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Ike wrote:

Wood Goblin wrote:My favorite Sonic Youth record is Goo.

Mine's "Washing Machine" and I ain't even close to joking.

You are actually spot-on. That is Sonic Youth's best album. It's a little-known fact, but there you are.

Heeby Jeeby wrote:the first suicide album i got was 'american supreme'. this was based on the band being recommended to me, not this particular record.

this record is so bad i cannot pluck up the aural courage to investigate this band any further.

you really started off with the wrong album so i don't blame you...

american supreme isn't too bad of an album really, although by far not their best...you really need to listen to the first album...

if you want it, PM me and i'll sendspace it...

Ace wrote:

that damned fly wrote:

steve wrote:Don't like the New York Dolls.

me neither.

Thirded. I also think Richard Hell and Johnny Thunders were completely talentless James Dean wannabes.

4'thed...they had a couple of good songs but the rest is shit...

oh, someone mentioned the smiths...i could never get into them and i hate morrissey and his mopey foppishness...

In no particular order:

I have never heard Flipper.

I have no interest in vinyl.

I prefer The Replacements to Husker Du.

I don't like 'gear', much less discussing it (I've played guitar for 20 years).

I find most "punk" rock boring.

I genuinely like disco.

I also like Liz Phair (Matador-era only).

I've never purchased an issue of Maximum Rock 'n Roll.

I like good "production."

(Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.)

ERawk wrote:

burun wrote:In my deepest, secret heart I want to play tic tac bass in a country-ish band.

I would really love to be in Robbie Fulks' band but I lack "chops" to do so.

I own two complete Nudie suits and pieces of two others.

To add to the country theme here, I am an absolute sucker for lap/pedal steel guitars.

I just realized we are both born and bred New Yorkers who just declared our love for countryish things. Yeah, I'm a suburban raised girl, but still...

is that really supposed to happen?

You two are lucky. Country music is exotic to you. I live in Tennessee. I have been listening to almost nothing but country music, lately. I can't help but think it is some sort of inevitable transformation. There is nothing cool about it. I want to play the rock-- but i need to play the countryish music.

It is coming full-circle or something. I compromised by giving my rock songs backcountry themes but it will only do for so long.

I get the same thing but it is when I am shopping and I have no control of the music being played in the store.

This is the real reason I now shop online exclusively. I'm saving lives.

burun wrote:In my deepest, secret heart I want to play tic tac bass in a country-ish band.

this is a beatiful one.
i have fantasies about playing bass in a dub band from time to time. playing the same line over and over again. tone rolled off. lots of subs. oh yes.

I heard "Psychocandy" and didn't like it one bit.

I don't know what's with the fuss about Pavement.

I think "New Adventures.." is the best REM album.

MrFood wrote:During many indie rock shows, I find my mind wanders and I often fantasize about becoming involved in an intense fist fight right there and then.

I know this is not right. It's ok though - I'm on medicine.

I like imagining I'm playing the same festival with QOTSA and me and Josh Homme beat the crap out of the UK indie ("indie"?) bands who are also on the bill. Which would be easy cause they are all so skinny they can barely hold their instruments.

Ace wrote:I love the god bullies and practically everything they put out.

This is a confession?

I could give a shit about the MC5, who sound offensive to me when I listen to them.

Too macho, right?





Anyway, I've got a lot of confessions:

The only Shellac album I have is At Action Park and I've only listened to it about five times since I got it.

I once fake-reviewed PiL's Flowers of Romance on Amazon so well that my review stayed up in the recommended area for months.

I think that in the general scheme of things the Replacements are grossly overrated.

The Pixies, aside from a song here and there, do pretty much nothing for me.

I actually like Faith No More, don't mind Mike Patton too terribly much, and think Angel Dust is a great album. (That's the only album of theirs I like, however, and I haven't listened to it in years.)

I have never listened to X. (There are plenty of other bands I could use there, but X is the band that first came to mind.)

I often think people who dis the Beatles, Stones et al. are just trying to be hip.

I don't seek out a lot of metal and don't really listen to it often.

I like the early Rollins Band stuff much more than almost any Black Flag (except for the early Black Flag stuff).

I hate pretty much everything Lydia Lunch has touched.

I don't know very much riot grrl stuff and think it seems really fucking stupid.

I don't especially like Sonic Youth, have never heard Daydream Nation, hate Thurston's voice, and would far prefer Swans over them pretty much any day.