Friday, May 18, 2012

My music tastes...


It's brilliant, absolute genius: Tori Amos, Apparat, Ayria, B-52s, Bat for Lashes, The Beatles, Ludwig van Beethoven, Beirut, Bjork/The Sugar Cubes, Blondie, Cocteau Twins, Controller Controller, Dead Can Dance, Martin Denny, Peter Gabriel/Genesis (real Genesis, not that horrid Phil Collins thing), Florence and the Machine, Gogol Bordello, Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship, Kate Bush (if this list were ranked instead of alphabetical, she'd be #1), King Crimson/Robert Fripp, Nancy (Sinatra) & Lee (Hazelwood), Nine Inch Nails, Yoko Ono, The Orb, Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry, Shearwater, Patti Smith, Sunday all over the World/Toyah Willcox, The Tea Party, This Mortal Coil,  Trespassers William, The Velvet Underground, The Wolfgang Press, Yes/Jon Anderson

Good stuff: Abney Park, Alela Diane, Ellen Allien, Laurie Anderson, Fiona Apple, Art in Manila, Artemis, Autumn's Grey Solace, J.S. Bach, P.D.Q. Bach, Bauhaus, Beady Eye, The Birthday Massacre, Capercaillie, Cat Power, Clannad, Conjure One, The Cure, Delirium, The Doors, Feist,  Gentle Giant, The Good, the Bad and the Queen, Gorillaz, The Grateful Dead, Imogen Heap, Janis Ian, Iron and Wine, Ivy, Love Spirals Downward/Lovespirals, Lush, Loreena McKennitt, Monkeybacon, The Moody Blues, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Pentangle, Pinback, Poe, Sepiamusic (although they're shot in the foot by the worst band name ever), St. Vincent, Steely Dan, Suede, Switchblade Symphony, Tame Impala, Twin Peaks Soundtrack/David Lynch, Universal Hall Pass, Utopia/Todd Rundgren, Richard Wagner, Xmal Deutschland

It's holding up over time much better than I expected: Adam and the Ants, Glen Campbell, Jon Michel Jarre, Gordon Lightfoot, Men at Work, The Monkees, Sade

I'm a little apologetic for liking: Chicago, The Cruxshadows, Elvis, The Go-Go's, Hawkwind, Shadowfax, Suzanne Vega, Waves Under Water

I'll love them forever for that one song or album: Berlin, CSS, Esthero, The Tiny, TV on the Radio, The Verve Pipe

I like this, but for some reason haven't checked out more of it: Beck, Black Uhuru, Blonde Redhead, Bob Marley, The Cowboy Junkies, Carlo Gesualdo, Miles Kane, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (but he has like four million albums!), King Sunny Ade (but he has like four million albums!), The Libertines, Ashley MacIssac, Joanna Newsom, The Pretty Things, The Rolling Stones, Seal, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sufjan Stevens, The Zombies

I used to like this, but it seems kind of meh now: Anekdoten, Anglagard, Blind Melon, Porcupine Tree

This artist once was brilliant, but s/he/they went so far downhill that it makes me cringe a little: The Cranberries, Crosby, Stills & Nash (Neil Young is still cool though), Brian Eno (OK, he could never make me cringe, but that ambient shit puts me to sleep), Fleetwood Mac (but Stevie was always cool, even when she was too drugged to know what week it was), Heart (if we could just pretend that 80s bad stadium ballad, hairband Heart was another entity entirely, they would be in my genius list), Lene Lovich, Sarah McLaughlin (and I'm a little apologetic for it, too), Joni Mitchell (like Eno, she doesn't make me cringe, but I just can't wrap my head around jazz, Joni), The Police/Sting (Chris Martin, this will be you in ten years, I swear), The Pretenders, Simon and Garfunkel (OK, it isn't that simple, because what made them good is still present in Art Garfunkel's solo albums, and what made them bad was there right at the beginning), U2 (the giant lemon cringecringecringe but they are redeeming themselves - the last album rocked)

I feel somewhat inadequate for not liking this more: 93 Current, David Bowie, Johnny Cash, most Classical Music, Bob Dylan, Diamanda Galas, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Led Zepplin, Lustmord, Nirvana, Oasis, Pink Floyd, The Ramones, Rasputina, Radiohead (the unpopular opinion - I like Thom Yorke's solo stuff better), Talking Heads, The Verve


What was I thinking?  ABBA, Pat Benetar, Cabaret Soundtrack, Paula Cole, Dan Fogelberg, “Me and my Arrow,” Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack (do I have to admit I owned a copy of this?), The Smiths/Morrissey (Actually, I know what I was thinking - I thought the Smiths were brilliantly tongue-in-cheek.  When I found out they were serious, it was the biggest disappointment since I learned that Natalie Merchant was singing about "Weather" and not "Leather."  The more I learn about Morrissey, the more I want to eat a big sirloin steak in front of him.)

This is my jam.  Diss it, and I'll have to kill you: Kasabian.  I freakin love Kasabian.  Wanna make something out of it?



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