Oh totally.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 12 July 2015 01:10 (eight years ago) link
I've always wondered why they've never added a strong search function.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 12 July 2015 01:11 (eight years ago) link
Because it's all about the RIGHT NOW, BITCHES!!!!!!
― austinato (Austin), Sunday, 12 July 2015 01:13 (eight years ago) link
(not that you guys are the bitches; just sayin')
― austinato (Austin), Sunday, 12 July 2015 01:14 (eight years ago) link
another reason it is quiet
because when one of my favorite posters asked for more women in the runaways thread she was derided and as a result of stupid japery she's left ilx altogether
that's why you cant have nice things
i plan on never leaving & making you all miserable as a result YOURE FUCKING WELCOME
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 July 2015 03:08 (eight years ago) link
you're one of the reasons i'm still even here. jbr too, but i can chat with her on facebook.
― scott seward, Sunday, 12 July 2015 03:16 (eight years ago) link
lol we'll be here at the end posting in the eagles thread like statler & waldorf
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 July 2015 03:30 (eight years ago) link
that's terrible, i feel awful for contributing to any of the unnecessary noise in that thread, hope she has not really left ilx
― some dude, Sunday, 12 July 2015 04:56 (eight years ago) link
the straight white male poll was the final straw i think :/
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 July 2015 05:13 (eight years ago) link
I find certain aspects of ILM really frustrating, and while I post a lot have on occasion tried to forgo due to perceived dickishness from some parties, but I always try to remind myself: don't take it personally, it's the internet, this is how it works, most of you I've never met, etc. I do miss some posters, some voices I looked forward to and/or respected. But by and large I don't find ILM hugely different from what brought me here a very long time ago, bar maybe more cartoonishly kneejerk negativity and sensitivity, which at least in the latter case reflects a general increase in awareness, imo, of how we use the internet and perhaps how we use the internet improperly (louder, faster!).
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 July 2015 05:25 (eight years ago) link
if an ilx beef threatens to take over a perfectly innocent thread you can politely direct people here.
if an ilx beef threatens to take over "if an ilx beef threatens to take over a perfectly innocent thread you can politely direct people here." you can direct people here.
if beef on an ilx trees thread get out of hand, come here to look at beef
if an ilx beef gets out of hand on the beef thread come here to look at trees
― scott seward, Sunday, 12 July 2015 05:35 (eight years ago) link
that was a rough july on ilx...
― scott seward, Sunday, 12 July 2015 05:41 (eight years ago) link
otm
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 July 2015 05:44 (eight years ago) link
when one of my favorite posters asked for more women in the runaways thread she was derided and as a result of stupid japery she's left ilx altogether
If by stupid japery you are referring to this stupid poll then I don't disagree, however I don't see any derision on the Runaways thread, unless it's being accused of being a man by another woman, but if that's how she interpreted it there's nothing anyone else can do about it.
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 July 2015 07:35 (eight years ago) link
Anyway, seems a pity to me, hopefully she'll be back.
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 July 2015 07:38 (eight years ago) link
now I feel like a heel -- again, I'm really sorry, I genuinely have no idea who anyone is unless they use their real names
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Sunday, 12 July 2015 10:18 (eight years ago) link
do hope jbr will reconsider, won't go :(made me happy to see her posting more lately & starting some excellent threads
― drash, Sunday, 12 July 2015 10:35 (eight years ago) link
jbl these days no? Anyway consign that
― the story of ilm: an ottyssey (wins), Sunday, 12 July 2015 11:21 (eight years ago) link
*cosign ffs
srsly
if this is the endgame of the culture wars then idk what to say or do
― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Sunday, 12 July 2015 11:23 (eight years ago) link
learn to do and say nothing.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 July 2015 11:43 (eight years ago) link
also I dunno it's the (northern hemisphere) summer, aside from Ned my "friends" on fb are very quiet right now (like Ned had 20x the number of posts of my next closest "friend" last week), lots of people are on the road, or their brains are melting from the silly heat
seems like it could be a good time to run a retrospective ILM ballot poll though? I dunno I just want a place to shoot the shit about music once in a while, and fb mostly sucks for that
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 12 July 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link
you need to get in a 2 year queue now for those, Euler. Johnny Fever said fuck it and was gonna jump it and start one but it never happened. The all-time revisited poll was canned permanently I think.
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Sunday, 12 July 2015 15:59 (eight years ago) link
I only have about 20 followers on twitter and most aren't interested in talking about music. Not to me, anyway. And obviously nobody ever sees my tweets so its pointless trying to start debate there
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:00 (eight years ago) link
Johnny Fever said fuck it and was gonna jump it and start one but it never happened.
Nah, it had been planned from the beginning to happen in August/September, but if gr8080 and seandalai are available to move it up, I guess we can.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
I cant even remember what the poll was going to be.
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
Albums & Tracks from the beginning of ILM thru the present. (aka 2000-2015)
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:20 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah, the one that people will be campaigning for anything to stop Kaputt from winning
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:23 (eight years ago) link
won't be won by a straight white man
― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link
(not saying this is a bad thing & in kaputt's case it is an excellent thing)
oh ffs
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
people will vote on the music not what kind of human (or robot) makes it.
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Sunday, 12 July 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link
imago with record time on that one, well done, why wait for the actual thread
― Joan Crawford Loves Chachi, Sunday, 12 July 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
30 years ago a child would kick a ball on the street.
― some dude, Sunday, 12 July 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
30 years ago a straight white man would kick a child on the street.
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 July 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link
and he was never caught
― Joan Crawford Loves Chachi, Sunday, 12 July 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
lol
it was meant to be a combination of funny and true, ended up looking so much like piqued satire that I had to follow up with a disclaimer, shdnt try to jape about on these sensitive issues obv
― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Sunday, 12 July 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
you're a sensitive issue
― da croupier, Sunday, 12 July 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link
music critics used to make lots of big posts here.. Now it feels they save that for the dayjob. Which is a loss to ilm
Wow, I've spent a lot of time lurking through past threads and thought it was a plus for this site that we'd been largely rid of that crowd... not that music criticism in general is a bad thing, but it's a magnet for snobs, and this site certainly got many of the worst of them. The DMB thread is a fucking embarrassment from this vantage point. Record store rats spewing causticity at 14yos sticking up for their favourite band with newly-enlightened 30somethings egging them on? Entertaining yeah, but in a car wreck sense, on both sides, no? Seems like putting ego before loving music.
Recently a former regular here tweeted '"The idea of musical 'authenticity' is certainly a suburban idea."--Frith'... from this Cambodian perspective where "early 70s rock was real music" is a resounding statement, I'm not even going to bother asking whether critics think it's pre- or post- khmer rouge suburbia, but rather why no one's calling them out on this bullshit. This reliance upon ready-made insults is typical from modern critics. The only real counterpoint used to come from Geir Hongro, who was unfortunately so simpleminded that he became a village muppet. At its height this site was a simmering pot for off-the-shelf arguments you could spew at the grad lounge to impress the bob marley/RHCP fan's girlfriend before retiring alone for the night. It's really entertaining to read, yeah, but not worth shedding a tear over. Things are fine now.
― Adam J Duncan, Friday, 17 July 2015 13:13 (eight years ago) link
At its height this site was a simmering pot for off-the-shelf arguments you could spew at the grad lounge to impress the bob marley/RHCP fan's girlfriend before retiring alone for the night.
― Tim F, Friday, 17 July 2015 13:25 (eight years ago) link
that's Pol Pot behaviour right there
― This is for my new ringpiece, so please only serious answers (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 July 2015 13:27 (eight years ago) link
xxp i must admit i have no idea what you're talking about here.
― (no offence to people) (dog latin), Friday, 17 July 2015 13:27 (eight years ago) link
huh. yeah not my experience of ILM mainly. plenty of that around the edges but when i think music critics making "big posts" i'm picturing multi-paragraph usenet-type things where people are trying to figure something out, or people who know something are taking the time to explain it. i've learned a ton from long posts on this board and have mostly just skimmed past the admittedly abundant contemptuous rockist zingers (which, yeah, are definitely around, especially in the VERY early days).
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Friday, 17 July 2015 13:28 (eight years ago) link
Has the signal-to-noise ratio improved in recent years? Seems like it.
― Adam J Duncan, Friday, 17 July 2015 13:34 (eight years ago) link
well that's not sexist at all
― feargal czukay (NickB), Friday, 17 July 2015 13:37 (eight years ago) link
what's wrong with being not sexy?
― This is for my new ringpiece, so please only serious answers (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 July 2015 13:38 (eight years ago) link
'a simmering pot for off-the-shelf arguments you could spew at the grad lounge to impress the bob marley/RHCP fan's girlfriend before retiring alone for the night'
new board description please
― iatee, Friday, 17 July 2015 13:39 (eight years ago) link
here we go
― Adam J Duncan, Friday, 17 July 2015 13:39 (eight years ago) link
this might be a case of 'too much time on ilx' but i can no longer read the phrase 'off-the-shelf' without thinking of german toilets
― feargal czukay (NickB), Friday, 17 July 2015 13:41 (eight years ago) link
appropriate given the circumstances
― This is for my new ringpiece, so please only serious answers (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 July 2015 13:44 (eight years ago) link