this is the thread where the ILM massive teach mark s a *LESSON*

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lp or song, jess

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:38 (twenty years ago) link

I think you need to listen to 'live/dead' by the grateful dead (you have said that you have never heard the dead and keep putting it off).

you must also listen to my captain beefheart cassette (w/extra track). this is v urgent and key.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:41 (twenty years ago) link

the Skeptics - Amalgam

― Ess Kay (esskay), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:41 (twenty years ago) link

haha rumbled

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:43 (twenty years ago) link

you must listen to the 'incredible string band' because I have.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:43 (twenty years ago) link

haha julio yes good point, where the hell is it?

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:44 (twenty years ago) link

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000026QJ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg????

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:45 (twenty years ago) link

''haha julio yes good point, where the hell is it?''

ha! I have heard and treasured your wonderful ut cassette. you have lost my one. that is not nice.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:50 (twenty years ago) link

Philistines Jr - Continuing Struggle of/Sinking of the SS Danehower/Analog vs Digital. I like them, coz I sorta empathise with them, and it's the most 'me' music I've heard, they only sing about science, spies and their friends. I dunno if you'd like them, but I could make you a CD if you like. There is one MP3 on their website. But, Mark, I don't really know what you like.

Otherwise, what do you think of Helloween's "Keeper of the Seven Keys PartII"?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:54 (twenty years ago) link

Bakhtin -- The Dialogic Imagination (but you read it, you don't listen). The quote I threw down on the Disco Tex thread should whet yr. appetite.

Also just out of curiosity -- have you ever actually listened to gutter-garage or 2-step or microhouse or the other things the nu-dance massive goes on about? Also, the whole of Ludacris' Southern Hospitality album.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:55 (twenty years ago) link

"you cannot tidy a world-historical archive without entirely misplacing the one thing of value in it" — tolstoy

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:57 (twenty years ago) link

"where did i put my socks?" --tolstoy

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:59 (twenty years ago) link

Also, the whole of Ludacris' Southern Hospitality album.

Yes indeed.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:02 (twenty years ago) link

(sterling assume i have NOT and suggest away)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:03 (twenty years ago) link

(one of the purposes of this exercise will be to test my "retrieval system" whereby everything actually in the house is (supposedly) not stuck behind something else, and therefore findable...)

(julio's tape he of course failed to LABEL hence its lamentable non to-handness so far)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:09 (twenty years ago) link

The 2-step comp to get = Ministry of Sound's Ayia Napa 2000
The gutter-garage one = (unf. I have no good answer coz the MC Garage one isn't all that, but can supply you with mp3s of the l8st & gr8st -- email me)
The microhouse one = M. Mayer's Immer, or Kompakt's Total 3.

(this is all pretty much ILX conventional wisdom I think)

Also the whole of Jay-Z's "Vol 3: The Life and Times of S. Carter"

I recommend all of these because they somehow seem outside the universe of yr. ken and methods of discussion (except the Bakhtin which seems like it provides an elusive framework of sorts to the universe of yr. ken)

[haha -- the universe of ken = the pink dream house and that's IT!]1

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd500/d563/d5630223g40.jpg

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

U2 - "New Year's Day": At this moment, I think this is one of the greatest postpunk singles - without a doubt, the greatest post-Joy Division postpunk single for reasons given in the linked thread. You can do the whole War album if you like. I know you hate U2 and am curious how far it extends and why.

Also, what do you think of "That Song" by Big Wreck?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:33 (twenty years ago) link

I really only know for a fact that you enjoy Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Xenakis, so I will recommend the electro-acoustic vampire music of Igor Wakhevitch. Any album will do. But the Hot Boy$ are good too.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:37 (twenty years ago) link

The Clash.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:41 (twenty years ago) link

lp or song, shakey

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:41 (twenty years ago) link

"Should I Say Yes" by Nu Shooz just because it's so damn cute.

― s woods, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:46 (twenty years ago) link

The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:46 (twenty years ago) link

oh, I'm just being snarky, mark... but in all seriousness I nominate my most recent cause celebre: Johnny Otis "Castin' My Spell". Although how I could facilitate yr hearing I'm not sure, since I don't have an MP3, and I'm guessing you don't own it...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:46 (twenty years ago) link

The Exploding Hearts -- "Guitar Romantic", out on Dirtnap Records.

in particular, the song, "Rumours in Town".

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:47 (twenty years ago) link

(one of the purposes of this exercise will be to test my "retrieval system" whereby everything actually in the house is (supposedly) not stuck behind something else, and therefore findable...)

haha welcome to my life

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:48 (twenty years ago) link

Chequered Past!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:59 (twenty years ago) link

CHEQUERED PAST
Chequered Past (EMI America) 1984

trouser press sez:

Although listening to this run-of-the-mill Bad Company arena rock may not, a glance at the credits indicates why Chequered Past was one of the most depressing groups/albums of recent years. Clem Burke and Nigel Harrison (both ex-Blondie) and Steve Jones (ex-Pistols) formed three-fifths of the band, proving conclusively that even talented new wavers, no matter how idealistic and rebellious, were merely a few years away from becoming just as bogus as the musicians they originally set out to dethrone.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:01 (twenty years ago) link

yur better off with the rich kids and the professionals

― scott seward, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:04 (twenty years ago) link

"Ex-treme Dating" - like a regular dating show except that one of the daters has two exes in a nearby media van watching every move of his date via closed-circuit TV. The two exes are equipped with microphones that lead directly to an ear-bud in the OTHER dater's ear, and they are allowed to be totally merciless - "ha ha that's a LIE" or "ask him about the thing on his butt" or "he is totally looking at the waitress!!" At the end of the date the daters part ways, give their little spiel about how they think things went, and then a limo pulls up: inside is either the date, or if she/he decided "ixnay" the door opens up and it's the two exes, laughing and pointing!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:14 (twenty years ago) link

whisper in ear-bud: "this is i love music, you ignoramus!"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

Tracer totally seconded -- also Jillian Barbierie who Blount notwithstanding still comes off as the most clever and licka.. ahem, likable host on TV.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:23 (twenty years ago) link

I think you should listen more with your heart chakra.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:42 (twenty years ago) link

Triple R, Friends, which is like Immer except REALLY FUN

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:50 (twenty years ago) link

Oh yes, Friends is very great.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:53 (twenty years ago) link

B-but Matos, the last thing mark needs is more *fun*.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:55 (twenty years ago) link

(well, it's not like the Cooler Kids or anything, but still)

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:56 (twenty years ago) link

Raoul Duguay - "La bitt a tibi" - great mid-70s psych-folk radio hit from Quebec. I can get you the MP3, or burn it to CD for you - just write me.

― Patrick, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:56 (twenty years ago) link

http://missoula.bigsky.net/jennaiel/WeArepages/WeAreImages/noreally.gif

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:57 (twenty years ago) link

''(julio's tape he of course failed to LABEL hence its lamentable non to-handness so far)''

so how abt looking for the tape that isn't labelled.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 18:52 (twenty years ago) link

Tyranosaurous Rex - Unicorn
We all know one's opinion of Electric Warrior is the best test for the validity of their musical opinion. I spent two weeks listening to nothing but, then I decided to see what ILM had to say about T. Rex. Somewhere, some thread, someone explains how the Tyranosaurus Rex era records are like the song of the siren to female ears. I resolved to hear it ASAP, downloaded first I found it, and it is indeed some of the most engaging, odd, and feminine music I've heard. I'd like you to take a ridiculous stance on it.

― Adam A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 20:01 (twenty years ago) link

da real one - "u like pina coladas" : stunningly accurate portrait of gender roles, leisure politics, and friday mores in anytown, usa, summer 2002.

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 22:14 (twenty years ago) link

Funkadelic's "Miss Lucifer's Love" will make you realize that when funk acts veer dangerously close to a solo Lennon sound, Valhalla-level glory ensues.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 22:50 (twenty years ago) link

nate which LP's that on?

(thx ppl and k-k-keep it coming — i'll start responding in abt a week, recharged and refreshed i hope from the air of snowdonia national park)

(julio abt half my tapes are not labelled: ok it's my fault all the other ones aren't, but this one's clearly down to you!!)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 22:54 (twenty years ago) link

That's on America Eats Its Young, which is also kicking my ass via "Loose Booty" and "You Hit the Nail On The Head" and "Everybody's Going to Make It This Time" and "That Was My Girl" (which I listened to eight times in a row on the bus; it's probably the best band-remaking-their-own-song song ever).

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 22:58 (twenty years ago) link

de la soul - transmistting live from mars (off of 3 feet high and rising)

it's short, it got them in a whole lot of trouble, it predates the whole francophilia farfisa downtempo thing by about 4 years... it has aged much better than the steely dan/hall and oates samples.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 23:00 (twenty years ago) link

I have been listening to 3rd ear band a bit recently, so I'll nominate either "Alchemy" or "Macbeth" (I wd be interested in a sort of general way in what julio thinks of these as well)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 23:01 (twenty years ago) link

Michael Jackson's Moonwalker -- MJ's perhaps an even sleazier exploiter of Michael Jackson than Martin Bashir is.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 23:36 (twenty years ago) link

There is a compilation of klezmer music called "Yikhes - Early Klezmer 1907-1939" on Trikont Records. It has a really fantastic song by clarinettist Dave Tarras on it called "A Rumenisher Nign", which has him blowing over this very minimal backing. The way he plays clarinet is like Charlie Parker would sound if he were a klezemer musician, or had made more of an effort to emulate Johnny Hodges' bending and vibrato. It also reminds me of Raymond Scott's jazz-ish stuff in a weird way. Check it out.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 8 May 2003 00:13 (twenty years ago) link

"it's short, it got them in a whole lot of trouble, it predates the whole francophilia farfisa downtempo thing by about 4 years... it has aged much better than the steely dan/hall and oates samples."

I can't believe you think steely dan and hall and oates samples can age. They're deathless! And "I Can't Go For That" seems to be more popular now than at any time since it came out.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 8 May 2003 00:20 (twenty years ago) link

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― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 16:51 (twenty years ago) link

NRBQ
Ted Hawkins
The Soul Rebels
All three will make you think about music...differently

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Thursday, 27 November 2003 10:48 (twenty years ago) link

nine months pass...

having good reasons doesn't stop me feeling bad abt how this got sidelined :(

i still hope to return and deliver smore one day

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 25 September 2004 09:56 (nineteen years ago) link

If I can get my tape deck working properly, I will try to do you a tape of those I cite above. And maybe some other people's, if I have room and the tunes. It'll be an enjoyable tape even if you don't write about it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 25 September 2004 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Of the tracks nominated I can only find Shaky Mo's Johnny Otis and Ethan's Limp Bizkit/Method Man choices. And I'll add something by the Rebirth Brass Band, suggested by Jordan, too.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 25 September 2004 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link

i have limp bizkit/method man

also i have access to slsk these days!! i am currently d/l-ing yard on yard of gryphon!

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 25 September 2004 11:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Heavens, man, if you have slsk and need music we shall provide.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link

listen to duane's album.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 25 September 2004 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Helloween.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 25 September 2004 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

i. dear god it is nearly two years since i started this project
ii. i have still not tracked down my vinyl copy of metal machine music = am still not free of the tug of ilm
iii. lady di if you are reading i have not forgotten
iv. i have been kinda busy w.this and that, and this looks likely to continue BUT i really do plan to hack a few more of these, but i nthe meantime
v. HAPPY NEW YEAR PALS and FOES alike!!

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 1 January 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link

i. hi mark!!
ii. happy 2005 to you too!
iii. update yr blog too if you get the time please!

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 1 January 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link

update on its way (er prob not today tho)!

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 1 January 2005 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link

i. happy new year mark.
ii. I read yr book and enjoyed it immensely.
iii. 'connecting and connecting...'

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 1 January 2005 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link

mark, while we are giving you things to do, I'd like to recommend Ned Sublette's recent Cuba & Its Music (which I assume you know about, and may even have read for all I know).

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Saturday, 1 January 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link

you were not very nice to somebody (composer) in your rise and spral (of horrible noise, not yr behind the music rise and sprawl). you know who i mean. listen again. then come to the Real Dirty South (the one where we can't afford ipods and Lil Jon CDs). and make and sell and buy and even listen to loose joints (in the mixtape sense). on the street. keeping your bias normal, your case low, your new year off-white, and represent.

― don, Saturday, 1 January 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link

listen to aussie pop in 80s - wa wa nee "sugar free"

― paul grey, Saturday, 1 January 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link

from failing memory, isn't john oswald is the only person i'm unremittingly nasty to in rise and sprawl (unless you count j!m de r0gat!s as a composer, or mark lamarr)?

(but it's a very long piece so i probbly said a million things i no longer think especially)

i don't own and can't afford an ipod :(

rockist i own records by ned s. but i never read him: but one of the records i really really like - ever-wideining circles, the one he did w.the persuasions - so i will give that book a go some time

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 1 January 2005 17:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I was going to link to my thread about the book, but I think that must be one of the lost threads. Anyway, it's very good, and much of it should be of interest to anyone interested in the musical interactions between Africa, the New World, and Europe.

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Saturday, 1 January 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Kind of like a less rockcriticerly, more expansive, Stomp and Swerve, but focusing on a different musical center.

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Saturday, 1 January 2005 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes of course I meant Oswald. It's the name isnt it. Put yr patriotism aside just that much ok? (Larue do you like Irakere? I like the LP ca. '78, from before several of their MVP jumped ship, pretty much literally. Does he talk about them, and/or Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra?)

― don, Saturday, 1 January 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

The Sublette book only goes up to the 50s. He has a second volume planned. I'm actually not that big a fan of Cuban music per se. I prefer Puerto Rican/NuYorican/Colombian stylings, but still, the basic foundation for salsa comes via Cuba, so I am interested. I haven't liked anything I've heard by Irakere.

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Saturday, 1 January 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link

i happy end of 2004
ii miss scanning a ILX thread to get mark's take on the question
iii should mail you a disc of music

― nick.K (nick.K), Saturday, 1 January 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link

haha don i just realised that wz you!!

but i am still trying to codecrack the patriotism gag

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 2 January 2005 02:28 (nineteen years ago) link

i did in fact grow up near a town named for the fact that a long-ago saxon king called oswald hid in a a tree once (or wz killed by a tree or something)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 2 January 2005 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link

but i'm saving the details of that for my sleater-kinner lesson

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 2 January 2005 02:30 (nineteen years ago) link

"Lee Harvey" was what I had in mind (relates to yr. patriotism cause Blair is Bush's poodle and your Prime Minister, nyah nyah, nah nah nah)(Bush is *my whut whut) Intriguing bout the tree (seriously), but I'll wait for the sleater-kinner(?) lesson. In the meantime, more musical recs: RIO BAILE FUNK:FAVELA BOOTY BEATS and Daara J's BOOMERAN and reggaeton too, cos you need a sunny vacation I would imagine (more UK stereotyping but still!)

― don, Sunday, 2 January 2005 04:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Sleater-Kinner fuckin suck dog balls

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 2 January 2005 05:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Really? Too bad. Sleater-Kinney's pretty good, though.

― don, Sunday, 2 January 2005 05:25 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...

hey mark just wanted to say hi. i dig radio free narnia...see ya.

― Destroy A. Monsters (Destroy A. Monsters), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

man that louis prima story justifies ilm in its entirety

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

di is back so maybe i shd do my tyrannosaurus rex one AT LAST

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

and thx abt rfn -- sorry it's been a bit far-and-few-between lately

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

is your beef with oswald easily summarized?

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i am back! i am here! i am reading! i am writhing with anticipation!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

that beef w.oswald:
he had an extremely feeble video piece in the show i talk about in the rise-and-sprawl piece, as well as what i recall as a very smug cover interview in the wire round about the same time -- esp.as the culture-jamming meme was more than a bit played at that point, but no one challenged him on this

so i wz very grumpy at him -- ppl told me afterwards i was bein unfair, and that's totally possible -- i wz just fed of readin how Amazingly Daringly Subversive he was Pokin Fun at Pop, i think, and never anything abt how else his stuff maybe worked

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link

ah ok -- his video works aren't my favorite either. I wouldn't call him smug, but he's definitely self-id's as art-world & thus rubs some people the wrong way, especially these days now that 'sampling' seems so obvious as to be politically inert

that 2 CD 'plunderphonic' box is a little indigestable, but I think you might like his 'WX' from 1983 or the revised 'Plexure' if you're curious about how he earned his rep

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

WX = scroll down to final 11 tracks

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:23 (seventeen years ago) link

(just bumpi'nso asto keep 'eh lessons withinteh mark s's visibleness, wellhopefully)

― tiit (tiit), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link

(mock me willya?) Um, if i can still make suggestions mark how about "Breaking the Split Screen Barrier" by Kim Deal's garage band The Amps?

― Destroy A. Monsters (Destroy A. Monsters), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

early post by me^

I wish these were still going on...would love to hear him unpack a Breeders/Amps song or two; somewhere around here Sinker talks about having a shot with Kelley Deal

― taking drugbs (to make music to take drugbs to) (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 23 June 2011 22:45 (twelve years ago) link

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