I was thinking today about how every year I feel like I know less about current bands/artists, and I figured I'd make a conscious sweep of ILM to see what people are talking about, but I realized almost none of it's new. Has it been like this forever and I just didn't notice? Is it a blip? An aging board? A dying board?
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Sunday, 31 August 2014 01:56 (nine years ago) link
do you read the various rolling threads
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 31 August 2014 02:00 (nine years ago) link
I don't know. It feels a lot quieter around these parts compared to the last couple of years. As for new music, I was all over new music last year, there seemed to be so much stuff to soak up. This year, it's felt a little bit slower to me for some reason. I'll hold my hands up and definitely say there's not much new that I've come across this year that's grabbed me. As for "event" stuff from established artists, I guess there's been the Kate Bush live gigs and Aphex Twin making his return. Last year was a bit of a year for comebacks, actually: My Bloody Valentine, Bowie, Daft Punk, Suede etc. etc.
― Welcome To (Turrican), Sunday, 31 August 2014 02:02 (nine years ago) link
Psychedelic Rock that's not Psychedelic Rock
― Mordy, Sunday, 31 August 2014 02:04 (nine years ago) link
the metal thread is, what, 90% new music?
― j., Sunday, 31 August 2014 02:44 (nine years ago) link
Theres lots of music I want to listen to, still. Its my spare time that is waning.
― rockist raccoon (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 31 August 2014 02:46 (nine years ago) link
The new answers page has very few threads that are specifically about a new/recent artist or album, but that's a good point that a lot of new stuff likely stays in the "rolling" threads.
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Sunday, 31 August 2014 02:46 (nine years ago) link
Maybe 2014 has just been a lousy year for music.
― MarkoP, Sunday, 31 August 2014 02:47 (nine years ago) link
Well, I have had my theories for a while about how the new music industry is ultimately bad for music and would lead to waning quality, but I know that's not going to go over well here.
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Sunday, 31 August 2014 02:53 (nine years ago) link
i don't think your theories would be received badly. i'm really just an occasional lurker now, but i'd say it may have to do with board participants getting a little older. fwiw, i think 2014's been strong for new music.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 31 August 2014 02:55 (nine years ago) link
another anecdote in the anecdotal-evidence pile, but most people I know think 2014's been pretty weak; for what it's worth I'd agree.
― katherine, Sunday, 31 August 2014 02:56 (nine years ago) link
(re: your theories -- I'd venture that it's less a matter of waning quality and more a matter of quality not finding an audience)
― katherine, Sunday, 31 August 2014 02:57 (nine years ago) link
one of the main things i miss on ilm is discussion of event records. that seems to have been mostly kept up by poptimists and pop-friendly posters, but i just don't have enough interest to follow that music.
i do think it relates to a lack of coherent audiences. older ilm could still enjoy strong enough shows of enthusiasm (and distaste, hatred, etc) that it could make lively threads for interested people without much of a stake in a record or a musician. a good meeting ground for interaction between different listeners with different interests.
but aside from being less excited by what new music fashions there are now, i do think ilm still talks about plenty of new music, constantly. it just doesn't have as much to say about it, other than that it's there, and it's good (or bad).
― j., Sunday, 31 August 2014 03:10 (nine years ago) link
― katherine, Saturday, August 30, 2014 10:57 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well I think it's a matter of not finding an audience inasmuch as that's part of a larger picture of not getting the economic support it needs to flourish
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Sunday, 31 August 2014 03:14 (nine years ago) link
i think it's been a great year for new music, fwiw. anecdotally, i don't use ilm as a new music discussion board as much as i used to because social media occupies more of that space now.
― Rihannamator (get bent), Sunday, 31 August 2014 03:16 (nine years ago) link
xxp but even a big historical driver of ilm discussion like pitchfork seems less keyed to new music somehow to me. sure, they constantly review it, and chase and try to foster trends, and yadda yadda yadda, but the narrative isn't there, the sense of discovery. older versions of the narrative were what they were partly because there were large, coherent groups of listeners and readers who felt something was at stake in the narratives, or the music they were about.
put a different way, although pitchfork tries to be authoritative in its way, and obviously still does represent certain perspectives rather than others, i get far less of a sense these days that their editorial voice positions itself as speaking for an 'us'. it's less self-consciously plural in that way.
and something similar seems to be true of ilm. i have no idea what 'we' picture ourselves as being about, other than polls. there isn't that degree of self-conscious coherence (or opposition to it etc) anymore.
― j., Sunday, 31 August 2014 03:16 (nine years ago) link
i have no idea what 'we' picture ourselves as being about
increasingly, i'd say it's "pop," with smaller communities available for specific genres.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 31 August 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
xxxxp yeah i do feel like there are fewer and fewer event records each year and i really enjoy the threads that force just about every ilm regular to register his/her opinion. we need a new vampire weekend or lana del rey.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 31 August 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
I also feel a little bit exhausted by the *kinds* of discussions ILM tended to be especially good at -- like there's only so many times you want to go through the race issues raised by the latest white pop star to appropriate some black cultural element in a gross way before it feels a little pat, but that could also be a getting older "seen it all now" kind of thing.
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Sunday, 31 August 2014 03:26 (nine years ago) link
I was gonna post a new music to-check-out list vs. new music already heard list but it looks like actual purposeful diacussion has seeped in while I was away
― rockist raccoon (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 31 August 2014 03:33 (nine years ago) link
― j., Saturday, August 30, 2014 11:16 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this seems to be true of music writing in general across the board everywhere in 2014, but I don't trust that not to be me projecting
― katherine, Sunday, 31 August 2014 03:34 (nine years ago) link
yeah i was gonna say, an internet thing no doubt, but the state of pitchfork seems like a useful proxy for the state of ilm given their histories
― j., Sunday, 31 August 2014 03:38 (nine years ago) link
Same, although I'm not quite as enthusiastic about this year's crop.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 31 August 2014 04:13 (nine years ago) link
The past several years I've found a lot more singles/individual songs to go wild over than albums, but even songs this year have been a mild letdown. I'm using the opportunity to listen to older music, but not because I'm old and set in my ways. You can basically keep finding old music you've never heard before for the rest of your life because there's simply so much of it.
― Everyone's a closet ned. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 31 August 2014 04:27 (nine years ago) link
I believe the premise of this thread to be 100% true.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 31 August 2014 04:40 (nine years ago) link
there was a classic rock poll
― sleepingbag, Sunday, 31 August 2014 04:49 (nine years ago) link
You know what's NOT new? People talking about how people's interest in new music is waning. We've p much had one of these threads every year since 2001.
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Sunday, 31 August 2014 08:48 (nine years ago) link
ILXors' interest in waning is in fact waxing?
― rockist raccoon (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 31 August 2014 09:11 (nine years ago) link
lots of good new music that was talked about here with specific threads:
spoon - they want my soulwar on drugs - lost in a dreammorgen feltalso: swans, sun kill moon, ty segall, white lung, mac demarco etc
― nostormo, Sunday, 31 August 2014 13:12 (nine years ago) link
Is new music by bands that have been around a long time still "new music"?
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Sunday, 31 August 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Saturday, August 30, 2014 10:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^^^^^^
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Sunday, 31 August 2014 14:00 (nine years ago) link
also, "poptimism." garbage in / garbage out, etc.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Sunday, 31 August 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
ILM just not that into EDM
― 龜, Sunday, 31 August 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
ILM's interest in competitive taste-making may be waning, but that doesn't really say much about individual users' interest in new music.
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Sunday, 31 August 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
^ in this game, claiming not to play the game is still an attempt to win it
― j., Sunday, 31 August 2014 14:24 (nine years ago) link
The Afrobeats 2014 thread
Bunji Garlin
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 August 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
i don't think your theories would be received badly. i'm really just an occasional lurker now, but i'd say it may have to do with board participants getting a little older.
Looking at my ongoing list of best albums, I noticed it's a smaller list than last year at this time but the singles lists are about even.
Age has little to do with enthusiasm unless you weren't terribly interested -- financially or otherwise -- in the first place. I tend to think if you're a casual listener when you were young you'll remain one later.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 August 2014 14:44 (nine years ago) link
There are over 400 posts on a thread about a Nicki Minaj album that hasn't been released yet
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Sunday, 31 August 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn),
If as a result of age, one is busier with raising kids or a dayjob then you will have less time to discover and listen to new music
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 August 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link
Well, you know, that's to do with having kids or your dayjob. Not ageing. Neither of these things are guaranteed parts of the ageing process for everyone!
― Shugazi (Branwell with an N), Sunday, 31 August 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
those two items (kids; day-job) are a large part of what i meant. you're right, of course, those factors won't apply to everyone.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 31 August 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
I already resent this thread for prompting me to listen to that Sun Kil Moon album.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 31 August 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link
Yeah Sun Kil Moon is garbage and I usually love corny self-pitying indie bullshit
― Treeship, Sunday, 31 August 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
2014 is like the first year i've actually kept up with new albums
― example (crüt), Sunday, 31 August 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
nigeria is clearly running the table on dance music in 2014
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Sunday, August 31, 2014 9:05 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
From the Afrobeats 2014 thread
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 31 August 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
Deej OTM.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 31 August 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
apparently ILM's interest in what synth did they use on that one song is waxing big time.........
― m0stlyClean, Sunday, 31 August 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
Actually I've just seen the challopy first half of that quote and I withdraw my OTM.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 31 August 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
I think Matt said in another recent thread (reminiscing about the original rolling electro-house threads I think) that 10 years ago the ILM discussions about new music could be really healthy in part because while it was by that time possible to access music for free and quickly, it wasn't possible to access it immediately. The fan of X new track or album wanted to talk about it in such a way that other readers would be motivated to track it down, download it, listen to it, and so on.
Youtube and etc. has squashed the space for describing music to people who haven't heard it - because it's so much easier for those people to go to youtube and hear it immediately. This has had a broader impact than just ILM - it was really only post youtube that a lot of music magazines/zines started issuing injunctions to writers not to spend too long describing what single tracks sound like, given the reader can check that out for themselves so easily.
This is one reason why, on the one hand, the rolling threads move so quickly - you really need to be checking a lot of the tracks mentioned as you go to keep up, and that knowledge is assumed - while on the other hand the threads that tend to generate writerly-enthusiasm are the ones that turn on issues beyond what the music sounds like (e.g. Lily Allen this summer's biggest racist).
― Tim F, Sunday, 31 August 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
THAT is no country for old men. The youngIn one another's arms, birds in the trees- Those dying generations - at their song,The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer longWhatever is begotten, born, and dies.Caught in that sensual music all neglectMonuments of unageing intellect.
An aged man is but a paltry thing,A tattered coat upon a stick, unlessSoul clap its hands and sing, and louder singFor every tatter in its mortal dress,Nor is there singing school but studyingMonuments of its own magnificence;And therefore I have sailed the seas and comeTo the holy city of Byzantium.
O sages standing in God's holy fireAs in the gold mosaic of a wall,Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,And be the singing-masters of my soul.Consume my heart away; sick with desireAnd fastened to a dying animalIt knows not what it is; and gather meInto the artifice of eternity.
Once out of nature I shall never takeMy bodily form from any natural thing,But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths makeOf hammered gold and gold enamellingTo keep a drowsy Emperor awake;Or set upon a golden bough to singTo lords and ladies of ByzantiumOf what is past, or passing, or to come
― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Sunday, 31 August 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
Did you know they say vinyl is coming back? I've got a bunch of old records in my attic do you think they're worth anything?
― Evan, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
cool music buff w the right angle here
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
ILX now mostly reflects the typical preoccupations of the internet
This is surely false?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
guys? can we get back on topic please? i think one of the main things is how the internet made it faster to hear great music and the whole social media thing had a big effect― missingNO, Tuesday, September 2, 2014 9:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― missingNO, Tuesday, September 2, 2014 9:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i see what you're doing here but no one here's really been saying this (other than in that Simon Reynolds article).
― www.perry.como (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 09:23 (nine years ago) link
All said, this thread can be split into two questions - a. Has ILM changed in that its contributors are less interested or less likely to talk about new music for one reason or another? b. Has this been a 'bad' year for new music, and if so what are the factors, and is this why it's not being discussed as much ATM?
― www.perry.como (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 09:27 (nine years ago) link
a. Has ILM changed in that its contributors are less interested or less likely to talk about new music for one reason or another?
I'm unsure if the Rolling threads contribute to balkanization, but my UI into ILX itself (bookmarks + Site New Answers) certainly attenuates my overall attention and likelihood to post. Most of my posts about new music are outsourced anyway - links to YouTube, band camp sites, etc. so my talk about new music is basically carnival barking. Look over there (assuming that you even see the thread).
I've *cough* been on ILX long enough to see demographic shifts cycle through and does feel like we're in the middle of another one now. *insert boiler plate about changing listening habits, ways of listening etc.*
b. Has this been a 'bad' year for new music, and if so what are the factors, and is this why it's not being discussed as much ATM?
Depends on the p.o.v./what you like to listen to perhaps? 2014 has been great so far.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 10:15 (nine years ago) link
I don't know, are we maybe not feeling 2014 because there hasn't yet been an album to rally around like HAIM or Beyonce last year or Miguel the year before? Or I don't know, maybe there is one and I haven't heard of it yet.
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 12:17 (nine years ago) link
Have the Billboard changes to the American pop charts lessened some folks interest here in the US to pop music and the pop music threads? Maybe
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
it's nice to mix things up from time to time and check out 4chad's /mu : more likely i will hear something new over there, that i will like or would have never heard otherwise ... but it's relative: stay too long and the same stuff keep on poping up/their odd "fundamentals" creep up and eh... there is also discovering new music dad mode: http://yearendlists.com/ http://www.albumoftheyear.org/lists.php
― Sébastien, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 13:09 (nine years ago) link
xpost to PK - yeah it feels like there have been fewer 'event albums' so far this year, or if there have, I haven't really noticed one. The closest I can think of (but then this is only from my own perspective) are Aphex and the Owen Pallett albums, but they're not really that much of a deal outside muso, and specifically ILM, circles
― www.perry.como (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 13:11 (nine years ago) link
feel like the idea that new music is inherently more vital than music that's fifty or a hundred or two hundred years old could bear a little more rigorous interrogation - this affording of some special stature to newness, it kinda gets this weirdly asked-and-answered treatment. of course engagement with new music is vital! of course it is! but I'm not really sure that's so
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 13:12 (nine years ago) link
"rallying round an album" is ILM at its worst
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 13:15 (nine years ago) link
i'd like to know what DJ Martian thinks about this question
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 13:16 (nine years ago) link
xxpost sure, if you're interested in, say, afrobeats, is it really important that you listen to tunes that came out this year, or does it make equal amounts of sense going back and listening to stuff from 2012? Of course you run the risk of having people shut you down for wanting to talk about songs that had already been discussed two years ago. I know a while back the same happened to me when I came round to disco edits about 2 years after ILM had, and had the piss ripped out of me for it.
― www.perry.como (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 13:16 (nine years ago) link
i'm most interested in new music when it's part of a genre/scene/single musician that makes something happen and it really works for me without having to give it a try : it is not a job for me. i got aware of a lot of these "moments" over the years thanks to ilm; in some cases it's possible i would have heard of it from somewhere else when it was happening but not in all cases. what would my life have been without that Optimo shit you know what i'm saying? 10 am and i am still a bit drunk damn. where i was going with this, yeah, new music/fresh take on old music/being a newb at some old music: it's all good. he last few albums i gave a try have all been from that "what are you listening to" thread that i couldn't spot right now on the front page. maybe a bit too challenging to me right now, new composition stuff i... am not feeling super involved /excited about it. last time that would have happened was a few weeks ago when i started to get into DJ SCREW , that stuff is fun. it's like meeting hip hop again that i have known since i was a kid but we lost touch and we are both tripping .
― Sébastien, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 14:16 (nine years ago) link
never change, Sébastien
wait a minute i mean ALWAYS change, Sébastien
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
new board description in a big way:
"it's like meeting hip hop again that i have known since i was a kid but we lost touch and we are both tripping"
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 15:29 (nine years ago) link
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned)
writing about music that's older than last week puts you in competition with better writers
or, if not that, whatever chance you had of somebody paying for it surely plummets. as far as plummeting goes.
― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
not necessarily true - mojo is the highest selling music magazine in the uk afaia, and that covers mostly old music
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
also the whole social media thing makes things move faster
― cool music buff (missingNO), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
Right now the biggest event albums I've seen this year were a couple of albums recorded by some Canadian guy in the mid-80's.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
bryan adams?
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
lol
― rap steve (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
this is actually the year of Mike Cooper. don't know if you knew that. all the hepcats are raving.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
actually, Mojo, Uncut, Classic Rock, AND the hepcats are raving. although uncut still prefers this kind of cover boy. he's dreamy, he's dead, etc.
http://www.uncut.co.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/magazine_cover/2014/08/u209-nick-drake-cover-lr.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
i still love the brit mags so much. someone brought in a huge stack of them recently and it was like christmas. so many nick mason interviews. i can read them cover to cover. add the wire and flashback magazine, man, there is nothing like it here. ugly things. that's about it. and even ugly things can be an endurance test when you are halfway through a 40 page article on blossom toes or whatever. classic rock also puts out my new favorite magazine on the planet:
http://www.newsstand.co.uk/i2385671/Zoom/CLASSIC-ROCK-PRESENTS-AOR_9-HEART.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
this fall looks pretty exciting:
Grouper - RuinsAphex Twin - SyroRoomrunner - SeparateDope Body - LiferAriel Pink - new LP that apparently is the best thing he's ever donePanda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
Smashing Pumpkins - Monuments to an Elegy
"Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper"
it's like that dream i had once...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
a Smashing Pumpkins record certainly stokes my interest in new music
― Daphnis Celesta, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
Had no idea there was a new Panda Burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb album on the way; last one was underrated imo.
― slip jig (seandalai), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
i do miss nabisco, john d, mark s, some other folks
i think too many ilx posters are allergic to the longer posts that used to be more common
perhaps it's just that all of us have had that many more years to have our brains reshaped by the internet, and lack even the minimum amount of patience and capacity for sustained thinking we had ca. 2001-5.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
i even kind of miss momus
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
I did not underrate that last Panda Bear seandalai. It's better than 90% of stuff AC have come out with in the last several years and that includes Person Pitch
― monoprix & dimensions (dog latin), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
John D is still around, love his posts.
I miss Bimble's enthusiasm, he was always reviving great obscure threads.
I've noticed there seems less interest in the random post punk threads I revive, but maybe there's not much left to say. After all, many threads are over a decade old.
I agree with many of the we're-getting-older and things-are-cyclical points.
Every year is full of new and new to me music, not all of it has staying power. Every year I worry I won't find anything to get me excited, but I always do. Same as it ever was.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link
OTHER john d
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link
I know John DThe REAL John DHe owes me a hundred favors
― rap steve (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 September 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
J0hn D = Doran, right?
― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Thursday, 4 September 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
John D Rockafella
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 September 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
I'd make longer posts more often, but I'm sadly addicted to validation and if the conversation just continues around it and the giant post of mine gets ignored I get bitter and feel like I've wasted time and energy. I love how basic this board is but in those cases I'd appreciate something like a stupid "upvote" or "like" button as dumb as that sounds so I'd at least know someone read it.
― Evan, Thursday, 4 September 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
tl;dr
― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Thursday, 4 September 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
yeah, if I'm moved to post about any new music it's usually going to be some bluegrass or pop country that even the guys on Rolling Country would roll eyes at, so I'm fine posting about Dire Straits or Cheap Trick on the classic rock threads.
Though, I will say that the Owen P is album of the year imo
― Now you're messing with a (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 September 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
not going to bother reading this thread but, assuming the thread title hypothesis is true, i'd chalk it up to aging ilx membership, fewer new members, plus everyone talking about music on social media instead of here
― k3vin k., Thursday, 4 September 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
otm
― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 September 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
there is a facebook group i frequent on a daily basis. music-related. don't need much more than that. but i wasn't really any good for new music on here anyway. for the most part. though i have gotten some good tips over the years from others. now i get tips on facebook.
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 September 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
What group is that?
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 5 September 2014 09:31 (nine years ago) link
Ward Fowler otm to me, thought the FKA Twigs album thread ws a good example of current ILM at it's um most extant
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 5 September 2014 09:35 (nine years ago) link
is it blog fatigue, given that it's usually not difficult to preview pretty much anything these days? i'm usually happy to leave people to LOVE awful garbage & diss the good stuff (unless i'm half cut & ingenerously post like a presumptuous condescending self righteous patrician arse lashing out at innocent bystanders), but it becomes ever more apparent to me that opinions are (as the idiom would have it), very much, like arseholes: everyone's got one, but you wouldn't want to hear about it.
― massaman gai, Friday, 5 September 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
I mostly rely on forums for new music recs, as my IRL friends aren't into keeping up with music, and they basically constitute my social media circle as well.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Sunday, 7 December 2014 01:18 (nine years ago) link
Jeez, didn't mean to bump a long-dead topic. Working through some of my bookmarks :)
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Sunday, 7 December 2014 01:19 (nine years ago) link