[kj] Music wanker poll

[powens]

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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