SHOCKING ILM Confessions!

Not only has "Power Windows" always been my favorite Rush album, I actually think Neil Peart's lyrics are pretty strong and particularly humanist on it.

"Better the pride that resides
In a citizen of the world
Than the pride that divides
When a colorful rag is unfurled"

Preach it, Peart.

The only thing shocking about this is that Power Windows isn't a unanimous ILM favorite

if ilx had a frontpage the cover of power windows should be the only thing you see.

I don't even really know how to process that opinion tbh.

i guess i do kinda just give up with UK dance stuff. after all these years. i don't connect with any of it. which just seems weird. but there you have it. i've tried too. i have never heard a dubstep or D&B track that i have loved. or even wanted to hear again. and i love dance music from all over the world and have been a dance music fan almost my entire life. i don't even care about rock nerd stuff like aphex twin. i do love second toughest in the infants if that counts.

i was listening to "trans-europe express" really loud the other day and thinking: this is possibly the greatest achievement of a long and bloody century. so, that's where my love is, i guess. i'm just a hip-hop fan at heart.

Is UK dance music more context dependent than other scenes? Like, does it make more sense once you've walked through Bristol or Stratford or on the Isle of Dogs or whatever? That's probably largely bollocks, but maybe there's a kernel of truth in there.

I've never been to the UK and I generally find UK dance more interesting than its American counterpart.

I wonder how much of it is a reaction to listening to singles in isolation vs in the mix at a club

context is always good. but it shouldn't matter too much as far as liking something goes. i've never been to Germany. i will say this: nothing looks older to me than an old UK dance 12-inch or CD. beat up orbital and shamen CDs at the thrift store always give me a shudder. and there were about 4 million 12-inches put out in the 90's that are not aphex twin 12-inches and nobody wants to listen to them.

when i got up this morning i made coffee and fed the cats and put Immer on. #15years #stillgoingstrong

i just don't listen to music because its new though. not anymore. not since the 80's. like i think i probably said on here somewhere, every once in a while i like to put on a new rap playlist on spotify just to get that new rap smell. but that's about it. i am definitely not time-sensitive. and obviously a lot of dance sub-genres are all about that.

Spoken like a man who's clearly never heard MC Tunes.

love love love random 90s techno/d&b/hardcore comps

bang your head to this: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Thunderdome/release/2888219

to the sound of the drum & the bass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djyfv3Ts-wg

i could listen to that mix all day long! the thunderdome one. its mostly belgian/german and also features my heroes lenny dee and omar santana.

i love dutch hardcore. i'm a numbskull.

I don't know jack shit about house and techno. And the existence of the fuckin innuhnet makes this hard to remedy, not easy…like, NTS doesn't help me understand 'em, being that NTS assumes a conversance with whichever musics their shows are devoted to… some mook's playlist won't do the trick either…I need a Rhino four CD boxset like the disco box or the love train philly soul comp or something with old school record biz-sanctioned "authority" to hold my hand…

there are so many great house comps. spotify must have good ones. just make a playlist of this for starters:

https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-History-Of-The-House-Sound-Of-Chicago/release/43501

Mixes not comps for techno, IMHO.

I listen to and love a lot of silly 90s Big Beat

i've never listened to a dead moon album...

I don't even know what dead moon is. A band? A label?

a band. fred cole of dead moon just passed away. and most of my facebook friends were big fans. he had a very distinctive voice. like an even weirder roky erickson. i really only know the lollipop shoppe album. and the weeds single from the 60s. and the mid-70's zipper album. dead moon put out a ton of stuff over the years.

I listened to Dead Moon for the first time this afternoon. They were OK. Fred's voice was like a cross between David Thomas of Pere Ubu and Roky Erickson. So if high-pitched "there's something living in my brain!" screeching is your thing, he was the man for that. The music was OK. Sort of garage punk meets Crazy Horse. They would never have dethroned the Lazy Cowgirls as my favorite American punk band that never really made it.

"you must be a witch" will always be all-time essential.

I love the note in the Nuggets booklet that the name change from the Weeds to the Lollipop Shoppe came about to avoid confusion with the Seeds. It's like, yep, that's certainly a name that doesn't sound anything like "the Seeds".

"you must be a witch" will always be all-time essential.

I've heard that but never heard anything by Dead Moon.

... or heard of them until now.

Oh! I thought of one. I prefer Mosley-era Faith No More to Patton-era

Jesus. Hadn't read the news when I posted that. Just saw the FNM thread above this one :(

I'm 38 years old and I've never heard "Stairway to Heaven" before. Or at least knowingly.

I think that's the first post on this thread that actually shocked me.

I sing in a mens barbershop chorus.

Called the Be Sharps?

i don't think i've ever listened to an entire album OR comp or hits collection by fats domino. or little richard. or jerry lee lewis.

ALSO: i listened to Hot Rats for the first time ever last week. that is a great album! i had no idea. i've sold a bunch of them. i've always liked other people's versions of willie the pimp. why can't every zappa album sound like that one? i would totally own zappa albums if they did.

The Grand Wazoo and Waka/Jawaka are the closest ones to Hot Rats.

I've had the s/t Beyoncé album on CD for nearly four years now and still haven't watched all the videos.

The Grand Wazoo and Waka/Jawaka are the closest ones to Hot Rats.

These are the three Zappa albums I listen to with any regularity.

the lack of vocals with the exception of beefheart on one track is a HUGE plus.

I don't think Burial is very good.

Outside.

...by David Bowie is fabulous. My shocking confession.

I'm 38 years old and I've never heard "Stairway to Heaven" before. Or at least knowingly.

― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Friday, November 10, 2017 7:43 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm interested in pursuing this one. How have you avoided it all these years? And when you say "before" does that mean you have just heard it for the first time?

i don't think i've ever listened to an entire album OR comp or hits collection by fats domino. or little richard. or jerry lee lewis.

― scott seward, Monday, November 13, 2017 8:13 AM (thirteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

brother you need to do this, little richard fuckin shreds

I'm interested in pursuing this one. How have you avoided it all these years?

He's probably British.

i forget yr tastes re:country scott but jerry lee's later 60s/early 70s nashville work is a rich vein worth mining, full of tragicomedy, pathos, bizarre covers, weird & great

gotta confess while i'll never hate beatles hearing their stuff has become a chore if not actively annoying

I don't like either parts of "Out There Somewhere?"

I don't like Slint, MBV, Spacemen 3, or Sonic Youth.

The older I get the less interested I am in music.

Just For a Day is the only good Slowdive album.