I think now that Doobie Bros. are hip maybe in 10-20 years DMB will get some kind of 90s classic rock revisiting.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 17 July 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
they have a huge fanbase that's never gone away, and a mainstream 90s popularity that i doubt has turned to hatred in most of the people who bought the first two albums. they've got rock and roll hall of fame written all over them and yeah, no reason to think their hits and maybe even some album cuts will be huge on future equivalents of the classic rock format.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Friday, 17 July 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
But not in the UK thankfully as nobody has ever heard of them over here
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 17 July 2015 18:24 (eight years ago) link
AJD has got a point, mind.
I used to be a music journalist and I started this thread:
Buckinghamshire
It wouldn't be a great loss if I went.
― djh, Friday, 17 July 2015 18:33 (eight years ago) link
Best threadstart of 2015 imo.
― This Year's Model Victim (Tom D.), Friday, 17 July 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link
Hi.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 17 July 2015 18:35 (eight years ago) link
And after all that I have no idea what DMB are like.
I imagine if "Achy Nearly Heart" was a more serious song, that's what DMB would sound like..
― Mark G, Friday, 17 July 2015 21:21 (eight years ago) link
i'm just going to keep starting threads about songs i like :))
― surm, Friday, 17 July 2015 21:35 (eight years ago) link
^^ gets it
― This is for my new ringpiece, so please only serious answers (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 July 2015 21:37 (eight years ago) link
I book marked this thread a while back, only now reading it. Funny thing: some of my friends (lawyers, mind, but I love them nonetheless) went to see DMB a week or so ago. I didn't even know the band was still active. I just kept thinking, "you still like this band?"
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Sunday, 9 August 2015 23:49 (eight years ago) link
As a lawyer I can say with confidence that being one is not an excuse.
― Tim F, Monday, 10 August 2015 00:51 (eight years ago) link
it is, isn't it? Quiet, I mean. On ILM
― Mark G, Monday, 27 June 2016 09:25 (seven years ago) link
music is quiet
― ejemplo (crüt), Monday, 27 June 2016 10:17 (seven years ago) link
except jute gyte, jute gyte is loud
― imago, Monday, 27 June 2016 10:20 (seven years ago) link
the new ruth lake is a good quiet album
― imago, Monday, 27 June 2016 10:21 (seven years ago) link
the new laura mvula is a good album that is neither quiet nor loud
i listened to a dif juz record yesterday. it was pretty quiet. it has the bird from the cockatoo twins on it singing in a banana suit.
― scott seward, Monday, 27 June 2016 13:26 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A8h-nrTRY0
― timellison, Monday, 27 June 2016 17:04 (seven years ago) link
I'm still plenty busy following ILM, but if there are legitimate concerns about the message board going down the drains I was thinking maybe we should try to... recruit new (young) posters?
― niels, Monday, 6 February 2017 17:14 (seven years ago) link
see you in 600 posts
― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Monday, 6 February 2017 17:16 (seven years ago) link
I was thinking maybe we should try to... recruit new (young) posters?
How?
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 6 February 2017 17:17 (seven years ago) link
i bet if you looked it up the 10th post on ILM was that it wasn't as good as the good old days
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 February 2017 17:18 (seven years ago) link
Since I've gone over to the SNAside, I have no idea what ILM looks like these days. Isn't it all rolling (micro)genre threads and the occasional enormo-poll?
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 6 February 2017 17:19 (seven years ago) link
I remember in like 2001/2002 there was complaints about nu-ilx but my op wasnt about not being as good as it was, just that it was quiet and had been for quite a while.
― Odysseus, Monday, 6 February 2017 17:21 (seven years ago) link
tom you traitor
would prefer to have new ppl come in organically, though i realize social media has made message boards like these a relic of the past
a more natural approach would be trying to get lurkers, of which there are supposedly many, to post more often
but FWIW i don't think this board is particularly close to 'going down the drains'
― ciderpress, Monday, 6 February 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link
neither do i. its not what i meant in the OP.
SNA does seem to be a big reason for ILM being quiet as noone is starting many threads or reviving there.Do lots of people exclude ILM from their SNA in settings?
― Odysseus, Monday, 6 February 2017 17:23 (seven years ago) link
I exclude ILE from my SNA and treat it like its own thing, works much better that way around imo
― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Monday, 6 February 2017 17:24 (seven years ago) link
same here, I only look at ILE rarely, like once a day. obv have some ILE threads bookmarked.
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 6 February 2017 17:26 (seven years ago) link
I've been visiting this board on and off since 2001, and frankly, there's an insularity that makes it hard for newcomers to feel welcome here. And jesus christ, every thread turns aggro and combative for the most retarded reasons. I can't even keep track of the number of valuable and interesting posters who have been chased out of here for the silliest and most overblown of reasons
― Poliopolice, Monday, 6 February 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link
ahahaha
― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Monday, 6 February 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link
Will say that from the mod side, there are new registrations every day. I used to be eager to see these new names start posting, but it almost never happens.
― how's life, Monday, 6 February 2017 17:36 (seven years ago) link
^^ tried regging a sock account thrice for a single joke post last week during the top 77. Three diff addresses, never got the confirmation email in either three accounts. ILM is a hostile place for socks.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 6 February 2017 17:39 (seven years ago) link
ilx is like the freemasons, used to be cool and elite and mysterious, now just a bunch of old dudes wondering why nobody wants to learn our secret handshakes anymore.
anyway I think trump / collapse of america has done some good things for the board after a few years of decline. the site is more dynamic when there's actual news.
― iatee, Monday, 6 February 2017 17:39 (seven years ago) link
i personally feel that i don't have a ton of interesting things to say. i like reading it all tho
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 6 February 2017 17:40 (seven years ago) link
ditto
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 6 February 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
For me, the search function being out of service has been pretty limiting on my use of the board.
― Austin, Monday, 6 February 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
what is SNA?
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 February 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link
Social Nerd Asshattery
― scott seward, Monday, 6 February 2017 18:08 (seven years ago) link
site new answers
― ciderpress, Monday, 6 February 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
― Poliopolice, Monday, February 6, 2017 12:30 PM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Monday, February 6, 2017 12:33 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
and here it is, the reason we don't get new posters
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 6 February 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link
Re: ILM specifically, I haven't listened to an album that was released in at least the past year (maybe the past two?) because oldness, and my thread revives about older stuff tend to dry on the vine. I like readin' y'all talking about stuff, though.
― Transformed From The Norm By The Nuclear Goop (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 February 2017 18:13 (seven years ago) link
wait you mean my response xp
― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Monday, 6 February 2017 18:13 (seven years ago) link
Would say that was obvious
― Odysseus, Monday, 6 February 2017 18:26 (seven years ago) link
not the guy turning aggro and combative and using the word 'retarded' while complaining about the site getting aggro and combative
lol
― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Monday, 6 February 2017 18:27 (seven years ago) link
ILM has always been insular and prone to dumb aggro and that didn't stop it growing - it's much less unpleasant these days than it has been at times in the past. It's declining for the reason that message boards generally are declining - everyone's on social media instead. And it's a vicious cycle because even if you like the message board format better, there's not much motivation to put effort into a post when so few other people are. This isn't really a criticism or "we must do better", the board isn't dying yet and you can't artificially fix an organic decline.
― lex pretend, Monday, 6 February 2017 18:27 (seven years ago) link
There doesn't seem to be many new threads on ILM so perhaps we all should start new threads on new albums or bands rather than confine them to rolling threads?
― Odysseus, Monday, 6 February 2017 18:28 (seven years ago) link
Threads on new artists or singles (who aren't already very well known) get 5 answers max then die. This has been the case for years. If it weren't for rolling threads this place really would be completely dead (in terms of new music, I guess those infernal Old People Polls will never go away)
― lex pretend, Monday, 6 February 2017 18:31 (seven years ago) link
This reminds me, I have been meaning to start a poll: http://ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=41
― ornate orchestral arrangements (DJP), Monday, 6 February 2017 18:33 (seven years ago) link
nice. screwed up my joke with a bad copy/paste Vanilla Fudge: Classic or Dud?
― ornate orchestral arrangements (DJP), Monday, 6 February 2017 18:34 (seven years ago) link