Even though everybody's gone and and nobody cares anymore, here are some less commonly mentioned 60s-70s greats for Axtung Baby and Gall Vladder:
Apart from the tropicalia section, I've heard of (if not actually
heard) almost all of that! Give me some credit for spending so much time on RYM.
That said, recommendations from you carries weight, as opposed to people on RYM bickering.
I hate to defend vlad, but his opinion's really only unpopular/weird on the internet. 99% of people my age have absolutely no interest in music that's more than 10 or so years old.
I don't even think that's what he was saying. I didn't want to take sides here between two people I like, I think trying to plot a middle ground was apparent in my posts, but by the end of it, I'm largely with Vlad. It's not that he's outright unwilling to listen to older music (like probably the majority of people our age, who are all "lol old gay shit"), it's that - as I'm reading it - what he's heard hasn't caught his interest, so he hasn't taken it any further. And what's so wrong with that? We all do it. If you hear a few songs by an artist and don't particularly like them, you probably don't go and get an album. If you've heard a few songs by a whole bunch of artists from a particular era or genre and not been taken by them, then you're probably not going to rush headlong into the era or genre's music.
What I think didn't help Vlad's cause was the dismissive "Beatles, Led Zep, whatever" comment, as if there are only two bands from then - but I'm going to take it that like almost every other person on the planet, he's heard a good number songs from a range of canonical sixties/seventies artists. Haven't we all heard songs by Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Cat Stevens, Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, and so on before we've even turned ten? I don't feel like I need to listen to their canonical albums to know that I'm not that interested in them. I presume Vlad feels the same way.
And anyway, we all listen to music differently. LM goes through a staggering amount of music. Charlotte spends a lot of time with her favourites. I'm somewhere in between - you've all seen my last.fm stats, which sometimes skew to astronomical listening figures for a single artist (Porcupine Tree being only the most notable), and which sometimes skew to a shitload of different artists. Other people listen differently to either of those ways. Doesn't make anybody's habits more or less ideal.
I mean, I honestly found this unhelpful (and needlessly aggressive):
You know what I did when I felt that I wasn't listening to or respedting enough 90s music? I made a fucking list of the supposed good shit I hadn't heard, and then picked my way through it, and in doing so became a huge fucking fan of dream pop and shoegaze.
That's not going to work for heaps of people. It didn't work for me. I can't make a list of music and just work through it, except occasionally when it's something I'm already passionate about and want to explore further. I can totally see why somebody would think that looks more like a chore than listening for pleasure. And that's ultimately all this is about, listening to stuff because you enjoy music. Nobody's under any obligation to listen to
anything - which is why I hate when B&C gets on Danny's case for listening to the "wrong" albums by a band. Who cares which album or genre or era somebody's picked up, as long as they're passionate about their music and enjoy listening to it?
Christ I've gone on and on. And I hope that doesn't across as lecturesome or anything. I just wanted to air some thoughts, especially after waking up and reading over the thread.
