So where do these bands/artists stand with ILM, I'm new

Barenaked Ladies - only know the one big hit, annoying

Zero 7 - search 'Lo', half of the first album and the remixes of Mos Def, Radiohead and Doris Days, much of it as well produced and arranged as anything by Air's stringy stuff minus the kitsch - sod the rest

Nikka Costa - 'Like A Feather' was alright, what's happened since?

BDB - Fell in love with him after seeing About A Boy, The Hour of The Bewilderbeast being my favorite album of his

BNL - Ever since a now-ex-boyfriend made me a mix cd of their tunes, I have a soft spot for them. Try "These Apples" off of Rock Spectacle

Zero 7 - I was introduced to them before Air (a friend told me, if you like Zero 7, you'll like Air, french band), but i'm in love with their sound

Thomas Dybdahl - Introduced to me by a Norweigian music-lover and he's absolutely brilliant, the best pipes I've heard since Jeff Buckley - try John wayne, Loves Lost, Adelaide... the more I hear the more I love

Nikka Costa - remains one of my all-time favorite albums, but where in the hell did she go?

Thanks to everyone who've given me advice so far!

I must have been asleep in class that day... What kind of trouble am I in for having love for Ok Computer?

Better yet, try "These Apples" off of Maybe You Should Drive. I think almost everything on Rock Spectacle is better if you hunt down the original album where it appeared. I also think Maybe You Should Drive is hands down their best record.

I have all of them too... I figured Ok Computer was the safe one if there were detractors in the crowd. (It is my favorite Radiohead record still as well.)

i can't stand BNL, but i've had a different exposure level to them, living in canada. blech.

it's not so much that we generally hate the records of radiohead and wilco, but that we generally hate the wanky spectacle that both radiohead and wilco have become. you'll find defenders of both bands, i think, but very few people willing to defend the antics and hype, which are disappointingly conflated with the records.

see! that's what happens when you try to like radiohead on ILM!

Zero 7 seem to approach Air greatness once and while, but also trip over that fuzzy elevator music line more often.

what's ilm's stand on moxy fruvous?

-- Star Cauliflower (spen...), January 21st, 2005.

So that's what's wrong with his eye.

good call!

anyone feel like telling me how to make italics?

Just use HTML tags.

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Type:
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I hate the SkyDome and the CN Tower too;
I hate Nathan Philips Square and the Ontario Zoo!
The rent's too high,
The air's unclean,
The beaches are dirty,
And the people are mean!
And the women are big and the men are dumb
And the children are loopy 'cause they live in a slum!
The water is polluted and the mayor's a dork!
They dress real bad and they think they're New York...
In Toronto . . . !
Ontario . . . oh-oh!

"You know . . . now that I think about it, I pretty much hate all of Ontario!"
"Yeah! Me too!"

I hate Thunder Bay and Ottawa,
Kitchener, Windsor, and Oshawa!
London sucks and the Great Lakes suck,
And Sarnia sucks and Turkey Point sucks!

I took a trip to Ontario to visit Brian Mulroney!
He beat me up and he stole my pants
And he put me in a tree!
I went to see the Maple Leafs
And got hit in the head with a puck.

"Uh I don't even know how they did it . . . I mean, I was playin' the organ at the time!"
(And Alan Thicke sucks!)

Ontario . . . oh-oh-oh sucks.

"Come to think of it, I pretty much hate every gosh darn province and territory in our country!"
"Well except Alberta!"
"Oh yeah, of course I love Alberta! Lot's of cows, rocks, trees and dirt . . . mmmmoo moo moo!"

But . . . I hate Newfoundland 'cause they talk so weird
And Prince Edward Island is . . . too small.
Nova Scotia's dumb 'cause it's the name of a bank;
New Brunswick doesn't have a good mall!
Quebec is revolting and it makes me mad!
Ontario sucks . . . Ontario sucks.

"Manitoba's population density is 1.9 people per square kilometre! Isn't that stupid?!"

Saskatchewan is boring and the people are old!
And as for the territories . . .
They're too cold!

"And the only really good thing about the province of British Columbia is that it's right next to us!"
'Cause Alberta . . . a-a
Doesn't suck!
But Calgary does . . . !

oh i like bnl a lot!! partly because i like 3 minute pop songs a lot, partly because the singer is a dreamboat. hubba hubba

Man, did this guy just take a complete fucking shit circa-About a Boy or what? I know you think I'm kidding, but EP2 and EP3 really are two of the greatest records ever made.

Barenaked Ladies

I hate that "One Week" song, I hate that album, I hate that band, I hate everything that they stand for... but I really like the line "I'm the kinda guy who laughs at a funeral."

Zero 7

"Climbing Up the Walls"! "Destiny"! "Give It Away"! Rockin'!

Thomas Dybdahl

Who?

Nikka Costa

Ugh. "Like a Feather." Horrible song.

But I dig the words, they still remain folded up in my wallet...

I'm coming out of my wishing well
Where only echoes lonely hear my prayers
I'm coming around to bending
Cause my resistance been far too persistent
I've come too far to force it
so I'll watch it slide and land
I could come on strong and willful but
I'd rather watch it fall to the palm of my hand

(Chorus)
And when I
set it free
like a feather
it will be
And when I rise
to see it done
like whatever
it will be
it will be

I'm taking a breather baby
From sitting on pins waiting for my sky to fall
I'm taking up giving in
So here's the wheel, I'm putting my feet up
Take another look at me baby
Today I'm taking on catastrophe
I'd rather take it easy
Than try to force what's on its way to me

(Chorus)

We're only afraid if we pull back the blinds too far
The light behind that we free will blind other stars
But the truth doesn't blind it helps to see far
So get ready to be
Who you are

"Climbing Up the Walls"! "Destiny"! "Give It Away"! Rockin'!

Those tracks are tight. I had the priveledge of seeing them live at KFOG's Kaboom a coupla years back. They had three keyboardists, one wearing some kind of lounge robe. They were the shit, and the girl who sings "Destiny" is a goddess.