Whole album's on Youtube.
NO SHAKEY IT IS NOT LIKE THAT - that is when they were VERY young and hadn't really developed anything except their wackiness. They grew up fast.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Even *I* don't like the really early stuff much
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, May 7, 2010 8:41 PM (4 seconds ago)
Which album do you think they became great on?
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
actually I guess I would describe this as "Placebo covering Oasis"― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE),
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE),
haha
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
They became great on A Little Man... but Tarred And Feathered not only predates it by quite a few years, it also manages to be genuinely infuriating. Especially as it's often the first (and last) people ever hear of this band. Curse you, Youtube.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
agree w/Dan about the vocals. yikes
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlfWoWHHRNA&feature=player_embedded
is without doubt the worst thing I've ever heard in my life
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
jesus fuck, 8:57? no fucking thanks
ironically, "Tarred and Feathered" is like way way way more entertaining to me
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
#TubeWolf220 How does one comment on this new Youtube version thing? Oh, here's the box. Good. Golly, I genuinely think it must take a metric fuck-tonne of talent to sound like you're playing BACKWARDS! Rather astonishing stuff, this. The song 'Tim Smith' on the Wildhearts' album 'Chutzpah!' is a fitting tribute to this defiantly uncategorizable loon, I think. 'When the future needs a legacy, where will the unit-shifters be?' Best wishes, Tim. 5 days ago
lj is that you?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
these guys kind of a deserve an award for being like the most unsettling looking ppl on the planet
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I do struggle with Cardiacs on record, but they're one of the most staggering live acts I've ever seen. Utter genius.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Dan, you've reckoned without the middle onwards being some sort of quasi-religious experience ;_;
All I'm asking is that a few of you listen to those three Youtubes. Either insult me or throw roses at my feet but at least give them a listen. At least try and understand where my brain is coming from.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, May 7, 2010 8:43 PM (1 minute ago)
I always loved that song, I recently got Songs For Ships & Irons and actually think it works as an album and is one of their best. It has a bit of everything. Sing to God is their masterpiece I am on your side with this one.
Also it really is worth sticking with Dirty Boy the last two minutes are just incredible.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
like if I saw any of these ppl walking towards me on the street, I would be half-convinced they would lunge at me and start trying to eat my face while extolling the merits of flood insurance between bites
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
xp: I bailed around the 4 minute mark? my ears were aching by that point
ill give the youtubes a shot when i am not at work.
― Samhain 69 (jjjusten), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Dan, seriously, go back and listen to it all. Skip the first three minutes if you have to. Haha, you quit JUST as it gets good!
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
By 'good' I mean 'jaw hits floor'
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
This might be a good one to start with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYMkS11D_nA
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
next please
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"Is This The Life?" is pretty good tho
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
okay it was pretty good until I clicked back to the annoying video
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I would've probably liked Sing to God if I was about 14 the first time I heard it. It's too late for me now, though.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
oh actually it was 5:37 where I bailed
I would like this a lot more with a different singer
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
really can't get past the vocal style
lol xp
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Next one is very appropriate. Just sayin'. It's also one of the goddamn greatest things I've ever heard, so I'm only too happy to launch into it. I have a hunch more people will be with me on this one.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
is it Wu Tang Forever
it is a bonus track vote for "Shut Up" by New York Style
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-dd4fMUhAY
It's got everything going against it. It's an EP, a cover, and pretty much an instrumental. Hell if it's not coming to my desert-island though. I've actually written more about this record than anyone else on ILM, amusingly enough. Like, way more so than Cardiacs. I only gave it...7 points though. Felt right.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
SEV-AHHHN The Boredoms - Super Roots 7 (1997)148 points5 votes1 first-place voteGreatest contributor: samosa gibreel
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cLI19EXK2oU/Sn5Aqy4DsRI/AAAAAAAAARw/RaIfshuiXPc/s400/superroots7.jpg
OK seriously, anyone who doubts that SR7 is one of the crowning achievements in modern music needs to go do one
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Monday, 9 February 2009 13:08 (1 year ago)
The way it gets going in the first 3 minutes is a bit like a process by which numerous keys have to be turned and numerous codes sequenced before the device that explodes the Sun can be put into gear
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Monday, 9 February 2009 14:53 (1 year ago)
Don't think I've recommended any other track as much.
― ogmor, Monday, 9 February 2009 14:16 (1 year ago)
oh my god. im listening to super roots 7 for the first time, after FINALLY finding it on slsk this morning. d00d. fucking unbelieveable. new one is very good, but this is really really great.
― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 30 September 2004 23:27 (5 years ago)
yea, i listen to super roots 7 all the fucking time dude
― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Thursday, 30 September 2004 23:39 (5 years ago)
when SR7 cranks into the super fast stuff at 10 minutes and then at 13 minutes, it annihilates me entirely. i value that.
― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 16:23 (5 years ago)
super roots 7 > everything else
― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 18:28 (3 years ago)
The way it gets going in the first 3 minutes
I meant Boriginal itself here, not the intro track, btw
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
YES
― bug holocaust (sleeve), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
nice
― nakhchivan, Friday, 7 May 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
didnae vote fr boredoms (split vote anyway) but used to rly love them and still very fond
― nakhchivan, Friday, 7 May 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
now cranking
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Unlike Cardiacs, I don't actually have to justify this music at all. It speaks for itself. It's for everyone. Seriously. It's for fucking everyone.
maybe i voted for v-c-n akshly cannae remember also some doubts as to eligibility re jp/eu rls?
― nakhchivan, Friday, 7 May 2010 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw Oval open for Tortoise and really wanted to throw shit at him perched behind his laptop. Pretty sure that was the first laptop set I had seen. To this day, when one of my cd's skips, I call it the Oval Mix.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 7 May 2010 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
can't remember which particular Boredoms album this is (I seem to perpetually receive random samplings of their catalog) but I'm sure it's good
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Top 5 tomorrow, I'm thinking.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
just do it tonight while americans are at work
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
No, I'm doing it tomorrow
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
dude I'm not reading this shit on the weekend, I got stuff to do!
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
FINE
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
6 Trumans Water - Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox and Ass(1993)150 points1 vote1 first-place voteContributor: cwkiii
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UkdnMV_9N8Y/R8x0MC8BiyI/AAAAAAAAAgc/wzuPFgXtY38/s320/trumans+water.jpg
I still have yet to hear a band that has excited me as much as Trumans Water did a decade ago.
What they did right, IMHO, was that they took the above influences (Fellers, Girls, SY, etc.) and forced them into a hardcore/punk tradition.. whether Trumans intended that or not.
Sonic Youth, Boredoms, Fellers, etc. all had/have amazing rock moments of course.. but they don't rock all the time, or at least, that doesn't seem to be their "point" -- instead, following more of a tradition for higher art purposes a la Beefheart, Residents, etc. Well, supposedly.. I know I'm at least partially full of shit here... but you know what I mean. The Wire would have never touched Trumans Water... for example. Which is kinda why Trumans excited me. They took all my favorite elements of art rock bands and warped them into this ball of volume for hardcore kids.
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 14 October 2002 19:03 (7 years ago)
eard "Spasm Smash Whatever" and it sounded exactly like I WISH Pavement had sounded (assuming Pavement ever learned to rock) - truly "angular" shards of lurching riffs that rattled and clattered and made me want to contort my body into weird shapes. Utterly simple guitar parts, yet deliberately sewn together with enough intricacy to sound real complex - a model for even such a crappy guitarist as myself to emulate, theoretically, and maybe even create something worth listening to. Genuinely tight-but-loose. Plus a septuagenarian drummer, no less! how cool is that?
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 18 September 2005 20:20 (4 years ago)
i say classic - spasm smash is the SEARCH
― gygax!, Monday, 14 October 2002 20:35 (7 years ago)
http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~tewing/ned/n130.html
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
!
― I thought "escargot" was a snail? (Matt P), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I knew the top third of this poll was going to be full of weird choices!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 7 May 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought that would be in the top five for sure.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 7 May 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
L I A R
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 7 May 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link