Bands you keep trying to like but can't get into

Husker Du (or anything else by Mould)
Replacements (or anything else by Westerberg)
Manics, Oasis, Blur, etc
Post-1975 Dylan

The White Album, The Wall

Replacements (or anything else by Westerberg)

haha yeah if you don'd like the replacements i don't think westerberg solo stuff is gonna close the deal

Westerberg solo stuff -- many other artists evolve their sound over the years; Stephen Duffy's solo material is far better than that when with Lilac Time, Nick Cave better with the Bad Seeds than with Birthday Party, Julian Cope better solo than with Teardrop Explodes.

agreed, but i don't think that's the case with mr. westerberg

i always think i should be more into roxy music, but i can't quite connect with them.

ha it does seem like something you should like tbh

Surely you've heard Ferry's cover of "Like A Hurricane"?

yeah, i mean, i'm OK with them, they're just not a band that i've come to love. maybe it'll happen one day...

have you heard "the right albums"?

[/zappa]

haha, i'm pretty sure i've listened to everything up to avalon. think i generally like the band, just don't really respond to ferry's thang.

and now, for my sins, i'm trying again -- stranded!

i think "for your pleasure" is the rockist's rockist's roxy album of choice

there's a certain coldness/emotional vacuum at the heart of Roxy, it's all very arch and performative and you kinda have to dig that. that being said I think what converted me to them was early Eno-era tv clips

specifically this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF2YP1CFAnc

I mean, Ferry's vampire gigolo moves are pretty funny here

it's all very arch and performative
yeah why can't these british guys just rock out, you know? like americans, like black sabbath.
but seriously, i think my fave thing of theirs is avalon, because it kinda points in the direction of robyn hitchcock's more shiny surfaced 80s records.

huh that wouldn't be the first connection I would make. now, Japan and Duran Duran otoh...

early japan is basically a roxy tribute band

yeah why can't these british guys just rock out, you know? like americans, like black sabbath.

hahaha. In a recent BBC doc about Brits playing in the US, Ian Anderson said that, as Tull openers, Roxy Music didn't go over in the US because they were too arch/arty. Which, you know, coming from a flautist fronting a band with a member dressed in a bunny suit...

it was kinda weird how well Tull did in the u.s.

yeah why *those* particular prog-hippies got over is kind of inexplicable

I still haven't heard Beefheart yet. It's interesting that you lump him in with The Fall and Can thoug

― how's life, Tuesday, February 12, 2013 6:13 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I still haven't heard Beefheart yet. It's interesting to me hat you lump him in with The Fall and Can though, because I really love Can but I can't stand (and have given up on even trying to like)The Fall.

― how's life, Tuesday, February 12, 2013 6:15 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Got about halfway through This Nation's Saving Grace again this morning. Still nope.

The Feelies.

Been trying, and failing, for a long time.

Mogwai

I used to be a kneejerk smartass about hating Mogwai. Like, whenever someone would even mention liking them in passing, I'd go nuclear. Now the hate's worn off and I can enjoy (later) Mogwai in small doses. Still not a band I go out of my way to hear.

I can't imagine ever getting worked up about Mogwai but rock music has to have vocals, sorry Mogwai

Flipper

Grateful Dead

Henry Cow

Bands

Call the Cops I call first dibs on all the records that you don't want anymore

Count me in with the Mogwai thing.

Swans. Never in the mood.

The Fall. Normally an ILX poll makes me more enthusiastic about an artist but still the only Fall album I like is the Best of the Fall, mainly for the atypical pop moments that proper fans don't like.

Call the Cops I call first dibs on all the records that you don't want anymore
--gotta lol geir (NickB)

Ha. You're on.

awesome.

i'm not big on mogwai anyway, but flamboyant goon tie's proposal of a mogwai with vocals is waaaay worse, so just count yr blessings flambo.

There are a number of mogwai songs with vocals

But thankfully it's a small number.

Henry Cow

This would be my pick as well. Same goes for Art Bears actually.

Oh no I never suggested anybody in Mogwai should sing! I can't even listen to Tortoise, there is no place for instrumental post-rock in my heart :(

I looooove Art Bears but liiiiiike Henry Cow

The Fall. Normally an ILX poll makes me more enthusiastic about an artist but still the only Fall album I like is the Best of the Fall, mainly for the atypical pop moments that proper fans don't like.

― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, November 8, 2013 9:59 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This^ It's things like The Chiselers and Hit The North I like, but Mr Pharmacist? Noooo....

not sure there's such a thing as a "proper" Fall fan, and anyway so far as I'm concerned I like "pop" Fall as much as the "weird" stuff. Mt Pharmacist seems an odd choice for "weird Fall" anyway as it's a cover version.

Bach Chamber Choir
Badfinger
Ballin' Jack
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
Bearfoot (Canadian band)
Beefy Red
Beggars Opera (band)
Betsy & Chris
Black Sabbath
Black Widow (band)
Blue Mink
Bones (band)
Brinsley Schwarz
Bronco (band)
Brother (Canadian band)
Brotherhood of Man
Brownsville Station (band)
Brutus (Canadian band)

not sure there's such a thing as a "proper" Fall fan, and anyway so far as I'm concerned I like "pop" Fall as much as the "weird" stuff. Mt Pharmacist seems an odd choice for "weird Fall" anyway as it's a cover version.

not sure there's such a thing as a "proper" Fall fan, and anyway so far as I'm concerned I like "pop"

Fall as much as the "weird" stuff. Mt Pharmacist seems an odd choice for "weird Fall" anyway as it's a cover version.

― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Friday, November 8, 2013 12:14 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Uh, no it's not weird Fall, it's just the song I associate with them more than any other. Like DL, the only album I can bear to listen to is the best of really. Always amazed how many songs I know by them are covers - Ghost in My House, Why Are People Grudgeful etc...

I keep trying to get into Drexciya and losing interest midway through listening.

one of those bands where their biggest hits were covers - ghost in my house and victoria xp

xxp Ah okay gotcha. the covers are some of their best stuff IMO, no shame in only liking them if that's your bag! People who think they're a proper fan because they "prefer the early demos" are history's greatest monsters, pretty much.

http://www.thediamondauthority.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Diamond-Wedding-Bands.jpg

I really don't get why ppl wear these things on their fingers

Drexciya maybe benefit from a "best of" approach, a lot of tracky numbers in their catalogue, not that i don't love all of it