This is a pretty bad one :

The Fall.

I bought Bend Sinister about 6 years ago. Never even played it.

tmidgett wrote:third world war

I can't stop listening to this band.

They are Worth Your Time.

tmidgett wrote:third world war

I can't stop listening to this band.

They are Worth Your Time.

metal urbain is pretty awesome


I wanna hear third world war, I wanna hear them bad

If I can say a genre, I'll tell you the really painful one. This one also qualifies as the record-store employee hip thing that I should know but I don't.

Soul/R&B


I don't know shit about most of these artists. Sure, I own Innervisions and some Curtis Mayfield, but I don't know my Temptation from my Miracle. It's embarassing! I love it when I hear it on the radio or in a DJ set, but I have no clue as to who sings what. I have the Beg Scream & Shout boxset (which is totally awesome, go get it now) but I never remember who's doing which cut. Right now, I'm trying to think of a single song by Otis Redding, and I can't.
I'm saddened by this.

run joe, run wrote:This is a pretty bad one :
The Fall.

this one took me forever to hear (before my ladyfriend made me a mix). it doesn't help it when bands have like 50 albums and maybe 2 of them are 'essential' and you don't know which ones..

on a related note, i've never heard the Mekons or the Residents.

i've heard that Dead Meadow absolutely slay live, i would like to here this band.

also, Pere Ubu, I'm really putting forth effort

i guess all sorts of jazz.

-oucheh

johnnyshape wrote:every single person i have ever met who likes jazz is a wanker.
i can only go on my own experience, and what a shit-laden, pretentious, holier-than-thou, tediously smooth, chokingly self-important appalling scene of Satan-masquery experience it is.
i know nothing at all about it, and having 'attempted' it many times, i don't want to know anymore.

ok seriously dude, what the fuck? alot of the people out there that enjoy fine wines, or french food are complete fucking assholes about it too. that doesn't mean you have to be. it bothers me that people are so quick to dismiss something they know nothing about. don't let a few dickheads get the best of you. i know alot of great, humble, perfectly decent human beings out there that enjoy and/or perform jazz. take bruno johnson, or anybody that works at the jazz record mart in chicago for that matter. if you go there an express an interest in jazz, i'm sure they'd be more than willing to educate you on it's finer moments in history. there's some jazz out there for everybody, it's a huge and diverse genre of music. don't be so immediately presumptuous.

it bothers me that people are so quick to dismiss something they know nothing about. don't let a few dickheads get the best of you. i know alot of great, humble, perfectly decent human beings out there that enjoy and/or perform jazz. take bruno johnson, or anybody that works at the jazz record mart in chicago for that matter. if you go there an express an interest in jazz, i'm sure they'd be more than willing to educate you on it's finer moments in history. there's some jazz out there for everybody, it's a huge and diverse genre of music. don't be so immediately presumptuous.

hmmmm - yeah it was kind of unnecessary. sorry. bad day at work.
still doesn't change my experience. every 'serious' jazz fan and musician i have met, (i have met many - i went to music college and have subsequently had to work with several pros) i've have found i didn't like. that's probably cos i like punk rock music. i've never met a jazzer who didn't consider punk rock music for idiots. it's that high self-regarding quality that tends to lean towards pompous pretension.
so to sum it up, it's not the music. it's the people. perhaps one day i will meet someone who might change my mind.

and i think saying "today you listen to jazz, tomorrow you betray your country" is funny, so i say it.

ta.

same wrote:...great, humble, perfectly decent human beings out there that enjoy and/or perform jazz. take bruno johnson...

You are right about this Bruno Johnson. Oddly enough I was just in his presence last night. Several months ago he relocated to Milwaukee and opened the Palm Tavern. By all accounts a great place (excellent music kept at conversational volume and a killer beer selection, especially in the Belgian Ale department, for those occasions when I choose to stray from the Point) run by a great man. And best of all it's about half a block away from my house. Definitely worth a visit if you're in the vicinity.