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jon you just fell off the wagon hard!

― oops (Oops), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

― THE JAMES DEAN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT (ex machina), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Ariel Pink

― larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

Gang Gang Dance

― THE JAMES DEAN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT (ex machina), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

I think Marvin Gaye wins, unless I missed something. Although I don't really believe anyone who says they dislike the Beatles...

― Richard K (Richard K), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

I don't dislike the Beatles, I just don't really give a toss about them.

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Al Green is the only real answer, probably. I know people who don't like Marvin gaye, I don't know anyone who doesn't like Al Green.

― Gear! (Ill Cajun Gunsmith) (Gear!), Monday, 27 June 2005 23:33 (twenty years ago)

what about portishead's first album. seems like everyone can get into that. a friend remarked that if portishead were played on public transportation the world would be a much nicer place.

― deru, Monday, 27 June 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone NOT like some Siouxsie and the Banshees?

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

AAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!! It was so worth trudging through all of this entirely pointless thread just to see those Bono pictures. Hilarious. Thanks James Dean!

― DoG67, Friday, 6 January 2006 03:27 (twenty years ago)

Damn! I gotta admit I did the trudging as well. What? No Zombies? CCR?

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 6 January 2006 05:58 (twenty years ago)

Its impossible to hate AC/DC. Surely?

― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Friday, 6 January 2006 07:46 (twenty years ago)

Willie Nelson wasn't mentioned in this thread, was he? he should have been! everyone loves Willie Nelson!

― gear (gear), Friday, 6 January 2006 07:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm indifferent to Willie, myself.

I betcha it'd be easier to achieve a consensus if the thread was retitled "Bands That NOBODY Hates".

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 6 January 2006 08:11 (twenty years ago)

Oh, it's quite easy to hate AC/DC if you have an IQ in the three-figure range.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, 6 January 2006 08:12 (twenty years ago)

You know what I love about this thread?

David Bowie wins it by a mile.

Go back and read the whole thing. He's mentioned early and over three years never gets slammed.

Even if you try now, it doesn't matter.

David Bowie gets the official nod, as he should.

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 6 January 2006 08:23 (twenty years ago)

aged twat who's released just enough good songs over a 40 year career to fill up a single listenable disc of hits. fuck that guy.

― gear (gear), Friday, 6 January 2006 08:39 (twenty years ago)

Yeah sorry jsoula. He is a twat and all is music is rubbish, except for the Laughing Gnome, and that's not enough to make up for Ziggy Startdust et al.

Not even Bowie dancing gayly in a street with Mick Jagger can save him.

― mei (mei), Friday, 6 January 2006 10:13 (twenty years ago)

Heh heh, ya hadda go and mention 'im, didn't ya jsoulja!
(I don't hate Bowie myself. But I'm not displeased that there are apparently some who do.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 6 January 2006 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Even if you try now, it doesn't matter.

David Bowie gets the official nod, as he should.

Repeated, as obviously a few of you missed it.

Sorry, haters. You missed your chance. Everybody loves David Bowie, which means if you don't- you're NOBODY.

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

I'm not a Bowie hater, but not a lover by any stretch. Gear OTM. Even his best stuff doesn't get me that excited.

― TRG (TRG), Friday, 6 January 2006 16:24 (twenty years ago)

I certainly like Bowie.

But in addition, does anyone on ILM dislike Super Furry Animals?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 6 January 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Um, everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but saying you don't like David Bowie, especially saying you actually dislike David Bowie, given his MASSIVE influence on music and other assorted social implications (i.e. don't think for a second that DB didn't single-handedly cut a serious chunk of anti-gay preconceptions out of mainstream rock radio in his career), is kind of like saying you're really not all that with it, know what I mean? It's ok if you don't, but, you know, you're saying a lot of other things there, too.

It's like saying "I don't get Kraftwerk". The only response to that is I bet you don't get a lot of things...

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:15 (twenty years ago)

I try to get into Bowie every now and then, but I get rather bored with the music.

If I want glam I go T. Tex instead. If I want proto-new wave: I go Kevin Ayers and Robert Wyatt and Eno and Roxy Music. If I want theatrical art-rock I go Peter Hammill and Vandergraaf. If I want a record that is better proto-punk than Bowie I go Nadir's Last Chance. If I want weird psych-folk then, again, I go Tyrannosaurus Rex or even Tim Buckley. If I want orchestral, showtune weirdness then I go Scott Walker. If I want the best street-wise rock I go VU's Loaded. If I ever want guitar madness then I go the Sweet Sister Ray bootleg. Not to mention Alex Harvey, Steve Harley, Alice Cooper, the Cockettes, and Jobriath all fit in here somewhere.

Call us folks who don't suck Bowie's dick clueless but everywhere you turn are artists with greater vision than Bowie whom he cannibalized so he could turn himself into some mythical rock star legend.

As for the the "gay issue" so to speak, the Cockettes are super-esoteric but they challenged anti-gay stereotypes more radically than Bowie ever did.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:31 (twenty years ago)

But in addition, does anyone on ILM dislike Super Furry Animals?

i hate them a LOT.

― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

xxpost - I don't know what I'm saying other than there are a lot of things I prefer to Bowie from every style and period he belongs to. I get him just fine, just not that into it. You could fit every Bowie song I like on one CD and probably still have some space left. And I'd play that CD once every 3 years.

I only dislike Super Furry Animals a little.

― TRG (TRG), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:39 (twenty years ago)

when has david bowie ever had fun?

― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

(serious question)

― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:41 (twenty years ago)

i'm overstating my case up there, since i own and really, really like several bowie albums. there's a little devil's advocate in that post. i don't hate him. but he's boring much of the time and even his two disc hits comp really starts to suck ass after the early-'80s. i think his place in the canon is overstated to a large degree but then again that goes for the beatles and the stones and hendrix and all those canon guys.

― gear (gear), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:50 (twenty years ago)

my mom hates ac/dc :(

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:52 (twenty years ago)

i just went through this whole thing and didn't see sly and the family stone, which is odd. but now that geir's here that might get shot down.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:58 (twenty years ago)

No Jackson 5 either.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Call us folks who don't suck Bowie's dick clueless but everywhere you turn are artists with greater vision than Bowie whom he cannibalized so he could turn himself into some mythical rock star legend.

Ok, this is pretty much spot on, and he's admitted as much, but that's part of his brilliance. Musicians are almost always the product of their influences- it's what influences they choose and how they build from them that defines their greatness. Bowie's choice of influences were exceptional, and in the process of chasing them he created his own unique vision.

As for the the "gay issue" so to speak, the Cockettes are super-esoteric but they challenged anti-gay stereotypes more radically than Bowie ever did.

Yeah but they never cracked mainstream pop and rock radio the way Bowie did. Disco-bashing, gun rack sporting, "Stones Rule!" "Stairway To Heaven is the best song EVER!" guys grew up listening to Bowie tracks and still loved him enough to keep him in that arena, despite all those rumors that he and Mick Jagger were playing leap frog, despite the fact that DB's stage persona had some serious ponce leanings.

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

CCR? Beefheart?

― TRG (TRG), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:29 (twenty years ago)

It's possible to "understand" Bowie and still think he sucks, ya know.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:38 (twenty years ago)

the only artist that ALL of my family likes is harry nilsson

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

if someone says they don't atleast enjoy some ccr they are either lying to you or themselves.

― bb (bbrz), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Beefheart hereby vetoed.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

No one's shot down Eno, either.

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:53 (twenty years ago)

(knocks on wood)

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

im into eno and ccr

― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Of course I'd back Eno as well....

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Blurt.

Everyone abolutely adores Blurt.

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Fuck Eno.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Ok, we're down to CCR now

― TRG (TRG), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

enjoy it while it lasts.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

mooooooooooooooooooove
down the road i go

― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

wait a second, i like Eno ok. I was just overcome by the urge to say Fuck Eno! It's fun. FUCK ENO!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Johnny Cash
James Brown
Velvet Underground
Broken Social Scene--just kidding

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

I do have to admit, though I'm not really a fan, that it's hard to hate Bob Marley.

Hate Bob Marley fans? There's nothing easier....

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:45 (twenty years ago)

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