SHOCKING ILM Confessions!

to the sound of the drum & the bass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djyfv3Ts-wg

i could listen to that mix all day long! the thunderdome one. its mostly belgian/german and also features my heroes lenny dee and omar santana.

i love dutch hardcore. i'm a numbskull.

I don't know jack shit about house and techno. And the existence of the fuckin innuhnet makes this hard to remedy, not easy…like, NTS doesn't help me understand 'em, being that NTS assumes a conversance with whichever musics their shows are devoted to… some mook's playlist won't do the trick either…I need a Rhino four CD boxset like the disco box or the love train philly soul comp or something with old school record biz-sanctioned "authority" to hold my hand…

there are so many great house comps. spotify must have good ones. just make a playlist of this for starters:

https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-History-Of-The-House-Sound-Of-Chicago/release/43501

Mixes not comps for techno, IMHO.

I listen to and love a lot of silly 90s Big Beat

i've never listened to a dead moon album...

I don't even know what dead moon is. A band? A label?

a band. fred cole of dead moon just passed away. and most of my facebook friends were big fans. he had a very distinctive voice. like an even weirder roky erickson. i really only know the lollipop shoppe album. and the weeds single from the 60s. and the mid-70's zipper album. dead moon put out a ton of stuff over the years.

I listened to Dead Moon for the first time this afternoon. They were OK. Fred's voice was like a cross between David Thomas of Pere Ubu and Roky Erickson. So if high-pitched "there's something living in my brain!" screeching is your thing, he was the man for that. The music was OK. Sort of garage punk meets Crazy Horse. They would never have dethroned the Lazy Cowgirls as my favorite American punk band that never really made it.

"you must be a witch" will always be all-time essential.

I love the note in the Nuggets booklet that the name change from the Weeds to the Lollipop Shoppe came about to avoid confusion with the Seeds. It's like, yep, that's certainly a name that doesn't sound anything like "the Seeds".

"you must be a witch" will always be all-time essential.

I've heard that but never heard anything by Dead Moon.

... or heard of them until now.

Oh! I thought of one. I prefer Mosley-era Faith No More to Patton-era

Jesus. Hadn't read the news when I posted that. Just saw the FNM thread above this one :(

I'm 38 years old and I've never heard "Stairway to Heaven" before. Or at least knowingly.

I think that's the first post on this thread that actually shocked me.

I sing in a mens barbershop chorus.

Called the Be Sharps?

i don't think i've ever listened to an entire album OR comp or hits collection by fats domino. or little richard. or jerry lee lewis.

ALSO: i listened to Hot Rats for the first time ever last week. that is a great album! i had no idea. i've sold a bunch of them. i've always liked other people's versions of willie the pimp. why can't every zappa album sound like that one? i would totally own zappa albums if they did.

The Grand Wazoo and Waka/Jawaka are the closest ones to Hot Rats.

I've had the s/t Beyoncé album on CD for nearly four years now and still haven't watched all the videos.

The Grand Wazoo and Waka/Jawaka are the closest ones to Hot Rats.

These are the three Zappa albums I listen to with any regularity.

the lack of vocals with the exception of beefheart on one track is a HUGE plus.

I don't think Burial is very good.

Outside.

...by David Bowie is fabulous. My shocking confession.

I'm 38 years old and I've never heard "Stairway to Heaven" before. Or at least knowingly.

― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Friday, November 10, 2017 7:43 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm interested in pursuing this one. How have you avoided it all these years? And when you say "before" does that mean you have just heard it for the first time?

i don't think i've ever listened to an entire album OR comp or hits collection by fats domino. or little richard. or jerry lee lewis.

― scott seward, Monday, November 13, 2017 8:13 AM (thirteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

brother you need to do this, little richard fuckin shreds

I'm interested in pursuing this one. How have you avoided it all these years?

He's probably British.

i forget yr tastes re:country scott but jerry lee's later 60s/early 70s nashville work is a rich vein worth mining, full of tragicomedy, pathos, bizarre covers, weird & great

gotta confess while i'll never hate beatles hearing their stuff has become a chore if not actively annoying

I don't like either parts of "Out There Somewhere?"

I don't like Slint, MBV, Spacemen 3, or Sonic Youth.

The older I get the less interested I am in music.

Just For a Day is the only good Slowdive album.

I'm a huge Roxy Music fan, and I like nearly every Bryan Ferry solo album, but I've never been able to get into "Avalon."

Darkthrone is the most overrated 'classic' Norwegian BM band.

I think "Poundcake" by Van Halen is a pretty solid single, and at the very least, Sammy is singing the hell out of it. Oh, and Michael is actually playing more than a few notes, too!

I'm interested in pursuing this one. How have you avoided it all these years? And when you say "before" does that mean you have just heard it for the first time?

― the young, low level volunteer named (Dan Peterson), Monday, November 13, 2017 4:13 PM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I haven't been avoiding it at all, at least not until the last few years due to it being a running joke among my 12-cd-owning Classic Rock fans. There's a chance I've inadvertently heard it somewhere. Was it ever in an advertisement or part of a film soundtrack? If so I may have heard it that way.

I haven't gone out of my way to check it out because I wasn't crazy about the first Led Zeppelin album, and I never listened to classic rock stations growing up. Got my first radio in '85 and listened to top-40 pop for about a decade, followed by an almost-exclusive hip hop diet until around 2002. All I know about the song is it's on the Led Zeppelin IV album and was a popular prom song in the 70s, lol.

It was a popular prom song after the 70s too.

I remember a lot of middle school dances in the late 80s that ended with Stairway. Kind of a weird song for slow dancing. It got so overplayed in the 70s and 80s that it became a joke, but it's a truly great song and you should give it a chance if you've never listened to it.

I danced to stairway at a school thing in like 2001, it's really stood the test of time and iirc it was a strangely communal feeling

I've only ever heard 'Stairway to Heaven' twice on the radio. Once in the early '90s, the other in about 2008 or thereabouts.

I prefer Aftermath to Beggars Banquet.

i saw a Pulp thread revive and felt it was my duty to mention that the only Pulp song i've ever heard is "common people". but lots of people have probably never listened to Pulp.

if they were even half as good as Doctors of Madness i might listen to them someday. it would be hard to believe that Pulp wrote lyrics as good as Doctors of Madness lyrics though. the jarvis always kinda bugged me though for some reason. just looking at him. which is mean.

listen to "Babies" or "Underwear", Pulp are gr8 and seem like a band you'd like!

Pulp are at least half as good as Doctors of Madness tbh. They are both good bands as far as I can tell

While we are on the subject of bands Scott hasn't listened to, did you listen to the Melvins yet?