got a fantastic personality, am devastatingly good looking, and oooze charm and wit... or something...

Eighties music trivia is my superpower (or so my friends believe). I even know a non-top 40 song or two from since then. I'm probably cooler than I think I am. Or not. Hi.

I don't have a website, I do have a band and THEY have a website... we are the Cloud Minders, go to thecloudminders.com and you'll see bugger all, because we've not had time to do anything to it yet. Try seeking us inside the labyrinth of Peoplesound.com (we ARE there HONESTLY) and you'll hear what we sound like, you could even buy our EP, and we're making another one, and I'm making a solo album, but there's another story too.

I've only just scratched the surface of my musical loves, and I've only just scratched the surface of this website - any site named after a Win album is fine by me. I hate the way I lapse into American style writing when I'm saying stuff on websites. Keep up the good work, I love you guys. Can I write for you sometime?

Still, I hardly ever listen to that stuff anymore. I'm always on the look for new and interesting music, and so freakytrigger is an incredible resource. A few years ago, I never thought I'd like hip- hop, but now I'm a convert (I admit I'm a bit of a backpacker, Black- Eyed Peas Jurassic Deltron etc). I never thought I'd like electronic music of any kind; Now I'm a huge fan of Orbital, Two Lone Swordsmen, Innerzone etc. Always open to new suggestions, thanks for being here for me!

Vaughan Simons, 29, living in West London, working for BBC Online (but not techie or geeky - a computer's a computer, and that's all I know). Music - used to be severely alt-indie-leftfield in the early 90s, when I was at university and then unemployed and had time on my hands. Now, I don't keep in touch with any of the latest trends, hardly know what's Number 1 in the fabulous pop charts from week to week, like everything from Gavin Bryars thru to David Gray (I know, I'm sorry), via Ute Lemper, Phil Spector and sixties girl groups, chill-out electronica (my friends think I'm stressed - I got about ten CDs that could be classified as 'chill-out' for Christmas), Magnetic Fields. Basically, anything and everything, and a lot of nothing. The favourite hidden corners of my music collection will always be inhabited by Disco Inferno, Furniture and David Sylvian though, I guess.

Is anybody going to read this? No. But anyways, I live in a small town. The last 5 records I listened to were Wowee Zowee, In A Priest Driven Ambulance, Tonight's The Night, The Queen is Dead, and Enter the Wu-Tang. I like bread.

That's all for now...

here is the requisite information about myself: i am approximately thirty one and four fifths, and though it seems to be a popular method of introduction, i do not have a 'favourite' band, so for the sake of this posting i shall pretend that i do, and that my favourite band is transvision vamp. i derive great enjoyment from the between song banter on local radio stations, and the juxtaposition of classical music and platform announcements in the bar at birmingham new street station.

that is all.

Work: I do software programming/engineering for $$$, which is why I spend much of my time internet browsing!

Bands that I am: Roads to Space Travel, Slow Jets

I enjoy lots of bands/artists but I have serious interests in: British Punk/"Post-Punk" (from about 1976-1982); 80s "New Wave"; 60s- 70s Jamaican Ska/Rocksteady/Reggae/Dub; and I have a soft spot for 80s synth pop.

Newer, smaller bands I would vouch for: Spoon, Candymachine (RIP), Enon, Les Savy Fav, Lifter Puller (RIP), The Fuses, The Glands.

Interests: Musical gear/instruments/recording ( http://www.guitargeek.com/layouts/display.php3?id=399 ); Vintage analog and newer, cheap, digital synthesizers; BMW motorcycles (preferrably 70s boxers, I own a '77 R75/7); Saab 99/900 autos (up to 1994); My dog Benny; Basketball; Football; Driving too fast; War Movies; Behind the Music; Drug Legalization (not for my own purposes, however).

Dislikes: Most music journalists; Record Labels; Most Booking Agents; Promoters; Record Reviewers.

mauramae dot com. i am AICON 14! sophomore in college, wheaton college, near boston, too poor to ever get out there to do anything and when i do. i spend more money. i am studying anthropology and women's studies, doing astronomy in my spare time.

i am into neutral milk, and apples in stereo, liz p, bjork, just bought le tigre and LOVE it. prince (!), elliott smith. i really hate writing all the bands/artists i listen to cause i always forget something. i should just catalog my cd collection. i adore mix tapes, and those are my favorite things in the whole wide world. i love making mixed.

i don't like pretentious elitist hippies, and recently i don't like being touched when i am sleeping. i like silver bangles and fun clothes. i have a coat, hang bag, scarf fetishes. i like to cook. my dad and gramma are both sick and 2001 has been the worst year of my life so far.

LOATHES: The plague of self-styled so-called 'divas' (Mariah, Whitney, and their vile ilk), contemporary cheeze-whiz r'n'b (Sysquo, Destiny's Child, R.Kelly), teen pop in all its vaccuous manifestations (N'synch, Backstreet Boys, etc.), lowest-common-denominator-fueled hip-hop that is obssessed solely with the acquisition of easy wealth and "booty," unforgivably mookish rap/rock bands like Korn, Bizkit, deplorably self-righteous and self-congratulatory Lilith women like Paula Cole and Jewel (and to the same extent, Ani Defranco) and yawnsome fraternity rock like Dave Matthews, Phish, Hootie, etc. etc.

When will ned Raggett stop impinging on the rights of people to have twitter accounts this will not stand

SEIZE HIM

I am simply horrible, so. (And thanks to a.m.c. for the most kind words.)

OH HI

NJ REPRESENT

What are the demographics on this thread geographically? Feel like so many of us turn out to be from NJ.

Well I certainly amn't - from NJ!:)

When I first began posting on ilx, I lived in Nashville. Then I lived in Florida for a few years and now I live in Atlanta. I rode a train through NJ once and spent the night at a big suburban house where my friend nannied for a guy named Tony Danza (not that Tony Danza), so I feel like I've done NJ reasonably right.

I love NJ.

cotswolds.

i am concerned that the tentacles of ned raggett reach all the way to NJ.

I read this as testicles, or maybe I just pretended to. Eat your heart out Brian Eno.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ3tqIukBKg

Wow, I just spent a few minutes reading through some of the original posts itt.

Hi. I'm Paul Cox (no, not the photographer or the guy who runs too pure). I'm 28 and now live in Nashville. I didn't move here to be a songwriter, and the music scene here is nowhere near as vibrant as its portrayed through the rest of the world. But, there are a few decent clubs and some good record shops -- enough to keep me broke, anyway. I've lurked around here for close to a year, but have only begun posting recently.

― paul, Tuesday, March 26, 2002 8:00 PM (11 years ago)

I was but a wee little babe then.

I rode a train through NJ once and spent the night at a big suburban house where my friend nannied for a guy named Tony Danza (not that Tony Danza), so I feel like I've done NJ reasonably right.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, September 6, 2013 12:57 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's like going to see the Eiffel Tower or Central Park... at least do something original next visit...

How come there's 1200+ posts on this thread, and I don't recognize 75% of these people?

before we can answer, we need to know who are the 25% ?

i was in nj yesterday. it was okay but i'd rather pump my own gas tbh

the one and only Ned Raggett (a most noble person if I do say so myself)

sounds fishy

Litterer's Orange Juice!

Johnson's Popcorn! Shriver's Salt Water Taffy! Mack & Manco Pizza! (Uh oh, looks like they split and now it's just Manco & Manco.)