SHOCKING ILM Confessions!

I prefer This is Hardcore to pretty much any other album by Pulp

when I listen to music I imagine everybody on ILX judging what I'm listening to. then take a sleeping pill and go 2 sleep

ah, neanderthal, no :-/

metal kids are the cool kids on ilx i thought

nothing about me is cool

however this...

Darkthrone is the most overrated 'classic' Norwegian BM band.

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IS RONG

I've never listened to Forever Changes.

spoiler alert: after all these decades, it's still the same

I have listened to Big Star too much and now find them tiring

"While we are on the subject of bands Scott hasn't listened to, did you listen to the Melvins yet?"

i still have never listened to a whole album. it might still happen someday.

i have listened to Forever Changes too many times probably.

The Melvins albums with two drummers - A Senile Animal, Nude With Boots, and The Bride Screamed Murder - are worth hearing in their entirety, especially A Senile Animal. Lysol (aka the self-titled album) is good too. Most of the rest I can really live without.

i never listened to them at all until youtube. i usually don't make it through an entire song. i think its just me. i never even listened to an entire nirvana album until a couple of years ago and i like nirvana. i still listen to my kyuss CDs every once in a while.

okay, i have definitely never listened to a soundgarden album. that's another one.

lol at the all the challop peacockin itt, it's like the godwin's rule of ilm

you should never write off an artist or artistic collective completely and indefinitely based on one work, but sometimes it just happens, and "Spoon Man" was one of those works.

I don't think I have ever listened to The Fall. I may have heard a song once or twice, but I've never sat down and listened and I don't know what they sound like.

I'm not sure I've heard any Soundgarden album besides "Badmotorfinger" but I've heard the singles, seen them live and feel like I pretty much understand the group. I don't think I've ever heard the Melvins, but I know what they sound like and what the guy with the fuzzy hair looks like. Not sure I've ever heard Boris, either, who I always imagined were like a Japanese Melvins.

melvins live are outstanding

BASS

I also can't really picture what the Melvins sound like

lol at the all the challop peacockin itt
thank you for the nomenclature, otm

Sometimes I let the press sheet/subject line--dissuade me from listening to/downloading the promo at all. B-but there are so many promos---
Sometimes, even if the music is sounding nice on my maiden voyage, I'm also websurfing---leting the music pull me back in, find the foreground if it can!
That's harsh, but the law of nature after all---the really unfair, shocking confession part is: I don't do this to all first listens!
However, some music just won't let me do anything else but listen to it, right from the start.
On the other hand, sometimes I just sit there and listen because I'm tired of/too lazy to websurf.

metal kids are the cool kids on ilx i thought

This is false, surely?

Man alive, I think you'd probably dislike the Fall at least as much as I do.

metal kids were never the cool kids anywhere

i'm enjoying music from big pink! i've never played it before. A1/A1 near mint 1st pressing. sounds awesome. almost a complete absence of surface noise. very quiet. which is not an easy thing to come by in 2017.

Got a tape for my car, the Best of Music. I only like one side. (Ok, a Steven Wright joke)

challopeacockin

This is probably not shocking but I absolutely categorically refuse to listen to a band called King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizzard

hahahaa

they have a poor effort-to-reward ratio imo. way, way too many releases, way too many gimmicks

This is probably not shocking but I absolutely categorically refuse to listen to a band called King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizzard

I was right there with you, but then a writer I really like praised their most recent album to the skies, so I streamed a song or two on Spotify. It sucked.

I like them for about one song, but they have a million songs and they all sound the same.

i still listen to the first Easterhouse album. i'm playing it right now. probably the closest thing to a U2 album that i own. is there a Marxist rock thread?

it IS better than an Alarm album though.

best lenin dirge...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ydAvYoJ-iA

"Grunge" rock is worse than Jimmy Buffet.

Red Hot Chili Peppers didn't get good until Californication.

I created that Philip Jeck thread.

I thought "I own no Bruce Springsteen", I mean he seems a decent bloke considering, but.

Anyway, I checked via my "My Collection" on Discogs, and I do own the NME Elvis tribute that has a version of "Viva Las Vegas".

i've never listened to a robbie basho album.

heres my confession, I have difficulty listening to a new album from an artist I like if I haven't heard all the previous stuff. it triggers my music OCD.

With you 100% on that one.

me too

I have never heard Dark Side of the Moon.

I've never listened to a Joni Mitchell album.

I'm not sure I've ever made it through an entire Bob Dylan album either. Not in one sitting certainly.

I've heard three Alice Coltrane albums and four Pharoah Sanders albums but only one John Coltrane album

when an artist like Coltrane has 15 or 20 albums that are considered classic/essential, I tend to put off listening to their work for fear of starting in the wrong place. I feel like a basic newb if I begin with the overhyped album that's on all the Rolling Stone GoaT lists, but I feel like a charlatan if I begin with the underrated fan favorite. thus I try to expedite the uncomfortable "just getting into their work" stage by listening to half a dozen or more of their albums over the course of a few days. the downside of this practice is that I either don't listen to any of the albums more than a couple times or I focus on one or two albums to the exclusion of all the rest. in the end I gain a very shallow understanding of what the artist is about, and once my initial interest has waned, I'm reluctant to dig deeper into their discography or return to more than couple of the albums I've already listened to.

if an artist has a smaller discography (say 6 albums) with no clear consensus as to which is the classic, I tend to binge listen to everything, and the result is pretty much the same as the above.

if an artist is prolific but one phase of their career is more celebrated than the rest, I can make do with listening to a handful of albums from that period, but I don't like to skip albums within that range, especially if I end up with one unheard album sandwiched between two heard albums. I hate "original album classics" sets that don't run in chronological order

I'm not this neurotic about all the music I listen to -- it only happens with certain artists that seem (usually for arbitrary reasons) worthy of my in-depth attention

when an artist like Coltrane has 15 or 20 albums that are considered classic/essential, I tend to put off listening to their work for fear of starting in the wrong place.

With you. I've listened to so much other R&B/soul/funk from the same era but I haven't gone much further than James Brown's singles.

what was the one coltrane album? just listen to blue train.

no! Just jump straight in with Ascension. Go hard or go home