ILM Classic or Dud?

something that piece doesn't touch on at all is reddit, which has largely superseded messageboards in the modern internet and has many very very active music boards. those are so large and active though that they don't have the same sense of community or slower more involved discussions that messageboards can have, part of the nature reddit in general

then there are the RYM discussion boards, which are fucking abysmal

ILM rules

good article but the preponderance of the past tense made me feel even older than usual

looking at recent RYM threads says it all:
"Are Pixies alternative rock or indie rock?"
"Why did hip hop, until recently, have such lousy cover art?"
"Artists and bands that are actually avant-garde and experimental"
and just endless 200 page threads on various rym statistical detritus

What does ILM have against werewolves? Dud.

has anyone else looked at 555-5555? I was looking at it when it launched and I did like that there are loads of enthusiastic posts about new music instead of, y’know, yet another thread about the fucking beatles, but unfortunately lots of those had just a couple of responses, if any. also it’s really ugly to look at, lots of useless clutter everywhere

Beatles forum is an idea I stand by

I'm planing to hang about it, ILX too slow in our era to take up all my working hours and anything that keeps me off Facebook is good.

Love the selection of thread titles captured in the ILM screenshot (from y’day)!
Me too but now every Graun reader knows how I was wasting the Bank Holiday. Hey I was gardening before that and down the park later... :/

Dud.

yet another thread about the fucking beatles

are you going to complain about this in every thread

yes, in all two of them

ILM rules

― California scheming (Ross), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 18:52 (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Controversial opinion, but yes.

there’s no caging this monster

always nice to see American Music Club get some press coverage

They spawned offline meet-ups

tkirr, the London message-board-creator-and-forsaker absolutely sourced his Toejam reference herein from an NYC-based poster in Seattle last month, witnessed by an Australian poster

someone needs to profile the olds on hoffmanboards and beach boys boards they are all lunatics

hoffman boards are the fastest moving message board i've ever seen, and i've been basically constantly online since 6th grade

someone just called public enemy the rolling stones of rap on my facebook music group. #theychangedthegame #dadrap

One of the things that made ilm good was it was relatively small, and difficult to find out about (i found it on a blogroll of a second-tier mp3 blog) which kept it small and also acted as kind of a preliminary filter

i once looked at music boards on reddit and they were all so boring, even the somethingawful boards don’t compare to ilm

Scott ‘s NP FB group is geared to vinyl. I mostly just lurk

I was on the Now Playing FB group and one other similar group for a while, but it doesn't lend itself to conversation, more like "Hey, someone's playing Television's Marquee Moon again".

Why is ILM less heavily trafficked nowadays than it was in the early/mid-2000s? Is the drop-off due to users migrating to social media for similar discussions, or is it more just former users falling away (due to disinterest, change in habits, etc.) and not the userbase not being refreshed?

That Now Playing group is bonkers! Every record dude in SF is on it! I had to mute it cuz it was my whole feed! Congrats on your success Scott. You will be a future Steve Hoffman.

I’m on that Now Playing group and I think a weirdo Bob Newhart record got me the most “action” on there. Either that or some Bowie LP. It’s insane. I also had to mute it.

was it that newhart record done for the cast and crew that looks like sgt pepper? i had that in my hand at Freak Beat and didn't buy it and regret it ever since.

Tom didn't need to go hard on himself for the lack of 'intervention'. iirc ILM was good at clamping down on extremes. That posters who contributed weren't banned for their bad days is a thing that isn't easily solvable.

"Congrats on your success Scott."

marc masters was the person who started it. but he wisely took himself out of the game so that he could get some work done.

i'm not on there a ton anymore. i keep an eye out for rule-breaking posts. but there are some nice folks on there. i reconnected with an old philly digger friend of mine who i haven't seen in forever.

this is the record btw if any of you come across it in the wild pls sell it to me

https://www.popsike.com/pix/20150614/161734513242.jpg

its still fun for jaw-dropping owen maercks and andy zax posts too.

They spawned offline meet-ups

an ILx crew made me drink malort in Chicago in 2010.
i should have killed my account there and then.

hey chaki, yeah that's the one. found it at Amoeba for a buck, i guess it's worth a decent amount. it's got a lot of larry and darryl and darryl content.

i've met dozens and dozens of ilxors irl and they are always super nice. pussycats!

i've met dozens and dozens of ilxors irl and they are always super nice. pussycats!

the folks were wonderful people.
its the fact they made me drink malort that i will never forgive.

fair

Scott ‘s NP FB group is geared to vinyl. I mostly just lurk

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, May 29, 2018 4:53 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not really...I mean, there might be slightly more vinyl posts, but there's not much "THIS IS A HOT STAMPER, WIDER SOUNDSTAGE THAN ON THE 1974 PRESSING" kind of talk. Hell, someone just posted all 70+ discs of a Miles Davis box (and I posted all my Cecil Taylor recordings, only one of which was vinyl).

Scott's NP FB group sounds great - I'd love to check it out, but damn if I'll ever join FB. I love that ILM is around as a board still b/c too many folks want to point music discussion/music promotion/etc. to FB.

Nick b if you’re talking to me that’s lame man.

I’m not a monster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uL1Ll6lRoM

Lol!!!!! It’s

There was no noticable change in the number of new user registrations as a result of Tom's article, btw.

why would there be

I mean, he painted it as a stultifying backwater only inhabited by an insular circle of ppl who can't move on with their lives

ooh, new board description

Tom OTM obv

we have polls now too

Nick b if you’re talking to me that’s lame man.

No ross, I wasn’t talking to you, it was just an xp to myself

Cheers thanks man sorry for that

Polls though, innit?