Not to be pedantic, but dullness is a species of consistency.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 March 2022 15:28 (two years ago) link
OK, consistently good.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 12 March 2022 15:33 (two years ago) link
the best talk talk album is the party’s over
― brimstead, Saturday, 12 March 2022 16:33 (two years ago) link
I don't know who PBKR would put in the third slot, but I'd say that Danny Kirwan vies with Nicks as the most consistent songwriter Fleetwood Mac ever had. Bob Welch on Mystery to Me and Buckingham on Tusk put more good songs on a single album than Kirwan and Nicks ever did, though.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, March 12, 2022 10:12 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
There is a reason her name is Christine Perfect:
C. McVieNicksKirwan and/or WelchBuckingham, maybe
This is like a HOF discussion in baseball - are we talking peak achievements, counting stats, etc. I think McVie gets both, though peak achievement might be Kirwan's songs on Future Games and Bare Trees.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Saturday, 12 March 2022 18:08 (two years ago) link
And she's a helluva singer
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 March 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link
But I adore Stevie. She brought something quite new: this fusion of Joplin and Jim Morrison and witchery.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 March 2022 18:17 (two years ago) link
Greatest FM vocal performance: Mick Fleetwood as Mrs. Scarrott on "Thoughts on a Grey Day".
As for The Party's Over, it's really underrated and one of the best records in its genre.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 12 March 2022 19:00 (two years ago) link
I have a couple!
The second Specials album is better than the first and the third one kicks major ass
I like later era post Silent is Sexu Neubautin better than the earlier stuff!
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 22:58 (two years ago) link
The best Nine Inch Nails albums, in order, are:
disc 1 of The FragileWith TeethYear ZeroPretty Hate MachineThe Downward Spiral
― castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 17 March 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link
Yeah, no problem with that
― imago, Thursday, 17 March 2022 17:20 (two years ago) link
my favorite is hesitation marks :)
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 March 2022 17:22 (two years ago) link
With Teeth deserves high billing for the bookends alone
― imago, Thursday, 17 March 2022 17:23 (two years ago) link
Hesitation MarksThe Slipthe three recent EPs back to back to backWith Teeth (this one grew on me; I hated it for a while)The Downward SpiralThe FragileGhosts I-IVPretty Hate MachineYear Zero
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 17 March 2022 17:25 (two years ago) link
contra op the nin albums have aged terribly and hes become a supremely boring totally uninspired film composer
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 17 March 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link
The only NIN thing I liked was when he came out at the first Lollapalooza gig, threw a fit about the sound and stormed off without playing a note.
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 17 March 2022 18:04 (two years ago) link
xpost Sorry I can't hear you over the sound of a lonesome piano in a vast room.
(I do like the guy and his work but...he does have his tropes.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 March 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link
The first part of this statement at least isn’t controversial at all, according to this thread:”The Specials" Vs. "More Specials"
This Marcello Carlin quote (from 2006) about sums it up:
Essentially what we're saying is that The Specials was their Dissensus album and More Specials their ILM album.
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Thursday, 17 March 2022 18:29 (two years ago) link
Sugar >> Hüsker Dü
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 March 2022 18:30 (two years ago) link
Bob Mould's first solo albums>>>>>>>Sugar
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 17 March 2022 18:33 (two years ago) link
His film scores and ambient records are very much "music to study to" type of stuff, but once in a while I like putting one on while I vacuum
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Thursday, 17 March 2022 19:57 (two years ago) link
Workbook > Sugar > most Husker > rest of Bob solo
There are classics and duds in each of these phases but I am comfortable with that overall order
― imagine flagons (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 17 March 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link
There is something appealing about Pomplamoose.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 24 March 2022 23:06 (two years ago) link
Do tell.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 March 2022 23:50 (two years ago) link
The Ant Rap is actually a punk song
― sarahell, Saturday, 9 April 2022 03:24 (two years ago) link
If by being punk you mean being obnoxious and subversive just because you can, then yes absolutely.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Saturday, 9 April 2022 03:59 (two years ago) link
Maybe more silly than controversial BUT—
If there's such a thing as "dadrock" then surely there's also such a thing as "dadsoul."
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Thursday, 14 April 2022 14:33 (two years ago) link
Determining who qualifies is where the controversy arises.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Thursday, 14 April 2022 14:34 (two years ago) link
I think you mean “unclesoul”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69ptYXvUo7M
― middot • is • my • middle • name (breastcrawl), Thursday, 14 April 2022 14:46 (two years ago) link
Scat singing: never good, always entertaining.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 23:03 (two years ago) link
I think I first saw this on ilm:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY7LHziBDcI
― brimstead, Wednesday, 27 April 2022 23:12 (two years ago) link
Two of my favorites!
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 23:32 (two years ago) link
I normally resist the urge to post “canonical thing actually sucks” in this thread, but:While it’s always still great to hear the Ronettes etc., the least great thing about it these days is the Spector sound. That wall o’ sound is not really standing strong… in fact, the production can sound like muddy shit. Maybe it was made very specifically for transistor radio speakers, I dunno.
― Hops: Mosaic, Citra, Simcoe (morrisp), Friday, 6 May 2022 01:38 (one year ago) link
"Wall of Sound" sounds great in mono on an old boombox with the treble cranked. Otherwise, I just kind of accept it as a "technology of the time" fidelity issue like I would early jazz or folk music. Maybe it would have aged better if something something recording technology . . . ?
But yeah: big agree here. I grew tired of it years ago and haven't sought out listening to any of that stuff for even longer.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Friday, 6 May 2022 01:57 (one year ago) link
Might be a better way of phrasing it is that, say, Shadow Morton is underrated in comparison to Spector.
― Hops: Mosaic, Citra, Simcoe (morrisp), Friday, 6 May 2022 02:22 (one year ago) link
wow, i just wiki'd scatman john. what an inspirational guy. it's so sad that he passed so young
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatman_John
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01w-9pUsy18
― Punster McPunisher, Friday, 6 May 2022 03:17 (one year ago) link
seriously grateful that my childhood coincided with "the Scatman song"
― frogbs, Friday, 6 May 2022 03:19 (one year ago) link
what a great live rendition
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 6 May 2022 11:43 (one year ago) link
yeah that was great
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 May 2022 13:06 (one year ago) link
You're all being ironic right, right ?
― Nabozo, Friday, 6 May 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
we don't do irony on ILX
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 May 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
Highly recommend the Scatman John episode of Todd in the Shadows. Even if you've already seen it, watch it again; it's one of his best episodes.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Friday, 6 May 2022 14:34 (one year ago) link
Honkin' on Bobo is the best album title of all time.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Saturday, 7 May 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
It will never be topped. All hail Aerosmith.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Saturday, 7 May 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
kurt elling went to my alma mater, and the school wouldn't shut up about it, i became convinced people only know who he is because this college talks about him all the time
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 7 May 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
I like him.
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 7 May 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 7 May 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
lmao @ HOBB
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 May 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
"Baltimore" is often-cited as an example of Prince being "bad at political songs" but I think it's really good
― a legible shriek (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 28 May 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
otm
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Sunday, 29 May 2022 13:25 (one year ago) link
Radio Song is an excellent opener, the KRS-One part is good
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 29 May 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link