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)

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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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