I haven't kept current with Taylor Swift.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 3 November 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
I vastly prefer Scott Walker the Crooner to Scott Walker the Looner.
― henry s, Friday, 3 November 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
I killed Geir
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 3 November 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
I've never listened to a whole album by:
Velvet UndergroundRolling StonesElton JohnBilly JoelTupac
I've heard one Beatles album but that wasn't until I was in my 20s.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 3 November 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
I'm into leather.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 November 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
― What's the range of an Iranian frogman dipshit? (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 November 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
I think the first two Rage Against the Machine albums hold up.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 3 November 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
i never find time to listen to anyone else's mixes because i'm always busy listening to my own
not sure if that's shocking or par for the course for bedroom djs
― the late great, Friday, 3 November 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
sometimes i really enjoy turrican's posts
― marcos, Friday, 3 November 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
Fugazi's $5 cover charge policy has had disastrous effects on independent music in the 21st century.
― flappy bird, Friday, 3 November 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
I am posting naked while putting off taking a shower.
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 3 November 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link
I have never knowingly listened to any music
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Friday, 3 November 2017 18:57 (six years ago) link
Not even that one with Jack Charlton rapping?
― saer, Friday, 3 November 2017 19:00 (six years ago) link
i'm james murphy
― brimstead, Friday, 3 November 2017 19:00 (six years ago) link
ok cool then i get to say you are smug bastard and i've always hated you!!!
― marcos, Friday, 3 November 2017 19:00 (six years ago) link
jk brimstead unless you really are james murphy
― marcos, Friday, 3 November 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
lol well i'm definitely a smug bastard :D
― brimstead, Friday, 3 November 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
I've never listened to a DJ Screw mixtape
I am for real shocked at this one!
― Οὖτις, Friday, 3 November 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
I have also never listened to a DJ Screw mixtape
or 36 Chambers
― sleeve, Friday, 3 November 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
I used to post on a Pearl Jam message board.
― Dinsdale, Friday, 3 November 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
xp 36 chambers? you need to get on that
― the late great, Friday, 3 November 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
so I hear! I am following the Wu poll fwiw
― sleeve, Friday, 3 November 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
Sleeve are u a nationally published rap critic
― Οὖτις, Friday, 3 November 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
fair point
― sleeve, Friday, 3 November 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
loool
― marcos, Friday, 3 November 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
I have never listened to an entire Devo album.― scott seward, Friday, 3 November 2017 18:28 (one hour ago)
i am genuinely shocked scott.
― mark e, Friday, 3 November 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
Never had a vinyl player and probably never will.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 3 November 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
i check your facts but not mine
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 3 November 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
I know almost nothing about "classic rock", relatively.
― Evan, Friday, 3 November 2017 20:23 (six years ago) link
I'm not Algerian.
― Algerian Goalkeeper (Odysseus), Friday, 3 November 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
i'm trevor rabin
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 3 November 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
I’ve never heard “Rude” but I’ve read enough about it that I may as well have
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 3 November 2017 21:02 (six years ago) link
2017 was the first time that I ever listened to an entire album by The Band.
― scott seward, Friday, 3 November 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
Aside from singles, I can do without Elvis Costello and The Clash.
And I definitely have no use for Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and vinyl.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 3 November 2017 21:12 (six years ago) link
Didn’t hear Houses of the Holy until 2015
― flappy bird, Friday, 3 November 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
the number of new, whole albums I've really gotten to know and enjoy in the past 20 years is ~4
― phenibut rock (rip van wanko), Friday, 3 November 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
What might they be?
― Woon... Doopee Time (FlopsyDuck), Friday, 3 November 2017 21:34 (six years ago) link
I don't remember
― phenibut rock (rip van wanko), Friday, 3 November 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
I heard Big Star's "Femme Fatale" and The Feelies' "What Goes On" many years before I was even aware of the VU originals.
― henry s, Friday, 3 November 2017 23:00 (six years ago) link
I kind of hate The Velvet Underground.
― the Hannah Montana of the Korean War (DJP), Friday, November 3, 2017 6:32 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is pretty shocking tbh. Don't care for, I could see that. But hate? Really?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 3 November 2017 23:05 (six years ago) link
― flappy bird, Friday, November 3, 2017 1:52 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Take it to the controversial opinions thread.
― JRN, Friday, 3 November 2017 23:07 (six years ago) link
While I admire the fact that David Bowie existed, every time I hear his music it makes we wish I were listening to early Queen instead.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Friday, 3 November 2017 23:10 (six years ago) link
perhaps shouting into the wind, but aiui this thread is for embarrassing personal confessions about your secret lack of collector-scum cred, not your controversial opinions about artists
― sleeve, Saturday, 4 November 2017 00:33 (six years ago) link
you thing scott doesn't own devo records?
― kurt schwitterz, Saturday, 4 November 2017 00:39 (six years ago) link
i think a lot of t-rex is shitty boogie woogie
xp I believe that he never listened to them!
― sleeve, Saturday, 4 November 2017 00:41 (six years ago) link
I just can't see the appeal in bob dylan. Musically he's not that interesting and his lyrics are so obtuse that I can't find any enjoyment in them. Unlike most Dylan haters I do love his voice though
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Saturday, 4 November 2017 06:36 (six years ago) link
I'm not a Bob Dylan fan at all, although I appreciate that he influenced plenty of music that I like. Neil Young, too.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Saturday, 4 November 2017 08:12 (six years ago) link
I hate punk and I can count the punk groups I'd ever willingly listen to on one hand.
― Doran, Saturday, 4 November 2017 09:12 (six years ago) link
XP: I'm not a Bob Dylan fan so it infuriates me that he's an obvious influence on things I do like, such as Bowie, Roxy and The Fall.
― Doran, Saturday, 4 November 2017 09:14 (six years ago) link
Got a tape for my car, the Best of Music. I only like one side. (Ok, a Steven Wright joke)
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
challopeacockin
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 14 December 2017 02:32 (six years ago) link
This is probably not shocking but I absolutely categorically refuse to listen to a band called King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizzard
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 14 December 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
hahahaa
― Cardi Acs (imago), Thursday, 14 December 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
they have a poor effort-to-reward ratio imo. way, way too many releases, way too many gimmicks
― Cardi Acs (imago), Thursday, 14 December 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
I was right there with you, but then a writer I really like praised their most recent album to the skies, so I streamed a song or two on Spotify. It sucked.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 14 December 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
I like them for about one song, but they have a million songs and they all sound the same.
― Moodles, Thursday, 14 December 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
i still listen to the first Easterhouse album. i'm playing it right now. probably the closest thing to a U2 album that i own. is there a Marxist rock thread?
― scott seward, Saturday, 13 January 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
it IS better than an Alarm album though.
― scott seward, Saturday, 13 January 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
best lenin dirge...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ydAvYoJ-iA
― scott seward, Saturday, 13 January 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
"Grunge" rock is worse than Jimmy Buffet.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Saturday, 13 January 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
Red Hot Chili Peppers didn't get good until Californication.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Saturday, 13 January 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
I created that Philip Jeck thread.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 14 January 2018 10:24 (six years ago) link
I thought "I own no Bruce Springsteen", I mean he seems a decent bloke considering, but.
Anyway, I checked via my "My Collection" on Discogs, and I do own the NME Elvis tribute that has a version of "Viva Las Vegas".
― Mark G, Sunday, 14 January 2018 10:54 (six years ago) link
i've never listened to a robbie basho album.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
heres my confession, I have difficulty listening to a new album from an artist I like if I haven't heard all the previous stuff. it triggers my music OCD.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
With you 100% on that one.
― I cop this squat in the name of slack (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
me too
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link
I have never heard Dark Side of the Moon.
― banjoboy, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
I've never listened to a Joni Mitchell album.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
I'm not sure I've ever made it through an entire Bob Dylan album either. Not in one sitting certainly.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
I've heard three Alice Coltrane albums and four Pharoah Sanders albums but only one John Coltrane album
when an artist like Coltrane has 15 or 20 albums that are considered classic/essential, I tend to put off listening to their work for fear of starting in the wrong place. I feel like a basic newb if I begin with the overhyped album that's on all the Rolling Stone GoaT lists, but I feel like a charlatan if I begin with the underrated fan favorite. thus I try to expedite the uncomfortable "just getting into their work" stage by listening to half a dozen or more of their albums over the course of a few days. the downside of this practice is that I either don't listen to any of the albums more than a couple times or I focus on one or two albums to the exclusion of all the rest. in the end I gain a very shallow understanding of what the artist is about, and once my initial interest has waned, I'm reluctant to dig deeper into their discography or return to more than couple of the albums I've already listened to.
if an artist has a smaller discography (say 6 albums) with no clear consensus as to which is the classic, I tend to binge listen to everything, and the result is pretty much the same as the above.
if an artist is prolific but one phase of their career is more celebrated than the rest, I can make do with listening to a handful of albums from that period, but I don't like to skip albums within that range, especially if I end up with one unheard album sandwiched between two heard albums. I hate "original album classics" sets that don't run in chronological order
I'm not this neurotic about all the music I listen to -- it only happens with certain artists that seem (usually for arbitrary reasons) worthy of my in-depth attention
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
when an artist like Coltrane has 15 or 20 albums that are considered classic/essential, I tend to put off listening to their work for fear of starting in the wrong place.
With you. I've listened to so much other R&B/soul/funk from the same era but I haven't gone much further than James Brown's singles.
― I cop this squat in the name of slack (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
what was the one coltrane album? just listen to blue train.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
no! Just jump straight in with Ascension. Go hard or go home
― Hire Planes (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
i am a john coltrane fan who has listened to ascension only one or two times
― marcos, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
I've listened to it a lot but it's not exactly a great showcase for him.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
start with giant steps imo
― niels, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link
wtf listen to all of them in any order at all
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
yeah you can start pretty much anywhere with Coltrane
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
Ole!
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
Africa/Brass
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
I never listened to a Kate Bush album until last year.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 22:45 (five years ago) link
I’ve never knowing heard Kate Bush
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 22:59 (five years ago) link
I've never listened to a Kate Bush album. Or a Bruce Springsteen album. Could go on all night with this...
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
mithering shites and born to the runs, innit.
― calzino, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
I didn’t hear jailbreak, aja, pirates or visitors until this year
― Music is confidence (Ross), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:37 (five years ago) link
There’s so much good new music it’s hard to make time for everything and there’s no shame in it.
― Music is confidence (Ross), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
At least half these confessions are true for me.
― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link
I realized at some point that “essential” is a marketing tactic used by the film, music and publishing industries. They create a sense of neverending “work” to be done with these lists of books you have to read and albums you have to listen to and in reality there are always way too many of them to get to and that’s the whole point.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 00:43 (five years ago) link
Man Alive otm
Create yer own canon
― Music is confidence (Ross), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 02:04 (five years ago) link
― scott seward, Tuesday, May 22, 2018 2:01 PM (eight hours ago)
― Hire Planes (dog latin), Tuesday, May 22, 2018 4:23 PM (six hours ago)
Africa/Brass is the one I've heard. dog latin is probably right -- I feel like I'd be better off starting with a couple of his freest, heaviest albums and then working my way back to the (slightly) more obvious stuff
and yeah, man alive otm
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 02:36 (five years ago) link