Typical ILxor albums

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What albums are typical of the average ILxor?

Here's my bet:

Velvet Underground & Nico - Andy Warhol
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
The White Stripes - Elephant
Daft Punk - Discovery
Captain Beefheart - Troutmask
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Radiohead - Amnesiac

well, there's a few (pretty obvious) ones.

Bonus question - what albums are the LEAST likely to be in there (or at least would be hidden in a locked drawer for fear of someone discovering them)? I'm chancing:

The Coral - The Coral
Manowar - Warriors of the World

any others?

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

LEAST LIKELY:
Coldplay - Rush to the Head
Dave Matthews Band - Everyday

― Sean M (Sean M), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Capitol K "Island Rows"

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Disco Inferno "D.I. Go Pop"

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Something by Outhud
Something by Bounty Killer

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

ha! Some of my least favourite albums are in that list!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

but jel you're quite an extreme case on ILX are you not?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the BoC album would be _Music Has A Right To Children_.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

There is no such thing.

― Lars (Nicole), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely every ILxor has a copy of Tha G-Code. If not they should.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

mbv - loveless

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Scott Walker's Tilt

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

metal machine muzak

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i only own one of these CDs, and i only like half of it.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

typical response there steve!

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael Jackson, Thriller

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The Cure - _Disintegration_
Siouxsie and the Banshees - _Peepshow_ or _Tinderbox_
Joy Division - _Closer_
New Order - _Power, Corruption and Lies_
INXS - _Listen Like Thieves_
Public Enemy - _It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back_

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I own none of the CDs mentioned, do I get a prize?

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, a gift certificate to Amazon.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

people talk about outkast-aquamemi a lot
also missy elliot-miss e
the streets-opm

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe ILM has changed. Beefheart??

Well, yeah - robin has nailed three good choices above.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess, stevem, I'm the out-lier.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"Average ILXor". Huh huh huh huh.

First list - I own 1...Amnesiac. My roommate owns that VU/Nico album; when she put it on last night I went upstairs and played Playstation and listened to Amon Tobin.

On the other hand, I own all but one of the CDs Dan mentions. Three of 'em (Disintegration, Closer, ...Nation of Millions) are out in my truck right now.

...robin has nailed three good choices above.

Except that I'd rather listen to a bag of dicks being slapped against a telephone pole than Missy Elliot.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

v/a - disco not disco
v/a - in the beginning there was rhythm
rapture - echoes
abba - gold

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Here are the ones I own (largely on cassette, since these go back a ways):

Velvet Underground & Nico - Andy Warhol
Michael Jackson, Thriller
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Tinderbox
Joy Division - Closer
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

(Exciting, eh?)

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i own almost everything mentioned above but i'd rather hear the bag of dicks/telephone pole AND missy slap up mix. who'd like to donate? i will be passing a bag around shortly...

― joni, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought dan perry's list was the closest to the money. I only own the Public Enemy one out of those but they're all mentioned all the time and are pretty representative of the ILX demographic.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha, I left off a couple:

KISS - _Destroyer_
Orbital 2

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

PiL
Robert Wyatt
Talk Talk
Can
T.A.T.U. (whatever the hell that is, or abbreviates)

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

It's about to be Boy In Da Corner, no?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

That avalanches album.

― Dan I., Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha i own all of these albums except dave matthews and coldplay

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

jess contains multitudes.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

wait, i don't own the capitol k album either.

my god does this mean i am the ultimate ilxor?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

your crown, sir:

http://www.michelescelebrations.com/images/mc318ct.jpg

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i died for the sins of lord custos and geir

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't own any of those records, though it's not a big surprise since I hate rock and IDM and don't have a strong love for PE either.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

(Orbital and Daft Punk are IDM now?)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

loveless and the entire talk talk discography and that crappy new dizzee rascal record.

― Evan (Evan), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I bet at least a dozen of you have that Pixies 'greatest hits' box set thing. Or a reissued CD of 'Doolittle'.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope and nope, although I still own the original Doolittle CD I bought in the early '90s.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

no, j-dawg's right - ilx is ridden with third wave pixie lovin corny indie fuxx these days

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"these days"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

no mentions of the smiths, bowie, or gary numan? and only one mention of the pixies? i know that an awful lot of ILMers who are into at least one (shit, maybe all) of the foregoing artists!

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Blount it must be difficult to live in a world where everyone but yourself is a total idiot.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"these days" = typical ilxors second fave song from first fave movie

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"everyone but yourself" = amateurist

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

it must be hard living in a world where you feel the need to start a thread whining about/taking potshots at other posters and then, after it doesn't go your way, wine to the moderators to delete said thread

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Blount there are plenty of actual blunders I've made that you can hold up to ridicule without having to invent new ones.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel silly having to spell it out, but since anything but the crushingly obvious seems to sail over your head: I haven't asked for that thread to be deleted.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

if that weren't you how'd you know it were supposed to be?

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

yet

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm utterly confused by your second to last post, James.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

we're through the looking glass here people

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Jess you appear as a small white rabbit, holding out a plate of pigs-in-blankets.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

with syrup!

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

off (with) his head!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

(feed (yr))(head)

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

who's tweedledee and tweedledum in this bitch, though?

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

if you change Geogaddi to Music Has The Right then I have all of the CDs in the first post. except the Manowar

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

dibs on tweedledum

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

sold

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

can i be johnny from airplane?</childhood dream>

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Orbital and Daft Punk are IDM now?

Well, they're not stupid...

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

There is nothing wrong with liking indie rock (unless you like it in a Pitchforkian manner i.e. to the exclusion of anything that's sold six-figure copies). SO SHUT THE HOLY FUCK UP ALREADY

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

they're crazy stoopid fresh!

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

jess in agreeing with nate shocker

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

seattle weekly suxxx! *ducks*

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

heretofore all pejorative usage of said term "corny indie fucks" should include somewheres the term "elitist" so us magnanimous DFA junkies don't feel ostracized or something

also, heretofore all excess usage of the term "or something" to end sentences is now banned

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

oh come on, they fired Meltzer

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"they"

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

elitist is covered by the "corny" part (I just bigupped Silver Jews elsewhere - I got puhlenty of luv for the indie)

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

can people please stop saying indie it hurts my ears

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

jim you're like one of those jews for jesus, aren't you?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

why, what do they do?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"why be something you're not"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

pff. watch my lily white butt sell out at the first opportunity.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Everyone on ILM owns at least one Prince album.

Flipped it.

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

nope

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

:-O

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

:-0

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

dude, that's sick. go buy your ass a nice priced purple rain, like, yesterday

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

ok.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

then put "darling nikki" on the next five mixtapes you make and see how many times you get slapped

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

typical ilxor albums = the ilx comp, surely??!!

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i own no prince albums. don't think i really know many prince tracks at all apart from things like "1999".

prince is gay

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, that was meant to read:

Heavens! Prince is gay! ;-)

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't own any Prince albums... I've never heard an entire song

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

i think we can objectively state that Prince has gotta be one of least gay cats around, yeah?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

yeh, i'm quite sure he wasn't a gay cat. that would be just be silly.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

typical ilxor albums = the ilx comp, surely??!!
-- di smith

b-b-b-bingo!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 07:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I only own two albums on the original list (VU & Radiohead). And NOT ONE SINGLE PRINCE ALBUM!!! The closest I've got to Prince is Prince covers/samples by Capitol K and Medicine. ;-)

I think we were getting closer with The Cure...

Though I'd guess everyone here has something by Joy Division/New Order (and if they claim that they don't, we can take their Interpol albums as counting...)

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

even the trifester has a new order album

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I only got Joy Division's two albums about a month ago, and they're still unlistened to, and I have no New Order. But I have had the Interpol for a while.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 08:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Though I'd guess everyone here has something by Joy Division/New Order (and if they claim that they don't, we can take their Interpol albums as counting...)

Nope. What's Interpol?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:12 (twenty-two years ago)

'Kick' >>>>> 'Listen Like Thieves'!!!

― dave q, Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

(Mind you, we are talking about "typical ILXor albums" not "Albums that all ILXors own".)

So that means My Bloody Valentine and Britney Spears or whoever has taken over Britney's Queen of Bubblegum throne these days.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Dokken 'Tooth & Nail'
John Sex 'Hustle With My Muscle'
Skrewdriver 'Hail the New Dawn'
'Running Scared 2' OST

― dave q, Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

'Epiphany' by company.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005KO7.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

In A Silent Way

Anything by Mega City Four

(xpost - oh wow Justyn!)

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't think skrewdriver is typical ilm listening...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

It is round dave q's pad.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

irony (FIGURATIVE SPEECH)
noun [U]
a means of expression which suggests (humorously or angrily) a different meaning for the words used
Her voice heavy with irony, Simone said, "We're so pleased you were able to stay so long." (=Her voice made it obvious they were not pleased).
Compare sarcasm.

- Cambridge International Dictionary of English

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

ironic racism... how cool

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Most typical ILM albums of all time:
The Streets: Orginal Pirate Material
Radiohead: The Bends
Kraftwerk: Die Mensch-Maschine
REM: Out Of Time
Nas: Illmatic
Massive Attack: Protection

(Some of the) least comme il faut (but fucking great) ILM albums of all time:
Elton John: Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only The Piano Player
2pac: All Eyez On Me
Rage Against The Machine: RATM
Soundgarden: Down On The Upside
Chemical Brothers: Exit Planet Dust

― Jay K (Jay K), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i died for the sins of lord custos and geir
jess died for somebodies sins but not miiiiiine

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Everyone ENJOYS outdoor, ORGANISED games and an INCREASINGLY popular pursuit is the neighbourhood treasure HUNT. Properly PREPARED and with the right sort of theme - say, following a PIRATE'S parchment MAP - this mixture of orienteering and puzzles provides a GREAT day out and a handsome PRIZE. But remember these simple RULES:

* DON'T dig in Mr T's back GARDEN, where he keeps HIS bags of gold.

* STAY AWAY from MR T's BINS.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

haha I own none of the albums on Jay K's list

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 16 July 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

ironic racism... how cool

Vice thread to thread!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

i own all jay k's obvious list except nas.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Rooty!!!!!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

'Kick' >>>>> 'Listen Like Thieves'!!!

Exactly! This is why I listed _Listen Like Thieves_.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

jess died for somebodies sins but not miiiiiine
All he had to do was remove a 'u'!

Five years from now: Boy In Da Corner. I hope.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck that, five months from now

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

The Cure and Radiohead can seriously fuck off.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

You're mean.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

"seriously fuck off"? Oh, come on. I actually think the Cure and Radiohead are perfectly capable of fucking off in a lighthearted, even whimsical manner.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The Cure might be

― dave q, Thursday, 17 July 2003 07:19 (twenty-two years ago)

There's nothing more hateful than Goths being whimsical.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 17 July 2003 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes there is.
There's nothing more hateful than Goth's getting even LESS whimsical. Imagine a Goth Poet Slam Night accompanied by extremely dreary classical harpischord renditions of the dryest compositions of Philip Glass.

When you are done screaming in abject terror, the thread can continue.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 17 July 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

and now?

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

KittenPop - teddybears shtml

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

umm. the coral - does this still still on the regular ILxor shelves then ?

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

who?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

replace second still with sit. surely new additions : annie, mia, LCD Soundsystem

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

I'VE NEVER HEARD OF THEM

― Contrary ILM Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

annie, mia, lcd soundsystem, all those golden oldies of yesteryear.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

I do not have the Annie or the MIA albums.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

umm. the coral - does this still still on the regular ILxor shelves then ?
-- mark e (m...), October 10th, 2006 2:01 PM. (mark e)

I think I stuck those in the ones Ilxors don't have.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

Is there any one CD that EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER POSTED HERE is likely to own?

Obviously the answer to this is no, but it'd be nice to consider it, eh?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

The Annie From Norway and MIA albums are currently available at competitive prices in discount stores across the land.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

I think.. (uh oh...) we did (yes yes?) that one before, (ARGH!!!) but hey, pick one and we'll see!

xpost still don' wan wan!

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

I did buy Purple Rain earlier this year. First Prince album to actually own apart from the Batman soundtrack on tape lol.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shit, "Silent Shout" has to be one of these.

I now own Purple Rain as well.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

I do have "PurpRain" lp.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

I own Silent Shout twice and wish I had neither. It's fucking rubbish.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

it might be worth saying somehting by the Boo Radleys, not because everyone owns it but because a tiny minortiy of ilxors (myself included) bang on and on and on about how great Giant Steps is.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Luomo - The Present Lover

(i only got it the other day - not what I expected at all!)

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Boo Radleys? Ahm here tae make a profit. There's no money in that, so I have to say...I'm oot.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm on the official "Say how great Giant Steps is" web page (along with N.smouthy) so yeah.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Sting paid tribute to them way back when. "Giant Steps are what you take..." but he forgot to pay for it and was nabbed at the door. He was sentenced to record Ten Summoner's Tales.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

i read your contribution, mark. i wonder if they're still taking submissions for that?

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Sting must've committed mass genocide to have had to have made his latest album.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

Although 'If I Ever Lose My Faith In You' was a hoot on TOTP2 the other week for the following reasons:

1) Sting's puritan hat ("I just like the clothes")
2) The harmonica player in the background had to do the little harmonica thing for every. single. bar. And by thunder he put his all into the mime act.
3) Said harmonica player looked a LOT like ILX's own Alan T in a beret

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

the new Sting album is going to be 16th centruy lute renditions. true!

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Anything that

- Doesn't have tunes
- Contains rapping and exaggerated emphasis on rhythm.
- Has a minimalist approach to production and songwriting along
- Is loved by the kids (or, that is, was loved by the kids 3-4 years ago)

In other words: Worthless crap.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

In other words: Worthless crap.

-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), October 10th, 2006.

I couldn't have put it better myself.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

i would be confused at anyone not owning the immaculate collection

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

i don't own immaculate collection.
consider yourself CONFUSED!

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

I've never bought a Madonna album.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

WHY NOT?!

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

don't like her much. apart from maybe "cherish".

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

I love her but it seems I never liked buying albums enough.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Goddamn, Geir! My kids have great ears and know good stuff from bad.

They are currently enjoying :

The Monkees
The Beatles
Green Day
Ramones
The Cure (esp videos)

Need I go on?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I was Geir Hongro, with flowers in my hair. In 69 and 77 revolution was in the air.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

The Cure have never been more popular with the nation's younglings.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I own Ray Of Light but not Immaculate.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

"Though I'd guess everyone here has something by Joy Division/New Order (and if they claim that they don't, we can take their Interpol albums as counting...)

Nope. What's Interpol?

-- Tuomas (tuomas.alh...), July 16th, 2003."

What happened to Tuomas?? I want to marry him.

― Andi Headphones (Andi Headphones), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Is there any one CD that EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER POSTED HERE is likely to own?
Obviously the answer to this is no, but it'd be nice to consider it, eh?

-- Sick Mouthy (sickmouth...), October 10th, 2006.

I'm hoping everyone here has some kind of Neil Young... Wishful thinking?

― Andi Headphones (Andi Headphones), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Though I'd guess everyone here has something by Joy Division/New Order

no.

I'm hoping everyone here has some kind of Neil Young... Wishful thinking?

no. as in yes that's wishful thinking, no I don't own any.

sly and the family stone, maybe? everybody loves sly, surely...?

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Top Artists
1 The Knife
53
2 Belle and Sebastian
50
3 The Beatles
44
4 The Smiths
43
5 David Bowie
42
6 New Order
41
6 Yo La Tengo
41
8 Cat Power
40
9 Sonic Youth
39
10 Beck

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.last.fm/group/ilXor/charts?charttype=weekly&subtype=album&range=93

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

No to the Sly Stone, I'm afraid.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

The Queen Is Dead
Psycho Candy
#1 Record / Radio City
Pet Sounds

And, um, doesn't everyone have a Pavement album?

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

And, um, doesn't everyone have a Pavement album?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

... in fact, I've never heard one!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

And, um, doesn't everyone have a Pavement album?

get these fucking indie losers off ilm!!!!!!!!!

in answer to the qn, NO OF COURSE NOT

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

me neither, thank the lor'.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

everyone owns 'maxinquaye'.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

and as the dl had it at the top, the first VU lp.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

The Queen Is Dead
Psycho Candy
#1 Record / Radio City
Pet Sounds
And, um, doesn't everyone have a Pavement album?

no.
no.
don't know what that is.
no.
and no.

how about the ramones?

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

I have "Leave Home" right here!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

and as the dl had it at the top, the first VU lp

Not obscure enough

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

doesn't have to be obscure.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I left Leave Home at home.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

*tumbleweed*

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

i have the single 'leave home', by the chemical brothers.

but not a ramones album.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Shirley Collins? Vashti Onion... some folk rubbish anyway

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

i've got the velvet underground album with the banana on the front, is that the one you're talking about?

and of course i have maxinquaye!

no ramones, yuck

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

How can you like the Velvet Underground, Lex, all those guitars, ew!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Has a minimalist approach to production and songwriting along

Complete Geir's sentence and win the complete works of Wings on vinyl.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

because of nico, mostly

(the 'girls cancel out guitars' rule, remember)

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

No, if you get Venus And Mars on CD it has the theme from The Zoo Gang as a bonus track! (xpost)

Lex what do you think of the Runaways?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Has a minimalist approach to production and songwriting along with blonde hair, blues eyes and proud Prussian features (xpost)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

no ramones = no soul

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

i've never heard of the runaways!

(bear in mind girls/guitars rule doesn't always work, eg i fucking hate the long blondes)

the ramones is just a horrible shouty racket.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Ramones may be noisy and loud, but definitely not shouty.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Lex, you sure you're not mixing up the Ramones with the new Beyonce album?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

the ramones is just a horrible shouty racket.

I know, it's all bang bang bang and you can't hear the words. in my day it was all powdered egg and making your own fun with a comb and a bit of tissue...

only the live stuff is noisy. the studio recordings are pure pop, only faster.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

well, beyonce can sing, which puts her waaaaay ahead of the ramones for starters

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

i think they're ok but upwards of a dozen tracks in a row on a record -- ech.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

so if joey ramone could warble pointlessly that would be an improvement?

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

the ramones are one of those bands which people ALWAYS describe as 'pure pop' and then i listen to it w/ tremendous anticipation and there is no pure pop, there are unlistenable vocals and no discernible melodies and horrible noisy non-production.

none of which beyonce would ever be guilty of! (surely you like 'irreplaceable', marcello?)

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

i think they're ok but upwards of a dozen tracks in a row on a record -- ech.

I kind of agree. they've only really got two song types, and one of those is crap.

you don't need all the ramones, but you do need some. it's alive will suffice.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

I would say the new Beyonce platter boasts all three of those negative attributes in abundance. It's like Windsor Davies depping as Wonder Woman.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

depends on your definition of pop. to me, they're as pop as pop gets. brevity, catchiness, fun, melody, energy, singalonga choruses...

maybe you should relax the guitars rule. who self-applies rules to their listening habits anyway? that's just pervoise.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

jesus christ!

could we have JUST ONE thread where lex's bold stance against guitars (umm except on certain records that feature... guitars) is not MENTIONED, DISCUSED, or even OBLIQUELY ALLUDED TO.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

there are unlistenable vocals and no discernible melodies and horrible noisy non-production

I love Lex, he reminds me of my Dad.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

marcello you should listen to 'irreplaceable'! it's on the balladism cd. i think in many ways it's beyonce's masterpiece.

maybe you should relax the guitars rule.

it's not a hard and fast rule, but just a state of affairs which applies 99% of the time (and i do not care about the remaining 1% enough to temper it). electric guitars tend to make pretty awful noises and in conjunction with another reliably awful noise (the typical indie/rock bloke voice) it's unbearable.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

If you get "Leave Home", you get a whole gig as a bonus!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

marcello you should listen to 'irreplaceable'! it's on the balladism cd. i think in many ways it's beyonce's masterpiece

Even I like that!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'm no Ramones fan, but if you think there aren't melodies on "I Wanna Be Sedated" and "Sheena is a Punk Rocker," then you're an idiot.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Is Irreplaceable the one that sounds like Wonderwall?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Or is it Katie Melhua? I can't decide.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

The actual answer, if anything's going to even come close, is probably one of the New Order Best Ofs.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

it sounds less like 'wonderwall' than 'life got cold'!

i have never heard those ramones songs, in fact i am not entirely sure which ramones songs i have heard

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

i don't own anything by new order! (apart from technique but i don't know where it is.) this is not for want of trying but no new order compilation has all my favourite new order songs on it.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

I told you there was one with them all on.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Unless you want Crystal and Rock The Shack and whatever rubbish with Ana Matronic there was on the last album.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Maxinquaye could well be the most-owned.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

i've SEEN that one in the shops and it doesn't have that track listing. xp

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

If the lex started one of those "I have never heard these bands that begin with the letter " threads, they would be the longest threads ever... :)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

I told you there was one with them all on.

No Temptation! No Ceremony! No credibility!

― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Act, I'd forgotten about the lack of Temptation.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

This is the New Order comp you need.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

[IL(X]TC)

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

CTRL+F "The Fall"

"Phrase not found"

??!!

― nate p. (natepatrin), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

i've barely even HEARD the fall -- maybe ONCE on the RADIO in 1994.

as for xtc -- lol anglophiles.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

i have only just heard OF the fall and xtc (the latter only because of that terrific mandy moore cover of 'senses working overtime'; no i have not heard the original)

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

i don't own any tricky or new order.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

you should!

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

i think dog latin should own some madonna first, and then tricky and new order!

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

you don't need to own madonna, because it's the wallpaper of the last 20 years. but you don't hear 'aftermath' too often.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

actually you probably DO, in coffee bars but hey.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Tricky never really appealed to me although I've only heard the odd thing. Never really did get into the swing of Trip Hop so much... OFFS - that's the album, PROTECTION! Everyone must own Protection or Blue Lines or Mezzanine?

At your request I have given in and downloaded the Immaculate Collection. My macho cred is now soiled, K? ;-)

I should get some New Order, I only know a coupla things by them.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone likes a Tom Waits album, even the Lex. Those who say they don't haven't heard the right one yet.

This thread has made me go and seek out more music than any other thread.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

i think madonna is a lot like the beatles: it's so omnipresent, lots of people figure they don't need one of her (or their) albums. i'm the exception as i have most of madonna's albums (inc immaculate collection i).

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

One of the more disorienting music related experiences is spending 20-30 years *not* buying something because it's omnipresent, then discovering that there really is a big difference between radio and CD/vinyl sound quality. There's still a bunch of 70's FM classics that I've never heard on anything but a mono radio or at the supermarket.

― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone likes a Tom Waits album

Not quite.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Thursday, 12 October 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone likes a Tom Waits album, even the Lex. Those who say they don't haven't heard the right one yet.

nah i love tom waits but he's like bjork: if you don't like the voice you REALLY don't like the voice and that's perfectly understandable.

blue lines probably a decent suggestion though.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

i don't like his voice but i haven't been exposed to much waits anyway. 'blue lines' is plausible, but less so than 'maxinquaye'.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

maxinquaye is more 'difficult' though! blue lines is more canonical which in this brave nu-ilx world seems to count for something.

dummy > maxinquaye > mezzanine >> protection >>>> blue lines

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

This is the New Order comp you need.
-- Billy Dods (butterbubble...) (webmail), Yesterday 4:45 PM. (later) (link)

How does "TBA" go?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone must own Protection or Blue Lines or Mezzanine?

noooo...

I'm starting to feel like the monty python cheese shop owner here.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

the first half of 'maxinquaye' is all singles! it's poptabulous! last night i was thinking probably everyone i know has 'moon safari'. it's still pretty ubiquitous for its age.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

probably everyone i know has 'moon safari'.

not much call for it around these parts, sir.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

I have Moon Safari. That's just about the only one listed so far that I do own.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

It's great! I really like it as well...

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

i like it. heard it 4,000,000 at times at uiversity though.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

i have a *single* from moon safari

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

everyone i know seems to have moon safari too (inc me). i love(d) it but don't listen to it as much as i used to. er like all albums then.

maxinquaye also the first time i heard alison goldfrapp's voice!

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

One time in Edinburgh, Dawn found a "Boots Male Grooming" centre, and paid for me to go in as a Treat. So the girl came out, fetched me into the room.

Basically, it was a manicure, hot towel, massage etc of the 'innocent' kind, while Moon Safari played very loudly. Track one I could hum but don't know, track two was "Sexy Boy", and so on.

When I came out, Dawn seemed very unsure about how much I should have enjoyed it, but said I wasn't getting that again...

I dont have maxinquaye either, but there's no tale attached to that one.

No, I don;t own the album!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

maxinquaye also the first time i heard alison goldfrapp's voice!

surely it was one of her very earliest appearances though? orbital's 'are we here' pipped it i guess.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 12 October 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

I presume you people are talking about trip-hop for a joke?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

OK SO WE ALL OWN THE FIRST PORTISHEAD ALBUM RIGHT?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

does an incomplete copy taking up one side of a C90 count? if so, then yes.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

why joek matt? among ilxor types, especially britishes ones, trip-hop was a big deal no?

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

It counts. xpost

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

Trip hop wasn't that big a deal to me even at the time, some of the albums are ok, all I have is a couple of p'head singles and one tricky single (which I don't like)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

trip-hop was my favourite genre when i was a teenager!

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

The music was good, it was a new sound at the time, but then hype was as offputting as always, and I thought the basic sound got diluted very quickly by imitators, or perhaps it was one of those sounds where you don't really need to hear too many variations on it. I might have a look in the bargain bins and see if the 1st portishead album is in there tonight, actually. It's a while since I've heard them.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

the point is trip-hop was formative hipster-music while many ilxors (most of whom are in their twenties) were in their teens, so is more likely to throw up the 'typical ilxor album' than something bleeding edge now, or in some ways something from the past. matt is right that new order have wide appeal, but things like 'pet sounds' or 'never mind the bollocks' are far less prevalent than in the 90s, or so it seems to me.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 12 October 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

I hated trip-hop at the time, and only got into bits and bobs of portishead and tricky years later. and even then I only started exploring tricky because marc ribot appears on angels with dirty faces.

but I still don't see the point of massive attack.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 12 October 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

well, i don't see the point of numerous widely owned recordings of popular music, but point is they were very popular among ilxor types (INDIE KIDS).

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 12 October 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

hey, just offering a personal perspective.

you may be onto something, but maybe it's a UK/US split. I'm not sure you could call trip-hop 'hipster' music for indie kids in the UK. as I recall it was a fairly mainstream scene, if you could even call it that. certainly where I lived anyway (oop north). maybe a year before that, in london, it was 'cool'.

but round our way it was a 'townie' thing mostly...it was downbeat dance wallpaper for post-club chillouts. the indie kids weren't that into it.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 12 October 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

I want to know if anyone else on here has ever been to a Boots Male Grooming Centre...

― alext (alext), Thursday, 12 October 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

It's not a typical ILXor look, I'll grant you.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 12 October 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

I've never even heard of a boots male grooming centre.

My memories of trip hop being hipsterist was that it was only so for a tiny space of time, after which it was very mainstream. The speed w/which it got picked up by advertising and TV doc & drama soundtrack ppl amazed me back then.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 12 October 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

surely it was one of her very earliest appearances though? orbital's 'are we here' pipped it i guess.

it did but i got snivilisation after maxinquaye

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 12 October 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

OK SO WE ALL OWN THE FIRST PORTISHEAD ALBUM RIGHT?

No we don't

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

This months Word magazine has an "archetypal" list for "blokes" and "Birds"...

Blokes list = most of the ones already mentioned here.

Birds one ranges from Dido, Blunt, Buckley, etc you get the pic.

They may not have called it blokes/birds, but the intimation is there.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

what's the most recent album in your collection, dadaismus (not including re-issues, re-masters etc.)? genuinely curious here

― ;_; (blueski), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Errrrrrrrrrrrr, I can't remember!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 12 October 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Stuff I have that's been suggested:

The White Stripes - Elephant
Michael Jackson, Thriller
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Boy In Da Corner
at least one Prince album
In A Silent Way
Nas: Illmatic
mia
lcd soundsystem
The Beatles

And the rest, I don't have.

― Apocalypse '07: Rodney Strikes Back (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 12 October 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

"Immaculate Collection" is a collection of truly great pop singles that I am still completely against because it doesn't use the original 7 inch mixes!

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 12 October 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

you may be onto something, but maybe it's a UK/US split. I'm not sure you could call trip-hop 'hipster' music for indie kids in the UK

Most of the people, including Enrique, posting to this thread are British.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 12 October 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

This thread has reminded me how glad I am that I don't own a copy of Maxinquaye. Sometimes we ignore life's simple pleasures.

― scriblerus (mike lynch), Friday, 13 October 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

uh whatever.

trip-hop was hipster music in the UK, wtf. that's casting 'hipster' fairly wide, of course, but it was.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 13 October 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

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