Who gets to be on BCB’s lawn?

[Davey the Fat Boy]

Do you approve of any of these randomly selected acts who have floated through our consciousness in the last decade or so?

If so - tell us about it!

[naughty boy]

lawn?

[Davey the Fat Boy]

[Quaco]

Voted for 10 pretty different acts (isn't that how it is these days?):

Beyonce, Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, and Jay Z don't bother me and they may have done a couple things that I like.
Lemon Twigs and Tame Impala are basically good music.
Rufus Wainwright seems like he's on the right track even though I don't listen to him.
Father John Misty I have some issues with, but kind of in the right zone.
Courtney Barnett I like -- so far -- but liking less and less!
Animal Collective sound nice.

It would be interesting to do the exact same list, but to ask people to say who they really really HATE! Could be fun. There are a few.

[pcqgod]

I think The War on Drugs won me over with their Austin City Limits performance.

[naughty boy]

I went for:

Beyonce (amazing performer, not heard a song I would throw my hat in the air for)

Gaga (loved all the hoo-hah at the start, couple of excellent singles, and I think she's very cool and interesting)

Eels (big fan of the debut - soulful in the places where it didn't rock, he did it all well)

Rihanna (I really like her voice - some songs great some horrible)

Courtney B (unlike Jim, I like her more and more! - need to hear the new album which I believe came out YESTERDAY)

Lana (mainly for 'Video Games' which I LOVE - but she's kind of a fraud)

MGMT (for the first album mostly - the first half of which was stunning)

Sufjan (I can't remember what I liked but I liked it, as twee as it was)

Monkeys (not a fan, really, but now and again ('Cornerstone', 'Fluorescent Adolescent') they hit the spot)

Taylor ('Shake It Off' is as good as modern pop gets - for me, anyway)

[Diamond Dog]

Beyonce - I have a good deal of time for quite a bit of her material, whilst finding some of it less-than-interesting. But she has star quality in bundles and I like that she knows it too.

Lady Gaga - I took my girls to see Gaga in London back in 2012 (I think). A great show - visually exciting and the lady can really sing.

Fall Out Boy - Not a great fan, but he has written a few tunes I go back to quite regularly.

Sturgill Simpson - Currently a bit of a favourite of mine, "It Ain't All flowers" from the "Metamodern Sounds In Modern Music" is fucking epic.



Pink - I like her voice and she has a pop sensibility I really enjoy sometimes. And she's a Led Zeppelin fan

Arcade Fire - Liked the first couple of albums, and saw them live inbetween the two. They were a very interesting act. But I think they disappeared up their own arses very quickly.

[Jimbly]

Beyonce, Jay Z, Eels and Kendrick. the rest bore the tits off me.

[Brickyard Jack]

I pick the ones I have already seen live -
Beyonce, Jay z and Taylor Swift.

[The Red Heifer]

I picked 34/50 and I have no idea where to start

[Polishgirl]

If Florence and her doings appear on my lawn, I'll set the cats on them.

[The Red Heifer]

I guess then she'll finally know her dog days are over!

[Darkness_Fish]

I voted for Portugal The Man, because Feel it Still is a proper pop song. Also Pink and Taylor Swift are proper pop stars. And Sufjan Stevens may yet record something great.

Largely though, most of that list was just of very little interest.

[Penk!]

Who voted for Pitbull and Mumford?

[The Red Heifer]

Who voted for Pitbull and Mumford?

It appears I voted for Pitbull, that has certainly been rectified

[Deebank]

Just The Shins.

James Mercer is the only one I'd cross the road to piss on if they were on fire.

[jimboo]

I am so on a war on drugs binge , so many little nuances.

[Goat Boy]

Bon Iver, what the fuck was all that about?

[naughty boy]

Taylor Swift's got more than twice Rihanna's vote?

BCB - more wrong with every passing week

[toomanyhatz]

Love or at least like a great deal unconditionally:

Father John Misty - As annoying as he may be as a human, he's a hell of a songwriter - Honeybear is a hell of a neat trick - it's filled with love songs that are snarky and "ironic" about everything else but the love. He's the best artist on this list by a considerable distance as far as I'm concerned.

Kendrick Lamar - Hip-hop albums are never really solo acts these days, but the overall vision seems to be there, and his stuff is, for lack of a better way to put it, extremely musical.

Like conditionally:

The Decembrists - Yes, I do want to punch their smug faces on occasion. But they've written some good songs.

The Shins - One trick pony, I suppose, but he's good at avoiding cliches and the songs at least have some twists and turns in them - something that's beyond a lot of the artists here - even some very well respected ones.

Rufus Wainwright - It's not a good time to be musically ambitious and I wish he'd lay off the Shakespeare and Judy Garland, but his own music is good. I still like the debut a lot, unwieldy messy thing that it is. Just wish he could be a little more casual - I think he'd make grander statements without constantly needing to make grand statements.

Childish Gambino - He's really much more of a performance artist than a musical one, and he hasn't come up with an identifiable vision of his own, but as a cultural phenomenon he's a lot more interesting than some others here.

Mumford - Voting for them 'cause no one else will. But I still insist the first album's great. And yes, I am starting to have the same violent reaction to the banjo that everyone else was having early on. But when they ditched it they were even worse.

-----vote line here----

Overrated hype, mostly:

Beyoncee
Bon Iver

Animal Collective - Wouldn't know actual song structure if it bit 'em in the ass.

Sturgill Simpson - I've heard some stuff I like, but the hype's deafening. Any reason why he's been praised to the heavens for being a second-rate Waylon Jennings? It's not like the real stuff isn't available anymore.

The Lemon Twigs - The pop version of SS. I get it. They're kids, and Todd Rundgren is their Beyonce. Great. If they grow into some original ideas, I'll be the first to admit it. Meanwhile, yawn. (I'm sure they're nice kids. I do seem to have a lot of mutual friends with them.)

Taylor Swift - I haven't heard a single thing from her that's the least bit inventive or works at a deeper level than "dance away your troubles" or "the breakup was your fault, asshole." I admire how she's taken control of her own destiny, but as I've said before, Alanis Morrisette is much more interesting musically. And that ain't exactly high praise.

Like some stuff without much enthusiasm:

Sufjan Stevens
Adele
Bruno Mars
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys

Subjects for further research::

Courtney Barnett
MGMT

Meh:

The rest