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Sundar's actually right on this- Eno got a mention on Sept. 19, 2002, without a slam.

David Bowie and Brian Eno share the title!

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Saturday, 7 January 2006 08:33 (eighteen years ago) link

how bout...

louis armstrong
louis prima
chuck berry
little richard
hank williams
prince (even geir likes him, right?)
shangri-las (still not shot down three years later and therefore the official WINNER OF THREAD)

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 7 January 2006 08:52 (eighteen years ago) link

The Al Green namedrop has me thinking that Otis Redding and Aretha Frankiln might be good candidates. Have they been mentioned yet?

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Saturday, 7 January 2006 09:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Dave Q has made near-blasphemous (but hilarious) anti-Otis remarks. And, sorry, but I've never much cared for Aretha, aside from "I Never Loved A Man" and "Freeway Of Love". Don't hate her, but I can easily do without.

Didn't anyone ever mention Fugazi?
I think there's a case against, but I do remember everyone in college loving them....

-- jsoulja

Glad I didn't attend that particular college! Fugazi are disqualified.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 7 January 2006 10:32 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Pet Shop Boys?
Specials?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 00:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Shut up.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 00:40 (eighteen years ago) link

The answer has gotta be Prince, right? I've never heard anyone say they hate Prince.

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link

My dad thought Prince was a gag. Like Spinal Tap.

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link

do people actively dislike the monkees?

― powpowpow, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 02:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Hmm, a three and a half year old thread and no mention of Neil Young. Okay, there's bound to be someone, but he's a lot better candidate than, say, 'f***ing Groove Armada' (as they're known chez Avery).

― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 02:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I was gonna say Neil Young. But I got distracted.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link

i think even people who don't like Prince's music that much still think he's classic, cuz he's absolutely batshit crazy.

― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought someone was going to say Throbbing Gristle apropos of the "20 Jazz Funk Greats" thread.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 03:31 (eighteen years ago) link

i was going to, but you got here first.

in reality, i think everyone likes the yardbirds, right?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 03:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Honestly, I think Prince is a great answer. Other good ones have included James Brown, Michael Jackson, CCR, Bowie, and The Beatles.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 03:36 (eighteen years ago) link

i do not like prince, michael jackson or bowie.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 03:41 (eighteen years ago) link

R. Kelly?
Chuck Berry seconded...

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 03:59 (eighteen years ago) link

>> doesn't everyone love Al Green?
>> gear

Yes!

― micarl (micarl), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 04:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Ian, wow! I've gotten so much love from those up to this point. Those guys really give it back to you, if you know what I mean.

xpost

― regular roundups (Dave M), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 04:24 (eighteen years ago) link

i will go for Al Green as a good choice.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I like Al Green.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 04:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Letta Mbulu?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 04:55 (eighteen years ago) link

1. Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Shangri-Las? Only a heartless cretin could possibly dislike them. [heartless cretin to thread]

2. I say we take an official poll and have some helpful nerd-type make some pie charts.

3. No beef with Green.

― O-Keigh, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 05:18 (eighteen years ago) link

who doesn't love THE METERS or WIRE ('77-'79 era) ?

― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 05:38 (eighteen years ago) link

seriously guys, who hates the shangri-las? i mean i'm sure SOMEONE has to.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 05:46 (eighteen years ago) link

but they're just so adorable!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 05:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Dudes, SHE WANTS REVENGE??!?!? ANYONE?!

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 05:48 (eighteen years ago) link

seriously guys, who hates the shangri-las? i mean i'm sure SOMEONE has to.

-- J.D. (aubade8...), March 15th, 2006.

I'm pretty sure Rudolf Hess spent the last twenty years of his life denouncing the Shangri-Las. Now that he's gone, I can't imagine anyone there'd be anyone else.

― O-Keigh, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 06:58 (eighteen years ago) link

>> doesn't everyone love Al Green?
>> gear

Yes!

-- micarl (micar...), March 14th,

I don't really like Al Green.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 07:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I've never liked Neil Young very much.

Letta Mbulu is a good choice! At least everyone who's HEARD her. All three of us.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 07:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I find Al Green really really annoying actually.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 07:10 (eighteen years ago) link

weird

― micarl (micarl), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 07:51 (eighteen years ago) link

MCR?
MC5?
MC Hammer?

the guy who said Smokey Robinson and the Miracles was right all along.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 09:50 (eighteen years ago) link

JULIANA HATFIELD

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 09:59 (eighteen years ago) link

the specials is the write answer as proven by science on the ghost town thread.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Can't stand the bloody Meters. Not that bothered about Hatfield either.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 10:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Smokey Robinson seems like a good bet.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

My Vitriol

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I can appreciate the Beatles for what they accomplished, but I wouldn't call myself a fan.

James Brown. Go ahead and tell me I'm wrong, but I think James Brown is it.

― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I could totally live without the Meters (and I like lots of New Orleans r&b! They always seemed like funk for jam band fans to me.)

I like Prince fine through 1987 or so; after that, he just gets more annoying to me by the minute (speaking of funk for jam band fans).

And I've never had any use of Juliana Hatfield or Fugazi at all (in fact, if anything, I'd say I actively dislike both of them).

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Weird. I find the Meters to be one of the least jammy funk bands -- especially since all their songs were so short.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 16 March 2006 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link

the monkees dammit
everyone loves the monkees

― powpowpow, Thursday, 16 March 2006 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Everyone who deserves to live loves the Vaselines. When the Doomsday Machine goes off and we have to decide who to let into the nuke-proof mineshafts, I dearly hope they only let in Vaselines fans.

― O-Keigh, Thursday, 16 March 2006 03:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I've never liked Neil Young very much.

Oh, really?
Wow. For some reason, I thought you would be a Young fan.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 March 2006 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link

> I find the Meters to be one of the least jammy funk bands -- especially since all their songs were so short.<

Well, their songs usually just never seemed to me to have SONGS attached, which was the problem, I guess. They always just seemed like clinicians to me, laying down Funky Grooves in a workmanlike fashion I couldn't imagine why anybody particularly cared about (better for sampling, I guess, than for actually listening to.)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link

(then again, admittely, it's been a while since i tried listening to them. maybe i'd think differently if i listened to them today. but when i've tried before, they seemed way less fun than people said.)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I could totally live without the Meters (and I like lots of New Orleans r&b! They always seemed like funk for jam band fans to me.)
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Weird. I find the Meters to be one of the least jammy funk bands -- especially since all their songs were so short.

i was playing a meters tape in my car once and a friend asked "is this the grateful dead?"

― o -- (eman), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link

better for sampling, I guess, than for actually listening to

this has occurred to me, too. so good for sampling that it's probably true even if you like them.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link

This looks like the best thread ever. If I actually read it, will I be disappointed?

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I take it that silence is disapproval on this thread?

― Dave NSFW (dave225.3), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link

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