[kj] Music wanker poll

[Tabazan]

>I'd add Jandek and Lycopodeia to the list.


Has someone nicked my name?


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:59 PM, powens <powens at gmail.com> wrote:


> Great call on Nina Hagen and MX-80. I'd add Jandek and Lycopodeia to the

> list.

>

>

> On 15 November 2013 14:51, Rheinhold Squeegee <kjlist at live.com> wrote:

>

>> R. Stevie Moore

>> Deaf School

>> Zolar X

>> Belfegore

>> MX-80 Sound

>> Nina Hagen

>> et. al.

>>

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>> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:35:07 +0000

>> From: tabazan at gmail.com

>> To: gathering at misera.net

>> Subject: Re: [kj] Music wanker poll

>>

>> Casually throwing an original copy of Rude Bootleg by Cardiacs on the

>> table should get some attention

>>

>> Hugely influential and more hated by the music press (back in the day)

>> than even Killing Joke it took Tim having several heart attacks and a

>> massive stroke to get them any form of acceptance

>>

>>

>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net

>> > wrote:

>>

>>

>> Ooh, toughie. Lots to choose from (and isn't THAT a dick comment?)

>>

>> I'm going to go with the Modern Lovers. Arguably as influential as The

>> Velvet Underground and the Stooges, yet hardly as renowned, the original

>> foursome made only one set of demos (later "produced" by John Cale and

>> released as an album years later by California indie label, Bezerkly), but

>> those end results were as seismic in shaping punk as anything by Iggy or

>> Lou.

>>

>> The original line-up featured Jerry Harrison on keyboards (later to join

>> Talking Heads) and Dave Robinson on drums (later to join The Cars). At one

>> point in the proceedings, lead singer/strategist Jonathan Richman let his

>> eccentricities hold sway and decided that he no longer wanted make music

>> that would "offend the ears of children." As such, he told Dave Robinson to

>> quit the drums and provide percussion by rolling up a newspaper and

>> slapping it on his knee, to which Dave replied, essentially, "fuck that and

>> fuck you, I'm out of here." That incarnation of the band -- unsurprisingly

>> -- fell apart, and the blunt, proto-punky energy of the Modern Lovers

>> vanished, replaced by Richman's bizarre penchant for childlike whimsy (a

>> huge influence on later acts like Beat Happening -- WHO FUCKING SUCK -- and

>> Jack White).

>>

>> Richman's solo albums have their own merits, but in terms of a criminally

>> undersung, yet wholly influential slab of vinyl by a band who should be a

>> household name --  to my mind -- one is hard pressed to cite someone more

>> significant than The Modern Lovers.

>>

>> YOUR TURN!

>>

>>

>>

>>

>> On Nov 15, 2013, at 4:37 AM, bongo wrote:

>>

>> kitchens of distinction

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>> "due to a lack of trained trumpeters, the end of the world has been

>> postponed indefinitely..."

>>

>>

>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>wrote:

>>

>> Given that name-dropping Killing Joke (esp ‘early’ Killing Joke) is the

>> music-wanker equivalent of a triple word score in Scrabble, the poll

>> question is as follows:

>>

>>

>>

>> Which artist or band would you name-drop to get the highest possible

>> score at a music-wanker convention?

>>

>>

>>

>> Criteria include but are not limited to: lack of attempt at commercial

>> success / downright self-sabotage, uniqueness, humour, social commentary,

>> mental illness, artistic pain, substance dependency, early / mysterious /

>> humorous death, ability to use ancillary wank-terms such as ‘musique

>> concrete’, ‘the sound of the earth vomiting’ and so forth.

>>

>>

>>

>> I’m going with ‘What is Pere Ubu<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hYqvtHzr48>

>> ?’

>>

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