― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Monday, 28 March 2005 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link
Last week of CD purchases:"Pop Ambient 2005"Cut Copy "Bright Like Neon Love""Putting the Morr Back in Morrissey" (Morr Music label comp)Spiritualized "Complete Works Vol. 2"Wedding Present "Take Fountain"M83 "Before the Dawn Heals Us""Phil's Spectre: A Wall of Soundalikes" (compilation of 60s tracks with Spector-influenced production)
― i am nervous (cochere), Monday, 28 March 2005 02:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Priti I'm just getting my feet wet here, not the most knowledgeable person about Hindi music. I thought Rahman's score for Lagaan was pretty great, my daughter and I went around singing that title theme for WEEKS before we forgot it. Other than that, I dunno, most of my stuff is compilations, etc.
In fact, we should probably check to see if there is a thread around here, or start one....
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Monday, 28 March 2005 03:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Monday, 28 March 2005 03:32 (nineteen years ago) link
Grew up in a musical household, first musical loves (upon reaching adolescence and beginning a search for self-definition) were Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Fugazi, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, The Who. Still like all of those today (though there are surely others I've long forgotten).
Work as a quasi-journalist (heavy emphasis on "quasi"), play in a fairly serious band. Some of my my top albums of all-time:
Jay-Z: Reasonable DoubtLed Zeppelin: IIIJimi Hendrix: Axis Bold as LoveDJ Shadow: EndtroducingJim O'Rourke: Halfway to a ThreewayFugazi: Red MedicineThelonious Monk: Thelonious in ActionOrnette Coleman: Free JazzMiles Davis: Filles De KilamanjaroSam Prekop: s/tTortoise: Millions Now Living ...Gang of Four: EntertainmentMississippi John Hurt: 1928 Okeh RecordingsPink Floyd: Wish You Were HereJohn Coltrane: Complete Live at the Village Vanguard 1961Tony Williams: LifetimeWu-Tang: Enter the 36 ChambersSilver Jews: Natural BridgeMeters: Look a Py Py
Top 10 of right now:
Jim O'Rourke - InsignifiganceBlonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged LemonsDavid Axelrod: Songs of ExperienceBill Evans: Sunday at the Village VanguardCan: Ege BamyasiMiles Davis: Live at the Filmore EastMiles Davis: On the CornerMike Wexler: EPWilliam Parker: And William DancedKris Kristofferson: Silver Tongued Devil and I
― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 28 March 2005 03:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Representative quote from my Myspace profile: "Did I mention that if you go to clear channel shows, you are fucking your favorite independent club/non-asshole sellout musician in the mouth with a rusty screwdriver? Well, you are. Please stop. Now."
Dan Perry is my official sponsor in this Alcoholics Anonymous of musical listeners. Thanks Dan!
― John Justen (johnjusten), Monday, 28 March 2005 03:52 (nineteen years ago) link
(I also live in Minneapolis. Are you going to the Gang of Four show? Sonic Youth's Clear Channel show at the Quest was not a good experience.)
― mnra, Monday, 28 March 2005 05:48 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm jealous of what you must be feeling right now.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 28 March 2005 05:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― mnra, Monday, 28 March 2005 06:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― mnra, Monday, 28 March 2005 06:16 (nineteen years ago) link
I would kill to see the Gang of Four show. But I won't support clear channel, so I can't go. My CC boycott is running 3 years strong now, and I am an aggravated but immovable object. Sons of bitches...(both GO4 and CC)
― John Justen (johnjusten), Monday, 28 March 2005 06:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― mnra, Monday, 28 March 2005 06:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 28 March 2005 07:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― John Justen (johnjusten), Monday, 28 March 2005 07:03 (nineteen years ago) link
You can't be TOO excited about it! :-)
― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Monday, 28 March 2005 07:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 28 March 2005 07:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Myonga, you may well be right about the relative merit of the rest of My Bloody Valentine's stuff; it can't be entirely coincidental that in my passing acquantaince with it none of it has ever hit me like this. On the other hand, I'm still going to have a bloody good listen to all their post-1988 stuff this week, with particular attention to the sizable chunks I haven't heard, specifically the You Made Me Realise EP. That's after I download the 17-minute live version, and build the shrine.
― mnra, Monday, 28 March 2005 07:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Perhaps I should introduce myself again (even though I've been here for over a year), since I posted on another intro thread and this is the one that always gets revived. Plus, my original intro sucked.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 28 March 2005 07:57 (nineteen years ago) link
I guess I've recovered from an earlier period of indie schmindie immersion, but I've never been through a proper metal phase, nor a Britney phase, nor an Italo disco phase. There is work to be done.
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 28 March 2005 12:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Evil Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link
And, I am here because my husband posts here (as the Mad Puffin) and said I would like it. Er, hi?
― Lyra Jane (Lyra Jane), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― cdwill, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link
I have an obsession for pop music, although I've never done anything music related myself; sometimes I wonder if I'll ever do. Right now I'm a lot into Euro-Pop, but in general I like sophisticated, well crafted, catchy stuff.
― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link
And welcome to everyone else! Ya crazy good folk.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link
Hello! I'm an editor and pedent living in Glasgow, and at this second am listening to the new Frank Black album, which is grate and topp (no, really) if a bit Van Morrison. 27, and posting drunk. When not worrying about gurls I'm worrying about finding a new flat. Both these things are nearly always true.
― stet (stet), Sunday, 8 May 2005 01:53 (nineteen years ago) link
good to have you around these parts, though, stet.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 8 May 2005 09:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Sunday, 8 May 2005 10:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eva van Rein (Gaia1981), Sunday, 8 May 2005 11:03 (nineteen years ago) link
I am the proud owner of a daughter, Emily who is 12, a cat called Thomas and a collection of vinyl and cds that numbers something in the region of 5000.
My favourite artists, as well as the above include The Fall, MBV, Beach boys, Thin Lizzy and about 1000 other artists. I detest Red hot chilli peppers, White boy radio 2 indie garbage and anything lazy or generic. My favourite albums are Hex Induction hour by the Fall, Risque by Chic, Metal box by PIL and anything good I've just listened to.
I have a deep mistrust of anyone who doesn't like music or listens to it with a closed mind, I love Cricket, the fact that this world has cats in it and red wine. I detest Land rovers and the people who drive them, DIY, people who don't listen and snobbery of any kind.
― Kris England, Sunday, 8 May 2005 11:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Because I grew up in a place where good records/music mags were extremely hard to find, I've missed out on quite a bit so excuse me if I know next to nothing about records/artists/bands before 1995.
More of a lurker than a poster, until recently. But I'll probably go back to lurking soon.
Also enjoy Nina Simone, Tim Buckley, Missy Elliot, the Smashing Pumpkins, Elliott Smith, Basement Jaxx, Radiohead, Kylie, Blur, Madonna, Prince, the Shins and a lot of other crappy indie bands, and whatever bouncy pop nugget is assailing the charts at the moment. There's not much that I actively hate except maybe Simple Plan.
― Roz, Sunday, 8 May 2005 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 8 May 2005 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 May 2005 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 8 May 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Roz, Sunday, 8 May 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 8 May 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link
vanessa/novaeris/the axe - female 25 years old - student at UMASS Amherst - studying cinema, media studies & intensive japaneseI love to read & knit & watch films (usually foreign & kung-fu) & eat chocolate & hit things with my car & download music & take sedatives & sleep. I can only read science & non-fiction books because Im too dumb to follow complex narratives. I have a severely impaired memory & tend to foget things alot (like what year it is or in which city I forgot my car)
I grew up on britpop a la suede, blur, auteurs, etc. these days I'm much more of a robot with a preference for the electronic genres. but Im really Im really a musical schizophrenic - afx, akufen, arovane, bochum welt, bola, bonobo, brian eno, broadcast, casino v. japan, cinematic orchestra, claro intelecto, clifford gilberto, drexciya, dettinger, erykah badu, four tet, I am robot and proud, jaga jazzist, kraftwerk, lali puna, mara carlyle, markus guentner, marumari, monolake, mu, neu!, nobukazu takemura, proem, quantic, riow arai, stereolab, steve roach, swayzak, sugar plant, telepopmusik, tujiko noriko, vector lovers,, vladislav delay. etc. etc. Im totally forgetting a bunch but I love warp, kompakt, carpark, tomlab, some ant zen & ninja tune is okay, chain reaction, & rune grammofon.
as a rule I dont like vocals cos they piss me off, especially in english - I cant handle bad lyrics so most vocal stuff I cant understand one word of it.aim = novaeris
ok I hope that was okay :P ....
― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Monday, 9 May 2005 05:00 (nineteen years ago) link
I lurked here for a long time, finally registered and now post when I can bring something to the table, so an introduction was overdue. Like most people on ILM I'm into all kinds of music. Some long-term favourites include American Music Club, Felt, Boards of Canada, Kitchens of Distinction, Low, Seam, MBV and Fugazi.
Other interests include film (occasional ILF poster) and modern fiction.
These boards are the best distraction from the workday grind I can think of and I've learnt a lot about music and artists I knew nothing about before, thanks to all you good people.
― Bill A (Bill A), Monday, 9 May 2005 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm 32, dangerously partisan towards Prefab Sprout, Scritti Politti and Dexy's, and becoming a Dad in July. My focus doesn't waiver far from that last point these days.
The rest of my life tends to revolve around going to football matches, drinking beer and trying to beat the NME in a weekly music quiz in a North London pub.
― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Monday, 9 May 2005 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.electroempire.com/miami.htm
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― djangojones (djangojones), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Music that comes to mind, off the top of my head, stream-of-consciously: The Cure, The Smiths, The Fall, Pixies, Love, Magnetic Fields (I think '69 Love Songs' might be a Desert Island Disc), Nick Drake, Scott Walker, Burt Bacharach, New Order & JD, My Bloody Valentine, Smog, Cat Power, Dirty Three, The Sundays, Cocteau Twins, Cowboy Junkies, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Dead Kennedys, The Clash, The Cramps, Velvet Underground, Nick Cave in all incarnations, Will Oldham in all incarnations, Stone Roses, Moose, The Go-Betweens, The Clean, Pulp more than Blur and not Oasis much at all, Broken Social Scene, Feist, The Dears, The Arcade Fire, Destroyer, Mercury Rev, Radiohead, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, The Beatles, The Monkees (I know! I know! But I had a job closed-captioning the entire "Monkees" TV series and, well, developed a bit of a crush... guilty pleasure, OK?), The Beach Boys, ohGodwhoamIforgetting...
Other: Writing, reading, films, eating, daydreaming on the bus, wine.
I like sad things but I'm quite happy, really.
― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Monday, 6 June 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Monday, 6 June 2005 00:16 (nineteen years ago) link
A perfectly fine state of mind! Hullo to you and Nic both. (And there's nothing wrong with the Monkees at all!)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 June 2005 00:22 (nineteen years ago) link