what one artist do you like the most that ilm doesn't seem to rate at all

I will rep for Sigur Rós.

The band that I like a lot that has some outright hate posts directed at them is the Ocean Blue.

Cake are pretty universally derided here, right? I really like Fashion Nugget a lot, but I don't need anything else by them.

I started a Cake thread in 2011. Don't really listen to them much anymore, but they were the most important band in the world to me when I was a teenager.

I tend to a very lonely thread on the Dutch band Nits, whom I love unreservedly.

xp, that's great, frogbs! I will join your fan club.

some bad answers itt

oh yes, erasure, absolutely derided on ilm

i dig some of that late 90s global underground bullshit like danny tenaglia's two mixes

― marcos, Wednesday, April 4, 2018 1:09 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jeez i owned about half a dozen GU mixes. and like three sasha & digweeds. and a solo digweed. And TRANCEPORT by OAKENFOLD.

lol xp

haha i had a lot of those too

Ryan Power. The great unheralded prog-pop genius of our time, and I don't think I've seen him mentioned here once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGxyV-2vx0o

a lot of my answers would be Japanese stuff that never crossed over

but one artist I really do like that no one here really cares about is Datarock

The entire Kerri Chandler thread is about 80 percent single-post revives by me.

Just had a quick spin through 'Slap!' - yeah, lots of it has not aged well at all. This one track though still sounds great, as long as you skip over the bits where they are singing / talking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S3enZlLLNM

are there any other Hue and Cry fans on ilm?

i have never stopped playing the first two Doves albums since they came out and sometimes i wonder if anyone still plays them at all. i mean people might have liked them when they came out but they feel kinda forgotten. i never get tired of them.

Some Cities is a fantastic record, scott. I will rep pretty hard for that one.

i never got into that one as much. i've never even heard their fourth album. those first two though...

Emmerdale / Life era Cardigans

I liked Kingdom of Rust okay. It had some really great highlights.

I'm the same, Scott, still rate those first two Doves albums highly and pretty much fell off with the third which I found quite bland. Recently, I listened to the fourth album to see if I'd missed anything and hadn't really. I like the production on those first two LP's a lot.

Revolution by Chumbawamba is an absolute classic anarcho-punk single but I'm not a big fan of their later stuff. I still have a soft spot for the Anarchy album but that's probably because I was 17 when it came out.

The Tea Party
Florence And The Machine
..James? I love James but don’t remember ever speaking of them here

idk there's like one florence thread but it's not empty

Also I adore Solex and I’m sure at least there are five of us

But I’m the same vein: Kevin Blechdom?

psyched to discover there are at least three threads on the rheostatics

are there any other Hue and Cry fans on ilm?

Hit us up on the Deep Cuts thread my dude.

Carnival Art

Mew are a competitor for my favourite extant rock band but I don't think more than three or four people care about them here.

are there any other Hue and Cry fans on ilm?

― soref, Wednesday, April 4, 2018 1:32 PM (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i enjoy the fine musical stylings of coatbridge's finest post-structuralist, scottish nationalist pop duo

The Fall of Troy

the high llamas

lots of duds in the c/d thread

lots of hate in various stereo lab threads

mostly indifference

for the record I fucking love Chumbawamba all the way up to the Un album and sporadically after that

Kenrick Lamar, Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, New Order. all great music that ILM hates for some reason.

meanwhile some of you have a real hard-on for ELP's Love Beach

High Llamas are great.

I like(d) that one Thievery Corp album, but ILM shamed me out of listening to them any further.

underoath

i say that bc i'm about to mention them in another thread

I listen to a lot of High Llamas

I can't stand High Llama or any Stereolab from Dots and Loops onward, mostly I guess because I love the Neu! rip-off stuff so much

a lot of the 50's era seems, I don't know, taken for granted?
There are 4-5 threads on the Everly Brothers, but rarely are these top page.
maybe there isn't much new to say, but I'm still blown away every time I listen to them or Little Richard or Buddy Holly etc

High Llamas seemed pretentious to me. There's a word ILM hates

Give me American Analog Set for 'lab ripoffs. Or were they ripping off Galaxy 500

Co-sign on doves and early cardigans

Omg I love American Analog Set. I was tempted to say Vetiver...I have a thing for good but not necessarily important bands (see also: Guadalcanal Diary, Mobius Band, Mendoza Line)

i love early cardigans (and tbh all phases of cardigans)

life is such a great record

Steve Wariner

a lot of the 50's era seems, I don't know, taken for granted?
There are 4-5 threads on the Everly Brothers, but rarely are these top page.
maybe there isn't much new to say, but I'm still blown away every time I listen to them or Little Richard or Buddy Holly etc

I'm not sure if most ppl (including/especially myself) really have an adequate vocabulary for talking about '50s music, without it turning into just a recitation of facts, historical notes, etc. There's something sui generis about that era which makes it distinct from most of the rest of rock/pop/etc. I could be totally wrong.

Like - I love Bo Diddley, but I'm not I've ever tried to talk/write about his music, or would know what to say. I'm sure there are others who are much better at it than me.

(As in – ppl who are actually good at talking about music. LOL.)