Beloved Bands I Just Can't Get Into - An Incomplete List
Negativland - So many of my friends love them, but I just don't get it. I think some of the stuff is funny, such as "Piece of Pie", but overall, I much prefer People Like Us.
Sonic Youth - Granted, I listened to a lot of Daydream Nation years ago, and some of Sister, but as a whole, I can't dig it, although I am a fan of Thurston Moore's experimental excursions. Maybe one day I will see the light?
Animal Collective - They have some pleasant enough songs, but it has never done it for me..my apologies to my boyfriend.
The Decemberists - I guess this isn't surprising considering my complete drift away from "indie rock" in the last few years.
Glass Candy - I wouldn't call them "beloved", but it seems like I would like them a lot given my love of the kind of music they're emulating.
Bjork - I liked some of her music as a teenager, but even then it never blew me away. I've never been able to fully connect with her music.
Bands Whom I Used to Love, but Have Since Broken Up With:
Cat Power - I loooooved Moon Pix when I was 17, and I listened to a lot of You Are Free when I was 20/21, but since then, I can't love her music the way I used to.
A Lot of the K Records arsenal, including Mirah and Microphones - Maybe it is just because that I don't listen to much of this kind of music anymore, but as much as I'll always have a place in my heart for K Records music. It isn't bad music at all, I just don't feel compelled to listen to it anymore. Something tells me I'll come back to it years from now. This is also true for the music of The Mountain Goats, who I used to adore to pieces, but somehow it isn't like it used to be.
Sonic Youth - Granted, I listened to a lot of Daydream Nation years ago, and some of Sister, but as a whole, I can't dig it, although I am a fan of Thurston Moore's experimental excursions. Maybe one day I will see the light?
Animal Collective - They have some pleasant enough songs, but it has never done it for me..my apologies to my boyfriend.
The Decemberists - I guess this isn't surprising considering my complete drift away from "indie rock" in the last few years.
Glass Candy - I wouldn't call them "beloved", but it seems like I would like them a lot given my love of the kind of music they're emulating.
Bjork - I liked some of her music as a teenager, but even then it never blew me away. I've never been able to fully connect with her music.
Bands Whom I Used to Love, but Have Since Broken Up With:
Cat Power - I loooooved Moon Pix when I was 17, and I listened to a lot of You Are Free when I was 20/21, but since then, I can't love her music the way I used to.
A Lot of the K Records arsenal, including Mirah and Microphones - Maybe it is just because that I don't listen to much of this kind of music anymore, but as much as I'll always have a place in my heart for K Records music. It isn't bad music at all, I just don't feel compelled to listen to it anymore. Something tells me I'll come back to it years from now. This is also true for the music of The Mountain Goats, who I used to adore to pieces, but somehow it isn't like it used to be.
posted by Tootle at 1:32 PM
1 Comments:
Have you tried approaching Sonic Youth via the first two LP's....? "Confusion Is Sex" has probably been the only constant in my personal "Top 5 albums of all time" for a little over 20 years now. It sounds strangely prescient in 2007-8, given the current underground sound-du-jour (including - surprise, surprise - a lot of the current acts aligned with Ecstatic Peace!): a teabag full of ominous rumbling, flecked with bursts of noise, haunted house vocals, and detuned electric dirge-folk overtones, all steeped in a pitcher of carved from heavy rock. The "Sonic Death" live/collage cassette from around the same era is another quite genuinely staggering chug on the same heady brew. But, with all that said, "Daydream Nation" was actually the last album of theirs I cared about at all - although their SYR series definitely peaked my interest.
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