ILM Classic or Dud?

Feel so attacked rn

You're not being attacked.

Sorry! Come back and we’ll stick with beer.

ha !
I wish I could.
was a truly wonderful experience.
even the malort.

In 20 years of reading ilm this is the most bored I’ve been by it.

I blame the music.

Plenty of good music this year tho, no?

ilm is
what u make of it

So much badness in this thread.

We just need a separate ILM for the lamest I think

maybe break into separate departments: Taxonomy, Statistics, Over-ratement Studies

We just need a separate ILM for the lamest I think

― brimstead, Saturday, July 14, 2018 1:24 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dats me! Ok with being in junior varsity

Probably should be a dedicated thread for band A + band B = band C equations. I'd be all over that.

bring back the dickheads

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

― flopson

Was it mine? I can’t remember other mp3 blogs that linked here. I was more active on the now defunct elbo.ws community back then as that’s were most mp3 bloggers posted. I don’t know how many mp3 bloggers habg around here anymore... Sean gramophone and matthew perpetua do but they are first tier...!not sure if there’s anyone else around. Tried to get Justin from Aquarium Drunkard and Chris from gorillavsbear in here but they probably thought it was dud.

It's no secret there's not a lot of discussion on ILM apart from when there's some controversy,

otm and why I mostly lurk now. also poptimism zzzzzz

Poptimism ruined ilx

It wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Poptimism, have I got that right?

I first chanced upon an ILM thread when googling "hypnagogic pop" and discovered it was just some made up bollox by someone at The Wire who'd too many yellow smarties that day.

If I remember correctly I first stumbled into ILM while looking in google for info on an obscure track (can’t remember which one was it but ILM was one of the top links on google). Lurking around I think I stumbled into Geir Hongro saying Depeche Mode was the only electronic artist with melody or some weird shit like that and I had to create a profile to express my disbelief. Little did I know this was a daily reaction for everyone in here whenever he posted. I miss the old loon sometimes.

Can't remember exactly how I found it. Probably either through the Stereolab or forum or from Simon Reynolds.

think i found it via the "ignition" thread

Unless I have the chronology mixed up I think I started lurking via bill fay -> Marcello Carlin’s blog -> ilm!

& I basically never check it now, not because I think the quality’s dropped necessarily - I don’t think I’d check whatever flavour of old school ilm now either

The Big & Rich stanning of 2004 was the beginning of the end afaic

thanks paul ponzi

Though President Donald Trump announced he wanted to run for the nation’s highest office in June 2015, Big & Rich’s John Rich first heard about Trump’s bid four years earlier when the country star won the Celebrity Apprentice.

“So I win Celebrity Apprentice, all of the confetti falls out of the ceiling, I’m standing there next to Mr. Trump,” Rich — who won season 11 of the reality show, raising a record $1.4 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital — tells PEOPLE Now.

Continues Rich: “And he’s got his arm around. We were taking pictures and he leans over to me and he goes, ‘You know I’m thinking about running for president.’ And I’m going, ‘Yeah I heard about that.’ And he’s like, ‘What do you think?’ I went, ‘I think you ought to go for it man. Why not?’ and he goes, ‘Good. Thanks. Congratulations.’”

The singer-songwriter, 43, admits that looking back at that moment he never imagined he would be “hanging out with the future president” while appearing on the television series.

“Being around him on the show is not dissimilar to what you see now with him — which is you never know what he’s going to say to you,” explained Rich. “It’s how he keeps everybody on the edge of their seat.”

Now, Rich, along with bandmate Big Kenny, are busy with the release of their new album Did It for the Party.

“We were just walking through Times Square a minute ago and I stopped Kenny and I said, ‘Remember when we walked, I think it was about right here and we dropped at like 2 o’ clock in the morning, and did push ups in the middle of Times Square with our Crown and Coke sitting right next to us’ — which I’m pretty sure was not allowed,” Rich said of the duo’s craziest party moment.

He added: “But we’ve always had a great time with our music and with our lives just coming at it with everything we’ve got. All of the great things that ever happened to us — and it’s probably the same for a lot of people — happen when you’re out there just living life to the fullest. Great things happen.”

It wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Poptimism, have I got that right?

Yeah, that's my impression too - "poptimism" wasn't a term back then but this board was super poptimist from the get-go, much more then than it is now in fact.

We've truly entered an era of self-indulgence here, haven't we!?

I think it's pretty cool. Was a day you'd ask ILM to list their favorite songs you'd get silence

(or albums or anything)

imagine people talking about the music they love on i love music

let's have no more of it

We've truly entered an era of self-indulgence here, haven't we!?
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican),

I am out of touch re most of the nu-era ILM groove, but : huh ?

These are my favourite songs,what do you reckon?

Polls though, innit?