Artists that are sentimental favorites

andyfest · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2005 1:20 pm

djdan Wrote:

I will continue to buy every new Bruce Springsteen record the day it is released until the day I die.

I know a lot of people like that. He has an extremely loyal fan-base.

I also agree with your signature.

Rudolphonzo · **Joined:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 7:40 pm **Posts:** 57

XTC
Robyn Hitchcock
Cheap Trick
The Buzzcocks

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2005 2:07 pm

Generally nobody falls into this category for me. The intersection between an artist's work and my interest is (and should be) temporary, because our perspectives are always in a state of flux. They change; I change. Of course, there's the rare occasions when an artist changes at approximately the same rate and in the same direction as myself (or take the singular example of the Beatles as a band that managed to coincide their evolution with that of an entire society) - right now Frank Black, Spoon, Ween, Rancid, and Joe Henry are among those bands (for me) - but my "loyalty" to them could end with the release of their next album.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

Radcliffe Wrote:

but my loyalty to them could end with the release of their next album.

TREACHEROUS DOG!

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2005 2:21 pm

Radcliffe Wrote:

my "loyalty" to them could end with the release of their next album.

All of these pretty much fall into that category, but I feel like I've been pretty loyal up until now. They've all put out some weaker stuff lately, but I still consider myself a fan.

1. Magnolia Elec. Co./Jason Molina/Songs: Ohia
2. Sonic Youth
3. Flaming Lips
4. Stereolab
5. Mouse on Mars

Ex Lion Tamer · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2005 2:46 pm

Nobody gets that kind of irrevocable devotion from me.

but as long as it is revocable, here's a current list...

Spoon
Built to Spill
Radiohead
Wire

Flowthgin · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2005 2:48 pm

1. Frank Zappa
2. Jethro Tull
3. Weird Al Yankovic
4. Ben Folds
5. Death Cab For Cutie

andyfest · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2005 3:46 pm

DumpJack Wrote:

If we're sentimental about an artist, does that mean we whole-heartedly accept all of their output even though if someone we're less emotionally attached to released it, we'd all rag on it to no end?

I'd say this qualifies as a good definition. Of course, none of my sentimental favorites have done that... :wink:

bluejayway · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2005 3:51 pm

I will be trying to find the good in increasingly lousy REM albums as long as they keep churning 'em out, if that counts.

huskerpunk · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2005 4:06 pm

Queens of the Stone Age / Eagles of Death Metal / Desert Sessions
Radiohead
Elvis Costello
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
Pearl Jam
Pedro the Lion
The Shins
Spoon
Bruce Springsteen
The White Stripes

albion · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2005 4:35 pm

In no particular order and based on today's emotional state:

Elvis Costello
Cocteau Twins
Adrian Belew
XTC
Wilco
U2
R.E.M.
Sting/Police
Tom Waits
Warren Zevon

There are other favorites in heavy rotation (Bruce, Bowie, Roxy Music, Peter Gabriel, Fripp etc. etc.) but not as "sentimental", whatever the fuck that means. Ask me next week and the list is likely to be a bit different.

Lambchop · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2005 9:17 pm

QOTSA
Flaming Lips

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Sat May 28, 2005 12:57 am

Wow, is that really what Donnie Iris is doing these days? He looks the same as he did in 1983.

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

That, and apparently he's opening for Blue Oyster Cult in Cleveland.

I want to move to western PA so I can get a mortgage from him.

aerodynamics · **Posted:** Sat May 28, 2005 1:31 am

usual suspects

Robert Pollard
The Breeders
Juliana Hatfield
Dressy Bessy
Cornershop
Saturday Looks Good to Me
Blur
Sleater-Kinney
Apples in stereo
Gomez
Tortoise

good grief that list is uncomfortably long but there's absolutely no way I could take off even one artist. and these are only extant ones...

Dusty Chalk · **Posted:** Sat May 28, 2005 3:46 am

Matt Elliott
Keith Jarrett solo piano
NIN
Peter Gabriel
Garbage (I've been catching myself defending Beautifulgarbage pretty much every time it comes up)
Curve
Collide
Skinny Puppy (ditto The Process)
Venetian Snares (haven't heard him do wrong yet)
Golden Earring (I even liked their most dated sounding record, Keeper of the Flame)
...oh, too many more to list them all...I'm a nut when it comes to music...

Diggity Dawg · **Posted:** Sat May 28, 2005 10:36 am

1. Anything Ginger related ( Wildhearts, Silver Ginger 5, solo, etc. )
2. Cheap Trick
3. Jason ( of The Scorchers...I don't even dig his current "direction", but I still buy the records to help support him )
4. Paul Westerberg
5. KISS ( even though the last several products I've bought, I picked up used & not on release day )

no guru · **Posted:** Sat May 28, 2005 9:09 pm

Dusty Chalk Wrote:

Garbage (I've been catching myself defending Beautifulgarbage pretty much every time it comes up)

Listened to it twice this week. Great pop songs. Blondie if she were born twenty years later.

_________
np: Shelleyan Orphan - Jeremiah

FT · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:20 pm

Radcliffe Wrote:

Wow, is that really what Donnie Iris is doing these days? He looks the same as he did in 1983.

He's King Cool, you know.

I wonder if his sales pitch includes the impossible-to-refuse offer of "some coffee, some tea, or me" he first popularized in "The Rapper."

FT · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:23 pm

seafoamrush Wrote:

Mark Knolpfler/Dire Straits
Van Morrison
Paul Westerberg
Spoon
Wilco

They all have their clunkers, but for the most part I enjoy a good
portion of their work.

Man, that's pretty damn solid, Tommy!!! Neither Knopfler/DS nor Spoon have ever produced a clunker. Westerberg's only misstep was 14 Songs, and the only Wilco I don't really like is A Ghost is Born. Van The Man gets a lifetime pass, even though he hasn't done anything worthwhile since the Carter administration.

FT · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:26 pm

Oh, and I think the one artist that belongs on my list more than any other, in terms of this particular category, is...

Steely Dan

Becker and Fagen can do no wrong. Ever.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

the 'burgh LOVES Donnie Iris. It's also the best name to say with a pittsburgh accent ever

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