Well, it's Friday, and you know what that means. My Oriental houseboy Hop-Sing and I are heading to Paris to check up on subprime loans in the land of the Ignoble Frog. That done, we will be attending a celebrity auction where I hope to bid for Catherine Deneuve's bicycle seat. So posting by moi will necessarily be sporadic for a few days.
Meantime, here's a fun project for you all:
Famous Rock Group or Solo Performer Whose Music You've Somehow Never Heard A Note Of!!!
You know -- musicians who huge numbers of people love and/or consider extremely important, and yet for whatever reason you've managed to live your life without ever hearing them.
And I don't mean you've seen them on TV once or twice but they made no impression. Or that you accidentally heard a song they did in the end credits of a bad movie. No, I mean that you literally have never -- to your knowledge -- been exposed to them at all. Probably by choice.
My totally top of my head Top Seven:
1. The Cocteau Twins -- Ethereally lovely, right? They could be the Olsen Twins, for all I know.
2. The Fall -- Totally uncompromising post-punk everything, n'est-ce pas? Beats me; wouldn't recognize 'em if I fell over 'em.
3. Butthole Surfers -- I suspect they're fun, but I have no idea what they sound like.
4. Pavement -- They're like low-fi Lou Reed, right?
5. Creed -- They suck, right? Maybe I'm lucky I never heard them.
6. Spoon -- They're good, right? Maybe I should go look at YouTube.
7. Young Jeezy -- I believe he declaims stuff. Somebody likes him, I'm told.
Let the jeering at other peoples blind spots begin!!!!!
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2. The Fall -- Totally uncompromising post-punk everything, n'est-ce pas? Beats me; wouldn't recognize 'em if I fell over 'em.
Well, there goes your street cred.
My picks:
Big Black
GG Allin
The Swans
Lil John
Hawkwind
Moby Grape
and, well, Pavement.
Well, there goes your street cred.
My picks:
Big Black
GG Allin
The Swans
Lil John
Hawkwind
Moby Grape
and, well, Pavement.
See, I actually like GG Alin.
Heards the Swans and think they're silly.
Don't know Lil John.
Hawkwind? C'm mon -- you must have heard Silver Machine...
I'm sorry -- street cred?
I'm lucky if I have mezzanine cred.
:-)
Am I the only one posting? Did I win?
PS Forgot to mention Fischer-Spooner.
Well you know I don't know a lot about music so this is too easy.
Let's see....
The Beatles
(no, just kidding)
The Strokes
That Buble Guy
The Flaming Lips (is that it)
all the other really cool groups..
oh, and Shoes, assuming that is even a real group.
This is going to take some thought.
1. The Chemical Brothers
2. Kula Shaker
3. Freedy Johnston
4. Del Amitri
5. Ween
6. The Beautiful South
7. Phil Collins (wishful thinking)
3 off the top of me head:
Rage Against the Machine
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
White Stripes
the Ordinaires
Cake
Cranes
Big Daddy Kane
Brinsley Schwartz
Big Drill Car
Big Head Todd and the Monsters
although thanks to Itunes (for some) and other sites, I can now browse to find out whether I've been missing something.
Well, thanks to Power Pop, I've managed to fill in some of those holes, but here are some of my egregious shortcomings:
The Pixies
HuskerDu
Avril Lavigne
Garbage
The Buzzcocks
The New Pornographers
and
Celine Dion (it took some work, but I've managed)
I'll exempt myself from truly embarrassing misses on my part, and stick with my own timeframe:
-The Jesus Lizard
-Iron & Wine
-Boards of Canada
-London Suede
-Louis XIV
-The Dismemberment Plan
What else will I get Pitchforked for?
-Jay C.
I should probably be banished from the blog for this list, but here goes:
20/20
Apples in Stereo
Beat, The
Couple
Dressy Bessy
Lolas, The
Myracle Brah
Portastatic
Redd Kross
Starjets
Superchunk
Never heard any of them.
Jim
Snoop Dog - I've heard The Gourds cover one of his songs
Morphine - This is the band with two bassists, right?
Pavement - I may have heard some when I was working in radio, 15 years ago, but it didn't stick.
Black Flag - I know the name, but...
Liz Phair - Wouldn't know her music if it crawled up my pantleg
Steely Dan is not a guy!
Neko Case (yes, I've heard from Thers that you're quite fond of her, so I will seek her out...)
As far as rock/pop, I missed most of the 80s, 90s, and current decade. I know so few bands, I can't even remember their names to post here.
But in better news, I will be singing three Elvis Presley faves in a tribute concert one week from tonight:
Just Because
So Glad You're Mine
Play House
Jay C. said...
I'll exempt myself from truly embarrassing misses on my part, and stick with my own timeframe:
-The Jesus Lizard
-Iron & Wine
-Boards of Canada
-London Suede
-Louis XIV
-The Dismemberment Plan
What else will I get Pitchforked for
Don't know a single one of them.
Wait -- I think I've heard of the London Suede. But never heard a note...
:-)
Spent MANY years working with argumentative record pirates in a "High Fidelity"-derived CD store, so this one is hard for me. (There's LOTS of stuff that I didn't catch up with until well after its sell-by date, but "never heard at all?" Not so much.
So:
MOST (not all) critically-acclaimed rap & techno.
Various Elephant 6 bands that a number of friends are into.
Kiddie Metal: Korn, Marilyn Manson, et al...
Boards of Canada, Decembrists, and other current twee pop that the kids are into.
-Bill Buckner
My list contibution would consist of pretty much every act that played at the original Woodstock.
Rush.
I think they do movie scores.
Am I missing something?
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