SHOCKING ILM Confessions!

I am posting naked while putting off taking a shower.

I have never knowingly listened to any music

Not even that one with Jack Charlton rapping?

i'm james murphy

ok cool then i get to say you are smug bastard and i've always hated you!!!

jk brimstead unless you really are james murphy

lol well i'm definitely a smug bastard :D

I've never listened to a DJ Screw mixtape

I am for real shocked at this one!

I have also never listened to a DJ Screw mixtape

or 36 Chambers

I used to post on a Pearl Jam message board.

xp 36 chambers? you need to get on that

so I hear! I am following the Wu poll fwiw

Sleeve are u a nationally published rap critic

fair point

loool

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.

Never had a vinyl player and probably never will.

i check your facts but not mine

I know almost nothing about "classic rock", relatively.

I'm not Algerian.

i'm trevor rabin

I’ve never heard “Rude” but I’ve read enough about it that I may as well have

2017 was the first time that I ever listened to an entire album by The Band.

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.

Didn’t hear Houses of the Holy until 2015

the number of new, whole albums I've really gotten to know and enjoy in the past 20 years is ~4

What might they be?

I don't remember

I heard Big Star's "Femme Fatale" and The Feelies' "What Goes On" many years before I was even aware of the VU originals.

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?

Fugazi's $5 cover charge policy has had disastrous effects on independent music in the 21st century.

― flappy bird, Friday, November 3, 2017 1:52 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Take it to the controversial opinions thread.

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.

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

you thing scott doesn't own devo records?

i think a lot of t-rex is shitty boogie woogie

xp I believe that he never listened to them!

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

I'm not a Bob Dylan fan at all, although I appreciate that he influenced plenty of music that I like. Neil Young, too.

I hate punk and I can count the punk groups I'd ever willingly listen to on one hand.

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.

Bob Dylan is an obvious influence on The Fall? I hadn't realised.

Has anyone told Mark E. Smith?

Not liking Bob Dylan is not exactly shocking btw.

I hate punk and I can count the punk groups I'd ever willingly listen to on one hand

list plz?

i would rather listen to christopher cross than the sex pistols btw

I've never heard "Loveless".

oh, i've tried my best with that one and was an mbv fan from the 80s but it leaves me pretty cold tbh

Loved "Isn't Anything" but I think I'd lost interest in indie music in the interim.

The Bob Dylan/Fall thing is clear to me but maybe I'll take it to a Fall thread when I've got more time.

Punk: Minor Threat and Dead Kennedys are probably the only two punk bands I've listened to at home for reasons of pleasure in the last decade. There's a Brazilian band I'm listening to at the moment called Dead Kids if they count. Nothing else is currently presenting itself. And I'm not counting groups that are at the margins of something else like Amebix or Wire or Warsaw. Or Crass even. Anything even remotely punk-y I like tends to be either post punk or a metal hybrid when it comes down to it.

The Dylan/Fall thing = amphetamine sulphate.

"Grunge" rock is worse than Jimmy Buffet.

Red Hot Chili Peppers didn't get good until Californication.

I created that Philip Jeck thread.

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".

i've never listened to a robbie basho album.

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.

With you 100% on that one.

me too

I have never heard Dark Side of the Moon.

I've never listened to a Joni Mitchell album.

I'm not sure I've ever made it through an entire Bob Dylan album either. Not in one sitting certainly.

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

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.

what was the one coltrane album? just listen to blue train.

no! Just jump straight in with Ascension. Go hard or go home

i am a john coltrane fan who has listened to ascension only one or two times

I've listened to it a lot but it's not exactly a great showcase for him.

start with giant steps imo

wtf listen to all of them in any order at all

yeah you can start pretty much anywhere with Coltrane

Ole!

Africa/Brass

I never listened to a Kate Bush album until last year.

I’ve never knowing heard Kate Bush

I've never listened to a Kate Bush album. Or a Bruce Springsteen album. Could go on all night with this...

mithering shites and born to the runs, innit.

I didn’t hear jailbreak, aja, pirates or visitors until this year

There’s so much good new music it’s hard to make time for everything and there’s no shame in it.

At least half these confessions are true for me.

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.

Man Alive otm

Create yer own canon

what was the one coltrane album? just listen to blue train.

― scott seward, Tuesday, May 22, 2018 2:01 PM (eight hours ago)

no! Just jump straight in with Ascension. Go hard or go home

― 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