oh man grifters...sheet that's a good un
― Shakey Ja Mocha (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
this is kinda weird cause i was just talking to a co-worker of mine about that Hull show this afternoon I swear to god.Told him how I made the classic american blunder...
our FIRST show overseas was in Hull, England. We flew into london, went and rented our equipment, stopped at a truck stop and had mushy peas and gravy then hit the road for the 5 or so hour drive to Hull.So we were pretty zapped. When we finally pulled into the verdant paradise that is Hull (wink) I went right to the bar and got a beer. the big lug that ran the place and apparently lived upstairs (?) gave me a nice big pint and I took a sip and said 'Whoa man, I think your refrigeration unit is out or somethin;...'
So he loved me, I'm sure.
that was also the night whassisname came to the show and wrote about it. ... ...... god what was his name......Everett True!
I remember my bass fell off me during our set and the head of he bass landed on my beer glass. But I caught it by the strap so it didn't fully hit the floor, the head just hit the pint glass with a 'tong' sound and a big triangular piece of glass broke off and landed in the glass. Since it was my last beer (fuckin' drink tickets!) I picked it up, pulled out the shard of glass and finished it off from the unbroken side.
hey. I've done grosser shit, believe me.
Btut Everett romanticized that moment in his article like it was some great punk rock moment. Really, I'm just a clumsy drunk.
― Tripp lamkins (trippl), Friday, 2 February 2007 00:38 (3 years ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ XDDDDDD will definitely listen to this band now
(also, Shakey Mo, they did indeed! you may rest easy)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm thinking Crappin' You Negative is probably an album I'd appreciate more now than I did in 1994. Gonna go back and re-evaluate.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
88 The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I (1999)35 points3 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributor: sofatruck
http://www.merryswankster.com/images/Dismemberment.jpg
TDP, and "Emergency & I" in particular, is one of those things I just can't talk about rationally. To cop a well-worn phrase, not liking them is like not liking the sun. Of course I feel that way about the Beatles so consider the source.
― Jack Redelfs, Sunday, 23 September 2001 00:00 (8 years ago)
as much as i enjoy them, I have to concede that they're certainly an acquired taste (like anything of worth, in my opinion). their quality is not an absolute, even to fans of the type of music they play, however you choose to define it. There are days when it sounds as paper thin to me as it must to those who dismiss the hype, so i definitely sympathize. But one thing that's hard to take issue with is that they're good at what they do, which I think is pretty rare, really. And if you want to see effort and ambition as overearnestness, so be it.
as for the 'classic' issue, that's a thorny word to throw around, but i can only speak for myself that I already know that these are some records and shows that i'll look back on fondly in the years to come. as for "Change", i already love most of the songs from hearing them live, but have my dooubts as to whether it'll continue to step up their hype momentum. it's kind of one of those records that's too low-key (by their standards) to really maintain the excitement they've been generating lately, but it'll probably still be their biggest yet, although i think E&I will remain the most effective (and most flattering) introduct
― al, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (8 years ago)
If Louis's reading this I think he'll love the last two D Plan albums.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 5 March 2007 16:36 (3 years ago)
yeah, the Dismemberment Plan are awesome. Emergency & I is one of my top albums of the last 10 years, no questions.
― Lee F# (fsharp), Thursday, 28 April 2005 06:50 (4 years ago)
TDP kicks much. Such inventiveness, such style.Classsssssssssic.
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Thursday, 13 March 2003 07:47 (7 years ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
did you love the last two D-Plan albums??
― David (davek_00), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
never really listened to them
but I do have them
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Change never worked for me...but E&I has some absolutely killer songs. A scarred and charred Weezer. Definitely give it a good go.
― David (davek_00), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
good choice
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 26 April 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't listen to D-Plan. Travis and I didn't get along way back when, and I can't get past the memories.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 26 April 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
That's al-legedly some dude's first-ever ILX post, in that round-up there
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^jesus I wouldn't listen to anything that came in such a godawful eyesore of a package. wtf
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
87 The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen (1993)35 points4 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributor: Ismael Klata
http://www.terapija.net/fotke/portret/20061120_103938_3.jpg
Of course not liking the album is a subjective choice but it's always been classic in my book.The single best bad relationship album ever.I pretty much love everything about the album from the lyrics to the slide guitar sound to the song order & of course female perspective on "My Curse".I always thought Black Love was an attempt to recreate this one on a grander scale only Dulli seemed like he was just playing the bad ass.Gentlemen seemed to come from his heart.Of course if you don't like Dulli's voice you're out of luck.God knows it's an acquired taste.Always seems like he's straining to stay in tune.Combined with the woozy slide sound it takes some getting used to.And yeah the lyrics are great.
― evan chronister (evan chronister), Monday, 11 April 2005 04:49 (5 years ago)
o fuck like rickey said if yr lumping it in with sebodah yr looking for shit that aint there. its a big arrogant MALE record - rawk! - that falters and reveals itself as self centred arrogant nasty precious crude preening. dulli is a prick - in the lacanian sense.
― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 11 April 2005 06:46 (5 years ago)
oh god. wounded animal record. best relationship/breakup album ever. frighteningly un self- edited. it's all out there, or in here. dulli's voice is awesome. "i've go a dick for a brain / and my brain is gonna sell my ass to you".
― stevie (stevie), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:40 (5 years ago)
When I got rid of my albums to devote myself to songs, Gentlemen was one of the four I couldn't bear to let go. That said, I've never quite been totally convinced of its greatness - it somehow feels just a little bit too unrelenting in its grittiness. Torn between 'My Curse' and 'Brother Woodrow', but it's hard not to vote for the title track
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 12:54 (10 months ago)
this album's sound and U2 have some things in common
― Zeno, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 00:20 (10 months ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I can only imagine it will get much more niche/personalized from this point on.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, April 26, 2010 6:19 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i don't understand. don't you think there'll be more albums with more than 3 or 4 voters the further we go up? i mean even if a large number of voters gave one album the majority of their points those records would still make up just a small portion of the top 100.
lmao @ lj quoting Chamillionaire's "Ridin'" as a blurb for UGK's Ridin' Dirty. glad my 8 points helped that one make the cut.
haha yeah that is my first post!
― surmudgeon (some dude), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
lmao @ lj quoting Chamillionaire's "Ridin'" as a blurb for UGK's Ridin' Dirty
my face is a million sadnesses
some dude's voting patterns have borne fruit, what can I say?
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm thinking people's #1 votes will start showing up with one or two backing votes (or, if enough points were allotted, NO backing votes). Seeing people's pet favorites will surely be interesting. My own #1 vote wasn't something I'd normally include in such a list, but I wanted to ensure it placed.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
another one from my list makes it
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
85= Neil Young - Harvest Moon36 points2 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributor: Captain Ahab
http://www.theartwolf.com/imagenestAW/Neil_Young_Harvest_Moon.jpg
also half of Harvest Moon bores me to tears
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:35 (5 years ago)
Harvest Moon is pretty boring.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:36 (5 months ago)
yeah Harvest Moon is like 50% of a good record
― squarefair (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:48 (5 months ago)
sometimes, Neil Young. esp. the Harvest Moon album which I like a lot for reasons I don't fully understand.
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 14 June 2004 22:37 (5 years ago)
I voted Harvest Moon. I love that record & I have a very particular history with it.
― Mark, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 03:38 (5 months ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Harvest Moon is pretty boring.― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:36 (5 months ago)
Soto in complete correctness shocka.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
88 The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I (1999)35 points3 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributor: sofatruck Pitchfork
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I dunno, Pitchfork was hardly the tastemaking monolith in 1999 that it is 11 years later.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
It was just one of the hundreds of indie rock review sites that rose above the others by shelling out the cash for its own domain name.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha. Pretty true really. I can't seem to find my ballot, but I basically picked 10 or 12 albums off the top of my head and gave them equal points. I did hear about this one from pfork... no regrets, still love this album.
― sofatruck, Monday, 26 April 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I did hear about this one from pfork...
I bet this is the case for most people who jumped on board at E&I.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
85= Biosphere - Substrata36 points2 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributor: ciderpress
http://dezji.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/substrata.jpg
I was really hoping there'd be like 500 votes for this poll
― rockapads, Monday, 16 June 2008 23:31 (1 year ago)
substrata is great!
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 20 February 2004 12:38 (6 years ago)
i find people describe a lot of albums as beatless when they aren't really, but substrata seemed to quite genuinely fit the description.
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 20 February 2004 12:50 (6 years ago)
Biosphere's "Substrata" is as arctic as it gets. And his "Polar Sequences" too...
― Siegbran Hetteson, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (7 years ago)
i gave a bunch of points to Biosphere - Substrata
i hope i'm not the only one...
― ciderpress, Friday, 5 March 2010 02:59 (1 month ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't even know what this is.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
first one i don't have the slightest clue what it is. techno?
heh xpost
― surmudgeon (some dude), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Wikipedia says ambient.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
so quiet techno
― surmudgeon (some dude), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
about 90% of the ILX posts about it are by Ki11ian
and about 8% by Siegbran
although it transpires that cutty is a fan
I'm intrigued - lovely album-cover at least, and if it's in the same quality-bracket as Global Communication I'd be well up for hearing it
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
also al I can't believe you even questioned whether this was techno I mean look at the name + the cover hey you never know it might be postpunk! XD
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
or some really goddamn undie hip-hop lol
eh there are so low level mid-90s major label alt-rock records with artwork like that
― surmudgeon (some dude), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
when i 1st started posting here i tht geir was the geir from biosphere i hav no memory of why tho
substrata is def a classic but i like some of the supermnml dronier stuff hes done more recently
― where display names die, unrecognized (Lamp), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
this is a good point, but I was thinking a combination of that + the band-name + the album-name
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I like Super Tight more overall, but this record starts with one of the best four-song stretches ever
― otto günne (The Reverend), Wednesday, 17 February 2010 07:11 (2 months ago)
Confession: I didn't vote for Super Tight because I thought Ridin' Dirty would have better chance of making it.
― what a tragedy for gingers (The Reverend), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I only voted for 10 albums, all either canonical, or at least ILM-beloved rap albums. Strategy ahoy.
― what a tragedy for gingers (The Reverend), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
more and more i'm kinda wishing i'd done that too, but eh what's done is done.
― hongrosphere (some dude), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
ha re: bizarre ride II the pharcyde it was #09 on my ballot so lol @ me giving it the most points. loving it so much probably makes me an herb but its kinda like that majesticons album mike ladd made - jittery and jokey and self-obsessed and easy to like - & i basically vibe everything abt fatlip
thought abt voting for ugk but ended up voten stuff i liked a little better :/
― where display names die, unrecognized (Lamp), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Substrata doesn't have a single beat in it, so it's definitely "quiet techno". Great album to go to sleep to, but I spent my Biosphere vote on Patashnik, which I think is more fully realized work. The two albums Biosphere and Pete Namlook did as The Fires of Ork are dope too.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
substrata deserves its iconic status just for sampling major briggs dream speech from twin peaks
― where display names die, unrecognized (Lamp), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Biosphere were great, awesome to see it in the poll.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Though Substrata has one of the finest uses of a vocal sample ever, when it juxtaposes Major Briggs' monologue from Twin Peaks with Jenssen's Himalayan soundscapes.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
(x-post with Lamp, ha!)
ok gonna do the rest of the night's polling to the soundscapes of Substrata - this had better be good you guys!
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link
It is!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
http://open.spotify.com/album/6jeIzUv8Bff4fFElZwwA4B
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
heh Lamp / Tuomas, I was just about to say. It also has the giant saying "sorry to wake you..."
This is a great winter album.
― I am using your worlds, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Am loving the start! 1997, btw
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:21 (fourteen years ago) link