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THE TRUE POETS OF ZWAN...really now, Ned. That's just unacceptable.

― Melissa W, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Fiddle on you both. ;-) The band could be called The Tall Bald Git and His Trained Monkeys for all I care.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Courtney Love. I don't want to start something & I've seen how that tends to happen every time she's mentioned anywhere in any context.. which is AWESOME as far as I'm concerned. She's the best.

― daria gray, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I've been told (mainly by ILMers) that Frank Zappa had many faults, to which I am completely oblivious. Whatever the truth about that, I could put up with certain FZ things that I would never have put up with if it was another musician (e.g., "compositions" [as opposed to "songs"], virtuositic playing, bluesy jamming, etc.).

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I like all the Zombie Birdhouse talk. What about everything Iggy has done since then? Does that all get a pass too on the basis that it doesn't suck quite as wildly as Zombie Birdhouse?

I'll buy anything that Tom Verlaine puts out in spite of getting burned a couple of times. Same with Sonic Youth. Out of loyalty, gratitude, and to see where they're at.

― dan, Monday, 5 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't think Iggy's made a better album since Zombie Birdhouse. I'm keen on "Ballad of Cookie McBride" and "The Horse Song" as well as RLAV.

To the original question - the Go-Betweens. Even the not-so-exciting moments on the solo albums.

― James Kyllo, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That GAP advert - It's not Daft Punk, just a pair of dancers wearing facemasks, right?

― K-reg, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

juliet lewis in an AC/DC hat ? surely you can't forgive her for anything. i can't even forgive Haim Saban and Shuki Levy things like "lord zedd" "Turbo; the power rangers movie" "power rangers lightspeed rescue" they are bad and punishment must be meted fairly. maybe i could get some of the galactibeasts to take a dump in their swimming pool

― bob snoom, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Lou Reed. I own two copies of Rock and Roll Heart. Now there's devotion.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

This year I've been able to take the major step of not buying a Sonic Youth-related record and even selling some really bad Sonic Youth- related records. I'm planning to not buy their next Geffen album as soon as it comes out. I'm even willing to concede that they haven't really been that important a force since Sister, that the last two Geffen albums are mostly interesting rubbish, and that the other Geffen albums are patchy. Disc 1 of Goodbye 20th Century is really good though.

Lou Reed though. I mean, all of it? Even "The Last Great American Whale?"

― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Nearest I get to this is Rush. I don't love (or even have) everything they ever did, but I do have 3 (three) of their live releases, so there must be some myopic activity going on here.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Last Great American Whale is one of the best songs on New York, along with that Fly, Fly Away one.

Even "Sex With Your Parents" and even "Original Wrapper" in the Perfect Night version at least.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Sad but true: Moby. And Prince, but only up till the last album. (We shall see about The Rainbow Children.)

― M. Matos, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Actually, I have the exact opposite problem.
I get into a band, and buy some of there records.
Then I get into a different band.
Then the band puts out some awesome records....
...and I completely neglect to get them. Don't ask me why.

― Lord Custos, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Stereolab. I mean, if I'm really honest with myself, they haven't put out something that sounds any different than their first few albums in ages.

― cybele, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yo La Tengo. But they hardly ever did anything crappy. Ok the first album was really average. But I forgive them as they became more and more classic by every new album they released. And if they would release bullshit tomorrow I would definitely forgive them again. But they won't.

― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Nobody. But XTC is the closest - there are remarkably few songs of theirs that I can't forgive (most of which are B-sides). Underworld was at the same level (though I've listened to considerably less of their music than XTC's), but then I heard Rowla. I just cannot get into that song.

― Vinnie, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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