SHOCKING ILM Confessions!

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?

I prefer This is Hardcore to pretty much any other album by Pulp

when I listen to music I imagine everybody on ILX judging what I'm listening to. then take a sleeping pill and go 2 sleep

ah, neanderthal, no :-/

metal kids are the cool kids on ilx i thought

nothing about me is cool

however this...

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

― pomenitul, Wednesday, November 15, 2017 2:29 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IS RONG

I've never listened to Forever Changes.

spoiler alert: after all these decades, it's still the same

I have listened to Big Star too much and now find them tiring

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

i still have never listened to a whole album. it might still happen someday.

i have listened to Forever Changes too many times probably.

The Melvins albums with two drummers - A Senile Animal, Nude With Boots, and The Bride Screamed Murder - are worth hearing in their entirety, especially A Senile Animal. Lysol (aka the self-titled album) is good too. Most of the rest I can really live without.

i never listened to them at all until youtube. i usually don't make it through an entire song. i think its just me. i never even listened to an entire nirvana album until a couple of years ago and i like nirvana. i still listen to my kyuss CDs every once in a while.

okay, i have definitely never listened to a soundgarden album. that's another one.

lol at the all the challop peacockin itt, it's like the godwin's rule of ilm

you should never write off an artist or artistic collective completely and indefinitely based on one work, but sometimes it just happens, and "Spoon Man" was one of those works.

I don't think I have ever listened to The Fall. I may have heard a song once or twice, but I've never sat down and listened and I don't know what they sound like.

I'm not sure I've heard any Soundgarden album besides "Badmotorfinger" but I've heard the singles, seen them live and feel like I pretty much understand the group. I don't think I've ever heard the Melvins, but I know what they sound like and what the guy with the fuzzy hair looks like. Not sure I've ever heard Boris, either, who I always imagined were like a Japanese Melvins.

melvins live are outstanding

BASS

I also can't really picture what the Melvins sound like

lol at the all the challop peacockin itt
thank you for the nomenclature, otm