Music Help Needed

[Payne]

Yes, but some people are always talking something very shocking just to keep on blocking what they're feeling inside.

Welcome to Scatman's World.

[fogukaup]

Mouse on Mars
Antipop-Consortium
Deep Puddle Dynamics
CloudDead
Autechre
The Residents
Boxus
Angelo Badalamenti
Sun Ra

enjoy

I just bought a snake today!!!! 

[-Kel-]

Witness, the OP:

i recently suffered a virus that made me reformat my hard drive. now i have the tedious
task of rebuilding my music library.

I want to build it in a new direction from what i had, and i'd like recommendations.

My only criterion is that it be something i haven't heard before.

(my tastes are diverse, but my exposure is fairly limited, so it shouldn't be too hard for some
of you)

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that this guy was a total dick to Kel for absolutely no reason.

If it was up to me I'd consign him to 1000 years of nothing but Cypress Hill and Bearforce One.

thank you.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Witness, the OP:

i recently suffered a virus that made me reformat my hard drive. now i have the tedious
task of rebuilding my music library.

I want to build it in a new direction from what i had, and i'd like recommendations.

My only criterion is that it be something i haven't heard before.

(my tastes are diverse, but my exposure is fairly limited, so it shouldn't be too hard for some
of you)

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that this guy was a total dick to Kel for absolutely no reason.

If it was up to me I'd consign him to 1000 years of nothing but Cypress Hill and Bearforce One.

I'd hit him with the Scatman John I have in my collection.

Forever.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Mouse on Mars
Antipop-Consortium
Deep Puddle Dynamics
CloudDead
Autechre
The Residents
Boxus
Angelo Badalamenti
Sun Ra

enjoy

I just bought a snake today!!!! 

What kind of snake?

[BabylonHoruv]

I have to defend Hubris here.  He didn't say only stuff which was not mainstream was good, he said he wanted things he had not heard, and that he had heard all the mainstream stuff.

Why do you "have" to? Is he not capable of defending himself?

Have you read his posts so far?  Nope, he certainly isn't.

[Payne]

I have to defend Hubris here.  He didn't say only stuff which was not mainstream was good, he said he wanted things he had not heard, and that he had heard all the mainstream stuff.

Why do you "have" to? Is he not capable of defending himself?

Have you read his posts so far?  Nope, he certainly isn't.

So you just like defending idiots.

What exactly are you doing here?

[President Television]

If it was up to me I'd consign him to 1000 years of nothing but Cypress Hill and Bearforce One.

I fail to see the punishment implicit in this statement.

[Pariah]

Jandek

[E.O.T.]

I read this whole thread. Giggling and holding on for dear life.

Fuck, Hubris made me poomp my pance so hard with the whole "mainstream" thing that I believe I may have prolapsed a little. That's not an entirely bad thing though, as my prolapsed rectum is prehensile and I'm currently typing with it to convey a form of pure hatred. Elitism does that to me.

The "Mainstream", whatever fucked up definition you've cooked up for it, is indeed a sewer. A place where all the "best" and "brightest" of contempory culture drop their toalies, and where finding the actual Good Shit requires swimming through a river of just plain shit. However, restricting yourself to only that which is not mainstream means that you are still defining yourself by it. You're just as fucking pathetic as those you despise.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I love the sheer magnitude of your spaggotry and douchbaggery, Hubris.

I have to defend Hubris here.  He didn't say only stuff which was not mainstream was good, he said he wanted things he had not heard, and that he had heard all the mainstream stuff.

Bullshit. Listening to top 40 radio will not expose you to more than a small portion of current "mainstream" music. NO ONE has heard all the mainstream stuff. Proof? EOT is a 40-year-old part-time DJ who worked in a large independent record store for YEARS, and until very recently he had never heard Marcy Playground. Heard OF them, sure, and sold hundreds of their albums, but never actually listened to them.

I bet I could riffle through just my own music collection and come up with at least a hundred "mainstream" titles this chode has never heard of.

I call musical idiocy on this one.

LIES!!

          I'm 30fucking9 until March 17th!!

ALMOST

          everyone is guilty of musical idiocy, for starters, almost nobody knows much about musicals, furthermore, most people know a lot about what they like, but not necessarily a lot about music in general. and then there's being an ungrateful bastard.

[BabylonHoruv]

I read this whole thread. Giggling and holding on for dear life.

Fuck, Hubris made me poomp my pance so hard with the whole "mainstream" thing that I believe I may have prolapsed a little. That's not an entirely bad thing though, as my prolapsed rectum is prehensile and I'm currently typing with it to convey a form of pure hatred. Elitism does that to me.

The "Mainstream", whatever fucked up definition you've cooked up for it, is indeed a sewer. A place where all the "best" and "brightest" of contempory culture drop their toalies, and where finding the actual Good Shit requires swimming through a river of just plain shit. However, restricting yourself to only that which is not mainstream means that you are still defining yourself by it. You're just as fucking pathetic as those you despise.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I love the sheer magnitude of your spaggotry and douchbaggery, Hubris.

I have to defend Hubris here.  He didn't say only stuff which was not mainstream was good, he said he wanted things he had not heard, and that he had heard all the mainstream stuff.

Bullshit. Listening to top 40 radio will not expose you to more than a small portion of current "mainstream" music. NO ONE has heard all the mainstream stuff. Proof? EOT is a 40-year-old part-time DJ who worked in a large independent record store for YEARS, and until very recently he had never heard Marcy Playground. Heard OF them, sure, and sold hundreds of their albums, but never actually listened to them.

I bet I could riffle through just my own music collection and come up with at least a hundred "mainstream" titles this chode has never heard of.

I call musical idiocy on this one.

LIES!!

          I'm 30fucking9 until March 17th!!

ALMOST

          everyone is guilty of musical idiocy, for starters, almost nobody knows much about musicals, furthermore, most people know a lot about what they like, but not necessarily a lot about music in general. and then there's being an ungrateful bastard.

yikes, your birthday is Saint Patricks day?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I read this whole thread. Giggling and holding on for dear life.

Fuck, Hubris made me poomp my pance so hard with the whole "mainstream" thing that I believe I may have prolapsed a little. That's not an entirely bad thing though, as my prolapsed rectum is prehensile and I'm currently typing with it to convey a form of pure hatred. Elitism does that to me.

The "Mainstream", whatever fucked up definition you've cooked up for it, is indeed a sewer. A place where all the "best" and "brightest" of contempory culture drop their toalies, and where finding the actual Good Shit requires swimming through a river of just plain shit. However, restricting yourself to only that which is not mainstream means that you are still defining yourself by it. You're just as fucking pathetic as those you despise.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I love the sheer magnitude of your spaggotry and douchbaggery, Hubris.

I have to defend Hubris here.  He didn't say only stuff which was not mainstream was good, he said he wanted things he had not heard, and that he had heard all the mainstream stuff.

Bullshit. Listening to top 40 radio will not expose you to more than a small portion of current "mainstream" music. NO ONE has heard all the mainstream stuff. Proof? EOT is a 40-year-old part-time DJ who worked in a large independent record store for YEARS, and until very recently he had never heard Marcy Playground. Heard OF them, sure, and sold hundreds of their albums, but never actually listened to them.

I bet I could riffle through just my own music collection and come up with at least a hundred "mainstream" titles this chode has never heard of.

I call musical idiocy on this one.

LIES!!

          I'm 30fucking9 until March 17th!!

Get over it, everybody dies. You're 40 for all intents and purposes. That isn't stopping me from trying to come up with a special 40th birthday present for you, so, you know, beware.

ALMOST

          everyone is guilty of musical idiocy, for starters, almost nobody knows much about musicals, furthermore, most people know a lot about what they like, but not necessarily a lot about music in general. and then there's being an ungrateful bastard.

This. We are all "guilty" of musical ignorance (innocence?), which is part of my point about you never having heard Marcy Playground. Being an ungrateful, misplaced-elitist dick about it is a whole different story.

[Payne]

I am myself super ignorant in music, though I'm always trying to expand my horizons a bit.

What pisses me off with this guy is the whole labelling of music, categorizing it into "Mainstream" (bad) and "Not Maintstream" (Haven't heard). Shit, I delete any and all genre tags on my music because they're usually wrong and don't actually tell me anything about the music that listening to it would. Given this, I cannot see how such an arbitrary and nebulous distinction as this mainstream thing could be of any use to anyone.

Back in my younger days I would get pissed off at bands for "Selling Out" and stop listening to them for it... Then I grew up - everyone gotsta get paid, yo?

[AFK]

Considering Marcy Playground only had one "hit", I could see why not a lot of people have heard of them.  One hit wonder band. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Considering Marcy Playground only had one "hit", I could see why not a lot of people have heard of them.  One hit wonder band.  

Actually I think they had four songs in the top 40... Sex and Candy spent three months as #1 but I don't think any of the others made the top ten. That first album went platinum and they just released a fourth.

The fact that you haven't heard them on the radio lately hardly makes them one-hit wonders. When was the last time you heard Bettie Serveert on the radio? Or Cat Power?

Also, that was kind of my point. Having been played on top 40 radio doesn't mean everyone's heard it.