I discovered Solex through the 5 favorite albums thread here a couple of years ago (Low Kick and Hard Bop). Glad I did!
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Thursday, 5 April 2018 04:22 (six years ago) link
anybody here besides Stormy Davis ride for mid-late 70s Jeff Beck?
― brimstead, Thursday, 5 April 2018 04:52 (six years ago) link
I thought I’d be throwing down the gauntlet by saying I’m a diehard Was (Not Was) fan but a cursory google search reveals a surprising amount of goodwill for them on here.Maybe if I add on that there was one Frank Turner song I listened to religiously when I was younger (though even then it wasn’t like I was running out to find more from the guy)
― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Thursday, 5 April 2018 05:25 (six years ago) link
I didn't know ILM was anti-Erasure! They seem like the most ILM-friendly thing imaginable, tbh
― Dan I., Thursday, 5 April 2018 06:11 (six years ago) link
A quick search suggests that y'all are full of it w/r/t erasure and ilm
― Dan I., Thursday, 5 April 2018 06:12 (six years ago) link
Glen Hansard.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Thursday, 5 April 2018 07:47 (six years ago) link
Think ILM allegedly hating Kendrick Lamar or The Cardigans is a bit of a stretch to say the least.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 5 April 2018 09:22 (six years ago) link
Too many of these answers are unloved through obscurity rather than reputation
― imago, Thursday, 5 April 2018 09:27 (six years ago) link
The Bluetones
I love Was (Not Was). Who doesn't like that??
― loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Thursday, 5 April 2018 09:38 (six years ago) link
The only genuinely vile thing mentioned in this thread is Frank Turner.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 5 April 2018 09:58 (six years ago) link
(Julian Casablancas and the) Voidz
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 5 April 2018 10:13 (six years ago) link
A lot of Danish artists would probably fit here more through obscurity than reputation, as imago says. The two that springs to mind that I would be hard-pressed to defend, even if people began listening to them, are probably Kliché and Tiger Tunes. This meant so much to me fifteen years ago, probably hard to explain what a revelation it was in a Danish context:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpXeelIlVBs
― Frederik B, Thursday, 5 April 2018 11:09 (six years ago) link
I love Blow by Blow. I might be alone in even liking some 21st century Jeff Beck, though.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 5 April 2018 11:16 (six years ago) link
Kim Wilde's debut is indeed wonderful!
― No energy, only great chaos (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
i don't know who frank turner is but i guess its good to know to keep my distance if i ever encounter him.
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link
here we go scott, enter at your peril Rockist Git Frank Turner and the horror of the live version of "I Still Believe"
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
Most of the names that spring to mind suffer from obscurity rather than ill-repute (basically what imago said).
In other words, a list of stuff ILM loathes would come in handy. Seriously, what are the most hated bands/musicians on this board? Are there any?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:45 (six years ago) link
depends on the era of ilx.
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
curmudgeon is the king of this: Chitlin Circuit Double-entendre -filled Soul 2004 (and onward) Theodis Ealey's "Stand Up In It" is a song of the year
― not quite as cool as seeing damo's wang but (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
my version of this is probably dire straits/mark knopfler
― not quite as cool as seeing damo's wang but (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
Fair point. Early ILX seemed more vocal about its dislikes, but I'm ultimately more curious about 2010s ILX.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link
Feel like this more of a "post your guilty pleasure" response but I'm a fan of both EMF (mostly just Schubert Dip) and Ned's Atomic Dustin (at least that first record, and the last, not so much the middling middle one)
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link
i always laugh a little when people try and tell me that EARLY emf was great and nothing like their unbelievable stuff. i don't know why i think its funny. just thought of early-EMF is funny. like there are discrete eras of emf.
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
i mean i guess if it sounded like rough trade era scritti politti or something.
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
The artist who gets the most hate on ILM has to be Megan Trainor surely.I thought 'No' was pretty good, though would have been better with another singer probably.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
not enough people hate the smashing pumpkins here. that much i know.
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
I don't really have an opinion on their other albums tbh. I kinda just moved onto weirder music after that, but maintained a connection to that album (which I listened to on my walkman for 18 hours straight on a trip to sweden)
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
This obit for the EMF bassist is def funny, esp:
Apart from his basslines, Foley was known for his party trick of putting what some claimed was a grapefruit, and others a lime, under his foreskin, and for partying. He was no stranger to drugs.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1380899/Zac-Foley.html
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
EMF that is
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
Even Dennis Potter never imagined a "character" like Zac Foley!
― calzino, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
I haven't played my copy of Schubert Dip in 20 + years, and now I don't think I'll ever be able to put it on again and not be reduced to gales of laughter. xxp
― No energy, only great chaos (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:16 (six years ago) link
Ppl here hate Megan Trainor? I wouldn’t choose to actively listen to her songs, but I’ve never heard one I didn’t like.
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:16 (six years ago) link
She is a mainstay of the worst music threads.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
I rate Megan Trainor over Amy Winehouse, haha (R.I.P. and all that)
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
now that is more like it
― imago, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link
Killing Joke, of course. KIDDING!!!!
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
Amy Winehouse at Bestival 2009 is absolutely one of the worst gigs I've ever been to. But obviously she was much better than that a couple of years earlier.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
tbh if you attend Bestival you get what you deserve
― imago, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
true alex in nyc answer: belfegore
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
xp 2009 was the year it rained and they were completely unprepared for it. Two stages sank and you had to wade to get between the other ones. We still hilariously refer to it as "Worstival"
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
any public expression of art-loathing, even the most necessary and self-evident, seems to arrive on the ears of the attending boobery as an invitation to "actually" back. collective loathing, by extension, is basically a job posting: rehabilitators wanted, there's probably a book in it. given this mechanism, strenuous trumpetings of aesthetic distaste become a kind of sisyphean make-work, suited only to incurable windbags (shush) and desperate masochists (granted).
happily, the ILM of the late 2010s seems to understand that studied indifference pays better long-term dividends.
― not quite as cool as seeing damo's wang but (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:35 (six years ago) link
i think "studied indifference" might actually be "i am so tired of talking about this shit on the internet" in some cases.
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link
Great stuff in that Foley obit
Their raucous blend of pop, rap, rock and dance was brash, exciting and unpredictable. They had a knack for writing songs that lodged like catchphrases, as in the chorus: The things, you say/Your purple prose just gives you away/ The things you say/You're unbur-lee-vable.
Young, lively, fashionable and good-looking, EMF seemed almost too perfect, and when they first appeared, unfounded rumours spread that they had been manufactured by a sharp-eyed Svengali as a rebellious version of New Kids on the Block.
― omar little, Thursday, 5 April 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
Wow there are only two James-related threads, both half-grown, I'm shocked
― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link
Ha, I started a poll comparing versions of "Laid" once.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
Inspired by Jordan’s revive - Melody’s echoChamber
― Eris (Ross), Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
Frank Zappa, though the needle swings drunkenly between like and dislike here.
― WilliamC, Thursday, 5 April 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
I still consider myself a Zappa fan, although there are many caveats attached.
I'm going to suggest Southern Culture on the Skids, whose ilm thread hasn't been bumped since 2005. I listen to them regularly, and I'm even roadtripping to see them next month for my birthday.
― No energy, only great chaos (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
Zappa seems like a real "love him or hate him" artist? (and maybe the same person will oscillate btw. those poles at different times.)
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Thursday, 5 April 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
Re: Deke Dickersen, Southern Culture on the Skids
I haven't bumped this stuff much since 2005 myself, but it's still beloved. Garage rock motoriks along, with nary a development from the rockabilly side of the sound. I expect it will come eventually, but I miss it. Dex Romweber from Flat Duo Jets continues to do his thing, sometimes with great results. Flat Duo Jets and Rev Horton Heat's 90s records remain all time favorites for me.
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Thursday, 5 April 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link