Favourite artists: Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo, Giant Sand, Gun Club, Sonic Youth, Joy Dividion, Swell, Red House Painters, Joni Mitchell (from another life in the 80s), the Smiths, the Cure, Laurie Anderson, Keith Jarrett and Nick Drake (from my first life in the late 70s/early 80s), Cocteau Twins, Cowboy Junkies etc.
― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Michaelangelo Matos, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nick Southall, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
This place is getting messier and messier. Could someone, I think of you Josh e.g., please install a search like Atomz on this site? It should be possible. I have even succeeded in doing it for my small little blog.
― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Josh, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Music I love or have loved: Velvet Underground, In Flames, Goo Goo Dolls, Momus, Belle & Sebastian, Nine Inch Nails, some Radiohead, some Bach, some Beethoven, Vince Guaraldi, George Winston
Music I like: Vintersorg, Thyrfing, Therion, David Bowie, Neutral Milk Hotel, some Radiohead, Pedro the Lion, Nirvana, Bush, Iron Maiden, Sex Pistols, the Clash, U2, Dead Kennedys, Iggy Pop, Apocalyptica, Madonna, Fiona Apple, Filter, Olivia Tremor Control, Hum, Neil Young, Matthew Sweet, Pink Floyd, the Who
Music I really can't stand: Beach Boys, Britney Spears, rap in general, blues in which every line must be repeated several times, Creed
Authors I love: Neil Gaiman, Madeleine L'Engle, C.S. Lewis, Ayn Rand, Phillip Dick
― Candelifera, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
The first music I listened to that wasn't baroque classical, when I was nine: The Beatles. The first music I listened to that made me realize what music was capable of, cartoon-epiphany style, when I was fourteen: Brian Eno (it was Another Green World). "Older" music I really like: Millennium. (Apparently, these guys have been a recent topic of discussion, and nobody said 'dud,' which is great.) "Older" music I've recently been interested in: Pharoah Sanders. "Newer" music I really like: Spiritualized. "Newer" music I've recently been interested in: Icebreaker [International]. Little-known band I like who I'd like to plug (I don't know them personally): Optigonally Yours. Music to which I've most recently introduced someone: Eric Dolphy. Music I enjoy to which I've been most recently introduced: Prefuse 73. Music of which I am in perpetual awe: Laurie Anderson. Music I think is staggeringly important: Boards of Canada. Music I love of which people are frequently skeptical: Merzbow. Music I formerly maniacally loved to which I have recently been re-awakened: King Crimson. Music I've most recently acquired: Herbie Hancock's Fat Albert Rotunda. Music I enjoy that you'd probably find incongruous with how I seem thus far: NON/Boyd Rice. Music I like that most often gets me into trouble with people who "like music": Marilyn Manson. Music I hate: I think that idea is sort of ridiculous. Most recent concert: Add N to (X) at the Grog Shop, in Cleveland, on 18 July. Currently listening to: Plone's "Plock" single.
I'm always reachable at the given email address, and always enjoy discussion of any kind. That's why I'm here, isn't it?
― matthew m, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dr Seuss, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I'm 33, male, live in San Francisco, Ca., and am a graphic designer.
I don't look much like a young Anthony Perkins, but have been told I do more than once.
I have broad musical tastes, and don't want to blather on about all my faves, but I don't care for dance, techno, and rap. I try to listen primarily to vinyl LPs, and own about 1700.
― Sean, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nick Southall, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
also there are picutres of some constructivist buildings in moscow, russian graffitti, aforementioned students, other shit there.
i help run a night in sheffield that is called non.sense and is pretty turd. we dont really play any indie , or pop.
― ambrose, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Im a 23 year old finishing off a computer science/physics double major from the east coast of Canada. Currently working in Toronto as a programmer which is a nice break from my past incarnations as a midnight shift gas attendant.
Past 5 years I've held down a college radio show and a few years of editting the entertainment section of the student paper till I grew tired of filling at 2am in for contributers who didnt make their contributions so I switched to the radio station staff.
I spend too much time listening to indie music, I have a fear of silence and an extremenly short attention span if Im not wearing headphones. I am currently suffering through this recent trend towards roots/bluegrass in college music cause I tolerated enough celtic music in my life through over exposure due to a close proximity to Cape Breton. Bands I like include Eric's Trip, Sloan, Spiritualized, MBV, BJM, most of the whole postrawk thing and what little I've heard from Puffy In Japan. I dont hate pop music I just have a hard time stomaching commercial radio.
I tend to ramble.
― zac, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Aw, yeah.
― David Raposa, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Cryosmurf, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― A.Honda, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
21, Montreal, Vietnamese, computer engineer 3rd year, Velvet Underground, Pavement, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, procrastination, highway sightseeing, old decrepit buildings, painting landscapes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, misanthropy, 69 Love Songs, Old Port, Kids in the Hall, bored, bowling bag, immaculate freshly cut grass, mountain, Soft Bulletin, drugs, Japanese wrestling, Emergency & I, biking, $1 plastic guns, David Bowie, T-Rex, Trainspotting (the book), cubicle fever, Brian Eno, water fountains, Nirvana and the grunge era, white velcro shoes, night driving, waterfronts, High Fidelity (the book), the Beatles, Calvin & Hobbes, you.
― alex in montreal, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Greg, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
You: SWF, 5'6" 140-180 Lbs, Green Eyes, Dark Hair, Sense of humor a must.
Oh-wait-I'm on ILM.
― turner, Saturday, 4 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Josh, Saturday, 4 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
What I do with my time: There was a period of several months in the mid-'90s when I would get a word in my mind and just have to fit it into that awful Joyce Kilmer "tree" poem ("I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree" - except that, being a doubter more than a thinker, I misremembered it as "I doubt that I shall ever see/A poem lovely as a tree"). So one day my friend Elizabeth and I go to the tidal pool down on Half Moon Bay, and the phrase that embeds itself in my mind is "sea anemone." For three days I can think of nothing but how to fit "sea anemone" into the Joyce Kilmer format. Finally I come up with this:
I doubt that RuPaul, tall and feminy Has lips as gay as sea anemone.
The accents don't quite scan on "RuPaul," but it was the best I could do.
― Frank Kogan, Saturday, 4 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Jess, 23, live outside Philadelphia, currently unemployed and aimless (a catch, ain't I?), amateur writer but professional procrastinator, NOT a musician (I just can't bear to add more mediocre crap to the mountain) but I AM a critic (why else would I be posting here if I didn't think my opinion was god-like and unimpeachible), I likes...well, I likes what I likes, and there ain't a single genre I can think of (outside new age) that I don't likes somethin' from...but I've been an inveterate hiphop junkie since I was a wee lad and currently a recovering indie rock kid (who's finally almost worked through the alt-rock crock handed to me by the mass media *and* fanzine cartels while growing up in the 90s.)
― Jess, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Lindsey B, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Elspeth McKee, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― the pinefox, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
??? Where is Dr C ???
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
embarassing firsts: show - billy joel album i made mom buy for me - 'hot trax' tv compilation featuring styx. album bought on my own - neil young, which wouldn't be too bad, except that it was the NY & the bluenotes album.
― bucky wunderlick, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Been here ages but no matter what they put me through I'll STILL believe in love.
― DavidM, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jay, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
[my conscience: "don't waste your one shot at glory on the 'introduce yourselves' thread talking about ice cream! there will be other opportunities to talk about ice cream! say something about music!"]
I'm 20 yrs old, quite fond but not in love with [band I: a 5-piece from Glasgow] and [band II: a 2-piece from Paris], in love with [band III: a defunct 5 (not 6!)-piece from Stockton] and brackets, not naming the bands because they're pretty much interchangeable with a bunch of other bands, into old movies, a lapsed anarcho-socialist, a (slowly) recovering cool junkie, shy, too eager for value commitment, thirsty, I'll stop now.
― Nick Bramble, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I'm Curt, 48, but I'm still prettier than any of you. I'm a graphic designer living in Michigan. I remember when Elvis was new. Not that I thought at age 3, "This means a big change for pop music," or anything, but I remember the commotion around the house. My older brothers were entering their teens. One was a huge Jerry Lee Lewis fan with a big rebel DA. I grew up on my brothers' singles and their box record players like every kid in America had at the time. Elvis, Jerry Lee, Everlys, Chuck Berry - I get a rush seeing the sleeves now. My first records, and my first fave, was Ricky Nelson. Lonesome Town. Because he was on TV, I guess.
I remember the 60s, of course, but I don't have anything new to say about it.
I stopped listening to pop records for about two years in the mid-70s. I got into classical. Nothing weird, just Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and those boys. In '77, punk called me back. Actually, it was Cheap Trick that first made me want to listen again. The next few years were a third golden era.
I sat out another stretch later, roughly 1989 to 1997, when I bought next to nothing that was current. The ony contemporary pop CDs I recall getting were:
Charlatans Some Friendly (my 1st CD purchase)
Monie Love Down to Earth
Talk Talk Laughing Stock
Concrete Blonde Bloodletting WHY??
Breeders Last Splash
Morphine Cure for Pain
Until the End of the World Soundtrack
Crime and the City Solution Paradise Discotheque
It started when I quit buying new vinyl before i even had a CD player. Then, with the price of CDs, I spent my money on sure things, old rootsy catalog releases that had never been available before. Lots of old jazz, blues, 60s ska boxes, pre-rock adult pop, as well as pre-'89 rock. So I missed out on grunge. More like, grunge came knocking and I said go fuck yourself, dude, I'll take Count Basie. I felt like the culture of youth rebellion was hopelessly beyond played out, and I wanted no part of its attitude in music, art, fashion, anything.
Eventually, I felt like I'd go insane if I heard another saxaphone solo. Some other factors came together, too. Different friends with different interests, one with a record store. More interesting new music - electronic, ambient, all variety of stuff with more pop input. Record guides, especially All Music, the Internet, used CD stores, CD burners., oh, my head!
I dropped in on ama from time to time but always found it hard to follow. Now, I've read all of the ilm archives, and I wish you'd all wrap up your ile hippie chitchat and get your sorry asses back over here.
― Curt, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Damian, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dleone, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
i'm di. i am 22. i love music. some current faves are bikini kill, sleater-kinney, bratmobile, king loser, the kinks, the rolling stones, the aesthetics, now i'm getting stuck and i wish i had my record collection with me so i could remember what bands i like but you know, there's heaps and i guess you guys will probably find out while i am posting. i play guitar and sing in a band called LD50 in Dunedin, NZ , and in the daytime i am an assistant in the Music Department at a local high school. and yes, my nickname is a dumb joke about a certain dead princess. whaddaya gunna do?
― di, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ronan, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
i find it almost impossible to list what kind of music i like - bjork, kylie, old manics, showtunes (not lloyd webber), punk where you can hear the words, singer songwrittery stuff that is not too general (read Blood On The Tracks rather than Tapestry), pop!, tv themetunes, george formby, old skool hip-hop, nasty electro beeps music, anything(almost) not in english...
whatever
― bounder, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Favorite artists include Billie Holiday, Syd Barrett, The Beatles, Le Tigre, The Clash, Bikini Kill, Manic Street Preachers (up till 95), McCarthy, X-Ray Spex, Public Enemy, Sex Pistols, Marvin Gaye, Stone Roses, Pulp, Suede, the Pixies, Sleater-Kinney, Kenickie, the Ronettes, and Subway Sect. My favorite single of all time is "One Chord Wonders" by the Adverts.
Favorite writers - Salinger, Philip Larkin, Ballard, Burroughs, Greil Marcus, Allen Ginsberg, Albert Camus, and Gore Vidal. My favorite film is "Taxi Driver." The two books that changed my life, when I was 15, were Catcher In The Rye and Nik Cohn's Rock From The Beginning. I've spent much of the following four years obsessively reading the rock press - Christgau and Bangs and the rest are like old friends to me, but I've recently gotten into the U.K. crowd like Reynolds and Roberts and Penman, who are pretty hard to find here outside of the pages of UNCUT. My favorite magazine, although I recognize its mediocrity compared to the greatness of NME and Melody Maker in the Eighties. I've been reading this forum for months and it only recently occured to me to post anything. Hope to get to know you all soon enough...
― Justyn Dillingham, Thursday, 27 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I used to tell people that I listened to every kind of music, except the kind that "they" play on the radio. Then, and perhaps eternal favorites would probably be Joy Division, PIL, Gang of Four, and Pere Ubu (which probably makes me sounds like some boring, self-absorbed asshole, who wears black, goes on at length about "transgressive culture" and Marxist politics, and does whatever it is that Pere Ubu fans do... which isn't [entirely] the truth) Then I joined the Peace Corps and moved to Kazakhstan (which will be my home for another year, unless events occurring a couple hundred miles south of here get hot enough to require Peace Corps's withdrawal from Central Asia). Whoever has previously claimed to be living in the middle of nowhere has obviously never been to Kazakhstan. This move basically cut off any connection I once had to all of the realities I once enjoyed, including the resources that allowed me to listen to music other than what "they" play on the radio. By resources, I mean not only access to stores that sell non-commercial music, but the money with which to buy it (those of you who already find it hard to scrape together enough money to "feed your addiction" should try living on 100 dollars a month).
I mention this because I think I have a slightly different history than most of you when it comes to a personal relationship with mainstream, "pop music." Which is to say, I started listening to it not out of a) dissatisfaction/frustration with the underground/non- Top 40/indie music scene or b) my own self-willed recognition/revelation that mainstream music is not necessarily absolute crap. No. I started listening to mainstream music because I had no choice. I could either resign myself to the retro-hell of listening incessently to the same CDs from the (admittedly large) cache I lugged here from America (a fate which I know that those of you who share my sickness, ie probably all of you, would never willfully endure) and hope for the kindness of mix-tape making friends (In the year I've been here, I've recieved exactly one package from America containing mix-tapes. There were, admittedly, seven tapes, but that was over 9 months ago...) - OR - I could suck it up and start listening to what is available here. I should mention, just in case anyone thinks I'm actually complaining here, that I am glad that circumstances forced to me broaden my horizons a bit - in hindsight, I was starting to slip into a rather predictable funk. But I think this gives me a slightly warped perspective on things - I am an avid listener of pop music who has yet to be entirely sold on the pop aesthetic. At least, it feels warped.
So my current batch of favorites include, in addition to the Russian pop music that is played incessently over here (and was I hallucinating, or did someone on ILM mention Tattoo and Detsl?!), Aaliyah, Missy E, Nelly, Outkast, Radiohead, Eve, DMX, Jay-Z, Destiny's Child, Daft Punk, Basement Jaxx... And after consuming a large ammount alcohol, I've been known to admit to liking some Britney. All of these are available (in bootleg format, of course) at the local kiosk for the cost of a bottle of vodka. I should mention that the only two from this list that I would have bought had I been living in America this last year are Outkast and Radiohead.
The seven mix-tapes I mentioned above were all death metal/harcore/out-of-controlcore like At the Gates, Refused, Cave-In, Dillinger Escape Plan, Today is the Day, Converge, Coalesce, Deadguy, Cavity. This has been another recent revelation - metal does not always suck.
Guess I should include... Name: Matthew Cohen. Age: 24. Graduated from a small liberal arts college with a BA in Political Science. Planning on going back to school for a PhD in same. Speak Russian, but not fluently (what does "fluent" mean, really?)...
I should also mention my propensity to go on and on at length (interspersing my writing with parenthetical remarks that are often longer than the senteces they are intended to supplement).
― Matthew Cohen, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dickon Edwards, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
"So, Frank, how would you describe yourself?"
"I'm an intellectual dragon, locked in time."
(Pause). "Oh."
― Frank Kogan, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― palpable, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link