ILM Classic or Dud?

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

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

― imago, Tuesday, May 29, 2018 1:51 PM (two days ago)

I beg to differ

haha, that person a) decided Cardiacs are the best band (yay!) and then b) invited every vocal Cardiacs fan on RYM into a chatroom they are never away from (D:)

of course ILX with its flawless track record of dealing with hyperenthusiastic trans people would be far better equipped to handle such a thread

did you join?

it seems like at any give time there's one poster on the rym forum who starts 10 threads a day, turns the forum into their personal blog, and announces some outrageous project like reviewing every album released in the '90s, only to mysteriously deactivate their account several months later, leaving a void that's quickly filled by a new poster with a near-identical persona. it's like it's an elected office or something.

in ilx's (slight) defense, I don't think anyone here passively-aggressively misgenders trans posters or rants about SJW's white knighting CRJ. there's a not insignificant alt-right presence on that board even though the most egregious offenses are usually shot down pretty quickly

I joined...briefly

tbf while there's some anti-trans on RYM there are also a LOT of trans users

at any give time there's one poster on the rym forum who starts 10 threads a day, turns the forum into their personal blog

nobody on here like that

oh, of course not ;)

aware I've collected myself with that one

It has its moments of being classic and/or dud, but right now it's slap bang in the middle of the dud category.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMm4b47pXBA

needs more pavement discussion imo

Dud, no-one ever mentions the Dan or the Mac

the day a fetus marked ILM's homework.

The trouble is, we're not purely a Parquet Courts fansite yet

fucking hate Wimbledon!