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I like Al Green.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 04:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Letta Mbulu?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 04:55 (eighteen years ago) link

1. Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Shangri-Las? Only a heartless cretin could possibly dislike them. [heartless cretin to thread]

2. I say we take an official poll and have some helpful nerd-type make some pie charts.

3. No beef with Green.

― O-Keigh, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 05:18 (eighteen years ago) link

who doesn't love THE METERS or WIRE ('77-'79 era) ?

― Paul (scifisoul), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 05:38 (eighteen years ago) link

seriously guys, who hates the shangri-las? i mean i'm sure SOMEONE has to.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 05:46 (eighteen years ago) link

but they're just so adorable!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 05:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Dudes, SHE WANTS REVENGE??!?!? ANYONE?!

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 05:48 (eighteen years ago) link

seriously guys, who hates the shangri-las? i mean i'm sure SOMEONE has to.

-- J.D. (aubade8...), March 15th, 2006.

I'm pretty sure Rudolf Hess spent the last twenty years of his life denouncing the Shangri-Las. Now that he's gone, I can't imagine anyone there'd be anyone else.

― O-Keigh, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 06:58 (eighteen years ago) link

>> doesn't everyone love Al Green?
>> gear

Yes!

-- micarl (micar...), March 14th,

I don't really like Al Green.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 07:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I've never liked Neil Young very much.

Letta Mbulu is a good choice! At least everyone who's HEARD her. All three of us.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 07:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I find Al Green really really annoying actually.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 07:10 (eighteen years ago) link

weird

― micarl (micarl), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 07:51 (eighteen years ago) link

MCR?
MC5?
MC Hammer?

the guy who said Smokey Robinson and the Miracles was right all along.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 09:50 (eighteen years ago) link

JULIANA HATFIELD

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 09:59 (eighteen years ago) link

the specials is the write answer as proven by science on the ghost town thread.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Can't stand the bloody Meters. Not that bothered about Hatfield either.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 10:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Smokey Robinson seems like a good bet.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

My Vitriol

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I can appreciate the Beatles for what they accomplished, but I wouldn't call myself a fan.

James Brown. Go ahead and tell me I'm wrong, but I think James Brown is it.

― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I could totally live without the Meters (and I like lots of New Orleans r&b! They always seemed like funk for jam band fans to me.)

I like Prince fine through 1987 or so; after that, he just gets more annoying to me by the minute (speaking of funk for jam band fans).

And I've never had any use of Juliana Hatfield or Fugazi at all (in fact, if anything, I'd say I actively dislike both of them).

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Weird. I find the Meters to be one of the least jammy funk bands -- especially since all their songs were so short.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 16 March 2006 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link

the monkees dammit
everyone loves the monkees

― powpowpow, Thursday, 16 March 2006 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Everyone who deserves to live loves the Vaselines. When the Doomsday Machine goes off and we have to decide who to let into the nuke-proof mineshafts, I dearly hope they only let in Vaselines fans.

― O-Keigh, Thursday, 16 March 2006 03:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I've never liked Neil Young very much.

Oh, really?
Wow. For some reason, I thought you would be a Young fan.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 March 2006 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link

> I find the Meters to be one of the least jammy funk bands -- especially since all their songs were so short.<

Well, their songs usually just never seemed to me to have SONGS attached, which was the problem, I guess. They always just seemed like clinicians to me, laying down Funky Grooves in a workmanlike fashion I couldn't imagine why anybody particularly cared about (better for sampling, I guess, than for actually listening to.)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link

(then again, admittely, it's been a while since i tried listening to them. maybe i'd think differently if i listened to them today. but when i've tried before, they seemed way less fun than people said.)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I could totally live without the Meters (and I like lots of New Orleans r&b! They always seemed like funk for jam band fans to me.)
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Weird. I find the Meters to be one of the least jammy funk bands -- especially since all their songs were so short.

i was playing a meters tape in my car once and a friend asked "is this the grateful dead?"

― o -- (eman), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link

better for sampling, I guess, than for actually listening to

this has occurred to me, too. so good for sampling that it's probably true even if you like them.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:24 (eighteen years ago) link

This looks like the best thread ever. If I actually read it, will I be disappointed?

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I take it that silence is disapproval on this thread?

― Dave NSFW (dave225.3), Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link

aaliyah yo

r.i.p. girl

― aaaaaaaaa, Thursday, 16 March 2006 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link

James Brown. Go ahead and tell me I'm wrong, but I think James Brown is it.

I not only dislike him. I blame him for everything that is wrong about music today.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 17 March 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link

MATISYAHU

― LoneNut, Saturday, 18 March 2006 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Yr opinion doesn't count, though, Geir, so it doesn't really effect the outcome of this poll much.

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 18 March 2006 00:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Geir's mad that so many black people are making music today?

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 18 March 2006 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link

no just plain mad

― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 18 March 2006 01:21 (eighteen years ago) link

and funny.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Saturday, 18 March 2006 04:48 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

crazypeople and random googlers aside, it really boils down to Queen and Abba.

― fez (fez), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Pablo Cruise

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:37 (seventeen years ago) link

it really boils down to Queen and Abba

The "1974: most important year in pop?" debate continues...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

i revived the thread because of Lay All Your Love on Me! i dont think that song is from 1974. wtf are you on about

― fez (fez), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i fucking loathe queen, and i find abba resolutely unlovable

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link

There is no ILx consensus on anyone!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I wonder exactly what Lex's aversion is apropos mixed-gender groups?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm quite surprised by Lex's post. I mean, even I like a bit of Abba, aside from the campier bits (Dancing Queen etc) and "The Visitors" is one of my favourite records that I've ehard in recent times - and I'm as rockist as they come by ILX standards. Queen are good too. How can anyone hate on pop/rock gems like Killer Queen and Don't Stop Me Now?

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

That'll be the "Why I Hate" column in the next Plan B sorted out, then.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Kraftwerk is still the best answer to the question.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

crazypeople and random googlers and contrarian hipsters

― fez (fez), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

(wait, who does that leave?)

― fez (fez), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I wonder exactly what Lex's aversion is apropos mixed-gender groups?

mixed-gender pop groups - abba, s club, steps - usually come with this blue peter sheen to them which really distracts from any emotional import their lyrics would have in the hands of others; also the men, especially if they sing, tend to be completely superfluous to proceedings. i like songs here and there by all the above groups, but as entities i'm not particularly enthused.

queen vfo'prfuss\jkbnc AAAAAAARRRRGGHHHHHH

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

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