Any reason why ILM is so quiet these days?

everybody tuning into Wandelweiser

https://soundcloud.com/noodle-vague/duck-you-sucka

― excitable Question Time guest (Noodle Vague), Saturday, February 11, 2017 6:30 AM (six hours ago)

15 minutes in -- totally chill, really emphasizing the "bye worries" theme

I recant. What I meant was: I haven't spent two decades filtering my own critical vocabulary through a warren of obscurant friends. There seems to actually be really simple steps for inclusion here: loudly, ignorantly proclaim your presence; mocked; try again; mocked; injoke +/- vocabulary subsumption.

It's pretty OK as a hazing process, but I feel like the subtext is really giving a fuck about Jute Gyte.

I think the subtext could stand to give more of one tbf

mockery can be quite character-forming, especially for bullish prigs, I would recommend it in doses varying by levels of childhood privilege

when I joined ilx the regulars stole my clothes and dumped me in the part of town where they listen to Big & Rich

I'm sure some of you nerds on here can knock this one out of the park:

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/quizzes/a53194/music-iq-quiz/

I got a 242, helped by some lucky guessing.

248. When stuck, picking the group you've heard of usually seems to work.

249. Yeah, quite a lot of these were three records I didn't know + Blondie.

237

no bennies

230. A lot of this stuff is not remotely what I care about.

235--numerous, numerous guesses. As tribute to one of my new favourite movies, I made sure to get "Heroes" wrong.

239

247 with a LOT of guessing, helped by things like "There's rapping and the only rap group there is The Roots, so..."

I went through three guesses before picking Arcade Fire on one question. Apparently what I've heard by them didn't make an impression beyond inspiring me to not listen to any more.

240
sigh can't believe i whiffed on lol vampire weekend
would have been a way better quiz if they removed the artist names from the covers
also if they didn't use ugly greatest hits art
also if they had a time bonus
There was a fair amount of stuff that I had never heard but I could guess based on the cover / offhanded remarks on ILM. like level 10 was just WGW punchlines

putting a jack white solo album in a list of 50 songs you expect me to recognize makes me IA

The scoring on this is weird.

I got 246, mainly missing on the rap questions.

247

245, but one mistake was an accidental click.

244.. i don't know much about indie rock rn

249

247.

of all the indie stuff from the past 20 years, I had an amazing success rate guessing based on the aesthetics of the album cover.

247--could've been better but it took me 4 tries for a couple

sarahell otm

236, was doing well until the last round, no idea what 90% of that stuff was.

Front 242

250, only mistake was an impulse decision that Fela Kuti was the Fugees.

249. There were a few lucky guesses in there for sure.

248, struggled with some of the indie shit

234, struggled with most of the rap shit

243. The more recent rap/R&B stuff gave me a hard time.

246. I got the rap stuff (which shocked me) and missed a few of the indie things. A lot of them were ridiculously easy to guess, though, like there would be only one female option out of four.

the average score was 158

which means they totally made that up

the average score on this online IQ test is 115, bet you can't beat it! (everyone gets 140+)

Maybe. I think our scores are just high because we are ILM posters.

187

what horrible music!

i had no idea what lots of it was but a lot had covers which looked like they were right for the song. i thought i did ok, now i see the other scores here. i didnt do ok

oh, it skiiped level 4 for some reason

i got 234

247. Wish I had listened to some longer after realizing I wouldn't get penalized for time. Probably would have gotten a few more.

248, flubbed on Mitski, Twin Peaks, and Kendrick Lamar.

241, that was a pleasant distraction, lotta guessing on the stuff from the last ten years or so. Now, shall we do this again for every audio quiz on Sporcle?

244

I got 249, only the recent indie round at the end tripped me up.

250

so what ilm needed to get talking were online quizzes

"talking"

yeah, sorry again for taking this thread off-topic a couple of weeks ago and steering the conversation away from....hey, wait a minute!

244