Back on US shores – today’s Pitchfork review reminds me that the Melvins are another active band with a 25-album discography whom I’ve never heard (and it seems too late to start).
― Obviously Five Beliebers (morrisp), Sunday, 18 September 2022 05:59 (one year ago) link
Morrisp, in these instances I just use the ILX hive mind to determine the best regarded album from a particular artist I might be interested in, then listen to only that. If I like it, I'll check other albums out.
You need to listen to ABC's Lexicon of Love. It's great. Also check out Gary Newman's Pleasure Principal, OMD's Architecture and Morality, and Human League's Dare! Others may disagree with these choices, but they're entitled to be wrong.
― The Ghost Club, Sunday, 18 September 2022 06:16 (one year ago) link
xp those are 4 acts with one obvious single everyone* in the UK has heard a great deal.Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough...Ultravox - ViennaABC - The Look of LoveHeaven 17- Temptation
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 18 September 2022 06:16 (one year ago) link
Black Flag. I’ll read anything about them but committing to the music always escapes me.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 18 September 2022 06:22 (one year ago) link
morris- melvins suck. don't waste your time.
xpost to controversial opinions
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Sunday, 18 September 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
Also on the subject of UK-related ignorance, don’t think I’ve heard Paul Weller or any of his bands…
It works both ways, believe me!
― Nobody can handle nipples like Bobo (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 September 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
Looking at the Top Artists of All-Time on Acclaimed Music, I have never listened to an album by these artists in the Top 100:
65 Daft Punk70 Beyoncé84 Vampire Weekend92 Arctic Monkeys
I know a couple of songs each from the first two, don't think I've heard a note of the latter two.
Sparks - they sound interesting, but I wouldn’t know how to begin with a band that has 25+ albums.
There are a few compilations around - Sparks sound like themselves more than they sound like the times around them. I started with the universally disparaged Interior Design in 1988 and became a fan anyway!
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 18 September 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
Still haven’t heard Chat Pile
― brimstead, Sunday, 18 September 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link
Kimono My House is where most people start with Sparks, they’ve got a lot of great ones but you really can’t go wrong with this one. If you don’t like it then they ain’t for you
― frogbs, Sunday, 18 September 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
Thanks, I’ll try that out. Already dipped into a few others named above this morning…
― Obviously Five Beliebers (morrisp), Sunday, 18 September 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
Re: Paul Weller — I’ve definitely heard this song “In the City,” by The Jam. Great song! I think I thought it was the Clash.
― Obviously Five Beliebers (morrisp), Sunday, 18 September 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link
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― Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 September 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
Checking that Acclaimed Music list, there are three acts between 101-200 that I don’t recall ever having heard: Charles Mingus, The Replacements and Soundgarden.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 18 September 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
and from 201 to 400 (it’s ok I’ll stop now): Fugazi, Bill Evans, X, Wu-Tang Clan (!), Eric Dolphy, Flying Burrito Brothers, Built To Spill, Liz Phair, Slayer, Cecil Taylor, System Of A Down. Bloody hell, Wu-Tang Clan, how has that never happened…
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 18 September 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
Flying Burrito Brothers do a fine version of 'Dark End of the Street' that you might enjoy mike
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Sunday, 18 September 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
Yes, that is indeed a great version.
― Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 September 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
Fugazi, X, Built to Spill, Liz Phair and System of a Down I've never heard either.
― Nobody can handle nipples like Bobo (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 September 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
There's far too many American indie/alternative rock bands to list though tbh.
― Nobody can handle nipples like Bobo (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 September 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
Yeah, US alt-rock/grunge/nu-metal are my biggest areas of deficit, followed by blues.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 18 September 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
The bulk of the Melvins discography is eminently skippable. Lysol is good, but it's only got six tracks and two of them are covers; (A Senile) Animal (the first album with two drummers) is great, and so is the live album with that lineup, but the other two studio albums are subject to diminishing returns; and honestly I don't think they've made a good record in a decade. Every one is based around some stupid gimmick now (remix album! acoustic album! look, we've brought back all our old bass players! look, it's a dude from the Butthole Surfers!).
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 18 September 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
Ultravox, ABC (to my knowledge), Heaven 17(?)― Obviously Five Beliebers (morrisp), Sunday, September 18, 2022
John Foxx era ultravox >>> Midge Ure era ultravox. Start with the song "Saturday Night in the City of the Dead", or maybe "Quiet Men" off of Systems of Romance.
Heaven 17 - Start with "Let Me Go" or "Come Live With Me".
ABC - I can't believe that you haven't heard this something from Lexicon of Love without realizing who it is. But if not, start with" "All Of My Heart".
― enochroot, Sunday, 18 September 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
Ok, that Burritos version of “Dark End” is flat out gorgeous, thanks for the tip!
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 18 September 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
glad you liked it! :)
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Sunday, 18 September 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
xxp Thanx for the tips! I listened to the first three or four tracks of Lexicon this morning, it didn’t sound familiar (and is pretty wild stuff)… didn’t get to "All of My Heart,” will listen more later.
― Obviously Five Beliebers (morrisp), Sunday, 18 September 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link
Dunno if this counts but I've never listened to the No New York comp. I understand this is a big hole.
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 18 September 2022 21:26 (one year ago) link
Imo No New York is more important than it is listenable. I do like Arto Lindsay's stuff though.
― The Ghost Club, Monday, 19 September 2022 00:54 (one year ago) link
ghost club otm.
morris- don't sleep on the style council for paul weller stuff. it's his r+b band. this is a good one.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Monday, 19 September 2022 01:04 (one year ago) link
ha, my fave No New York act by far is The Contortions tracks, although I do appreciate the TJ&TJ tracks in their original mixes. I much prefer later DNA and Dark Day stuff,and never got Mars at all
― sleeve, Monday, 19 September 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link
add me to the "never heard Wu-Tang" list, I do plan on hearing the debut before I die, someday, and I do have a couple of related items (Cuban Linx, Bulletproof Wallets) that I have barely listened to
― sleeve, Monday, 19 September 2022 01:15 (one year ago) link
Just to muddy the waters – Mars is my favorite of the NNY bands, and the one that I ended up exploring deeper. (I really like the John Gavanti album, if you know what that is)
― Obviously Five Beliebers (morrisp), Monday, 19 September 2022 01:22 (one year ago) link
omg you've never heard Wu-Tang drop everything and listen to them right now.
Ditto Cecil Taylor and Eric Dolphy.
Fuck Paul Weller.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Monday, 19 September 2022 02:18 (one year ago) link
enh, wu-tang is kind of a 'you had to be there'* kind of thing at this point. definitely some classic songs in there, but even wu-tang forever is non-essential by now.
i was there and wasn't totally enamoured by the whole thing. more xpost to controp thread?
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Monday, 19 September 2022 02:24 (one year ago) link
The bulk of the Melvins discography is eminently skippable.
The best Melvins album isn't a Melvins album - it's the Crystal Fairy s/t with Buzz & Dale + Omar from Mars Volta + Teri Gender-Bender from Le Butcherettes.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 19 September 2022 02:39 (one year ago) link
I listened to Arctic monkeys for the first time tonight, because of this thread. I listened to all of the songs that have over 500M streams. I feel horrible
― Karl Malone, Monday, 19 September 2022 04:18 (one year ago) link
I feel completely alienated
What are we even doing here, all together? What is the fucking point
― Karl Malone, Monday, 19 September 2022 04:19 (one year ago) link
lol arctic monkeys suck
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Monday, 19 September 2022 04:21 (one year ago) link
How did they get so huge? I remember when I first heard of them I thought they were some edgy guitar band?? Am I mixing them up with the libertines
― Karl Malone, Monday, 19 September 2022 04:22 (one year ago) link
karl you should listen to their song with dizzee rascal.
libertines also quite terrible.
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Monday, 19 September 2022 04:23 (one year ago) link
Honestly the first 5-6 of their songs I heard were so horrible that I’m no longer in a neutral place to listen to them. The dizzee part of that, I could see listening to more of that, maybe without the Arctic Monkeys playing along
― Karl Malone, Monday, 19 September 2022 04:30 (one year ago) link
Arctic Monkeys do not suck and like fine wine are getting even better with age. This is there brand new song and one of the most beautiful songs from 2022, absolutely stunning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY5CAz6S9kE
― Bee OK, Monday, 19 September 2022 04:45 (one year ago) link
many xp but love me a good "Dark End of the Street"
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 19 September 2022 04:52 (one year ago) link
I do like that quite a bit more! Maybe there’s something to these Arctic Monkeys
― Karl Malone, Monday, 19 September 2022 04:52 (one year ago) link
No! Don't say that Karl, please stay in the Arctic Monkeys suck crew!
― The Ghost Club, Monday, 19 September 2022 05:40 (one year ago) link
Van Der Graaf (sp?) GeneratorFaustGentle Giant
so many bands I haven’t listened to and will probably never get to!
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 19 September 2022 07:23 (one year ago) link
Throbbing Gristle, been holding out on that one for years and intend to go to my grave never having heard themBright Eyes, Ryan Adams etc, pretty much any doe-eyed singer-songwriter crap with a subtext of sexual harassmentDrakeAny drill artists
― Witness describes moment man 'ran up to Queen's coffin' (Matt #2), Monday, 19 September 2022 07:51 (one year ago) link
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Sunday, September 18, 2022 10:24 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
ok now I feel old
but I don't know anyone who considers Wu-Tang Forever their most essential album fwiw
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 19 September 2022 09:26 (one year ago) link
yeah, would think the first run of Wu tang and solo lps by the members were all pretty great. Forever was the first one I got hold of and i haven't listened to in a couple of decades. But still enjoy that first wave of releases.
― Stevolende, Monday, 19 September 2022 10:42 (one year ago) link
90s alt-rock was/is very much my bag and I have also managed to never hear a Melvins album. I have always had a hunch they were overrated and the comments above bolster that suspicion.
I have also never knowingly heard Bad Bunny, or most hip-hop that your average teenager would like (artists like Kendrick are probably already considered "old").
― Chris L, Monday, 19 September 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
There's some classic/legendary hip-hop I've never heard, outside of clips in documentaries (Eric B. & Rakim come to mind)... I should rectify that.
― Obviously Five Beliebers (morrisp), Monday, 19 September 2022 14:44 (one year ago) link