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
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.
― 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
Bob Dylan is an obvious influence on The Fall? I hadn't realised.
― clouds (peanutbuttereverysingleday), Saturday, 4 November 2017 10:26 (six years ago) link
Has anyone told Mark E. Smith?
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 November 2017 10:31 (six years ago) link
Not liking Bob Dylan is not exactly shocking btw.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 November 2017 10:32 (six years ago) link
I hate punk and I can count the punk groups I'd ever willingly listen to on one hand
list plz?
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Saturday, 4 November 2017 10:42 (six years ago) link
i would rather listen to christopher cross than the sex pistols btw
I've never heard "Loveless".
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 November 2017 10:43 (six years ago) link
oh, i've tried my best with that one and was an mbv fan from the 80s but it leaves me pretty cold tbh
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Saturday, 4 November 2017 10:45 (six years ago) link
Loved "Isn't Anything" but I think I'd lost interest in indie music in the interim.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 November 2017 10:50 (six years ago) link
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.
― Doran, Saturday, 4 November 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
The Dylan/Fall thing = amphetamine sulphate.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 November 2017 12:34 (six years ago) link
I no longer have any interest in going to rock shows.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 4 November 2017 12:39 (six years ago) link
I've never owned a turntable, and even when there was one in the house (growing up, or with roommates) I generally preferred cassettes.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 November 2017 13:15 (six years ago) link
Have read more interviews with Mark E. Smith than have knowingly heard songs by The Fall.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 4 November 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
I barely know the words to songs I have heard dozens and dozens of times, but I've known all the words to Ice-T's "Colors" since it came out.
I've never owned a Beatles album in any physical form.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 November 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
I can't think of how any Bruce Springsteen song goes, apart from "Born to Run".
― jmm, Saturday, 4 November 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link
they all go like that.
― scott seward, Saturday, 4 November 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
1990 was a middling year for music.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 4 November 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
Anything not good enough for a single probably wasn't worth bothering to record at all
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Saturday, 4 November 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
These last two: do you know what a confession is
― The Suite Life of Jack and Wendy (wins), Saturday, 4 November 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
Lol scott otm
Xp
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 4 November 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
xp
Fair enough.
Alright, how about this one: I dislike approximately 95% of the R&B I've heard in my life.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 4 November 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
lol scott
i'm starting to listen to more springsteen than i ever would have guessed, but it is pretty otm
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 4 November 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
― pomenitul, Saturday, November 4, 2017 11:18 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Now that is an ilx confession.
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Saturday, 4 November 2017 18:27 (six 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