Bands you keep trying to like but can't get into

huh that wouldn't be the first connection I would make. now, Japan and Duran Duran otoh...

early japan is basically a roxy tribute band

yeah why can't these british guys just rock out, you know? like americans, like black sabbath.

hahaha. In a recent BBC doc about Brits playing in the US, Ian Anderson said that, as Tull openers, Roxy Music didn't go over in the US because they were too arch/arty. Which, you know, coming from a flautist fronting a band with a member dressed in a bunny suit...

it was kinda weird how well Tull did in the u.s.

yeah why *those* particular prog-hippies got over is kind of inexplicable

I still haven't heard Beefheart yet. It's interesting that you lump him in with The Fall and Can thoug

― how's life, Tuesday, February 12, 2013 6:13 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I still haven't heard Beefheart yet. It's interesting to me hat you lump him in with The Fall and Can though, because I really love Can but I can't stand (and have given up on even trying to like)The Fall.

― how's life, Tuesday, February 12, 2013 6:15 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Got about halfway through This Nation's Saving Grace again this morning. Still nope.

The Feelies.

Been trying, and failing, for a long time.

Mogwai

I used to be a kneejerk smartass about hating Mogwai. Like, whenever someone would even mention liking them in passing, I'd go nuclear. Now the hate's worn off and I can enjoy (later) Mogwai in small doses. Still not a band I go out of my way to hear.

I can't imagine ever getting worked up about Mogwai but rock music has to have vocals, sorry Mogwai

Flipper

Grateful Dead

Henry Cow

Bands

Call the Cops I call first dibs on all the records that you don't want anymore

Count me in with the Mogwai thing.

Swans. Never in the mood.

The Fall. Normally an ILX poll makes me more enthusiastic about an artist but still the only Fall album I like is the Best of the Fall, mainly for the atypical pop moments that proper fans don't like.

Call the Cops I call first dibs on all the records that you don't want anymore
--gotta lol geir (NickB)

Ha. You're on.

awesome.

i'm not big on mogwai anyway, but flamboyant goon tie's proposal of a mogwai with vocals is waaaay worse, so just count yr blessings flambo.

There are a number of mogwai songs with vocals

But thankfully it's a small number.

Henry Cow

This would be my pick as well. Same goes for Art Bears actually.

Oh no I never suggested anybody in Mogwai should sing! I can't even listen to Tortoise, there is no place for instrumental post-rock in my heart :(

I looooove Art Bears but liiiiiike Henry Cow

The Fall. Normally an ILX poll makes me more enthusiastic about an artist but still the only Fall album I like is the Best of the Fall, mainly for the atypical pop moments that proper fans don't like.

― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, November 8, 2013 9:59 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This^ It's things like The Chiselers and Hit The North I like, but Mr Pharmacist? Noooo....

not sure there's such a thing as a "proper" Fall fan, and anyway so far as I'm concerned I like "pop" Fall as much as the "weird" stuff. Mt Pharmacist seems an odd choice for "weird Fall" anyway as it's a cover version.

Bach Chamber Choir
Badfinger
Ballin' Jack
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
Bearfoot (Canadian band)
Beefy Red
Beggars Opera (band)
Betsy & Chris
Black Sabbath
Black Widow (band)
Blue Mink
Bones (band)
Brinsley Schwarz
Bronco (band)
Brother (Canadian band)
Brotherhood of Man
Brownsville Station (band)
Brutus (Canadian band)

not sure there's such a thing as a "proper" Fall fan, and anyway so far as I'm concerned I like "pop" Fall as much as the "weird" stuff. Mt Pharmacist seems an odd choice for "weird Fall" anyway as it's a cover version.

not sure there's such a thing as a "proper" Fall fan, and anyway so far as I'm concerned I like "pop"

Fall as much as the "weird" stuff. Mt Pharmacist seems an odd choice for "weird Fall" anyway as it's a cover version.

― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Friday, November 8, 2013 12:14 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Uh, no it's not weird Fall, it's just the song I associate with them more than any other. Like DL, the only album I can bear to listen to is the best of really. Always amazed how many songs I know by them are covers - Ghost in My House, Why Are People Grudgeful etc...

I keep trying to get into Drexciya and losing interest midway through listening.

one of those bands where their biggest hits were covers - ghost in my house and victoria xp

xxp Ah okay gotcha. the covers are some of their best stuff IMO, no shame in only liking them if that's your bag! People who think they're a proper fan because they "prefer the early demos" are history's greatest monsters, pretty much.

http://www.thediamondauthority.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Diamond-Wedding-Bands.jpg

I really don't get why ppl wear these things on their fingers

Drexciya maybe benefit from a "best of" approach, a lot of tracky numbers in their catalogue, not that i don't love all of it

xp By "proper Fall fan" I mean people who voted in the poll and chose a lot of stuff from 1979-83. I prefer later songs like Hit the North, Bill Is Dead, High Tension Line, Telephone Thing and the cover versions, so I tend to feel like a part-timer.

I'm a big Fall fan but wouldn't claim to have deep knowledge of all of their records, for some bands I think it's okay to accept that you won't hear every note they ever played.

No! You must hear every note they have played and then poll them. Once a month. In a different order slightly.

okay boss

is that why they call them new order?

always different, always the same

peter hook and yr granny on bongos

I hear Hooky's looking for work these days

Boards of Canada. I love the idea of all this occult stuff lurking in their music, but when I actually listen to it all I hear is pleasant, drifty ambience.

They're definitely a magic-eye band.

Expanding head band

heeeey... I just 'got' the pun in that band name.

I've never gotten into Boards of Canada either. I liked that one tune on the first album with the crazy chopped human voices, but otherwise I don't get why their simplistic, quasi-nostalgic IDM-with-breakbeats is so different compared to other IDM-with-breakbeats acts who've done similar things, only with more innovation and originality.

tbf you don't get lots of things

/Henry Cow/

This would be my pick as well. Same goes for Art Bears actually.
--my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram)

I love Art Beats, though.

Bears fuck