emmanuelle cunt wrote:don't write fugazi off like that. it's not like they're recording 13 songs over and over again.


oh, the smiths. i know this much: i can't stand morrissey's voice. i'd like to like them, but i can't.

Neither can I. But to be honest, I can't stand Ian MacKaye's voice either. Well not anymore. Or even worse, Jello Biafra. If the odd Dead Kennedys Track pops up nowadays I marvel how I could have ever liked this hysteric yelping. It's horrible.

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There seems to be plenty of bands I do know a fair bit about from either being on here or reading about them, but still haven't heard hardly anything at all.

Still haven't heard any Polvo apart from Cor-Crane Secret, which I understand is far from their best.

Still haven't really heard Husker Du although I've just met someone who's really into them so that's probably about to change.

Still haven't really done the Melvins apart from that song with the singing skeletons on the video and the Jello album.

Still haven't heard a lot of krautrock even though I read Julian Cope's book (I have some Can, Harmonia, Kraftwerk-but-not-the-early-stuff) and am really intrigued. Stuart Maconie played some Popul Vuh the other week which knocked my balls backward so I'm going to have to sort this out. The music, not my balls.

I've never heard The Band.

I've been told I might like Galaxie 500.

Never heard Uzeda.

Haven't heard Didjits apart from that album with the pig on the front, which I gave to a charity shop after really trying to like and failing. The Plasmatics cover was good though, wish I'd saved that. The cover of Police Truck on Virus 100 is good. So, good Didjits, I guess I haven't really heard much.

I guess I should give Swervedriver another listen since I got called out on dismissing them in their C/NC and lots of people have said good things about them there.

And I'm sorry to say I still haven't really heard Silkworm, though I do know plenty about them! I have You Are Dignified and have heard some of people's cover versions.

sack of smashed assholes wrote:pavement, yes pavement. everyone loves pavement. I've heard a little off of crooked rain, but nothing too exciting... what am I missing?

Nowt, IMO.

Mandroid2.0 wrote:I've never heard Minor Threat

I honestly think there's a part of you that could probably do with getting the complete discography cd, putting it in your car and waiting til the next time someone really pisses you off before listening to it. It has magical healing properties.

There's a whole slew of American country-tinged crooners that I know nothing about. Glen Campbell and Kris Kristofferson come to mind.

Also Willie Nelson.

The Rolling Stones. Until yesterday, when I read this I knew next to nothing about them. At most I have only heard maybe five percent of their output.

And most electronic (laptop) music.

And Jim o'Rourke's stuff, which I am eager to find out about.

Necros (The name is bad-ass, but I have nothing to associate it with.)
Neu! (Read an article about them once.)
Einsterhoweveryouspellit Neubaten (I've always seen the logo.)
Hawkwind (Even though Lemmy was in that band before Motorhead.)
Venom (I always see the t-shirts.)
Blue Cheer
Cabaret Voltaire (Coworker popped a tape of theirs into the cassette deck at work, only half-listened to it, don't recall liking it.)

Angus Jung wrote:"You're Living All Over Me." Anybody interested in the music associated with Electrical Audio should own this record.

I strongly second this opinion. This is one of those albums you should even buy at full price from your local soulless chain retailer if that's all you have available. I know it's been written about by many an indie wag, but it's the real deal. Holy mother of Mascis are these licks good.

On my way to buy "Greatest Gift"...

sixteenrev wrote:the beatles -honestly, i've only ever heard sgt pepper and the white album once each, and that's it

don't write these guys off yet. they actually were a good band. check out their early stuff, like revolver. you can probably find it at a used record store. there might be some copies left on amazon.

sunlore wrote:There's a whole slew of American country-tinged crooners that I know nothing about. Glen Campbell and Kris Kristofferson come to mind.

They both rule.

I have no clue about individual albums, but Glen Campbell recorded a bunch of beautiful songs that are easily collected on a "best-of" type thing.

I'd be surprised if, having access to songs like "Wichita Lineman," "Galveston," and "Gentle On My Mind," you found them anything less than beautiful.

"Rhinestone Cowboy," meh.

I think I will go ahead and post the lyrics to "Gentle On My Mind." I hear this song and am resolved ever more strongly to pursue a future career as a drifter/hobo. I'm gonna do it someday!

It's knowing that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it's knowing I'm not shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
That keeps you in the backroads
By the rivers of my mem'ry
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
Planted on their columns now that binds me
Or something that somebody said
Because they thought we fit together walking
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing
Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find
That you are moving on the backroads
By the rivers of my mem'ry
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
And the junkyards and the highways come between us
And some other woman crying to her mother
'Cause she turned and I was gone
I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

I dip my cup of soup back from the gurglin'
Cracklin' caldron in some train yard
My beard a roughning coal pile and
A dirty hat pulled low across my face
Through cupped hands 'round a tin can
I pretend I hold you to my breast and find
That you're waving from the backroads
By the rivers of my mem'ry
Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind

The Elvis version of "Gentle on my Mind" is great.
Check it out on his Memphis record recorded by Chips Moman in 1969.

Too bad Elvis stopped the song halfway through because he saw some guys dancing too harshly next to a weak, helpless woman in the mosh pit.
That's supposed to be a joke.

i assume not too many of you know about the El Michels Affair. which is too bad, cuz they're a band worth listening to for sure. i don't know a lot of minutia regarding this group, other than the fact that they sprang from the ashes of the Mighty Imperials, another decent (though less distinctive) classic-sounding modern day funk band from a few years back.

the El Michels Affair album Sounding Out The City is extremely well recorded. any EAer would enjoy this if he/she has a prediclection for black music. if Sounding Out The City had been released on Soul Jazz (instead of Truth & Soul), or if the El Michels Affair went on tour like the Dap Kings do, you would almost certainly know about them by now. haven't picked up their subsequent 45s, but i'm sure they're good too. the next time the El Michels Affair plays in NYC, i will be there.

Eierdiebe wrote:i assume not too many of you know about the El Michels Affair. which is too bad, cuz they're a band worth listening to for sure.

I love that Sounding Out The City record beyond reason.