[kj] Music wanker poll

[Brendan Quinn]

I would have been inclined to correct you on Rocket from the Tombs, given
that I've never heard of them, whereas I have heard of Rocket from the
Crypt.

 

As a quick Wikipedia search has shown, such a foolhardy mistake would have
been earned me a thoroughly good dressing down, eviction, and possibly
excommunication from the Music Wanker Convention / fraternity.

 

I have so much to learn ;)

 

From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of Rheinhold Squeegee
Sent: Saturday, 16 November 2013 4:40 a.m.
To: Gathering Gathering
Subject: Re: [kj] Music wanker poll

 

Rocket from the Tombs
Electric Eels
Half-Japanese
James Blood Ulmer
Au Pairs
Klaus Nomi

etc. etc.

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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:06:12 +0000
From: tabazan at gmail.com
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] Music wanker poll


>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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