what one artist do you like the most that ilm doesn't seem to rate at all

i can't say i've listened to big & rich in quite some time. i thought that album was funny though.

Me neither, though I never really got much out of it back then. Chewing Gum I haven’t listened to in ages either, although I seem to recall enjoying it the first go round.

Trying to remember another band I first got into when xhuxk wrote about them in the Voice (but think he preferred their earlier incarnation) that got a lot of scorn around here. The Soundtrack Of Our Lives.

Ha, I group him with the Dead and Doors in an Axis of Dweezil for which I finally found the following three past strategy of first and foremost ignoring, unless I happen to feel particularly zingy or, on the other side I feel like magnanimously embracing my fellows and saying “you know I do happen to like that one song “The Golden Watermelon Devotion for Easter L.A. Woman”
― Rudy’s Mood For Dub (James Redd and the Blecchs)

as i've listened to more music i find myself liking doors knockoff tunes more than i like the doors

this is probably a gateway to actually liking the doors

i used to loathe the dead but tyler converted me

I like that one Doors knockoff band from Michigan called The Stooges, but was never compelled to dig deeper.

I like tyler but have never felt any more than a passing desire to delve into The Dead, which has usually be rebuffed by some wack rhythm sectioning.

Really, it might just still be a coastal predilection, I got those VU space shuttles in my veins and never got over it.

gaz coombes

has a broad and devoted following on this board and you know it

Sage Francis

The first band that comes to mind is the Sugargliders. Such a great indie pop band from Melbourne. I rate them about as much as the Field Mice which probably have quite some ILM fans.

just remembered this thread: Albums With A Cult Following -- You and Only You

I remember the War on Drugs getting a few basic insults in one of the top 77 albums threads. Love them, as do some few others on ILM admittedly.

I like that one Doors knockoff band from Michigan called The Stooges, but was never compelled to dig deeper.

― Rudy’s Mood For Dub (James Redd and the Blecchs)

the mono single edit of "down on the street" where they overdubbed some keyboards to try and make it sound more like the doors is great

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i am still that cult of one...

This Is The Thread Where I Tell The World How Much I Love *Karen Alexander* And Her Album *Voyager*.

That was one of the first things posted on Mutant Sounds I think

I co-sign Scott S. on post-Somerville Bronski Beat. "Hit That Perfect Beat" is fantastically good. And to my mind, Doves' "Catch the Sun" was the best rock song of the Noughties.

The Smashing Pumpkins

Re: Joseph Arthur

i only know his 'the the vs merz' styled debut, 'big city secrets' : but its a bloody wonderful album.
not followed anything else since as i was under the impression that sonically things became a lot less interesting.
happy to be proved wrong.
― mark e

Big City Secrets does have a sound of its own, mostly thanks to the production, and I often wondered if this is perhaps mostly attributed to Real World/people other than Joseph Arthur himself. He performs several songs from that album live every now and then, most live versions sound quite different from the album versions.
I love that debut too, but you might be disappointed if you're looking for a similar sound in his later work.
That's not to say that he got less interesting sonically, as he's experimented a lot and he's always done a lot with layered loops. This is especially a treat live, when he gets his music together with enough loops so he can swap his guitar for a paintbrush and will paint while singing.

For a very versatile, interesting and in my opinion totally amazing record, I'd recommend 'Redemption City'. (It was released on vinyl and digital format only, but especially the digital album should still be easy to get via his webstore.)

I can't find mention of Citizens' Utilities anywhere. Lost and Foundered is a pretty great Pavement-y record from the mid 90s. I can't even find 'Roadkill' on YouTube. It's on Spotify, though: https://open.spotify.com/track/32Xm63Mpdr7JyfwLbDctaa?si=uYwh3fpcQ9O4StbSOjR6vg

Lenola

Anyone?

people like them. even i say nice things about them somewhere on ilm. listened to the swerving corpse a bunch last year. i wasn't really listening to them in the 90s so much.

Most of the Lenola talk here looks to be at least 13 years old or so. Good to know there's still fans out there. They really hold up!

this is easily one of my top ten or top twenty favorite rock albums of the '90s (non-metal division) and i have never met anyone who liked it as much as me. i've played my crappy CD copy year in and year out since 1991. i'm sure there are people who like it, but i've never heard anyone talk about it in any rave review critical way. maybe there was an issue of Mojo where they gave it its due. i think its a work of art as an album experience.

https://img.discogs.com/ypMP17SyWYAVFb2uYA5AM6KFdWU=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1244875-1355143325-2669.jpeg.jpg

you need to listen to it loud on a good stereo system though. not on a computer/spotify/etc. the CD will do.the CD sounds fantastic.

Thee Hypnotics are on their reunion tour at the moment actually.

I like the early Lenola singles a lot. Got one of the later albums which is OK but not as into it.

That Hypnotics record is one I’ve never wearied of, and along the same lines, Gallon Drunk. Loud rock with Elmer Bernstein/Mingus horn charts pushing it over the top is the best sound. The Saints’ Eternally Yours, too.

the casket girls and their debut in particular have rarely been mentioned here

ainur

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2886

I really liked the Kentucky-based band Sleeper Agent (their first album in particular), but looks like they’ve only been mentioned once in here, in passing.

revisiting this, and daaaamn... still slaps

this band was like anthemic mall-emo Royal Trux, or something. I know there are ILM posters who would dig this sh1t... check out their first album, Celebrasion, in particular. every song (except maybe track 9) is awesome. "Proper Taste" was my JAM!!

"Far and Wide" is like... whaaat... best closing track ever

I think fgti and myself are the only Tierra Whack obsessives here

i like tierra whack! probs not an obsessive mind!

Some fey UK indie combo from 30+ years ago, in all probability. LOL. Though that's such a low-degree-of-difficulty move that I'll stop myself there.

jhene aiko

I rate her a lot, not sure how much i count as ilm

Ela Orleans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PwMIBOldXg

Telepath

https://telepathtelepath.bandcamp.com/album/--25

This album is really very great. I don't care how Belle & Sebastian-y they are or the fact that they shamelessly have the same name as the 60s band.

There are tracks in this link and this is also the only profile of them I've found, and it's their only LP (from 2005):

https://shop.matineerecordings.com/collections/the-young-tradition/products/young-tradition-northern-drive

all of my attempts to promote the somewhat popular (104k plays/month on spotify) australian melodic prog band caligula's horse has been a total failure, possibly because they are an australian melodic prog band

Probably lots I could name. Chastity Belt comes to mind.

Many, many things.

A search for "Trouble Funk" turns up only one thread, from 2004 and briefly revived in 2012. Was listening to Saturday Night Live From Washington DC earlier; it's killer. Two side-long jams.

Is there any kind of Go-go thread?

would love a trouble funk topic, or at least a potpourri go-go one.

Telepath

https://telepathtelepath.bandcamp.com/album/--25

― calstars, Wednesday, February 10, 2021 10:46 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I love Telepath more than life itself, at least through late 2015. I'm of the [evidently popular] opinion that the quality of his work dropped off somewhat when he went sample-free. I've actually thought about starting a chronological track-by-track thread for Telepath/Virtual Dream Plaza if there were enough interest...

if human beings could live to be 200 I'd probably get into Telepath's stuff

Am I dreaming or isn’t there a massive dc go-go thread that was started by curmudgeon a long time ago?

xp lol yeah I feel like fully appreciating Telepath/slushwave in general requires a deliberate slowdown of one's biological rhythms

telepath rules

maybe My Morning Jacket? those first 3-4 records were some of my favorites of the early oughts and I think they hold up really well.

probably responsible for a lot of crap imitations in the intervening years though

the new D.C. Go-Go thread