Bands where your internal quality control gets turned off?

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Or for that matter, whole genres. For instance - I was listening to the Diplo Favela mix thing and thinking I just love everything on this even though I'm sure some people would hear it and (if they didn't plain hate it) say yeah that tracks ok, that track sucks, etc. Usually though it's just bands, New Order, Mogwai, The Smiths, Steely Dan - everything they've done I've - at the very least - loved. Does this make sense?

Also (while) I'm here - there is a reverse to this. I'm sure I could enjoy some things by...say...U2, but I have a blanket hatred for everything they've ever done. What gives.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Me? I'm a die-hard avant-garde jazz freak, with an unexplainable soft spot for 10cc (and/or Godley/Creme) and ELO. Sure, I'd put New Order in there, too. Never did get the Smiths, tho.

― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Thursday, 26 January 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Münchener Freiheit

Really cheesy German 80s Europop. But then there are those great tunes and those great vocal harmonies, which makes me forget that the rest sucks.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 26 January 2006 20:14 (twenty years ago)

Steve Reich. My ex thought Reich's music sounded like 2,000,000 singing sewing machines, but that's part of the appeal.

I will always love Mark Eitzel and Freedy Johnston even when they're being schmaltzy, stupid, and/or boring. (Insert snarky sarcastic comment here.)

The Cardigans, for NO apparent reason.

I gave Pere Ubu pretty much free reign over my life until Pennsylvania.

And it's obviously easier to revere people with a predominantly fixed discography who aren't recording (much) anymore: KLF, Cocteau Twins, Joni Mitchell, Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and Alice Despard, a songwriter from the D.C. area.

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Friday, 27 January 2006 00:41 (twenty years ago)

Rockist Meat and potatoes: s & d

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 27 January 2006 01:02 (twenty years ago)

Watery, wistful pastoral stuff heavy on piano or vocal harmonies(or maybe guitar but with soft edges) a la High Llamas, some Brian Wilson, Broadcast, International Airport, later Stereolab, Sea and Cake, (just trying to give a cross-section so it makes sense to someone), lumping in bossa nova and maybe french/sunshine pop in smaller doses. It's what life should sound like. Or what life should be, whichever.

Tom Waits - I wallow in his discography for weeks at a time then put him back on a shelf for a couple months and start all over.
Beatles - I don't feel like a weirdo or fanatic(beatles discussions yay or nay bore the fuck out of me for one thing) but I can only find fault with about 3 or 4 of their original songs, if that.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 27 January 2006 02:16 (twenty years ago)

I'm not quite sure what it is - maybe just inertia - that so draws me to Old Time Relijun. As for the converse of this phenomena, I could fill an entire thread with good, even great or legendary band that I just don't care for.

― Cliftonb, Friday, 27 January 2006 03:05 (twenty years ago)

The Strokes.

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Friday, 27 January 2006 03:12 (twenty years ago)

Guided by Voices. I've embarrassed myself the few times I've posted here with my drooling fanboy-dom over their peaks.

― drew lichtenberg, Friday, 27 January 2006 03:15 (twenty years ago)

Most anything by Lil Jon or David Banner.
Also KK Slider.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 January 2006 03:16 (twenty years ago)

a lot of bands are like this for me. my internal quality control gets turned off especially for artists who "experiment" a lot -- i have a high tolerance for art-wank as long as they put out something really great once in a while to justify the fucking around.

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 27 January 2006 03:23 (twenty years ago)

60's rock, most metal, and rap. i have an endless capacity for all of these things, good, bad, & ugly. and a lot of 70's rock too. and bad new wave. and disco. and probably 70's funk. yeah, 70's funk. i can't remember saying "that's a really bad funk album!" if it's a 70's funk album, i will find something to like about it. and 50's teen-pop. and 60's teen-pop. and i like most jazz up until the 60's. and i like most jazz from the 60's too. and most soul music. i will listen to just about anything. i love bad country music. well, not "bad", but, you know...

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 27 January 2006 03:42 (twenty years ago)

As most people here would know I have few critical faculties when it comes to Factory Recds, UK Punk 76-80, UK Psych/Freakbeat and pub rock. I also haven't heard many dub albums that I can't get a little excited about.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 27 January 2006 08:06 (twenty years ago)

I automatically get excited about anything The Doc gets excited about.

I'm not just talking about music either.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 27 January 2006 09:08 (twenty years ago)

And Oasis...can't stand Oasis. And the comparisons with Arctic Monkeys are bugging me because I think they (the Arctic Monkeys) might be one of those bands where I've lost my critical abilities as I haven't heard anything (including the cover of Love Machine) which I didn't want to own.

Listening to one of those Bonkers mixes yesterday also reminded me I love any and all those pounding hardcore gabba type records with little or no disctinction between one or another.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 27 January 2006 09:24 (twenty years ago)

Hm-I tend to feel that way about Kraftwerk and Roxy Music, and I felt that way about New Order until Waiting For the Sirens Call. I tend to have a soft spot for most Factory-related things and most post-punk.

― D.V. Caputo, Friday, 27 January 2006 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Not a band, but I will usually find something to like about anything related to punk & hardcore up til around the mid-80s. After that I get a bit more discerning.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 27 January 2006 10:13 (twenty years ago)

Muse. I have no idea why I discard all the other indie guitar fellow-travelling (and don't get me started on the Arctic Monkeys et al) but there's something there. Perhaps I'm just a sucker for feedback and guitar abuse.

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Friday, 27 January 2006 10:22 (twenty years ago)

travelling = travellers, hm

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Friday, 27 January 2006 10:22 (twenty years ago)

-- Ned T.Rifle

I wouldn't go as far (own everything? haven't even got the CD yet...), but yeah I'm having those troubles big time with this lot for real :(

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and Alice Despard, a songwriter from the D.C. area.

-- Myke Weiskopf (spa...), January 26th, 2006.

Alice is the best, I've played shows with her at Galaxy Hut. Yay Galaxy Hut!

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Bpitch Control is probably (ok, quite obviously) the spot where I sometimes go unnessacarily soft inside and all-welcoming.

LOVE far, far too much of what they put out.

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Sign me up as a Guided by Voices/Bob Pollard/Tobin Sprout apologist as well. I usually buy anything Alex Chilton makes as well.

I used to cut R.E.M. a lot of slack on their output, but that changed when Bill Berry quit and they became a very different band.

I'm also game for any wacky D.I.Y. post-punk from 1975 to 1985 or so (see the Messthetics and Homework collections from the Hyped to Death label). Oddly enough, I have much higher standards for 1960's garage. I guess the difference is most 60's garage bands were usually aping a specific band (Stones, Them, etc.), while the average post-punk DIY record usually has more of a "doing our own thing" vibe to it.

― James, Friday, 27 January 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

"...and I felt that way about New Order until Waiting For the Sirens Call"

And this is my point. I just know deep down inside WFTSC is not as good as Lowlife but I still love it. These bands get inside your head at some point and no matter what they do you keep going back for more. Why is that? Or how?

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 27 January 2006 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Alice is the best, I've played shows with her at Galaxy Hut. Yay Galaxy Hut!

Alice is amazing - a hell of a songwriter and a gorgeous vocalist as well. Most generous with food, floor space, and a more-than-generous cut of the bar. Of course, she sold the 'Hut to the bartender last year, but she was due to get her own life back after so many years...

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 28 January 2006 01:44 (twenty years ago)

neko case, saint etienne, bpitch control produkt, underworld, U2, jazz butcher conspiracy, p-funk, ennio morricone, nina nastasia, boredoms, greg cartwright-related stuff.

― gear (gear), Saturday, 28 January 2006 01:51 (twenty years ago)

jazz butcher conspiracy
do what, Gear? Is this like an "this-band-sucks-but-I-love-them" thing (helllloooo, Manics!)? or a situation in which you do not care whether a specific song or album is up to the band's standard? Excuse me if this is already in the thread; I just got in from school and my reading comprehension is down right now

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Saturday, 28 January 2006 02:04 (twenty years ago)

i love all these artists, Morley Timmons! i don't think any of them suck, though i'm sure those irishes i included are debatable to many...

― gear (gear), Saturday, 28 January 2006 02:08 (twenty years ago)

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