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.
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
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.
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
"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.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
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
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
its still fun for jaw-dropping owen maercks and andy zax posts too.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
i've met dozens and dozens of ilxors irl and they are always super nice. pussycats!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
the folks were wonderful people.its the fact they made me drink malort that i will never forgive.
― mark e, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
fair
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
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).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link
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.
― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
Nick b if you’re talking to me that’s lame man.
― Ross, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
I’m not a monster
― Ross, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uL1Ll6lRoM
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
Lol!!!!! It’s
― Ross, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
There was no noticable change in the number of new user registrations as a result of Tom's article, btw.
― mod, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 23:04 (five years ago) link
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
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
ooh, new board description
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link
Tom OTM obv
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link
we have polls now too
― j., Thursday, 31 May 2018 01:38 (five years ago) link
No ross, I wasn’t talking to you, it was just an xp to myself
― Toto Cuomo (NickB), Thursday, 31 May 2018 06:20 (five years ago) link
Cheers thanks man sorry for that
― Ross, Thursday, 31 May 2018 06:24 (five years ago) link
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
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Thursday, 31 May 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
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:)
― imago, Thursday, 31 May 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
of course ILX with its flawless track record of dealing with hyperenthusiastic trans people would be far better equipped to handle such a thread
― imago, Thursday, 31 May 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
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
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Thursday, 31 May 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
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
― imago, Thursday, 31 May 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
oh, of course not ;)
― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Thursday, 31 May 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
aware I've collected myself with that one
― imago, Thursday, 31 May 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
It has its moments of being classic and/or dud, but right now it's slap bang in the middle of the dud category.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 13 July 2018 06:41 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps
― more like Toss, Ow amirite? (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 July 2018 08:01 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMm4b47pXBA
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Friday, 13 July 2018 08:14 (five years ago) link
needs more pavement discussion imo
― niels, Friday, 13 July 2018 09:36 (five years ago) link
Dud, no-one ever mentions the Dan or the Mac
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 13 July 2018 10:20 (five years ago) link
the day a fetus marked ILM's homework.
― calzino, Friday, 13 July 2018 10:40 (five years ago) link
The trouble is, we're not purely a Parquet Courts fansite yet
― imago, Friday, 13 July 2018 10:45 (five years ago) link
fucking hate Wimbledon!
― calzino, Friday, 13 July 2018 10:57 (five years ago) link
yeah, they keep fucking beating us!
― imago, Friday, 13 July 2018 11:01 (five years ago) link
And as the usual suspects come out of the woodwork, I rest my case.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 13 July 2018 12:14 (five years ago) link
They're growing on me tbh
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 13 July 2018 13:16 (five years ago) link
Get curious, not furious.
Turrican, what's missing for you these days? I still find bits and bobs worth chiming in about though not as much as in the past.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 13 July 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link
Yes, where is ILM going right?
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Friday, 13 July 2018 13:37 (five years ago) link
Turrican, what's missing for you these days? I still find bits and bobs worth chiming in about though not as much as in the past.― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, July 13, 2018 1:23 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, July 13, 2018 1:23 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is it in a nutshell, basically. I've found that a lot of (most of?) the posters I enjoy reading the most are no longer posting as frequently or have stopped posting entirely. There's still a couple of decent folks about (and it's great to see you posting - it's been a while) but ILM these days is such a drag to read. Activity has slowed down and I'm not taken with the level of conversation of most of the current regulars.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 13 July 2018 13:49 (five years ago) link
exit is thataway
― imago, Friday, 13 July 2018 14:00 (five years ago) link
"The way out is through the door/ how come nobody uses it?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySjN5vzc4lE
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:05 (five years ago) link
sounds like we need a new Beatles megathread :-p
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:13 (five years ago) link
exit is thataway― imago, Friday, July 13, 2018 2:00 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― imago, Friday, July 13, 2018 2:00 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You're part of the problem, tbh.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link