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

i kinda liked this album when it came out i bought the tape and played it and was like yeah sonic youth live skull i like all that so i have to like this and then i forgot all about it and i was playing a vinyl copy today and was all BEST ALBUM EVER!!! cranked it way loud on the foghat speakers in the store and man oh man what a record. new favorite band. i think there are even posts by me on the CLASSICAL thread where i'm like yeah they were okay but no big deal....

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zuG0ti72Nz4/TxmT2CCthZI/AAAAAAAADVg/j7pGPohsfSo/s400/Band_of_Susans_Love_Agenda.jpg

i still don't really like The Band though. but i haven't tried that hard with The Band. never listen to their albums, just sell them.

this is my jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgOBUdzjN0

i keep trying with The Passage. old cherry red band. playing them now. have played them on and off for years and just can't grasp their weirdness. for some reason. i'm all for weirdness. i had this problem with eyeless in gaza.

yeah the guitar sound on that band of susans album is just wow. vinyl is the way to go that's all i know.

the residents have eluded me so far

have you tried meet the residents? have converted a few with that one, it's pre-electronics era so very organic sounding.

i like the residents in theory. i've owned their records, but i hardly ever played them. i think i just kinda admire them more than anything else. they were fun to see live though. saw them in philly on that icky flicks tour.

sun city girls another group i have owned multiple albums by and i hardly ever played them and i always sold them just like i sold any residents albums i had. because they are both really easy to sell. i even proclaimed sun city girls the best rock band on ilm once when i was drunk. must have been playing a good one. would probably keep a copy of horse cock phephner if i saw one cheap. always liked that one a lot.

yeah horse cock phepner is real good. I made a run at listening to their entire discog, never made it all the way thru but HCP, torch of the mystics, and funeral mariachi are the keepers. grotto of miracles is pretty damn good too iirc.

it took forever for post-mooney can to click for me

I still don't understand the jesus lizard apart from "here comes dudley"

thanks skott & edward for your boundless enthusiasm, I am getting hold of that Band of Susans record, they are indeed great

yeah they put out some good stuff for sure! but again i think i like them more in theory. and they are definitely a band you are supposed to love and adore and all that. if you run with certain smelly crowds. residents and SCG both give me the curdled zappa vibe sometimes though. that snide thing. and i don't dig that sometimes. i prefer straight-up anger. and the "comedy" doesn't thrill me like zappa's "comedy" doesn't thrill me. weird dudes all though. that's for sure.

Ha! I was just listening to Band of Susans shuffle on Spotify and really enjoying all of it. Never have heard them before today.

goat. that's all i really need from jesus lizard at this late date. one of the best rock albums of the 90's. every song is great. and another album that you need to play really LOUD. so good.

ha truth bomb re snide zappa chills

still, stuff like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24qySJQjIdE

there is one song on Love Agenda where just the bass comes in and its one of those godhead bass moments. loud heavy bass in your face. its a great album experience. both sides are really strong.

will rep for Liar, that's nearly as good as Goat I think, but yeah Goat kick's arse

goat and liar are the two I own! gave up after that. have listened to the other records here and there, but eh. I'm a scratch acid man.

listening to band of susans again. "1-2-3-4!" *DEMENTED GUITAR SQUALL*

love it! that's one of my favorite parts.

Goat is like top three albini for me and i just love all those songs so much. fuck a grunge, that album is so strong. CATCHY heavy songs that are funny and cool. talk about a great bass sound. and i am lifetime scratch acid fan. Goat would go with me on my pigfuck desert island along with Beserker.

I still don't understand the jesus lizard apart from "here comes dudley"

― a hard dom is good to find (Edward III), Friday, November 8, 2013 1:36 PM

finally, somebody who understands my indifference to this allegedly excellent band

scott the only JL thing I have ever liked is their Chrome medley, I guess I should check out Goat.

i like the stuff they put out on 45 a lot. i like the album before Goat too. Head. wheelchair epidemic cover might be my fave, but i liked the chrome one a lot too. and the trio cover.

yeah Albini nailed it with Goat, the dirtiest fuckin' basslines EVER

the residents have eluded me so far

― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, November 8, 2013 3:15 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark

same here. and I have like 12 of their albums. There's just so much plodding and wonking.

favorite love agenda track, one of the best songs of the 90s, so great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3wI7bTowIA

i like the stuff they put out on 45 a lot. i like the album before Goat too. Head. wheelchair epidemic cover might be my fave, but i liked the chrome one a lot too. and the trio cover.

― scott seward, Friday, November 8, 2013 2:00 PM (1 hour ago)

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i featured Band Of Susans in the new arrivals video i made for the store tonight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds70r8nXv_0

The sudden BoS love is making me very happy. They've held up really, really, really well. I'd pretty much kill to see a reunion show, since I was stupid about them back when they were around.

Eskimo is a good Residents album for avoiding the snidey vibes scott was talking about

The first Band of Susans album is fantastic too - the one with the blue cover and Hope Against Hope on it. I think I actually prefer it to Love Agenda. Not massively into their other records but those first too were fucking sweet.

two not too

I saw band of susans but too late, I think it was '90? they had turned into a pretty boring trad rock band. I did see poss and stenger in rhys chatham's die donnergotter group in '89, that was cool.

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they had turned into a pretty boring trad rock band

Dunno if i'd go quite as far as that, they still were capable of pulling some decent moves like check out the way they lifted this Stones riff on the start of Pardon My French, all chopped up and bouncing round the speakers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piuBe4VsaNk

residents and SCG both give me the curdled zappa vibe sometimes though. that snide thing.

I don't know, I don't get a snide vibe from the Residents at all, what is it, the vocals? Or the Zappa influence in their work?

SCG - I've had experienced problems appreciating them, though some of their stuff is great, there's just too much of it and it's too (I hate to use this word, but what can you do?) self-indulgent.

i dunno, if i think about a song like "hello skinny" its like some unholy crossroads where nerds of a certain stripe meet to sell their souls to the church of the subgenius and the loompanics catalog and its also kinda ground zero for the whole SCG aesthetic of shaggy dog too-cool-to-be-a-hippie wink and nod exotica.

Oh Christ yeah Residents except I have more sense than to keep trying in this case.

the residents as a whole i find impenetrable, irritatingly "wacky" and (yes) snide, with next to no appeal either as music or sound. and i do keep trying, again (as with the afghan whigs) because several of my friends are dedicated fans.

that said, they do have their moments, and "hello skinny" is certainly one of them. their early years, from the mid-70s up through the commercial album in 1980, produced a lot of respectable work. as ed3 suggested, they didn't navigate the switch from kitchen-sink experimental weirdness to synth-based song composition terribly well. though i'm not a fan of their 80s albums, i don't think they completely lost the plot until 88's god in three persons -- not coincidentally the point at which snakefinger matriculated and his survivors went completely digital.

eskimo is a great entry point. psychedelic soundscapes, warmer and more inviting than anything else in their catalog. would also recommend meet the residents and duck stab/buster & glenn. not pop or rock, nerdy smirks very much in evidence, but the latter is surprisingly accessible, even catchy.

I've never really dug into the Residents much, but for me they're forever awesome just for their cover of Satisfaction, which is possibly the most amazing piece of music ever released.

third reich 'n' roll is classik. and kinda incredible. and ahead of its time. and should have been the last word on ironic indie rock cover songs but it really wasn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbTIhC79UJ4

they made the world safe for pop o pies and the silicon teens and the flying lizards.

makes you why Devo even bothered really

Devo I love. Granted that Eskimo isn't anywhere near the most annoying LP of theirs... just didn't find it at all rewarding.

juiceboxxx

Felt

The Durutti Column

any This Mortal Coil album other than It'll End In Tears

Ahh man, Felt and Vini are awesome. Maybe you just haven't heard the right stuff?

For me, it's the Associates. Maybe I should give it another go though. Been about a decade since I last tried.